[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
This is a personal draft written following some discussion in the recent General Area open meeting. Comments welcome. I am already aware that it needs to be reconciled with http://www.ietf.org/IESG/STATEMENTS/statement-disruptive-posting.txt Brian Original Message Subject:

RE: [INDEP] Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-08-10 Thread Gray, Eric
Yaakov, It might be me, but it seems (to me) that - if you think through what you've said - it is not consistent. Maybe it's simply an issue of relative time scales. Your last statement - that a break in the series would invalidate it - argues very forcibly that no such gap can

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Frank Ellermann
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Don't throw away the umbrella because you're buying a raincoat next week. It's still raining. If the umbrella is Sam's experiment, and the raincoat Brian's draft, then the latter didn't propose to throw away the former. Are you talking about something else ? Maybe

Re: RFC 4612 - historic status

2006-08-10 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Historically, documenting for reference produces an Informational status, rather than Historic. Yes, and the idea was to make a stronger statement than for reference. iirc, we considered briefly approving it for Informational and then immediately reclassifying

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread JFC Morfin
Dear Harald, its seems that you are rewriting History (past and future) in the same funny way as before (eg. your PR-action letter). BTW I am happy to learn I am only suspended for 6 months from the obsolete [EMAIL PROTECTED] One month to go then. Look, you have used RFC 3683 to DoS me,

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Frank Ellermann wrote: Harald Alvestrand wrote: Don't throw away the umbrella because you're buying a raincoat next week. It's still raining. If the umbrella is Sam's experiment, and the raincoat Brian's draft, then the latter didn't propose to throw away the former. Are you

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Sam Hartman
Harald == Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Harald I regard a 6-month ritual of: 1) Unsuspending Jefsey from Harald ietf-languages 2) Waiting until Jefsey discovers his Harald unsuspension 3) Wading through Jefsey posts until Harald everyone's sure he's still as

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Sam Hartman
Brian == Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian This is a personal draft written following some discussion Brian in the recent General Area open meeting. Comments welcome. Brian I am already aware that it needs to be reconciled with Brian

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Ned Freed
I regard a 6-month ritual of: 1) Unsuspending Jefsey from ietf-languages 2) Waiting until Jefsey discovers his unsuspension 3) Wading through Jefsey posts until everyone's sure he's still as incomprehensible as before 4) Convincing my then-current AD that it's time for another 6-month

RE: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Gray, Eric
Harald, Especially this simile. The way I read this draft, it suggests that the IETF in general has found the choice between fixed length suspensions and indefinite suspension altogether too restraining. The explicit wording of the 2 paragraphs of substantive text is that the

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Frank Ellermann
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Don't throw away the umbrella because you're buying a raincoat next week. It's still raining. 3683 = umbrella against a hail of messages Long term suspensions under draft-hartman = raincoat Brian's draft = throwing away. Oh, you prefer to keep 3683, instead of the

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread JFC Morfin
Frank, I was the _only_ one who was NOT concerned by Brian's proposition. I did not intend to comment it, thinking it was a good way towards appeasement. However, I was everywhere in Harald's long ad-hominem (BTW mostly against the IETF appeal procedure). His point is against me. There are

Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2006-08-10 Thread Thomas Narten
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Document Action: 'IETF Operational Notes' to Experimental RFC

2006-08-10 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IETF Operational Notes ' draft-alvestrand-ipod-03.txt as an Experimental RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. This is a process experiment under RFC 3933. The IESG contact person is