Dear dnsop participants: Mr. Paul Vixie made an off-topic post which falls into the IPR rathole category. Being personally attacked, I take the liberty to povide background information to dnsop participants, with the hope that Mr. Paul Vixie's bias is better understood.
I'm not a wgchair or anything, so this is just my opinion.
I bring your attention to the common affiliation of Mr. Rob Austein and Mr. Paul Vixie to ISC, and the subordination relationship that can be inferred from Mr. Paul Vixie's position as ISC president.
Also, Mr. Paul Vixie has an overwhelming influence on IETF standardization activities in the field of DNS.
Anyone who is going to submit proposals for dns technology should not include encumbered IPR.
This is an ideology statement. Patents apply in very diversified fields of human activity. In the case of DNS, according to public records, Verisign filed patent applications in the provisioning protocol area (e.g. by the inventor name Hollenbeck); UltraDNS did the same in the area of load balancing for DNS nameservers; an inventor by the name "William C. Manning" of El Segundo, California also has an application related to DNS.
If I can't implement an RFC in BSDL F/OSS, then it's a bad RFC. If folks can't fetch, compile, build, install, derive from, and make money from the BSDL F/OSS that results from implementing an RFC, then it's a bad RFC.
That's a way to put the ISC business model at the center of the ideology: proprietary Unix vendors qualify as "folks" per above, and some proprietary Unix vendors are funding the ISC activities.
If i see a "bad I-D" then i will object to it becoming a "bad RFC".
Blindly following the above ideology will result in less and less RFCs, hence less network standardization and/or standardization made by entities other than the IETF. The scope of dnsop activities are perhaps already restricted by this attitude, without much notice by the IPR-adverse participants. In his post, Mr. Paul Vixie then goes on with a personal attack against me which is not worth replying, except for the observation that Mr. Paul Vixie is perhaps counter-productive given the simple need for a consensus-based DNSSEC root priming specification. Regards, -- - Thierry Moreau CONNOTECH Experts-conseils inc. 9130 Place de Montgolfier Montreal, Qc Canada H2M 2A1 Tel.: (514)385-5691 Fax: (514)385-5900 web site: http://www.connotech.com e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ DNSOP mailing list DNSOP@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/dnsop
