Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-revised (Multicast Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK) Building Blocks) to Proposed Standard

2008-04-14 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi Brian, On Fri, 11 Apr 2008, Brian Adamson wrote: I appreciate your comments here. I plan to issue a new version of the draft that addresses these to the extent I can. I have some questions about your concerns with comments in-line below: Thanks for your quick response. Below I won't

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 11:04:24PM +0200, Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 13 lines which said: I don't find dir= in the HTML 4.01 spec., http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 8.2.2 Inheritance of text direction information ... When the dir attribute

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Ellermann
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: I don't find dir= in the HTML 4.01 spec., http://www.w3.org/TR/html401/struct/dirlang.html#h-8.2 That permits LTR or RTL, bot not an empty dir=, or is it another SGML oddity I've never before heard of ? The dir= is probably here to reset the text direction to

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 10:24:35AM +0200, Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 22 lines which said: That permits LTR or RTL, bot not an empty dir=, or is it another SGML oddity I've never before heard of ? No, no, you're right, the important point I wanted you to read was

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom BidirectionalAttribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Ellermann
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: as I said, otherwise, you could not express the fact that the direction of the text in the bar element above is Not Known. Without dir=, you could not cancel the directionality of foo in its nested elements. Well, yes, but so far the Web with all its (X)HTML pages

IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread IESG Secretary
The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists: * IETF mailing lists MUST provide spam control. * Such spam control SHOULD track accepted practices used on the Internet. * IETF mailing lists MUST provide a mechanism for legitimate technical participants to bypass moderation,

RE: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I would suggest that the IESG also think about hosting all IETF lists in house in the future. The main reason for this is legal, a list that is maintained by the IETF is much more satisfactory in a patent dispute than one run by a third party. Last thing we want is to have patent trolls dragging

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-revised (Multicast Negative-Acknowledgment (NACK) Building Blocks) to Proposed Standard

2008-04-14 Thread Brian Adamson
Pekka, I appreciate your comments here. I plan to issue a new version of the draft that addresses these to the extent I can. I have some questions about your concerns with comments in-line below: At 11:01 AM +0300 4/7/08, Pekka Savola wrote: On Thu, 3 Apr 2008, The IESG wrote: The IESG has

RE: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-14 Thread Dean Anderson
Speaking as president of the LPF; not a lawyer but a knowledgeable layman. I think you are correct that the patent issue is a red herring. The patentee has the _right_ (not the obligation) to keep patent application contents secret. Failure to keep the secret merely causes them to lose the

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Daniel Brown
On Mon, Apr 14, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would suggest that the IESG also think about hosting all IETF lists in house in the future. The main reason for this is legal, a list that is maintained by the IETF is much more satisfactory in a patent

RE: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Russ Housley
Phill: When IETF lists are housed somewhere other than ietf.org, they are supposed to include an archive recipient so that there is an archive available at ietf.org (perhaps in addition to the one kept at the place where the list is housed). Russ At 01:02 PM 4/14/2008, Hallam-Baker,

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Eliot Lear
Russ, When IETF lists are housed somewhere other than ietf.org, they are supposed to include an archive recipient so that there is an archive available at ietf.org (perhaps in addition to the one kept at the place where the list is housed). I'll agree with Phill's conclusion on this

Re: [dkim unverified] Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Michael Thomas
Eliot Lear wrote: Russ, When IETF lists are housed somewhere other than ietf.org, they are supposed to include an archive recipient so that there is an archive available at ietf.org (perhaps in addition to the one kept at the place where the list is housed). I'll agree

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Frank Ellermann
Russ Housley wrote: When IETF lists are housed somewhere other than ietf.org, they are supposed to include an archive recipient so that there is an archive available at ietf.org Makes sense. I have submitted some lists to other lists, how is this archive recipient magic arranged ? Frank

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Hi, On 2008-04-14 17:39 IESG Secretary said the following: The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists: * IETF mailing lists MUST provide spam control. * Such spam control SHOULD track accepted practices used on the Internet. * IETF mailing lists MUST provide a

RE: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
The problem here is that what might appear to be a reasonable approach and what can be proven to be a verifiable approach at reasonable cost are not necessarily the same. I would rather anticipate the problem rather than wait for an issue. It is not just the message archives that are relevant,

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Phill, RFC 2026 requires that the Secretariat maintains records. Whether they do so is of course an operational matter for the IAOC, but from my personal knowledge they have always been able to respond adequately to subpoenas. As you (and RFC 2026) say, email archives are only a part of the

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
+1 to Henrik's comments. I don't think the two MUSTs that he comments on are algorithmically possible. Brian On 2008-04-15 08:25, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Hi, On 2008-04-14 17:39 IESG Secretary said the following: The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists: *

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Ned Freed
+1 to Henrik's comments. I don't think the two MUSTs that he comments on are algorithmically possible. These two MUSTs (the ability to whitelist specific posters without them having to receive list mail and spam rejection) are both completely trivial to implement with our software. The latter

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-04-15 09:11, Ned Freed wrote: +1 to Henrik's comments. I don't think the two MUSTs that he comments on are algorithmically possible. These two MUSTs (the ability to whitelist specific posters without them having to receive list mail and spam rejection) are both completely trivial to

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2008-04-14 23:11 Ned Freed said the following: +1 to Henrik's comments. I don't think the two MUSTs that he comments on are algorithmically possible. These two MUSTs (the ability to whitelist specific posters without them having to receive list mail and spam rejection) are both

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker
Dear IESG, IESG Secretary wrote: The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists: * IETF mailing lists MUST provide spam control. * Such spam control SHOULD track accepted practices used on the Internet. These two bullets are well-intentioned, but have no clear

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Ned Freed
On 2008-04-14 23:11 Ned Freed said the following: +1 to Henrik's comments. I don't think the two MUSTs that he comments on are algorithmically possible. These two MUSTs (the ability to whitelist specific posters without them having to receive list mail and spam rejection) are both

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2008-04-15 00:35 Ned Freed said the following: On 2008-04-14 23:11 Ned Freed said the following: I guess I should be flattered, but really, I fail to see why. Guaranteed bypass of moderation is simply an allowed-poster whitelist. So it seems to me that you've failed to see the problem.

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis: closing the implicit MX issue

2008-04-14 Thread Tony Hansen
shepherd hat on During the second last call for rfc2821bis, there has been much discussion of how the implicit MX handling is to be handled in an IPv6-capable and IPv6-only environment. This has generated much heat, as well as numerous proposals that were both productive and counter-productive,

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Ned Freed
On 2008-04-15 00:35 Ned Freed said the following: On 2008-04-14 23:11 Ned Freed said the following: I guess I should be flattered, but really, I fail to see why. Guaranteed bypass of moderation is simply an allowed-poster whitelist. So it seems to me that you've failed to see the

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Henrik Levkowetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:12 PM Subject: Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists ... And there's that word automatically. There is nothing in

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis: closing the implicit MX issue

2008-04-14 Thread Dave Crocker
Tony Hansen wrote: From this viewpoint, running code wins. I'm also swayed by the principle of least surprise. ... Last of all, I'm swayed by the discussions around RFC 974 and the DRUMS archive search ... So the bottom line is that I see sufficient support for including lookups

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Ned Freed
The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists: * IETF mailing lists MUST provide spam control. * Such spam control SHOULD track accepted practices used on the Internet. These two bullets are well-intentioned, but have no clear meaning. Simply put, there is no

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis: closing the implicit MX issue

2008-04-14 Thread Keith Moore
Dave Crocker wrote: Tony Hansen wrote: From this viewpoint, running code wins. I'm also swayed by the principle of least surprise. ... Last of all, I'm swayed by the discussions around RFC 974 and the DRUMS archive search ... So the bottom line is that I see sufficient support for

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread John Levine
* IETF mailing lists MUST provide a mechanism for legitimate technical participants to bypass moderation, challenge-response, or other techniques that would interfere with a prompt technical debate on the mailing list without requiring such participants to receive list traffic. Here,

Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread Ned Freed
Hi - From: Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Henrik Levkowetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, April 14, 2008 9:12 PM Subject: Re: IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists ... And there's that word automatically. There is

Document Action: 'IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in 802.16 Networks' to Informational RFC

2008-04-14 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IPv6 Deployment Scenarios in 802.16 Networks ' draft-ietf-v6ops-802-16-deployment-scenarios-07.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the IPv6 Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ron Bonica and Dan

Document Action: 'Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G CDMA Networks' to Informational RFC

2008-04-14 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Mobile IPv6 Fast Handovers for 3G CDMA Networks ' draft-ietf-mipshop-3gfh-07.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Mobility for IP: Performance, Signaling and Handoff Optimization Working Group. The IESG contact

IESG Statement on Spam Control on IETF Mailing Lists

2008-04-14 Thread IESG Secretary
The following principles apply to spam control on IETF mailing lists: * IETF mailing lists MUST provide spam control. * Such spam control SHOULD track accepted practices used on the Internet. * IETF mailing lists MUST provide a mechanism for legitimate technical participants to bypass moderation,

WG Action: Conclusion of An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy (openpgp)

2008-04-14 Thread The IESG
The An Open Specification for Pretty Good Privacy working group (openpgp) in the Security Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Tim Polk and Pasi Eronen. The mailing list will remain active. The openpgp working group has successfully completed its objective of publishing a message

Protocol Action: 'Mobile IPv4 Traversal Across IPsec-based VPN Gateways' to Proposed Standard

2008-04-14 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Mobile IPv4 Traversal Across IPsec-based VPN Gateways ' draft-ietf-mip4-vpn-problem-solution-05.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Mobility for IPv4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Mark