RE: Last Call: Tags for the Identification of Languages to BCP

2000-10-20 Thread Kurt D. Zeilenga
I think the real issue here is whether or not the I-D describes a practice or is a technical specification. In my option, it is a technical specification of syntax and semantics of tags used to indicate language information in protocols (HTTP, LDAP, others), documents, and elsewhere. I believe t

RE: Last Call: Tags for the Identification of Languages to BCP

2000-10-20 Thread Kurt D. Zeilenga
At 03:12 PM 10/20/00 -0700, Dan Kohn wrote: >This is the normal way standards progress through maturity, as otherwise >issuing any new RFC would require dozens or hundreds of other RFCs to be >simultaneously reissued. It would be normal if the RFC 1766 was being replaced by a standard track docum

RE: Last Call: Tags for the Identification of Languages to BCP

2000-10-20 Thread Dan Kohn
As you can see from Appendix B, all of the changes are backward compatible, and so you would treat all references to RFC 1766 as referencing the new specification instead. This is the normal way standards progress through maturity, as otherwise issuing any new RFC would require dozens or hundreds

Re: Usable Video from Meetings (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-20 Thread Ross Finlayson
At 11:37 PM 10/19/00, Harald Alvestrand wrote: >my anarchistic self wonders >what would happen if there was an open server that would allow (filtered) >MBONE tunnels to connect, and a widely available (Linux?) client that >would connect to that server, and behave like a multicast router? > >

Re: remote participation

2000-10-20 Thread Grenville Armitage
"James P. Salsman" wrote: [..] > It may seem like tilting at windmills, but this topic is a rich > source of hard unsolved engineering problems. Not all unsolved problems need solving. Perhaps it would be useful to quantify the real harm suffered by the IETF due to the attendance requir

Re: Last Call: Tags for the Identification of Languages to BCP

2000-10-20 Thread Kurt D. Zeilenga
At 10:23 AM 10/20/00 -0400, The IESG wrote: >The IESG has received a request to consider Tags for the Identification >of Languages as a BCP. This has >been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working >Group. > >This document will obsolete RFC1766, currently a Proposed Standard

Re: Usable Video from Meetings (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
Harald Alvestrand wrote: > what would happen if there was an open server that would allow (filtered) > MBONE tunnels to connect, and a widely available (Linux?) client that would > connect to that server, and behave like a multicast router? > It's been done. I've implemented such in various real

Re: Suggestion

2000-10-20 Thread adurch
David Mitton writes: > What I do object to is backhanded Microsoft bashing. > Let me try the same tune with different lyrics: The Cisco Kid was a friend of mine He drink whiskey Pancho drink the wine We met down on the border Rio Grande Eat the salty peanuts out de can The outlaws had us pinned

Re: remote participation

2000-10-20 Thread ned . freed
> > The IESG of managing and assisting Working Groups > > is one of the most important tasks IESG members perform, > > and it cannot be done effectively from a remote location. > I'm interested in the specific reasons why this is the case. There are so many it is difficult to know where to start

Re: remote participation

2000-10-20 Thread James P. Salsman
Ned, Thanks for your reply: > The IESG of managing and assisting Working Groups > is one of the most important tasks IESG members perform, > and it cannot be done effectively from a remote location. I'm interested in the specific reasons why this is the case. You listed one: > additional a

Re: Usable Video from Meetings (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-20 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harald Alvestrand typ ed: >>MBONE tunnels to connect, and a widely available (Linux?) client that would >>connect to that server, and behave like a multicast router? >>"start this program on a spare PC, and you too can watch the IETF multicast". we have refl

Re: Usable Video from Meetings (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
At 08:25 19/10/2000 -0400, Daniel Senie wrote: >I wonder if we have any statistics available on how many people actually >tune in to the multicast sessions? Many network providers are presently >unable or unwilling to allow multicast into their networks. Last I >asked, this included ATT Broadband/