Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread SM
At 06:23 04-02-2009, Alessandro Vesely wrote: Also in more mature markets, not all of the existing companies and universities running their own mail servers will be eager to spend $5000/year on a vouch. In addition, the The cost for email certification starts at around $1200 (950 Euros) a year

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread John Levine
>If the technology is deployed by 100% of the community providing >professional email operations, both on the sending and the receiving >sides, as Dave expects, ... I'm not Dave, but I cannot imagine where you got the idea that he expects the "community providing professional email operation" to

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
SM wrote: At 06:55 04-02-2009, Dave CROCKER wrote: Macroeconomic analysis -- especially predictions about the directions an economic process will develop towards -- is a poorly understood topic of expertise, even among experts... as we are unfortunately seeing demonstrated in the global econ

Re: Last Call: draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf (Reduced Backus-Naur Form(RBNF) A Syntax Used in Various Protocol Specification toProposed Standard

2009-02-06 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: "Adrian Farrel" To: "John C Klensin" ; "Tom.Petch" ; Sent: Thursday, February 05, 2009 9:49 PM Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf (Reduced Backus-Naur Form(RBNF) A Syntax Used in Various Protocol Specification toProposed Standard > Thanks John

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread TSG
Ed Juskevicius wrote: The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some proposed revisions to the "Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents" policy, based on comments received from the community in the last two weeks. Please recall this work is being done to provide a wo

Re: Last Call: draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf (Reduced Backus-Naur Form(RBNF) A Syntax Used in Various Protocol Specification toProposed Standard

2009-02-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, February 06, 2009 13:55 +0100 "Tom.Petch" wrote: >... > I think too that there is a third issue, of a better name than > RBNF. John clearly showed that this I-D is not reduced. > Historic? Deprecated? Limited_applicability? Variant? > Simplified? "simplified" has the same problem

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread Alessandro Vesely
John Levine wrote: If some group wanted to build a closed pay-to-play mail system, they could do it with the tools they already have, using SMTP AUTH or STARTTLS with a private signing cert or VPNs or whatever. The reason they don't is that it makes no sense, and a tiny tweak like VBR isn't goin

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Thomas Narten
A couple of issues with the motivating text: > Derivative Works and Publication Limitations. If a Contributor > desires to limit the right to make modifications and derivative > works of an IETF Contribution, or to limit its publication, one of > the following notices must be included. For cases

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread John R. Levine
The other thing I don't understand is why you minimize the expected VBR effect. (If that's meant as an apotropaic stance, I have no objection. Otherwise,) I wonder why we shouldn't push VBR as hard as we can, if it can stop spam. Could you point out where anyone, anywhere has claimed that VBR

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
Alessandro Vesely wrote: John Levine wrote: The other thing I don't understand is why you minimize the expected VBR effect. What I don't understand is your certitude about specific impact. There is a considerable difference between having a large effect -- which is what any proponent of

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Tom.Petch
Reading this, and reading it and reading it again, I think we are going backwards more than is desirable where code is concerned. I expect that for some years, the s.6.iii.c clause will be common ie no derivative works outside the Standards process without obtaining an adequate licence. The s.5.c

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, February 06, 2009 10:30 -0500 Thomas Narten wrote: > But for case iii), there are two "contributors" at issue. The > one submitting the document, and possible pre-5378 > contributors who's text has been included in the document. >... > For case iii), it should remain clear that the

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
One comment, below: On 2009-02-06 06:28 Ed Juskevicius said the following: > The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some > proposed revisions to the "Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents" > policy, based on comments received from the community in the last two > week

RE: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Ed Juskevicius
Agreed. Good comments! Thank You. Best Regards, Ed J. -Original Message- From: John C Klensin [mailto:john-i...@jck.com] Sent: February 6, 2009 11:11 AM To: Thomas Narten; Ed Juskevicius Cc: Trustees; wgcha...@ietf.org; Contreras, Jorge; ietf@ietf.org; i...@iab.org; i...@ietf.org; r

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread Alessandro Vesely
John R. Levine wrote: The other thing I don't understand is why you minimize the expected VBR effect. (If that's meant as an apotropaic stance, I have no objection. Otherwise,) I wonder why we shouldn't push VBR as hard as we can, if it can stop spam. Could you point out where anyone, anywher

RE: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Ed Juskevicius
Alfred, I apologize for not having PDF versions of the last call documents on the IETF Trust website before now. Thank you for noticing this problem. Please be advised we have now resolved the issue. PDF versions of the 'marked-up' and the 'clean' version of the 2009-02-05 document are now avail

Re: Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Tom.Petch" writes: > Reading this, and reading it and reading it again, I think we are going > backwards more than is desirable where code is concerned. > > I expect that for some years, the s.6.iii.c clause will be common ie no > derivative works outside the Standards process without obtaining

Re: [Fwd: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-06 Thread SM
At 02:47 06-02-2009, John Levine wrote: I'm not Dave, but I cannot imagine where you got the idea that he expects the "community providing professional email operation" to deploy 100% of anything. I'll quote the last part of the message from Dave ( http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/cur

Re: [Trustees] Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Ray Pelletier
On Feb 6, 2009, at 10:30 AM, Thomas Narten wrote: A couple of issues with the motivating text: Derivative Works and Publication Limitations. If a Contributor desires to limit the right to make modifications and derivative works of an IETF Contribution, or to limit its publication, one of the

Re: [Trustees] Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Thomas Narten
Ray, > > NEW: > > > >iii. If a Contribution includes Pre-5378 Material and the > >Contributor is unable (for whatever reason) to obtain the > >necessary permissions to allow modifications of such Pre-5378 > >Material to be made outside the IETF Standards Process: > The language su

Re: [Trustees] Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Ray Pelletier
On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: One comment, below: On 2009-02-06 06:28 Ed Juskevicius said the following: The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some proposed revisions to the "Legal Provisions Relating to IETF Documents" policy, based on comme

Re: [Trustees] Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 6, 2009, at 2:57 PM, Sandra Murphy wrote: On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Ray Pelletier wrote: On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: One comment, below: On 2009-02-06 06:28 Ed Juskevicius said the following: The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some p

Re: [Trustees] Last Call for Comments: Proposed work-around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-02-06 Thread Simon Josefsson
Ray Pelletier writes: > On Feb 6, 2009, at 6:46 AM, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > >> One comment, below: >> >> On 2009-02-06 06:28 Ed Juskevicius said the following: >>> The IETF Trustees met via telechat on February 5th to decide on some >>> proposed revisions to the "Legal Provisions Relating to IE

Re: Last Call: draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf (Reduced Backus-Naur Form(RBNF) A Syntax Used in Various Protocol Specification toProposed Standard

2009-02-06 Thread Tony Hansen
Going back to RFC 2205, These rules are specified using Backus-Naur Form (BNF) augmented with square brackets surrounding optional sub-sequences. What do you think of BNFO, for "Backus-Naur Form with Options"? or BNFB, for "Backus-Naur Form with Brackets"? Tony Hansen

Re: Last Call: draft-farrel-rtg-common-bnf (Reduced Backus-Naur Form(RBNF) A Syntax Used in Various Protocol Specification toProposed Standard

2009-02-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, February 06, 2009 20:59 -0500 Tony Hansen wrote: > Going back to RFC 2205, > > These rules are specified using Backus-Naur Form (BNF) > augmented with square brackets surrounding optional > sub-sequences. > > What do you think of BNFO, for "Backus-Naur Form with Optio