Re: Revised Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-10-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I like this. Nit: There's a missing "to" in the last line.

Re: Revised Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-10-12 Thread John Levine
>An I-D will only be removed from the Public I-D Archive under unusual >circumstances with consensus of the IESG. ... > If circumstances permit, a removed > I-D will be replaced with a tombstone file that describes the reason that > the I-D was removed from the Public I-D Archive. That seems much

Revised Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-10-12 Thread IETF Chair
The IESG has updated the draft IESG Statement based on the many comments that have been received. This revised text shows the linkage to RFC 2026 in a much more explicit manner, and it preserves the ability of the IESG to remove an Internet-Draft from the Public I-D Archive without a court orde

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-27 Thread tglassey
On 9/25/2012 9:03 AM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: Hi Dave, >Independent Stream authors well might not be "part of" the IETF -- always a strange line of thinking, given that the IETF doesn't have members -- but that doesn't mean that the Stream itself is outside the IETF. Any I-D author MUST be p

Re: Failing to convince an IETF WG (was: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site)

2012-09-25 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
SM>There is no such thing as an Independent Stream submitting a Standards Track document. An author can submit an I-D through the IETF Stream if the author would like the I-D to be published on the Standards Track. A WG can adopt such an I-D. Russ>The Independent Submission Stream cannot be used t

Re: Failing to convince an IETF WG (was: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site)

2012-09-25 Thread SM
Hi Abdussalam, At 10:19 25-09-2012, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: I ment to say that if independent stream cannot submit a standard track document, then do we have a procedure for the WG to accept or not consider? The last call that you refered to was a WG not independent. There is no such thing as

Re: Failing to convince an IETF WG (was: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site)

2012-09-25 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi SM, I ment to say that if independent stream cannot submit a standard track document, then do we have a procedure for the WG to accept or not consider? The last call that you refered to was a WG not independent. AB On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:08 PM, SM wrote: > Hi Abdussalam, > At 08:50 25-09

Failing to convince an IETF WG (was: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site)

2012-09-25 Thread SM
Hi Abdussalam, At 08:50 25-09-2012, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: I think that statement you made is very reasonable which I would prefer groups work to the best of IETF purposes, but also we need to know the reason why some individuals fail to convince an IETF WG. It is important that individuals g

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 25, 2012 16:50 +0100 Abdussalam Baryun wrote: > I think that statement you made is very reasonable which I > would prefer groups work to the best of IETF purposes, but > also we need to know the reason why some individuals fail to > convince an IETF WG. It is important t

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-25 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Dave, >Independent Stream authors well might not be "part of" the IETF -- always a strange line of thinking, given that the IETF doesn't have members -- but that doesn't mean that the Stream itself is outside the IETF. Any I-D author MUST be part of IETF otherwise what is IETF then, how do we d

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-25 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Russ, I think that statement you made is very reasonable which I would prefer groups work to the best of IETF purposes, but also we need to know the reason why some individuals fail to convince an IETF WG. It is important that individuals get to make input to new standards not only companies. I

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-24 Thread Russ Housley
Todd: The Independent Submission Stream cannot be used to produce standards track RFCs. Russ On Sep 24, 2012, at 3:36 PM, tglassey wrote: > On 9/24/2012 7:02 AM, Russ Housley wrote: >> Dave: > Russ - can the Independent Submission Stream (ISS) be used to create a fully > franchised IETF Stan

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-24 Thread tglassey
On 9/24/2012 7:02 AM, Russ Housley wrote: Dave: Russ - can the Independent Submission Stream (ISS) be used to create a fully franchised IETF Standard Process??? i.e. could I for instance through the ISS process submit a I-D and a RFC-Framework Proposal with that? In this case the framework pr

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-24 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Dave Crocker > Apparently you consider the IRTF, IAB and RFC Editor all to be outside > the IETF. You apparently seem (from this) to think they're not? Wow. Noel

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-24 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: >>> This second basis looks sufficiently broad and vague to invite its >>> own abuse and certainly inconsistent application. Did IETF counsel >>> express comfort with this language? > > >> Counsel has been consulted. After exchanging several messages, this >> is the resulting text. This t

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-24 Thread Dave Crocker
Russ, On 9/24/2012 7:02 AM, Russ Housley wrote: Dave: The IESG has updated the draft IESG Statement based on the many comments that have been received. It is clear that the community wants the IESG to be able to remove an Internet-Draft from the Public I-D Archive without a court order to do

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-24 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: >> The IESG has updated the draft IESG Statement based on the many comments >> that have been received. It is clear that the community wants the IESG to >> be able to remove an Internet-Draft from the Public I-D Archive without a >> court order to do so. That said, the IESG firmly belie

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-22 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/22/2012 7:33 AM, Pete Resnick wrote: Counsel actually wanted us to broaden the language, thinking "abuse" was too limiting. Wow. Well, that certainly satisfies the question I asked. Thanks, I think. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, September 22, 2012 09:33 -0500 Pete Resnick wrote: >... >>> An I-D will only be removed from the Public I-D Archive with >>> consensus of the IESG. There are two situations when the >>> IESG will take this action. First, to comply with a duly >>> authorized court order. Second

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-22 Thread Pete Resnick
Answering two bits I happen know the answers to: On 9/21/12 7:48 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: --- DRAFT IESG STATEMENT --- [...] While entries in the I-D Repository are subject to change or removal at any time, They are? Is this new? I thought the only established removal policy was the regular

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/21/2012 6:41 PM, David Morris wrote: On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Dave Crocker wrote: While entries in the I-D Repository are subject to change or removal at any time, They are? Is this new? I thought the only established removal policy was the regular 6-month timeout. Can't the author r

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread David Morris
On Fri, 21 Sep 2012, Dave Crocker wrote: > > While entries in the I-D Repository are subject to change or removal > > at any time, > > They are? Is this new? I thought the only established removal policy was the > regular 6-month timeout. Can't the author replace the repository version at

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/21/2012 1:45 PM, IETF Chair wrote: The IESG has updated the draft IESG Statement based on the many comments that have been received. It is clear that the community wants the IESG to be able to remove an Internet-Draft from the Public I-D Archive without a court order to do so. That sai

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/21/2012 4:38 PM, John C Klensin wrote: Joe, While I've somewhat sympathetic to your position -- I don't think the IETF should be supporting a public archival collection of expired I-Ds, especially older ones, either-- I think you are getting a little over the top. Specifically... --On F

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread John C Klensin
Joe, While I've somewhat sympathetic to your position -- I don't think the IETF should be supporting a public archival collection of expired I-Ds, especially older ones, either-- I think you are getting a little over the top. Specifically... --On Friday, September 21, 2012 13:54 -0700 Joe Touch

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/21/2012 2:48 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Sep 21, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Joe Touch wrote: And, ultimately, this won't be determined by analysis, but by a court. These kinds of threats seem a bit over the top. It was an observation, not a threat (at all). No analysis of legal matters is ev

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Sep 21, 2012, at 1:54 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > And, ultimately, this won't be determined by analysis, but by a court. These kinds of threats seem a bit over the top. --Paul Hoffman

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Stephan Wenger
Overall I like this--enough wiggle-room to deal with situations we cannot foresee now, but still sufficient guidance for the IESGs to come. One small issue, inline. Stephan On 9.21.2012 13:45 , "IETF Chair" wrote: >[...] > >When an I-D is removed from the Public I-D Archive, a copy will be kept

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Jari Arkko
Looks good to me. Jari

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Russ, FWIW, you seem to be conveniently ignoring at least two issues: 1) all the IDs before March 1994 which should not be published at all until permission is given (opt-in) 2) all the IDs published before boilerplate inclusion was required the IETF cannot merely as

Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread IETF Chair
The IESG has updated the draft IESG Statement based on the many comments that have been received. It is clear that the community wants the IESG to be able to remove an Internet-Draft from the Public I-D Archive without a court order to do so. That said, the IESG firmly believes that the collec

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Russ Housley
I believe that the IETF has all of the necessary rights to reproduce, distribute, and display publicly all Internet-Drafts. Here is my analysis: In RFC 1310, March 1992, the IAB describes Internet-Drafts, but it does not define the rights that contributors grant. As best I can determine, the ve

The case of the expired I-D (was: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site)

2012-09-21 Thread SM
Hi Carsten, At 06:11 21-09-2012, Carsten Bormann wrote: Actually, in this case I'd rather have the author resubmit, just to make sure not only the rest of the WG, but also the author continues to like the draft... (But I'm not chair for this WG.) It's better if the author resubmits the draft.

RE: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Adrian Farrel
> (My problem was not that draft expiry makes the process more complicated, but > that the chairs didn't notice the expiry and I can't blame them.) Well, the system does send out automatic reminders (entitled "Expiration Impending: draft-foo") to all authors and copied to the WG chairs. So no

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 20, 2012, at 21:22, SM wrote: >> We just had a consensus call in one WG on adopting a draft that at this time >> had been expired for a year. >> The chairs didn't notice, because the URI was stable (as it should be). > > Send a message with a subject line of Resurrect I-D file to interne

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread SM
Hi John, At 09:49 20-09-2012, John C Klensin wrote: post-expiration. I think that, as a community, we ought to respect those assumptions more than saying, effectively, "we are going to maintain a public archive no matter what commitments you thought were made to you because we can and because we

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-20 Thread SM
Hi Carsten, At 10:28 20-09-2012, Carsten Bormann wrote: We just had a consensus call in one WG on adopting a draft that at this time had been expired for a year. The chairs didn't notice, because the URI was stable (as it should be). Send a message with a subject line of Resurrect I-D file to

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-20 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 20, 2012, at 18:49, John C Klensin wrote: > I personally don't consider it very likely that someone would > actually sue or convince some appropriate prosecutor to come > after us. But, however one assesses the likelihood of that > happening and of that party winning, I think an attitude

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-20 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/19/2012 2:38 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: On Sep 19, 2012, at 22:28, Joe Touch wrote: I'm simply refuting *any* argument that starts with "because it's useful to the community". Interestingly, these kinds of arguments are the only ones I'm interested in. Until there is a court decision

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, September 19, 2012 23:38 +0200 Carsten Bormann wrote: >... > Until there is a court decision impacting this usefulness (or > one can be reasonably expected), the legal angle is simply > irrelevant. > > (Just keeping the thread alive so it doesn't seem that > everybody agrees wi

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-20 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/19/2012 3:31 PM, John Levine wrote: In article <505a2b08.70...@isi.edu> you write: On 9/19/2012 11:24 AM, John Levine wrote: Utility can determine whether it's worth the effort/expense to run a public archive, but your utility never undermines my rights as an author. We're very deep

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread John Levine
In article <505a2b08.70...@isi.edu> you write: > > >On 9/19/2012 11:24 AM, John Levine wrote: >>> Utility can determine whether it's worth the effort/expense to run a >>> public archive, but your utility never undermines my rights as an author. >> >> We're very deep into Junior Lawyer territory her

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 19, 2012, at 22:28, Joe Touch wrote: > I'm simply refuting *any* argument that starts with "because it's useful to > the community". Interestingly, these kinds of arguments are the only ones I'm interested in. Until there is a court decision impacting this usefulness (or one can be rea

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/19/2012 11:24 AM, John Levine wrote: Utility can determine whether it's worth the effort/expense to run a public archive, but your utility never undermines my rights as an author. We're very deep into Junior Lawyer territory here. I'm not. I'm simply refuting *any* argument that starts

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread John Levine
>Utility can determine whether it's worth the effort/expense to run a >public archive, but your utility never undermines my rights as an author. We're very deep into Junior Lawyer territory here. You might want to review RFC 3978, section 3.3a, in which contributors make a: perpetual, irr

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread Martin Rex
Joe Touch wrote: > > Lawrence Conroy wrote: >> >> It is VERY useful to be able to search through drafts to see how we >> got here, AND to see things that were explored and abandoned. > > Thieves find it very useful to have what they steal. That doesn't > legitimize their theft. > > Utility can

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread joel jaeggli
On 9/18/12 11:46 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/16/2012 6:56 AM, Lawrence Conroy wrote: ... It is VERY useful to be able to search through drafts to see how we got here, AND to see things that were explored and abandoned. Thieves find it very useful to have what they steal. That doesn't legitimi

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-18 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/16/2012 6:56 AM, Lawrence Conroy wrote: ... It is VERY useful to be able to search through drafts to see how we got here, AND to see things that were explored and abandoned. Thieves find it very useful to have what they steal. That doesn't legitimize their theft. Utility can determine

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-16 Thread tglassey
On 9/14/2012 7:38 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:24:12AM -0700, tglassey wrote: For instance - how do you deal with an ID which was originally published under one set of IP rights and another later one - or a derivative work which is published under a separate set of right

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-16 Thread tglassey
On 9/16/2012 6:56 AM, Lawrence Conroy wrote: Hi Scott, folks, with due deference to Joe Touch & Bill Manning, whenever I have created/requested publication of an I-D, it never occurred to me that I was actually withdrawing the rights I had signed up to after six months (i.e., insisting on re

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-16 Thread Lawrence Conroy
Hi Scott, folks, with due deference to Joe Touch & Bill Manning, whenever I have created/requested publication of an I-D, it never occurred to me that I was actually withdrawing the rights I had signed up to after six months (i.e., insisting on removal). That seems a novel reading of the boiler

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-14 Thread Bradner, Scott
I don't think that the Note Well note has much to do with what Joe started talking about we have had this discussion before quite a few years ago (pre tools) I suggested moving "expired" IDs to an "expired IDs" directory rather than removing them from the IETF public repository as well as posti

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Sep 14, 2012 at 07:24:12AM -0700, tglassey wrote: > > For instance - how do you deal with an ID which was originally > published under one set of IP rights and another later one - or a > derivative work which is published under a separate set of rights - > which functionally contravenes or

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-14 Thread tglassey
On 9/13/2012 10:35 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Note well, as you noted well, does not go back to the beginning of all IDs. I.e., this is a tangled mess of different copyrights, different note wells, etc., and it's not as simple as "it's the IETF's right" to do anything except - maybe - going forward

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-14 Thread tglassey
On 9/13/2012 9:23 PM, Joe Touch wrote: There were times when there were no rights granted explicitly, at least. I indicated the three ranges in a previous mail. Joe On 9/13/2012 8:40 PM, John Levine wrote: I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are IPR issues relat

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-14 Thread tglassey
On 9/13/2012 8:40 PM, John Levine wrote: I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are IPR issues related to making expired drafts available? Yes. Depends on the IDs, when they were authored, and which version of the boilerplate they contain. Can you give a concrete exa

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, September 13, 2012 23:59 + John Levine wrote: > Censorship? Sheesh. >... > As I think I've said several times before, if we think the > IESG would start gratuitously deleting stuff, we have much > worse problems than any policy statement could solve. +1 Exactly. The jump

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Touch
Note well, as you noted well, does not go back to the beginning of all IDs. I.e., this is a tangled mess of different copyrights, different note wells, etc., and it's not as simple as "it's the IETF's right" to do anything except - maybe - going forward with a new copyright statement for IDs.

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Rex
Joe Touch wrote: > > There were times when there were no rights granted explicitly, at least. > I indicated the three ranges in a previous mail. In which case the Note Well concludently applies to the I-D contents, which seems to have first appeared on www.ietf.org around 2001, http://web.arch

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Touch
There were times when there were no rights granted explicitly, at least. I indicated the three ranges in a previous mail. Joe On 9/13/2012 8:40 PM, John Levine wrote: I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are IPR issues related to making expired drafts available?

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread John Levine
>> I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are >> IPR issues related to making expired drafts available? > >Yes. Depends on the IDs, when they were authored, and which version of >the boilerplate they contain. Can you give a concrete example of an I-D with this problem?

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/13/2012 11:04 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/12/12 11:19 PM, Joe Touch wrote: PirateBay believes this too, and helps make movies available for public access, honoring pragmatics. I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are IPR issues related to making expired d

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/13/2012 12:28 PM, Martin Rex wrote: Joe, So it's not a slam dunk that you have the rights you think for every I-D; you definitely don't have those rights for IDs We're NOT talking about rights that were transfered from the document author to arbitrary third parties here, but about right

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread John Levine
>It shows a tendency of the active IETF discussants to resist doing the >work of settling on policy for the IETF. That's quite different from >demonstrating a lack of /need/. The IETF has been around for 26 years, and has had, I gather, zero removal requests to date. If that doesn't demonstrat

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread John Levine
> I believe we /do/ need a written policy that has been reviewed by >legal counsel. Even with a group -- versus individual -- we should not >create possible charges of censorship up to the personal whims of the >moment. Censorship? Sheesh. The IETF is not the government. We have no obl

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread John Levine
>I very much agree. I'm happy with the decision being the consensus of >a board, but not giving it to an individual. So give it to the IESG and we can stop arguing about it. I have to say, the urge to post a few I-D's consisting of snuff porn is nearly irresistible. R's, John

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, September 13, 2012 15:10 -0700 Dave Crocker wrote: > On 9/13/2012 3:08 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > The IETF Chair may decide to removed an I-D from the > public I-D archive. >>> >>> This defines the IETF Chair as Chief Censor, with no written >>> policy guidance. That is,

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/13/2012 3:54 PM, David Kessens wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:43:01PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: Essentially none of the enlightened discussion on this thread considered legal ramifications of potentially arbitrary censorship by a public group such as ourselves. Aren't you going a l

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread David Kessens
Dave, On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:43:01PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: > > Essentially none of the enlightened discussion on this thread > considered legal ramifications of potentially arbitrary censorship > by a public group such as ourselves. Aren't you going a little overboard in hyperbole here

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Dave Crocker
David, On 9/13/2012 3:25 PM, David Kessens wrote: On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:10:51PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: I believe we /do/ need a written policy that has been reviewed by legal counsel. I think the lengthy discussion that we have seen on this topic proofs that we should NOT hav

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread David Kessens
Dave, On Thu, Sep 13, 2012 at 03:10:51PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: > > I believe we /do/ need a written policy that has been reviewed > by legal counsel. I think the lengthy discussion that we have seen on this topic proofs that we should NOT have a written policy. Deal with this on a ca

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/13/2012 3:08 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: The IETF Chair may decide to removed an I-D from the public I-D archive. This defines the IETF Chair as Chief Censor, with no written policy guidance. That is, deletion is at the whimsy of the Chair. Is that really what we (and the Chair) want? I v

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Barry Leiba
>>> The IETF Chair may decide to removed an I-D from the public I-D archive. > > This defines the IETF Chair as Chief Censor, with no written policy > guidance. That is, deletion is at the whimsy of the Chair. > > Is that really what we (and the Chair) want? I very much agree. I'm happy with the

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/13/2012 2:35 PM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote: OLD An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive in compliance with a duly authorized court order. NEW The IETF Chair may decide to removed an I-D from the public I-D archive. This defines the IETF Chair as Chief Censor, wi

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Cullen Jennings (fluffy)
I like the whole and +1 to it. I can see the pros and cons of make "drafts" actually go away but given it is impossible to get rid of a draft from the internet, all we end up with in the current situation are the cons and none of the pros. I do have one suggested change OLD > An I-D will onl

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Martin Rex
Joe, > > So it's not a slam dunk that you have the rights you think for every > I-D; you definitely don't have those rights for IDs We're NOT talking about rights that were transfered from the document author to arbitrary third parties here, but about rights that were given to the IETF ("IETF co

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Dave Crocker
PirateBay believes this too, and helps make movies available for public access, honoring pragmatics. I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are IPR issues related to making expired drafts available? And since we've had a public archive of expired drafts for quite

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/12/12 11:19 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > PirateBay believes this too, and helps make movies available for public > access, honoring pragmatics. I'm not sure I understand this analogy. Are you saying that there are IPR issues related to making expired drafts available? Melinda

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Hector Santos
I find the archives very useful, especially when you have your own I-D history and contribution to WG works perhaps. It helps to show different views, the synergism, the competitive engineering views, the history, etc behind the final development of WG work. Whenever I do find a need to refer

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Joe" == Joe Touch writes: Joe> On 9/5/2012 7:51 AM, SM wrote: Joe> ... >> Creating a perpetual I-D archive for the sake of rfcdiff is not a >> good idea as it goes against the notion of letting an I-D expire >> gracefully. Joe> +1 Joe> Let's not forget there w

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, September 13, 2012 00:19 -0700 Joe Touch wrote: > On 9/13/2012 12:02 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: >> >> On 9/12/2012 11:30 PM, John C Klensin wrote: >>> But nothing in the above, nor in the text you cite, requires >>> that _keep_ imply "guarantee to have available for retrieval >>>

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/13/2012 12:02 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 9/12/2012 11:30 PM, John C Klensin wrote: But nothing in the above, nor in the text you cite, requires that _keep_ imply "guarantee to have available for retrieval over the network by any interested party, with no requirement for a special request

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-13 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/12/2012 11:30 PM, John C Klensin wrote: But nothing in the above, nor in the text you cite, requires that _keep_ imply "guarantee to have available for retrieval over the network by any interested party, with no requirement for a special request". It's interesting how this line of analys

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, September 12, 2012 23:13 -0400 Barry Leiba wrote: >... > There's nothing in the quote above that says that the expired > document will not be available *in the archive*. It says that > it will be removed *from the repository*, which it is... and > the text you cite later goes o

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/12/2012 11:01 PM, Martin Rex wrote: While the 6-month timer (or any earlier I-D update!!) will, in fact, change how the*IETF* distributes and promotes a particular I-D (version), there is actually*NO* limitation in what folks downloading I-Ds with the URLs from the i-d-announce I-D Acti

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread Martin Rex
Joe Touch wrote: > > > > There's nothing in the quote above that says that the expired document > > will not be available *in the archive*. > > There's nothing that says it won't be available by Santa Claus delivery > either. However, the document states how things will be made available, > and

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Barry, On 9/12/2012 8:13 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: I think it means "no longer current for the purposes of work and discussion." Nothing in the Note Well, but there is specific text in the ID Guidelines (written by the IESG): http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/1id-guidelines.txt 8. Expiring

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread Barry Leiba
>>> I think it means "no longer current for the purposes of work and >>> discussion." > > Nothing in the Note Well, but there is specific text in the ID Guidelines > (written by the IESG): > > http://www.ietf.org/ietf-ftp/1id-guidelines.txt > > 8. Expiring > >An Internet-Draft will expire exac

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/12/2012 5:59 PM, Martin Rex wrote: Barry Leiba wrote: This raises the question of what "expires" means. At the least, if IDs are published publicly forever, then "expires" is no longer meaningful and the entirety of that notion needs to be expunged from the ID process. You seem to thi

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-12 Thread Martin Rex
Barry Leiba wrote: > >> This raises the question of what "expires" means. > > > > At the least, if IDs are published publicly forever, then "expires" is no > > longer meaningful and the entirety of that notion needs to be expunged > > from the ID process. > > You seem to think it means something l

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 11, 2012, at 15:10, John C Klensin wrote: > rejecting this proposed statement in favor of discretion, I'm not privy to the circumstances that caused the original proposal to come up. Maybe the reason was that the IESG *wants* its hands bound so there is no further need to waste time on s

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-11 Thread John Levine
> Or we can voluntarily >turn the trend around, one step at a time, starting with >rejecting this proposed statement in favor of discretion, >flexibility, and intelligence (and definitely not a statement/ >policy of even more complexity) and maybe even including "do we >really have resources for t

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-11 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, September 10, 2012 15:07 -0400 Andrew Sullivan wrote: > On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:26:29AM -0700, > ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: > >> > No, the response is that we refer you to our policy. As an >> > open organization we do not remove information once posted, >> > except und

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/10/2012 8:24 AM, David Borman wrote: ... The original reason for expiring drafts, along with giving them long, complicated names that includes the word "draft", was to keep them from being referenced as if they were standards, based on experience gathered from the short lived IDEA document

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread ned+ietf
>>> Let's say I write to the IESG and say this: >>> >>> Due to a late night editing error, draft-foo-bar-42 which I >>> submitted yesterday contains several paragraphs of company >>> confidential information which you can easily see are irrelevant to >>> the draft. My boss wants it taken

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 11:26:29AM -0700, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: > > No, the response is that we refer you to our policy. As an open > > organization we do not remove information once posted, except under > > extraordinary circumstances. > > Exactly. This sort of thing is wh a policy

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread John R Levine
Let's say I write to the IESG and say this: Due to a late night editing error, draft-foo-bar-42 which I submitted yesterday contains several paragraphs of company confidential information which you can easily see are irrelevant to the draft. My boss wants it taken down pronto, even thoug

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread ned+ietf
> On 9/9/12 8:43 PM, John Levine wrote: > > Let's say I write to the IESG and say this: > > > > Due to a late night editing error, draft-foo-bar-42 which I > > submitted yesterday contains several paragraphs of company > > confidential information which you can easily see are irrelevant to >

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread David Borman
On Sep 8, 2012, at 8:36 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > > > On 9/8/2012 11:59 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: >> On 9/8/12 10:51 AM, Joe Touch wrote: >>> Nothing about an ID is inherently obsolete or out of date after 6 months >>> except its being publicly available on authorized sites (up until now). >> >>

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-10 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi John, On 9/9/12 8:43 PM, John Levine wrote: > Let's say I write to the IESG and say this: > > Due to a late night editing error, draft-foo-bar-42 which I > submitted yesterday contains several paragraphs of company > confidential information which you can easily see are irrelevant to >

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