Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
The IESG's initial thought on this matter was that the bar for removing things from the archive ought to be set as high as we could get it so as to avoid all sorts of silly requests and DoS attacks (and, at least in my mind, so that the legal questions were near nil: unless an appropriate

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Eliot Lear
Randy, On 9/7/12 8:35 AM, Randy Bush wrote: The IESG's initial thought on this matter was that the bar for removing things from the archive ought to be set as high as we could get it so as to avoid all sorts of silly requests and DoS attacks (and, at least in my mind, so that the legal

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
An I-D MAY be removed from the public I-D archive in compliance with a competent legal demand. This leaves sufficient flexibility for the IESG to decide when a legal demand requires the removal and when it's bogus so the iesg will now spend their spring retreat in law school? we have a test

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Eliot Lear
Randy, so the iesg will now spend their spring retreat in law school? we have a test for competent legal demand. it is called a court order. In the case of DMCA, if you wait for a court order, you can lose your liability shield, which has been the point that Sam and others have raised. There

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
In the case of DMCA i am not competent to speak to circumstances surrounding a dmca. i am glad you and all the other engineers here are. sure saves the ietf lawyer a lot of work. randy

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread ned+ietf
In the case of DMCA i am not competent to speak to circumstances surrounding a dmca. i am glad you and all the other engineers here are. sure saves the ietf lawyer a lot of work. Bingo. And even if we were competent to assess this stuff - which we most assuredly are not - any notion that

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Eliot Lear
Ned, We are venturing into an area of rabid agreement on the premise but disagreement on the conclusion, which I find astonishing. On 9/7/12 9:29 AM, Ned Freed wrote: The only question that need concern us at present is whether or not the stated policy gives the IESG the necessary

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 07/09/2012 07:49, Eliot Lear wrote: An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive in compliance with a duly authorized court order. Would An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive if legally required to do so. fix the ambiguity? Stewart

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Eliot Lear
On 9/7/12 11:33 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: On 07/09/2012 07:49, Eliot Lear wrote: An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive in compliance with a duly authorized court order. Would An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive if legally required to do so. That is

Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Call for Nomination and Feedback

2012-09-07 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On 9/6/12, NomCom Chair nomcom-ch...@ietf.org wrote: However, we also need the community's views and input on the jobs within each organization. If you have ideas on job responsibilities (more, less, different), please let us know. Please send suggestions and feedback to nomco...@ietf.org.

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 07, 2012 10:33 +0100 Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com wrote: On 07/09/2012 07:49, Eliot Lear wrote: An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive in compliance with a duly authorized court order. Would An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 07, 2012 15:54 +0900 Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: An I-D MAY be removed from the public I-D archive in compliance with a competent legal demand. This leaves sufficient flexibility for the IESG to decide when a legal demand requires the removal and when it's bogus

Re: Proposed IETF Meeting Calendar 2018 - 2022

2012-09-07 Thread t . p .
We seem to have adopted a policy of making the summer meeting overlap what is for me the start of school holidays, and a time to avoid travelling. I used to think of IETF54, IETF57 and IETF66 as the norm and anything else as an aberration, but now it seems the reverse is true. Incidentally, I

Re: Proposed IETF Meeting Calendar 2018 - 2022

2012-09-07 Thread Loa Andersson
Tom, the overlap with school holidays might be true from some perspective, but the two countries (Sweden and Philippines) I'm most familiar with show that if there is a goal to avoid that it is not doable. In Sweden there is school holidays from around June 10th and into August. In the

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/7/2012 2:42 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: An I-D will only be removed from the public I-D archive if legally required to do so. That is where I was aiming, albeit with s/will/may/. Again, I recommend that Jorge review. Nothing in this policy should REQUIRE the IESG to act, or set that

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 07/09/2012 14:30, Dave Crocker wrote: The IESG should not be /required/ to honor a court order? whose court order? Nick

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Sep 06, 2012 at 03:35:24PM -0500, Pete Resnick wrote: I must say, I find this a very strange thing to say. The original statement was we will not remove anything from the archive unless ordered to by duly authorized court. […] questions. I'm not sure I like the idea of making my job

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/5/2012 7:51 AM, SM wrote: ... Creating a perpetual I-D archive for the sake of rfcdiff is not a good idea as it goes against the notion of letting an I-D expire gracefully. +1 Let's not forget there was a reason for expiration. I'm OK with the archive being public so long as at least

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Ethertype Assignments for IETF Protocols

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, This statement seems fine, but it's worth noting that it would apply only to *IETF* protocol specs. The IESG has, IMO, no authority to make such claims for independent submissions (and what about IRTF ones?), and the IEEE should recognize that such protocols are described by RFCs

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 07/09/2012 15:48, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/5/2012 7:51 AM, SM wrote: ... Creating a perpetual I-D archive for the sake of rfcdiff is not a good idea as it goes against the notion of letting an I-D expire gracefully. Speaking as a document reviewer for both Gen-ART and the Independent

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/7/2012 8:32 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 07/09/2012 15:48, Joe Touch wrote: ... Let's not forget there was a reason for expiration. Expired != invisible Expired = no longer *published*. IMO, the expires indication on an ID indicates the expiration of the ability of the ISOC to

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
PS - to note an astonishing concept: On 9/7/2012 8:32 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 07/09/2012 15:48, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/5/2012 7:51 AM, SM wrote: ... Creating a perpetual I-D archive for the sake of rfcdiff is not a good idea as it goes against the notion of letting an I-D expire

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Dave Crocker
On 9/7/2012 8:45 AM, Joe Touch wrote: It's not always about what is best for *you* or for other reviewers. Actually, it is. The documents are issued by the IETF to facilitate public discussion. It's the only reason to have the mechanism. It's about what encourages a more open exchange

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/7/2012 8:56 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 9/7/2012 8:45 AM, Joe Touch wrote: It's not always about what is best for *you* or for other reviewers. Actually, it is. The documents are issued by the IETF to facilitate public discussion. It's the only reason to have the mechanism. There

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Ethertype Assignments for IETF Protocols

2012-09-07 Thread Ralph Droms
On Sep 7, 2012, at 10:51 AM 9/7/12, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, all, This statement seems fine, but it's worth noting that it would apply only to *IETF* protocol specs. What did you have in mind as noting? This text seems pretty clear to me as applying only to IETF protocol specifications:

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Dave Crocker
As I noted, if the IETF publishes IDs, why bother with RFCs? It's difficult to imagine that you mean that as a serious question, but just in case: You are asking whether there is an important difference between a circulating mechanism that has no review, approval or quality control

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Ethertype Assignments for IETF Protocols

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Ralph, I agree with your assessment below, but historically the IETF guidelines work more smoothly when cases are spelled out rather than dealt with by omission. I think a few sentences being more explicit about what is not covered would be useful, esp. for the IEEE. Joe On 9/7/2012

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/7/2012 9:21 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: ... And by the way, formally, I-D's are not published. That's a semantic point, but apparently it's important for this discussion. At lease one of the ISOC's boilerplates states: This document may not be modified, and derivative works of

RE: Proposed IETF Meeting Calendar 2018 - 2022

2012-09-07 Thread Roni Even
Hi, One request about IETF 110 21 - 26 March 2021. March 27 is Jewish Passover (Pesach) so the 26th will not work for those who observe this major Holiday Roni Even From: wgchairs-boun...@ietf.org [wgchairs-boun...@ietf.org] on behalf of IETF

Re: Proposed IETF Meeting Calendar 2018 - 2022

2012-09-07 Thread Derek Atkins
James Polk jmp...@cisco.com writes: IETF 106 seems a bit late in November. Are we boxed in by other SDO meetings, or is this by our own choice? Keep in mind that Thanksgiving isn't until November 28 in 2019. There is certainly history of IETF being held the week before Thanksgiving. James

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-ccamp-assoc-ext-05

2012-09-07 Thread Peter Yee
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq Document: draft-ietf-ccamp-assoc-ext-05 Reviewer: Peter Yee Review Date: Sep-06-2012 IETF LC End Date: Aug-29-2012 IESG Telechat date:

IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Michael Richardson {quigon}
When I started attending IETF meetings in 1996, it was after about 6 years of reading mailing lists, at a time when netetiquette or Internet 101 was actively taught. We (because I taught others after learning it) taught people enough about how email worked so that they would understand basic

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/5/12 5:12 AM, Michael Richardson {quigon} wrote: It's also possible that some grey beards who have only remote attended for years (Yes, I thinking about you Melinda, Keith...) might have missed some subtle change in process. This is a great note, Michael, and now that I'm attending again

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:03 PM, Joe Touch wrote: As I noted, if the IETF publishes IDs, why bother with RFCs? In addition to what Dave said, the target audience of drafts are IETF participants. The target audience of RFCs varies, but in the usual case it's implementers. So drafts might have

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-05 09:12, Michael Richardson {quigon} a écrit : Let me suggest that at the IETF, where the mailing list is king, you can't join the Elite if you can't quote email properly. Maybe we should *state* this. Maybe I'm also concerned because many in the former elite have moved to Apple

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Scott Brim
On 09/05/12 09:12, Michael Richardson {quigon} allegedly wrote: What I am writing about is that I think that we a problem with transfer students... those who did their september elsewhere, and have now switched schools for the winter semester. It doesn't occur to them that they don't know how

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread SM
At 08:43 07-09-2012, Joe Touch wrote: IMO, the expires indication on an ID indicates the expiration of the ability of the ISOC to publish the draft. This raises the question of what expires means. So IMO the ISOC is then violating the terms of submission of a doc if it posts it publicly in

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-07 14:36, Scott Brim a écrit : Maybe I'm also concerned because many in the former elite have moved to Apple Mail, and it seems that it is bug compatible with Outlook in it's assumption that format=flowed is the default, an act which destroys email quoting, and therefore discussion.

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/7/12 10:53 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: Thunderbird is correct by default AFAIK. Unfortunately not on Mac OS. It's become automatic for me to hit command-R when replying, but that doesn't solve the basic problem. Melinda

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-07 15:15, Melinda Shore a écrit : On 9/7/12 10:53 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: Thunderbird is correct by default AFAIK. Unfortunately not on Mac OS. It's become automatic for me to hit command-R when replying, but that doesn't solve the basic problem. That's what we've been

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/7/12 11:30 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: That's what we've been saying. Apple sends broken mail. Thunderbird has a function to fix broken mail (command-R). Thunderbird is correct. Apple is broken. Sure, but the default wrapping is wrong for many of us and wrong for IETF email. Thunderbird

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread SM
Hi Michael, At 06:12 05-09-2012, Michael Richardson {quigon} wrote: like other SDOs, they think. Worse of all, I think, many of these people have doing what they thought was email for around a decade, (yes, using Outlook), they have no idea how email works, nor do they even know there is

Passing of Dr. John Larmouth

2012-09-07 Thread IETF Chair
Dr. John Larmouth was one of the creators of ASN.1. He was an active participant in ITU SG 17. The IETF makes use of ASN.1 for several protocols. I have placed an online condolence at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/condolences.html. If you knew Dr. Larmouth, you may wish to do

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-eai-mailinglistbis-05

2012-09-07 Thread Richard Barnes
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq. Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-ietf-eai-mailinglistbis-05

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
On 9/7/2012 11:37 AM, SM wrote: At 08:43 07-09-2012, Joe Touch wrote: IMO, the expires indication on an ID indicates the expiration of the ability of the ISOC to publish the draft. This raises the question of what expires means. At the least, if IDs are published publicly forever, then

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Randy Bush
really good message michael. shame about the line wrap :) Thunderbird is correct by default AFAIK. Unfortunately not on Mac OS. It's become automatic for me to hit command-R when replying, but that doesn't solve the basic problem. in the new ietf, everyone will use emacs. the old dogs'

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-07 Thread Joe Touch
On Sep 7, 2012, at 7:36 PM, Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: This raises the question of what expires means. At the least, if IDs are published publicly forever, then expires is no longer meaningful and the entirety of that notion needs to be expunged from the ID process.

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com i say scott should teach emacs :) Epsilon, dude! Who the heck wants to write their editor extensions in freaking LISP? :-) Noel

PCP WG Virtual Interim Meeting, September 21, 2012

2012-09-07 Thread IESG Secretary
The PCP Working Group will hold a virtual interim meeting on Friday, September 21, 2012, at 7AM PDT, using WebEx. Agenda and dialin information will be posted at: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/pcp/trac/wiki

Passing of Dr. John Larmouth

2012-09-07 Thread IETF Chair
Dr. John Larmouth was one of the creators of ASN.1. He was an active participant in ITU SG 17. The IETF makes use of ASN.1 for several protocols. I have placed an online condolence at http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/com17/condolences.html. If you knew Dr. Larmouth, you may wish to do