Re: Appeal Response to Abdussalam Baryun regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats

[Russ Housley <[e-mail]>]

http://www.ietf.org/iesg/appeal.html

Every appeal ever submitted to the IESG and its response can be found here.




On Jul 2, 2013, at 7:37 PM, <[e-mail]> wrote:

> Do we have any statistics on how many appeals to the IESG fail and how many succeed?
> 
> If I knew that 97% of appeals get rejected, I wouldn't even bother writing one...
> 
> (On the other hand, that might simply be because 97% of the appeals are written by loons. Statistics can't tell us everything.)
> 
> Lloyd Wood
> http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/
> 
> 
> ________________________________________
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> Subject: Appeal Response to Abdussalam Baryun regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats
> 
> The IESG has reviewed the appeal of Abdussalam Baryun dated June 19,
> 2013 on the subject of inclusion in the acknowledgments section of
> draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats:
> 
> http://www.ietf.org/iesg/appeal/baryun-2013-06-19.txt
> 
> This is a dispute about a matter in a working group. The same matter has
> previously been raised with the working group chairs and responsible
> Area Director, as specified in RFC 2026 Section 6.5.1.
> 
> Writing acknowledgments sections is largely a matter of editorial
> discretion, where good sense and general attribution practices are the
> primary guidelines, although RFC 2026 Section 10.3.1 has some specific
> rules regarding acknowledgment of major contributors, copyright, and
> IPR.
> 
> After reviewing the appeal, including the associated list discussion and
> draft revisions, the IESG concludes that the authors made a reasonable
> editorial choice that was well within their discretion and that none of
> the messages at issue fall under the required acknowledgment rules of
> RFC 2026 Section 10.3.1 and RFC 5378 Sections 5.6a and 1c. The IESG
> finds that the chairs and responsible AD handled complaints about the
> matter appropriately.