FYI,
After receiving news today from the RFC-Editor of complications with the
publication procedures for this document, I have just sent the forwarded
message below in reply. To those who were genuinely looking forward to
successful publication, I am sorry that I will no longer be able to head up
the effort. To those who were genuinely supportive of the authors' best
interests, my sincere thanks.
Fred L. Templin
Fred Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Date: Wed, 10 Nov 2004 19:30:38 -0800 (PST)
From: Fred Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ngtrans-isatap-22.txt
To: RFC Editor <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED],
[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED]
IMHO (and speaking only for myself) significant factions in the IETF are clearly deeply committed to endless gamesmanship with respect to this particular document. Up to now my co-authors and I have participated in good faith, but that faith has been betrayed time and again by bad politics and ill-mannered individuals. As such (and after many years of strenuous concerted effort as witnessed by mailing list archives) I no longer have faith that additional energy contributed toward this enterprise could possibly bear fruits. I therefore regret that I must inform you of my decision to abandon the effort as lead author. To my co-authors, I would like to wish each of you the very best in deciding how to proceed from here. I will be happy to turn over to you any materials you may need to continue the effort should you choose to do so. Please be aware that my former employer (SRI International) is claiming IPR - see: https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/ipr_detail_show.cgi?&ipr_id=193 Since I am no longer associated with SRI (and since I have no legal expertise as basis for advising you) I recommend working through the contact information found on the IPR statement if you should have any questions. Sincerely, Fred L. Templin [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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