Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-23 Thread Ned Freed
John C Klensin wrote: If an effort is worthy of adoption by the Internet, surely it is reasonable to demand that it have enough support to be able to obtain its own means of ensuring that the writing is adequate. We may find that there is more market for some protocols --and,

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-23 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Given the number of different working groups that have produced diffiult to read documents for RFC publication, the indications are that we are missing some necessary ingredient for achieving this within the working group process. I do not know if we lack the skills, incentives, or resources,

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-23 Thread todd glassey
Doug - you said something really important here about advancing the IETF's collaborative processes by inducting them atop a groupware solution. Meanwhile, there is a lot of good work going on with other VCS platforms that might be even better. (And don't even get me started on how useful it

Question about the folks providing the WG Mailing List services?

2006-07-23 Thread todd glassey
I want to ask some questions about the 3rd parties who are providing the IETF's WG's with their Mailing List services... (This posting is appropriate to both lists since the Mailing List Archive represents a considerable amount of the IETF IP that it claims it is controlling here in IPR). So...

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-23 Thread todd glassey
Eliot - BTW What's the difference between an RFP and an RFC by the way? - don't both require some review process for the Request for part of it? Just asking as its a semantics issue . T - Original Message - From: Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: todd glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-23 Thread todd glassey
A web based submission model would be better - it could actually step the submitter through the template sections and give them guidance on the text. Hell readability tools are available from any of the online library tool sources so this is not an issue either. The millstone here is that the

Re: San Diego (was RE: Meetings in other regions)

2006-07-23 Thread Clint Chaplin
Whoops, sorry. I meant the upcoming weekend when I wrote the message (the weekend after the IEEE meeting). On 7/22/06, Scott W Brim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 07/19/2006 20:08 PM, Clint Chaplin allegedly wrote: Another data point; San Diego is hosting Comic-Con this weekend: they're

Re: Appeals, post-appeal discussions, DoS attacks on the IETF, and the depth of turtles

2006-07-23 Thread Frank Ellermann
John C Klensin wrote: I commend draft-carpenter-ietf-disputes-00 as an attempt to rethink this area. People who are interested in this topic should probably study it. Yes, it's interesting. With a mandatory attempt of peaceful settlement, probably a good idea. But I won't subscribe to |