Re: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 16/08/2012 09:10, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: ... 4) What is the relationship between this document and the mission of the ISOC, which, as I understand it, is to promote the open development, evolution, and use of the Internet? The Internet Society needs to speak for themselves. Quite

Re: FW: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 15/08/2012 07:24, Eliot Lear wrote: John, On 8/15/12 12:03 AM, John E Drake wrote: Hi, Does this document actually have a purpose, and if so, what is it? To me (and I speak only for me here), the purpose of this document is to articulate principles that have made the Internet a

Re: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On Aug 15, 2012, at 3:41 PM, John E Drake wrote: JD: To what purpose? As an aside, I get the 'feel-good' aspect, but is there anything more? When RFC 1984 was published, I was serving as IAB Chair and found myself invited here and there to give talks to men in suits. Since crypto policy was

Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 13/08/2012 04:03, Michael StJohns wrote: ... We've - collectively, through process established over many years - selected a team of our colleagues to perform a circumscribed set of tasks. Efficiency suggests we should mostly stand back and let them get on with it. At the risk of being at

Metadiscussion [Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm]

2012-08-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 12/08/2012 17:14, Dave Crocker wrote: ... Again, what's happening here is a form of 'let's ignore IETF process because this is such a wonderful cause'. It is, indeed, a wonderful cause, but I don't recall our establishing rules that are to be applied only when we feel like it, or

Re: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
For those utterly mystified by the recent message under the above subject header, let me note that my spam folder earlier today included a rather incomprehensible message from JFC Morfin. I'm about to add jean-michel bernier de portzamparc to my spam filters too, of course. Alternatively, you

Re: Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I support this too. Regards Brian Carpenter On 10/08/2012 23:55, Bob Hinden wrote: I support the IETF and IAB chairs signing document. Bob On Aug 10, 2012, at 8:19 AM, IETF Chair wrote: The IETF Chair and the IAB Chair intend to sign the Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards

Re: management granularity (Re: Meeting lounges at IETF meetings)

2012-08-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/08/2012 14:07, JOHNSON, ALASTAIR (ALASTAIR) wrote: There were 10 participants from Australia and 4 participants from New Zealand at the last IETF meeting. There was interest to have the IETF in New Zealand. I guess that it was considered as difficult to convince the cookie-eating mob

Re: Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/08/2012 10:39, Alessandro Vesely wrote: I wish to thank Phillip and Eric for their illuminating comments. However, I'm still not clear on the role that great powers may play in the standards development and deployment, compared to that of vested interests. Traditionally, and still

Re: VS: Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/08/2012 15:41, Dave Crocker wrote: Aihe: Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm Lähettäjä: Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com ... (I'd even co-sign for the IRTF, but I think that isn't really appropriate in this case.) The for the IRTF underscores a possible concern in

Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 08/08/2012 06:30, Doug Barton wrote: On 08/07/2012 10:19 PM, Martin Rex wrote: Mark Andrews wrote: In message 5021742a.70...@dougbarton.us, Doug Barton writes: On 08/07/2012 00:46, Martin Rex wrote: IPv6 PA prefixes result in that awkward renumbering. Avoiding the renumbering implies

Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 06/08/2012 23:02, Martin Rex wrote: Steven Bellovin wrote: Randy Bush wrote: whatever the number of address bits, if it is fixed, we always run out. memory addressing has been a cliff many times. ip addressing. ... Yup. To quote Fred Brooks on memory address space: Every successful

Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
: Brian E Carpenter wrote: [ Charset UTF-8 unsupported, converting... ] On 06/08/2012 23:02, Martin Rex wrote: Steven Bellovin wrote: Randy Bush wrote: whatever the number of address bits, if it is fixed, we always run out. memory addressing has been a cliff many times. ip addressing

Re: Basic ietf process question ...

2012-08-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/08/2012 19:17, Robert Raszuk wrote: Hi Brian, Perhaps we understand a different thing by xml schema As example what I had in mind when asking this question was the example from Appendix A of http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-marques-l3vpn-schema-00 where while perhaps not yet complete

Re: ITU-T Dubai Meeting

2012-08-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/08/2012 21:30, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Aug 2, 2012, at 1:24 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Aug 2, 2012, at 11:44 AM, j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: we should instead focus on the ways that the technical architecture of the Internet creates control points that are

Re: Affirmation of the Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, In general this seem like a Good Thing. However, I have a slight confusion caused by these two extracts: Openness. Standards processes are open to all interested and informed parties. ... 4. Availability. Standards are made accessible to all for implementation and deployment under fair

Re: Basic ietf process question ...

2012-08-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think anyone with intimate experience of the Web Services standards experiment (trying to use XML as if it was a Turing machine) would have extreme doubts about any proposal to impose such a requirement. It was not for no reason that many people came to refer to the Web Services family of

Re: I-D Action: draft-balaji-mpls-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis-00.txt

2012-07-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
work in this area Scott On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Under the long-standing IETF policy defined in RFC 2804, I trust we will not be discussing this draft, or draft-balaji-l2vpn-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis, in the IETF. Regards Brian Carpenter On 30/07

Re: I-D Action: draft-balaji-mpls-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis-00.txt

2012-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Under the long-standing IETF policy defined in RFC 2804, I trust we will not be discussing this draft, or draft-balaji-l2vpn-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis, in the IETF. Regards Brian Carpenter On 30/07/2012 09:26, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote: A New Internet-Draft is available from the

Re: I-D Action: draft-balaji-mpls-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis-00.txt

2012-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Under the long-standing IETF policy defined in RFC 2804, I trust we will not be discussing this draft, or draft-balaji-l2vpn-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis, in the IETF. Regards Brian Carpenter On 30/07/2012 09:26, internet-dra

Re: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 21/07/2012 02:30, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: On Jul 20, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: As for the Ramadan issue: we've had IETF meetings during Jewish holidays a few times, and folks dealt with it as best they can. If there are some accommodations that can be made at any IETF

Re: Feedback Requested on Draft Fees Policy

2012-07-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 20/07/2012 14:07, IETF Administrative Director wrote: The IAOC is seeking community feedback on a proposed policy by the IAOC to impose fees to produce information and authenticate documents in response to subpoenas and other legal requests. Do it. This will dissuade trivial requests

Change in I-D announcement format

2012-06-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Did I miss an announcement of the change in format of I-D announcement messages? There's no longer a URL for the standard .txt format. That's mildly annoying for me (extra time and extra mouse clicks) and must be a nuisance for anyone who processes these messages automatically. At least, I would

Re: registries and designated experts

2012-06-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2012-06-12 19:38, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, June 12, 2012 19:13 +0100 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: The above is at odds with standardization. The last reason does not apply for Expert review. I don't understand that statement. RFC 5226 says

Re: registries and designated experts

2012-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-06-12 17:31, SM wrote: Hi Peter, At 07:19 12-06-2012, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: By my reading, the happiana discussions [1] over the 12+ months have led most participants to the conclusion that registration does not imply standardization, and that it's not the role of the designated

Re: I-D Action: draft-hoffman-tao-as-web-page-00.txt

2012-06-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-06-10 17:23, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Jun 10, 2012, at 9:00 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Oh, one thing I now realise is that the draft doesn't state that the editor (in deciding what changes to adopt) and the IESG (in approving an update) will of course do so by a normal IETF

Re: I-D Action: draft-hoffman-tao-as-web-page-00.txt

2012-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
This draft should formally obsolete RFC 4677. Otherwise, I think it's fine. This doesn't need to be in the document, but having a fixed location for the pending version might be good, e.g. http://www.ietf.org/draft-tao.html . Regards Brian Carpenter

Re: I-D Action: draft-hoffman-tao-as-web-page-00.txt

2012-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Editor. Thus, the IESG should have final say for what the Tao says when it is a web page. The IESG's final say is of course always in the context of determining IETF consensus. Regards Brian Carpenter On 2012-06-10 11:54, Brian E Carpenter wrote: This draft should formally obsolete RFC

Mission statement [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-31 07:22, Eliot Lear wrote: ... * I've been told by some that the Mission of the IETF is in some way out of date. I don't know whether this is true, That sound like somebody's personal opinion, but it is still a BCP and therefore still represents IETF consensus. but if

Colloquial language [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-31 02:49, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Overall I continue to think that this is a helpful document, as were its predecessors. That said, I would assume that many potential readers of this document are not native English speakers. Thus I suggest that the more colloquial words and

ICANN relationship [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
3.2.4. IANA (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority) The core registrar for the IETF's activities is the IANA (see http://www.iana.org). Many Internet protocols require that someone keep track of protocol items that were added after the protocol came out. Typical examples of the

Re: Colloquial language [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-31 07:59, Dave Crocker wrote: On 5/31/2012 8:36 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Have we any evidence that this is a problem for the community? The informal style is one of the virtues of the Tao. I'd be sorry to lose it. Let's separate use of colloquial language from overall

Re: Mission statement [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2012-05-31 15:53, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, May 31, 2012 07:31 +0100 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-05-31 07:22, Eliot Lear wrote: ... * I've been told by some that the Mission of the IETF is in some way out of date. I don't know

Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2012-05-31 16:19, John C Klensin wrote: ... Assuming Paul isn't planning to get this published as an RFC and then immediately retire from the IETF and that we don't have a delusion that this document will not need to be maintained and updated as things change, I propose the

IANA [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-31 09:24, SM wrote: ... In Section 3.2.3: Approves the appointment of the IANA Isn't IANA more of a U.S. Government decision? The IAB decides who acts as the IETF's IANA. RFC 2860 again. Brian

Re: Long discussion about IETF on the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list

2012-05-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-28 16:51, Tim Bray wrote: Who are these people? -T politicallyIncorrect So far, fortunately, the Internet Governance Forum and its associated talking shops add up to a no-op. The danger is always there that they will persuade government reps in the ITU or other UN bodies to take

Re: Long discussion about IETF on the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list

2012-05-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-28 17:38, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 05:20:10PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote a message of 32 lines which said: So far, fortunately, the Internet Governance Forum Hold on, the Internet Governance Caucus I was talking

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-19 20:39, Ofer Inbar wrote: ... But don't change the rules. 2119 works well as is IMO. Just to be clear about the current rules, 2119 makes it clear that upper case keywords are optional (These words are often capitalized). Indeed, numerous standards track documents don't use them.

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-20 17:29, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, May 20, 2012 07:53 +0100 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 2012-05-19 20:39, Ofer Inbar wrote: ... But don't change the rules. 2119 works well as is IMO. Just to be clear about the current rules, 2119 makes

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-18 19:27, Randy Bush wrote: I recommend an errata to RFC 2119: These words MUST NOT appear in a document in lower case. first, that is not an erratum, it is a non-trivial semantic change. second, do we not already have enough problems being clear and concise without removing

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-16 18:53, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 5/16/12 9:58 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: ... I'll note that in my normal reading mode I do not distinguish case, but even so I find the ability to use may and should in RFC text without the 2119 implications valuable. Agreed. But as a gen-art

Re: Last Call: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC

2012-05-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-10 03:18, Pete Resnick wrote: On 5/9/12 6:40 PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't want participants to think that they can't bring up the issue of violation without some sort of burden of proof. Hmm. I'm concerned about people bringing baseless accusations, as yet another way

Re: Last Call: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC

2012-05-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'd like to be reassured that this has been carefully reviewed by the IETF counsel and the IETF Trust. In particular I would be interested in its possible interaction with the IETF's liability insurance. Any IETF participant can call for sanctions to be applied to anyone they believe has

Re: Last Call: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC

2012-05-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter Sent: 09 May 2012 09:52 To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC I'd like to be reassured that this has

Re: Last Call: draft-farrresnickel-ipr-sanctions-05.txt (Sanctions Available for Application to Violators of IETF IPR Policy) to Informational RFC

2012-05-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
9, 2012, at 10:19 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Yoav, IANAL, but as far as I know libel suits are normally against individuals (or media outlets such as newspapers). The defence against a libel suit in the British courts, the most popular jurisdiction for international libel suits, is factual

Re: Is the IETF aging?

2012-05-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-05-05 04:48, Yoav Nir wrote: ... an obvious idea would be to change the requirements for a new work item from rough consensus to a bunch of people willing to do the work and at least one willing to implement. Some working groups already work like this, but it's not universal.

'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry • The Register

2012-04-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Since the topic was raised here: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2012/04/26/girls_in_ict_day/ Note the comment about the need for role models. Regards Brian

IAOC and permissions [Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets]

2012-04-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dear IAOC, I suggest that your standard dealings with local hosts should include requiring them to perform a local check on whether the standard Note Well takes account of all local legal requirements, including for example consent to publication of images. If it doesn't, the host should provide

Re: IAOC and permissions [Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets]

2012-04-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Christian, On 2012-04-25 08:57, Christian Huitema wrote: Brian, I suggest that your standard dealings with local hosts should include requiring them to perform a local check on whether the standard Note Well takes account of all local legal requirements, including for example consent

Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

2012-04-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-04-23 09:13, Kireeti Kompella wrote: On Apr 23, 2012, at 0:05, EXT - joe...@bogus.com joe...@bogus.com wrote: (quoting from RFC 2418) All working group sessions (including those held outside of the IETF meetings) shall be reported by making minutes available. These minutes should

Re: IPv6 Zone Identifiers Considered Hateful

2012-03-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-03-23 05:48, Worley, Dale R (Dale) wrote: ... In regard to URIs: People have spoken about the annoyance of using % to introduce the zone identifier, and the fact that % is special in URIs and would need escaping, etc. But (1) it's unlikely anyone will write URIs with zone

Re: IPv6 Zone Identifiers Considered Hateful

2012-03-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-03-22 09:43, Fred Baker wrote: On Mar 19, 2012, at 11:55 AM, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: I've obviously not been doing all my homework, and RFC 4007 slipped my attention. Worse, for all the communication my IPv6 nodes are doing amongst themselves using link-local addresses, it's

Re: IPv6 Zone Identifiers Considered Hateful

2012-03-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred, On 2012-03-22 13:29, Fred Baker wrote: On Mar 21, 2012, at 10:51 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In other words if the IETF doesn't define the zone index, every implementor will have to do so anyway. Also, read the last clause carefully: it says the stack MUST allow OPTIONAL use

Re: URIs and zone IDs

2012-03-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-03-21 04:11, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 09:24 +0100 t.petch daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: There is currently a thread in 6man on Subject: Re: 6MAN WG Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-uri-zoneid-00.txt

Re: Issues relating to managing a mailing list...

2012-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-03-15 13:33, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: ... I suppose I could live with this - but not actively support it - if the stripping was limited to abusively large attachments - say ones over 5Mb or thereabouts. +0.9; maybe set the limit a bit lower, for those who still have network

Issues with prefer IPv6 [Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history]

2012-02-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Martin, Yes, the issues with an unconditional prefer IPv6 approach have been noted, and operating systems of the vintages you mention certainly deserved criticism. In fact this has been a major focus of IPv6 operational discussions, and lies behind things like the DNS whitelisting method, the

Re: Issues with prefer IPv6 [Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history]

2012-02-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-24 12:32, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: In message 01occ10b11tc00z...@mauve.mrochek.com, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com w rites: ... I contend that OS are IPv6 ready to exactly the same extent as they are IPv4 ready. This isn't a IPv6 readiness issue. It is a *application*

Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history

2012-02-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-18 08:10, Bob Hinden wrote: Noel, On Feb 17, 2012, at 10:32 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com the other reason why we went with 128-bit address with a 64/64 split as the common case and defining IIDs that indicate if they have global uniqueness.

Re: Last Call: draft-garcia-shim6-applicability-03.txt (Applicability Statement for the Level 3 Multihoming Shim Protocol (Shim6)) to Informational RFC

2012-02-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'd like to support this draft, having reviewed it carefully. Shim6 is running code whose time will come, and this document is useful background for implementation and deployment. Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-15 09:35, Randy Bush wrote: Do you, or do you not, object to the proposed change that changes the text from saying, This space may be used just as 1918 space to This space has limitations and cannot be used as 1918 space? what silliness. it will be used as rfc 1918 space no

Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history

2012-02-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Martin, One the one hand, the IETF was frowning upon NATs when they were developed outside of the IETF. But if you look at the IETFs (lack of) migration plan, the translation that you need in order to make old-IPv4 interoperate with new-IPv6, is actually worse than an IPv4 NAT. I'm sorry,

Re: Variable length internet addresses in TCP/IP: history

2012-02-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-15 11:45, Martin Rex wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Martin, One the one hand, the IETF was frowning upon NATs when they were developed outside of the IETF. But if you look at the IETFs (lack of) migration plan, the translation that you need in order to make old-IPv4

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-14 05:51, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the service, right? Lots of CPE is actually owned

Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Martin Rex wrote: ... It was the IETFs very own decision to build IPv6 in a fashion that it is not transparently backwards compatible with IPv4. If the is anyone to blame for the current situation, than it is the IETF, not the consumers or the ISPs (except for those folks at ISPs who

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-14 13:32, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 2/13/2012 4:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: People say this from time to time, but it's a complete myth. well, not completely... IPv4 provides no mechanism whatever for addresses greater than 32 bits. Therefore, mathematically

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-14 13:42, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 2/13/2012 4:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: There were very specific reasons why this was not done. Is there a useful citation that covers this strategic decision? You may recall that at the time, we were very concerned about the pre-CIDR

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-11 11:09, Doug Barton wrote: On 02/10/2012 07:47, Chris Donley wrote: Please remember that this draft is in support of ARIN Draft Policy 2011-5. Partially, sure. But RFCs apply to the whole Internet. Hear hear. IMO, an IETF RFC is not the correct place to tell ARIN or other

Re: ITC copped out on UTC again

2012-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-09 10:41, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Feb 7, 2012, at 2:12 59PM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, February 07, 2012 10:45 -0800 james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: ... TAI has a fairly stable foundation in non-relativistic physics, which experience has shown to be somewhat

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pete, We seem to be agreeing violently. Regards Brian Carpenter On 2012-02-02 11:33, Pete Resnick wrote: On 1/31/12 1:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: IMHO the text should make it clear that this is the wrong way to use it and give the reasons why - basically the same information

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-01-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Pete, On 2012-02-01 08:14, Pete Resnick wrote: On 1/31/12 11:59 AM, George, Wes wrote: From: Noel Chiappa [mailto:j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu] Is that wise? I thought (IIRC, and maybe I'm spacing) the whole reason for allocating this space was that 1918 space _couldn't_ easily be used for

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-01-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Shared Address Space is IPv4 address space designated for Service Provider use with the purpose of facilitating CGN deployment. Also, Shared Address Space can be used as additional [RFC1918] space when at least one of the following conditions is true: o

Re: ITC copped out on UTC again

2012-01-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-01-21 03:20, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: If we are ever going to get a handle on Internet time we need to get rid of the arbitrary correction factors introduced by leap seconds. Time is and always will be an arbitrary measurement scheme, and the only thing that makes sense for the

Re: Story: Next battle over Net ramps up worldwide

2012-01-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
And don't assume that just because ISOC is on the case that this situation is covered. It's a real threat and every ITU Secretary-General since 1999* has been trying to grab these powers, supported by more or less authoritarian governments. *The last S-G who was not trying this was Pekke

Re: primary Paris hotel booking

2012-01-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-01-04 10:03, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, January 03, 2012 15:54 -0500 Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: Actually (s), the IETF *does* get credit for rooms sold. We reconcile the attendee list with hotel guests. Go for it. In a way, that is really too bad.

Re: I wish ...

2011-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Also, in general, we have operated on the basis that if people aren't interested enough in a work item or draft to actually work on it or review it, then the work item isn't really important to the community. This even applies to drafts that I write, if nobody is interested ;-). When all work

Re: Proposal to remove three datatracker pages (https://datatracker.ietf.org/iesg/ann/ind/, /new, and /prev

2011-12-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, On 2011-12-16 09:20, Robert Sparks wrote: There are three pages exposed at the datatracker that have become stale or are producing erroneous information. https://datatracker.ietf.org/iesg/ann/ind/ IESG Statements on Independent Submissions This is in theory very useful information. I

Re: The work of an IAOC/Trust member

2011-12-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-08 06:26, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net Subpoenas Subpoenas? Really? Wow! Well, that should scare a few people off... :-) Subpoenas served on the IETF (Trust) about prior art or IPR disclosure, not on individuals. It was never a problem

Re: The work of an IAOC/Trust member

2011-12-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-08 08:41, t.petch wrote: - Original Message - From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com To: Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Wednesday, December 07, 2011 8:15 PM On 2011-12-08 06:26, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Dave CROCKER d

Re: Netfilter (Linux) Does IPv6 NAT

2011-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-06 18:14, Mark Andrews wrote: ... The so-called IPv6 privacy addresses are terminology fud. No, there is no fear, uncertainty or doubt involved. If you don't want to be traceable by your MAC address, use privacy addresses. That will even conceal from parents which child is

Re: Netfilter (Linux) Does IPv6 NAT

2011-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Martin, Renumbering the internal network would be completely silly. You certainly do not want any interruptions of the local network traffic just because you frequently change the address on the external interface for privacy reasons. This is why ULAs are useful. People just need to get used

Re: Netfilter (Linux) Does IPv6 NAT

2011-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-06 15:00, Martin Rex wrote: Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: In case you didn't see this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Netfilter-developers-working-on-NAT-for-ip6tables-1385877.html It's a complete IPv6 NAT implementation with the functionality of the IPv4 one in the same

Re: Netfilter (Linux) Does IPv6 NAT

2011-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-06 15:40, Martin Rex wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Martin Rex wrote: Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: In case you didn't see this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Netfilter-developers-working-on-NAT-for-ip6tables-1385877.html It's a complete IPv6 NAT implementation

Re: An Antitrust Policy for the IETF

2011-12-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-03 06:12, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:24 PM, John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Rather than trying to set up rules that cover all hypothetical developments, I would suggest a practical approach. In our process, disputes are materialized by an appeal. Specific

Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
are also going to happen within the ISP network / back-office etc. 172.16.0.0/12 is used there. Daryl On 30 November 2011 20:52, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.comwrote: On 2011-12-01 09:28, Chris Grundemann wrote: ... It is more conservative to share a common pool. It suddenly

Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-12-01 09:28, Chris Grundemann wrote: ... It is more conservative to share a common pool. It suddenly occurs to me that I don't recall any serious analysis of using 172.16.0.0/12 for this. It is a large chunk of space (a million addresses) and as far as I know it is not used by default in

Re: Netfilter (Linux) Does IPv6 NAT

2011-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Does it support RFC 6296? Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-12-01 13:07, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: In case you didn't see this: http://www.h-online.com/open/news/item/Netfilter-developers-working-on-NAT-for-ip6tables-1385877.html It's a complete IPv6 NAT implementation with the

Re: An Antitrust Policy for the IETF

2011-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-29 08:10, IETF Chair wrote: Ted: The IETF legal counsel and insurance agent suggest that the IETF ought to have an antitrust policy. To address this need, a lawyer is needed. As a way forward, I suggest that IASA pay a lawyer to come up with an initial draft, and then this

Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-15 03:24 Brian E Carpenter said: Please can everybody who doesn't upload PDF to the meeting materials page at least take care to upload PPT instead of PPTX? Not everybody has paid the ransom necessary to open PPTX files. ___ Ietf

Re: An Antitrust Policy for the IETF

2011-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-29 14:51, John Levine wrote: Here is some relevant language from the Complaint: 100. By their failures to monitor and enforce the SSO Rules, and to respond to TruePosition's specific complaints concerning violations of the SSO Rules, 3GPP and ETSI have acquiesced in, are

Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I refrained from commenting during the IETF Last Call, and I think it might help the IESG to reach the least bad decision if I say why. This whole proposal will *never* be palatable to me. However, it may be reasonable for the IETF to lay down appropriate restrictions, even though we know that

[Idle chatter] IBM open source (Plagued by PPTX again)

2011-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-19 07:46, David Morris wrote: On Fri, 18 Nov 2011, John R. Levine wrote: * - You don't want to get locked into open source, credited to an IBM salesman Because once you try an open source mail reader, you'll never want to go back to Lotus Notes? :-) That was way before IBM

Avian news

2011-11-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Please see the reader comment by Oor Nonny-Muss on this story to understand its relevance to the IETF. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2011/11/16/salad_leaf_turns_out_to_be_dead_bird/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: [IETF] Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-15 23:13, Warren Kumari wrote: On Nov 15, 2011, at 5:55 PM, Ray Bellis wrote: On 15 Nov 2011, at 16:26, Bob Hinden wrote: +1 The Datatracker does officially support PPTX, so I don't believe it's unreasonable to use it. If you don't like that policy, I'm not sure where you

Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-11-16 13:56, John Levine wrote: What is much more important is that the data formats used by the IETF will still be fully supported in 15-20 years. For a new, and more so a proprietary data format, ... I'm confused. When you say a proprietary data format, I presume you mean

Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Please can everybody who doesn't upload PDF to the meeting materials page at least take care to upload PPT instead of PPTX? Not everybody has paid the ransom necessary to open PPTX files. -- Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list

IETF jabber room histories (Re: Virtual Water Coolers)

2011-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-10-31 23:18, Dave Cridland wrote: That said, I think our existing chatrooms are configured not to have history - presumably to avoid confusing when they're only used for three single weeks throughout the year. Indeed. This is a major annoyance when joining a session late or

Re: IETF jabber room histories (Re: Virtual Water Coolers)

2011-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
that people can find them later Scott On Oct 31, 2011, at 4:20 PM, Doug Barton wrote: On 10/31/2011 13:07, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think all the rooms at jabber.ietf.org should have history enabled, but cleared out just prior to each meeting. +1 -- Nothin' ever doesn't

Re: Virtual Water Coolers

2011-10-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
There's a reason we use email here. It's called time zones. Jabber doesn't work when people are spread across all time zones. There are forum-style mechanisms that also avoid the time zone problem, but I've never found them as convenient as threaded email. Brian (Saturday morning, 10:50 a.m)

Re: TICC restrictions on food/beverage

2011-10-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-10-28 09:07, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, October 27, 2011 14:24 -0500 Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com wrote: No food or beverages are allowed to be brought into the meeting rooms and working group sessions unless specifically served by the IETF. [MB] In my

Re: The death John McCarthy

2011-10-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
is a misnomer; it is not a locator/identifier split. It's a global locator to site locator mapping. This was pointed out some time ago... Brian Original Message Subject: draft-farinacci-lisp-00 Date: Wed, 07 Feb 2007 12:32:16 +0100 From: Brian E Carpenter b...@zurich.ibm.com

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