Elliot - Then you leave it up to the party providing the service and open the IETF to all kinds of trouble... By the way Elliot do you think your sponsor, Cisco and their Legal department would let Cisco negotiate a contract like that? Just curious But hey - Maybe - try something like this: 1) as part of the Document Publishing function, "RFC Editors"will operate document distribution, access, and delivery services on the Internet; these services to be provided in compliance with the agreed upon terms and conditions as defined in this Service Level Agreement. These services are to be available to any and all and as a minimum the following servers/protocol's are necessary: o- http for Web based Browsing and BOT based recovery o- ftp for ftp, wget, curl clients implementing a bare set of FTP Services o- rsync or mirror protocols for site-mirroring and selective recovery of changes to the portfolio offered in the Document Publication Server site(s). o- Email based Document Notification and Recovery [Comment: Protocols to be served, and their available bandwidth's and availability/fail-over's would all have to be in compliance with an SLA to be negotiated with the ISOC/Secretariat in the awarding of the service agreement. This SLA should be disclosed as well to the Body of the Membership of the IETF at the completion of the negotiations as well as part of the Open and Fair part of the managing of the IETF.] 2) An official IETF RFC Editor Mirror Program is to be established allowing Mirrors to formally register with the RFC Editors and to provide 'a formalized agreement to mirror the IETF media suite in one or more of its publication forms'. Officially sanctioned sites must agree to the IETF's SLA for 'Operating an Official IETF Mirror Site' which gives the IETF tremendous control on those sites formalized as official mirrors who mirror its content. Official Mirrors of the Master Document Archive will be made over secure channels and as such will require formal registration and management of the accounts. [Comment: Hey SOB - this is the document I was referring to - the plan for how an 'official mirror' is created and what its operating requirements are. The magic here is that any number of the VENDORS may want to operate their own commercial mirrors and that also could be a source of revenue for the TRUST - either way some SLA is needed.] T ----- Original Message ----- From: "Eliot Lear" <lear@xxxxxxxxx> To: "Henrik Levkowetz" <henrik@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: <iad@xxxxxxxx>; <iab@xxxxxxxx>; <ietf@xxxxxxxx>; <iaoc@xxxxxxxx>; <paul.hoffman@xxxxxxxx>; "Bob Braden" <braden@xxxxxxx>; <iesg@xxxxxxxx> Sent: Saturday, July 22, 2006 12:21 AM Subject: Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request > Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > > So how would you specify the requirement to provide rsync > > functionality in the SOW? > > > > > > I would think you would say something like, "The RFC Editor shall make > available an archive of RFCs in ways most convenient to both active > participants and casual observers" and leave it at that. > > _______________________________________________ > Ietf mailing list > Ietf@xxxxxxxx > https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf