Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-21 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Dean Willis wrote: On Jan 12, 2009, at 4:15 PM, Russ Housley wrote: The RFC Editor is asking the authors. That is the list of people that is readily available. If the authors cannot speak for all Contributors, then the document will have to wait until a

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, January 21, 2009 7:39 -0500 Marshall Eubanks t...@multicasttech.com wrote: On Jan 21, 2009, at 2:58 AM, Dean Willis wrote: ... Given that we've historically weeded out the contributor-list on a document to four or less, even if there were really dozens of contributors

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-21 Thread Doug Ewell
Marshall Eubanks tme at multicasttech dot com replied to Dean Willis: Given that we've historically weeded out the contributor-list on a document to four or less, even if there were really dozens of contributors at the alleged insistence of the RFC Editor, I don't see how any older document

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-21 Thread Russ Housley
Given that we've historically weeded out the contributor-list on a document to four or less, even if there were really dozens of contributors at the alleged insistence of the RFC Editor, I don't see how any older document or even a majority of new documents-in-progress could be adapted to

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-13 Thread Russ Housley
John: I think that the cover note from the Chair of the IETF Trust, Ed Juskevicius, included the vast bulk of the information that you are requesting. Russ, I think your note addresses several more of the issues I was concerned about than Ed's note did. Assuming that your note represents

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-13 Thread TSG
Russ Housley wrote: Russ the phrase COUNSEL reviewed the text is meaningless from a legal standpoint without specifically asking particular questions. So what is it exactly that the Counsel reviewed and is willing to issue a formal opinion on? Todd Glassey John: I think that the cover

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-12 Thread Russ Housley
John: I think that the cover note from the Chair of the IETF Trust, Ed Juskevicius, included the vast bulk of the information that you are requesting. Let's look at all three parts of your request. (1) this is the problem we are trying to solve Some I-D authors are having difficulty

RE: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-12 Thread Ed Juskevicius
John Klensin wrote: The intent, as ekr and I understand it and as I think your and Ed's note indicated, was to eliminate the requirement that authors make any assertions at all about work other than their own, much less requiring that they guarantee those assertions. Correct! That is

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Joel, Yes. I'll accept any solution in the range covered by my draft and your and John's messages. Brian On 2009-01-10 12:52, Joel M. Halpern wrote: My own take has been that the code reuse problem is the dominant problem. Document transfer outside the IETF is sufficiently rare that I

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
+1. Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to mend, but let's get that off the critical path. Brian On 2009-01-11 09:12, John C Klensin wrote:

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:31 +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: +1. Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to mend, but let's get that off the critical path. I can't begin to guess at

A long-term meta-fix (was: Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem)

2009-01-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, January 10, 2009 12:52 -0800 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: ... I can't begin to guess at the logic that uses Larry's somewhat bizarre assertion as a basis for trying to press approval of this clearly and substantially problematic proposal. To create a paraphrase,

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-11 09:52, Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to mend, but let's get that off the

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread ned+ietf
--On Sunday, January 11, 2009 9:31 +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: +1. Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Er, is that a Last Call comment on draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights and draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming? A bit late, if so. Brian, too late makes sense for stray comments. It doesn't make sense when we discover that a spec doesn't work. There have been quite a few

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-11 10:55, Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Er, is that a Last Call comment on draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights and draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming? A bit late, if so. Brian, too late makes sense for stray comments. It doesn't make sense when we discover that a spec

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Fred Baker
You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. In my opinion, we need a 5378-bis that keeps the good bits but corrects the issue that has been problematic. The question before the house is how best to achieve that. The proposal here is to provide a work-around that enables an

RE: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Bernard Aboba
From my perspective, the best approach involves keeping the general case simple. The documents that have been transferred outside the IETF in the past five years is a single digit number, a tenth of a percent of all RFCs if not a smaller fraction. From my perspective, the simplest

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Dave CROCKER
Fred Baker wrote: From my perspective, the best approach involves keeping the general case simple. The documents that have been transferred outside the IETF in the past five years is a single digit number, a tenth of a percent of all RFCs if not a smaller fraction. From my perspective, the

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread John Leslie
Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: A number of the comments, so far, appear to hinge on a rather basic cost/benefit model that is clearly quite different from what the proposal is based. I suspect that difference comes from a different sense of the problem, per John Klensin's posting.

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2009-01-10 07:15, John Leslie wrote: ... In other words, remove the new requirement and we no longer have a crisis. We have an issue to pursue -- the same one that prompted the new requirement -- but no crisis. Alas, I must disagree. We have an IETF Consensus document (5378),

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
--On Thursday, January 08, 2009 02:49:16 PM -0800 Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: From my perspective, the best approach involves keeping the general case simple. The documents that have been transferred outside the IETF in the past five years is a single digit number, a tenth of a percent

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread Stephen Farrell
+1 to fred's proposal, let the exceptions be just that and don't bother most I-D authors, Stephen. On 8 Jan 2009, at 22:49, Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. In my opinion, we need a 5378-bis that keeps the good bits but corrects

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread John C Klensin
Stephen and Fred, One of the interesting issues with 5378 is that there has never been consensus about what problem(s) it was trying to solve. The WG reached consensus on the two documents without, IMO, reaching consensus on the problem statement. Nothing in our procedures prohibits that,

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-09 13:59, Stephen Farrell wrote: +1 to fred's proposal, let the exceptions be just that and don't bother most I-D authors, Stephen. On 8 Jan 2009, at 22:49, Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. In my opinion, we need a