Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG
William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com> Sun, 02 October 2011 11:11 UTC
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Subject: Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG
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On 10/2/11 2:44 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: > On 9/29/2011 6:18 PM, William Allen Simpson wrote: >> On 9/28/11 12:20 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: >>> Actually, there is one useful thing that this WG could do before its >>> demise: update or obsolete RFC 3818 so that necessary work can be done >>> when it (the WG) is gone. >>> >> Glen, what needs to be changed? I didn't pay any particular attention >> to it at the time, > > You're not alone, Bill: not much attention was called to it (at least in > pppext). It was an individual submission (kind of ironic, considering > that the evil it purports to fix is the lack of WG review). IIRC, I was > unaware of its existence until the announcement of its publication. > It _was_ an odd thing for an individual submission, but I wasn't too worried about it, as it was proposed in a draft sent to the list. I went back and looked at my list archives, and found that I'd not even ever read half the messages about it. It came out of a series of posts on the Subject: Re: Reigning in "bad" extensions to PPP. At the time, I did read the first few messages with each new Subject line: proposed draft IANA Considerations I-D ACTION:draft-schryver-pppext-iana-00.txt IANA PPP considerations IANA Considerations for PPP to Proposed Standard Again, what needs to be changed? >> but this really looks like a one-off RFC to update >> some kind of IANA considerations. It doesn't appear to be idiotic. > > Not idiotic at all; the author is not an idiot. Diabolical, maybe, but > not idiotic. > I've an informal personal rule going back to the early '90s against responding to Schryver's usual provocative rants, and had kill filed him for some years. I'd say more of a troll than diabolical.
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Mark Townsley
- [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Glen Zorn
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Mark Townsley
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG William Allen Simpson
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Thomas Narten
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Vernon Schryver
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Glen Zorn
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Bernard Aboba
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Mark Townsley
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Glen Zorn
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Vernon Schryver
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Glen Zorn
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Mark Townsley
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Ignacio Goyret
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG William Allen Simpson
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Jacni Qin
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Jacni Qin
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Jacni Qin
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Jacni Qin
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Glen Zorn
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Mark Townsley
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG James Carlson
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Vernon Schryver
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG William Allen Simpson
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Glen Zorn
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG William Allen Simpson
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake
- Re: [Pppext] Future of the PPP WG Donald Eastlake