From: "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>
Date: Fri, 18 Nov 94 13:21:43 PST
To: strick -- henry strickland <strick@versant.com>
Subject: Re: pointers to IETF drafts
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The standard thing in these cases is to say "There are some neat RFC
drafts on security in ftp://hostname/names; you might be interested."

I have already gotten three other copies of each of the three messages
associated with Ran's new IPng drafts because every security mailing
list on earth seems to operate on the "just forward everything"
premise. More aren't needed.

strick -- henry strickland says:
> THUS SPAKE "Perry E. Metzger" <perry@imsi.com>:
> # 
> # Some of us are participants in the IETF, are even on the IPSEC working
> # group, and are well aware of the pending work on IPng and IPv4
> # security, and don't want Yet Another Copy of these things. If you
> # insist, why not just note that there are drafts pending and not
> # forward each of the announcement messages?
> 
> If he were to do that,  people would ask (or at least wonder)
> 	1.  just what is this?
> and 
> 	2.  where can I get it?
> 
> It turns out the announcment is only two or three pages long,
> and about 1/3 of it answers question 1, 
> and the other 2/3 answers (for various clients) question 2.
> 
> I thought it was a very appropriate way of using the list --
> a good comprimise between spamming and being silent.
> I was able to quickly determine if I was interested (I was),
> and use my favorite way to fetch it (since I'm not in metamail,
> I grabbed the URLs and LYNXed them.)
> 
> 		strick
>