[ietf-privacy] PPM Review of RFC 1614

2014-05-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
[A quick trial of the random RFC tool.] An interesting historical snapshot of the early days of hypertext systems before WWW/HTML/HTTP had come to dominate everything and how they might be relevant to academic users. It even predates Internet Explorer! Mainly interesting for its lack of

Re: IETF 87 Registration Suspended

2013-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Fri, 2013-07-05 at 00:11 -0400, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: John Levine jo...@taugh.com what's different in Berlin from Paris and Prague and Maastricht. The Germans have more 'zealous' tax collectors? :-) Noel It appears that the goalposts have been moved - the basic change

New form of remote attendance [was Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility]

2013-06-28 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Thu, 2013-06-27 at 12:44 +0100, Arturo Servin (probably did not intend to) wrote: What is the rationale of the requirement to attend psychically to meetings? I attend all meetings psychically so spriritual! Sorry.. couldn't resist. E.

Re: IAOC Website Updated

2013-06-24 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi, Ray. I also think it's good. On the same theme as Brian, the page is linked to from the 'IASA' link on the main IETF page. To make it clear what is going on, it would be good to put the title: IETF Administrative Support Activity at the top of the page. A couple of other nits: It might

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 10/06/13 21:37, Pete Resnick wrote: Russ, our IAB chair and former IETF chair, just sent a message to the IETF list regarding a Last Call on draft-ietf-pkix-est. Here is the entire contents of his message, save quoting the whole Last Call request: On 6/10/13 1:45 PM, Russ Housley wrote: I

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art additional LC review of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-34

2013-06-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
in the client while the client waits for response to PLAY/PAUSE respectively. I think a little bit more explanation about the dual nature of the columns would solve the problem. Appendix C: Pending. Regards, Elwyn On 2013-06-06 02:11, Elwyn Davies wrote: I am an additional Gen-ART reviewer

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art additional LC review of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-34

2013-06-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Fri, 2013-06-07 at 16:05 +0200, Magnus Westerlund wrote: Appendix F: I missed that the text/parameter format appeared in the examples for GET_PARAMETER and SET_PARAMETER. It isn't stated in the definitions of these methods what encodings are acceptable for the message bodies that may

Gen-art additional LC review of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-34

2013-06-06 Thread Elwyn Davies
: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 5 June 2013 IETF LC End Date: 5 JUne 2013 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Almost ready. Generally this is an excellent and well written document, particularly given its size. There are a few minor issues to sort out mainly at the nit level and some consistency

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 31/05/13 20:18, Scott Brim wrote: On Friday, May 31, 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: On 5/31/2013 8:12 PM, Scott Brim wrote: We'll have multiple airships, one for each set of related meeting rooms. is dirigible a new term of endearment for an AD? Obviously the ADs

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
Similarly, AFAICS the 'IESG time' includes IETF last call and the inevitable delay caused by the quantized nature of IESG teleconferenes. On the average, this will be somewhere around 28-30 days (2 or 4 weeks in Last call according to document type plus an average of 1 week until the earliest

Re: Accessing tools from IETF pages

2013-05-08 Thread Elwyn Davies
Both links work just fine from a selection of browsers/os/machines other than Msoft. (Firefox, Evolution, Chrome) It also works on an old version of IE8 but reports errors. Presumably turning off some strict error checking in IE allows it to display. Running the page through the W3C HTML

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-03 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 14:27 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 05/03/2013 01:59 PM, Thomas Narten wrote: If you look at the delays documents encounter (both in WG and in IESG review), the killer is long times between document revisions. Focus on understanding the *why* behind that and what

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 01/05/13 21:05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:59, Dave Crocker wrote: The blog nicely classes the problem as being too heavy-weight during final stages. The quick discussion thread seems focused on adding a moment at which the draft specification is considered 'baked'. I think

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 01/05/13 21:05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:59, Dave Crocker wrote: The blog nicely classes the problem as being too heavy-weight during final stages. The quick discussion thread seems focused on adding a moment at which the draft specification is considered 'baked'. I think

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 15/04/13 15:45, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 15/04/2013 15:23, Ted Lemon wrote: ... So in practice, although I feel great sympathy for this position, I think it's mistaken. I want the other ADs to comment on anything that they notice that looks like a problem. There's an important class

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

2013-04-06 Thread Elwyn Davies
Right.. they are mind expanding drugs. Essential for keeping us sane. /Elwyn Sent from my ASUS Pad Stewart Bryant (stbryant) stbry...@cisco.com wrote: Sent from my iPad On 6 Apr 2013, at 14:04, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: If the date is special then thoes RFCs

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-25 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 22:23 -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I think I at least partly disagree. The acknowledgements section of RFCs was not, and to the best of my knowledge is not, concerned with capturing the history of where specific changes or ideas came from. It ought to be concerned

Re: Please review draft-housley-rfc2050bis-00.txt

2013-03-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi, Russ. Two points: On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 22:30 -0500, David Farmer wrote: snip Rereading things again, I have another suggestion; 4) Split the Goals of the Internet registry system out of the Introduction. The Intro starts out talking about the document, its goals, and what is in

Re: IPR view (Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today )

2013-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Submission allowed; publication postponed? /Elwyn On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 10:34 +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote: Oh, and one more data point: The Internet-Draft archive also functions as a timestamped signed public archival record of our inventions. (Which are often trivial, but triviality

More Plugins for Firefox to do draft searches and draft/RFC HTML downloads

2013-03-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Thanks to Dale for the new search plugins - useful. I made these other ones that get RFCs and use the tools.ietf.org HTML page to find sets of drafts from a few words. They were originally published on the tools discuss list about 19 months ago. Download the attachments into the

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Elwyn Davies
+1 to Mary's comments.. few words in line.. Elwyn Davies On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 09:11 -0600, Mary Barnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: There is obviously no easy fix. If there was, we would have fixed it, obviously. What I find

Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview-08.txt

2013-01-22 Thread Elwyn Davies
Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 22 Jan 2013 IETF LC End Date:25 Jan 2013 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: In my opinion, this draft has serious issues as described below. Major issues: General 1: Title vs Abstract vs Section 1 vs actual content: Here in the UK a well-known brand

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 11:02 +, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 03/12/2012 06:01, Martin J. Dürst wrote: One of the advantages of a standards organization such as the IETF is cross-concern review. For the IETF, one very strong cross-concern is security. Another one (also for my

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 14:28 +, Stephen Farrell wrote: On 12/03/2012 02:25 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: Running code, when it's an organic part of the document development, is undoubtedly a good thing -- it doesn't make everything right, but, yes, it does do *some* spec validation and

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Elwyn Davies
Barry responded... On Mon, 2012-12-03 at 09:50 -0500, Barry Leiba wrote: Elwyn says... However, I don't think that a short last call cycle need necessarily compromise cross-area review. There has always been the possibility for authors or wg chairs to request a early gen-art review with

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-codec-opus-12.txt (completed)

2012-05-18 Thread Elwyn Davies
. Regards, Elwyn PS I still prefer octets. /E Thanks again, Jean-Marc On 12-05-16 05:26 PM, Elwyn Davies wrote: Hi, Jean-Marc. ... and thanks for the super-quick response! You have been quite busy. I have had a look through the new draft and I think the additions help

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-codec-opus-12.txt (completed)

2012-05-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
(agreed pieces elided): Regards, Elwyn Davies On Tue, 2012-05-15 at 20:33 -0400, Jean-Marc Valin wrote: Hi Elwyn, Thanks for the very thorough review. We've addressed your issues and submitted draft version -13

Re: Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-codec-opus-12.txt (completed)

2012-05-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Mon, 2012-05-14 at 17:08 -0600, Cullen Jennings wrote: Thank you kindly for the detailed review. More inline ... On May 14, 2012, at 9:06 AM, Elwyn Davies wrote: Summary: Before offering some views on the document, let me say that this piece of work seems to be a tour de force

Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-codec-opus-12.txt (completed)

2012-05-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 14 May 2012 (completed) IETF LC End Date: 10 May 2012 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Before offering some views on the document, let me say that this piece of work seems to be a tour de force on behalf of its developers. It is certainly one

Re: watersprings.org archive of expired Internet Drafts

2011-10-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. I don't know who was responsible for the Watersprings archive, but I think we should send whoever it was a vote of thanks for providing this (free) resource during all the years that the IETF was not able or willing to provide it. So THANK YOU! It was extremely useful. But I am now

Re: watersprings.org archive of expired Internet Drafts

2011-10-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 10/10/2011 20:25, Andrew G. Malis wrote: Very nice, thanks!! On Mon, Oct 10, 2011 at 2:46 PM, Doug Bartondo...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 10/10/2011 07:17, Elwyn Davies wrote: But I am now quite happy with the IETF draft archive and I have a couple of customized Firefox search entries

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-oreirdan-mody-bot-remediation-16

2011-10-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Thanks Miguel. Regards, Elwyn On Wed, 2011-10-05 at 15:40 +0200, Miguel A. Garcia wrote: I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq Please

Re: Grey Beards (was [81all] Quick Meeting Survey)

2011-09-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
Time for the facial hair standard and ensuring that there is a proper three stage progression from provisional salt and pepper to full blown white out. /Elwyn Eric Burger wrote: You all are just bragging you still have hair :-( On Sep 21, 2011, at 12:55 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On

Gen-art LC review of draft-ietf-pcn-cl-edge-behaviour-08

2011-06-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 10 June 2011 IETF LC End Date: 10 June 2011 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: In my opinion, there are a number of areas that need significant work and at least one open issue (the stability question from s3.3.1) that needs to be addressed before

Gen-art review of draft-lear-iana-timezone-database-03

2011-04-22 Thread Elwyn Davies
Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 22 April 2011 IETF LC End Date: 9 May 2011 IESG Telechat date: 12 May 2011 Summary: Almost ready for the IESG. This is my second review of the document. I suggested in the previous review that it might make life easier, particularly if an appeal was ever

Gen-art review of draft-lear-iana-timezone-database-01

2011-01-12 Thread Elwyn Davies
Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 11 January 2010 IETF LC End Date: 11 January 2011 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: This document is not quite ready for the IESG. The appeals process (if there is to be one) needs to clarified as it currently points indirectly to a hole in RFC 5226

Re: Question about Prague

2010-12-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 12:52 -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Fred Baker wrote: On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Robin Uyeshiro wrote: The GPS in the rental car (rented in Munich) did not have the street information for Prague. It's not unusual, or at least

Re: Gen-art LC review of draft-cheshire-dnsext-nbp-09.txt

2010-12-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 18:19 -0800, Stuart Cheshire wrote: On 23 Nov 2010, at 7:15 AM, Elwyn Davies wrote: Summary: This document has at least one open issue that I believe needs fixing, either by altering the scope of the applicability of the solution or fixing the requirements

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-csi-send-name-type-registry-03

2010-05-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
-send-name-type-registry-03.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 14 May 2010 IETF LC End Date: 14 May 2010 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Probably not ready. There seems to be a conflict or confusion between the prescriptive specification of a single algorithm for how the Subject Key

[Gen-art] Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt

2010-05-04 Thread Elwyn Davies
: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 4 May 2010 IETF LC End Date: 18 March 2010 IESG Telechat date: 6 May 2010 Summary: When I reviewed this document at IETF Last call, I discovered that compared to previous documents, it contains no mention of mandatory

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt

2010-03-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 2:37 PM + 3/19/10, Elwyn Davies wrote: Not ready. The document contains a lot of minor niggles and nits plus a major item that I am not sure the IETF should support: this is the removal of all mention of mandatory to implement security suites from

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt

2010-03-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 March 2010 IETF LC End Date: 18 March 2010 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Not ready. The document contains a lot of minor niggles and nits plus a major item that I am not sure the IETF should support: this is the removal of all

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv4-vendor-message-01

2010-02-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
-dhc-dhcpv4-vendor-message-01.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 5 February 2010 IETF LC End Date: 17 February 2010 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Almost ready. I note that (AFAICS) the existing DHCPv4 standards do not specify the behaviour of clients and servers receiving message

Re: XML2RFC must die, was: Re: Two different threads - IETF Document Format

2009-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Carsten Bormann wrote: What we need is the ability to write drafts with a standard issue word processor. Why? I suppose if there were indeed a *standard* word processor, this might be feasible, but I think by standard issue you mean commercially available.

Re: Update to the IETF Web Site

2009-06-24 Thread Elwyn Davies
I agree with this point. It would also be good to have 'parent' links on these sub-pages. I note that the same problem occurs if you select the 'Brief' option on the menu. [Q: will the 'customize view' be something one can select on startup (e.g. by a ?string in the URL)? - I am not sure how

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt

2008-11-25 Thread Elwyn Davies
-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 24 November 2008 IETF LC End Date: 17 November 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. It has a number of minor issues plus a fair number of editorial nits. I am sending the editirial

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt

2008-11-24 Thread Elwyn Davies
-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 24 November 2008 IETF LC End Date: 17 November 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. It has a number of minor issues plus a fair number of editorial nits. I am sending the editirial

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-05

2008-10-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
these in the -06 draft is below. Regards, Mark On 7/18/08 8:57 AM, Elwyn Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see _http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html_). Please

Gen-art review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05.txt

2008-10-13 Thread Elwyn Davies
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see _http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html_). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document:

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-sip-media-security-requirements-07

2008-10-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
-sip-media-security-requirements-07.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 10 October 2008 IETF LC End Date: 13 October 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. I have a couple of comments and queries about the reasoning in a few of the requirements

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-forces-model-14.txt

2008-09-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
-forces-model-14.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 5 Setember 2008 IETF LC End Date: 8 September 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Nearly ready for IESG. Generally this is a very well constructed and written document dealing with a very complex problem. There are quite a number

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-05

2008-07-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-05.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 July 2008 IETF LC End Date: 29 July 2008 IESG Telechat date: n/a Summary: Nearly ready for IESG. A few minor issues mainly with failure to specify encodings and a couple of corner cases. A few editorial nits noted

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-revised-04.txt

2008-04-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rmt-bb-norm-revised-04.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 15 April 2008 IETF LC End Date: 17 April 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: A well-written document covering some pretty complex ideas. Technically ready for the IESG but a little up front explanation for the naive reader

gen-art review of draft-ietf-rserpool-policies-08.txt

2008-04-11 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rserpool-policies-08.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 11 April 2008 IETF LC End Date: 14 April 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Sorry, guys! This document is not in good shape. I know it is, in a sense, the bottom of the tree and somebody reading it would probably be expected

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-11.txt

2008-03-09 Thread Elwyn Davies
Sri Gundavelli wrote: Hi Elwyn, Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for reviewing the updated draft. We will address the two remaining issues. Please see inline. No problem.. I am stuck in a hotel in Toronto, nit getting to IETF. :-((( Snipped the first issue as that should be fine.

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-smime-multisig-04.txt

2008-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
-smime-multisig-04.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 7 March 2008 IETF LC End Date: 7 March 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: Mostly fine except for a piece of unclear specification noted below and a few editorial nits. Caveat: I am not a security expert and this should not be taken

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rohc-rfc3095bis-rohcv2-profiles-05

2008-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rohc-rfc3095bis-rohcv2-profiles-05 Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 7 March 2008 IETF LC End Date: 20 March 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: The document is almost ready for the IESG. There are a couple of minor issues that ought to be resolved as detailed below (especially

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-11.txt

2008-03-01 Thread Elwyn Davies
: draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-11.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 29 Feb 2008 IESG Telechat date: 06 March 2008 Summary: Version 11 resolves almost all of the issues and nits that I raised in the last call review of version 10. There is one editorial matter to complete the 'ease

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-10.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
-netlmm-proxymip6-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 Feb 2008 IETF LC End Date: 20 Feb 2008 IESG Telechat date: 21 Feb 2008 Summary: This document is well written and is in fairly good shape for submission to the IESG. There are a number of minor issues which ought to be fixed. I think

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
The information is available on the RFC Editor's web site at http://www.rfc-editor.org/ The RFC Database in various forms such as http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html tells you the status of each RFC and the RFCs that are associated with it by obsoletes/obsoleted/updated relationships

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-11.txt

2008-01-18 Thread Elwyn Davies
scheduled for next weeks telechat, you should liaise with your AD before making any changes. Document: draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-11.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 January 2008 IETF LC End Date: 16 January 2008 IESG Telechat date: 24 January 2008 Summary: This document is not ready

Gen-art review of draft-shimaoka-multidomain-pki-11.txt

2007-12-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
-multidomain-pki-11.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 28 December 2007 IETF LC End Date: 1 January 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: In general this is a well written and, as far as I can see, comprehensive document. I have one major problem with it: it far exceeds the scope

Re: Opportunity Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
I also think that we must think positive about this. We do need to try things out. I think we started our very first experiments with Wireless LAN at IETF 46 in Washington (I am just trying to find a museum to take the plug-in card Nortel sold(?) me that was never any use afterwards (the old

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01

2007-09-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 21/9/07 IETF LC End Date: 20/9/07 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. I have a couple of essentially editorial comments below. Comments: s3: IPv6 nodes **MUST NOT process** RH0

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ccamp-inter-domain-pd-path-comp-05.txt

2007-08-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ccamp-inter-domain-pd-path-comp-05.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 16 Aug 2007 IETF LC End Date: 16 Aug 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) 23 Aug 2007 Summary: I think this document needs significant work on the core description of the algorithm. I found s4 to be difficult to read

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipfix-implementation-guidelines-06.txt

2007-08-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ipfix-implementation-guidelines-06 Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 20 July 2007 IETF LC End Date: 18 July 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known)- Summary: Generally in good shape except that the use of RFC 2119 language is generally inappropriate. In many cases the uses of MUST represent

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic-00.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Elwyn Davies
Christian Huitema wrote: From: Noel Chiappa, Monday, July 02, 2007 6:08 AM From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino) if NAT-PT is to be made historic due to the claims presented in the draft, all of the NAT related documents have to be made historic ...

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-sip-e2m-sec-05.txt

2007-05-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
arrival of these comments. Document: draft-ietf-sip-e2m-sec-05.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 May 2005 IETF LC End Date: 14 May 2005 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: I think this document needs a fair bit of work before it is ready to go to the IESG. The request to publish

Re: In support of symbolic references

2007-04-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Brian E Carpenter wrote: 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. The

Re: Prague

2007-03-08 Thread Elwyn Davies
Tim Chown wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:23:21PM -0500, Ralph Droms wrote: I visited Prague about two years ago and had the same experience as Ed. I traveled via the Metro and on foot, visited all the tourist traps; had no problems and never felt unsafe. I second that. The

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

2007-02-28 Thread Elwyn Davies
Just to clarify the current situation... The statement below says that the recommendation is for RFC 2766 to be reclassified to experimental.. As is implied by the title of the draft, it actually recommends reclassification to Historic. This error results form a piece of history ;-) - The

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

2007-02-28 Thread Elwyn Davies
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. NAT-PT is not NAT. It does a whole lot more, but it *cannot* do what it claims to do completely, because the semantics on the two sides

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-crisp-iris-dchk-06.txt

2007-02-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
-crisp-iris-dchk-06.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 10 February 2007 IETF LC End Date: 21 February 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: The document itself maybe nearly ready for IESG apart from a few editorial nits (see below). However there are a couple of issues with associated

Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-webdav-rfc2518bis-17.txt

2007-01-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
-webdav-rfc2518bis-17.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 30/01/2007 IETF LC End Date: 21/01/2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Apologies for the late review - I missed the aassignment somehow. This document is almost ready for the IESG. There are a couple of issues which need

Prague (Praha) street maps and hotels (was Re: IETF 68 hotel full)

2006-12-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Search for Praha postcode 18600 or the Florenc metro station which is just nearby (slightly south of hotel). Link to maps centred on hotel: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=50.0922lon=14.439scale=5000icon=x (links to some hotels relatively nearby) www.mappy.com finds about 30 hotels

Last Call: 'Procedures for protocol extensions and, variations' to BCP

2006-08-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
A couple of nits: s3: It might be helpful to make the first three paras into a bulleted list and add an introductory sentence like: 'There are various ways in which an extension to an IETF can be introduced into the IETF:' s3, para 3: If my understanding is correct, a document from the

Re: L2VPNs must not be IP(v4)-only

2006-08-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Maybe I wasn't paying attention but I don't recall seeing messages about this on either the ipv6 or v6ops mailing list. I guess you may have asked around but I'm sure somebody in the wg's could have helped if a public request was made (especially the ndproxy authors). Be that as it may,

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-06 Thread Elwyn Davies
Minor clarification in case your ethics are troubling you... Elwyn Davies wrote: Airport shuttles: Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Queen Elizabeth (900 boulevard Rene-levesque Ouest) which is about 0.25 mile from the Delta

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Airport shuttles: Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Queen Elizabeth (900 boulevard Rene-levesque Ouest) which is about 0.25 mile from the Delta.. Alternatives include riding to the central bus station and taking the metro (Orange

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Queen Elizabeth (900 boulevard Rene-levesque Ouest) which is about 0.25 mile from the Delta.. Alternatives include riding to the central bus station and taking the metro (Orange Line, direction

Re: IETF IPv6 platform configuration

2006-06-12 Thread Elwyn Davies
Kevin Loch wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: secIETF == IETF Secretariat [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: secIETF *Only HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and DNS traffic are permitted through an IPv6 secIETF Native firewall (pings, traceroutes etc. are dropped) Please make sure that ICMP messages

Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
. == Thoughts? Regards, Elwyn Sam Hartman wrote: Elwyn == Elwyn Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Elwyn I was selected as General Area Review Team reviewer for Elwyn this specification (for background on Gen-ART, please see Elwyn http://www.alvestrand.no

Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Sam Hartman wrote: I am happy to make a change similar to the one you propose in section 1. I'm happy to split the parts of section 4 dealing with what the IESG might do into their own section as an example. That's fine by me.. it should make a self-consistent document. I do not want

Re: Last Call: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations' to Proposed Standard

2006-02-26 Thread Elwyn Davies
Bill Strahm wrote: Robert Elz wrote: I cannot see why there's a debate going on here. If someone, anyone, can read a spec, and, in good faith, point out a possible ambiguity in the text, before the doc is finalised, and if fixing it to avoid the problem is easy, what possible justification

Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-02-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
I was selected as General Area Review Team reviewer for this specification (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Document: draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt Intended Status: Experimental (RFC3933 Process Experiment) Shepherding

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Tom.Petch wrote: The phrase 'monotonic increasing' seems to be a Humpty-Dumpty one, used with a different sense within RFC to that which I see defined elsewhere; and this could lead to a reduction in security. Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
- From: "Elwyn Davies" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "Tom.Petch" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: "ietf" ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:19 PM Subject: Re: 'monotonic increasing' Hi. Tom.Petch wrote: The phrase 'monotonic increasing' seems t

Knowing what BOFs are being thought about [was: Re: IETF 65 BOF Announcement: Digital Identity Exchange (DIX)]

2006-02-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
Finding out what BOFs are being plotted is not very easy AFAIK. In the case below there doesn't appear to have been any widespread public announcement of the start of the mailing list and I suspect that is the case for many others. Obviously an announcement of intent to the IETF list or the

Finding issue trackers for drafts

2006-01-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. One additional piece of information relating to drafts that ism't included in the drafts database is the location of the issue tracker (if any). They aren't all in one place at the moment which makes life more difficult than necessary for the casual inspector... for example... - I was

Re: how to declare consensus when someone ignores consensus

2006-01-23 Thread Elwyn Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you imagine if during every murder trial they had a debate on the humanity of capitol punishment? As a non-US citizen, I am a little hazy about some details of the US legal system. Do I assume that this punishment requires the malefactor to sit through a set

Re: Ietf Digest, Vol 21, Issue 63

2006-01-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
= regards, Elwyn Davies Marshall Eubanks wrote: While we are on the subject, in the archives of the IETF there are proceedings of one Internet Architecture Task Force meeting, in May, 1986. Can anyone fill me in on this entity and what happened to it ? Regards Marshall Eubanks

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell checker provided). And the

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell checker provided). And the

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Joe Touch wrote: Elwyn Davies wrote: I used to use the Word template but the freedom from hassle of generating the final documents I'm not sure what freedom this means; XML still needs to run through a script, just as Word does. you can't do it from inside Word and in my

IETF Trust last call

2005-12-08 Thread Elwyn Davies
would ask. Appendix A: I was somewhat surprised that this section doesn't explicitly mention any software used as part of the operations and process. Maybe this is covered by some other part of the IASA agreements? Regards, Elwyn Davies ___ Ietf

Re: draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-17.txt

2005-10-27 Thread Elwyn Davies
Roland Looking at the RFC Editor queue, it looks as if this is the only document in the complex web of interdependencies between rfc2401bis and ikev2 and their related documents that is still in the EDIT state. All the others appear to be in REF state waiting for it to finish editing. Why

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: How about adding that the mean outdoor temperature at the time of the year the meeting is being held should be above 0 degrees Centigrade? Why? There is some logic in this.. Participants need to be able to

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
Jari Arkko wrote: Elwyn Davies wrote: There is some logic in this.. Participants need to be able to get from airport to hotel to venue on foot/public transport without needing to bring excessive personal protection gear that they might not otherwise own, or experiencing heat stroke

Re: p2p dns (was: Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
Johan: I imagine you have seen this paper on the subject of a p2p DNS substitute based on CHORD, but it is interesting reading for others. http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/178.pdf Regards, Elwyn Davies Johan Henriksson wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:45:29AM +0200, Johan

Comments on draft-iab-link-indications-03.txt

2005-09-23 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. I did a quick read of this document and have a couple of general comments (plus I spotted a very few trival nits). It seems to be a very useful survey of what has been done in the area of Wireless LAN and the interactions of link indications for hosts connected directly to such links.

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