The problem with that entire philosophy and its public
commentary Steve is
that it intentionally seeks to prevent some class of
participation of some
group you have durogatorally labeled as trolls. So here is
the deal - this
type of predjudicial conduct is VERY inappropriate for
anyone sitting on a
WG as its chair, or in its Sr Management since it clearly
compromises the
Standards Process by censoring dissenting commentary.
And BTW - I am still waiting for ANYONE here to tell me what
specific rights
are required by the IETF to vet and advance standards? - and
what rights are
needed outside the IETF for those processes or how the IETF
will integrate
external commentary formally submitted for the participation
in its
processes from external entities.
Todd Glassey
----- Original Message -----
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb cs.columbia.edu>
To: <ipr-wgietf.org>
Sent: Wednesday, May 24, 2006 7:53 AM
Subject: do not feed the trolls
> There are two ways to deal with noise or bad packets in
a communications
> system: eliminate the problem at the source or employ
better filtering at
> the receiver. The former is often quite hard; if the
network is
> congested, sending messages back towards the source can
increase
> congestion problems. Silently dropping the bad packets
is often the best
> strategy --- note that TCP, for example, doesn't send
NAKs; similarly, ECN
> relies on setting bits in existing packets, rather than
sending new
> messages.
>
>
>
> --Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbi
a.edu/~smb
>
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