Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Ian Jackson
The IESG writes ("Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational"): The IESG has received a request to consider Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 draft-hollenbeck-rrp-00.txt as an Informational RFC. This has been reviewed in the IETF but

Re: I-D nroff macros

2000-01-04 Thread Rodent of Unusual Size
I maintain my drafts (such as they are) in HTML, and I use a couple of Perl scripts to turn the Lynx output into something digestible for the I-D directories, including TOC generation and pagination. FWIW.. -- #kenP-)} Ken Coarhttp://Web.Golux.Com/coar/ Apache Software

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Ed Gerck
Patrik Fältström wrote: --On 2000-01-04 17.21 +, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The TRANSFER command, when used to approve a transfer, does not specify to which registrar the domain is to be transferred. If I remember correctly from a presentation NSI have had for me, the

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Patrik Fältström
--On 2000-01-04 13.20 -0800, Ed Gerck [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Further, reading NSI's RFC and Karl's comments here, I am grateful that neither the RAB nor its members were mentioned in the RFC, nor a cknowledged, even though the RFC is on the very same Shared Registry Protocol we were

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Ed Gerck
[resent from subscribed address, my apologies if the TO list receives it twice] Patrik Fältström wrote: --On 2000-01-04 17.21 +, Ian Jackson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * The TRANSFER command, when used to approve a transfer, does not specify to which registrar the domain is to be

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Ed Gerck
Patrik Fältström wrote: So, you are talking about (like we did in the RAB) the quality of the protocol, while I now as AD and member of the IESG is asking whether this document is correctly describing what is in use. I ask you Ed, and all others, to please differentiate between those two

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Rick H Wesson
IESG: I hate to add a "me too" but I must. I believe that the RAB minutes would be very useful if they were published. Having participated with many Registrars and participated in changes and suggestions to the RRP protocol through the ICANN Testbed process I welcome Ed's comments. I am glad

Re: I-D nroff macros

2000-01-04 Thread Matt Crawford
Alan, I'll send you my internet-draft nroff macros under separate cover. (There's probably some internet obscenity law forbidding the unsolicited transmission of nroff source.) Matt

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Karl Auerbach
I am glad that NSI has published the I-D for their protocol, now does it need to go beyond that and become an RFC, IMHO, no. Since I-Ds still officially vanish after a while, we need to move it to RFC to maintain its visibility. Let's defer comments on the I-D fade out policy. The IETF

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Rick H Wesson
Paul, In short you are suggesting that the I-D be published to document a bad but current practice? It seems counter-intutative but I am certainly not "in the know" as to how these things work. think the IESG could at least put a "bad bad protocol" sitcker on it when they its published, or

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread David R. Conrad
Rick, I hate to add a "me too" but I must. I believe that the RAB minutes would be very useful if they were published. Has any other organization interested in publishing an informational RFC needed to also publish the internal discussions that led to the implementation of their proprietary

Re: I-D nroff macros

2000-01-04 Thread Glen Zorn
Alan Blount [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've been using the simple set of nroff macros, as described by http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/2-nroff.template While this works, I'd like to be able to autogenerate section numbers and table of contents entries. This draft doesn't give any

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Rick H Wesson
David, I appologise if you found my comments offensive, they were not intend to be. I'm gald you encouraged NSI to publish RRP, I'm gald they published it. I also needed to discuss with the RAB issues about RRP durring the testbed but was prevented by NSI by NDA. Remember in Berlin I asked if I

Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread David R. Conrad
Ed, the issue is what is being presented by NSI to be an informational IETF RFC, not whether we should commend NSI for doing or not doing anything in their own benefit. This is yet not the Internet Marketing Study Group. Nor is it the Internet Inquisition ("No one expects the Internet

Back to the drawing board, was Re: Last Call: Registry Registrar Protocol (RRP) Version 1.1.0 to Informational

2000-01-04 Thread Ed Gerck
"David R. Conrad" wrote: NSI should be treated no differently than others who publish proprietary protocols as an informational RFC. Conrad: Of course. The IETF process is IMO actually a way of providing for controlled release of private information into public knowledge and use -- thus,