RE: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo)
Hi Brian, The point is that we work in public, so the whole community should know. Working group mailing lists are also public. I regularly attend WG meetings where I am not subscribed - it's one of the side benefits of the week-long meetings - and who's to say that I might not want

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread joel jaeggli
On 12/4/12 12:28 AM, Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo) wrote: Hi Brian, The point is that we work in public, so the whole community should know. Working group mailing lists are also public. I regularly attend WG meetings where I am not subscribed - it's one of the side benefits of the

Re: The flower standard

2012-12-04 Thread Pars Mutaf
For facebook users: http://www.facebook.com/FlowerStandard On Tue, Dec 4, 2012 at 11:18 AM, Pars Mutaf pars.mu...@gmail.com wrote: Dear all, FYI, I designed the following standard myself. It completes IETF RFC 3161. www.flower-standard.org Cheers, Pars Mutaf

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hannes, On 04/12/2012 08:28, Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo) wrote: Hi Brian, The point is that we work in public, so the whole community should know. Working group mailing lists are also public. Well yes, but we are talking here about (virtual) meetings. I regularly attend

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-04 Thread Randy Bush
Given that there is also open source code, reviewers have the chance to take a look at that and see the degree of hackiness involved. Well, yes. It's easy enough to evaluate stuff such as non-descriptive variable names, messy indenting, and weird comments. But there's a catch here: There

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-04 Thread Tim Chown
On 3 Dec 2012, at 18:11, Fred Baker (fred) f...@cisco.com wrote: I agree with the notion that the primary purpose of the meeting is discussion. What you and I tell those who present in v6ops is that we want the presentation to guide and support a discussion, and anything that is pure

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-04 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Dave, Thanks for your work, please provide us with feedback while the process of editing. I was thinking to do something in the future, but thanks that you will do it. AB Folks, There is now an Internet Draft, based on Adrian's's slides, intended to document common practice in the adoption

Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions (was: PowerPoint considered harmful)

2012-12-04 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Keith, I hope that participant that travel to the f2f meeting and attend sessions, do participate while they are there on the discussion lists of IETF WGs, yes they attend and discuss which is reflected in the minutes report document, but still there are some time they spend away from their

Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: IETF work is done on the mailing lists)

2012-12-04 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 6:53 PM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: But there's no formal process for that, and I think that's how we want it to be. I don't want no formal in a formal organisation, usually unformal process only happen in unformal organisations, so is IETF

Re: When do we ask community for opinion and When we produce an RFC for the community?

2012-12-04 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On Wed, Nov 28, 2012 at 7:35 PM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: My question is when do we ask community (from participant level, or from managerial level) and when we produce an RFC (which purpose)? I think the answer to this question should be through a

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-04 Thread Barry Leiba
i think we're ratholing here. the point i get is that, if there is open source code that suppliments the drafts sufficiently to lend confidence in the implementability and implementation, then progress might be accelerated. But the point of running code in our nice, catchy slogan, is that

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-04 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/04/2012 08:29 AM, Tim Chown wrote: Exactly. If the presentation is one slide listing the key changes in the document since the last revision/meeting, and one slide per key question/issue being asked of the room, then that should help facilitate good discussion, not hinder it. What

RE: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-04 Thread Adrian Farrel
Abdussalam, By all means send text or suggestions for edits. Dave and I will include what is reasonable and seek a consensus that agrees with our motivation for writing the document. Thanks, Adrian From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Abdussalam Baryun

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-softwire-dslite-deployment-07

2012-12-04 Thread Black, David
Authors, The -07 version of this draft has resolved most of the concerns raised by the Gen-ART review of the -06 version of this draft, with one significant exception: [5] Section 2.8 discusses IPv4 accounting at the AFTR, but notes that the AFTR does not have detailed customer identity

RE: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo)
I belive you're drawing a distinction between conference call and virtual interim which does not presently exist. It could, but doesn't. No, I am not doing that. I know that we call conference calls virtual interim meetings. I also attend various working group meetings during an IETF week

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Dave Crocker
On 12/4/2012 12:51 AM, Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo) wrote: I belive you're drawing a distinction between conference call and virtual interim which does not presently exist. It could, but doesn't. No, I am not doing that. I know that we call conference calls virtual interim meetings.

Re: English spoken here (was: PowerPoint considered harmful)

2012-12-04 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 2, 2012, at 12:21 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: --On Sunday, December 02, 2012 08:35 -0800 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: It is not about different dialects of English. There are people in one part of the world who speak English. There are people from other parts

Re: request to make the tools version of the agenda the default

2012-12-04 Thread Wes Hardaker
Richard Barnes rbar...@bbn.com writes: Ever try writing an XML app? Half your time is spent writing a .xml parser. No, see... you're expecting good xml. use XML::Simple $x = xmlIn(file.xml); It's the easiest thing in the world to use. But it doesn't parse complex without more pain (but

Re: request to make the tools version of the agenda the default

2012-12-04 Thread Wes Hardaker
Michael Richardson m...@sandelman.ca writes: There is .csv and obviously there is .ics too already. Didn't know about the CSV; that'd be just fine. .ics is 'too much' in general though. -- Wes Hardaker SPARTA, Inc.

A mailing list protocol

2012-12-04 Thread S Moonesamy
Hello, I submitted a draft which discusses about a mailing list protocol [1]. It is a code of courtesy that the reader may wish to extend to others to facilitate the exchange of opinions and ideas, and to facilitate mailing list discussions. Sally Hambridge deserves full credit for most of

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
The concept is simple: a time-specific gather is a meeting. Meetings require prior announcement beyond the working group. I am not against a meeting announcement. I am suggesting to announce the meeting where the audience is -- in the working group.

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Donald Eastlake
It's a question of costs and benefits. The cost of the IETF Announce posting is small. There are not that many of them and I don't find them to be a burden. The benefit in openness and transparency is large. Thus the answer is simple and the policy should remain as it is for now. If conditions

RE: A mailing list protocol

2012-12-04 Thread George, Wes
From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of S Moonesamy (b) replies to messages which use an odd quoting style [2]. 2. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ [WEG] The referenced program doesn't work for anything 2007 or later (aka versions

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-04 Thread Tony Hansen
On 12/3/2012 9:28 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/03/2012 08:57 AM, George, Wes wrote: You have a very specific opinion of what an effective WG session should be like and what people should and should not be doing to facilitate such. Sounds like you need to work with the EDU team to give a

Re: A mailing list protocol

2012-12-04 Thread Martin Thomson
On 4 December 2012 14:19, George, Wes wesley.geo...@twcable.com wrote: 2. http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ [WEG] The referenced program doesn't work for anything 2007 or later (aka versions still supported by MS), making it of limited use. I'm happy to share my (crappy)

RE: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-04 Thread Lee Howard
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Keith Moore Years ago, my impression was that that Sunday training sessions were pretty much ignored by anyone experienced in the organization. Is this still the case? I've been to the

Re: A mailing list protocol

2012-12-04 Thread Scott Brim
Those are all endpoint implementation problems and thus not subject to IETF standardization :-)

Re: English spoken here

2012-12-04 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/04/2012 12:50 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: I started making up really good slides (in a variety of settings) after noticing non-native-English speakers at the IETF taking pictures of the screen -- it*really* helped them. I used to see that also, but I don't recall seeing anyone do that in

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-04 Thread Doug Barton
On 12/04/2012 09:59 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: The concept is simple: a time-specific gather is a meeting. Meetings require prior announcement beyond the working group. I am not against a meeting announcement. I am suggesting to announce the meeting where the audience is -- in the

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-04 Thread Danny McPherson
On Dec 4, 2012, at 9:46 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: But the point of running code in our nice, catchy slogan, is that running doesn't mean simply that it runs. It means that it's actually *in use*, possibly for real, but at least in a test lab where it's getting real use. *Real* running code

WG Action: Rechartered RADIUS EXTensions (radext)

2012-12-04 Thread The IESG
The RADIUS EXTensions (radext) working group in the Operations and Management Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information please contact the Area Directors or the WG Chairs. RADIUS EXTensions (radext) Current Status: Active

Last Call: draft-nir-ipsecme-erx-09.txt (An IKEv2 Extension for Supporting ERP) to Experimental RFC

2012-12-04 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'An IKEv2 Extension for Supporting ERP' draft-nir-ipsecme-erx-09.txt as Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action.

New Non-WG Mailing List: webfinger -- Discussion of the Webfinger protocol proposal in the Applications Area

2012-12-04 Thread IETF Secretariat
A new IETF non-working group email list has been created. List address: webfin...@ietf.org Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/webfinger/ To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/webfinger Purpose: Discussion of the Webfinger protocol proposal in the Applications Area. For

RETRACTION: Last Call: draft-nir-ipsecme-erx-09.txt (An IKEv2 Extension for Supporting ERP) to Experimental RFC

2012-12-04 Thread IESG Secretary
The IESG would like to retract the current Last Call on the following document: - 'An IKEv2 Extension for Supporting ERP' draft-nir-ipsecme-erx-09.txt as Experimental RFC This Last Call was sent in error. The document previously completed Last Call on 2012-11-26, and does not require a