Re: WG+BOF chatrooms

2005-03-02 Thread Aaron Falk
Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > FYI, I have just set up chatrooms at ietf.xmpp.org for all the BOFs > which are currently listed on the IETF 62 agenda page: Peter- Many thanks! Can you confirm that users will be able to set the "Subject:" in the chatrooms? On teleconferences I've found that very use

WG+BOF chatrooms

2005-03-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
FYI, I have just set up chatrooms at ietf.xmpp.org for all the BOFs which are currently listed on the IETF 62 agenda page: 6LOWPAN AUTOCONF BTNS CALSIFY ICOS NTP SHIM6 SLRRP TC TRILL Also, I've created rooms for existing WGs whose chatrooms had never been created (HIP, MIPSHOP, BFD, and ECRIT).

Re: indication of internet-draft status

2005-03-02 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, March 02, 2005 06:51:59 PM -0500 Keith Moore wrote: Which way of keeping the status should the Tools team use in the requirements for the tools it is specifying? "2. Metadata kept separately" Good grief. You managed to say basically the same things as me, but more clearly and in

Re: indication of internet-draft status

2005-03-02 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, March 02, 2005 06:39:24 PM -0500 stanislav shalunov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Context: The IETF Tools team works on requirements for various automated tools for the IETF. Many of the tools have to deal with internet-drafts; in these cases, the information whether an internet-draf

Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-02 Thread Keith Moore
> For > example, I don't know how many times I gave essentially the same > lecture to people who wanted so very much to believe that domains > registered in .country were actually IN that country. ah, a very good example. it's like saying that a car with a license plate from is IN that state or

Re: indication of internet-draft status

2005-03-02 Thread Keith Moore
> Which way of > keeping the status should the Tools team use in the requirements for > the tools it is specifying? "2. Metadata kept separately" a) it's often desirable and occasionally necessary to allow drafts to change from individual to wg and vice versa (or for that matter from one wg to an

indication of internet-draft status

2005-03-02 Thread stanislav shalunov
Context: The IETF Tools team works on requirements for various automated tools for the IETF. Many of the tools have to deal with internet-drafts; in these cases, the information whether an internet-draft is a working group draft or a personal draft is important. The mechanism by which such inform

Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-02 Thread Greg Skinner
On Wed, Mar 02, 2005 at 02:49:17PM +, Paul Vixie wrote: > > The IAB is ready to ask the RFC-Editor to publish > > > > What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names > > draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02 > > > > as an Informational RFC. [...] > i think this doc

Re: Please review updated 1id-guidelines

2005-03-02 Thread Alia Atlas
One thing that I would have found very useful when I first starting writing drafts would be a pointer to tools to actually format documents appropriately. This could be a pointer to the xml2rfc information (with associated RFC), to tools for nroff, etc., but it would be very helpful to tell po

Re: Last Call: 'Message Submission' to Draft Standard

2005-03-02 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-02-22 08:35 > From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sorry for the delay in responding; I've been preoccupied with other matters. > The observation that a number of > implementers and ISPs/mail service vendors have chosen to adopt > the "Submit" model speaks far more loudly than

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARIDback from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Keith Moore
> I haven't gone through all of the e-mails, > but at least I'd like to register an opinion. > > I think the cut-off policies need to be changed. > > Here are some reasons: > - There are many revisions of working-group drafts > posted to private websites after the cutoff > - I have had drafts m

Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-02 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-03-02 09:49 > From: Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > The IAB is ready to ask the RFC-Editor to publish > > > > Â Â Â Â Â What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names > > Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â Â draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02 > > > > as an Informational RFC. ÂThis document rev

Re: Please review updated 1id-guidelines

2005-03-02 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-03-02 07:59 > From: Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Bruce, > > Â> It's unclear what the status of the document is intended to be. > Â> I suspect it should probably be a BCP RFC. > > At the risk of flamage, IMHO it shouldn't. I think we need more > flexibility in operationa

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Bob Hinden
At this point, less than one week before the meeting, only 14 WGs (not counting BOFs) have agendas posted. I'm at a loss for a suitable adjective. You might start by asking the secretariat why all the agendas which have been submitted haven't been posted... I know of two working groups which h

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARIDback from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Charles E.Perkins
Hello folks, I haven't gone through all of the e-mails, but at least I'd like to register an opinion. I think the cut-off policies need to be changed. Here are some reasons: - There are many revisions of working-group drafts posted to private websites after the cutoff - I have had drafts miss

Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-02 Thread Keith Moore
> i think this document is just silly. and highly subjective. there is > no way to edit it to correct its problems -- it should just quietly > die. IAB should preserve its relevance and integrity by limiting its > focus to objective technical matters (such as the excellent work on > wildcards bac

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-03-02 Thread Frank Ellermann
Hi, maybe some typos or cases of DEnglish on my side: | A draft which identifier (a.k.a. filename) is known and | starts with "draft-ietf-". s/which identifier/identifier which/ or s/which/whose/ (?) | documents, Secretariat does not accept s/, Secretariat/, the secretariat/ AFAIK there is or

Re: Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-02 Thread Dave Crocker
>  Working groups have a charter, which I think should be viewed as a contract >  for what the working group will work on / develop. yup. in fact, the language you use is commonly used to describe the charter and to justify being so forceful in making it clear and plausible. > When a working

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-03-02 Thread Bruce Lilly
The IESG Secretary announced, via the IETF-Announce list: > The IESG has received a request from the TOOLS team to consider the > following document: > > - 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset ' > as an Informational RFC > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks,

New ground transportation option in Minneapolis

2005-03-02 Thread Ólafur Guðmundsson
The good news: Last December Minneapolis started a Light Rail Service between downtown and Mall of America with a stop at the airport. The ride costs $1.25 each way and the trains seem to be running every 10 minutes during the weekend and more frequently during the week. The bad news: The closest s

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID

2005-03-02 Thread John Loughney
back from the grave?) Cc: Spencer Dawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, IETF Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Well, it is a mess. I couldn't even start making a wg schedule, as my wg wasn't scheduled until yesterday. I even sent my reuest for a

Re: Fw: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02.txt

2005-03-02 Thread Paul Vixie
> The IAB is ready to ask the RFC-Editor to publish > > What's in a Name: False Assumptions about DNS Names > draft-iab-dns-assumptions-02 > > as an Informational RFC. This document reviews the potential > assumptions that may be made based on domain names, as wel

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Perkins
On 2 Mar 2005, at 12:39, Margaret Wasserman wrote: I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before discussing them at face-to-face meetings, and thought that considering drafts submitted this mo

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
My LORD, it's like I read Margaret's mind... I hadn't seen this post when I sent my own whine to the list! Spencer I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before discussing them at face-to-fa

Just one last whine before IETF 62

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Since I was looking at 2418 again last night, I happened to wonder about 7.1. Session documents (deleted down to) The final session agenda should be posted to the working group mailing list at least two weeks before the session and sent at that time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for publication on th

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? ...

2005-03-02 Thread Scott Bradner
> At this point, less than one week before the meeting, only 14 WGs > (not counting BOFs) have agendas posted. humm - maybe there is another explanation for part of that I sent an agenda (including ID names) in almost a month ago but its not on the WG & BOF agenda page forwarded messa

Re: Please review updated 1id-guidelines

2005-03-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bruce, > It's unclear what the status of the document is intended to be. > I suspect it should probably be a BCP RFC. At the risk of flamage, IMHO it shouldn't. I think we need more flexibility in operational procedures than we can get from the BCP mechanism. Asking for community input, and posting

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Margaret Wasserman
I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before discussing them at face-to-face meetings, and thought that considering drafts submitted this morning didn't give working groups enough time to do

What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
now that we know that the secretariat keeps track of drafts that claim to obsolete another draft, we could make this Real Simple: drafts that say they obsolete another draft get the later deadline. Harald (who won't have to decide that) That would only work if it was "s