Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

["Steven M. Bellovin" <[e-mail]>]

On Tue, 17 Jun 2008 14:44:33 -0400
Marshall Eubanks <[e-mail]> wrote:

> I fully agree with Debbie here.
> 
> Human experience teaches us that examples will
> be used, over time. Foo.com is a commercial site. If the IETF uses  
> foo.com in email examples,
> it is reasonable to assume that foo.com will get unwanted traffic  
> because of that. I think that
> the IETF should not put itself in the position of causing avoidable  
> pain to others, even if the likelihood of serious harm is small.
> Since there is a remedy, and it could be adopted readily, I think
> that the discuss was reasonable and do not support the appeal.

Yes -- and there's certainly case law to support the IESG's
position; the IESG has been insisting on this for years.

Now -- there are times when the stated policy just doesn't work.  I
recall one IPsec document where the example had to show several
different networks.  John's appeal stated that the WG considered and
rejected using the 2606 names; perhaps this is another case.  (I
haven't read the draft in question.)  Hoping the reader will notice the
difference between example.com and example.net, or even
bad-dog.example.com and good-cat.example.net, is just asking for
trouble.

So -- in general, I think the IESG's position is a good one, and
well-supported by custom; however, there are exceptions.


		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
_______________________________________________
IETF mailing list
[e-mail]
https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf