This is the recent traffic on the #SPF-council IRC channel on irc.pobox.com. Anyone may join the channel, but only council members can talk.

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IRC nicknames:
csmChuck Mead
freesideMeng Weng Wong
grumpyWayne Schlitt
JulianJulian Mehnle
MarkKMark Kramer (asarian-host.net)

--- Sun Dec 19 13:04:59 UTC 2004 ---
13:04<freeside>mooo.
13:07<Julian>moo, too.
13:44<Julian>grumpy: Can I have 10min of your time?
13:54<grumpy>Julian: I'm here now. what's up?
13:54<freeside>mooo.
14:07<Julian>grumpy: Ok, I'm back now, too.
14:08<Julian>grumpy: Can you give me a quick overview of what issues are still outstanding and what needs to be done to get the SPFv1 draft finished? Oh, and what about MarkL?
14:09<Julian>I think it would be useful to set up an official TODO list for the SPFv1 draft.
14:26<grumpy>As far as MarkL, I have not talked with him that much. I sent him email (cc'ed to spf-private) and got a reply back, but I never got a reply back from a second message I sent.
14:27<grumpy>As far as an SPFv1 draft, we (the council) still haven't said who should be the author(s), what spec should be the basis to work from, etc.
14:28<grumpy>If we start with draft-200406, I think we have a *lot* of editing to do, to make it as well written as draft-lentczner-spf-00 or draft-schlitt-spf-00
14:28<Julian>I thought we already had a silent agreement to start from your draft, not MarkL's.
14:29<grumpy>maybe
14:29<grumpy>it hasn't been made that clear to me
14:29<Julian>If it is just formal issues that are the current barriers, we should take care of them ASAP.
14:29<grumpy>In order to get my draft reading, I need to do some stuff on things like the Received-SPF headers
14:30<Julian>(And I'm not saying that because of Frank Ellermann's impatient distrust statement.)
14:30<grumpy>however, there are a bunch of other "controversial" things I made to my draft, such as removal of unknown mechanisms, zone cuts, strict syntax checking, etc.
14:31*grumpy hasn't read Frank's latest....
14:31<Julian>Well, then let's discuss those controversial things on the council list.
14:31<grumpy>Ok
14:31<Julian>I want to compile an official TODO list for the SPFv1 spec.
14:31<Julian>Let's do that first.
14:32<Julian>brb
14:40<grumpy>a fairly complete list of changes from MarkL's draft can be found at: http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss@v2.listbox.com/200411/0065.html
14:42<grumpy>other "controversial" subjects include: using TXT too much for the likes of the IETF folks (e.g. in examples),
14:42<grumpy>process limits
14:42<grumpy>(and how they need to be checked)
14:44<grumpy>unknown % escapes are syntax errors. (creating correct ABNF to support the previous semantics turned out to be a real pain)
14:44<grumpy>Unknown macro variables are syntax errors
14:59<Julian>Too bad we had to defer the meeting. grrr.
15:05<Julian_>Julian: Die!
15:35<Julian>csm: You just wrote on spf-discuss: "But the draft *IS* being worked on." -- In what way?
15:37<Julian>I'm not questioning that it is being worked on. I just think it would be good for the council to report on its activities if the community appears to have misconceptions.
15:41<csm>-----> #spf
17:06<Julian>csm: Please don't call it "SPF Leadership Council".
17:06<csm>what should I call it?
17:06<grumpy>yeah, I think we changed the name last meeting
17:06<grumpy>"SPF council"
17:06<Julian>"SPF Council", as agreed on?
17:07<csm>ah yes... so it shall be
17:07<grumpy>csm: can you get this PR out where google news and such can find it?
17:07<grumpy>prnewswire or similar?
17:08<csm>yes... I believe I can
17:08<grumpy>cool
17:08<csm>as it happens I am employed by one of the largest OSS companies in the world ;-)
17:09<grumpy>VOTING CLOSED AT 09:00 GMT TUESDAY 30th November 2004
17:09<grumpy>(see http://www.spfvote.idimo.com
17:09<grumpy>the vote wasn't certified until later, I don't remember that date
17:09<Julian>Let me see when the results were declared final.
17:12<Julian>Found it.
17:13<Julian>http://archives.listbox.com/spf-discuss@v2.listbox.com/200412/0062.html
17:13<Julian>That was 2004-12-02.
17:14<grumpy>for what it is worth, I'm going to try and get a new version of draft-schlitt-spf-* out today
17:14<csm>excellent
17:14<grumpy>I'm also going to try and draw up a list of differences between it and draft-200406 and draft-lentczner
17:14<Julian>grumpy: We actually need to discuss much of the changes since the last official draft.
17:15<Julian>grumpy: Yes, very good!
17:17<grumpy>I'm still going to say this is not the offical SPF I-D since the council has not said anything about that yet.

This report was generated at Sun Dec 19 23:59:01 UTC 2004.