Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
So my brain then went to: The ex officio positions are non-voting liaisons, delegated or not, but they also should appoint a person who is /not/ from their body as a voting person. IMHO your brain went to the wrong place ;-) The IETF Chair is not a liaison for goodness sake - s/he is

Internet pioneer Paul Baran passes away

2011-03-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sad news: http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-12879908 -- Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Site Renumbering (RENUM) BOF at IETF 80

2011-03-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Site Renumbering (RENUM) BOF at IETF 80 THURSDAY, March 31, 2011, 1520-1720, Congress Hall II Chairs: Brian Carpenter + TBD Sponsoring AD: Ron Bonica Mailing list: re...@ietf.org Subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/renum Description --- As outlined in RFC 5887,

Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-16 11:22, Martin Rex wrote: Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Any documents that are still classified as Draft Standard two years after the publication of this RFC will be automatically downgraded to Proposed Standard. 1. While the accounting ugliness

Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
There are numerous improvements in this version and I hope we can get consensus soon. Just a couple of remarks on 5. Transition to a Standards Track with Two Maturity Levels 1) Probably there should be a statement that all existing Internet Standard documents are still classified as Internet

Re: Where to find IONs?

2011-03-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-07 00:15, Adrian Farrel wrote: Hi Mykyta, Please see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg04792.html Adrian One could argue that http://www.ietf.org/iesg/process-experiment.html should also contain pointers, or at least a status line, for concluded

Re: My comments to the press about OAM for MPLS

2011-03-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-04 06:51, Russ Housley wrote: Nurit: Not to mention including the canard that the IETF unilaterally disbanded its group assigned to work with ITU in 2009. Others with more detailed knowledge can explain exactly why this is, er, a lie. Here are some facts: === I

Re: My comments to the press about OAM for MPLS

2011-03-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-03 05:02, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Mar 2, 2011, at 10:15 AM, Russ Housley wrote: I want the whole community to be aware of the comments that I made to the press over the past few days. Last Friday, the ITU-T Study Group 15 decided to move forward with an OAM solution that is

Re: Where to find IETF recommendations?

2011-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-03-02 01:29, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Mar 01, 2011 at 01:18:12PM +0100, Shane Kerr wrote: FWIW, this came up in the dnsext working group a few years ago. In the end, I don't think anything was done, which is kind of a shame. Nothing was done for want of workers ;-) We

Re: What If....

2011-02-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-02-26 10:34, bill manning wrote: The IANA function was split? RFC 2860 already did that. It seems to work well. http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf I'm glad to see they are up to date: Paper submissions should include a three and one-half inch

Re: RFC production center XML format usage, was: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-02-25 05:38, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Feb 24, 2011 at 05:11:00PM +0100, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: The ratio of gripes against idnits to actual bug reports is getting to be a bit annoying; and I'd like to suggest that people either submit bug reports, or direct the complaints

Re: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bob, On 2011-02-22 08:23, Bob Hinden wrote: John, Support for the xml2rfc tool was discussed on the IETF mail list when Marshall Rose indicated he could no longer support the tool. Several people volunteered to maintain the tool, and they recommended the it be rewritten. That

Re: World IPv6 Day and Us

2011-02-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-02-17 03:47, Livingood, Jason wrote: Parts of the challenge here is that turning on IPv6 (publishing a ) can also cause brokenness for users that have no IPv6 connectivity, e.g., those relying on broken 6to4 relays. This has been documented all over the place, for example here:

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-01-27 16:29, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any real impact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that move to a (in this proposal, the) higher level since I do not see how this makes any significant changes to the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-01-30 09:52, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 1/29/2011 12:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-01-27 16:29, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 4/ as part of #3 - the rules should also specifically deal with the following pp from 2026 The requirement for at least two independent

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Scott and John, I don't see this as inconsistent with the current 2-stage proposal, if the latter's omission of a requirement for independent interoperable implementations for stage 2 is corrected. I don't, however, believe that the problems are separable. The bar for PS has crept up, IMHO,

Re: Just Thinking (About the Nightmare Transition Ahead)

2011-01-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
What nightmare? I find IPv6 dual stack works just fine. However, see draft-wing-v6ops-happy-eyeballs-ipv6 Regards Brian Carpenter On 2011-01-23 04:34, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: My thought right now is perhaps of an OS update that includes a background client which tries very hard to

Re: Poster sessions

2011-01-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Firstly, I agree: as a general rule, to get official floor space of any kind at the IETF venue, you SHOULD have posted a draft. If there is no draft, that is exactly when you need a bar BOF. (Complicated joke about the height of the bar for a bar BOF, and the drafts to be drunk, goes here.)

Re: IESG position on NAT traversal and IPv4/IPv6

2010-11-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
In any case, there are four facts of life that can't be ignored: 1. We have a BEHAVE WG and it has a charter. 2. We'd better hope that as many protocols as possible can traverse NAT64, which will be with us for many years. 3. An important protocol that needs to traverse NAT44 is called IPv6 (in

Re: [IAOC] Badges and blue sheets

2010-11-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-11-13 02:02, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The general tenor of this conversation seems to be: * Paper badges that reveal our names: BAD - Privacy risk! * RFID badges that allow our movements to be recorded: Cool - Technology! How about paper badges with 2D barcodes? That's

Badges and blue sheets

2010-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-11-12 12:32, Lawrence Conroy wrote: ... Do I think the introduction of badge police to control access to IETF WG meetings is a big deal? I think that freeriders attending our meetings without paying their share of costs would be a big deal. I think that patent trolls attending our

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I could live with this. I could live with draft-housley-two-maturity-levels. I could also live with draft-dawkins-pstmt-twostage (2003), or draft-atkinson-newtrk-twostep (2006), or even draft-carpenter-newtrk-twostep (2005). For that matter I could live with

Re: Provider-Aggregated vs Provider-Independent IPv6 addressing

2010-11-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-11-09 13:54, Templin, Fred L wrote: During the IPv6 panel at the plenary last night, representatives of several major service providers discussed their experiences with IPv6. It became clear that many of their experiments involve technologies that delegate Provider-Aggregated (PA)

Re: Proposed WG and BOF Scheduling Experiment

2010-11-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-11-08 15:26, The IESG wrote: The IESG is seriously considering a WG and BOF scheduling experiment. The goal of the experiment is to provide WG agenda sooner and also provide more time to craft BOF proposals. The proposed experiment includes three parts. First, schedule all BOFs

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-10-26 13:22, Barry Leiba wrote: I'd like to hear from the community about pushing forward with this proposal or dropping it. I see disagreement with the proposal, but we'll see disagreement with any proposal. I see enough support to continue pursuing it, in my opinion, and trying

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-10-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-10-13 12:46, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The original idea seems to have been that IPSEC would be a big enough incentive to upgrade. I've been keeping out of this conversation because I have other things to do, like working on effective technologies for v4/v6 coexistence, but I have to

Re: can we please postpone the ipv6 post-mortem?

2010-10-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Another +1 from me. And with respect to the alleged mistake made 15 years ago, two facts may help: 1. The transition model was complete - because it was based on vendors and ISPs supporting dual stack globally well *before* IPv4 exhaustion. It's because that didn't happen that we have a bit of a

Re: can we please postpone the ipv6 post-mortem?

2010-10-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-10-09 11:42, Martin Rex wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: 1. The transition model was complete - because it was based on vendors and ISPs supporting dual stack globally well *before* IPv4 exhaustion. Huh? Hardly anyone support IPv6 these days. Sorry Martin, to write it more clearly

existing (and questionable) application designs [was Re: US DoD and IPv6]

2010-10-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-10-07 13:57, Fernando Gont wrote: On 06/10/2010 05:40 p.m., Keith Moore wrote: It's perfectly reasonable for applications to include IP addresses and port numbers in their payloads, as this is the only way that the Internet Architecture defines to allow applications to make contact

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-09-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-10-01 16:14, James M. Polk wrote: At 09:59 PM 9/30/2010, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Since you asked, I'd like to see this move forward as quickly as possible. Just one practical issue seems to be hanging. The draft says: This document makes no change to the current STD practice

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-09-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-28 13:59, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Sep 27, 2010, at 7:31 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: So, I came across a interesting recent (June 24, 2010) article on the US DoD's news site (http://www.defense.gov/news/), which quote Kris Strance, the chief of internet protocol for the [Dod], as

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-09-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
rewrite history, and many operators are well beyond project and well into plan. Content providers who aren't into plan have a problem coming up if they still want to grow their audience a few years from now. Brian On Mon, Sep 27, 2010 at 10:20 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen

Re: Nomcom 2010-2011: READ THIS: Important Information on Open Disclosure

2010-09-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tom, On 2010-09-22 04:29, NomCom Chair wrote: Hi Folks, A few folks have submitted some very helpful comments and I'd like to share the answers publicly. Q: If the List is Open why does it require a Login? A: As interpreted by this NomCom, the list is disclosed to the IETF community

Re: Nomcom 2010-2011: Open disclosure of willing nominees

2010-09-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-21 14:07, NomCom Chair wrote: Hi Folks, The first open disclosure of willing nominees for the IETF open positions is now available at https://wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/10/input/ Now I am a little more confused. When I follow this link and use my tools login, I find the

Re: Time Shifting of Internet Traffic

2010-09-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-14 13:46, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I am not finding the net neutrality debate according to K-Street to be very useful or stimulating. +1. No, +100. At the end of the day we have a limited amount of bandwidth available and we can help matters if people co-operate where it is

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-15 04:36, Bob Braden wrote: On 9/14/2010 8:11 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Noel Chiappa: I actually vaguely recall discussions about the TOS field (including how many bits to give to each sub-field), but I can't recall very much of the content of the discussions. If anyone

Re: Revised IAOC Administrative Procedures draft

2010-09-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-13 02:21, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: Adrian, I have absolutely no doubt of the integrity of the IAOC and its chair, but this rule is somewhat vague and open to interpretation. It is like using the word appropriate in a protocol spec! Yes, true, but this is really a rare

Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

2010-09-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-09 09:08, Richard L. Barnes wrote: s/Informational RFCs/independent stream/ If what you're after is RFC == IETF, shouldn't we be eliminating the independent submission process instead of informational RFCs in general. Things like RFC 3693 or draft-ietf-geopriv-arch, which don't

Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

2010-09-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-09 11:25, Richard L. Barnes wrote: Finally, we are an open community encouraging a diversity of views, and it's sometimes necessary (and often desirable) to publish material from the community that meets none of the above criteria. Hence the Independent stream of RFCs. As everyone

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sigh. It's hard to resist tendentious messages. I have two questions for Mr Bennett. Q1. message from our public relations agency To whom or what does our refer in this phrase? Q2. Does your signature block: Richard Bennett Senior Research Fellow Information Technology and Innovation

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-09-08 11:26, Richard Bennett wrote: I think you should have shared the message from our public relations agency that started this incident, Russ. Here's what it said: As Marshall indicated, this seems to have no public existence outside of the present thread. However, let's assume it

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
priority-based, such as 802.11e traffic classes. What on earth could the value of DSCPs be if they didn't map to traffic classes in the data link? RB Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Russ, It has been consistently hard to explain that diffserv is not a prioritisation

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
of the standards, which don't require any particular payment model in order to perform their job. Brian RB On 9/3/2010 1:06 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Richard, Diffserv deals with multiple different queuing disiplines, which may or may not be priority based. Please read RFC 2475 and if you

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
eight IP Precedence values.* (p. 1487) This is very straightforward. RB On 9/3/2010 1:06 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Richard, Diffserv deals with multiple different queuing disiplines, which may or may not be priority based. Please read RFC 2475 and if you like, B.E. Carpenter

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
in the dialog? RB On 9/3/2010 3:11 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Er, exactly what in your quotation is incompatible with what I wrote: Diffserv deals with multiple different queuing disiplines, which may or may not be priority based. ? Regards Brian Carpenter On 2010-09-04 09:34

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Russ, It has been consistently hard to explain that diffserv is not a prioritisation scheme, even within the technical community, let alone to the regulators and the media. I think your comments as quoted are as good as we can expect from journalists. It should be a matter of concern to all of

Re: Is this true?

2010-08-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It's certainly true that you need to use security products that support IPv6 as well as they support IPv4. If they don't, change vendors. Apart from that, it's scare-mongering. Consider that the basic model for IPv6 is not fundamentally different than IPv4; why would the underlying security

Re: Is this true?

2010-08-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-08-27 11:10, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 8/26/2010 2:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Apart from that, it's scare-mongering. Consider that the basic model for IPv6 is not fundamentally different than IPv4; why would the underlying security vulnerabilities be fundamentally different

Re: Is this true?

2010-08-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-08-27 11:36, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 8/26/2010 4:24 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 8/26/2010 2:27 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: why would the underlying security vulnerabilities be fundamentally different? ... True, but the same property means that scanning attacks

DPE and Nomcom [was Re: IETF Attendance by continent]

2010-08-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-08-08 03:11, Doug Ewell wrote: Marshall Eubanks tme at americafree dot tv wrote: We do have some data on this point - the day pass experiment (DPE) has shown pretty conclusively IMO that the IETF does not get a lot of truly local ad-hoc participants. Most day pass attendees appear to

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-07-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-07-30 08:47, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 7/29/2010 10:00 PM, Fred Baker wrote: If we're going to continue this avalanche of ad hoc meetings that we call Bar BOFs, I would recommend that the Secretariat provide a web page for requesting them. The title of the web page should be Poorly

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

2010-07-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I'm only going to comment on the suggested changes to the BCP. The other recommendations all seem to be reasonable additions to the general guidance for future Nomcoms. RECOMMENDATION -- Selective Exclusion * The Nomcom Chair may selectively exclude any participant from a single

The anonymity question

2010-07-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John Levine asked: Some people have argued that it should be possible to participate in some or all IETF processes while remaining partly or completely anonymous. Is this a reasonable expectation? No. Anonymous or pseudonymous contributions would allow a scumbag patent troll to inject

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

2010-07-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-07-18 03:48, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... At: http://www.bbiw.net/recent.html#nomcom2010 there is a copy of the Full Proposal, and a Summary which primarily contains just the recommendations. Um, we have this new system called Internet-Drafts, whereby proposals are issued by a

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-07-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-07-06 08:49, SM wrote: ... The author of the draft is the current IETF Chair. I have some reservations about the IETF Chair driving such a proposal through the process. Although the IETF Chair is also an IETF participant, it can be perceived as problematic when the person writes a

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-06-26 02:49, Russ Housley wrote: Phillip: Obviously, I was not General AD when this happened. However, I was Security AD at the time, so I was involved in the discussions that included the whole IESG. I made my reply to your posting because I want people to realize that there is

Re: The IPv6 Transitional Preference Problem

2010-06-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-06-25 20:08, Carsten Bormann wrote: On Jun 25, 2010, at 09:56, Brian E Carpenter wrote: trying v6 for a couple of seconds before trying v4 in parallel I don't think this is realistic for applications like the Web, where people are now creating Youtube-Spots with high-speed cameras

Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01.txt

2010-06-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It's been amusing to see the same old arguments going past for the Nth time. Maybe we can have a side-thread about the value of N. That said, my comment on this proposal is: ship it. It's simple, simple to implement, and it aligns RFC 2026 with current practice. So let's just do it. Brian

Re: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-05-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-05-28 04:51, David Conrad wrote: ... Well, no. While that is a problem, I suspect the real issue is: 'Within 18 months it is estimated that the number of new devices able to connect to the world wide web will plummet as we run out of IP addresses' I strongly suspect that Daniel

Re: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-05-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
wouldn't want to be the poor soul responsible for their ISP network who built a transition plan based on a 2015 depletion and then realized I was wrong by a few years. Jason -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian E

Re: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-05-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-05-29 03:01, David Conrad wrote: On May 28, 2010, at 1:29 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Today, most users are *not* behind ISP NAT or some other form of global address sharing. An interesting assertion. I'd agree on the ISP NAT part. Not sure about the other form of global

Re: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-05-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-05-28 02:44, Ole Jacobsen wrote: I guess my point was more that this article actually quotes a *real* expert rather than someone we've never heard of --- a more common practice for the press. Whether or not you agree with Daniel, he does at least have extensive experience in these

Re: Last Call: Policy Statement on the Day Pass Experiment

2010-05-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-05-07 11:20, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/6/2010 3:58 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On May 6, 2010, at 6:45 PM, John C Klensin wrote: This seems completely reasonable. And to me too. +1 +1 Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Post-Last-Call document-RFC Changes

2010-04-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bob, I hope we all agree with that. There can be a difficulty, however, if the apparently obvious and correct technical fix actually has implications beyond the obvious that might be picked up by renewed WG discussion or even a repeat Last Call. But I think we would be foolish to legislate on

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I see that this (still the same version) is On agenda of 2010-05-06 IESG telechat, and I must say I'm a little surprised, since I counted seven clear objections to the document and no strong supporting comments. Also, IANA said IANA does not understand the implications of the IANA Actions

Re: Rationale for public, non-subscribable mailing lists

2010-04-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-04-19 08:29, Florian Weimer wrote: I've recently tried to subscribe to the SECDIR list. Apparently, this list is public (it's archived on the web), but one cannot subscribe to it. The question is: Why would anyone configure things this way? It's really, really odd. (It was

Re: Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employment status

2010-04-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-04-09 07:08, Donald Eastlake wrote: On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 7:14 AM, Roni Even ron.even@gmail.com wrote: If this is true it make me wonder why does the IETF care about the affiliation of WG chairs and ADs Roni Even The reason traditionally given that IETF participants in

Re: Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employment status

2010-04-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-04-07 05:57, Melinda Shore wrote: On Apr 6, 2010, at 9:56 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I thought we didn't have members? I've always liked to refer to people doing work here as participants for exactly that reason. Right. Or contributors when they contribute and therefore subject

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Olafur, In my mind there are basically three kinds of IETF working groups: 1) New protocols/protocol extensions frequently with limited attention to operations. 2) Protocol maintainance groups 3) Operational groups RFC2119 words are aimed at the first type, and can to

Re: [Sip] Last Call: draft-ietf-sip-ipv6-abnf-fix (Essential correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI comparison in RFC3261) to Proposed Standard

2010-03-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Cullen, I believe that the RFC 3261 ABNF *is* plain incorrect. It allows the generation of text representations including ::: and that is clearly not intended to be allowed by the description in RFC 4291. (Being precise, it says The :: can only appear once in an address. whereas I can find it

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Christian, On 2010-03-19 05:31, Christian Huitema wrote: If the real reason for this draft is to set conformance levels for DNSSEC (something that I strongly support), then it should be a one-page RFC that says This document defines DNSSEC as these RFCs, and implementations MUST support

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
In my opinion this is not ready for prime time. Basically: it's inconsistent with the requirements part of RFC 2026 and inconsistent with RFC 2119. I don't think we should create confusion by such inconsistency. There are three main aspects of this inconsistency: 1. 3.1. MANDATORY This is

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
an IETF standards action can do that. Regards Brian On 2010-03-18 12:10, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 9:43 AM +1300 3/18/10, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In my opinion this is not ready for prime time. I agree with all of Brian's issues, and add another one that is equally, if not more

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-03-16 05:42, Doug Ewell wrote: ... Note that I am not arguing in favor of plain text as the IETF standard. I just want to keep this part of the discussion real. There is no requirement anywhere that plain-text files may contain only ASCII characters. That requirement is explicit for

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-03-14 10:58, Scott Brim wrote: These technical answers are all great for use in Internet protocols [3339] but the scope of the question is web pages destined for humans to read and understand ... and some humans don't understand them. You could justify what's there now and ignore

Re: Comments on appeal to the IESG concerning the approbation of the IDNA2008 document set.

2010-03-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Andrew, Thankyou for spending time on this. On 2010-03-12 06:16, Andrew Sullivan wrote: ... It is instead an appeal that the documents were not published with disclaimers attached. Interesting. Since we're being legalistic, all IETF documents carry the standard disclaimer (by reference in

Re: Comments on appeal to the IESG concerning the approbation of the IDNA2008 document set.

2010-03-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
a...@shinkuro.com writes: Andrew On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:02:53AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: That seems to cover most angles. I can't see why the IESG could be expected to add technical disclaimers to a consensus document. In fact, doing so would probably be a process violation

Re: Appeal to the IESG concerning the approbation of the IDNA2008 document set.

2010-03-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-03-11 13:09, David Kessens wrote: On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 03:42:12PM -0800, Dave CROCKER wrote: The prudent action is to return it to the appellant, stating that it cannot be processed until it has been made clear and concise. I fully support such an approach (and did propose the

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sip-ipv6-abnf-fix (Essential correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI comparison in RFC3261) to Proposed Standard

2010-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'd like to note that the authors are aware that draft-ietf-6man-text-addr-representation-07 is now proposed for the standards track, and this may mean it becomes a normative reference for sip-ipv6-abnf-fix (and applicable to SIP implementations). Brian Carpenter On 2010-03-06 12:30, The

Re: Announcing Clouds bar BoF during IETF-77 (March, 2010, Anaheim, CA)

2010-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-02-23 07:07, Michael Richardson wrote: Dan == Dan Romascanu Romascanu writes: A new alias has been created for discussion on this topic: Dan clo...@ietf.org mailto:clo...@ietf.org . Dan Do you mean a mail list? Can you provide subscribe information? The participants

Re: Announcing Clouds bar BoF during IETF-77 (March, 2010, Anaheim, CA)

2010-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Well yes, everybody's right in this area, since the terminology is so fuzzy and so infected by marketing noise. In any case, I am not for a moment saying: don't hold a Bar BOF. It seems like an excellent idea to talk about it. What I am saying is: our sister standards body the OGF seems like the

Re: Announcing Clouds bar BoF during IETF-77 (March, 2010, Anaheim, CA)

2010-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Chuckle? Not really. This is depressing. So maybe the IETF should smile and stand back politely. Brian On 2010-02-23 14:05, Jeff Wheeler (jewheele) wrote: actually in the DMTF Telco WG we're completing a 3-month study of the metrics and data artifacts used by the various SDOs, consortia

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-01-12 07:11, Dean Willis wrote: On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 10:32 PM -0600 1/10/10, Dean Willis wrote: Very interesting, from an IETF-hosting perspective. snarkI cannot imagine going to an IETF meeting and not being able to read Wired magazine while I am

Re: Announcement of the new Trust Legal Provisions (TLP 4.0)

2009-12-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-12-29 16:02, Sam Hartman wrote: Julian == Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de writes: Julian Marshall Eubanks wrote: ... This message is to announce that the IETF Trustees have adopted on a new version of the Trust Legal Provisions (TLP), to be effective 28

Re: [rfc-i] Important: do not publish draft-iab-streams-headers-boilerplates-08 as is!

2009-12-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
FWIW, the document allows the RFC editor some headway in maintaining the language in the style guide. Maybe we^H^Hthe IAB should have aimed at full delegation of the boilerplate, exactly as for the Trust-maintained boilerplate. For now, there are indeed weasel words such as: However, this

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-12-19 06:26, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, December 18, 2009 12:10 -0500 Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: What's so bogus about wanting to charge for traffic? Where I would raise a flag is, charge whom ? This sounds very much like the way that international long

Re: Last Call: draft-xli-behave-ivi (The CERNET IVI Translation Design and Deployment for the IPv4/IPv6 Coexistence and Transition) to Experimental RFC

2009-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I'm in favour of publishing this document. I'm wondering which of the two relevant guidelines for Experimental status in http://www.ietf.org/iesg/informational-vs-experimental.html applies in this case. Looking at the writeup in the tracker: This document presents a working example of the

Re: RIM patents using a mime body in a message (and ignores IETF IPR rules)

2009-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-12-01 23:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com writes: Simon Josefsson allegedly wrote on 11/30/2009 10:11 AM: There is no requirement in the IETF process for organizations to disclose patents as far as I can see. The current approach of only having people

Re: RIM patents using a mime body in a message (and ignores IETF IPR rules)

2009-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-12-01 06:03, Thierry Moreau wrote: Simon Josefsson wrote: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com writes: On 2009-11-24 06:44, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:16:49 -0500 Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: Simon Josefsson allegedly wrote

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'm quite happy for the subject matter experts to decide between these two approaches. Thanks Brian On 2009-11-27 01:46, Julian Reschke wrote: Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Nov 17, 2009, at 11:53 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: These are the sort of changes that would, I believe, give

Re: RIM patents using a mime body in a message (and ignores IETF IPR rules)

2009-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-11-24 06:44, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 08:16:49 -0500 Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: Simon Josefsson allegedly wrote on 11/23/2009 5:03 AM: John-Luc said he is bound by confidentiality obligations from his company, and I think the same applies to most

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
, at 11:53 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: These are the sort of changes that would, I believe, give sufficient indication to a would-be user of PATCH of how to make it somewhat safe. Personally I'd prefer to see it made more prominent by starting with something like: Clients requiring to verify

Re: RIM patents using a mime body in a message (and ignores IETF IPR rules)

2009-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
How about the IESG simply rescinds its decision in this week's meeting? I don't see any need for an appeal; if there's a prima facie violation of the disclosure rules, it's just a management item. Much less bother than an appeal. Of course, the rescission would be subject to appeal, but that's

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
These are the sort of changes that would, I believe, give sufficient indication to a would-be user of PATCH of how to make it somewhat safe. Personally I'd prefer to see it made more prominent by starting with something like: Clients requiring to verify the consistent application of a patch

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
In fact, lightning talks are SOP at most operator group meetings. I think that would be an excellent experiment. Brian On 2009-11-17 22:39, Eliot Lear wrote: As a life-long fan of the Gong Show, I think it'd be cool to have a big Gong on the dias, where perhaps after a bunch of loud hums,

Re: Question about draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-12

2009-11-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-11-18 11:15, Andrew Sullivan wrote: So I'd find it really useful to know what problem this dispute resolution mechanism is actually supposed to solve. Since we're (presumably) trying to write rules that will work when common sense has failed, it seems prudent to have a clear path for

Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-12.txt

2009-11-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
This version satisfies all my concerns with previous versions. Thanks! Regards Brian Carpenter ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-11-17 09:12, Bob Hinden wrote: Reaction to the timers was quite mixed, going all the way from love to hate; we never did a survey of the participants afterwards, I think. We probably should have. I was one of the folks who hated it. I view the open mikes as the time for the

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-11-13 20:19, Julian Reschke wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: As far as I can tell, the proposal places the burden for ensuring atomicity entirely on the server. However, PATCH is explicitly not idempotent. If a client issues a PATCH, and the server executes the PATCH, but the client

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Julian, On 2009-11-13 23:35, Julian Reschke wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2009-11-13 20:19, Julian Reschke wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: As far as I can tell, the proposal places the burden for ensuring atomicity entirely on the server. However, PATCH is explicitly not idempotent

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