Minority opinions [Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]]

2005-09-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 19:17 27/09/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... My proposition would be to create a minority position system. Where such groups could be accepted as opposing without having to be fighting. There is a perfectly civilised way of handling minority opinions

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-29 Thread Dean Anderson
On Thu, 29 Sep 2005, grenville armitage wrote: Since when have political conspiracy theories, Political conspiracy theory? The disparagement machine is working overtime. allusions to impending legal action I made no allusions. I demanded compliance with the law and performance of fiduciary

Re: Minority opinions [Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]]

2005-09-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 13:32 29/09/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: They are both published, and obviously the consensus document is the one on the standards track. It exactly an example of the IETF publishing a minority opinion. Obviously, we couldn't publish two standards for the same bits. Dear Brian, this is

RE: Minority opinions [Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]]

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Gal
At 13:32 29/09/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: They are both published, and obviously the consensus document is the one on the standards track. It exactly an example of the IETF publishing a minority opinion. Obviously, we couldn't publish two standards for the same bits. Dear Brian,

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2005-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... My proposition would be to create a minority position system. Where such groups could be accepted as opposing without having to be fighting. There is a perfectly civilised way of handling minority opinions already. Please see RFC 3246 and RFC 3248 for an example I was personally involved

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Anycast in the face of PPLB has been accepted (by most of us, at least) specifically for the root servers because current queries to the roots do not need to be fragmented and do not use TCP. Right. But all DNS in the past (and most in the present)

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Kevin Loch
Dean Anderson wrote: Right. But all DNS in the past (and most in the present) is small, stateless UDP packets. RFC1546 Anycast allows PPLB on diverse links. But future DNS will use large UDP packets, fragments, and more TCP. That's a big change for something we depending so much on today.

Anycast DNS [some tech] was RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Dean Anderson
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Dean Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not DNSSEC that is broken. Anycast has been deployed for four years. I think it is three years. But it has been controversial from the start. Any change to the DNS infrastructure

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2005-09-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Dean Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Any change to the DNS infrastructure that is incompatible with use of anycast is not acceptable and will not be deployed. I don't think you get to make that demand. Or rather, I don't

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 19:17 27/09/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... My proposition would be to create a minority position system. Where such groups could be accepted as opposing without having to be fighting. There is a perfectly civilised way of handling minority opinions already. Please see RFC 3246 and RFC

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Crocker
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a lurker, love him or hate him, Dean does evoke responses as varied as any I've observed. Unfortunately all too often that's the only way some truth will be allowed to leak out. Or people finally put pieces together. this particular cure -- if one lives in a

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Gal
Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk Note that I consider it irrelevant whether his position in this or any past instance turns out to be correct: it's the form, not the content, of his efforts that is the problem. S That is a perilous line of reasoning indeed. You're saying if I don't

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread grenville armitage
Thomas Gal wrote: [..] I hope that being too forceful, stubborn, or persistent (NOT oblivious or ambivalent) doesn't become justification for reprimand. Since when have political conspiracy theories, allusions to impending legal action and references to other people's dating lives

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Gal
Thomas Gal wrote: [..] I hope that being too forceful, stubborn, or persistent (NOT oblivious or ambivalent) doesn't become justification for reprimand. Since when have political conspiracy theories, allusions to impending legal action and references to other people's

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
Steve writes: Actually, 3683 specifically requires community discussion of motions to block someone's posting rights. It is, in so many words, done by a Last Call. Steve, I thought that RFC3683 is intended to apply drastic measures (see intro, page 4). RFC2418 allows a WG chair and the

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Nick Staff
) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 27, 2005 2:01 AM To: Steven M. Bellovin; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'IESG'; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list] Steve writes: Actually, 3683 specifically requires community

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2005-09-27 Thread John Leslie
Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly hope that we do not have to have the equivalent of an IETF Last Call everytime that a WG chair or AD finds that an individual is disrupting normal WG process. RFC 3683 (BCP 83) is concise enough to quote the applicable part in its

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2005-09-27 Thread Nick Staff
Wijnen, Bert (Bert) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I certainly hope that we do not have to have the equivalent of an IETF Last Call everytime that a WG chair or AD finds that an individual is disrupting normal WG process. RFC 3683 (BCP 83) is concise enough to quote the applicable

Procedures for the IETF list (RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list])

2005-09-27 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The procedures for management of the IETF list are detailed in RFC 3005 (the IETF list charter). Note that there are presently selected IETF sergeants-at-arms. Harald --On 27. september 2005 03:58 -0700 Nick Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Could you please specify the RFC

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread C. M. Heard
On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Nick Staff wrote: John- Could you please specify the RFC that details the procedure for when an AD requests that the IESG remove someone's posting privileges from the IETF list (the RFC other 3683 of course). If there isn't one then I'd have to ask that you refrain

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:41:56 -0400 (EDT) From:Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is not DNSSEC that is broken. I have not been following dnsop discussions, but from this summary, there is nothing broken beyond your understanding of

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nick Staff writes: ] ] 7.2 Approval to block participant on a WG list (Bert Wijnen) ] ] This management issue was discussed. The IESG agrees that Bert ] Wijnen may block posting rights for Dean Anderson on the dnsops ] mailing list if he refuses to stay on

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Dean Anderson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] It is not DNSSEC that is broken. Anycast has been deployed for four years. Any change to the DNS infrastructure that is incompatible with use of anycast is not acceptable and will not be deployed. Anycast significantly improves the response time

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2005-09-27 Thread wayne
In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Elz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: | Without getting into to much detail, Anycast doesn't work with TCP, | but it also doesn't work with large UDP packets and fragments. Anycast does not work (or perhaps more correctly, in some circumstances when there is routing

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2005-09-27 at 10:06, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Mon, 26 Sep 2005 15:41:56 -0400 (EDT) From:Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | It is not DNSSEC that is broken. I have not been following dnsop discussions, but from this

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Elz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anycast does not work (or perhaps more correctly, in some circumstances when there is routing instability, will not work) with fragmented UDP packets (the size of the packets is irrelevant, only

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread usphoenix
] To: ietf@ietf.org; wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue, 27 Sep 2005 20:09:00 -0500 Subject: Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list] Thus spake wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] In [EMAIL PROTECTED] Robert Elz [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Anycast does not work (or perhaps more correctly

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-27 Thread Nick Staff
C.M. - One of us has horribly missed the point of John's email (I'm not inferring it's you). Whichever one of us it is, the good news is I think we actually agree with each other =) The passage you quoted was indeed quoted by John but the way I read his post was that he was quoting it to show

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Nicholas Staff wrote: - Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Tim Bray
On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: None of my emails have been abusive. Speaking as a 99.% passive observer around here, I consider Dean Anderson's emails, in aggregate, abusive. They consume precious mental bandwidth, in many cases with no material technical

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Nick Staff
From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Nicholas Staff wrote: - Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. --

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2005-09-26 Thread Dave Crocker
Without getting into the discussion of whether an email every 5 days is a DOS I would certainly like to state for the record that without question the pettiness has taken far more thought than the productivity, and so if Dean's posts are a DOS then the posts trying to protect us from them have

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Bray On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: None of my emails have been abusive. Speaking as a 99.% passive observer around here, I consider Dean Anderson's emails, in aggregate, abusive. They

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2005-09-26 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: No, but on the other hand WGs, the IESG and the IETF as a whole are fully entitled to defend themselves against denial of service attacks. There have been only 2 denial of service attacks: 1) When Dan Bernstein's subscription address was posted

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Dean Anderson
First, remember that Bill Strahm is a working group chair who doesn't believe he has to either 1) interact with IETF participants, or 2) not defame IETF participants in his official duties. He thinks its perfectly OK for Rob Austein of ISC to use his IETF position to defame Av8 Internet: On Fri,

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 26 Sep 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tim Bray On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: None of my emails have been abusive. Speaking as a 99.% passive observer around here, I

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Crocker writes: Without getting into the discussion of whether an email every 5 days is a DOS I would certainly like to state for the record that without question the pettiness has taken far more thought than the productivity, and so if Dean's posts are a DOS

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Nick Staff
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Dave Crocker writes: Without getting into the discussion of whether an email every 5 days is a DOS I would certainly like to state for the record that without question the pettiness has taken far more thought than the productivity, and so if Dean's

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2005-09-25 Thread bill
- Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:55:20 -0700 From:

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-25 Thread Nick Staff
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] - Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- -- Forwarded

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2005-09-25 Thread David Kessens
Nicholas, On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 at 05:46:33PM -0700, Nicholas Staff wrote: David, the way it reads to me is you warned Dean you would go to the IESG if he continued what you felt were abusive posts. I first sent a message on the dnsop mail list that most people would interpret as a clear

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-24 Thread Nicholas Staff
I hope that we can discuss this as soon as possible. Until then, I will try to refrain from sending any more messages on this topic as I don't believe that this will be productive. People on this mail list might want to consider to do the same thing. Thanks, David Kessens Operations

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2005-09-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Nicholas Staff writes: I hope that we can discuss this as soon as possible. Until then, I will try to refrain from sending any more messages on this topic as I don't believe that this will be productive. People on this mail list might want to consider to do the

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2005-09-24 Thread Nicholas Staff
- Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:55:20 -0700

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2005-09-24 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sat, 24 Sep 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: I'm sorry, David's note wasn't an attack -- it was David excercising his responsibility as an AD. Have a look at Section 2 of RFC 3683 -- to revoke someone's posting rights, he *must* make a public statement on the IETF mailing list. Kessens

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2005-09-24 Thread Dean Anderson
--- - Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 20:08:46 -0400 (EDT) From: Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-X-Sender: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally

Mismanagement of the DNSOP list

2005-09-23 Thread Dean Anderson
FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- Av8 Internet Prepared to pay a premium for better service? www.av8.net faster, more reliable, better service 617 344 9000 -- Forwarded

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2005-09-23 Thread David Kessens
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