Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Carl, my impression as a bystander is that the IETF has decided that sole source contracts (where only one contractor is permitted to bid) are, in general, a Bad Idea. The Secretariat contract had very special circumstances, which caused it to be sole sourced, but I interpreted the words fro

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Carl Malamud
> Carl -- did you get the other message (the one with > the timeline)? Yes, I did. Not having been party to the discussions, I'm not quite sure what is going on. We did a sole source re-assignment of the IETF secretariat. As I said in my note, I'm curious about: 1. the opinion from the RFC-Edi

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Scott Bradner
> The other "publication tracks" in the above is meant to be > for -- IAB, IRTF, independent submissions, . and 1 april RFCs? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Leslie Daigle
Carl -- did you get the other message (the one with the timeline)? Thanks, Leslie. Carl Malamud wrote: Hi Leslie - It would be really helpful to understand what the RFC Editor thinks of this proposed charter. Have you run it by them and what was their reaction? It would be equally helpful t

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Carl Malamud
Hi Leslie - It would be really helpful to understand what the RFC Editor thinks of this proposed charter. Have you run it by them and what was their reaction? It would be equally helpful to understand where the IAB/IAOC is going with this ... are there plans to rebid the contract to another or

Re: How to discuss WG meta-problems, within the working group

2006-03-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 19:40 16/03/2006, Dave Crocker wrote: What is an acceptable way to raise a concern that this sort of problem is present? When someone thinks that there is an elephant in the room, we need to let them at least raise their concern. In this case, the nature of the purported elephant is highly

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Leslie Daigle
I want to speak to one facet of comment that I believe is going to be a common thread: [Ran Atkinson wrote:] Similarly, it is a bug that the IETF process would govern the publication of non-IETF documents. The IETF process properly should govern how IETF generated documents should be handled f

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Geoff Huston
At 10:06 AM 17/03/2006, Leslie Daigle wrote: Following the note just sent about the proposed timeline for reviewing the RFC Editor contract this year, here is the STRAW proposal RFC Editor charter proposed by the IAB. ... STRAW RFC Editor Charter The RFC Editor executes editorial managemen

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
From: "Leslie Daigle" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Following the note just sent about the proposed timeline for reviewing the RFC Editor contract this year, here is the STRAW proposal RFC Editor charter proposed by the IAB. It is a modest extension of the RFC Editor paragraph as found in RFC 2850 (the

STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-16 Thread Leslie Daigle
Following the note just sent about the proposed timeline for reviewing the RFC Editor contract this year, here is the STRAW proposal RFC Editor charter proposed by the IAB. It is a modest extension of the RFC Editor paragraph as found in RFC 2850 (the IAB Charter). The purpose of this straw pro

Re: Suggestion on a BCP specific WG...

2006-03-16 Thread todd glassey
Response- No Joel - you are dead wrong IMHO. The IETF doesnt get to redefine the Industry Term BCP to mean 'some document we publish'. BCP is an accepted Industry Acronym for a document specific to how some practice is done at some specific point in time and it is only valid for the period of that

RFC Editor and 2006 timeline

2006-03-16 Thread Leslie Daigle
The IAB and IAOC have put together the following proposed plan for clarifying the RFC Editor function and running through a contract review process this year. The key pieces of this proposed process are: . getting agreement on a basic RFC Editor charter . completing TechSpec to d

IAOC Office Hours - IETF 65

2006-03-16 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
All - The IAOC will once again hold open office hours during IETF 65: Tuesday, 21 March 2006 1500-1520 Office Hour (break) - Topaz Room 1720-1740 Office Hour (break) - Topaz Room Wednesday, 22 March 2006 1610-1700 Office Hour (Break) - Topaz Room Thursday, 23 March 2006 [IAOC] 1610-1700 Office

How to discuss WG meta-problems, within the working group

2006-03-16 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, What I did was describe the actions of WG members, and the way in which they are gaming the IETF process. The chair then (publicly) suspended my posting privileges. In the conversations since, I observe that no one has questioned the accuracy of my remarks, The purpose of this no

RE: Appeal of AD Decision to uphold Atompub ban

2006-03-16 Thread Scott Hollenbeck
Since this has been a touchy process subject lately, I must correct an error in the appeal: the AD (me) did not decide to ban anyone. I decided to uphold a decision made by one of the atompub working group chairs. Since my decision is being appealed, and it was not included in the appeal to the I

Appeal of AD Decision to uphold Atompub ban

2006-03-16 Thread Robert Sayre
Dear IESG, I'm writing to appeal an AD decision to ban me from posting to the Atompub mailing lists. The text of the original appeal is included below. Please keep in mind that this message comes from someone who has put a lot of effort into the WG activities, edited the only successful product o

IETF Jabber Service/Logs moving?

2006-03-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
What follows has been announced on the WG chairs mailing list, but (as best I can tell) has not been announced on either the IETF Discussion List or IETF Announce List, so if I'm sending wrong or premature information, I apologize in advance. According to http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web

RE: draft-santesson-tls-ume Last Call comment

2006-03-16 Thread Stefan Santesson
I agree, We should provide better guidance on encoding of the UPN. This should map with the format of UPN when provided in a certificate. The reference to the preferred name syntax is thus inherited from RFC 3280. This is how RFC 3280 restricts labels in the dNSName subject alt name. I will come