Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-roll-terminology-13.txt (Terms used in Ruting for Low power And Lossy Networks) to Informational RFC

2013-10-03 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Scott O Bradner s...@sobco.com wrote: On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:34 AM, The IESG iesg-secret...@ietf.org wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks WG (roll) to consider the following document: - 'Terms used in

Re: Time to dump X.400 support?

2013-09-25 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Sep 24, 2013 at 5:25 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.comwrote: Looking at the extreme breach of trust by US govt re PRISM, I think it is time to do something we should have done decades ago but were stopped at US Govt request. Lets kill all support for X.400 mail. Actually,

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-17 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 10:47 AM, Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: Based on the conversation below I converged to: t While less mature specifications will usually be published as Informational or Experimental RFCs, the IETF may, in exceptional cases, publish a

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for bibliographers

2013-09-17 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 3:43 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: Are we far enough down this rathole? john I'm not sure. Which John are you again? The car-buying psychiatric composer who lives in Edinburgh, Georgia?

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Dave Cridland
share a name - all poor comments and suggestions are actually that other Dave Cridland of course - but it's not clear that this is a problem requiring a centralised registration which isn't even centralised under the auspices of either the IETF or ISoc. That's not to say you can't put any particular

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for bibliographers

2013-09-16 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon, Sep 16, 2013 at 8:24 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: My name turns out to be fairly common. Over the years, I have been confused with a comp sci professor in Edinburgh, a psychology professor in Pittsburgh, another comp sci researcher in Georgia, a psychiatrist in Cambridge

Re: [v6ops] Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-mobile-device-profile-04.txt (Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Profile for 3GPP Mobile Devices) to Informational RFC

2013-09-09 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Lorenzo Colitti lore...@google.com wrote: I'm just saying it here so that everyone in the community can see it. If it's an IETF document it has to have IETF consensus, and since I feel that the arguments were not properly taken into account in the WG (read:

RE: The Last Call social contract (was - Re: Rude responses)

2013-08-23 Thread Dave Cridland
On 23 Aug 2013 04:22, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: LC should not be treated as a right of passage, to test the patience of folks who have developed a document. rite? Right - right or rite? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/

Re: Radical Solution for remote participants

2013-08-13 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 2:00 AM, Douglas Otis doug.mtv...@gmail.com wrote: 10) Establish a reasonable fee to facilitate remote participants who receive credit for their participation equal to that of being local. I understand the rationale here, but I'm nervous about any movement toward a

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-05 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon, Aug 5, 2013 at 9:37 AM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.imwrote: I don't want to promise too much, but in time for Vancouver I'll probably finish some code that sends you all sorts of helpful information when you join the jabber room. There is a standardized room subject message but

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.comwrote: On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: The IETF doesn't have a police force, or any enforcement mechanism. That's true, but people do sometimes cite IETF specifications as requirements for equipment

Re: [IETF] Re: [IETF] Re: Appeal Response to Abdussalam Baryun regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats

2013-07-03 Thread Dave Cridland
Yeah, but we don't actually count the clubs, so it's okay.

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.cawrote: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: Today it is possible to verify that somebody attended to an IETF meeting. You have to register, pay and collect your badge. However, in remote

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 3:54 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.cawrote: Alia Atlas akat...@gmail.com wrote: I have attended one meeting remotely - and the experience is nothing at all like being at IETF. I can see modifying NomCom eligibility constraints slightly -

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-25 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 1:33 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.comwrote: RECOMMENDED is a strong suggestion that the implementation may override at the discretion of the implementer. SHOULD is normative. Of course, they both mean the same, because the author has (one assumes) explicitly

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-25 Thread Dave Cridland
. This is beyond personal opinions. Perhaps if I showed Dave Cridland an article on netiquete he could try to be less patronizing. Unlike some here I do not regard the RFC series as having divine inspiration. I'm not claiming it's the traditional meaning of the term, just that RFCs do tend

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Dave Cridland
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: There is a real problem with accountability and transparency in the IETF constitution which was designed by a bunch of old boys to maintain control in their own hands. Peter is a member of the IETF establishment so of course he sees no structural problem. PSA's

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-12 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 11:20 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: ... and how would we judge IETF consensus on a document that doesn't get done under a charter (which would in turn have been granted consensus without

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.comwrote: A statement such as the above is almost entirely useless to me as an IESG member trying to determine consensus. It is content-free. I think this is, in part, due to the question asked. The IETF's Last Call

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: If we want the statements of support to be meaningful, they need to have the creator of the statement do some real work -- more than mechanically checking boxes -- demonstrating the 'understanding' that Lloyd suggests.

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 6/11/2013 5:25 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: We want understanding, of course, but I think requiring Russ to demonstrate that by writing a paragraph or six on the finer points of the proposal would be daft. That's

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Re-formulating the LC text sounds like an excellent idea, to call for more substantive comments. perhaps we should go to the source of the problem and require a phd dissertation and defense from draft authors. how much

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.comwrote: It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. Well, this thread is surely evidence that you don't always get what you want. But more

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: But more seriously, what are you expecting Russ to do? What did you want him to write? If your answer is Nothing, then how do you read IETF

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: It is presumed that some degree of consensus to do the work of a working group existed when that working group was chartered; otherwise it would not have been chartered. When the working group reaches consensus to

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 1:38 PM, Carsten Bormann c...@tzi.org wrote: Of course, this doesn't include time-to-airport, so you can immediately discount London. Well, you say that, but I now know why Alexey moved from Moscow to Kingston (40 minutes to LHR on the X26). Dave.

Re: What do we mean when we standardize something?

2013-05-29 Thread Dave Cridland
On 29 May 2013 18:42, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: /me wonders if we need a separate series for informational documentation Or maybe multiple paths, with multiple entry points. Perhaps instead of Proposed Standard, we have a Engineering Proposal for an engineering consensus, and

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Dave Cridland
Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the draft, rather than review it in isolation. It'd be a different

Re: Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated April the first

2013-04-06 Thread Dave Cridland
These aren't published by the IETF, but by the RFC editor directly. As such, the IETF has little control. Even if this were not so, I would be very much against discontinuing or specially marking such documents. I appreciate Mark Crispin was always proud that his randomly lose telnet extension

Re: Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated April the first

2013-04-06 Thread Dave Cridland
The message below suggests you still think that every RFC is published by the IETF. It's not, and this one explicitly nuts that it is not an IETF RFC at the top. On 6 Apr 2013 18:35, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Hector, When I read the RFC on 1 April 2013 (my first

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-05 Thread Dave Cridland
On 5 Apr 2013 09:47, Loa Andersson l...@pi.nu wrote: Bob, thinking about this and assuming that the FTL Communication are deployed in a not too far distant future, wouldn't we have started to receive packets that was sent in the future already now? Indeed, and this tells us that

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-05 Thread Dave Cridland
Actually, getting rich without implementing anything seems to happen quite often enough these days - it's called acquisition. On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 6:12 PM, Wes Beebee (wbeebee) wbee...@cisco.comwrote: Or use the FTL to predict the company stock price so that you get rich without

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.comwrote: Quite the contrary. I am interpreting a few of the 'diversity' posts as saying the IETF has fewer companies participating and much fewer smaller companies participating. And I am interpreting those posts as implying

Re: Getting rid of the dot

2013-03-20 Thread Dave Cridland
On 19 Mar 2013 22:47, Ole Jacobsen o...@cisco.com wrote: I can just see the list of MUST, SHOULD and MAY have attributes, Tsk. RFC 2119 only applies to interoperability requirements, as you well know. So unless we're also swapping t-shirts...

Re: Thoughts from a past experimental Nomcom selection for TSV Area Director

2013-03-15 Thread Dave Cridland
Thanks. There have been a considerable number of messages on this topic, you have made every one of them seem ill-informed by comparison, including my own. I can't help but worry that TSV is a leading edge case for a general malaise within our community though, which is that we are reliant on a

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-11 Thread Dave Cridland
I'd agree to the more general statement that people from large commercial organisations are dominating, and I'd argue that this is due to the cost (in time and finanically) of doing reasonably high level IETF work. This also restricts the available pool, and furthermore means our leadership is at

Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today

2013-02-26 Thread Dave Cridland
On Feb 26, 2013 2:24 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: Finding the current time in UTC could reasonably be left as an exercise for the reader... Simple. Go to the UK, ensure it's winter, and ask a policeman.

Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-02-15 Thread Dave Cridland
On 16 Feb 2013 07:03, Patrik Fältström p...@frobbit.se wrote: On 15 feb 2013, at 23:45, Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net wrote: Sure -- the DNS protocol *cannot* handle any value in the octets -- in fact, there are an *infinite* number of values it cannot handle *in the octets*. For example,

Re: I-D affects another or work in ietf groups

2013-02-10 Thread Dave Cridland
On 10 Feb 2013 03:46, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: In any case, if you are doing something incorrect in your review, presumably people will call your attention to that fact, and explain how you should change what you are doing and why you should change it. And on this note, doing

Re: Vestigial Features (was Re: CRLF (was: Re: A modest proposal))

2013-01-24 Thread Dave Cridland
On Jan 24, 2013 3:42 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: From: Carsten Bormann c...@tzi.org I think in protocol evolution (as well as computer system evolution in general) we are missing triggers to get rid of vestigial features. That's quite true. Let us start by

Re: I'm struggling with 2219 language again

2013-01-04 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri, Jan 4, 2013 at 8:03 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: This Gen-ART reviewer believes that words like must have well defined meanings in the English language, so shouting is not needed at every use. There are standards track documents that don't use RFC 2119 at

RE: A mailing list protocol

2012-12-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Dec 4 22:19:14 2012, George, Wes wrote: Is there an IETF standard format for handling inline quote replies? Is it just not implemented in certain mail clients? RFC 3676? (As used here). It is admittedly primarily useful in simple replies rather than quoting (and therefore

Re: [IETF] Re: Recall petition for Mr. Marshall Eubanks

2012-11-01 Thread Dave Cridland
I am not NomCom qualified, but I do support the recall. I also suspect that, given the total disappearance of Marshall Eubanks from all online activity in early August, he is either ill, deceased, or otherwise unable to fulfill his obligations. Whichever, the IAOC needs a functional member, and so

Re: RFC Errata: when to file, and when not to

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Cridland
Does anyone other than historians honestly care what the original was? I mean, really? Dave.

Re: RFC Errata: when to file, and when not to

2012-08-09 Thread Dave Cridland
It seems entirely reasonable that there needs to be a version available that's precisely as-published, for legal (and quasi-legal) reasons, as you say - however, that's the version produced by the RFC Editor, and not the tools version (which is already non-normative, technically, due to the

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-16 Thread Dave Cridland
terminate the session immediately. Overuse of RFC 2119 language reduces its utility. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP

Re: Is the IETF aging?

2012-04-27 Thread Dave Cridland
that whilst the XSF solidly trounces the IETF in terms of the numbers of people below 40, it sorely lacks the significant benefits of the rest of the age-range - the IETF's combined experience is vast, and the ability to tap into that expertise is a real plus point. Dave. -- Dave Cridland

Re: Fact.Check IETF Meeting - Paris, France - 100/8 IANA

2012-03-26 Thread Dave Cridland
. It's a fair cop, we should have involved them in the discussion. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

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

2012-03-15 Thread Dave Cridland
merely suggests that large messages are a problem in themselves - if they are genuinely a problem, how? And why on earth are they a problem in this group? Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks

Re: Second Last Call: draft-ietf-sieve-notify-sip-message-08.txt (Sieve Notification Mechanism: SIP MESSAGE) to Proposed Standard

2012-01-26 Thread Dave Cridland
(d) Do nothing (e) The IETF formally demands a royalty free, reasonable and non-discriminatory license to the technology for anyone, for the purpose of implementing the specification. Have Huawei made any statement about their IPR screw-up? Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d

Re: Requirements for improving IETF remote participation

2012-01-06 Thread Dave Cridland
...@xmpp.org that'd be great too. Dave. (Some parts of this message in some respects as XSF chair, which isn't a parallel to IETF chair, so probably best I don't dwell on it...). -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd

Re: Requirements for improving IETF remote participation

2012-01-06 Thread Dave Cridland
, they're pretty good, relatively hard to spoof, and almost as easy to obtain.) Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: Protocol Definition

2012-01-05 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jan 5 14:48:54 2012, Dave CROCKER wrote: If protocol corresponds with program or algorithm, then what is the communications term that corresponds to process? It's tempting to say port number, but that doesn't seem very satisfying. Session? Dave. -- Dave Cridland

Re: Protocol Definition

2012-01-05 Thread Dave Cridland
. We have lots of terms that require qualification to be of any use, and session, protocol, and even connection all need this. Dave. (Sent over a mail session using both IMAP and ESMTP sessions in concert with an ACAP session). -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d

draft-weil

2011-11-30 Thread Dave Cridland
). -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https

Re: IETF to Meet in Toronto!

2011-11-29 Thread Dave Cridland
-representative self-selecting group of technical people. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: IETF 82 Audio Streaming

2011-11-02 Thread Dave Cridland
client is none of those things. It's optional, open-standard, and open-source. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP

XMPP clients

2011-11-02 Thread Dave Cridland
experienced, on Windows 7. The XSF maintains a list at http://xmpp.org/xmpp-software/clients/ that people may find useful. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net

Re: XMPP clients

2011-11-02 Thread Dave Cridland
probably look. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf mailing

Re: Virtual Water Coolers

2011-10-31 Thread Dave Cridland
are configured not to have history - presumably to avoid confusing when they're only used for three single weeks throughout the year. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net

Re: The death John McCarthy - LISP, HIP GSE

2011-10-31 Thread Dave Cridland
confusion above, I am misunderstanding what the term offended means. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

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

2011-10-31 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Oct 31 20:07:54 2011, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-10-31 23:18, Dave Cridland wrote: That said, I think our existing chatrooms are configured not to have history - presumably to avoid confusing when they're only used for three single weeks throughout the year. Indeed

Re: Virtual Water Coolers

2011-10-28 Thread Dave Cridland
rooms with auto-join to see what happens. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: Virtual Water Coolers

2011-10-28 Thread Dave Cridland
of people you wanted to raise the issue in front of. Of course, we could even discuss this in hall...@jabber.ietf.org now. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-26 Thread Dave Cridland
. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf

Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input

2011-10-20 Thread Dave Cridland
to do, as a remote participant, is participate. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

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

2011-09-06 Thread Dave Cridland
more pain in meeting the bar - but lowering it does have problematic knock-on effects. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP

Re: subject_prefix on IETF Discuss?

2011-08-03 Thread Dave Cridland
in ACAP. Do I win? (I'm largely against subject prefixes, but not sufficient to jump up and down about). Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-27 Thread Dave Cridland
(or negotiated masking), but that was ruled out long ago. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-27 Thread Dave Cridland
what mechanism you're talking about. Happy eyeballs - try everything as soon as you can, in parallel. Drop everything else when one does. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-24 Thread Dave Cridland
request. So for example, if you got: _ws._tcp.example.com SRV 1 0 ws.example.com You'd make the upgrade request on the HTTP URI of: http://ws.example.com/foo/bar Of course, if this failed to connect, you can find another HTTP URI to try - something you cannot do without SRV. Dave. -- Dave

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-24 Thread Dave Cridland
, you'll end up with the same impact to user experience of a few extra RTTs at startup as is seen in XMPP, SIP, and so on - that is, none. 100ms extra on a 100ms request/response would be bad, I agree, but that's not what we're talking about. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Jul 22 01:11:33 2011, Masataka Ohta wrote: Dave Cridland wrote: It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; Where is a proof? Sorry, I've a habit of using the word proof in the English (and indeed Welsh) sense of test or trial, rather than the mathematical

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-22 Thread Dave Cridland
policy, CORS, etc. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf mailing

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
concur, not a function of a transport protocol - removed from this specification, then we'll need a distinct document which adds them back in, as it were. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
is defined here, and absolutely must explain whether it's a host (for direct address lookup), or a domain (for SRV). It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; there is no way it'll be possible to retrofit onto WS. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
', there are 'mailto', which uses MX, 'sip' and 'xmpp', which both use SRV. I think opponents of SRV records need to mount a stronger argument than the kind of luddite argument that if it's hard for one protocol in use by the browser, it should be hard for them all. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
share a similar name resolution mechanism. My argument is that it cannot be made optional, so if we want to ever take advantage of this awesome tool, we need to bake it in from the start. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
alone looks like an improvement. SIP survived because it was very small. I don't see WS making a transition, in the same way that repeated attempts have failed to move HTTP to SRV. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-19 Thread Dave Cridland
in the core protocol. I think with HTTP's very short lived requests, then it's possible to work around the lack of SRV support (at a cost), but the benefit is markedly higher with the long-lived, stateful sessions we're anticipating with WebSocket. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d

Re: reading drafts on an ipad

2011-07-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Jul 6 16:38:47 2011, Cullen Jennings wrote: Has anyone found a particularly good solution to reading drafts on an ipad? What about markup and notes on drafts? Print them out using your ASR-33, then stick them on top. HTH, Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d

Re: My Internet experience in the West at times is comparable to female foeticide

2011-06-22 Thread Dave Cridland
to SWLUG's mailing list, after all. HTH, Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread Dave Cridland
, but smart and helpful people who craft their response to fit your ability, not theirs). Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP

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

2011-06-08 Thread Dave Cridland
up, assuming the original instigator[s] of the proposal don't wish to. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/5/2011 10:22 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On balance, whilst I appreciate the aims of this document, I think the proposals are not suitable for adoption. 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What

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

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
. The fact remains that vendors treat PS maturity RFCs as standards. By reverting to the letter of RFC 2026, this will undoubtedly increase confusion - indeed, it's apparent that much of the deviation from RFC 2026 has been related to this very confusion. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d

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

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri May 6 11:44:48 2011, John Leslie wrote: Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: To quote from draft-bradner-ietf-stds-trk-00 (paraphrasing newtrk). 4/ there seems to be a reinforcing feedback loop involved: vendors implement and deploy PS documents so the IESG tries

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
- document what it *is*. Then, we should have a clearer understanding of the problems we're attempting to solve, and it should prove a lot less contentious. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
) labelling proposal Keith Moore made here. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
of the world, for whom RFC means Internet standard. Actually, for most of the world, it means Rugby Football Club. But yes, for the majority of folk who know about protocol specs, then RFC means Standard. Dave Cridland sid... It's also like the (much more versatile) labelling proposal Keith Moore

Re: New drafts failing to be announced

2011-05-05 Thread Dave Cridland
drafts being announced on the SIMPLE mailing list, which might go some way to explaining this. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP

draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-05 Thread Dave Cridland
, largely in favour of the central tenet of reducing the standards-track to just PS and IS; I think the implementation outlined in this proposal is, however, broken. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user

Re: For Monday's technical plenary - Review of draft-tschofenig-post-standardization-00

2011-03-30 Thread Dave Cridland
is that you can provide a direct gateway into the XMPP federation and access standardized services directly from the browser. And this is reliant on several open standards running over the last mile. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap

Re: IETF and APIs

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Cridland
) what form. I'm all in favour of this. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade

Re: IETF and APIs

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Cridland
not sure of the utility. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf

Re: IETF and APIs

2011-03-29 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Mar 29 16:53:03 2011, Scott Brim wrote: On Tue, Mar 29, 2011 at 14:14, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: On Tue Mar 29 12:28:55 2011, Eric Burger wrote: Would we not be better off just asking (mandating?) at least one open source implementation?  That effort would produce

Re: Where to find IETF recommendations?

2011-03-01 Thread Dave Cridland
think. Dave. -- Dave Cridland - mailto:d...@cridland.net - xmpp:d...@dave.cridland.net - acap://acap.dave.cridland.net/byowner/user/dwd/bookmarks/ - http://dave.cridland.net/ Infotrope Polymer - ACAP, IMAP, ESMTP, and Lemonade ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-10-08 Thread Dave Cridland
currently, a NAT provides: - A degree of de-facto firewalling for everyone. - An immunity to renumbering for enterprises. - Fully automated network routing for ISPs. If technologies could be introduced to tackle especially the last two, I think the advantages of NATs would vanish. Dave. -- Dave

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-10-08 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Oct 8 17:49:28 2010, Keith Moore wrote: On Oct 8, 2010, at 12:31 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: On Fri Oct 8 17:10:56 2010, Keith Moore wrote: Except that neither middleboxes in general nor NATs in particular were a direct result of the decision to adopt IPv6. NATs were

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