Re: Weekly curated news stories about IETF-related topics

On 16-Oct-20 14:19, Mark Nottingham wrote:
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>> On 16 Oct 2020, at 11:46 am, Brian E Carpenter <brian.e.carpenter@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Hi Greg,
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>> Who is fact-checking this?
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>> For example, in the archive I see:
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>> "The HTTP Range Requests standard has been under discussion at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for more than half a decade,..."
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>> There is no such thing as the HTTP Range Requests standard. There is a draft "draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics" that replaced an earlier draft "draft-ietf-httpbis-range". Maybe one day the current draft will proceed through WG Last Call, AD review, IETF Last Call, and an IESG ballot, and finally be approved as a Proposed Standard. Or maybe not.
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> Just a nit - range requests were first standardised as part of RFC2068 (1997), then revised in RFC2616 (1999) and split out into a separate RFC7233 (2014); they're currently being folded back into draft-ietf-httpbis-semantics.

Well, that's more than a nit, but I think it strengthens the case for fact checking and for a strong disclaimer. Replicating "news" items that are often nothing more than PR pieces already replicated by lazy journalists could put us in an invidious position.

Regards
    Brian
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> All of that said, I agree that the statement "The HTTP Range Requests standard has been under discussion at the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) for more than half a decade" is very odd - it's more like ~25 years.
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> Still, this is a news clipping service; if we have problems with the contents of the articles, we need to go back to the sources...
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> Cheers,
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>> We constantly have to push back on claims that drafts are IETF standards; it's a bit disturbing when such false claims appear in our own output.
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>> A bit further on I see "互联网工程任务组IETF主席的Brian E.Carpenter教授发表了". No, I can't suddenly read and write Chinese; this was translated with my permission from https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~brian/InterOmnesNovasRete.html .
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>> Apart from fact-checking, I think we need a prominent disclaimer on each edition that this is *not* information from the IETF and that is does *not* express the opinion of the IETF, ISOC, or anyone else in particular.
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>> Regards
>>   Brian
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>> On 16-Oct-20 04:04, Greg Wood wrote:
>>> Hello,
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>>> With the aim of better tracking where, when, and how IETF-related issues are presented in a variety of news outlets and other online publications, we have set up a weekly email to provide a collection of stories published around the world curated by David Goldstein. [1]
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>>> Based on positive reactions so far, we are inviting anyone from this list to sign up via:
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>>> https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/newsclips
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>>> Archives are openly available and the preface to the first edition from the test period provides a bit more background about the approach:
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>>> https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/msg/newsclips/4py4Y7OPXvJ9MjesGAZEGs8Oe0o/
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>>> Please let me know if you have any questions.
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>>> Feedback and suggestions are always welcome.
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>>> Sincerely,
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>>> -Greg
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>>> [1] https://goldsteinreport.com/about/
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>>> Greg Wood
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