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Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: unbearable

John C Klensin <john-ietf@jck.com> Fri, 05 December 2014 19:49 UTC

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Subject: Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: unbearable
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As a member of or sympathizer with various societies for bear
encouragement and preservation (black, brown, polar, Cub Scouts,
Teddy, Pooh, ... in no particular order), I find this name
really objectionable.  From the description, "unbearerable"
might have been better, "betterbearer" certainly would have been.

"unbearable" should be reserved for April 1 RFCs and similar
work efforts :-)

I wonder if anyone has ever appealed a mailing list name.

unbearably yours,
    john


--On Friday, December 05, 2014 11:18 -0800 IETF Secretariat
<ietf-secretariat@ietf.org> wrote:

> A new IETF non-working group email list has been created.
> 
> List address: unbearable@ietf.org
> Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/unbearable/
> To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/unbearable
> 
> Purpose:
> 
> This list is for discussion of proposals for doing better than
> bearer tokens (e.g. HTTP cookies, OAuth tokens etc.) for web
> applications. The specific goal is chartering a WG focused on
> preventing security token export and replay attacks.

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