our two past-due deadlines

[Edward Lewis <edlewis@arin.net>]

According to the automated powers that be we are overdue on two items:

# PROVREG:Sep 2002:First draft of EPP Extensions Guidelines draft
# PROVREG:Sep 2002:First draft of EPP over SMTP

The first - Scott has a personal submission in the hopper and the 
chairs already asked if the group wanted to adopt or not.  No one 
replied.  Based on an earlier call for the doc - at our last in 
person meeting, The chairs are going to ask Scott and the I-D people 
to add the doc to the WG (name change and put it on the charter page).

The second - Eric has a document not in the I-D repository and "NOT 
offered in accordance with Section 10 of RFC2026" on the EPP/SMTP 
topic.  As such, the document isn't eligible to be "just transferred" 
into the group even though it is publicly available and a reference 
to it exists in the mailing list archives.  The (one) eligibility 
hurdle is the prohibition of the IETF to make changes to the document.

So the question remains open, but with at least more input on the 
topic available, whether an SMTP draft will be produced.

To the previous volunteers: unless you either express interest again 
or produce a document or documents as personal products, the chairs 
will consider you as "unvolunteering."

The chairs are reluctant to just choose an editor(s) for the draft 
*in the absence of a demand for us to do so*.  This is because it is 
up to the WG members to determine if this draft is desired and to 
support its development.  The chairs shouldn't be determining the 
course of the group, but making sure the group adheres to the charter 
and makes headway into solving our problems.  (So much for the 
soapbox.)

So - if the volunteers are still interested, say so or better yet 
submit works that the WG can edit.  If the group wants to an editor 
to be named, let the chairs know...

But please let the chairs get our milestones moved!  You don't know 
the horrors of the IETF Secretariat torture chamber. 
Drip-spam-drip-spam-... ;)
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Edward Lewis                                          +1-703-227-9854
ARIN Research Engineer