emv@ox.com (Ed Vielmetti) (04/15/91)
whereas, in the past two weeks there has been discussion of the point to point protocol in roughly 47 articles; this discussion has been scattered in amongst 27 different and sundry newsgroups; there is no currently existing newsgroup which has in its charter a focus on serial communications for internet protocols; it is difficult to follow progress in implementations, interoperability, and product availability when the discussion is all over the net; further that very few people are willing to read every newsgroup just to find this out; that I am growing weary of fishing through misspellings of "oppportunity" and random uuencoded garbage and specmark results for "fpppp" to try to find them; hereby be it resolved: that comp.dcom.modems and comp.dcom.lans be considered the newsgroups of choice for discussion of the Point to Point Protocol (PPP); that articles discussing this protocol be prominently marked Subject: PPP: ........ in the headers; that a registry of all PPP implementations, both synchronous and asynchronous, free and commercial, past, present and future, be collected and propogated throughout the community; that the faults of these implementations be damned, their qualities be praised, and their price be haggled over; that vendors considering proprietary serial protocols be hit upside the head with a wet fish and informed of the error of their ways; that the efforts of PPP standardization being done in the internet engineering task force (ietf) community be made widely known and sped upon their way; that serious consideration be made to starting an entire newsgroup devoted to PPP, with an appropriate name; further that all relevant non-usenet mailing lists be identified and informed of the same consideration; that this be considered a call for discussion for this group, with a name "comp.protocols.ppp", and be accompanied by the traditional usenet weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth to foretell its utility; that aforementioned weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth transpire in news.groups as tradition decrees. In witness thereof, -- Msen Edward Vielmetti /|--- moderator, comp.archives emv@msen.com "With all of the attention and publicity focused on gigabit networks, not much notice has been given to small and largely unfunded research efforts which are studying innovative approaches for dealing with technical issues within the constraints of economic science." RFC 1216