Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-20 Thread tsg
On 03/19/2013 11:04 PM, Stewart Bryant wrote: Margret this is the IETF, it regularly sets aside law to create its own lies about what it is and is not capable of in a legal context - but that is all about to change I think... Todd On 19/03/2013 12:59, Margaret Wasserman wrote: On Mar 12,

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-20 Thread tsg
I would suggest John that the real diversity the IETF needs is transparency in its process and a competent IPR rule set which meets the same set of legal hurdles people do in the commercial world so to speak. I would also suggest that the idea of splitting all of these contractually binding

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-20 Thread tsg
On 03/20/2013 07:16 AM, Jorge Contreras wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 6:53 AM, Margaret Wasserman m...@lilacglade.org mailto:m...@lilacglade.org wrote: Jorge - did I miss something here - isnt this your job? If not why are you here? Let me respond that further - I believe that there

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-20 Thread tsg
On 03/20/2013 12:18 PM, Eric Burger wrote: How much is the concentration of corporate participation in the IETF a result of market forces, like consolidation and bankruptcy, as opposed to nefarious forces, like a company hiring all of the I* leadership? We have mechanisms to deal with the

Re: Does being an RFC mean anything?

2009-03-11 Thread TSG
Lawrence Rosen wrote: Because Larry - many of those here owe their ongoing $$$ livelihood to the lie the IETF has become. And so what you are suggesting is increasing the rolls of the unemployed by adding these individuals who's whole existence is the IETF. Its also these people in my opinion

Question about the meaning of the following boilerplate statement...

2009-02-28 Thread TSG
Since this appears as a part of the legal boilerplate on a I-D I have three questions to ask.. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. So then by US Law they are copyright under the US Copyright act since

Re: Question about the meaning of the following boilerplate statement...

2009-02-28 Thread TSG
TSG wrote: Since this appears as a part of the legal boilerplate on a I-D I have three questions to ask.. Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. So then by US Law they are copyright under the US Copyright act

Re: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

2009-02-28 Thread TSG
. So these reasons are proper reasons to oppose a draft. When pro-patent forces argue that RFC3979 isn't the policy of the IETF, they are merely being dishonest. --Dean On Fri, 27 Feb 2009, TSG wrote: Carsten Bormann wrote: http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls

Re: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

2009-02-27 Thread TSG
Carsten Bormann wrote: http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard While I have a lot of sympathy for the cause, I have very little sympathy for the methods. I have NO sympathy for the cause. Rendering a mailing list that might be useful for actually resolving the issue inoperative

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-18 Thread TSG
Lawrence Rosen wrote: Steven, thanks very much for your email. My comments are below. /Larry Larry - it is inappropriate for the IETF to be creating hurdles for those that are unwilling to support the mandatory new licensing requirements considering those are not part of the original or

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-18 Thread TSG
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 18 Feb 2009 13:17:39 -0800 Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote: Rather than a standing board (which was what I thought you had intended), [LR:] I had indeed intended a standing board, and still do. Why have to agitate and recruit an expert

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-18 Thread TSG
Michael Dillon wrote: FSF is very well intentioned; don't understand me to say otherwise. That said, I think their view on IPR is pretty extreme - no IPR is acceptable. Perhaps that is their view as an organization, but if the IETF engages with the FSF to get individuals involved in the

Settlement proposal - Re: Previous consensus on not changing patent policy

2009-02-17 Thread TSG
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 2:11 PM -0800 2/16/09, Lawrence Rosen wrote: Let's forget the past; I acknowledge we lost that argument then among those few who bothered to hum. Many of us have heard this in various technical working groups when people who didn't get their way come back

Re: Previous consensus on not changing patent policy (Re: References to Redphone's patent)

2009-02-17 Thread TSG
John Levine wrote: But are the 1,000 or so emails in recent days from the FSF campaign not a loud enough hum to recognize that our IPR policy is out of tune? Are you really saying that all it takes is a mob motivated by an misleading screed to make the IETF change direction? Yes -

Re: Fwd: Security Assessment of the Transmission Control Protocol (TCP)

2009-02-14 Thread TSG
Joel Jaeggli wrote: Keith Moore wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: If I am reading this correctly the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure wants the IETF (or some other body) to produce a companion document to the IETF specifications that discusses the security aspects

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-12 Thread TSG
Simon Josefsson wrote: Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net writes: Simon, That's not possible because the IETF policies does not permit free software compatible licensing on Internet drafts published by the IETF. ... See RFC 5378: It is also important to note

LORAN is making a comeback..

2009-02-12 Thread TSG
Folks because of the problems with GPS the LORAN system and a new location based encrypted LORAN is emerging. But there is an opportunity to expand that and layer PPP or some other rudimentary stack atop the LORAN transport Anyone else interested? Todd Glassey

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-12 Thread TSG
Simon Josefsson wrote: Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net writes: Harald, Margaret, and Simon, Harald wrote actually that's intended to be permitted by RFC 5377 section 4.2: and Margaret wrote: However, I don't think that anyone actually believes that the IETF will track

If you install Mail Filters how is the list integrity to be documented?

2009-02-11 Thread TSG
There is a serious concern that when individuals are 'filtered out of IETF lists' whether by official or unofficial means, that their voices are prevented from being included into the IETF standards process. Are there any thoughts on how filters in mailing lists should be documented? Todd

Re: It's time for some new steps (was: [Welcome to the Ietf-honest mailing list])

2009-02-10 Thread TSG
Scott Brim wrote: Excerpts from Cullen Jennings on Tue, Feb 10, 2009 09:40:55AM -0700: On Feb 9, 2009, at 6:20 PM, Scott Brim wrote: Dean's mail does not hurt any of us. OK, it does take a minute of our time to unsubscribe but that's it. In my opinion it is not alright for

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread TSG
Ed Juskevicius wrote: The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some proposed revisions to the Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents policy, based on comments received from the community in the last two weeks. Please recall this work is being done to provide a

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenarys

2009-01-24 Thread TSG
Clint Chaplin wrote: On 1/23/09, TSG tglas...@earthlink.net wrote: Contreras, Jorge wrote: Why not just ask them???. All authors have a responsibility to maintain their contact info, otherwise it is easily argued that they abandoned their claims in that IP. Were

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-23 Thread TSG
Contreras, Jorge wrote: No, absolutely not. Use of pre-5378 materials in the IETF standards process has never been an issue, only use outside the IETF is problematic (ie, allowed under 5378 but not the earlier rules). Jorge - if the contributor's in a RC2026 controlled submission choose

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2009-01-23 Thread TSG
Contreras, Jorge wrote: Just as a simple for example: what is the set of names that needs to be posted just to cover all of the boilerplate text we're required to put in our documents? The boilerplate text is owned by the IETF Trust. No author permissions are needed. Hmm... seems to

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenarys

2009-01-23 Thread TSG
Contreras, Jorge wrote: Larry - thank you for your contribution! I further want to comment that, as far as I can tell, it may not even be necessary to get *everyone* to sign. Here's the reason: Most RFCs are joint works. Quoting (FWIW) from my own book on the subject of licensing: In

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread TSG
Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 9:29 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 08:24:08AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Jan 15, 2009, at 7:09 AM, John C Klensin wrote: If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread TSG
John C Klensin wrote: I have to agree with Andrew and Tom. If someone stood up in a WG prior to whenever 5378 was effective* and made a suggestion of some length, or made a lengthy textual suggestion on a mailing list, and I copied that suggestion into a draft without any paraphrasing, a

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread TSG
Contreras, Jorge wrote: All -- It's been pointed out to me that I may have been answering the wrong question, or at least only a subset of the full question, in my posting of last night, so I'll clarify below in some detail. But first, for those whom I haven't met before, you should know that

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-13 Thread TSG
Russ Housley wrote: Russ the phrase COUNSEL reviewed the text is meaningless from a legal standpoint without specifically asking particular questions. So what is it exactly that the Counsel reviewed and is willing to issue a formal opinion on? Todd Glassey John: I think that the cover

Re: Disappointing communication

2009-01-11 Thread TSG
John C Licensing wrote: Larry, You sent me an off-list note on this subject last night, at around 9:30PM my time. When last I checked, this was a weekend and some of us do not spent all of weekend evenings reading and responding to email. When your note caught up with me, it was even later

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-11 Thread TSG
Lawrence Rosen wrote: John Leslie wrote: I may not be the one to explain, but I _don't_ think that's what the proposal calls for. I think it calls for inclusion of the boilerplate I listed above, which simply disclaims knowledge of _whether_ all the rights of 5378 are granted (and thus

Re: [mail-vet-discuss] -19 of draft-kucherawy-sender-auth-header

2009-01-11 Thread TSG
Douglas Otis wrote: On Jan 9, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Lisa Dusseault wrote: Hi Doug, Does anybody support your review of sender-auth-header, to the point of believing that the document should not be published? So far you are still very much in the rough part of rough consensus. thanks, Lisa

Re: DNS/IP

2009-01-11 Thread TSG
Toni Stoev wrote: Hi, DNS job When a connection to a network node is to be initiated its DNS name is resolved to an IP address which shows the location of the node on the network. So network nodes are findable by name even if their locations change. I think you are backwards... The nodes

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread TSG
Ed Juskevicius wrote: Ed - you nor the rest of this list is going to like this retort but I would ask that you read all of it prior to flushing the response. The purpose of this message is twofold: 1) To summarize the issues that some members of our community have experienced since the

Re: RFC 5378 Contributor License Form

2008-12-29 Thread TSG
Ray Pelletier wrote: All What does that mean to the contractual relationship to the IETF's process for those IP's being evoplved inside it? Seems to me that place a stop on anything places a stop on everything. Todd The trustees are aware of the problems with respect to the RFC 5378

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-28 Thread TSG
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: It depends on what level you are looking at the problem from In my opinion, application layer systems should not make assumptions that have functional (as opposed to performance) implications on the inner semantics of IP addresses. From the functionality point of

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread TSG
macbroadcast wrote: There are also numerous Federal Co-Development programs in the various Excutive Branch agencies and they also must be included here because those may also have outside privte commitments as well. Todd Glassey federal works sorry for my might be oftopic comment, so

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-13 Thread TSG
Russ Housley wrote: Marshall: My understanding (and IANAL and Jorge is welcome to correct me) is that the IETF does indeed have sufficient rights to allow re-use of IETF documents within the IETF, and that this is purely concerned with the power of granting modification rights to other

Re: Review of draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-07

2008-06-20 Thread TSG
FYI - the IETF IPR disclosure process doesn't work very well since GEOPRIV directly violates our patent - see IPR notice #201. Todd Glassey - Original Message - From: Eric Rescorla [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Mary Barnes [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-17 Thread TSG
Uh, Folks DOMAIN NAMES cannot be reserved in that manner and this lawsuit from the US District Court says so. http://www.domainnamenews.com/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/express-media-express-corp-nd-ca.pdf That's not going to fly. DOMAIN NAMES are IP and need to be registered as TM's to protect

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-16 Thread TSG
FYI - ALL of the commentary submitted to the IESG must be done so through a process which includes it in the archive of that IP initiative or the IETF will see itself in a world of hurt the first time it is litigated against and it cannot produce documentation showing all of that material

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-16 Thread TSG
- Original Message - From: Robert Elz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:51 AM Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on

Re: FYI, more comments on IETF not having members (fwd)

2008-06-10 Thread TSG
Folks - I don't want to extend Deans rant here because that's between him and you. ...But as to the argument that the IETF has no member's. Sorry, the IETF *** does *** in fact have member's - They are those parties bound under contractual arrangement's with the IETF to participate formally in

Re: I mentioned once that certain actions of the IETF maybecriminally prosecutable in nature...

2008-06-09 Thread TSG
- From: TSG [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: IETF Discussion ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, June 09, 2008 7:16 PM Subject: Re: I mentioned once that certain actions of the IETF maybecriminally prosecutable in nature... Fred - you