Re: Censure of Mr. Simpson

William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com> Tue, 27 February 1996 17:21 UTC

Date: Tue, 27 Feb 1996 16:29:04 +0000
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From: William Allen Simpson <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
Message-ID: <4995.wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: ipsec@tis.com
Cc: iesg@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Re: Censure of Mr. Simpson

I have been privately asked not to reply in detail. Thank you all for
your public and private support.

In support of Perry's refutation, I will note that this _personal_ animus
and _private_ determination of "consensus" was somehow arrived at
_before_ I submitted my very first "intentionally disruptive" draft to
this WG, as evidenced by following excerpt:

From: Paul_Lambert-P15452@email.mot.com
Date: 16 Jan 95 13:25:00 -0600
To: Internet-Drafts@CNRI.Reston.VA.US
Subject: Re: draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-00.txt
Message-Id: <M16589.001.im5r0.1.950116202727Z.CC-MAIL*/OU=SECCG/OU=AZBH/PRMD=MOT/ADMD=MOT/C=US/@MHS>

Dear Sirs,

As working group co-chair of the IETF IP Security Working Group I am writing in
regarding to four recently submitted Internet Drafts (I-D) from Bill Simpson
and Perry Metzger. The I-D guidelines indicate that you have some control over
the naming of these documents. The documents currently have been submitted as:

draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-00.txt
draft-ietf-ipsec-esp-des-cbc-00.txt
draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-00.txt
draft-ietf-ipsec-ah-md5-00.txt

I would like to request that the names of these I-Ds not include "ietf-ipsec"
and that the drafts be identified by the author of the document:

draft-simpson-esp-00.txt
draft-simpson-esp-des-cbc-00.txt
draft-simpson-ah-00.txt
draft-simpson-ah-md5-00.txt

or draft-metzger- ... etc.

An editing team of six people is currently generating a single document that
will cover the techniques contained in these drafts. This document will be
published this week and represents the "consensus" version of the above
mechanisms. Creating new "ipsec-esp" and "ipsec-ah" documents does not
represent the working group direction or work items.

The strength of the IETF process is based on allowing a diversity of
contributions and opinions to be expressed through the I-Ds. Bill and Perry
are free to submit I-D drafts, but their current timing and approach is
intentionally disruptive to the working group.

I will also note that no such "single document" was ever posted and may
never have existed. The WG ultimately overturned the Chair's decision
in this matter.

Bill.Simpson@um.cc.umich.edu
Key fingerprint = 2E 07 23 03 C5 62 70 D3 59 B1 4F 5E 1D C2 C1 A2

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