RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-28 Thread Pasi.Eronen
Lars Eggert wrote: We could link to the list (http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/all/) but the page takes a long time to load... http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/current/ is both more correct (it is a list of current drafts) and loads faster. Made the change in my local copy. I would

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-28 Thread SM
Hi Lars, At 02:28 27-10-2009, Lars Eggert wrote: The second URL points to a list of FTP mirrors, fully half of which are defunct in some way (don't respond, DNS name doesn't resolve, contains stale content, etc.) Again, nobody has been noticing this. The second URL is a redirection to the old

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-28 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2009-10-28, at 11:53, SM wrote: At 02:28 27-10-2009, Lars Eggert wrote: The second URL points to a list of FTP mirrors, fully half of which are defunct in some way (don't respond, DNS name doesn't resolve, contains stale content, etc.) Again, nobody has been noticing this. The second

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-28 Thread SM
Hi Lars, At 03:29 28-10-2009, Lars Eggert wrote: There is no best thing to point at, really. I believe that pointing at the datatracker is reasonable, and at least better than some (many?) other options. Yes, it is reasonable. Suggest one? I don't think I have a good answer to that as I do

RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-28 Thread Alfred Hönes
I'm very much in favor of doing the proposed I-D boilerplate compactification in some way, getting rid of OBE material, and making all that pending headers and boilerplate changes at a single cutoff date! But if and when changing anything in the I-D boilerplate ... could you please also drop in

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Alfred nailed this one - it's exactly what was wrapping me around the poll. The set of people who submit I-Ds doesn't map onto any other named set :-) Thanks, Spencer Regarding the discussion on IETFers and non-IETFers, I would like to add: Since there's no concept of formal membership for

RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Pasi.Eronen
Looks good to me! Best regards, Pasi -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Eggert Lars (Nokia-NRC/Espoo) Sent: 27 October, 2009 11:29 To: IETF discussion list Subject: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate Hi,

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Scott Lawrence
On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:28 +0200, Lars Eggert wrote: The list of current Internet-Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/. Is a nice space-saving measure, but isn't true. That URL leads to a query page, not a list of current drafts. ___

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Julian Reschke
Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, I'm proposing a change to the ID boilerplate in order to save some lines on the first page. The current text says: Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF), its areas, and its working groups. Note that other groups may

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Scott Brim
The idea is generally acceptable to me but: Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. While we're at it, these two sentences are contradictory. Internet-Drafts

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2009-10-27, at 14:09, Scott Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:28 +0200, Lars Eggert wrote: The list of current Internet-Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/. Is a nice space-saving measure, but isn't true. That URL leads to a query page, not a list of current drafts.

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Lars Eggert
Hi, On 2009-10-27, at 14:39, Lars Eggert wrote: On 2009-10-27, at 14:09, Scott Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:28 +0200, Lars Eggert wrote: The list of current Internet-Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/. Is a nice space-saving measure, but isn't true. That URL

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Julian, The first URL was broken since the IETF web site redesign, but nobody has noticed. That - to me - is a pretty strong indication that nobody has been using it. (It is now fixed.) The second URL points to a list of FTP mirrors, fully half of which are defunct in some way (don't

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Yeah, I got wrapped around this on the WGchairs list, too. Thanks, Jeff, for schooling me. The problem is that other groups really is open-ended, but we don't mean other groups somewhere in the inhabited galaxy, that produce working drafts using the same format, we mean other groups like IAB

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Julian Reschke
Spencer Dawkins wrote: ... I'm not the guy who has to keep syncing the tools with boilerplate changes, so I'm not sure how much of a vote I should get, but my vote would be that taking up that much of the first page of every draft with information that is wrong, but that nobody even cares

RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Eric Gray
, October 27, 2009 8:34 AM To: Lars Eggert Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate The idea is generally acceptable to me but: Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also

RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Eric Gray
Subject: Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate On 2009-10-27, at 14:09, Scott Lawrence wrote: On Tue, 2009-10-27 at 11:28 +0200, Lars Eggert wrote: The list of current Internet-Drafts is at http://datatracker.ietf.org/drafts/. Is a nice space-saving measure, but isn't true

RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Eric Gray
Brim; Lars Eggert Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate Yeah, I got wrapped around this on the WGchairs list, too. Thanks, Jeff, for schooling me. The problem is that other groups really is open-ended, but we don't mean other groups somewhere

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
, October 27, 2009 9:52 AM To: Scott Brim; Lars Eggert Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate Yeah, I got wrapped around this on the WGchairs list, too. Thanks, Jeff, for schooling me. The problem is that other groups really is open-ended, but we don't

RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Eric Gray
...@wonderhamster.org] Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:40 PM To: Eric Gray; Scott Brim; Lars Eggert Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate Importance: High Hi, Eric, The guidance I was getting on the wgchairs mailing list was that other groups

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
...@ericsson.com To: Spencer Dawkins spen...@wonderhamster.org; Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com; Lars Eggert lars.egg...@nokia.com Cc: IETF discussion list ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, October 27, 2009 12:27 PM Subject: RE: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate Spencer, Perhaps they thought

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:28 AM +0200 10/27/09, Lars Eggert wrote: Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF). Note that other groups may also distribute working documents as Internet-Drafts. The list of current Internet-Drafts is at

Re: request for feedback: change to the ID boilerplate

2009-10-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
Proposed change: Many Internet-Drafts are working documents of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF); other groups and individuals create Internet-Drafts that are included in the repository that is maintained by the IETF. That repository is available at some URL. Perhaps more