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)

--- Sat Dec 18 13:08:27 UTC 2004 ---
13:08<Julian>csm: Why is it that you keep announcing the meetings for 20:00 UTC despite the fact that we originally agreed on 19:00 UTC? ;-)
13:09<csm>oh... well I just sent a correction... sorry
13:09<Julian>np. :))
13:09<csm>I just needed some sleep last night... I was beat... but now I've had 8 hours I'm good!
13:10<Julian>No problem, happens to everyone of us from time to time.
13:11<Julian>What about meeting earlier today? Wayne is going to leave way before 20:00 UTC, I think, so maybe we should meet at 18:00 UTC today?
13:13*Julian goes shopping. Will be back at ~14:00 UTC.
14:03<csm><csm> grumpy: what time do we need to meet today?
14:03<csm><csm> barring any communication back from him we will go ahead with the 1900 start time
14:11<Julian>Back.
14:37<grumpy>csm: 1900 is the best for me. thanks for asking
14:39<Julian>grumpy: I figured we might need a bit more than an hour for the meeting, so I proposed 18:00 UTC for today. When are you going to leave? 19:45?
14:40<grumpy>something like that
15:57<Julian>csm: When you write: "A transcript of the proceeding will be available within 2 days or so of the meeting's completion" -- what do you mean with "transcript"? The IRC log or the minutes?
16:35*Julian has just finished preparing for today's meeting.
16:40<freeside>what's on the agenda now?
16:44<Julian>See $topic
16:48<freeside>i'd like to defer the meeting to 1300UTC on Wednesday
16:48<Julian>csm, grumpy?
16:49<Julian>freeside: Why? Can't you make it today? Or are you swamped?
16:59<Julian_>(What's going on here??)
17:04<csm>1300 UTC on Wednesday is fine with me
17:04<csm>I had hoped we could do that anyway
17:05<Julian>Would those of you who ask for a deferral please explain your reasons? (I guess Meng is already AFK, though.)
17:06<Julian>It's not as if I would seriously object to deferring today's meeting, but I'd just like to know why.
17:07<csm>life... it's the holidays
17:07<Julian>So why is Wednesday better, then? :-)
17:08<Julian>(Just kidding.)
17:08<csm>Wednesday is a regular work day for me
17:08<csm>shopping is happening today
17:09<Julian>Well, can we at least wait 'til 19:00 UTC and formally delare the meeting deferred?
17:09<csm>I just bought a car and I've been to the haircut place... the oil change place... the video store... and have more to do
17:10<csm>I would actually like to propose that we either have a meeting on Wednesday or defer the next meeting all the way out to Jan 8
17:10<Julian>Or we could formally defer the meeting on the mailing list. But we should explicitly do it. So I suggest you formally second Meng's motion on the list.
17:10<Julian>Congrats to the new car, btw.
17:10<csm>it's an xmas present fo rmy wife
17:10<Julian>Jan 8? Uhh...
17:11<csm>next saturday is xmas... the saturday after that is new years day
17:11<Julian>As I said, I really think we should have one more meeting before 12-24.
17:11<csm>we don't make the salendar... we just have to live with it
17:11<csm>calendar
17:12<csm>well I am willing to meet on Wednesday
17:13<Julian>Please second Meng's proposal (he implied Wednesday was ok for him) on the list, the others (me included) can then vote "aye" (or "nay").
17:13<csm>check your mail
17:16<Julian>Ok. Although I just noticed I _might_ not be able to make 13:00 UTC. 14:00 might be better, but then you wouldn't really have to wait for me on the other hand...
17:17<csm>he-he
17:17<csm>well the holidays are going to be orugh
17:17<csm>rough
17:18<Julian>What about yet another meeting around 2004-12-29 or 2005-01-05? Would you be willing/able to do that?
17:22<Julian>More precisely, I'd suggest either Tue 2004-12-28 or 2005-01-04 (adjacent days would be ok, too).
17:25<csm>oye
17:25<csm>the 01-04 date I cannot answer
17:26<csm>this is an "uncaught" juggling ball on my schedule that *MAY* put me teaching in Pittsburgh that week... if so I would likely be unavailable
17:26<csm>it may, or may not, happen
17:27<Julian>I just think that 2004-12-22..2005-01-08 is a bit long for a break. What about the ~12-28 date?
17:27<freeside>sorry
17:27<freeside>i'm not going to be able to make it today because i'm TZ=+0800
17:28<Julian>freeside: Oh, ok.
17:28<freeside>tuesday, wednesday, thursday would all be ok with me
17:28<freeside>also noting that we haven't had as much discussion on the council list as we should
17:28<Julian>freeside, csm: Would 14:00..16:00 (instead of 13:00..15:00) on Wednesday be ok with you, too?
17:28<Julian>freeside: True.
17:28<freeside>yes, sure
17:29*freeside goes to bed
17:30<Julian>Too bad freeside's IRC client says he is TZ=-0500. :-)
18:20*grumpy pokes his head in
19:00<Julian>19:00 UTC.
19:05<MarkK>weren't we supposed to start an hour earlier today? (now, I mean)
19:09<Julian>MarkK: It's 19:00 now. Who authoritatively said 18:00?
19:09<Julian>Oh, you mean 19:00.
19:09<MarkK>yes
19:10<Julian>MarkK: Well, there's a proposal on the table to defer today's meeting to Wednesday, 13:00 UTC, but as far as I can see it has not passed yet.
19:10<MarkK>Has it been on spf-council list? I have not received any messages from it this week
19:11<Julian>Yes, it is on the list.
19:11<Julian>Weird, perhaps you have accidentally been unsubscribed?
19:11<MarkK>odd; the last message I have dates tuesday 14
19:12<Julian>MarkK: http://moongroup.com/pipermail/spf-council/2004-December/000061.html
19:13<MarkK>I already email csm about a timeout error on his callback method
19:14<MarkK>1300 UTC is 5 AM
19:14<Julian>Yeah, I was having problems with smtp://server1.moongroup.com, too.
19:14<Julian>5 AM in what timezone?
19:14<MarkK>yep, server1.moongroup.com
19:14<MarkK>GMT + 1
19:15<Julian>No. 13:00 UTC is 14:00 CET (+0100).
19:16<MarkK>Oh, lol; duh; right; like 1900 UTC is now. :)
19:17<Julian>Why can't we just arrange the meeting dates at least a day in advance? *sigh*
19:18<MarkK>thanks for wiki info, btw; I plan to upload things soon (like a full sendmail-response paper)
19:18*grumpy pokes his head in again
19:19<grumpy>MarkK: csm mumbled something about your mail server being down
19:20<Julian>MarkK: For controversial stuff, I suggest having it discussed first before uploading it to the wiki.
19:20<MarkK>grumpy: No; I get hundreds of these in my log:
19:20<MarkK>Dec 18 06:31:03 asarian-host sendmail[88750]: iBI5V1BJ088748: to=<spf-private@moongroup.com>, ctladdr=<admin@asarian-host.net> (1074/1074), delay=00:00:02, xdelay=00:00:02, mailer=esmtp, pri=31811, relay=server1.moongroup.com. [204.157.7.157], dsn=4.2.0, stat=Deferred: 450 <SRS0=cqkkHYjg=PC=asarian-host.net=admin@asarian-host.net>: Sender address rejected: u...livery temporarily suspended: connect to mail.asarian-host.net[194.109.160.70]: Connectio
19:21<MarkK>Clearly his server connects to mine; but something seems amiss on his callback.
19:21<MarkK>grumpy: can you send me a quick email? just for test
19:22<MarkK>Julian: of course
19:23<grumpy>Hmmm...
19:23*grumpy discovers he doesn't have MarkK's email address
19:23<grumpy>do you use admin@...
19:23<MarkK>admin@asarian-host.net
19:23<grumpy>ok
19:24<grumpy>sent
19:25<MarkK>got it; and sent reply
19:26<grumpy>got it
19:26<grumpy>I don't do any callbacks, and it appears that you don't do callbacks either
19:27<MarkK>no, I don't
19:27<MarkK>I use SRS. :) No callback required
19:30<MarkK>so, I take it we are not now officially in sesssion then?
19:30<grumpy>apparently not
19:30<grumpy>life would be a lot easier if there was only one timezone...
19:30<grumpy>;-)
19:31<Julian>Life would be a lot easier if people actually stated a day in advance they can't make their meetings. :-|
19:31<grumpy>that too
19:32<MarkK>life would be a lot easier if received mail from the council list :)
19:32*grumpy agrees
19:33<grumpy>Oh, and speaking of agreable, while I can make it to 13:00UTC meetings, I may not have coffee yet so I will likely be grumpier than normal.
19:33<grumpy>be warned.
19:33<grumpy>;-)
19:33<Julian>Well, I'd prefer 14:00 UTC even.
19:33<MarkK>perhaps csm makes a callback with a diffeent IP address? Because, clearly, as my log entry showed, my server does connect with his, and vice versa; it just times out on the callback, it seems
19:34<MarkK>3 PM? sounds good to me
19:34<MarkK>15.00 GMT+1
19:34<grumpy>hey, here is an idea: We should all put our acceptable meeting times on the wiki
19:34<Julian>grumpy: Meng already published his calendar.
19:35<grumpy>Yeah, but it isn't clear what those times are and when he would be willing to do meetings
19:35<Julian>I doubt he'd be willing to manually transfer his schedule from there to the wiki.
19:36<grumpy>There just has to be a solution to this that involves perl, SOAP, c++ and .net
19:36<MarkK>:)
19:37<Julian>That depends on what data format that calendar can export.
19:37<Julian>(Discussion moved to #spf.)

This report was generated at Sun Dec 19 06:00:01 UTC 2004.