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Re: The roaming user problem is insoluble (paging Meng Wong)

2004-05-15 21:25:06

Meng Weng Wong wrote:
On Sat, May 15, 2004 at 04:24:30PM -0700, Matthew Elvey wrote:
| >Meng [/Mark], may we develop an I-D based on the ideas in the CSV | >thread and on the SPF I-D? We need your or Mark's permission to | >create a derivative work, but you've indicated you don't like these | >ideas (I've expressed my counterarguments to your reasoning elsewhere). | >I'd like to see if there isn't more ready adoption of this scheme. | | Second request (forgot to mail Meng directly with original post...), | asking Mark L as well. | | The courtesy of a reply is requested.

Sure, go ahead; I plan to remove the restriction in the I-D I submit
for standards track.  My main concern with derivative works is that
the contributions of the SPF community so far should not be lost in
future revisions.  SPF was developed on an open mailing list with
several hundred subscribers putting in countless hours of hard work in
good faith.  I do not want to see their efforts go to waste.  So far
the IETF process has operated responsibly.  For instance, the working
group has not made any changes just for the sake of making changes; it
has not shown evidence of NIH syndrome; and if we continue down this
path I am confident we will get a good result.


As an ASRG co-chair, I would appreciate knowing when a new SPF draft will be ready and whether it is ready for RFC publication as per the MARID charter.

Yakov
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