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

2009-01-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, January 29, 2009 16:26 -0500 Dean Anderson wrote: >... > You comment explains exactly the problems with RFC5378. This > is why we, Glassey, myself, others advocated for having the > contributor hold the copyright, as is done in other standards > groups, like the ITU, The Open Gr

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

2009-01-28 Thread Dean Willis
On Jan 21, 2009, at 12:16 PM, Bob Braden wrote: At 11:58 PM 1/20/2009, 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 alleged insistence of the RFC Editor, I don't

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

2009-01-21 Thread Roy T. Fielding
On Jan 21, 2009, at 10:16 AM, Bob Braden wrote: Whoa! This contains several errors of fact and implication. The number authors named on the front page of an RFC are generally limited to 5 (there are occasional exceptions for good cause). This rule was arrived at after discussions in the I

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

2009-01-21 Thread Bob Braden
At 11:58 PM 1/20/2009, 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 alleged insistence of the RFC Editor, I don't see how any older document or even a majority of ne

Re: 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
Dean: 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 work- around is found. Given that we've historically weeded out the contributor-list on a document

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

2009-01-20 Thread Dean Willis
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 work- around is found. Given that we've histor

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

2009-01-15 Thread Russ Housley
Tom: What then is post-5378? Is it material published on or after November 10th? Yes. Russ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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

2009-01-15 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: "Russ Housley" To: "Tom.Petch" sisyp...@dial.pipex.com Sent: Wednesday, January 14, 2009 10:36 PM > Correction: RFC 5378 was published on 10 November 2008. > http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-dist/2008-November/002142.html Thanks for the correction.

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

2009-01-14 Thread Russ Housley
Correction: RFC 5378 was published on 10 November 2008. http://mailman.rfc-editor.org/pipermail/rfc-dist/2008-November/002142.html Russ At 11:20 AM 1/14/2009, Russ Housley wrote: Tom: RFC 5378 was published on 11 November 2008, and it went into effect on that date. Pre-5378 material refers

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

2009-01-14 Thread Russ Housley
Tom: RFC 5378 was published on 11 November 2008, and it went into effect on that date. Pre-5378 material refers to contributions that were made before the BCP went into effect. I do not believe that anyone tracked the posting time at a finer granularity than a day. Russ The At 04:41 AM 1/

Re: 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
> 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 work-around is > found. In this case, wouldn't it make sense to (temporarily?) suspend the rule that

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

2009-01-12 Thread Stephan Wenger
Hi Russ, On 1/12/09 2:15 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 work-around is > found. > In this case, w

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

2009-01-12 Thread Eric Rescorla
Ed, I'd like to thank the Trustees for working to resolve this situation. Unfortunately, after reviewing the new text, I don't think it's really adequate. To recap, the the old text required the contributor to affirm (and consequently to verify) that adequate permissions had been obtained to pub

Re: 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: >... > If the document is approved without change, then the RFC > Editor will ask each of the authors to grant the additional > rights required by RFC 5378. If this cannot be done, then the > document will sit in the queue until some work-around like the > one being discussed on this thre

Re: 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 16:07 -0500 Russ Housley wrote: >... > If the document is approved without change, then the RFC > Editor will ask each of the authors to grant the additional > rights required by RFC 5378. If this cannot be done, then the > document will sit in the queue until som

Re: 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
Doug: I hope this response answers your pragmatic questions. 1. What do I, as editor of an I-D and previously editor of a related RFC that is not quoted in the current I-D, need to do in order to allow the WG chairs to move my draft forward into IETF Last Call? You can proceed to IETF Last

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

2009-01-09 Thread Thomas Narten
"Ed Juskevicius" writes: > The new legend text, if implemented, would do the following: > a. Provide Authors and Contributors with a way to identify (to the > IETF Trust) that their contributions contain material from pre-5378 > documents for which RFC 5378 rights to modify the mat

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

2009-01-08 Thread Ed Juskevicius
gards, Ed J. -Original Message- From: TSG [mailto:tglas...@earthlink.net] Sent: January 8, 2009 6:21 PM To: Ed Juskevicius Cc: 'IETF Discussion'; ietf-annou...@ietf.org; i...@ietf.org; i...@iab.org; rfc-edi...@rfc-editor.org; wgcha...@ietf.org; 'Trustees' Subjec

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

2009-01-08 Thread TSG
Ed Juskevicius wrote: Ed - you nor the rest of this list is going to like this retort but I would ask that you read all of it prior to flushing the response. The purpose of this message is twofold: 1) To summarize the issues that some members of our community have experienced since the pub

Re: 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
Ed, Thanks for this. As I understand it, the proposal boils down to adding a disclaimer to affected documents that reads: "This document contains material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published before November 10, 2008 and, to the Contributor’s knowledge, the person(s) controlling t