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

2009-01-21 Thread Doug Ewell
Marshall Eubanks 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 or even a majority of new

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 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" at the all

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

2009-01-13 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 n

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 represent

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
e- From: trustees-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:trustees-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent: January 12, 2009 7:01 PM To: Russ Housley Cc: trust...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pr

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 John C Klensin
--On Monday, January 12, 2009 17:24 -0500 Russ Housley wrote: > 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 c

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 im

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 t

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 comm

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 > 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 mend,

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

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 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, what part of "

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 th

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 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 mend, but let's get t

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 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

2009-01-09 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
--On Thursday, January 08, 2009 02:49:16 PM -0800 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 n

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 (53

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 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. Agreed.

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 s

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 > simpl

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 in

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 wrote: > >> You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. >> >> In my opinion, we need a 5378

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, whether

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 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 the issue that h