Date: 20 Jan 2000 12:16:41 -0000
Message-ID: <20000120121641.29804.qmail@cr.yp.to>
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: iesg@ietf.org
Cc: djb@cr.yp.to
Subject: namedroppers mismanagement
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This is a complaint to the IESG about the management of the namedroppers
mailing list. I will wait a few days for a response.

In short, to use the language of RFC 2026 section 6.5.1: Mismanagement
of the namedroppers mailing list is preventing the IETF DNSEXT working
group from adequately considering the views of its 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. But one
of you told me to contact the WG chairs; when I did so, one of the WG
chairs told me that I was following the correct procedure.

Some of the incidents were caused or exacerbated by software problems,
which the WG chairs are finally attempting to fix. However, most of the
incidents were selectively and deliberately caused by one of the WG
chairs. The other WG chair has made clear that he is not going to fix
those problems.

I sent a complaint to the relevant ADs nearly a week ago. I have not
received a response, and I am not going to wait forever for a response.
So I'm sending this complaint to the IESG as a whole.

---Dan

P.S. Is there an email address for the Internet Society Board of
Trustees? I have the individual addresses of the current members but
would prefer to use a group address if one exists.