Re: Recruiter ....

2000-09-28 Thread Randy Bush
If that were the case, well Randy, I'll forward you a message or two from head hunters "on behalf of Verio", or Cisco, or Juniper, or pretty much any other company you can name. most of the time they are lying and if i know my friend mary is looking, and i incidentally get a call from a

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 28 September, 2000 02:28 -0400 vint cerf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: perhaps I-Ds are more like elaborated lab notebooks? very useful for patent references, reviewing dead ends, partly explored ideas, etc. One doesn't typically throw away lab notebooks just because you didn't

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread vint cerf
the twist between I-D and lab notebook is that the I-D is often an explicitly shared document (group lab notebook). Vint

Re: [Off Topic] contracts and etc

2000-09-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 27 September, 2000 22:54 -0700 Michael Oh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Below is a so called representation agreement I received but it has many ambiguities. Is this agreement clear to you why there's $25,000.00 fee assessed prior and why it can be prudently fined for any

Re: Head Hunter

2000-09-28 Thread RJ Atkinson
At 23:43 27/09/00, Danny McPherson wrote: Ran, does your company make it routine practice while working on behalf of recruiters? AFAIK none have used IETF data inappropriately and ALL of my current/past employers do have a practice of telling recruiters explicitly not to violate AUPs (e.g.

Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
Convert the I-Ds to ps or pdf files (something hard to change) Postscript files are straightforward for a postscript hacker to change. I imagine the same is true for pdf files. If you want to make the files hard to change, try a pgp signature. - Bill

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
In general, I would guess that there would be no problem, ethical, legal or otherwise, if authors explicitly agreed, retroactively or by boilerplate, to have the document archived. Thus, one could envision at least three solutions: (1) Modify I-D boilerplate to include (or not) a statement like

RE: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Dawson, Peter D
oh ...hold on folks !, a pgp signature for an expire i-d ?. I think the question was "about whether TO archive or NOT archive ID". some consensus right now is, Some authors = No ; Some authors = yes; Libarian = yes; Historian = yes; IETF = no; and lets stick to the question of why/how ID's

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 10:55:11 EDT, Brijesh Kumar [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Why would someone like to preserve some thing that has been found to be not worth publishing as an RFC? What is next? Click on XX for paper Reason 1: "We considered that back in 1997, and it didn't work then" Reason

Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Grenville Armitage
"Dawson, Peter D" wrote: [..] and lets stick to the question of why/how ID's are reference in RFC's That question was resolved within the first few days of the original thread. In RFCs I-Ds can be cited non-normatively as "work in progrees", and cannot be normatively cited. This

Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Melinda Shore
- Some authors = No ; - Some authors = yes; - Libarian = yes; - Historian = yes; - IETF = no; -Interesting set of categories, there. Who's -the "IETF?" I could (would) say that it is the entity indirectly responsible for ID/RFC publications with the rights of such publications

Re: specific questions about RFC publication and I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Eric Rosen
Pete Does this particular entry mean draft-ietf-mpls-arch-07.txt is being Pete held for normative reference to the I-Ds listed below it, or that all Pete those I-Ds are being held for normative references? The meaning of that queue entry is that the first document mentioned is being

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Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Bill, Postscript files are straightforward for a postscript hacker to change. I imagine the same is true for pdf files. If you want to make the files hard to change, try a pgp signature. I have no problem with that, but it's not enough. I'm interested in putting something in front of a

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Grenville Armitage
Bill Manning wrote: [..from boilerplate..] Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. [..comment...] What constitutes "validity"? I would suggest only "possibly of current

Announcement for Informal Interim Rserpool meeting (correction)

2000-09-28 Thread Lyndon Ong
Folks, There was a typo in the announcement sent out yesterday, the date was given inconsistently. The date for the discussion will be Wednesday, October 25th. Cheers, Lyndon Ong Maureen Stillman

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:27:23 PDT, Bill Manning said: Two key points here. The first paragraph explicitly denys the IETF from doing anything w/ the document other than publishing it as an ID. The second point is that the document, as submitted, is only valid, AS an ID, for a maximum of six

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Bill Manning
% On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 09:27:23 PDT, Bill Manning said: % Two key points here. The first paragraph explicitly denys the IETF from % doing anything w/ the document other than publishing it as an ID. % The second point is that the document, as submitted, is only valid, AS an ID, % for a maximum

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Bill Manning
% Bill Manning wrote: % [..from boilerplate..] % Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and % may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. % % [..comment...] % What constitutes "validity"? % % I would suggest only "possibly

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Vernon Schryver
... Are they allowed to republish w/o my consent? Who is talking about "republishing"? If a book publisher decides to donate its unsold stock to a library instead of shredding it, is that "republishing"? Can a book or magazine publisher decide to run

Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
From: "Eliot Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] I'm interested in putting something in front of a trade press person that they cannot ignore. Perhaps the watermark should simply be "REJECTED or EXPIRED". Somehow I doubt this will work. Nobody's going to try to scam a trade press person

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I would suggest only "possibly of current interest to an IETF WG". Too WG-centric, e.g., if draft-jaye-http-trust-state-mgt-01.txt has expired (it has), and if the HTTP WG has shut down (it has), then no interested party (using the above suggested definition of "validity") can exist. Mind, it

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
http://www.alternic.org/drafts/drafts-i-j/draft-ietf-ipngwg-gseaddr-00.txt (this is the revised version, I didn't look for the original 8+8) Brian Eliot Lear wrote: John, I would accept your interpretation if you can go to a major search engine, like Yahoo or Altavista, and find me in

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Grenville Armitage
Bill Manning wrote: % Bill Manning wrote: % [..from boilerplate..] % Internet-Drafts are draft documents valid for a maximum of six months and % may be updated, replaced, or obsoleted by other documents at any time. % % [..comment...] % What constitutes "validity"? % %

RE: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Kathy Wisenbaker
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Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Grenville Armitage
Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I would suggest only "possibly of current interest to an IETF WG". Too WG-centric, e.g., if draft-jaye-http-trust-state-mgt-01.txt has expired (it has), and if the HTTP WG has shut down (it has), then no interested party (using the above suggested

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Bob Braden
* From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Sep 28 13:06:31 2000 * From: "Eliot Lear" [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To: "John C Klensin" [EMAIL PROTECTED] * Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "\"Mike O'Dell\"" [EMAIL PROTECTED] * References: [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3744053340.970111694@P2 * Subject: Re: Topic drift Re: An

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 28 Sep 2000 12:44:00 PDT, Grenville Armitage said: than 6 months old. If in addition you've revoked the IETF's right to copy your I-D's words after 6 months, any WG newly interested in your old work simply has to find a different set of words to express those ideas. That's assuming

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Grenville Armitage
Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: [..] WGs are not procedurally necessary for a draft to reach publication, So we add "and/or IESG" to the list of IETF/IRTF organs who might be interested in an I-D, that's not much of a stretch. After 6 months and no re-issue an I-D can be considered to be

RE: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Christian Huitema
* I would accept your interpretation if you can go to a major search engine, * like Yahoo or Altavista, and find me in a brief period of time ANY version * of Mike O'Dell's 8+8 proposal. Don't you think it shameful that there is * no permanent record about a serious effort to

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Would everybody please stop sending me search results!? Google seems to have it on the front page. Yahoo doesn't. People are getting mixed results out of Altavista. [Talk about a dumb message that shouldn't have been archived ;-]. The document that Christian found on the IETF server is NOT

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Betsy Brennan
Why are the 'old' documents deleted? because they are considered useless? to save space? to cut down on search hits? BLB

DeltaV: versioning protocol nearing WG last call

2000-09-28 Thread Jim Whitehead
As many of you are aware, the IETF WebDAV (Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning) working group was created to develop a set of extensions to HTTP to allow interoperable remote authoring of Web resources. Though the initial mission of WebDAV was to provide services for both remote authoring

Re: Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-28 Thread Keith Moore
Somehow I doubt this will work. Nobody's going to try to scam a trade press person with an old I-D; they'll just file a new one (it's not exactly hard, right?) and use that. nah. they'll just tell the trade press person that the proposal was submitted to IETF. as far as I can tell, in about

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Kent Crispin
On Wed, Sep 27, 2000 at 08:57:14PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: It's not merely that I-D's are already archived, albeit inconveniently and obscurely. yes, but IETF isn't (yet) maintaining public archives, so IETF doesn't (yet) have the liability of breaking its agreement to expire the

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Keith Moore
The use of IDs for demonstration of prior art raises an interesting possibility: forged or altered IDs being used to challenge patents. interesting point. another possible way to solve it, independent of an official IETF archive, would be to have internet-drafts timestamped on submission

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RE: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-28 Thread Dave Crocker
At 02:43 PM 9/28/00 -0700, Christian Huitema wrote: Hear, hear! In fact, we may want to create a procedure for "instant historical" publication, that would take such drafts and publish them as RFC because we believe that they mark important points in the public debate, and because we want to