Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Florian Weimer
* Bernard Aboba: My question is more why do they need EAP in situations where they are not running at the link layer than why do they want or not want PANA. The simple answer is that there are situations which IEEE 802.1X cannot handle on wired networks. As specified, IEEE 802.1X is

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Bernard Aboba
Isn't this just a don't do that, then scenario? Plugging in a hub tends to undermine much of the accountability 802.1X is supposed to provide. Sure, except that the cost of don't do that is rather high -- a switch port for every host. Anyway, 802.1X is terminally broken because end users

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Stewart Bryant
Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/26/06, Geoff Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delving down a bit here, I suspect that, as always, the longstanding issue here is the actual level of 'independence of the RFC Editor, and the potential for a player to perform an end run around the IETF Internet

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?,

2006-05-30 Thread Subir Das
I have been trying to post the following message last few days but failed. Another try.. Subir Das wrote: I have read both PANA protocol and PANA framework drafts. I understand the concept and it is an useful protocol to me. In particular, EAP over IP is necessary, IMO, and my understanding is

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Yoshihiro Ohba
Hi Joel, Reading the entire thread, I think we should seriously consider your detailed suggestions to improve the PANA framework draft for broader acceptance in the community. Thank you, Yoshihiro Ohba On Tue, May 30, 2006 at 09:42:25AM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I think the confusion and

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think the confusion and complexity that I perceive comes from the fact that the framework problem treats all the tasks (user authentication, network selection, and securing the network connection as being of the same significance or same relationship to the solution. I think that most of

RE: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Gray, Eric
Lucy, Thanks! -- E -- -Original Message- -- From: Lucy E. Lynch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 2:31 PM -- To: Gray, Eric -- Cc: Narayanan, Vidya; Sam Hartman; Bernard Aboba; ietf@ietf.org -- Subject: RE: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually

RE: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Gray, Eric
Sam, Thanks! -- E -- -Original Message- -- From: Sam Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Sent: Friday, May 26, 2006 5:20 PM -- To: Gray, Eric -- Cc: Narayanan, Vidya; Bernard Aboba; ietf@ietf.org -- Subject: Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful? -- --

RE: Last Call: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting Calendar

2006-05-30 Thread Yaakov Stein
Our findings of the schedule of other organization's meetings can be found at: http://www.ietf.org/meetings/events.cal.html . Regarding the ITU-T meetings, would it be possible to specify the SG involved rather than cryptically notating ITU-T. I think that the only SGs of interest to many

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yoshihiro Ohba wrote: Hi Joel, Reading the entire thread, I think we should seriously consider your detailed suggestions to improve the PANA framework draft for broader acceptance in the community. Which is strong hint that this discussion now belongs on the PANA mailing list. Brian

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Eliot Lear
Sam, However there needs to be a way for a member of this community--whatever it is--to make a proposal, to get enough support, and to have that proposal be adopted. I.E. it is fine if the IAB of whomever can do a lot of things on their own. However the community needs the ability to

Re: Last Call: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting Calendar

2006-05-30 Thread Scott W Brim
On 05/30/2006 12:17 PM, Yaakov Stein allegedly wrote: I also don't imagine that there are that many co-participants of SG4 and IETF. Well, we have at least one SG4 rapporteur who is pretty active. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

RE: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Gray, Eric
Eliot, I am not sure where the disagreement between what you're saying and what Sam said earlier is - unless you're saying that it is not necessary for the IETF to have an over-ride ability on specific issues. It would be nice if the IETF had a direct appeal to the community

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Look at draft-ietf-newtrk-docid-00.txt This isn't really a chartering issue, IMHO. Brian Stewart Bryant wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/26/06, Geoff Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delving down a bit here, I suspect that, as always, the longstanding issue here is the actual level

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Eliot Lear
As always, Eric, my concern is that we can overprocess things. In New Jersey, where I come from, this usually involves hair. In standards bodies it involves rules. Even the doc I put out about obsoleting well known ports concerns me a little about adding process. Eliot

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Michael StJohns
I'm in complete agreement with Eliot (but that may be off point for the general topic). In recent years the IETF has been struck by a particularly virulent form of back seat driver syndrome which has not only caused the community to believe they should second guess all possible decisions, but

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Scott Bradner
this summary is right on E.g. the IAB should keep its hands off the independent submission process at least with this channel so is the rest of Mike's message Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

IETF-SDO liaison (was Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?)

2006-05-30 Thread Vijay Devarapalli
Avi Lior wrote: The statement regaring GEE and PANA was not made by me but rather by your company! In order to sway support towards EAP over HRPD, Qualcom made statements that PANA was dead at the IETF and that GEE will be standardize at the IETF. perhaps the IETF should have been consulted

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Geoff Huston
This isn't really a chartering issue, IMHO. I must strongly disagree here Brian - irrespective of any details of implementation, the level of independence and discretion granted to the RFC Editor to edit and publish documents that are not the outcome of the IETF's peer review process is, I

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Scott Bradner
the level of independence and discretion granted to the RFC Editor to edit and publish documents that are not the outcome of the IETF's peer review process is, I believe, a central matter in any version of an RFC Editor Charter. how could be any other way? Scott

RE: IETF-SDO liaison (was Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?)

2006-05-30 Thread Avi Lior
I think it is our collective responsiblity not to make false claims when moving our agenda forward. This is true with any group. Liaison should not be used for fact checking. This will create extra-ordinary work for them. They have better things to do. -Original Message- From:

Re: IETF-SDO liaison (was Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?)

2006-05-30 Thread Thomas Narten
I think it is our collective responsiblity not to make false claims when moving our agenda forward. This is true with any group. Very much in agreement. Liaison should not be used for fact checking. Speaking as a liaison, this sort of fact checking (what is the real status of WG X or

Re: IETF-SDO liaison

2006-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I suggest that people interested in this topic have a look at draft-iab-liaison-guidelines-03.txt and send comments to its author. Brian Thomas Narten wrote: I think it is our collective responsiblity not to make false claims when moving our agenda forward. This is true with any group.

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 31 May, 2006 05:02 +1000 Geoff Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This isn't really a chartering issue, IMHO. I must strongly disagree here Brian - irrespective of any details of implementation, the level of independence and discretion granted to the RFC Editor to edit and

Document Action: 'Experimental Procedure for Long Term Suspensions from Mailing Lists' to Experimental RFC

2006-05-30 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Experimental Procedure for Long Term Suspensions from Mailing Lists ' draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-03.txt as an Experimental RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. It falls under

Document Action: 'The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DSR)' to Experimental RFC

2006-05-30 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The Dynamic Source Routing Protocol for Mobile Ad Hoc Networks (DSR) ' draft-ietf-manet-dsr-10.txt as an Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Bill Fenner and

Last Call: 'Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-idr-restart)

2006-05-30 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Inter-Domain Routing WG to consider the following document: - 'Graceful Restart Mechanism for BGP ' draft-ietf-idr-restart-11.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this

WG Action: RECHARTER: Mobility for IP: Performance, Signaling and Handoff Optimization (mipshop)

2006-05-30 Thread IESG Secretary
The Mobility for IP: Performance, Signaling and Handoff Optimization (mipshop) working group in the Internet Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. +++ Mobility for IP: Performance, Signaling and

RFC 4485 on Guidelines for Authors of Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP)

2006-05-30 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4485 Title: Guidelines for Authors of Extensions to the Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Author: J. Rosenberg, H. Schulzrinne Status:

RFC 4483 on A Mechanism for Content Indirection in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Messages

2006-05-30 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4483 Title: A Mechanism for Content Indirection in Session Initiation Protocol (SIP) Messages Author: E. Burger, Ed. Status: Standards Track