Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-eai-rfc5335bis-12

2011-10-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/20/2011 3:37 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: So, if the limit is still 998, then there is no change with respect the former limit. See the next sentence: (Note that in ASCII octets and characters are effectively the same but this is not true in UTF-8.) Remember, in UTF-8, characters can be

Requirement to go to meetings (was: Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input)

2011-10-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/21/2011 7:58 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: It's increasingly the case that if you want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I'd have considerable reservations about asking for the kind of money you're suggesting. Melinda, I've changed the subject line because the point you

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Eric Burger
It gets worse. To attend every IETF meeting costs about $10,000 per year. If we say one has to go to the face-to-face meetings, we limit the IETF to participants from corporations or entities that will sponsor the individual (pay to play?), IETF participants that have independent funds, or

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Ping Pan
In the past three IETF meetings, I have traveled to Beijing, Prague and Quebec City to meet most who live within a few hours (air, car, walking etc.) from me. The next two will be in Taipei (in Winter) and Paris (in Spring). This is more like a vacation package than a get-together for engineers to

RE: Requirement to go to meetings (was: Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input)

2011-10-23 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dave CROCKER Sent: Saturday, October 22, 2011 11:27 PM To: Melinda Shore Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Requirement to go to meetings (was: Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input) So

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Eric Burger
For me, the plan outlined below changes the cost of the travel from: Long @ $2,000, Medium @ $1,200, and Short @ $400 = $3,600 to: Short @ $400, Short @ $400, Medium @ $1,200 = $2,000 HOWEVER, if I lived in Asia, the plan proposed below changes my costs from $3,600 to

Re: Requirement to go to meetings (was: Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input)

2011-10-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 2:26 AM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 10/21/2011 7:58 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: It's increasingly the case that if you want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I'd have considerable reservations about asking for the kind of money you're

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, October 23, 2011 14:06 + Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: For me, the plan outlined below changes the cost of the travel from: Long @ $2,000, Medium @ $1,200, and Short @ $400 = $3,600 to: Short @ $400, Short @ $400, Medium @ $1,200 = $2,000

RE: Requirement to go to meetings (was: Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input)

2011-10-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, October 23, 2011 07:05 -0700 Murray S. Kucherawy m...@cloudmark.com wrote: ... Tough call. I completely understand the need and desire to be productive without requiring meetings, for all the financial, participation, and other reasons given. But I also am very familiar with

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 10/23/2011 4:07 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have been involved in the IETF for 15 years now. From my first meeting, it was apparent to me that if you want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I wonder if in realty it has ever been different. Yes, there has always been a

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Scott Brim
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 11:46, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Yes, there has always been a tension about the proper balance between list-based and f2f-based work.  In recent years -- especially as we've had a greater proportion of people used to doing work /only/ in f2f -- we seem to

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/22/11 10:26 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists? In all honesty I'd say that the largest source of this problem is working group chairs, both for using meetings as deadline anchors and for doing a really crappy job managing

RE: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Sprecher, Nurit (NSN - IL/Hod HaSharon)
Both Minneapolis and Phoenix have huge conference facilities, are easy to go to, and can get cheap off-season discount For whom? For me it is much cheaper and easier to go to Europe:-( From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ext Ping Pan Sent: Sunday,

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-eai-rfc5335bis-12

2011-10-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, October 23, 2011 07:11 +0100 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Remember, in UTF-8, characters can be multiple octets. So 998 UTF-8 encoded *characters* are likely to be many more than 998 octets long. So the change is to say that the limit is in octets, not in characters.

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/2011 09:19 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 10/22/11 10:26 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists? In all honesty I'd say that the largest source of this problem is working group

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:50 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.orgwrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 10/23/2011 09:19 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 10/22/11 10:26 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists?

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Oct 23, 2011, at 10:19 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 10/22/11 10:26 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: So the question is how to move the center of gravity back to mailing lists? In all honesty I'd say that the largest source of this problem is working group chairs, both for using meetings as

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Stephen Farrell
I'm not sure I'd blame chairs so much, but anyway... Here's a suggestion - create a list for people who are active IETF participants but who miss a lot of meetings. (And ask people who don't match that profile, like me, to stay out of the discussion - we can read the archive if we're curious.)

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-eai-rfc5335bis-12

2011-10-23 Thread ned+ietf
On 10/20/2011 3:37 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: So, if the limit is still 998, then there is no change with respect the former limit. See the next sentence: (Note that in ASCII octets and characters are effectively the same but this is not true in UTF-8.) Remember, in UTF-8, characters

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Cullen Jennings
The problem is that many of the things that make a meeting better for remote people, make it worse for local people. You can see that even in IETF meetings today - the virtual interim meetings were everyone is remote is a much better experience for remote people than meetings where lots of

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Loa Andersson
Nurit, I'm in the same situation, but part of the argument is right. If we do one North America, one Europe and one Asian meeting per year; places like Minneapolis and Phoenix is cheaper regardless where you come from. That is if you compare with high end cities like SF, NY AND DC. ALso places

RE: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Sprecher, Nurit (NSN - IL/Hod HaSharon)
For Minneapolis and Phoenix we do need extra leg as well And for us it is really not cheaper -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of ext Loa Andersson Sent: Sunday, October 23, 2011 7:28 PM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re:

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Stephen Farrell
Sure - there are other trade-offs, no doubt. But I think every time this topic has come up, the discussion is dominated by people that do attend meetings, and I'd be interested in what might come out if we tried that discussion just amongst non-attending active participants. If enough of 'em

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Randy Bush
perhaps we could model using the assumption that, a decade or so hence, there will be no physical meetings, [almost] all will be net-based. randy ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Randy Bush
perhaps we could model using the assumption that, a decade or so hence, there will be no physical meetings, [almost] all will be net-based. to make my troll more explicit (under an nsfw bridge?) o how does a 'town hall' of O(10^3) participants work socially? o how will/should incremental

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/23/11 8:59 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Can you give an example of chairs that do it well and what is it they do? Then perhaps contrast with what it is that chairs that do it poorly are doing. Feel free to use me as an example of a chair that does it poorly - I have no idea how to do it

Re: Last Call: draft-sprecher-mpls-tp-oam-considerations-01.txt (The Reasons for Selecting a Single Solution for MPLS-TP OAM) to Informational RFC

2011-10-23 Thread Loa Andersson
All, I've taken time to re-read this draft over the weekend. I still think it is well-written and extremely to the point; it is in the interest of the IETF to publish. I support publication of the draft. Admittedly there are some issues around the e.g. the description of the SDH/SONNET and the

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Loa Andersson
Randy, I might be old-fashioned, but I think the net will give us more tools that can be used together with what we already have, not (necessarily) replace them /Loa On 2011-10-23 10:47, Randy Bush wrote: perhaps we could model using the assumption that, a decade or so hence, there will be no

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Michal Krsek
Loa, It seems to me this is not a tools question. This is kind of social challenge. M Sent from my iPad On 23. 10. 2011, at 20:13, Loa Andersson l...@pi.nu wrote: Randy, I might be old-fashioned, but I think the net will give us more tools that can be used together with what we already

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Oct 23, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 10/23/11 8:59 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Can you give an example of chairs that do it well and what is it they do? Then perhaps contrast with what it is that chairs that do it poorly are doing. Feel free to use me as an example of

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Tim Chown
On 23 Oct 2011, at 18:28, Loa Andersson wrote: Nurit, I'm in the same situation, but part of the argument is right. If we do one North America, one Europe and one Asian meeting per year; places like Minneapolis and Phoenix is cheaper regardless where you come from. That is if you

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Donald Eastlake
2/3rds of the IETF meetings in the USA would exacerbate visa problems for many attendees. I don't mind some amount of regularity in meeting site, like Minneapolis, or going where it's inexpensive (by the way, the Boston area is really cheap in the winter) but I think you need more variety than

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Yoav Nir
Cheaper, yes. Easier? Sure, a 5-hour flight to Paris sure beats a 12-hour flight to New York plus a 4 hour flight to Minneapolis, but you end up in Paris, and if the conference hotel is too expensive for your corporate budget (it usually is for mine), you have to go really far away to find a

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Sam Hartman
Dave == Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net writes: Dave On 10/21/2011 7:58 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: It's increasingly the case that if you want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I'd have considerable reservations about asking for the kind of money you're

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Andrew Allen
Randy I think that also assumes that the earth's rotation will also stop at some time during the next decade forcing us all to migrate to the sunny side of the planet. Failing that happening then with 18 hours at least (Tokyo to US West coast) of time zones (and that doesnt take into account

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 10/22/11 23:26 , Dave CROCKER wrote: On 10/21/2011 7:58 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: It's increasingly the case that if you want to do work at the IETF, you need to go to meetings. I'd have considerable reservations about asking for the kind of money you're suggesting. Melinda,

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
It can indeed be challenging, but in some circumstances, the active participants of the working group don't quite span the globe. I've also found that audio conferences seem most effective if they only last an hour or maybe 90 minutes, but are held more regularly, rather than marathon on-line

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 10/23/11 12:02 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: It's really not that big a deal. Make sure that audio is working, that there's a Jabber scribe/Jabber room watcher and liaison-y sort of person, and that remote participants are pinged regularly (and *always* before a change of topic). I have a

Re: Last Call: draft-sprecher-mpls-tp-oam-considerations-01.txt (The Reasons for Selecting a Single Solution for MPLS-TP OAM) to Informational RFC

2011-10-23 Thread Shane Amante
I have taken the time to read this document and support it's publication. From an operational PoV, the discussion in the Section 3 (particularly Sections 3.5 3.6) really hit home in that the costs of deploying a protocol to the network _and_ maintaining that protocol in the network are

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 23 Oct 2011, Scott Brim wrote: Some people find it difficult to participate at a rapid pace on mailing lists, and will strongly prefer f2f. They might also find it difficult to participate f2f but they can control the pace more. I've been a fairly passive meeting participant in IETF

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-23 Thread Randy Bush
i live in tokyo and participate in three or more continent (NA, Euro, Asia) calls a number of times a week. i am currently one quarter of the way through an eight week four continent rtw (with south africa after taipei). and it ain't my first this year. boo hoo. get real here. we want global