Re: What's an experiment?

2006-02-17 Thread Eliot Lear
Christian Huitema wrote: For the IETF, there is a tension between two goals: protocols that are reviewed and documented, so there can be multiple implementations; and protocols that have a high quality so they run very well on the Internet. If the IETF focuses a lot on quality and makes it too

Re: What's an experiment?

2006-02-17 Thread Joe Baptista
Peter Dambier wrote: Still they have nameservers and they happily communicate with each other without ICANN even nowing about their existence. Out of touch with reality. regards joe Cheers Peter and Karin At 16:06 15/02/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: When considering some recent

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:14, Tom.Petch wrote: Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that when applied to a sequence of numbers, then each number is not less than its predecessor, so that That's non-decreasing. As far as I've ever heard (math classes as

'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Tom.Petch
The phrase 'monotonic increasing' seems to be a Humpty-Dumpty one, used with a different sense within RFC to that which I see defined elsewhere; and this could lead to a reduction in security. Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that when applied to a

Re: IESG Statement on disruptive posting

2006-02-17 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:35 17/02/2006, IETF Chair wrote: The IESG today makes the following statement, but will welcome community feedback on it. Dear Brian, Comments embedded. According to RFC 2418 as updated by RFC 3934, WG chairs have the power to suspend disruptive posters on WG mailing lists for periods

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Frank Ellermann
Ken Raeburn wrote: I'd be surprised to see sources for the other usage. A Dictionary of mathematics offers both definitions, first what you found f(x) f(y) for x y. Followed by the other definition f(x) = f(y), where the first case would be called strictly monotone. I vaguely recall that

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Hi Ken, on 2006-02-17 18:46 Ken Raeburn said the following: On Feb 17, 2006, at 11:14, Tom.Petch wrote: Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that when applied to a sequence of numbers, then each number is not less than its predecessor, so that

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Tom.Petch wrote: The phrase 'monotonic increasing' seems to be a Humpty-Dumpty one, used with a different sense within RFC to that which I see defined elsewhere; and this could lead to a reduction in security. Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that

Re: IESG Statement on disruptive posting

2006-02-17 Thread Sam Hartman
JFC == JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JFC I understand the lack of definition of the Area. I suggest JFC that decisions name the consulted Area Director. This JFC decision is not complete. It should define who are to be on JFC the appeal cycle. I actually think

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Tom.Petch
Elwyn To be more concrete, I have some 1800 RFC readily available and find monotonic in 54 of them from RFC677 (1975) to RFC4303. Plucking a few at random, RFC3412 (SNMP) suggests that monotonic increasing would avoid reuse while RFC2406 (IPsec) suggests monotonic increasing can be used in the

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: A Dictionary of mathematics offers both definitions, first what you found f(x) f(y) for x y. Followed by the other definition f(x) = f(y), where the first case would be called strictly monotone. I vaguely recall that strict (in the German

Re: Last Call: 'Accommodating an MTU/MRU greater than 1492 in PPPoE' to Informational RFC

2006-02-17 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 16 Feb 2006, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions WG to consider the following document: - 'Accommodating an MTU/MRU greater than 1492 in PPPoE ' draft-arberg-pppoe-mtu-gt1492-02.txt as an Informational RFC I think this is

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hmm! I don't think I see your problem with any of the usages in the RFCs mentioned. In all cases monotonically is used to express that the sequence is non-decreasing which is in line both with the mathematical definition and the Merriam-Webster online dictionary #2 sense. In some of the cases

Re: [Pppext] Re: Last Call: 'Accommodating an MTU/MRU greater than 1492 in PPPoE' to Informational RFC

2006-02-17 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, James Carlson wrote: Pekka Savola writes: This doc seems to define a PPPoE option 'PPP-Max-Payload'. It talks of using PPP MRU option. There is no PPP MTU option that I could see. My question here is, should there be a PPP MTU option instead of a PPPoE option? This

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Tom.Petch
I agree that there is no clear cut case where security will be compromised, but as long as RFC eg RFC1510 (kerberos) tie the concept of nonce to a monotonic increasing sequence, I think the risk is there and could easily be avoided if we started using the term 'strictly increasing' instead. Of

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Ken Raeburn
Huh. You learn somethin' new every day... On Feb 17, 2006, at 16:06, Tom.Petch wrote: I agree that there is no clear cut case where security will be compromised, but as long as RFC eg RFC1510 (kerberos) tie the concept of nonce to a monotonic increasing sequence, I think the risk is there

Re: IESG Statement on disruptive posting

2006-02-17 Thread Sam Hartman
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Re: IESG Statement on disruptive posting

2006-02-17 Thread Sam Hartman
Jefsey == Jefsey Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Jefsey At 03:19 18/02/2006, Sam Hartman wrote: I think we disagree significantly on the level of formality needed here. Jefsey yes. But I know future will turn me right Jefsey unfortunately. You cannot fight disruption

IETF Server Migration รข Part 2.

2006-02-17 Thread IETF Secretariat
Hi All, NeuStar Secretariat Services will be migrating the IETF to new servers in accordance with the schedule below. All work will be done on the weekends to minimize disruptions, but there are periods when services will be down. As the second part of the IETF server migration, we will be

Internet-Drafts Submission Cutoff Dates for the 65th IETF Meeting in Dallas, TX, USA

2006-02-17 Thread ietf-secretariat
There are two (2) Internet-Draft cutoff dates for the 65th IETF Meeting in Dallas, TX, USA: February 27th: Cutoff Date for Initial (i.e., version -00) Internet-Draft Submissions All initial Internet-Drafts (version -00) must be submitted by Monday, February 27th at 9:00 AM ET. As always,

IESG Statement on disruptive posting

2006-02-17 Thread IETF Chair
The IESG today makes the following statement, but will welcome community feedback on it. According to RFC 2418 as updated by RFC 3934, WG chairs have the power to suspend disruptive posters on WG mailing lists for periods of 30 days. However, this power is not documented for the moderators or

Last Call: 'TLS User Mapping Extension' to Proposed Standard

2006-02-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'TLS User Mapping Extension' draft-santesson-tls-ume-02.txt as a Proposed Standard The TLS User Mapping extension enables a client to send a name hint to a server during a TLS handshake,

Last Call: 'Framework and Security Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)-List Services' to Proposed Standard

2006-02-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Session Initiation Proposal Investigation WG to consider the following document: - 'Framework and Security Considerations for Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Uniform Resource Identifier (URI)-List Services ' draft-ietf-sipping-uri-services-05.txt

RFC 4349 on High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Frames over Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol, Version 3 (L2TPv3)

2006-02-17 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4349 Title: High-Level Data Link Control (HDLC) Frames over Layer 2 Tunneling Protocol, Version 3 (L2TPv3) Author: C. Pignataro, M.

RFC 4291 on IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture

2006-02-17 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4291 Title: IP Version 6 Addressing Architecture Author: R. Hinden, S. Deering Status: Standards Track Date: February 2006 Mailbox:[EMAIL

RFC 4396 on RTP Payload Format for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Timed Text

2006-02-17 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4396 Title: RTP Payload Format for 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) Timed Text Author: J. Rey, Y. Matsui Status: Standards Track