Date: Wed, 13 Dec 2000 10:05:49 -0500
From: John C Klensin <klensin@research.att.com>
To: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
Subject: Initial IAB response to appeal
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Mr. Bernstein,

The IAB has received your appeal request of 16 November and has
initiated a review of the history in this situation.  The
document referred to in your note,
http://cr.yp.to/djbdns/namedroppers.html, contains a good deal of
material that does not seem relevant to an appeal.  We believe,
after reviewing it, that the essence of your appeal involves two
issues:

(i) IETF use of mailing lists that are moderated to eliminate
    inappropriate materials, including spam and off-topic
postings.

(ii) Even if such moderation is permitted, you believe that it 
    was applied in an inappropriate and discriminatory way to
	exclude your postings from the namedroppers mailing list.

If our assumption is correct, please notify us as we will not
proceed with this review until we have heard from you.  If it is
not correct, please notify us immediately and supply us with a
succinct and self-contained statement of the issues that you wish
us to address. Except under extremely unusual circumstances, the
IAB will address a given appeal issue only once and will not
engage in a dialogue to refine the appeal.

As an additional procedural observation, the IAB notes the
specific requests for the form and content of a response in your
letter. However, neither the IAB nor any other IETF body is
obligated to respond in any particular form to an appeal and is,
in particular, not obligated to give a listing of your points and
an in-depth response to each.  An appeal to the IAB is neither a
judicial proceeding nor an exercise in content analysis or
textual exegesis: we have not done either in the past and will
not do so in this case.

    John Klensin
    for the IAB