RE: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 Thread Glen Zorn
Keith Moore [mailto://mo...@network-heretics.com] writes: On Oct 29, 2010, at 12:36 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: In-person meeting time is used regularly for powerpoints rather than discussion. +1. The single biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in meetings is to

Re: No single problem... (was Re: what is the problem bis)

2010-10-30 Thread John C Klensin
Ted, I agree with almost everything you say, but want to focus on one issue (inline below). --On Friday, October 29, 2010 16:15 -0700 Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com wrote: ... As we stare down this rathole one more time, let's at least be certain that there is more than one rat down there,

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-10-30 Thread John C Klensin
A few quick observations... --On Friday, October 29, 2010 13:20 -0700 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: ... While my instinct is that RFC publication would be desirable, if that didn't seem workable we could move the idea a bit closer to the Snapshot idea by posting the document in the I-D series

Re: Alternate entry document model

2010-10-30 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 10/30/2010 10:39 AM, John C Klensin wrote: If that were to be the case, discussion of maturity levels is basically a waste of time. I think it is. The general public perceives RFCs as RFCs, not equally weighty, but NOT ACCORDING TO ANY FORMAL CRITERIA. We might as well get used to that.

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 30, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: The second biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in meetings is to ban Internet use in meetings except for the purpose of remote participation. Harder to do not clearly an improvement: it clear out meeting rooms a bit, but on

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 Thread Joel Jaeggli
This discussion has a periodicy about 6 months. The premise is asinine, we can't go back to the early to mid 90s. Joel's widget number 2 On Oct 30, 2010, at 7:34, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On Oct 30, 2010, at 4:01 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: The second biggest thing that IETF

Re: No single problem... (was Re: what is the problem bis)

2010-10-30 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
I don't think it's resistance to changing a process that we are not following - I think it's which part of the process we think isn't working, or which part is IMPORTANT that isn't working. Going from three steps of which only one step is used, to two steps of which only one step will be

Re: No single problem... (was Re: what is the problem bis)

2010-10-30 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
Hi Ted, I was with your statements all the way to this: Russ's draft tries to do two things: Restore the 2026 rules for Proposed as the functionally in-use bar for the first rung. ... What makes you say that? I read the draft and I don't see it doing that, really. I know it says: The

Re: secdir review of draft-ietf-simple-msrp-sessmatch

2010-10-30 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Oct 14, 2010, at 4:27 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: 3) The backwards comparability issue seems huge. Some people have said an endpoint using this draft will not talk with one that only does 4975. Yet if this draft if published as an RFC would basically depreciate the 4975 and replace it

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-10-30 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: If all of those things are right and we're actually trying to solve them all, then it seems to me that the answer is indeed to move to _n_ maturity levels of RFC, where _n_ 3 (I propose 1), but that we introduce some new document series

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 30, 2010, at 10:01 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: The second biggest thing that IETF could do to raise productivity in meetings is to ban Internet use in meetings except for the purpose of remote participation. Harder to do not clearly an improvement: it clear out meeting rooms a bit, but

Re: Alternate entry document model

2010-10-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think that there are some issues that are not being mentioned, but which are important. In general, there is the issue of impact. This takes many forms. But the underlying effect is taht protocols which get widely deployed can have distinctly negative impact on the net. Thus, for many

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-30 Thread Joel Jaeggli
The waist of the hourglass doesn't need that much work... and in fact a mature system like the internet seems to quite successfully resist change there. joel On 10/27/10 2:48 PM, Bob Braden wrote: Tony, I note that there seems to be some correlation between the degradation of the IETF

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 Thread Keith Moore
This discussion has a periodicy about 6 months. The premise is asinine, we can't go back to the early to mid 90s. What's asinine is to dismiss out-of-hand something has worked well in the past. The only reason we can't change the way we have discussions is that too many people are in the

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Oct 30, 2010, at 12:38 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: the final arbiter of any test in the room is on the mailing list. True. But a room with a high ratio of active participants to total attendees makes a much better sounding board for providing constructive feedback, than a room with a low

Re: [Full-disclosure] IPv6 security myths

2010-10-30 Thread TJ
I would be quite curious to know your definition of failure, given that IPsec is currently deployed, and working in more than a few deployments ... On a possibly related note, IPv6 use deployed and working too ... /TJ On Oct 27, 2010 12:08 PM, Masataka Ohta mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp

RE: [Full-disclosure] IPv6 security myths

2010-10-30 Thread Michel Py
TJ [trej...@gmail.com] wrote: I would be quite curious to know your definition of failure, given that IPsec is currently deployed, and working in more than a few deployments On a possibly related note, IPv6 use deployed and working too ... Failure means that, I leave in the capital city of

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-30 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
It should be easier to get a specification to IETF standard than to start an alternative standards organization. I think that is still true and tried to convince the OpenID people that this was the case but they did not believe me. The question is priorities and costs. Having a process that is

Re: [Full-disclosure] IPv6 security myths

2010-10-30 Thread Masataka Ohta
TJ wrote: I would be quite curious to know your definition of failure, given that IPsec is currently deployed, and working in more than a few deployments ... Sorry for lack of clarification. My context is IPsec in the Internet, which excludes VPNs. Do you know some major application over the