Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-16 Thread Simon Josefsson
Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Eric S. Raymond [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your two people to go to on this would be RMS (representing the FSF) or me (representing the OSI); between us I believe we can speak for over 95% of the community. I hate it when elected politicans presume to

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Please remember that IETF adheres to a consensus process, which is not a democratic process. There is no representation by delegation but representation by competence. Because at the end of the day one does not count votes but serious opponents. The target is to present a solution non one will

Reshuffling those deck chairs!

2004-10-16 Thread John Loughney
A very small comment - I've noticed that successful IETF protocols have had an open source or at least publically available code. This gives groups and organizations an opportunity to use these new protocols. I'd generally recommend most WGs to consider mechanisms to make code available for the

Whilst we're on the subject of IPR (as usual)

2004-10-16 Thread Conroy, Lawrence (SMTP)
Hi Folks, In the process of submitting I-Ds to the new improved specs, I had reason to look at (and cut-and-paste from) the fine I-D guidelines document. I also tried out the XML2RFC 1.26 web service, and can attest that it adds no pain over and above that intrinsic in the use of XML (i.e.