Re: Can the RIRs bypass the IETF and do their own thing?

2007-05-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-05-11 23:32, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I've already indicated this in previous occasions, but may be not in ppml ... We are proceeding in parallel, with the ID and the PDP at the same time. Nothing in the PDP precludes doing so. The RIRs don't depend on IETF at all, they can define

Re: Can the RIRs bypass the IETF and do their own thing?

2007-05-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-05-11 16:14, Fred Baker wrote: ... One technical question I would ask. What does a Central Authority and IANA Assignment have to do with a Local address of any type? It seems in context that the major issue is an address prefix that is not advertised to neighboring ISPs and can be

Re: [address-policy-wg] Re: Can the RIRs bypass the IETF and do their own thing?

2007-05-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-05-14 16:08, Shane Kerr wrote: Brian, On Mon, May 14, 2007 at 01:34:31PM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-05-11 23:32, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: The RIRs don't depend on IETF at all, they can define global policies for things that the IETF failed to complete if that's

Re: IAOC Communications Plan: Review Requested

2007-05-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I don't see any reference to the reports to Plenary at each IETF meeting (both the short report presented on stage and the longer reports posted to the wiki). I liked it at the beginning when the IAOC also put out a short monthly email to the community. Even though the pace of events may be less

Re: ADs speaking for their WGs

2007-04-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-20 23:58, Theodore Tso wrote: On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 04:56:38PM -0400, Jeffrey I. Schiller wrote: But the more serious case involved IPSEC. The situation was thus: ~20 people for one proposal. ~20 people for a different proposal ~150 people for someone please decide so we can go

Re: ADs speaking for their WGs

2007-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-20 12:07, Frank Ellermann wrote: Spencer Dawkins wrote: - what we tell the WG chairs is that ADs have the power to make a decision for the working group, in order to break a deadlock. Jeff Schiller (one of the ADs who did the WG chair training for several years) was very clear that

Re: ADs speaking for their WGs

2007-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-20 14:44, Scott W Brim wrote: On 04/20/2007 08:35 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: It seems fairly clear in RFC 2418 section 6.1: The Chair has the responsibility and the authority to make decisions, on behalf of the working group, regarding all matters of working group process

Re: [Geopriv] Confirmation of GEOPRIV IETF 68 Working Group Hums

2007-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-20 09:21, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: DHCP is not a great choice in a mobile environment and also not when it comes to more complex location representations. Why can't a mobile system have a locally valid DHCP record (+/- the length of a wireless link)? For that matter, why couldn't a

Re: [Geopriv] Irregularities with the GEOPRIV Meeting at IETF 68

2007-04-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I want to make three peripheral comments. 1. I congratulate the ADs for bringing this to the general list. If we habitually resolve such difficulties openly, we strengthen the IETF going forward. 2. I think we have a general problem of assuming that issues decided in the meeting room and

Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Simon, Can you identify any instance of a non-profit GPL implementor or distributor being sued for not having sent a postcard for the style of RF license you are objecting to? Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-11 10:08, Simon Josefsson wrote: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon, Can you identify any instance of a non-profit GPL implementor or distributor being sued for not having sent a postcard for the style of RF license you are objecting to? Brian, two responses: 1

Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Simon, 4.3. Example License Text Here is a simplistic patent license that would grant third parties the necessary rights in order to use it in free software. X grants a worldwide, non-exclusive, fully-paid, perpetual, royaltee-free patent license to

Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-11 11:34, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: Just one comment: Brian E Carpenter writes: On 2007-04-11 10:08, Simon Josefsson wrote: What typically happens in practice, among good-faith practitioners, is that there won't be any GPL (or Apache, or Mozilla, or ...) implementation

Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ted, Well, if IPR owners don't actually care, why are they asking people to send a postcard? It would seem to be an unnecessary administrative burden for the IPR owners, yes? My assumption is that they care if the party that fails to send a postcard is one of their competitors. That's what

Re: In support of symbolic references

2007-04-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-04-06 08:12, Jari Arkko wrote: Simon, Maybe we can lobby for it to become the default. +1 (I think it would be the right default, even if I agree with John Klensin's concern.) Putting symrefs into all the xml2rfc templates would not be a bad idea. If you want to suggest a change in

Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last Call: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2007-03-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-31 17:15, Eliot Lear wrote: Jeff, As for informational vs an independent submission, I think there is a factor to be considered. It seems to me that an informational IETF document is a fine way to say this is a good idea, and we think this is the right way to do FOO, but we can't

Re: Identifying meeting attendees

2007-03-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Who else is here from Nokia? The final version in the Proceedings does have affiliations: http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06nov/index.html but I agree that is a bit late for finding people on-site. Taking this one step further, perhaps we could get the ICANNwiki folks to create a photo

Re: RFC certification organization...

2007-03-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
My personal opinion is that IETF would be taking a large risk by doing anything like this. Certification carries serious legal implications and therefore creates serious potential legal risks for the certifier. That needs a completely different type of organization than the IETF. I think we

Re: Document Action: 'Abstract Syntax Notation X (ASN.X)' to Experimental RFC

2007-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-14 04:29, David Kessens wrote: John, On Tue, Mar 13, 2007 at 09:04:52AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: If the IESG is going to claim a silent majority in favor of approving this document, so be it. But to claim that there were no Last Call comments and that those that were solicited

Re: TLS requirements (Last Call: draft-ietf-atompub-protocol to Proposed Standard)

2007-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-13 20:43, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Hi Robert, --On March 13, 2007 3:23:22 PM -0400 Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This text is actively misleading, because it suggests RFC 4346 is included for informational purposes. The text should read: At a minimum, client and server

Re: Already Last-Called downrefs

2007-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-14 15:17, Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 14 Mar 2007, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Just to confirm: 2818 has already been downrefed so it can be used in this way without further formality. http://www1.tools.ietf.org/group/iesg/trac/wiki/DownrefRegistry There appear to have been two kinds

Re: Document Action: 'Abstract Syntax Notation X (ASN.X)' to Experimental RFC

2007-03-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I saw almost no technical comments on the documents. Most of the last call comments I saw were on a side track about copyright issues. The one somewhat technical comment that I logged, from Tom Yu, didn't result in any changes but was certainly influential on me in agreeing to the documents

Warning - risk of duty free stuff being confiscated on the way to Prague

2007-03-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It is reported by The Economist dated March 10 that if you buy duty free liquids outside Europe, carry them on the plane with you, and have to go through airport security while changing planes in Europe, your liquids will be confiscated, assuming they exceed 100 ccs. Europe in this case means

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-03-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
When considering the Last Call comments, the IESG finally concluded that this document should be published as an ION. Other Last Call comments will result in editorial changes. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: DNS role (RE: NATs as firewalls, cryptography, and curbing DDoS threats.)

2007-03-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
think that this architecture is a lot more disciplined than what we have today. It observes the encapsulation property / layering principle much better. -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 9:57 AM To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip

Re: DNS role (RE: NATs as firewalls, cryptography, and curbing DDoS threats.)

2007-03-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-08 02:06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: OK I will restate. All connection initiation should be exclusively mediated through the DNS and only the DNS. Would that include connections to one's DHCP server, SLP server, default gateway, and DNS server? Hmm... Brian

Re: Prague

2007-03-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I won't ask how many we have in the Czech Republic :-) But we have a few hundred for whom it's a short flight and part of the same political and socio-economic block. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

FYI: Daylight Savings Time discrepancy

2007-03-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi folks, North America changes to Daylight Savings Time this weekend 10/11 March. Europe changes two weeks later, 24/25 March, immediately after the IETF. This has consequences. 1. During those two weeks, the time difference between North America and Europe will be one hour less than usual.

Re: Prague

2007-03-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-07 16:58, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I have been to Prague 3 times in the last 5 years. It is quite survivable. However, the taxi's are ... unregulated. I would suggest that IETFers never take a cab on the street. You may pay 50 Euros to go 1 km. Get the hotel, store, restaurant,

Re: The Devil's in the Deployment RE: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Noel, On 2007-03-04 22:36, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] the problems that NAT causes, and that having suffcient address space (a.k.a. IPv6) solves This comment seems to posit that insufficient address space is the only thing driving deployment

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
in both cases. Even draft-ietf-v6ops-nap took many moons and several major editing passes, and it only starts the work. Brian On 2007-03-04 22:39, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, 04 March, 2007 20:05 +0100 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Michael, On 2007-03-02 16:19, [EMAIL

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael, On 2007-03-02 16:19, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... No real disagreement here but I do see a way forward. First, clarify the terminology. Second publish a pair of RFCs rather like 1009 entitled Requirements for Consumer Internet Gateways and Requirements for Enterprise Internet Gateways.

Re: The Devil's in the Deployment RE: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-02 17:09, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is of course one of the major motivations for draft-ietf-v6ops-nap-06.txt, which is now in the RFC Editor's queue. While it doesn't tell SOHO gateway vendors exactly what to do, it does

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-03-01 18:57, John C Klensin wrote: ... I continue to believe that, until and unless we come up with models that can satisfy the underlying problems that NATs address in the above two cases and implementations of those models in mass-market hardware, NATs are here to stay, even if we

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic (Reasons to Move NAT-PT to Historic Status) to Informational RFC

2007-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-28 17:02, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The core assumption here seems to be that NAT is a bad thing so lets get rid of NAT rather than trying to make NAT work. This is startlingly irrelevant to the present document. We have a large corpus of documents about the issues caused by NAT

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic (Reasons to Move NAT-PT to Historic Status) to Informational RFC

2007-02-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think it's important to publish this document, to make it clear why NAT-PT is a solution of very dubious value. Brian On 2007-02-27 20:14, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the IPv6 Operations WG (v6ops) to consider the following document: - 'Reasons to Move NAT-PT

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic (Reasons to Move NAT-PT to Historic Status) to Informational RFC

2007-02-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
in recommendation has been necessitated because it appears that RFC 2026 does not allow the transition to experimental. In the meantime it has become ever more clear that NAT-PT is of dubious value and could limit the development of IPv6 over time. Regards, Elwyn Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think it's

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-norm-ref (Handling Normative References for Standards Track Documents) to BCP

2007-02-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-26 07:51, Eliot Lear wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: My strong preference as an individual is to approve this document as is. I think there's a good split between RFC 3967 and this document. RFC 3967 will cover informational documents; this document will cover standards track. I'm not in

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-norm-ref (Handling Normative References for Standards Track Documents) to BCP

2007-02-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I believe that if we follow the authors' suggestion to proceed rapidly, Tom's concern could be met by a simple informational note summarizing how to deal with downrefs in practice. Such a note could be input to an eventual combined document after some experience, as John suggests. Brian On

Re: Identifications dealing with Bulk Unsolicited Messages (BUMs)

2007-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-21 17:07, Tony Finch wrote: On Wed, 21 Feb 2007, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Blacklists at the level of sending domains (or reputation systems that function like blacklists) are a failure. I was talking about IP address blacklists. Right. That can work, of course. Perhaps 90

Re: Identifications dealing with Bulk Unsolicited Messages (BUMs)

2007-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The level of bulk unsolicited messages exceed more than 90% of the volume in many cases I estimate 95% of moderated non-member mail that hits the IESG list to be b.u.m. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: [PCN] Re: WG Review: Congestion and Pre-Congestion Notification(pcn)

2007-02-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-20 15:31, Fred Baker wrote: On Feb 20, 2007, at 8:15 AM, Georgios Karagiannis wrote: I assume that you also have no objection on using the DSCP fields for this purpose. actually, I do, at least in some ways that they might be used. The AF service (RFC 2597) is specifically

Re: Does our passport need to be valid for 6 months to go to Prague?

2007-02-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-19 00:57, Michael StJohns wrote: At 06:29 PM 2/18/2007, Janet P Gunn wrote: My guidebook says 6 months. Feel free to argue with the US State Dept.. :-) The US State Dept web info is inconsistent with the Czech Embassy web info. We are trying to get definite confirmation from

Re: Identifications dealing with Bulk Unsolicited Messages (BUMs)

2007-02-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-18 13:46, Tony Finch wrote: On Sun, 18 Feb 2007, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: If this was effective, blacklists would have solved the spam problem. They are 90% effective You what? Which Internet would that be? Blacklists at the level of sending domains (or reputation systems

About Gen-ART reviews

2007-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, As devoted readers may have noticed, quite a few Gen-ART reviews have been copied to this list recently, with follow-up postings in some cases. Is this a good or a bad thing? Comments welcome. Brian (as General AD) ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank, Don't they also set the pubreq bit in the I-D tracker ? Very possibly, but that is just a progress tracking issue. I agree we need a progress tracking mechanism, but that isn't the underlying point here, which IMHO is to get the author in discussion with the appropriate AD. Brian

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank On 2007-02-10 01:07, Frank Ellermann wrote: ... I don't like this draft, send publication request to secretariat is more attractive than spamming ADs. You probably need to understand what happens when someone does that. The Secretariat simply forwards the note to the IESG. After a

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on AreaDirector Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
- I'm lost about why we would continue to publish Informational process RFCs (ignoring any existing pipeline of process documents remaining to be published as RFCs). To me the argument for making this one an RFC is mainly that it fits together with the two other drafts mentioned previously,

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank, On 2007-02-09 17:04, Frank Ellermann wrote: Jari Arkko wrote: I would be happy to sponsor a ternary bit draft, but only on April 1 :-) What I don't like in your draft is the (apparent) personal veto right for the AD. Authors (hopefully) have an idea about their topic, but they

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-08 01:25, Frank Ellermann wrote: John C Klensin wrote: If the IESG intends this document to merely represent the particular procedures they intend to follow within the range of alternatives over which they believe they have discretion, then it should probably be published as an ION

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2007-02-08 00:02, John C Klensin wrote: Hi. I will get to substance in a separate note, and hope others will also. In the interim, two procedural remarks... (1) This document and draft-klensin-rfc-independent-05.txt describe two pieces of the how a document that does not originate

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2007-02-08 13:16, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, 08 February, 2007 03:34 -0500 Jari Arkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for your note John. Let me also emphasize the need for these two drafts to be synchronized. Last calling draft-iesg at this time was made in part because

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-08 14:05, Scott O. Bradner wrote: But its Informational. My read of RFC 2026 says that the 4 week case applies to Standards Track only. rfc 2026 says what must be done in some cases - it does not say what can not be done in the cases it does not cover - specifically, RFC 2026 in no

Re: ion-procdocs open for public comment

2007-02-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-02-01 20:06, Frank Ellermann wrote: Brian Carpenter wrote: http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-procdocs.html I liked the I-D better, the xml2rfc HTML output is hard to read. Really? I find the links in the HTML version invaluable. For an ION you could probably remove

Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-l2tpext-failover-11.txt

2007-02-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'm going to No Objection and I suppose you'll do an RFC Editor note. Brian On 2007-01-30 16:39, Mark Townsley wrote: On second look, this is rather small. Vipin, I can do either. If you wish to provide me text in OLD NEW format, or a new document. - Mark Suresh Krishnan wrote: I am

Re: Referencing BCPs [Re: ion-procdocs open for public comment]

2007-02-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-31 18:47, John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, 31 January, 2007 17:02 + Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Wed, 31 Jan 2007 11:54:26 -0500 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Except for the fact that the material being cited contains the specifics of license

Referencing BCPs [Re: ion-procdocs open for public comment]

2007-01-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-31 00:35, Ned Freed wrote: ... More generally, I have a problem with normative cituations to BCP and STD numbers since the underlying document can change. That's arguably OK for an informational citation, but IMO normative references may have version dependencies that need to be taken

ION typos [Re: ion-agenda-and-minutes open for public comment]

2007-01-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I also noticed providessuggestions as a typo, which does make me wonder - we rely on the RFC Editor for proof-reading, but we're not sending IONs to the RFC Editor. Is there a plan? IONs are less formal, so I think the honest answer is no. And we are certainly not going to apply any style

Re: ion-procdocs open for public comment

2007-01-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-29 18:08, Spencer Dawkins wrote: I should begin by thanking Brian for producing this document, both originally and in ION format. An ION (IETF Operational Note, see RFC 4693) is open for public comment on the ietf@ietf.org list. Comments should be sent by 2007-02-12. Please see

Re: ion-procdocs open for public comment

2007-01-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-30 13:59, Spencer Dawkins wrote: snip What I'm talking about is that if you type in BCP 9 in the RFC Editor search engine, the only RFC that pops up as part of BCP 9 is 2026, but the RFC Index says Updated by RFC3667, RFC3668, RFC3932, RFC3979, RFC3978. This is a special case,

Re: submitting an ID

2007-01-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
When I was in school, I was taught to quote multiple paragraphs with quotes at the start of each and a closing quote only at the end of the final paragraph. So was I, but whether or not this is a typo doesn't affect what you put in an I-D, which doesn't have the quotation marks anyway, except

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-18 09:49, Tom.Petch wrote: Who is shepherd for an individual submission? The sponsoring AD. However, draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (which will be updated shortly, so don't worry about its terminology issues) adds: Once the AD has agreed to sponsor a document, the authors need

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
We're rapidly approaching diminishing returns here... On 2007-01-16 21:17, Michael Thomas wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-01-15 17:11, Michael Thomas wrote: Michael Thomas, Cisco Systems On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Why not simply: - copy all Comments

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-17 16:41, Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think you are deeply misunderstanding how PROTO shepherding is supposed to work. That's a pretty basic disconnect. Perhaps you can summarize how it is supposed to work? The way it's described in draft-ietf-proto-wgchair

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-08 11:08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: The I-D tracker provides a handy button for the DISCUSSing AD to forward the DISCUSS to parties outside the IESG - normally by default it's the WG Chairs. I'm not convinced personally that sending the raw DISCUSS to the whole WG is the correct answer

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Why not simply: - copy all Comments and Discusses to the WG mailing list - hold all discussions on the WG mailing list until resolution Why would we do this for technical typos and other things that are essentially trivial? I'd expect an AD to enter WG discussion when raising fundamental

Re: Last Call: draft-legg-xed-asd (Abstract Syntax Notation X (ASN.X)) to Proposed Standard

2007-01-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I would refer you to the IETF Trust FAQ on RFC copyright, http://trustee.ietf.org/24.html, point 6 and point 9. Brian On 2007-01-14 12:31, Simon Josefsson wrote: Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: And as you very well know, the IPR working group is fixing the problem. I think

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-15 17:11, Michael Thomas wrote: Michael Thomas, Cisco Systems On Mon, 15 Jan 2007, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Why not simply: - copy all Comments and Discusses to the WG mailing list - hold all discussions on the WG mailing list until resolution Why would we do

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-13 12:32, Adrian Farrel wrote: Hey, I had promised to keep out of this having already used my quota of emails for the months, but then Fred said... That said, I _do_ wish the tracker would maintain history of DISCUSS and COMMENT comments, instead of only showing the latest ballot

Re: addressing Last Call comments [Re: Discuss criteria]

2007-01-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-12 09:54, Pekka Savola wrote: Well, it seems rather common that IETF LC comments (especially if not copied to ietf@ietf.org list) are not responded. Firstly, this is the reason we recently made some minor changes in the text of the IETF Last Call messages, and why you will see a

Re: Last Call comment destination (Re: addressing Last Call comments [Re: Discuss criteria])

2007-01-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I haven't seen an announcement of the new-style Last Call text, only its use on specific recent last calls (I saw it on 12/22 Last Calls, so it's pretty recent). If you have also seen so many Last Call e-mails that you no longer actually read them, you might not have noticed the new text

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
While more information is always good, I'll note that it's linked to from the WG Chairs page; it, in turn, is listed on the IETF home page. There's also a link from each WG's charter page to the status page which lists every document from the WG and its status. The status field, in turn, is a

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Cutting to the chase: How about allowing PROTO shepherds to post to the I-D tracker? See whether draft-ietf-proto-wgchair-tracker-ext-01.txt covers what you want. If not, immediately would be a very good time to tell the PROTO team. Brian ___

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-09 14:03, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: ... The tracker is not mentioned in any of the process documents That is normal; it's a tool used in support of the process, and we could in theory use papyrus rolls instead. I agree we need procedural documents too; that is what IONs are for

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The I-D tracker provides a handy button for the DISCUSSing AD to forward the DISCUSS to parties outside the IESG - normally by default it's the WG Chairs. I'm not convinced personally that sending the raw DISCUSS to the whole WG is the correct answer. Sometimes it can be quickly resolved (for

Re: IESG Success Stories

2007-01-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-05 20:55, John C Klensin wrote: ... I have two questions... (1) Do you have evidence of actual situations in which an AD behaved in this way, kept concerns to him or herself, and then raised them only, and for the first time, via a DISCUSS after Last Call? How about a case where an

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-08 12:03, Adrian Farrel wrote: Brian, The I-D tracker provides a handy button for the DISCUSSing AD to forward the DISCUSS to parties outside the IESG - normally by default it's the WG Chairs. Brian, I am not suggesting that IESG has to do anything different. Let them continue to

Re: NABBLE NOTIFICATION forCopyright Notice: N R M E F 4 N Y N O S (NRMEF4NYNOS)

2007-01-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Could we drop the personal comments and rude words please? The delete key is by far the easiest way to deal with drivel. This is so clearly drivel that I hereby ask the sergeants at arms to consider action against [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian ___ Ietf

Re: Discuss criteria

2007-01-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-04 07:56, Robert Sayre wrote: On 1/3/07, Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... It's always open to the WG to propose a resolution of the DISCUSS that is radically different from what the discussing AD suggests, too. Yes, any group is free to try anything in the IETF

Re: Discuss criteria

2007-01-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-01-04 14:32, John Leslie wrote: I should be ashamed of myself -- letting myself get ensnared in a flamewar with Keith... First, let's restore some context. We're talking about http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/discuss-criteria.html specifically section 3.1; and I was taking

Re: Present from the ITU

2007-01-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think we should give credit to Carl Malamud and Tony Rutkowski, whe spent many months in Geneva at least ten years ago, sowing the seeds for this move by the ITU. Brian On 2006-12-25 18:41, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Since my Narten number has been rather low of late, and since this

Re: Discuss criteria status

2007-01-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Is draft-iesg-discuss-criteria-02.txt a statement from the IESG of what it is doing? I think it is slightly more accurate to say it's a statement of what we aspire to do. If it is, what I would ask first is that the IESG commit to updating this whenever they change the procedures. On a

Re: Discuss criteria

2007-01-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2006-12-29 17:44, Dave Crocker wrote: Dave is probably correct that the specific criteria are of broader interest than just ADs, WG chairs, editors, and process wonks, and might become even more perfect with broader review, but that's another issue. And, since the criteria are public,

Re: IESG Success Stories

2007-01-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael, On 2006-12-31 03:00, Michael Thomas wrote: John C Klensin wrote: If an AD who was responsible for a WG came up with an issue about that WG's work and raised it only during or after Last Call, I'd expect either a really good explanation or a resignation. I certainly would not

Re: Discuss criteria

2006-12-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
-discuss-criteria They have the same date. On Dec 26, 2006, at 9:12 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: But, Brian, the concern for costs ought to extend much farther, such as to the kinds of issues raised by an IESG Discuss so that the AD provides an explanation of the benefit

Re: ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: In other words, Brian, by running the experiment, in its current form, you are ensuring that meaningful changes can't be made without disruption. I truly don't get your concern. We have mechanisms today to get operational material onto

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I happened to choose the particular example of Discuss simply because it is of immediate concern to me, but my point was intended, of course, to be more general. That's why your raising the 'cost' issue for the current discussion came as such a confusing surprise. Sorry to confuse: let me

Re: IETF 68 hotel full

2006-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
BTW, www.mappy.com is pretty good for maps and itineraries in Europe. Brian John Levine wrote: I'm having trouble finding Pobrezni 1 186 00 Prague 8 Czech Republic with online maps. I believe hotel is toward the west end of the street, near the bridge to the island in the river:

Re: Nomcom O6 categories -- GEN == Chair?

2006-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Hi Dave, on 2006-12-18 19:18 Dave Crocker said the following: I assume that the nominee sub-section labeled GEN is really for the IETF Chair? Yes. I'll fix that in a moment. Regardless of that fix, and as a non-candidate, I'll remind everybody that my personal

Re: draft status links on the wg pages?

2006-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: ... So my suggestions are: 1. Move these Status pages out of the tools development area and make them an official part of a working group's official pages. That isn't simply a matter of wishing it to be so. It actually involves work (to make the tools that generate these

Re: ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: As for you last sentence, perhaps it should give some pause. The idea that we do not already have a pretty clear idea of what should distinguish an I-D from an ION ought to engender concern. Like any other project consuming significant

Re: ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: If this sort of experiment is successful, then there will be significant disruption to the user base if the mechanism is moved to a new hosting mechanism. As stated in 4693, we'd simply keep them as web pages at www.ietf.org. This isn't

Re: ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: So internet drafts, however ephemeral we claim them to be, are versioned and referenceable. I don't know that the final step (the RFC) is any less permanent than the history we maintain of the drafts leading up to it. That's beside

Re: ion-ion-format open for public comment

2006-12-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Frank Ellermann wrote: Brian Carpenter wrote: Please see http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/drafts/ion-ion-format.txt It says text or html, but ion-ion-store is perfectly valid XHTML. Is that a problem ? I don't think so, do you? The HTML output of xml2rfc is rather ugly with my

Re: ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred Baker wrote: This document describes a process for managing a set of documents. IMHO, it is a bit onerous; I may be ignorant, but I don't know how to get an account on tools.ietf.org, Really? I thought most WG chairs had one by now. There is a button to click on the tools web site.

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-12-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John L wrote: ICANN has not to date dealt very effectively with these issues, but they are real issues that will have a great effect on people who use the DNS every day, and they're not technical issues, since all of the alternatives are equally feasible technically. At its base, IDN is a

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: There was very little support outside of those involved in the ieprep working group for the ieprep work. I'd have to say that there wasn't really a clear consensus in either direction about much of anything. I guess I'm

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: Brian, 1. There's a presumption that precedence and preemption are the mechanisms - but those aren't requirements, they are solutions, and it isn't clear to me that they can ever be appropriate solutions in the upper layers of the Internet. The requirement is presumably that

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
when it comes to the DNS. Actually, no. It is always IANA. However, RFC 2860 section 4.3 specifically excludes the IETF giving IANA guidance in certain areas. Brian Carl Brian E Carpenter wrote, On 29/11/2006 10:43: your question is linked to whether we treat the namespace as a public

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Emin Gun Sirer wrote: Stephane Phillip, I'm thinking of writing a short report that summarizes the invaluable discussion here and beefing up the system sketch. I think we now agree that it is possible to have multiple operators manage names in a single, shared namespace without recourse to a

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