The Weekly Council Meeting on 2004-12-29
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On Wednesday 2004-12-29 at 14:00 UTC, the council held its weekly meeting
on IRC[1]. There was a pre-planned agenda[2]. Chuck, Julian, Mark, and
Wayne were present; Meng was absent.
The first item was the Chairman's report. Chuck explained that due to the
holidays he had not yet been able to publish the prepared press release[3]
to PR Newswire[4] for wide distribution. He also reported that, as per
Julian's request, he had made the archives[5] of the council mailing list
public again. Hence the last agenda item was obsoleted.
The next item would have been the Executive Director's report, but as Meng
was not present, the item was declared deferred.
As the next item, Julian had planned to ask the Executive Director to make
the submitted version of the HSARPA proposal available to the council, but
Meng had already posted it to the private council mailing list a few hours
before the meeting so the item was void.
The next issue was the creation of a press release regarding the impending
submission of the current official SPFv1 specification draft,
draft-schlitt-spf-classic-00[6], to the IETF. It was commonly agreed upon
that a press release should be made and that preparations for it should be
begun even before the submission of the draft. Chuck and Julian suggested
that a list of changes since the prior official draft,
spf-draft-200406[7], would be good to have so the most important changes
could be taken into account when writing the press release. Wayne
admitted that he would indeed have to compile such a list of changes, but
in contrast he did not want the press release to give any attention to
changes in the specification, but instead focus on the popularity and
activity of the SPF project. Chuck stated that he would draft up the
press release in the following week and incorporate any input from Wayne
and Julian.
Then, Julian reiterated his proposal for the formation of an official
project agenda in order to encourage members of the project community to
invest their time and work into efforts commonly agreed on by the project.
Everyone agreed that it was a good idea and that Julian should proceed to
work it out.
Following that, the issue of making the spf-help mailing list archives
public was addressed, which had been forgotten during the previous
meeting. It was determined quickly and unanimously that the archives
should be made public and that Julian should ask Meng to do it.
As the final matter, Mark presented the first edition of his "SPF Sender
Authentication Deployment Recommendations" draft (second edition here[8]).
The other council members noted that the statement on the "SPF vs.
Sender-ID" issue should be more explicit, and perhaps even a bit more
political. Mark stated that he did not want the statement to have a
political dimension because that might come over as emotional and
irrational. Julian proposed that, due to the fundamental nature of the
"SPF vs. Sender-ID" issue, several alternative position statements be
drafted and put to vote before the community. Some further discussion
followed on whether the project being able to state to be working with
supposed industry leader Microsoft was important enough to tolerate their
behavior. Then, in order to resolve the discussion, Chuck proposed that
Mark write up a few paragraphs of technical discussion regarding the
repurposing of SPFv1 records for the PRA algorithm. This would then be
included in a more comprehensive document. Wayne seconded that, but Mark
and Julian did not want to follow the motion. Instead, Mark offered to
draft an "SPF and Sender-ID" statement without touching the subject of
PRA.
The meeting was then concluded at 16:24 UTC.
Julian Mehnle,
SPF Council Secretary.
References:
1. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf-council/2004/12/29_irc_log.html#20041229T1405
2. http://moongroup.com/pipermail/spf-council/2004-December/000084.html
3. http://spf.mehnle.net/Press_Release/2004-12-22
4. http://www.prnewswire.com
5. http://moongroup.com/pipermail/spf-council
6. http://www.schlitt.net/spf/spf_classic/draft-schlitt-spf-classic-00.txt
7. http://spf.pobox.com/spf-draft-200406.txt
8.
http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss(_at_)v2(_dot_)listbox(_dot_)com/200501/0018.html