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

2008-06-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 23 June, 2008 13:08 -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Russ Housley wrote: >> This is an individual submission, not a WG document. So, >> there is no charter that lists the appropriate mail list for >> such a discussion. >... > What we have here, now, is an example

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

2008-06-26 Thread SM
Hi Dave, At 13:08 23-06-2008, Dave Crocker wrote: For rfc2821bis, there was, in fact, an established discussion venue, and it long-standing and quite well known to the email community, namely [EMAIL PROTECTED] It could only have helped for that venue to have been known to others, particularly

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

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Crocker
(re-posted, since the original apparently went out with an unsubscribed From: /d) Russ, Russ Housley wrote: I'm not sure I did a wise thing by joining the discussion, but in for a penny, in for a pound ... What I am seeing is a thread that had some bits of silliness, early on, but has move

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

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Crocker
Russ Housley wrote: As you said in your note, we disagree on the details. I have forwarded the text to the list that shows that the issue was raised during IETF Last Call. Meaning, it was not a late surprise. First, there is a difference between a reviewer's making an observation, versus

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

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Crocker
Russ Housley wrote: This is an individual submission, not a WG document. So, there is no charter that lists the appropriate mail list for such a discussion. That said, John did take the issue to a mail list. I know this because someone forward his posting to me. John did not CC me on the

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

2008-06-26 Thread Dave Crocker
Russ Housley wrote: As you said in your note, we disagree on the details. I have forwarded the text to the list that shows that the issue was raised during IETF Last Call. Meaning, it was not a late surprise. First, there is a difference between a reviewer's making an observation, versus a

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

2008-06-25 Thread John Levine
>In the case of this draft, have the owners of the identifiers >been contacted by the author, and do they agree to this use? Perhaps you might want to compare the draft with RFC 2821, which was published over seven years ago, and then reconsider the question. Regards, John Levine, [EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: Measuring IETF and IESG trends (Was: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis)

2008-06-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Jari; On Jun 25, 2008, at 7:37 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Bernard, Russ, I changed the subject line, I think the thread has continued long enough :-) Indeed, I collect a set of measurements. These are based on pulling information from the tracker and the documents. The reason for setti

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

2008-06-25 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Use of any identifier outside the example space may cause real harm to the owner, where that harm may range from serious harm (technical and/or financial) to mild embarrassment. If anyone wants to use an identifier outside the example space, then to protect both the owner of the identifier and

Measuring IETF and IESG trends (Was: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis)

2008-06-25 Thread Jari Arkko
Bernard, Russ, I changed the subject line, I think the thread has continued long enough :-) Indeed, I collect a set of measurements. These are based on pulling information from the tracker and the documents. The reason for setting this up was to try to better understand what is happening in t

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

2008-06-25 Thread Julian Reschke
Stewart Bryant wrote: At least three ADs believe that the examples should be changed I agree with them. Use of any identifier outside the example space may cause real harm to the owner, where that harm may range from serious harm (technical and/or financial) to mild embarrassment. If any

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

2008-06-25 Thread Stewart Bryant
At least three ADs believe that the examples should be changed I agree with them. Use of any identifier outside the example space may cause real harm to the owner, where that harm may range from serious harm (technical and/or financial) to mild embarrassment. If anyone wants to use an ide

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

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Housley
I'm sorry for the way that this discussion has gone. I joined the discussion in order to let the whole community see both sides of the disagreement. However, in an attempt to provide clarity and correct inaccurate statements, the discussion turned into tit for tat. The back-and-forth banter d

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

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Housley
Bernard: The data is all public. Jari has done a very good job of extracting the data from the I-D Tracker and making it accessible to everyone. Of course, any requests for changes to additional graphs need to go to Jari. http://www.arkko.com/tools/admeasurements/stat/base.html Russ At 1

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

2008-06-24 Thread Bernard Aboba
> We have a way to count DISCUSS positions, but we do not have a way to > figure out what percentage of them are perceived as "late surprises" > by the community. So, while we are taking action in an attempt to > make things better, we do not have a way to measure our success or > failure bey

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

2008-06-24 Thread Russ Housley
Bernard: Many of the IESG activities are listed in John's appeal. The DISCUSS Criteria document is probably the biggest step that was taken. ADs routine challenge each other to stay within those guidelines. At the IESG Retreat we had a discussion on this topic. It is very hard to measure.

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

2008-06-24 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On Monday, June 23, 2008 07:41:27 PM -0700 Bernard Aboba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Russ Housley said: "I agree with this principle. In fact, I think that the IESG has taken many steps over the last four or more years to reduce the nearly-end-of-process surprises. Obviously, you do not th

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

2008-06-23 Thread Bernard Aboba
Russ Housley said: "I agree with this principle. In fact, I think that the IESG has taken many steps over the last four or more years to reduce the nearly-end-of-process surprises. Obviously, you do not think these measures have been sufficient. One lesson from the many attempts to make updat

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

2008-06-23 Thread Russ Housley
John: Russ, that note was sent to the mailing list after I received your "change the document or appeal" note. I believed that note from you closed the door on any further dialogue with you (or the IESG). The note to the SMTP list was simply to collect opinions on which of the two choices you

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

2008-06-23 Thread Pete Resnick
On 6/18/08 at 10:35 PM -0400, Russ Housley wrote: The I-D Checklist (IDnits, http://www.ietf.org/ID-Checklist.html), Section 6, says: Addresses used in examples SHOULD preferably use fully qualified domain names instead of literal IP addresses, and preferably use example fqdn's suc

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

2008-06-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 23 June, 2008 14:19 -0400 Russ Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave: > If you feel that group was rogue, please explain. If you do not, what is the basis for your view that its considerations were sufficiently faulty to warrant being overridden? >>> Prio

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

2008-06-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 23 June, 2008 14:19 -0400 Russ Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dave: > If you feel that group was rogue, please explain. If you do not, what is the basis for your view that its considerations were sufficiently faulty to warrant being overridden? >>> Prio

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

2008-06-23 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: If you feel that group was rogue, please explain. If you do not, what is the basis for your view that its considerations were sufficiently faulty to warrant being overridden? Prior to the appeal, this aspect of John's rationale was not raised. It was not raised by John, the document PR

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

2008-06-23 Thread Russ Housley
John: As others have pointed out, you are missing the _only_ thing that I consider to be really important. In addition, we disagree about some of the details as you have presented them. You can consider this note an addendum to the appeal text if you like. The first issue is that, as several o

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

2008-06-23 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Jun 20 18:14:33 2008, Russ Housley wrote: First, looking at a diff of RFC 2821 and draft-klensin-rfc2821bis, I do not find the argument about continuity very questionable. This document does include some clarification and lessons learned, and it includes much more too. Your first s

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

2008-06-20 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - > From: "Debbie Garside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "'John C Klensin'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Dave Cridland'" <[EMAIL > PROTECTED]> > Cc: "'Pete Resnick'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMA

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

2008-06-20 Thread Russ Housley
Ted: First, looking at a diff of RFC 2821 and draft-klensin-rfc2821bis, I do not find the argument about continuity very questionable. This document does include some clarification and lessons learned, and it includes much more too. RFC 2821 Outline for Sections 1 and 2: 1. Introduc

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

2008-06-20 Thread Debbie Garside
t; -Original Message- > From: Pete Resnick [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 June 2008 20:22 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'John C Klensin'; 'Dave Cridland'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: RE: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on > draf

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

2008-06-20 Thread Debbie Garside
regards Debbie > -Original Message- > From: John C Klensin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 19 June 2008 19:24 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Dave Cridland' > Cc: 'Pete Resnick'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: RE: Appeal agains

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

2008-06-19 Thread SM
At 10:50 19-06-2008, Russ Housley wrote: That seems to be the crux of the appeal. Does every possible thing upon which an AD can raise a DISCUSS position need to align with a written rule? Don't we select leaders because we have some confidence in their judgement? A process gets constrained i

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

2008-06-19 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 19 Jun 2008 22:32:59 +0200 From:Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Isn't the IESG is meant to serve two roles? Yes, but not the two you enumerated. The first, and far and away most important, is to cause the work to get done

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

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Hardie
At 1:32 PM -0700 6/19/08, Eliot Lear wrote: > >Isn't the IESG is meant to serve two roles? The first is to be the >arbiter of community consensus. The second is to be a judge on the >quality of the work before them, as to whether it is ready to move >forward. The IESG is not meant to over-ride t

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

2008-06-19 Thread Eliot Lear
Ted Hardie wrote: There are very few cases where that is okay. It applies when there is a documented, larger community consensus that the WG or submission group decision ignores (a working group decision that congestion control wasn't important would get pushback on this front, for examp

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

2008-06-19 Thread Frank Ellermann
Debbie Garside wrote: > I and a few others thought a BCP was worth something. Apparently not. Please don't panic, nobody said that RFC 2606 or 4646 are "worthless". This discussion is mainly about some bugs in the DISCUSS "protocol", and the somewhat unclear status of the IDNITS "specification"

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

2008-06-19 Thread Pete Resnick
On 6/19/08 at 7:54 PM +0100, Debbie Garside wrote: I am more for going with standards rather than finding ways around them with MAYs and SHOULDs. If there is a recommendation within a standard IMHO it should be followed. [...] I don't see what the problem is with following BCP's Please iden

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

2008-06-19 Thread Ted Hardie
At 10:50 AM -0700 6/19/08, Russ Housley wrote: > >That seems to be the crux of the appeal. Does every possible thing >upon which an AD can raise a DISCUSS position need to align with a >written rule? Don't we select leaders because we have some >confidence in their judgement? > >Russ Russ,

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

2008-06-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 18 June, 2008 21:53 +0100 Debbie Garside <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe I and a few others thought a BCP was worth something. > Apparently not. Unlike the authors of these documents I am not > privy to the reasoning behind them I am just privy to the > document itself. Neit

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

2008-06-19 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: I'm not sure I did a wise thing by joining the discussion, but in for a penny, in for a pound ... >>- The examples in RFC 821 use different domains from the ones in RFC 2821. > >Where are the reports of problems with with that aspect of RFC 2821? > >Changes from Proposed to Draft are expec

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

2008-06-19 Thread Debbie Garside
ECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Dave Cridland > Sent: 18 June 2008 12:28 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'John C Klensin'; 'Pete Resnick'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: RE: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on > draft-klensin-rfc28

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

2008-06-18 Thread Russ Housley
Bob: Insanity? I think not. Maybe you made the comment to get me post to this thread. If so, it worked. You are missing a few things that I consider to be relevant and important. - We're talking about rfc2821bis (not RFC 2821 or RFC 821). - The examples in RFC 821 use different domains from

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

2008-06-18 Thread Ned Freed
> > However, I'm arguing that > > there is scope on this particular point for concluding that there is > > a *technical* issue (a source of confusion, i.e. a lack of clarity). > If would be fascinating to see someone attempt to defend such a claim > seriously and with pragmatic substance, rather t

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

2008-06-18 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Jun 17 15:50:02 2008, Debbie Garside wrote: > Not being a expert on this but having briefly read the documents in > question, I agree with Brian. This is not editorial. Well, people have commented that changing the examples will hardly break the Internet mail system, so it seems reasonab

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

2008-06-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
By now, I'm hoping that the IESG has enough public and private feedback on this topic to do the right thing (whatever that is, and yes, I also have an opinion about what the IESG should be doing, which I'm not including here). Do we need to say more? If not, perhaps we could wait for the IESG to

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

2008-06-18 Thread Ralph Droms
No, you're not the only one seeing insanity. - Ralph On Jun 18, 2008, at Jun 18, 2008,12:44 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: > Hi, > > Let me see if I understand this. > > - This is the specification for SMTP. It's was first used on the > Arpanet. > > - It is probably as widely deployed as IP and TCP. Ma

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

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Ellermann
Robert Elz wrote: [general procedural considerations:] > It can be tricky in any case, I don't really think individual > submissions are that different - in either case, there's a > last call, and the results need to be evaluated. A WG is an additional layer to sort out conflicts, with Chairs

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

2008-06-18 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jun 18 12:28:10 2008, Dave Cridland wrote: > Therefore, to cover this particular case, such a blanket policy > would have to be stated such that even vague recommendations in > BCPs I received a private comment which appeared to suggest I'm being unclear here. So let me clarify: The

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

2008-06-18 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jun 18 12:02:44 2008, Debbie Garside wrote: > Dave wrote: > > > Even on Wednesdays. > > Or for purple documents... ;-) > > I see your point. I do think, assuming it is not already > documented and > further assuming this is the whole point of the appeal, that the > IESG could > creat

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

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 18 Jun 2008 20:35:54 +0200 From:"Frank Ellermann" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Figuring out what the "demonstrated will of the IETF" is | is the job of the IESG, Agreed, that is part of their role. | and in the case of an indi

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

2008-06-18 Thread Frank Ellermann
Robert Elz wrote: > The issue is why the IESG is ignoring the demonstrated > will of the IETF. Figuring out what the "demonstrated will of the IETF" is is the job of the IESG, and in the case of an individual submission such as 2821bis it can be rather tricky. Somebody *deciding* that using fo

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

2008-06-18 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 18 Jun 2008 12:02:44 +0100 From:"Debbie Garside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I see your point. I doubt that you do. | I do think, assuming it is not already documented and | further assuming this is the whole point of the app

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

2008-06-18 Thread Debbie Garside
1:39 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: 'John C Klensin'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org; 'Brian E > Carpenter'; 'Pete Resnick' > Subject: RE: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on > draft-klensin-rfc2821bis > > On Tue Jun 17 15:50:02 2008, Debbie Garsi

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

2008-06-18 Thread Debbie Garside
Debbie > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 17 June 2008 19:50 > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on > draft-klensin-rfc2821bis > > Date:

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

2008-06-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, Let me see if I understand this. - This is the specification for SMTP. It's was first used on the Arpanet. - It is probably as widely deployed as IP and TCP. Maybe more so. - It works (e.g., the email discussing this thread was sent via SMTP). - The IETF is now advancing it to Draft St

Limits of RFC 2606 (Was: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
[The main issue, in its discussion, and rightly so, is the "futile" uses of DISCUSS - my favorite example being 2929bis « Domain Name System (DNS) IANA Considerations », blocked for many months by iana.org vs. ietf.org. But my message is about the "examples" RFC such as 2606, 3330, 3849 or 4735.]

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

2008-06-18 Thread Simon Josefsson
John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Changing the examples (or not) has _never_ been the core > question. I understand that, but I think the reason behind the DISCUSS can lead to a better document. I sympathize with your effort to make the IESG decision process better documented, or at l

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

2008-06-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Brian Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Here's my suggestion: >> >> List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples used >> to indicate >> that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 examples. >> >> So, in text that previously read "not-example.co

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

2008-06-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Dave; On Jun 17, 2008, at 3:36 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Marshall Eubanks wrote: >> I fully agree with Debbie here. >> Human experience teaches us that examples will >> be used, over time. > > Seems like 25+ years is a pretty solid sample size of experience, to > test such a theory.* >

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

2008-06-17 Thread LB
Dear Colleagues, I'm reading the proceedings of the IETF for the past few months. They surprise me very much. I thought that the IETF was a serious institution seriously publishing serious standards. I realized that his organization is not made for that and I wonder how it can publish something ser

example TLH (was: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis)

2008-06-17 Thread Frank Ellermann
John C Klensin wrote: > hypothesize that, at some point, an RFC 2606bis might be created > (and go through the consensus process to BCP) that offers special > reserved names for newsgroups or mailing lists as well as domain > names JFTR, with respect to newsgroups that is already specified in htt

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

2008-06-17 Thread TSG
Sent: Tuesday, June 17, 2008 10:49 AM Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis >Date:Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:50:02 +0100 >From:"Debbie Garside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > &g

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

2008-06-17 Thread Eliot Lear
Pete, > I first want to re-iterate what Eric posted earlier: Please read the > appeal. The *very minor* issue of the appeal is whether or not to use > 2606 names. It is the use of the DISCUSS in this case that is at > issue. That said: > I am uncomfortable ham-stringing the IESG (or having the

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

2008-06-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Steve; On Jun 17, 2008, at 2:54 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: > On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:33 -0400 > Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> I fully agree with Debbie here. >> >> Human experience teaches us that examples will >> be used, over time. Foo.com is a commercial site. If t

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

2008-06-17 Thread Pete Resnick
I first want to re-iterate what Eric posted earlier: Please read the appeal. The *very minor* issue of the appeal is whether or not to use 2606 names. It is the use of the DISCUSS in this case that is at issue. That said: On 6/17/08 at 2:54 PM -0400, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: >On Tue, 17 Jun 2

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

2008-06-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 17 June, 2008 11:30 +0200 Simon Josefsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Brian Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Here's my suggestion: >> >> List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the >> examples used to indicate >> that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 exam

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

2008-06-17 Thread Scott O. Bradner
if indeed RFC 2606 (a.k.a, BCP 32) said "all domain names in RFCs MUST use one of the following bases" then a blocking DISCUSS by an IESG member would be a reasonable thing. RFC 2606 does not say that and, thus, a blocking DISCUSS is not reasonable if the IESG had posted a set of rules that s

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

2008-06-17 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For what it's worth, I thought I remembered which document David was talking about in his second case, and confirmed that it was draft-ietf-geopriv-dhcp-civil-09.txt. There are narrative minutes from the telechat where David's DISCUSS position was discussed, at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/Narrati

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

2008-06-17 Thread Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis Date:Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:50:02 +0100 From:"Debbie Garside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I would also add that to go against an IETF BCP Huh? The BCP

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

2008-06-17 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:50:02 +0100 From:"Debbie Garside" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | I would also add that to go against an IETF BCP Huh? The BCP in question says (in a bit more eloquent form) "Here are some domain names that are reserv

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

2008-06-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:33 -0400 Marshall Eubanks <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I fully agree with Debbie here. > > Human experience teaches us that examples will > be used, over time. Foo.com is a commercial site. If the IETF uses > foo.com in email examples, > it is reasonable to assume that

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

2008-06-17 Thread Marshall Eubanks
TED] On >> Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter >> Sent: 16 June 2008 22:42 >> To: Pete Resnick >> Cc: John C Klensin; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org >> Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on >> draft-klensin-rfc2821bis >> >> Pete (and Dave C

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

2008-06-17 Thread Debbie Garside
]; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on > draft-klensin-rfc2821bis > > Pete (and Dave Crocker), > > On 2008-06-17 03:20, Pete Resnick wrote: > > On 6/16/08 at 10:00 AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > > >> I think one can make

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

2008-06-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 6/17/2008 9:45 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: >> Hi David, >> >> Thank you for sharing this information. Now that the community knows >> this, perhaps this will be an option when there are snags in the >> process in future. > > > Folks keep missing the point:

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

2008-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:02 AM, David Kessens wrote: > If my memory serves me correctly, we didn't have to do a formal > override vote in both cases as the request of an override vote was > enough to get the first case moving, while in the second case I > decided that an informal strawpoll was

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

2008-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Brian Dickson wrote: > List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples > used to indicate that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 examples. It seems that this gives 2606 more weight than it claims. What it claims is, quoting its abstract:

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

2008-06-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Hi David, Thank you for sharing this information. Now that the community knows this, perhaps this will be an option when there are snags in the process in future. regards, Lakshminath On 6/17/2008 6:02 AM, David Kessens wrote: > Lakshminath, > > On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:01:17PM -0700, Laks

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

2008-06-17 Thread David Kessens
Lakshminath, On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 11:01:17PM -0700, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: > > I have also been disappointed by the IESG not once invoking the override > procedures even when a DISCUSS is clearly inappropriate. For the record, during my time in the IESG, we have had at least two cases w

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

2008-06-17 Thread eburger
[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis Brian Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my suggestion: > > List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples used > to indicate >

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

2008-06-17 Thread Simon Josefsson
Brian Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Here's my suggestion: > > List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples used > to indicate > that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 examples. > > So, in text that previously read "not-example.com", it might read > "not-example.com

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

2008-06-16 Thread Brian Dickson
Frank Ellermann wrote: > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > >> That's my opinion; I'm not asserting that it's an IETF >> consensus or that it necessarily applies to 2821bis. >> > > +1 > > Some things I'd consider: > > RFC 821 used foo.arpa and similar examples, and it won't > surprise me if the a

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

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Crocker
John C Klensin wrote: > (1) The tracker categories are a matter of IESG decisions, not > of anything on which the community has ever reached consensus or > been asked to do so (something I actually consider a good > thing). The IESG can change them as needed. If the current > state of the tool

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

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > I think one can make a case that in some documents, use of non-RFC2606 > names as examples is a purely stylistic matter, and that in others, > it would potentially cause technical confusion. I'm not asserting which > applies to 2821bis, but I do assert that there is sco

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

2008-06-16 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > However, I'm arguing that > there is scope on this particular point for concluding that there is > a *technical* issue (a source of confusion, i.e. a lack of clarity). If would be fascinating to see someone attempt to defend such a claim seriously and with pragmat

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

2008-06-16 Thread Frank Ellermann
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > That's my opinion; I'm not asserting that it's an IETF > consensus or that it necessarily applies to 2821bis. +1 Some things I'd consider: RFC 821 used foo.arpa and similar examples, and it won't surprise me if the author knew precisely why this can never have any und

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

2008-06-16 Thread John C Klensin
Eric, Brian, and others... Since this has turned into a general discussion about DISCUSS, etc., a few comments. With regard to the specific appeal, everyone should remember that, under our procedures, the focus of an appeal in the first instance is "please reconsider this and decide whether you r

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

2008-06-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pete (and Dave Crocker), On 2008-06-17 03:20, Pete Resnick wrote: > On 6/16/08 at 10:00 AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> I think one can make a case that in some documents, use of non-RFC2606 >> names as examples is a purely stylistic matter, and that in others, it >> would potentially cau

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]>; ; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Monday, June 16, 2008 12:51 AM

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

2008-06-16 Thread TSG
happened in the open. Todd Glassey - Original Message - From: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "John C Klensin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 5:23 PM Subject: Re: Appeal aga

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

2008-06-16 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 16 Jun 2008 13:23:28 +1200 From:Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | Which, in fairness, the IESG has documented, in the DISCUSS criteria | document and generally in practice, over the last several years. The IESG is f

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

2008-06-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 14 June, 2008 10:44 -0400 Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Standards track RFC 4343 was issued within the past five years > (January 2006 to be precise). It contains some example domain > names that do not follow the suggestions in RFC 2606 as well > as some

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

2008-06-16 Thread Tony Hansen
+1. Does "this is a discuss discuss question" mean that "I just want to discuss this, it's a nit, don't worry" or does it mean "we ABSOLUTELY MUST DISCUSS this and nothing's moving until we do!" Without other context, you don't know. Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eric Gray wrot

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

2008-06-16 Thread Pete Resnick
On 6/16/08 at 10:00 AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >I think one can make a case that in some documents, use of >non-RFC2606 names as examples is a purely stylistic matter, and that >in others, it would potentially cause technical confusion. Please make that case if you would, because the ex

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

2008-06-16 Thread Eric Gray
l Engineer Ericsson > -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter > Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2008 6:00 PM > To: John C Klensin > Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: Appeal against IESG block

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

2008-06-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 2008-06-16 11:44, Dave Crocker wrote: > > > Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> I think one can make a case that in some documents, use of non-RFC2606 >> names as examples is a purely stylistic matter, and that in others, >> it would potentially cause technical confusion. I'm not asserting whic

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

2008-06-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Regardless of John's P.S., I'd like to make some comments that the IESG may wish to consider: On 2008-06-15 05:11, John C Klensin wrote: > > --On Saturday, 14 June, 2008 10:44 -0400 Eastlake III > Donald-LDE008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Standards track RFC 4343 was issued within the past f

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

2008-06-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 14 June, 2008 10:44 -0400 Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Standards track RFC 4343 was issued within the past five years > (January 2006 to be precise). It contains some example domain > names that do not follow the suggestions in RFC 2606 as well > as some

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

2008-06-14 Thread Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Standards track RFC 4343 was issued within the past five years (January 2006 to be precise). It contains some example domain names that do not follow the suggestions in RFC 2606 as well as some that do. As the author of both RFC 2606 and RFC 4343, I believe the domain names reserved in RFC 2606 wer

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

2008-06-13 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 6/13/2008 6:14 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > I note that, while the present situation and 2821bis constitute > particularly glaring examples of these misplaced priorities and > abuses, none of the issues above is unique to 2821bis. They > are really about how the IESG manages and expresses i

Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-13 Thread John C Klensin
Executive Summary draft-klensin-rfc2821bis completed IETF Last Call for approval as Draft Standard and was placed in "IESG Evaluation" state on May 1st. IESG positions about it were first recorded on May 5th. Several minor technical issues were quickly resolved. However, an AD has entered a DISC