Date: 3 Feb 2000 01:11:27 -0000
Message-ID: <20000203011127.23004.qmail@cr.yp.to>
From: "D. J. Bernstein" <djb@cr.yp.to>
To: iab@isi.edu
Cc: djb@cr.yp.to
Subject: namedroppers mismanagement
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This is a complaint to the IAB 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.

As a concrete example, I would like DNSEXT to update RFC 2181 to
eliminate a security flaw that I explained on bugtraq; but I have been
unable to raise this issue on the namedroppers mailing list, because
Randy Bush has discarded my messages. Please see

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

for details of this incident and several other 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,
the WG chairs and the IESG have told me repeatedly that I'm following
the correct procedure.

I have already attempted to resolve these problems with the WG chairs,
the ADs, and the IESG as a whole. The WG chairs and the ADs are
attempting to fix two problems:

   (1) Failure of the software to deliver messages immediately.
   (2) Failure of Bush to notify authors of his censorship actions.

However, the other problems remain, and are clearly not going to be
resolved by the WG chairs or the IESG. So I am sending this complaint to
the IAB.

---Dan