What? This thread is talking about *voting* now?

2011-10-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It's really annoying when a thread drifts to a wildly different topic without somebody thinking to change the Subject header. My comments on nominees would be much less frank if I knew they would be published. In fact, I doubt if I would make any at all. Here's a comment I sent in a number of

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

2011-10-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-10-11 10:18, Stephen Farrell wrote: ... (What's the relevant plural for mea cupla I wonder? ;-) Nostra culpa, if you want a single fault owned by us. It's nostrae culpae for multiple faults by all of us. Perhaps it should be added to the Note Well. Brian

Re: Discussion of closure of the MEAD Team

2011-10-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-10-07 04:01, Adrian Farrel wrote: ... I am aware that there are comments that an IETF design team should not have been shut down without consent from the ITU-T. I find, however, that when the ITU-T agreed to develop MPLS-TP in cooperation with the IETF within the IETF and using

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

2011-10-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Malcolm, I'm technically incompetent to comment on draft-tsb-mpls-tp-ach-ptn. However, if we reframe the debate as how to reconcile OaM for Ethernet-based PTN with OaM for MPLS-TP-based PTN, we might have a more productive discussion. Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-10-07 03:00,

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

2011-10-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Jian, On 2011-10-06 03:53, yang.jia...@zte.com.cn wrote: Dear All, I do not support either. In section 3.5: If two MPLS OAM protocols were to be deployed we would have to consider three possible scenarios: 1) Isolation of the network into two incompatible and unconnected islands.

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

2011-09-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Huub, On 2011-09-30 20:19, Huub van Helvoort wrote: All, Section 1,1 also contains the text: [RFC5317] includes the analysis that it is technically feasible that the existing MPLS architecture can be extended to meet the requirements of a Transport profile, and that the

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

2011-09-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott, On 2011-09-30 05:30, Scott O Bradner wrote: I'm having a hard time understanding just what this document is trying to do I understand from the title that it is supposed to be telling the reader why a single OAM solution is a good idea for MPLS-TP if that is the case I'm not all

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-29 04:24, Russ Housley wrote: Brian: And to be clear, I (still the previous IETF Chair) think that some such change is needed, which is exactly why I wrote the above draft in 2006. Perhaps the difference is that I see the IAOC/Trust role as very hard to separate from the IETF

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-28 08:03, John C Klensin wrote: snip ... Interesting it is exactly the assumption that the IAB Chair will have first hand involvement in everything that the IAB does that is cited an example of why it is necessary to have the IAB Chair on the IASA. So, if the IAB succeeds in

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

2011-09-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Please see attached review. 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:

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

2011-09-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-23 17:21, Benson Schliesser wrote: However, I would like to make sure we don't lose sight of the need for some urgency with draft-weil. I'm a little puzzled by the claim of urgency; I remember hearing in July 2008 that doom was imminent if this was not done immediately. I thought

Re: A or B [was Trust membership]

2011-09-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
My version of the history is taken from the IAB's own web site, and it is very specific that the original name was Advisory from 1984 to 1986: http://www.iab.org/about/history/ Not that it really matters; I just wanted to observe that the role has evolved over the years. Brian On

A or B [was Trust membership]

2011-09-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think this disagreement between two ex-IAB Chairs deserves its own thread. On 2011-09-21 17:47, Olaf Kolkman wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 11:09 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ...exactly. I'm far from convinced about that. I think the real need is to figure out how to make the IAOC an Oversight

Re: Trust membership [Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility]

2011-09-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-21 05:44, Olaf Kolkman wrote: On Sep 20, 2011, at 6:25 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: - Olaf's wording be changed to make the IAB Chair, IETF Chair and ISOC CEO into ex-officio and non-voting Liaisons to the IAOC and the Trust. - The TAP then be modified to recognize the status of

Trust membership [Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility]

2011-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-19 20:05, Olaf Kolkman wrote: snip Also, the new section 2.3, which is incorrectly titled but presumably is intended to be IETF Trust membership seems to me to be inconsistent with the Trust Agreement. The Trust Agreement states that the Eligible Persons (to become Trustees) are

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
+4 and rotfl Brian On 2011-09-16 17:17, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: I thought the counting of votes was finished on this topic but people seem to keep emailing their support/lack-of, so naturally I will be a good lemming and do the same. 1) I am in favor of the two-maturity-levels draft and

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, I don't share your confusion. I do feel that to be able to construct reasonably pleasant sentences, we need both the verb SHOULD and the adjectival participle RECOMMENDED, and their negatives, in various circumstances. I could propose an alternative erratum, adding MANDATORY, but I won't;

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-11 08:11, Sam Hartman wrote: snip I do not think the following types of comments should be considered as objections when judging this sort of consensus: 1) You are not solving the most important problem 2) This will not do any good Exactly. A very large part of the discussion

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-11 13:26, Eric Burger wrote: So should we move to a one-step process? There is a detailed proposal for that at http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fits-all-01.txt I don't think the arguments have changed much since 2006. Brian On Sep 9, 2011, at 9:33 PM,

Who raised the bar? [Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels]

2011-09-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-07 09:35, Ted Hardie wrote: ... My personal opinion for some time has been that we ought to recognize that the previous PS moved into WG draft years ago and that anything named an RFC should be recognized as something that market will consider a standard. And who raised the bar? It

Re: Who raised the bar?

2011-09-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-07 10:12, Julian Reschke wrote: On 2011-09-07 00:01, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-09-07 09:35, Ted Hardie wrote: ... My personal opinion for some time has been that we ought to recognize that the previous PS moved into WG draft years ago and that anything named an RFC should

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-03 09:29, Ross Callon wrote: ... I think that we should go to a two maturity level process, be done with this little step, and also enthusiastically encourage people to write drafts that propose *other* changes to the process. Then at least we can be debating something different

Re: Minimum Implementation Requirements (Was: 2119bis)

2011-09-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-09-02 07:45, Melinda Shore wrote: ... Can anybody point to an incident in which lack of clarity around 2119 language caused problems, and it was determined that 2119 itself was the problem and not authors or editors being careless? (or implementors being careless) Indeed. I'm in

Scheduling years in advance [Re: voting system for future venues?]

2011-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-30 22:04, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 30 aug 2011, at 9:22, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: That is a 4.5 year difference in when the exact date is announced. This increase the risk that there is a clash with another meeting and people cannot plan much in advance. Come on, the idea

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-31 09:51, Fred Baker wrote: ... If the AD raised a valid issue, the ball is in the author/wg's court to address it. They can game this rule by not responding until after 45 days. Not if the draft has been updated and the AD doesn't either cancel the DISCUSS within a reasonable

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-31 08:18, Jari Arkko wrote: ... Here are the suggested guidelines for documents that advance to IS: http://www.arkko.com/ietf/iesg/discuss-criteria-advancing.txt Comments appreciated. To answer Jari's original request: +1 to these new guidelines. Not worth nit-picking until we

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-31 10:38, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I support adding the SHOULD ... UNLESS formalism (although maybe it should be MUST... UNLESS). It would be useful as there will be times where the UNLESS can be specified and has

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-30 10:08, Eric Burger wrote: I would assume in the text of the document. This paragraph is simply an enumeration of Burger's Axiom: For every SHOULD, there must be an UNLESS, otherwise the SHOULD is a MAY. And there can be cases where even a MUST needs an unless. These

Re: Routing at the Edges of the Internet

2011-08-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-27 04:03, Scott Brim wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04, Worley, Dale R (Dale) dwor...@avaya.com wrote: There must be at least a few hundred million mobile phones with data capability, and a similar number of homes and small businesses with WiFi systems. So we can estimate that

Re: voting system for future venues?

2011-08-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-25 10:01, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 08/24/2011 10:32 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: It would be interesting if someone with historical data could plot IETF hotel and meeting fee costs over the years since 1986, normalized to take account of inflation and trade-weighted currency

Re: voting system for future venues?

2011-08-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-25 13:42, somebody other than Ole Jacobsen wrote: I agree that IAOC should ensure that there are inexpensive hotels nearby so that those with a tight budget can save money. This is the key point. The anchor hotel, especially when there is a convention centre involved, is quite

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-required-01.txt (IPv6Support Required for all IP-capable nodes) to Proposed Standard

2011-08-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
+1 to Ned. I can't see why this draft seems to make some people go defensive - it isn't saying IPv4 is evil or anything silly like that, it's just saying IPv6 is the future. RFC1122v6 is another matter entirely. We clearly aren't ready for it yet, but draft-ietf-6man-node-req-bis is a step on the

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-required-01.txt

2011-08-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank, On 2011-08-23 00:09, Frank Ellermann wrote: Nothing is wrong in BCP 104, it needs no updated by moving the definition of the term version support from one of its sections to another section. But there *is* something wrong with it - it makes IPv6 sound like an optional add-on to basic IP

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-required-01.txt (IPv6 Support Required for all IP-capable nodes) to Proposed Standard

2011-08-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-21 19:02, SM wrote: Hi Brian, ... IPv6 node requirements are defined in RFC 4294. It's merely an informative reference in draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-required-01. The discussion about IPV4 address pool exhaustion (Section 1) is a distraction from a definition of an IP-capable node.

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-required-01.txt (IPv6 Support Required for all IP-capable nodes) to Proposed Standard

2011-08-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Subramanian, I think most of your comments will be dealt with by wordsmithing, but... On 2011-08-21 06:11, SM wrote: ... From Section 2: 'Updates [RFC1812], especially sections 1, 2, and 4 which use the generic IP synonymously with the more specific IPv4. Since RFC1812 is an

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

2011-08-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-20 09:30, Peter Koch wrote: ... o draft-bdgks-arin-shared-transition-space-01.txt would have to be elevated to a normative reference, with all consequences I don't think this is really required; it is after all an explanatory document. However, I do think that *if* draft-weil- is

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-intarea-ipv6-required-01.txt (IPv6 Support Required for all IP-capable nodes) to Proposed Standard

2011-08-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I fully support this document. It could be tuned in the way Keith suggested, but basically it is a Good Thing. Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IESG voting procedures

2011-08-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-08-15 04:29, Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 14, 2011, at 12:24 PM, Russ Housley wrote: The IESG did make some changes to the voting procedures a couple of years ago. The change was to make it clear that a single DISCUSS position could not block a

Re: IESG voting procedures

2011-08-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
1. I'm glad that the ballot now has an explicit 'recuse' option. Sorry about that red herring in my previous message. 2. (Excuse front posting). You can call it 'abstain' or you can call it 'no'. What it means is that the AD concerned has objections to the document that *cannot* be fixed

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-14 06:29, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: ... I really have to wonder if the entire yes/no-obj/discuss voting model is appropriate for document advancement. For initial approval at proposed, sure, having the ability to discuss the document makes all sorts of sense. But for

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hector, On 2011-08-04 14:35, Hector Santos wrote: Brian E Carpenter asked: Can you be more specific? Are you talking about a) drafts that appear in the WG with very mature text, so complete the WG progress very quickly? b) drafts that are direct submissions to the IESG, and go through

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-08.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hector, On 2011-08-04 09:19, Hector Santos wrote: I appreciate this exchange here. I have a better idea of the draft and your intention I have a few comments. What I have noticed of late are fast track RFCs are coming out of no where, very fast and sometimes are indirectly related to a WG

Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule

2011-08-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-03 05:45, Mark Nottingham wrote: snip ... Some people will still doubtless complain. /snip Could we take this as the conclusion of this discussion? I'm being serious. Tuning the schedule in the light of feedback should be a constant concern, amd it will always be a balancing

Re: Drafts Submissions cut-off

2011-08-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Speaking for myself, I *highly* value the existing twin cutoff dates. It makes it possible to perform triage on the drafts before the meeting, and to read a reasonable number of them that seem important with some care. Allowing drafts to be posted right up to the start of the meeting would make

technical plenary [was: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule]

2011-08-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-08-02 11:35, David Kessens wrote: Margaret, On Mon, Aug 01, 2011 at 07:02:22PM -0400, Margaret Wasserman wrote: If we don't want to hold meetings on Friday afternoons due to conflicts, I'd much rather see us eliminate one of the plenaries and hold meetings during that time slot.

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-07-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-27 00:52, Olaf Kolkman wrote: Dear Colleagues, Based on the discussion I've updated the draft: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kolkman-iasa-ex-officio-membership Essentially I incorporated Dave Crocker's proposal to 1) replace the 'chairs' by voting members appointed

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Pete, On 2011-07-31 04:55, Pete Resnick wrote: ... I *really* want an answer to the issue that Scott raises. Eric and Brian each refer to a baby step. A baby step toward what exactly? If the answer is simply, to align documentation with current procedure, that's fine, but then I want to

Re: Kevin's second byte question

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
or octet except as superseded. I think you will need to add a complicated footnote on this. On 2011-07-29 01:10, Thomson, Martin wrote: On 2011-07-27 at 18:03:13, Brian E Carpenter wrote: The second byte in an IPv4 header is called the Differentiated Services Field. I believe

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith, On 2011-07-29 02:20, Keith Moore wrote: On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are moving a

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, we are shouting past each other so I will not repeat myself on all points. However, ... Of course, there can be cases where that is not so - in fact, that's the main reason that the IESG defined the DISCUSS criteria a few years ago. Have you seen a pattern of having a Discuss cite the

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-28 18:45, SM wrote: Hi Martin, At 04:13 PM 7/27/2011, Martin Rex wrote: According to rfc2026: 4.2.2 Informational An Informational specification is published for the general information of the Internet community, and does not represent an Internet community

Re: IPv6 traffic distribution

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Looking at a trace that I got from Geoff Huston a month or two ago, there are 25486 IPv6 TCP sessions of which 10748 have a 6to4 source address. That's surprisingly high, showing that the answer depends greatly on the point of observation, and explains why operators really need to try to run a

Re: Kevin's second byte question

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
reserved, but without conclusion. Nevertheless, the words in RFC 2474 don't say that. They say that DS Field refers to the entire octet, including the (then unused) ECN bits. We knew ECN was coming when this was published. Brian On Jul 28, 2011, at 16:58, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 2011-07-29 13:53, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 7/28/2011 7:22 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dave, we are shouting past each other so I will not repeat myself on all points. However, Brian, I did not ask you to repeat anything -- and don't want you to. Rather, I asked you to move

Re: Reminder: Remote Participation Support for Admin Plenary Tonight

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Alexa, Writing from Auckland NZ, I wish to object to the fact that the regular audio streaming is not avaialble for the plenaries. It's a signficant inconvenience. Meetecho requires login and is picky about browser versions and Java versions, forced me to blindly accept a security certificate,

Re: Reminder: Remote Participation Support for Admin Plenary Tonight

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
are harder to recognise. Brian Cheers, Gonzalo On 27/07/2011 5:42 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Alexa, Writing from Auckland NZ, I wish to object to the fact that the regular audio streaming is not avaialble for the plenaries. It's a signficant inconvenience. Meetecho requires login

Kevin's second byte question

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The second byte in an IPv4 header is called the Differentiated Services Field. Quoting RFC 2474: 2. Terminology Used in This Document ... Differentiated Services Field: the IPv4 header TOS octet or the IPv6 Traffic Class octet when interpreted in conformance with the definition given

Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Responding to Glen Zorn's question in plenary: Firstly, not all ADs review all drafts - that's why you will see numerous no objection or missing ballot responses. Secondly, the drafts are de facto reviewed by review teams these days (gen-art, security area, etc.). This serves to alert the ADs if

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-28 11:13, Martin Rex wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Responding to Glen Zorn's question in plenary: Firstly, not all ADs review all drafts - that's why you will see numerous no objection or missing ballot responses. I can understand the resource contention when reading drafts

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-28 10:34, Dave CROCKER wrote: Firstly, not all ADs review all drafts - that's why you will see numerous no objection or missing ballot responses. Brian, I've been repeatedly hearing from IESG folk for some year -- and seeing reports relating to Nomcom -- that, in fact, ADs

Re: Reminder: Remote Participation Support for Admin Plenary Tonight

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
in this misunderstanding. Alexa On Jul 27, 2011, at 3:27 PM, SM wrote: Hi Alexa, At 02:42 PM 7/27/2011, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Writing from Auckland NZ, I wish to object to the fact that the regular audio streaming is not avaialble for the plenaries. It's a signficant inconvenience

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
agreed. The NomCom needs an overview of this. Brian Ciao Hannes On Jul 27, 2011, at 6:12 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Responding to Glen Zorn's question in plenary: Firstly, not all ADs review all drafts - that's why you will see numerous no objection or missing ballot responses

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-28 09:46, Jari Arkko wrote: After extensive discussion on this list and in the IESG Russ has decided to make a reduced proposal. I am now initiating a new Last Call to gauge consensus on the new version. Thankyou. I fully support this version. Brian Carpenter

Re: 6to4v2 (as in ripv2)?

2011-07-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
. -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Monday, July 25, 2011 11:09 PM To: Ronald Bonica Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic (yet again) To be clear, I'd like to see exact proposed text before expressing

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic (yet again)

2011-07-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
levels reach zero, operators will probably begin to consider decommissioning. The status of RFCs 3056 and 3068 should not be interpreted as a recommendation to remove 6-to-4 at any particular time. -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic (yet again)

2011-07-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Likewise, operators will decide whether/when 6-to-4 relays will be removed from their networks. This is, of course, an undeniable statement of fact (as it is for any other feature of the Internet). However, it needs to be made clear that doing so *prematurely* would penalise existing

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic (yet again)

2011-07-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
To be clear, I'd like to see exact proposed text before expressing support for the proposal. The trick is to get 6to4 disabled by default at the user end, without disabling it for users who are getting good service from it. Regards Brian On 2011-07-26 09:49, Brian E Carpenter wrote

Re: [v6ops] Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

2011-07-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-19 11:26, Erik Kline wrote: Given that each of us reads something different into the definition of HISTORIC, is there any hope that this thread will ever converge? I don't see any progress. We may just have to blacklist any resolvers that have 6to4 clients behind them and

Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

2011-07-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-16 03:55, John C Klensin wrote: (2) Pull the -advice document back from the RFC Editor queue and fold the actual substantive content of the -historic document into it, preferably as a very clear and very prominent Applicability Statement. I am very strongly against this. The

Re: Last Call: draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-06.txt (Report on the Experiment with IETF Operational Notes (IONs)) to Informational RFC

2011-07-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Mykyta, I think the draft is fine without this addition, which contains some statements that I disagree with. I don't think analysis is needed; this all ancient history anyway. Regards Brian On 2011-07-13 04:50, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello, As Russ agreed to sponsor this document on

Re: secdir review of draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis

2011-07-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Richard, Thanks for the review. On 2011-07-12 01:17, Richard L. Barnes wrote: I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security

Repetitions and consensus

2011-07-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, We quite often discuss here how to judge rough consensus. In a completely non-IETF context, I came upon a reference to an article published in 2007 with the catchy title Inferring the Popularity of an Opinion From Its Familiarity: A Repetitive Voice Can Sound Like a Chorus. Here's an

Dropping 2002::/16 considered very harmful

2011-07-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-08 19:16, Roger Jørgensen wrote: Guess I should clearify something, the thing I am considering are to drop all 2002::/16 addresses hard, of course preferable return a correct error messages to. This is an awesomely bad idea. As explained in the approved advisory document, it makes

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-advisory dependency on draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic

2011-07-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yes, I'm planning to check that in AUTH48 and wordsmith it as necessary. Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-07-06 14:22, C. M. Heard wrote: Greetings, I note that draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-advisory-02, now approved for publication and in the RFC Editor's queue, has a minor dependency on

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis-05.txt (IPv6 Flow Label Specification) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Alexandru, I don't know which draft you are commenting on, but it isn't draft-ietf-6man-flow-3697bis, which has no discussion of mobility. Could you please retransmit with the correct Subject header? Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-07-02 03:28, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: For text in

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-06-25 13:38, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: james woodyatt j...@apple.com I supported 6to4-advisory and strenuously argued against taking up 6to4-to-historic. ... I can see how 6to4-to-historic may divert its intended audience from reading the much more

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith, On 2011-06-24 23:47, Keith Moore wrote: ... 1. Working groups often have strong biases and aren't representative of the whole community. Put another way, a working group often represents only one side of a tussle, and working groups are often deliberately chartered in such a way as

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-06-24 12:44, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 6/23/11 4:36 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: Greetings again. The subject line is an honest question, not a gripe. For those on the ietf@ mailing list, please see https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic/ballot/. In short,

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michel, On 2011-06-10 15:38, Michel Py wrote: ... On that one I agree with Keith; where's the rush? Although imperfect, 6to4 was an obvious path and its demise would be the failure of the IETF, following a long list of things that have been killed prematurely. Who's talking about its demise?

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-06-11 04:03, Tony Hain wrote: ... There is no real problem with 6to4, despite the BS being propagated about failure rates. That's no BS, unfortunately. Have you studied the careful reports at https://labs.ripe.net/Members/emileaben/6to4-how-bad-is-it-really and

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2011-06-11 05:05, John C Klensin wrote: ... But, to the extent to which the motivation for moving 6to4 to Historic is what Tony describes as kill-what-we-don't-like, Unfortunately, as I know from the enormous amount of technical feedback I got from living, breathing operators while

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Klensin wrote: --On Saturday, June 11, 2011 05:28 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: John, On 2011-06-11 05:05, John C Klensin wrote: ... But, to the extent to which the motivation for moving 6to4 to Historic is what Tony describes as kill-what-we-don't-like

Re: Liaison and request for review of ITU-T document

2011-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ralph, As far as I can tell this seems to describe some sort of a Layer 2 stateful per-flow QoS mechanism using new Ethertype headers. As such I don't see why the IETF would care. The point of it escapes me, since we have plenty of reason to believe that such solutions are impractical and do not

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Philip, On 2011-06-10 03:18, Philip Homburg wrote: ... I think this is likely to happen anyway. In all discussions it has been come clear that 6to4 has nothing to offer for ordinary users, In all fairness, that depends on your definition of ordinary. Where I differ from Keith is that I don't

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4) to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Lorenzo, On 2011-06-10 06:20, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 10:57 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: So the existence of 6to4 is in itself a significant barrier for IPv6 deployment for server operators and content providers. non sequitur. Existing

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt

2011-06-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-06-09 04:17, james woodyatt wrote: On Jun 8, 2011, at 9:04 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Martin Rex m...@sap.com Classification of 6to4 as historic is [in]appropriate use of the IETF process, because it would be a political .. statement. Well, we've never done _that_ before, have we?

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic-04.txt (Request to move Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds (6to4 to Historic status) to Informational RFC

2011-06-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
After a fair amount of thought, I have decided that I support this document without reservation. I support the recommendation that RFC 3056/3068 support should be off by default in CPEs; the reasons for this are clear enough in my companion draft. Specifically, I support the choice of SHOULD NOT

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ship it. We are way past the point of diminishing returns in polishing this. Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-22 05:49, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 4/21/11 10:38 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 4/20/2011 2:21 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In the case of the IETF Chair I believe the issue is that it's highly desirable, from a governance viewpoint, that the IETF Chair has *personal* responsibility

Re: Revising I-Ds became painful

2011-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-21 17:18, Glen Zorn wrote: On 4/21/2011 12:18 AM, Behcet Sarikaya wrote: Hi, It seems like I-D submission for a revised draft (after expiration) encounters so many new hurdles: 1. Version number. Submission page complains about the version number even though it is

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-20 21:13, SM wrote: Hi Bob, At 14:04 19-04-2011, Bob Hinden wrote: But that may not always be the case that all IAOC members have a lot of IETF experience. We need to have a governance model that works into the future. ... You may notice that there isn't any intersection with

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Olaf, Thanks for posting this analysis. I'm on travel but will have a careful look in a few days. Brian On 2011-04-15 04:25, Olaf Kolkman wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Certainly the IASA/IAD/IAOC reorganisation produced a noticeable reduction in the IETF Chair

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-14 06:19, Bob Hinden wrote: Olaf, On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: [as editor:] It seems that the high order bit of this discussion circles around the question on whether it a requirement for the IETF Chair to have a voting position in order to effectively

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2011-04-15 01:10, John C Klensin wrote: ... But, remembering that the IASA has only the purpose of making the extended IETF (including the IAB) work more efficiently, I see a somewhat different question. The roles and resource requirements of the IAB and IETF Chairs have expanded

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-07 03:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-31 08:52, SM wrote: ... My reading of John's proposal (draft-klensin-iaoc-member-00) is that it is framed in such a way to avoid some of the issues that can occur with draft-kolkman-iasa-ex-officio-membership-00. When delegating responsibility, one should also consider

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-01 08:38, SM wrote: Hi Brian, At 00:07 31-03-2011, Brian E Carpenter wrote: And that is exactly the problem with 'non-voting' status in a committee that mainly operates by consensus. It allows people who really ought to share accountability to apear to avoid it. According

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-31 00:21, Olaf Kolkman wrote: Dear Colleagues, I have just chartered a very short draft that intends to update BCP101. It can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kolkman-iasa-ex-officio-membership The draft is very short and contains only a few sentences of

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-31 01:26, Barry Leiba wrote: I'm very concerned about the IETF Chair getting decoupled from the IAOC. The IETF Chair's job is a whole lot more than being IESG Chair, and some degree of personal responsibility for oversight of the administrative work seems to me to be appropriate.

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-31 01:44, Russ Housley wrote: Brian: Dear Colleagues, I have just chartered a very short draft that intends to update BCP101. It can be found at: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-kolkman-iasa-ex-officio-membership The draft is very short and contains only a few sentences of

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