Nan:2010-03-19-result-comp.protocols.dns.std
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From: Big-8 Management Board <board@big-8.org> Subject: RESULT: comp.protocols.dns.std will be removed Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2010 20:41:56 EDT Message-ID: <ho0gd6$58u$1@news.albasani.net> RESULT comp.protocols.dns.std will be removed The Last Call for Comments (LCC) on 2010-03-07 initiated a five-day period for final comments. Following this comment period, the Big-8 Management Board has decided by vote to remove moderated group comp.protocols.dns.std. Vote results (yes-no-abstain): 9-0-0 RATIONALE: Probe posts to this group resulted in bounces. <comp-protocols-dns-std@webster.isc.org> (expanded from <comp-protocols-dns-std@isc.org>): host webster.isc.org[2001:4f8:1:d::12] said: 550 5.1.1 <comp-protocols-dns-std@webster.isc.org>: Recipient address rejected: User unknown in local recipient table (in reply to RCPT TO command) Jonathan de Boyne Pollard took the issue to the Namedroppers mailing list. Paul Vixie replied, stating the he created the group a few years ago and then forgot about it. Since nobody except him reads Usenet anyway it's safe to kill the group. NEWSGROUPS LINE: comp.protocols.dns.std DNS standards activities, including IETF. (Moderated) DISTRIBUTION: news.announce.newgroups news.groups.proposals comp.protocols.dns.std comp.protocols.misc CHARTER OF COMP.PROTOCOLS.DNS.STD Discussions of IETF and other DNS standards activities will take place here. Internet drafts, comments and ruminations on internet drafts, official IETF working group announcements (related to DNS working groups such as DNSIND and DNSSEC) can be made here. This newsgroup will be bidirectionally gatewayed to the <namedroppers@internic.net> mailing list. Traffic crossing over from the newsgroup to the mailing list or vice versa will be moderated, as will all traffic on the newsgroup itself. (The mailing list is unmoderated.) Moderation is considered necessary to filter out SPAM and off-topic posts. (See section entitled "CHARTER: all groups" for more information about moderation policy.) Gateway mailing list name: Name Droppers Submission address: namedroppers@internic.net Request address: namedroppers-request@internic.net On moderation: the primary moderation mechanism will be a robot which auto-approves posts if they do not appear to be SPAM and they are not cross-posted to other groups in the same hierarchy. Articles which fail the robot's filters will be sent to a human (Paul Vixie) for handling. Paul Vixie will approve any article which seems to be mostly on topic; he reserves the right to delete SPAM without notifying the sender, and the right to suggest to an author that her choice of newsgroups could profitably have been different, and the right to pass through errors from the news system such as "more than 50% included text". No article will be rejected on the basis of its flame content. Cross posted articles will probably be rejected with an explaination to the author, since very few articles appropriate for any of these groups will be appropriate for any other group. That decision will be made on a case by case basis, and the robot will be informed of newsgroup unions for which cross posting is acceptable so that human intervention won't be required in that case in the future. On naming: as a middle aged curmudgeon, your humble speaker feels it his duty to stamp out incorrect nomenclature such as "TCP/IP". Most of the network traffic that carries DNS information is UDP, a peer of TCP in the great protocol stack in the sky. Naming the original DNS-related newsgroup "comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains" was an error, one we propose to (a) not repeat in our selection of names for these new groups, and (b) repair by deleting/renaming the c.p.t-i.d group to "comp.protocols.dns.ops". It may or may not be an error to call a group "comp.protocols.tcp-ip", and we are not making any proposals that that group be renamed. It would be a huge and compound error to call our groups "comp.protocols.tcp-ip.domains.bind" et al. HISTORY OF THE GROUP: comp.protocols.dns.std is a moderated newsgroup which passed its vote for creation by 277:18 as reported in news.announce.newgroups on 7 Sep 1996. PROPONENT: Alexander Bartolich <alexander.bartolich@gmx.at> CHANGE HISTORY: 2010-01-19 Probe post 2010-01-24 Moderator Vacancy Investigation 2010-02-06 1st RFD 2010-02-21 2nd RFD 2010-03-07 LCC 2010-03-19 RESULT