Date: 8 Jan 2000 07:40:50 -0000
Message-ID: <20000108074050.16592.qmail@cr.yp.to>
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: ogud@tislabs.com
Cc: randy@psg.com, djb@cr.yp.to
Subject: namedroppers mismanagement
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This is a complaint to the DNSEXT chairs about the management of the
namedroppers mailing list. I will wait a few days for a response.

One of the chairs is the primary culprit, and has already seen and
ignored several complaints; so this message is merely cc'ed to him, and
is addressed to the other chair.

In short, to use the language of RFC 2026 section 6.5.1: Mismanagement
of the namedroppers mailing list is preventing the IETF DNS working
groups from adequately considering the views of their participants, and
is placing the quality and integrity of the working group's decisions in
jeopardy. Please see

   http://cr.yp.to/dnscache/namedroppers.html

for details of specific incidents.

I am not sure if this complaint is within the letter of RFC 2026 section
6.5.1, which seems to focus primarily on previous WG decisions. However,
Thomas Narten told me to send my complaints to you; I don't see any
other IETF procedure that could cover this situation. Anyway, I'd like
to make sure that you've had a chance to respond.

You may be wondering why I'm not first raising these issues informally
on the mailing list itself. Answer: I did raise one of the issues in a
previous message to namedroppers; Bush censored that message.

---Dan