Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Robert Elz
In other organisations, when I see (what has been called here), an "over the wall" list of changes, I usually expect, and usually receive, in addition to the list of changes (along with what used to be there) all of which exists here, some kind of explanation why the changes are being proposed. Th

Re: IETF 75 agenda... Re: Update to the IETF Web Site

2009-06-23 Thread Alexa Morris
We are currently experiencing some problems with the agenda tool, and until they are addressed we are not able to generate an html or text version of the agenda. We hope to have the tool repaired shortly. Alexa On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:32 PM, Leslie Daigle wrote: I do note, with favour, that

IETF 75 agenda... Re: Update to the IETF Web Site

2009-06-23 Thread Leslie Daigle
I do note, with favour, that it at least implies there will still be text (and html) agendas in the future. Leslie. ... still trying to figure out why there is only a PDF version of the IETF75 agenda on the current website... IETF Chair wrote: For the last 10 months, the IETF Secretariat a

RE: [Trustees] [IAB] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Contreras, Jorge
> The statement in 2.b, in conjunction with a July 2009 Effective > Date (see the top of the document), leaves documents published > between the presumptive Effective Date of the procedures in > effect today and that date in a strange sort of never-never > land, since 2.b doesn't mention 5378. T

LC summary for draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management

2009-06-23 Thread David Harrington
Hi, Here is a summary of Last Call comments: 1) Cullen Jennings told chairs to pay attention; [dbh: no action required.] 2) Henning Schulzrinne concerned about slowing approvals, and applying to new protocols and extensions. [dbh: added text about the different needs for new protocols and exten

Update to the IETF Web Site

2009-06-23 Thread IETF Chair
For the last 10 months, the IETF Secretariat at the direction of the IAOC and input form the IESG and the IETF community has been working on an overhaul of the IETF web site. The goals for the new site were simple and included: 1) Make it easier for those who are new to the IETF to get involved;

Re: Fwd: IETF Trust TLP

2009-06-23 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Marshall" == Marshall Eubanks writes: Marshall> Monte is Founder and Executive Contact, xiph.org, and is Marshall> responsible (as much as any person) for Ogg / Vorbis. He Marshall> was also one of my sources from before. The message you quoted is entirely non-responsive to th

Fwd: IETF Trust TLP

2009-06-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Monte is Founder and Executive Contact, xiph.org, and is responsible (as much as any person) for Ogg / Vorbis. He was also one of my sources from before. Regards Marshall Begin forwarded message: From: Christopher Montgomery Date: June 23, 2009 2:32:07 PM EDT To: Marshall Eubanks Subject:

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jun 23, 2009, at 2:49 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: This is another side-discussion that may be useful to do publicly, forwarded with Sam's permission. This discussion brings up another (subtler) point about allowing re-licensing between works licensed under the BSD license directly and works

Re: Fwd: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
This is another side-discussion that may be useful to do publicly, forwarded with Sam's permission. This discussion brings up another (subtler) point about allowing re-licensing between works licensed under the BSD license directly and works licensed under the newly proposed BSD-license-via-IETF-p

Re: Fwd: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Sam Hartman
I find myself in complete agreement with John's message. I'll admit that I probably don't have the time or desire to actually examine the IAOC's actions if they were to be accountable to the community. However, when I was involved in drafting BCP 101 it was my assumption that the IAOC would be acc

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Simon; Just to save people from having to wade through lots of text unnecessarily, the major issue we are discussing here is the "license by reference" aspect of the proposed TLP's BSD license requirements. On Jun 23, 2009, at 1:16 PM, Simon Josefsson wrote: Marshall Eubanks writes:

Re: Fwd: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 23, 2009 12:49 -0400 Marshall Eubanks wrote: >... >> After all of this, the Trust developed consensus around the >> license by reference option. >> >> So, I feel that the Trustees have done due diligence here. >> >> Of course, there is never a final word on these matters. I

Re: Fwd: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marshall Eubanks writes: > Simon asked that this go to the IETF list. Thanks for moving this back to the IETF list. I believe these discussions should be public. Many considerations appears to have been made that the wider IETF community is unaware of. I would expect information like this to

Fwd: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Simon asked that this go to the IETF list. Begin forwarded message: From: Marshall Eubanks Date: June 23, 2009 11:30:50 AM EDT To: Simon Josefsson Cc: Trustees Subject: Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust LegalProvisions (TLP) On Jun 23, 2009, at 10:18 AM, Simon Josefsso

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Sam Hartman
I too do not believe that reducing the review period of TLP changes is at all reasonable. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Yaakov Stein
Joel Yes, I referred to that list when I quoted "classical programming code". However, as the list does not include a set of recognized programming languages, I thought that the issue was left open. By code marker I assume you mean ... , which is itself a kind of pseudocode. Y(J)S -Origin

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Yaakov Stein writes: > Could you change the wording "BSD License" to "revised BSD License" > to avoid confusion with the "original BSD license" > that contained the infamous "advertising clause" ? I support making that change too. (It was pointed out earlier.) /Simon __

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There is an explicit list of what is automatically covered as code. After discussion, that list does not (did not, the last time I checked) include pseudo-code. Document authors are free to mark their pseudo-code using the code marker if they want it treated as code. The problem, as far as I a

RE: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Yaakov Stein
Could you change the wording "BSD License" to "revised BSD License" to avoid confusion with the "original BSD license" that contained the infamous "advertising clause" ? Is pseudocode covered by the terms of redistribution of source code in section 4 ? The last line of the list of code component

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, Jun 23, 2009 at 11:20:33AM -0400, Contreras, Jorge wrote: > aren't errors caused by hurried or sloppy work by the Trust, they are > reasonable points of disagreement over policy and interpretation. It's > certainly legitimate for you to raise and discuss these points, but you > shouldn't

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
John C Klensin writes: > Assuming that I'm not the only one who sees the recent patterns > as problematic I don't think you are alone with that impression. The process you outline (posting preliminary versions in draft-* form) sounds great to me. I suggested it earlier, and the IETF Trust resp

RE: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Contreras, Jorge
> But, > using this draft with the serious problem Simon spotted and the > minor "no justification for adding boilerplate" one that I > spotted as the most recent of what have been many examples, it > appears that the IAOC/Trustees are composed of human beings with > many other things on their

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 23, 2009 09:54 +0200 Simon Josefsson wrote: > Marshall Eubanks writes: > >> 2.e -- the review period for TLP changes has been changed >> from 30 to 14 days, which is consistent with the last-call >> period for other IETF documents > > John gave several reasons why this isn

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Russ Housley
The IESG has prepared a draft statement as a companion document. Since the two are related, the IESG would like the community to comment on the two documents at the same time. On behalf of the IESG, Russ --- Draft IESG Statement --- This IESG Statement obsoletes all earlier IESG Statements

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Simon Josefsson
Marshall Eubanks writes: > 2.e -- the review period for TLP changes has been changed from 30 to > 14 days, which is consistent with the last-call period for other IETF > documents John gave several reasons why this isn't good justification, and I agree with them. Reading his thoughts, my opinio

Re: [IAB] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 23, 2009 01:32 -0400 Marshall Eubanks wrote: > The IETF Trustees invite your comments on the proposed > revisions to the "Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents" > (TLP) policy. The proposed revisions are in rtf, pdf and doc > formats and located at: > http://trustee.ie