RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Christian Huitema
All of which is why we should limit our attempts to do numerical analysis for this topic, and worry far more about the basics, including such things as interaction (in)sensitivities, group tone and style, and observable misbehaviors, all of which are likely to produce biasing results.

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 29/04/2013 01:53, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Tom, On Apr 19, 2013, at 6:03 AM, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: If we required the IETF to reflect the diversity of people who are, e.g., IT network professionals, then the IETF would fall apart for lack of ability. […] If the ADs of the

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 29/04/2013 05:05, Michael StJohns wrote: At 08:53 PM 4/28/2013, Margaret Wasserman wrote: The question that people are asking is why the diversity of the IETF leadership doesn't reflect the diversity of _the IETF_. Let's consider for a moment that this may not actually be the correct

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 29/04/2013 06:57, Dave Crocker wrote: On 4/28/2013 10:52 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: Except that the IESG members select the wg chairs, which makes your baseline stastistic suspect; it's too easy for all sorts of biasing factors to sway the allocation of wg chair positions. Mike actually

RE: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-netmod-interfaces-cfg-10

2013-04-29 Thread Roni Even
Hi, This new text is OK. Thanks Roni -Original Message- From: Martin Bjorklund [mailto:m...@tail-f.com] Sent: 29 April, 2013 11:26 AM To: ron.even@gmail.com Cc: draft-ietf-netmod-interfaces-cfg@tools.ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org; gen-...@ietf.org Subject: Re: Gen-ART LC review of

Re: [dhcwg] RE : Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread Robert Sparks
On 4/29/13 12:59 AM, mohamed.boucad...@orange.com wrote: Robert, Ted suggested a wording which is better than the one I proposed. I made the following changes my local copy: (1) OLD: When retransmission is required, the relay may decide to correct the content of RECONFIGURE-REQUEST

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-karp-crypto-key-table-07

2013-04-29 Thread Black, David
Document: draft-ietf-karp-crypto-key-table-07 Reviewer: David L. Black Review Date: April 25, 2013 IETF LC End Date: April 29, 2013 Summary: This draft is on the right track, but has open issues described in the review. This draft describes a conceptual key database for use by protocols. It's

RE : [dhcwg] Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread mohamed.boucadair
Dear Robert, Thank you for the review. Please see inline. Cheers, Med De : dhcwg-boun...@ietf.org [dhcwg-boun...@ietf.org] de la part de Robert Sparks [rjspa...@nostrum.com] Date d'envoi : vendredi 26 avril 2013 17:42 À : dh...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org;

RE: [dhcwg] RE : Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread Bernie Volz (volz)
Robert: The reason to allow this is that otherwise client A will be unnecessarily reconfigured many times. (It is also possible that a client might Renew on its own just as this is happening and thus it can also be removed from the Reconfigure.) I think the text should be cleaned up to

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-netmod-interfaces-cfg-10

2013-04-29 Thread Martin Bjorklund
Hi, Thank you for your review. Comments inline. Roni Even ron.even@gmail.com wrote: 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

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-netmod-interfaces-cfg-10

2013-04-29 Thread Martin Bjorklund
Hi, Roni Even ron.even@gmail.com wrote: Martin, Thanks for the response. I am OK with your responses to the nits. As for the comment on location I think I understand but what got me thinking was the examples. In E.1 An operator can configure a new interface by sending an

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-karp-crypto-key-table-07

2013-04-29 Thread Sam Hartman
Here are some quick initial responses to your comments. Thanks much for the review and I'll follow up with more detail in a while. Black, == Black, David david.bl...@emc.com writes: Black, Major issues: Black, (Section 2) Black, [1] LocalKeyName and PeerKeyName are strings.

RE: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-karp-crypto-key-table-07

2013-04-29 Thread Black, David
Thanks for the quick response - most of your message looks reasonable to me. I have a few additional comments. [1] Character set for key names, etc. They are strings that can be compared using binary comparison. I agree we need to state that in the draft. That's certainly a reasonable goal,

RE: [dhcwg] RE : Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread mohamed.boucadair
Robert, Ted suggested a wording which is better than the one I proposed. I made the following changes my local copy: (1) OLD: When retransmission is required, the relay may decide to correct the content of RECONFIGURE-REQUEST message it issues (e.g., update the Client Identifier

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/29/2013 2:15 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: On 29/04/2013 06:57, Dave Crocker wrote: Exactly. Complicated processes, needing high quality data that gets complicated analysis, that we aren't well-enough trained to do well and aren't going to be doing. Dave Of all the social mixes you would

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-karp-crypto-key-table-07

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 25, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Black, David david.bl...@emc.com wrote: I have no problem with the field being a binary identifier, but I think implementers should be put on notice that binary comparison of human input Unicode strings doesn't work as expected unless some things are done to make

RE: [dhcwg] RE : Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread Bernie Volz (volz)
FYI - Stable storage or some kind of redundancy solution may be another way to recover state. So, I don't think there is a hard requirement for RFC 5460. I don't think there is a strong reason to avoid e.g., it is for example so it is only one of many possible. And such as is basically saying

Re: [dhcwg] RE : Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) v...@cisco.com wrote: But I don't really see this as a big issue and the must is the lower-case variant anyway. There's a big debate about whether this makes any difference. It's generally thought to be better not to say must if you don't

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, April 29, 2013 09:55 +0100 Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com wrote: The question that people are asking is why the diversity of the IETF leadership doesn't reflect the diversity of _the IETF_. The evidence seems to be that human's are terrible at guessing statistics, and

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/29/2013 9:38 AM, John C Klensin wrote: First, our having these discussions have, I believe, already increased sensitivities to the issues and maybe even how the community thinks about it. Actually, it probably hasn't. It has raised awareness that there are people who are sensitive to

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/29/13 1:11 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: The other thing to remember is that whilst your proportional estimates are likely to be correct, in a random process you will get long runs of bias that only average out in the long run. Right, although if normal statistical fluctuation gives us a

Re: [IAB] Call for Comment: 'Privacy Considerations for Internet Protocols'

2013-04-29 Thread Alissa Cooper
Hi Dave, Thanks for your response. We discussed it within the privacy program and the full IAB. I've added the following sentence to the end of the intro in section 3 in the pre-publication -09 version: Examples of several different brief definitions are provided in RFC 4949. I realize this

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, April 29, 2013 09:46 -0700 Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 4/29/2013 9:38 AM, John C Klensin wrote: First, our having these discussions have, I believe, already increased sensitivities to the issues and maybe even how the community thinks about it. Actually, it

RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread John E Drake
What a concept. Irrespectively Yours, John -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Melinda Shore Sent: Monday, April 29, 2013 9:52 AM To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration? On 4/29/13

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 29, 2013, at 1:08 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: If raising awareness and sensitivity isn't enough to get people to think about and make decisions differently Statistical analysis shows that even when peoples' awareness is raised, biases continue to exist, not because the

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Lou Berger
Did anyone notice the NPR piece this AM? http://www.npr.org/blogs/alltechconsidered/2013/04/29/178810467/blazing-the-trail-for-female-programmers Perhaps it's time for an IETF equivalent/chapter of http://railsbridge.org/, http://blackfounders.com/, http://wisecampaign.org.uk/, etc. ... Lou On

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:38 PM 4/29/2013, Ted Lemon wrote: On Apr 29, 2013, at 1:08 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: If raising awareness and sensitivity isn't enough to get people to think about and make decisions differently Statistical analysis shows that even when peoples' awareness is raised,

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:34 AM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: On 4/28/2013 9:05 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: Let's consider for a moment that this may not actually be the correct question. Instead, consider Why the diversity of the IETF leadership doesn't reflect the diversity of the set of the IETF WG chairs? I

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:57 AM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: including such things as interaction (in)sensitivities, group tone and style, and observable misbehaviors, all of which are likely to produce biasing results. But in which direction? The same thing could be said of pushing personal or cultural biases

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 12:51 PM 4/29/2013, Melinda Shore wrote: On 4/29/13 1:11 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: The other thing to remember is that whilst your proportional estimates are likely to be correct, in a random process you will get long runs of bias that only average out in the long run. Right, although if

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Mike, On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: We have an IETF culture - like it or not. It changes over time, as the population changes. We can't and shouldn't expect to be able to change it by fiat, or to adopt as whole cloth a bias free culture (for

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Sam Hartman
For what it's worth, I'm not finding the current discussion is providing me useful information for making decisions. It doesn't really matter to me whether the problem is selection of WG chairs or selection of IAB/IESG/IAOC after WG chairs are selected. I think it is valuable to attempt to

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 29/04/2013 20:39, Sam Hartman wrote: For what it's worth, I'm not finding the current discussion is providing me useful information for making decisions. It doesn't really matter to me whether the problem is selection of WG chairs or selection of IAB/IESG/IAOC after WG chairs are selected.

How does the IETF evolve to continue to be an effective, efficient, and relevant source of high quality Internet standards? Was: Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 03:30 PM 4/29/2013, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Mike, On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: We have an IETF culture - like it or not. It changes over time, as the population changes. We can't and shouldn't expect to be able to change it by fiat, or

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/29/2013 12:04 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: At 01:34 AM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: Actually, I don't think this is even a mostly correct statement - that AD select chairs. It is a long-standing, simple, objective, unvarying management fact of IETF procedure: ADs hire and fire wg

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Dan Harkins
On Mon, April 29, 2013 12:39 pm, Sam Hartman wrote: For what it's worth, I'm not finding the current discussion is providing me useful information for making decisions. It doesn't really matter to me whether the problem is selection of WG chairs or selection of IAB/IESG/IAOC after WG chairs

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Sam Hartman
Stewart == Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com writes: Stewart Why would you disregard a statistical analysis? That seems Stewart akin to disregarding the fundamentals of science and Statistical analysis is only useful if it's going to tell you something that matters for your decision

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Joe Abley
On 2013-04-29, at 16:49, Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu wrote: Stewart == Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com writes: Stewart Why would you disregard a statistical analysis? That seems Stewart akin to disregarding the fundamentals of science and Statistical analysis is only

Re: [IETF] Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Warren Kumari
On Apr 29, 2013, at 4:55 PM, Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca wrote: On 2013-04-29, at 16:49, Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu wrote: Stewart == Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com writes: Stewart Why would you disregard a statistical analysis? That seems Stewart akin to disregarding

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-04-29 Thread Hector Santos
If anyone wishes to see one aspect of what is wrong with IETF Diversity, then see whats going on in SPF BIS WG where a key IETF cog essentially attempts to shutdown discussions and communications, attacks posters which by my estimate were making progress. Progress is a status quo - DON'T

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/29/2013 2:20 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: At 04:40 PM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: Actually, I don't think this is even a mostly correct statement - that AD select chairs. It is a long-standing, simple, objective, unvarying management fact of IETF procedure: ADs hire and fire wg

Re: W3C standards and the Hollyweb

2013-04-29 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: m...@sap.com (Martin Rex) DRM system are evil in any way you look at it. Originally, copyright was a conceived as a temporary (50yrs) monopoly. The protection period has in recent years been prolonged in many years to at least 70 years. [...] I read an analysis somewhere that

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Dan Harkins
On Mon, April 29, 2013 2:28 pm, Dave Crocker wrote: On 4/29/2013 2:20 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: At 04:40 PM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: Actually, I don't think this is even a mostly correct statement - that AD select chairs. It is a long-standing, simple, objective, unvarying management

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-04-29 Thread Mark Andrews
The really annoying thing is that SPF is techically superior to TXT is lots of ways. 1. It uniquely identifies the roll of the record. 2. As SPF records are singletons you don't need to identify and remove the old record when updating. You can just

Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Hardie
So, this page: http://www.ietf.org/iesg/members.html still has TBD listed for one of the transport ADs. Is there a projected date for appointment at this point? Forgive the broad distribution of the question, but it's not clear whether this question is solely directed at the nomcom, the IESG,

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Barry Leiba
Mike: Actually, I don't think this is even a mostly correct statement - that AD select chairs. Dave: It is a long-standing, simple, objective, unvarying management fact of IETF procedure: ADs hire and fire wg chairs. Mike: The AD's do have the final say. No question. But select implies

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-04-29 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Hector, At 14:15 29-04-2013, Hector Santos wrote: If anyone wishes to see one aspect of what is wrong with IETF Diversity, then see whats going on in SPF BIS WG where a key IETF cog essentially attempts to shutdown discussions and communications, attacks posters which by my estimate were

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 30/04/2013 08:49, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Statistical analysis is only useful if it's going to tell you something that matters for your decision criteria. Yes. And I would like to know, in statistical terms, whether there are significant differences between (for example) the M/F ratios among

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Sam Hartman
Brian == Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com writes: Brian The null hypothesis would be that no significant differences Brian exist. If that turns out to be true, we know that our Brian problem is only lack of diversity among registrants. If it Brian turns out to be

Re: User Culture or Management (was Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?)

2013-04-29 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
retransmited (not received at IETF or published) On 4/29/13, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Mike, (sorry for my long message, will try to improve) I like the concept and reasoning of your message, and would like to add, is there other reasons for the results and

Last Call: draft-ietf-forces-interop-07.txt (Interoperability Report for Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES)) to Informational RFC

2013-04-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Forwarding and Control Element Separation WG (forces) to consider the following document: - 'Interoperability Report for Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES)' draft-ietf-forces-interop-07.txt as Informational RFC The IESG plans to make

WG Action: Formed IMAP QRESYNC Extension (qresync)

2013-04-29 Thread The IESG
A new IETF working group has been formed in the Applications Area. For additional information please contact the Area Directors or the WG Chairs. IMAP QRESYNC Extension (qresync) Current Status: Proposed Working Group Chairs: Dave Cridland

RFC 6909 on IPv4 Traffic Offload Selector Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6909 Title: IPv4 Traffic Offload Selector Option for Proxy Mobile IPv6 Author: S. Gundavelli, Ed., X. Zhou, J. Korhonen,

RFC 6911 on RADIUS Attributes for IPv6 Access Networks

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6911 Title: RADIUS Attributes for IPv6 Access Networks Author: W. Dec, Ed., B. Sarikaya, G. Zorn, Ed.,

RFC 6925 on The DHCPv4 Relay Agent Identifier Sub-Option

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6925 Title: The DHCPv4 Relay Agent Identifier Sub-Option Author: B. Joshi, R. Desetti, M. Stapp Status:

RFC 6926 on DHCPv4 Bulk Leasequery

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6926 Title: DHCPv4 Bulk Leasequery Author: K. Kinnear, M. Stapp, R. Desetti, B. Joshi, N. Russell, P. Kurapati, B. Volz

RFC 6928 on Increasing TCP's Initial Window

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6928 Title: Increasing TCP's Initial Window Author: J. Chu, N. Dukkipati, Y. Cheng, M. Mathis Status: Experimental Stream: IETF

Document Action: 'FCAST: Object Delivery for the ALC and NORM Protocols' to Experimental RFC (draft-ietf-rmt-fcast-08.txt)

2013-04-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'FCAST: Object Delivery for the ALC and NORM Protocols' (draft-ietf-rmt-fcast-08.txt) as Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Reliable Multicast Transport Working Group. The IESG contact person is Martin Stiemerling. A URL of

RFC 6886 on NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP)

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6886 Title: NAT Port Mapping Protocol (NAT-PMP) Author: S. Cheshire, M. Krochmal Status: Informational Stream: Independent Date: April 2013

RFC 6887 on Port Control Protocol (PCP)

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6887 Title: Port Control Protocol (PCP) Author: D. Wing, Ed., S. Cheshire, M. Boucadair, R. Penno, P. Selkirk Status: Standards

BCP 127, RFC 6888 on Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs)

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. BCP 127 RFC 6888 Title: Common Requirements for Carrier-Grade NATs (CGNs) Author: S. Perreault, Ed., I. Yamagata, S. Miyakawa,

RFC 6889 on Analysis of Stateful 64 Translation

2013-04-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6889 Title: Analysis of Stateful 64 Translation Author: R. Penno, T. Saxena, M. Boucadair, S. Sivakumar Status: Informational Stream: