Re: new text for ID_Checklist sect 3, item 6

2008-08-15 Thread Fred Baker
I seem to be in the minority, but I object. This results, if I understand correctly, from the dispute that JCK had with the IESG a little while ago. Basically, someone on the IESG felt that rules of this sort should apply, an update to an existing specification didn't conform, and they obje

Re: About IETF communication skills

2008-08-01 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:52 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Some considered that part of the delay of the IPv6 deployment was due to the lack of communication effort from IETF. I'm not really sure about that, however I agree that everything helps, of course. To be honest, I think IPv6 has bee

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-25 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 24, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Marc Manthey wrote: marratech was aquired by google in 2005 , so i guess its not available anymore ( was java by the way and a bit slow ) I keep hearing this, and I use it every week. Someday I'll figure out why people say this. ___

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
IMHO, defining things to a gnat's eyelash is mostly employment for lawyer-wannabes, and doesn't necessarily help in reality. "Teleconferencing", in this context, includes any communications vehicle that enables participants to meet without having to travel, and which they all agree to. Coul

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: Anyone promoting a point of view is going to find an example to support it. What we need, instead, is a sense of "typical", to use as the base for our consideration. Yes, we also need to consider outliers, but we need to treat them as suc

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: Fred Baker wrote: On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Rather than expanding the number of slots why don't we look at using the time we have more efficiently. Let me throw in v6ops as an example. We are very efficient, I

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Rather than expanding the number of slots why don't we look at using the time we have more efficiently. Let me throw in v6ops as an example. We are very efficient, I think - we have 10-15 minute discussions on each of a number of drafts in ou

Re: SHOULD vs MUST

2008-06-25 Thread Fred Baker
ne, 2008 07:59 -0400 Scott Brim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/25/08 5:37 AM, Fred Baker allegedly wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: A SHOULD X unless Y essentially means "SHOULD (X or Y)" I'd read it as "do X, but if you have a very goo

Re: SHOULD vs MUST

2008-06-25 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: A SHOULD X unless Y essentially means "SHOULD (X or Y)" I'd read it as "do X, but if you have a very good excuse not doing X might do. One known very good excuse is Y." That is more or less my definition of "should". I say something "must

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:02 AM, David Kessens wrote: > If my memory serves me correctly, we didn't have to do a formal > override vote in both cases as the request of an override vote was > enough to get the first case moving, while in the second case I > decided that an informal strawpoll was

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Brian Dickson wrote: > List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples > used to indicate that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 examples. It seems that this gives 2606 more weight than it claims. What it claims is, quoting its abstract:

Re: I mentioned once that certain actions of the IETF may be criminally prosecutable in nature...

2008-06-04 Thread Fred Baker
So you're saying that the indictment (which as described does not constitute a conviction and therefore is not case law) is relevant if someone creates an identity for the purpose of deluding others, uses it to inflict emotional distress, and the result is the suicide of a member of the dis

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-11 Thread Fred Baker
OC IAOC Appointee > 5. IAD http://iaoc.ietf.org/members_detail.html: Bob Hinden, appointed by the IAB - bob.hinden at nokia.com Ole Jacobsen, appointed by the IESG - ole at cisco.com * Fred Baker, appointed by the ISOC Board of Trustees - fred at cisco.com * Russ Housley, the IETF Cha

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-08 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Leslie Daigle wrote: > Giving the Trust a chair is at least a step towards acknowledging > it as a separate organization (beyond instrument), and one could > then examine whether the IAOC members are, in fact, the right > people to populate it (for example). It c

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:54 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > Probably the Trust and/or IAOC procedures or charter should be > modified so that, in the event of the demise of the IAOC, the Trust > falls firmly under direct IETF control (unless the IETF itself > ceases to exist). The concept makes sen

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Lixia Zhang wrote: > Call me an idealist:), I personally believe, generally speaking, it > is better to put everything on the table, rather than partial info, > between nomcom and confirming body. > > Step up a level: wonder where this discussion is leading to?

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:34 AM, SM wrote: > There is an expectation that the information provided to the > nominating committee is confidential. The confirming body needs some > information to determine whether the candidate fits the stated > requirements. There is a simple solution to that. The

Re: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-14 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 14, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Challenge for our IT folks: Internationalized Internet Drafts, > including file names. Doable? It's doable, no doubt. The next question is whether this is actually smart. The Finnish character set is something I can deal with, although my k

Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet

2008-03-13 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote: > The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has further compounded > the problem by creating interoperable standards for security, which > have enabled hosts on the Internet to protect traffic en

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Fred Baker
yes. those that built the integrated services model felt that it was appropriate for internet telephony to have a way to test the capacity available for a real time data stream, and if capacity wasn't available, to say "no". Those who have worked in ieprep have pointed out that absent such

Re: [IAOC] RFC Editor costs - Proofreading (was Re: My view of the IAOC Meeting Selection Guidelines)

2008-02-11 Thread Fred Baker
Could we come to order, please? I was commenting that the use of pre-RFC-editor copy editors had been beneficial, and there was something possibly to be learned. I suggested one variation - tool, and mentioned as supporting context that I had used such a tool. The six hours on the IETF list

Re: [IAOC] RFC Editor costs - Proofreading (was Re: My view of the IAOC Meeting Selection Guidelines)

2008-02-11 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 9, 2008, at 1:46 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > My own assessment is that it has improved the documents. The > proofreaders have > their own views of what is correct and that sometimes requires > discussion, but > mostly I consider their intervention to have a positive impact. > > The quest

Re: My view of the IAOC Meeting Selection Guidelines

2008-02-08 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 8, 2008, at 12:30 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > I suggest we start thinking about this now rather than at the point > where the IETF can't pay its bills anymore. Where do we draw the > line on meeting fee increases? Is there any way to save costs? What > was the cost structure 10 o

Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-08 Thread Fred Baker
> Is there an unwritten requirement that IETFs are placed to afford > us sightseeing? Maybe we should add a pointer to the local "things to see and do in Ireland" page to the Meetings page. As an engineer, I would very much encourage people to stay an extra day and tour NewGrange. Imagine t

Re: [IAOC] IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 6, 2008, at 9:15 AM, Andy Bierman wrote: > However, there are obvious logistical concerns, especially at lunch > time. Is 90 minutes really enough time to bus into town, eat lunch, > and get back? Lunch is always a problem. That's why we have a sandwich stand - to diminish exactly t

Re: I-D submission tool

2008-02-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 7, 2008, at 1:39 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > However, we have to keep a sense of proportion. Having been one of > the pre-transition testers (although not of this particular tool), > I've seen enough to know that the AMS folk have been investing > tremendous effort to find and qui

Re: Internet Draft Submission cutoff dates

2008-01-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 18, 2008, at 5:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: A possible approach would be to use the cutoff dates as deadlines for drafts to be placed on the WG agenda - i.e. allow automated posting to continue unabated, but only allow "late" drafts to be discussed in the meeting if so agreed during a

Re: Internet Draft Submission cutoff dates

2008-01-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 18, 2008, at 11:18 AM, Eric Gray wrote: For the people who participate in a fair number of working groups in the IETF, requiring early posting allows for a greater likelihood that they will be able to at least skim each new draft sometime before setting up their laptop at the beginn

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-01-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 17, 2008, at 12:04 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Just as a reminder, the idea was to have something *easier and cheaper* than RFCs but more organized than arbitrary web pages. Fred might note that "cheaper" with his IAOC hat on ;-). I do indeed. That said, I'm paying for the RFC Edito

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-01-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 16, 2008, at 11:41 AM, The IESG wrote: RFC 4693, Section 4 says: This experiment is expected to run for a period of 12 months, starting from the date of the first ION published using this mechanism. At the end of the period, the IESG should issue a call for comments from the commun

Re: Let's look at it from an IETF oldie's perspective... Re: IPv4Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-20 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 20, 2007, at 4:59 AM, Theodore Tso wrote: I think the IETF oldie perspective is ... amazement Truer words were never spoken, at least from this oldie's perspective. I found Dave Crocker's comment that the IETF never does interoperabili

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 19, 2007, at 7:22 PM, Franck Martin wrote: It the outage happens at the last plenary session then everyone will have the whole week before the plenary to set up their laptop to IPv6 the laptop is the trivial part. It is the supporting infrastructure at the home corporation that is an

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 18, 2007, at 12:39 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: In the same way that there is a difference between a bricklayer and an architect there is a difference between an engineer and a network admin. On Dec 19, 2007, at 8:07 AM, David Kessen

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 With all due respect, firewall traversal and protocol translation look like they are going to be interesting/important topics, at least in the near term. You might consider Alain's slides from v6ops/nanog in that regard. Closing an application w

Re: TCP

2007-12-18 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 18, 2007, at 1:09 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: the need for a UDP scavenger service is strong. Speaking for myself, I would suggest (a) getting your favorite ISPs to run a scavenger service (IP layer), and run DCCP over it (transport la

Re: TCP

2007-12-17 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Dec 15, 2007, at 2:17 AM, Jeyasekar Antony wrote: hi I heard that TCP is not suitable for high speed network because of its instability, lattency. is it true? is there any research work going on in this context? It is probably worth lookin

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-17 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 what leads you to believe that the IETF doesn't do interoperability events? It has done quite a few, notably in DHCPv6 immediately following the recent IETF and going back in various working groups as far as I can remember. On Dec 16, 2007, at

Re: TCP

2007-12-15 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 you might look at tcpm. You might find RFC 872 interesting reading: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc0872.txt 0872 TCP-on-a-LAN. M.A. Padlipsky. September 1982. People have been saying that TCP was the wrong answer for something or another for a long t

Continental Distribution

2007-11-29 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2007, at 8:51 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: Looking at IETF-60 to IETF-70, 8 out of the 10 IETFs were in North America. I'd be good if we could re-balance this in the future. The plan we're working against is at http://ietf.org/meetings/0mtg

Re: IETF Eurasia

2007-11-29 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I can tell you why we do - crosstalk. It can be incredibly useful for people from the Security Area to look in on Applications, or for Transport and RAI folks to understand the workings of the layers beneath them and their users, for example.

Hotel selection

2007-11-28 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Changing the subject line due to topic drift. On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:45 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: We still seem to be constantly wandering into hotels for the first time, and somehow it's hard to believe that that doesn't cost the IETF a premium, i

Re: Westin Bayshore throwing us out

2007-11-28 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:05 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: the only common factor is Ray and the rest of IETF's administrative management... well, it's gotta be the IAOC's fault then. Tell you what, you can cut my IAOC salary in half as a penalty. Ot

Re: Westin Bayshore throwing us out

2007-11-27 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Nov 27, 2007, at 3:08 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: Fair enough, and I realize that I am not privy to how the negotiations go and how much of a discount one gets. I don't want to know about how the contracts negotiation happens but I do of cou

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I asked James this privately, but if we're going to get into an off- topic discussion of global warming, I'll ask it publicly to whoever has a good answer. We all agree that global warming is happening. If you go to the terminal moraine, the f

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Mr Chairman, I have a suggestion. I suggest that we have a BOF at the next IETF on heat transfer issues, and subsequently open a working group. It can deal with this issue right after it solves the leakage current problem in fine lithography sil

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread Fred Baker
valid signatures. Traffic with spoofed source addresses from domains that sign needs no moderation. The moderation load is the problem we're solving. On Oct 4, 2007, at 4:08 PM, Simon Leinen wrote: Fred Baker writes: On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The probl

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 4, 2007, at 3:38 PM, Keith Moore wrote: the problem I have with DKIM filtering is that it is only effective for domains that can reasonably insist that all of the mail originated by users at that domain go through that domain's submissi

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I will disagree with you there. DKIM allows the concept of a corporate signature - "I'm Cisco and I know who my employee is" or "I'm Yahoo and I know who my user is" - but it doesn't require it. What it does require is that if you are not going

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 4, 2007, at 11:56 AM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The problem is the amount of time it is taking to moderate mail sent by non subscribers. yes. For example, every email from @cisco.com is dkim-signed. The IETF can automagically dump an

Re: Spammers answering TMDA Queries

2007-10-04 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Oct 2, 2007, at 9:02 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Should also consider if spf or dkim checks could cull the paypal spam. how many of us are now sending with DKIM or Microsoft's scheme? It might be worthwhile making ietf.org apply a polic

Vendor viewpoint on ULA filtered-by-default

2007-09-21 Thread Fred Baker
Paul Vixie has asked me to more widely state a comment made last May on the v6ops mailer. Please understand that this is not a formal statement of Cisco's (e.g., this is not a press release signed off by the Cisco Legal, corporate PR, product line management, or marketing departments), it i

Re: ULA-C (Was: Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it)

2007-09-20 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 20, 2007, at 6:44 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Not to mention sites that are more than 30 hops away from each other. I've seen traceroutes that go up to 27 hops so I imagine that the hopcount diameter is once again becoming an issue as it was prior to 1995. That was in many resp

Re: ULA-C (Was: Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it)

2007-09-20 Thread Fred Baker
owners of those services will simply go to ISPs and say "route this, or I'll find someone else who will". I'm actually not as convinced of this. Yes, they can get routing from their ISP, and the ISP will be happy to sell it to them. Can they get it from their ISP's upstream, and from that

Re: session layers, was Re: Renumbering ... Should we consider an association that spans transports?

2007-09-17 Thread Fred Baker
Dumb question of the month. With the exception of the last claim ("...can prioritize..."), this could just as easily describe SCTP. What here is new? And define "prioritize"? On Sep 17, 2007, at 2:02 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: You might be interested in Bryan Ford's SST paper from this year's S

Re: Renumbering

2007-09-14 Thread Fred Baker
hmm. I'm not sure you're talking about the same thing. DNS is a rendezvous protocol. I I want to open a session with , I translate 's name to an adddress and open a TCP connection. Having done so, the application doesn't need either the name or the address as long as the session is stable.

Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-13 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 14, 2007, at 6:03 AM, Keith Moore wrote: perhaps, but it won't work reliably as long as there can be more than one host associated with a DNS name, nor will it work as long as DNS name-to-address mapping is used to distribute load over a set of hosts. well, this presumes that the

Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-13 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 14, 2007, at 2:22 AM, David Conrad wrote: And I would suggest by ignoring history we are doomed to repeat it. I am not engaging in "I told you so" because I didn't -- you'll note I used "we". I am merely pointing out that we're either at or very quickly approaching a crossroads an

Re: Renumbering

2007-09-13 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 13, 2007, at 9:26 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: This RFC identified a couple of opportunities: 4. Call to Action for the IETF The more automated one can make the renumbering process, the better for everyone. Sadly, there are several mechanisms that either have not been automated o

Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 20, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Which is what prompted the original point I made in the plenary: when someone is using the end to end principle to slap down some engineering proposal they don't like I would at least like them to appear to have read the paper they a

Re: e2e

2007-08-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 14, 2007, at 10:59 PM, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: In any event, exploring one of your examples with the concepts in the paper in mind (perhaps I am using a verbatim application of the concepts) that the network may filter some (and that being the keyword) malware or suspicious traff

Re: e2e

2007-08-14 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 26, 2007, at 8:47 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I don't think that I am misrepresenting the paper when I summarize it as saying 'keep the complexity out of the network core' I'm slogging through some old email, and choose to pick up on this. Following Noel's rant (which is well writ

Re: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?

2007-07-30 Thread Fred Baker
I am of the opinion that the amount of work we get done is largely independent of where we meet. But who attends is very heavily influenced by where we meet. On Jul 29, 2007, at 8:04 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: Do we have any firm evidence that we would get more work done if we had more meet

Re: chicago IETF IPv6 connectivity

2007-06-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 30, 2007, at 9:49 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: Maybe we are getting to the point in time where we should only have IPv6 at IETF meetings good luck. Until the ISPs and our corporate networks deploy it, we can't go there. ___ Ietf mailing list Ie

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

2007-05-11 Thread Fred Baker
On May 11, 2007, at 6:35 AM, <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm not going to quibble with the wording of the draft at this point. I just wonder whether it is appropriate for the RIR mailing lists to be used as a working group for writing Internet drafts? I don't see why not, but... In your emai

Re: RFID (was: identifying yourself at the mic)

2007-03-27 Thread Fred Baker
On Tuesday, March 27, 2007 02:42:19 PM -0700 Andy Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: There are so many Process Wonks in the IETF who feel it is their sworn duty to yell "State your name please!" I guess I am one of those process wonks. In the PCN meeting last week, I was taking notes, a feed

Re: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread Fred Baker
Thanks, Carsten and others. The general sense I arrive at is: - nobody that I recognize has said "it's me, and here's what I'm doing". - clearly someone wants to make a business based on my (and presumably many of our) expertise - the email says something tantalizing about profit-sharing,

Fwd: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-23 Thread Fred Baker
Does anyone know who this is or what it is about? Begin forwarded message: From: Pingsta Registration <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: March 24, 2007 8:31:52 AM GMT+01:00 To: Fred <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: Pingsta Invitation Fred, As an Internetwork expert, we would like to invite you to join P

Re: Prague

2007-03-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 7, 2007, at 3:57 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: I think we should boldly go where no IETF has gone before (but millions of other people have, safely). I'll agree if I can change the phrase ever so slightly. I would like to see the IETF meet where IETF participants live. Over time, I would e

Re: Prague

2007-03-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 7, 2007, at 7:58 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: 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, whatever, where you are to order you a cab, and you won't have problems. This

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Elwyn Davies wrote: Also this appears to be tied to the US business model where the ISP supplies you with the box and you don't get to change it (or even own it). Do they do that in the US? I'm not aware of it... ___

Re: IETF 70 & 73 Venue Locations

2007-03-07 Thread Fred Baker
that's the Westin Bayshore (aka Westin Picadilly), as opposed to the Westin Grand or the Westin Capital, right? On Mar 5, 2007, at 2:42 PM, IETF Administrative Director wrote: The IETF is pleased to announce its meeting locations for IETF's 70 and 73, and they are locations we have been to

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

2007-02-28 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 28, 2007, at 12:40 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Is there a document that describes a deployment plan under a two stack transition? Well, I can't say they are exacty what you're looking for, but you might glance at: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2767.txt 2767 Dual Stack Hosts usin

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

2007-02-28 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 28, 2007, at 8:02 AM, 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. ... The only protocol which really cares about the source and destination IP addresses is IPSEC and we have disc

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

2007-02-20 Thread Fred Baker
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 designed to do as you say; EF isn't. settin

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

2007-02-20 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 20, 2007, at 4:51 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: It seems that are assuming the transport needs to happen in the packet itself. While this is a possible approach, I don't see that it needs to be the only one. For example, a mechanism where the mutually trusting network components would h

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

2007-02-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 19, 2007, at 5:19 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: I'd like to see it explicitly stated that transporting congestion information in the (metered) IP packets themselves is out of scope. This should exclude designs such as adding IP options en-route, defining new extension headers, or modifying

Re: Protest: Complexity running rampant

2007-02-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 19, 2007, at 1:55 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote: My attention has recently been drawn to this set of documents: - draft-legg-xed-asd - draft-legg-xed-asd-gserei - draft-legg-xed-asd-xerei - draft-legg-xed-rxer - draft-legg-xed-rxer-ei It's, as far as I can tell, an attempt at a complete

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-12 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 12, 2007, at 6:28 AM, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: That said, I _do_ wish the tracker would maintain history of DISCUSS and COMMENT comments, instead of only showing the latest ballot text. It does. Click "view details", and you get the substance of the commentary. _

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2006-12-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 29, 2006, at 9:08 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: ideology is a fine reason in my mind to fail to have consensus. Hmm. I have to think for a moment on the definition of ideology. I'm thinking first of a particular discussion we have going on in tsvwg. Some are asserting that where the law of l

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2006-12-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 29, 2006, at 5:05 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The problem here is that the positions that are most likely to be held hostage by DISCUSS are cases like this one where there is a clear majority in favor of change but the minority see absolutely no reason to compromise because the

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2006-12-28 Thread Fred Baker
I agree with your points here, and I think it points up something I have been feeling about this and not putting words to. I really don't think the issue is whether it is a web page, an I-D, an RFC, or something else. The point is that we need a document process that will allow people to pu

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2006-12-26 Thread Fred Baker
A look on the web came up with: http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/discuss-criteria.html and http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-iesg-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 ough

Re: ion-ion-store open for public comment

2006-12-15 Thread Fred Baker
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, and I'm not sure that having ssh access to the machine is necessary. Approaches used by common blogging and wiki softwar

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

2006-11-30 Thread Fred Baker
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 confused. Generally, w

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

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
n Nov 16, 2006, at 7:13 PM, Curtis Villamizar wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Fred Baker writes: On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Curtis Villamizar wrote: Preemption in MPLS can be soft preemption (setting aside differences of opinion about how signaling of soft preempt should be d

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

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Curtis Villamizar wrote: Preemption in MPLS can be soft preemption (setting aside differences of opinion about how signaling of soft preempt should be done for the moment)... Even for hard preemption, there is at worst a fall back to IP and reroute... Those a

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

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: 2. The notion that solutions such as precedence and preemption are (a) requirements and (b) applicable to all applications just doesn't compute for me. They don't especially compute for me in the sense that the terms are used in the PST

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

2006-11-15 Thread Fred Baker
ORMATIONAL) http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-tsvwg-diffserv-class-aggr "Aggregation of DiffServ Service Classes", Kwok Ho Chan, 22-Oct-06 and http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-baker-tsvwg-admitted-voice-dscp "An EF DSCP for Capacity-Admitted Traffic", Fred Baker, 6-

Re: *.ppt slides

2006-11-11 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 11, 2006, at 12:01 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote: Hi, will the *.ppt slides be converted again to *.html ? yes ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Risk of Laptop Seizure by Customs or Border Patrol Officers ...

2006-11-09 Thread Fred Baker
Cisco had a case in which a traveller had their laptop detained and its disk copied by border authorities in Ben Gurion Airport. There was some embarrassment related to customer-confidential files, which some at Cisco believe may have been the objective of the border service. That said, I h

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter ofInternet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 6, 2006, at 11:22 AM, Dolly, Martin C, NPE wrote: Side note: my focus is on the ETS service. All of the major players (vendors, service providers, contractors, and most importantly CUSTOMER), attend and participate in the ATIS work. yes, and for stuff that is limited to telephony ser

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

2006-11-09 Thread Fred Baker
ng it upon itself to enable the work to progress in a timely fashion rather than having an infinite series of hurdles and road-blocks thrown in the way. Can you help us with that? On Nov 5, 2006, at 1:25 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: "Fred" == Fred Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wri

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

2006-11-09 Thread Fred Baker
is not a good example of "rough consensus and running code". We need a means by which we can do something about these problems that includes the right community of experts and doesn't involve waiting to see who gets exhausted last. On Nov 5, 2006, at 2:38 PM, Pete Resnick wr

Re: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft announcements this week?

2006-11-08 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:18 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: I'm curious: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft annnouncements (posted on the "i-d-announce@ietf.org" mailing list) this week? I thought that there were supposed to be no new Internet-Draft announcements from 1 week prior to each

Re: On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote:

2006-11-06 Thread Fred Baker
ing been a liaison to the nomcom in the past, and having chaired a nomcom, I think I am in a position to say that the implications of his statement are simply unworkable. On Nov 6, 2006, at 2:39 PM, Sam Weiler wrote: On Mon, 6 Nov 2006, Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, L

Re: How confidential is the information we share with the Nomcom?

2006-11-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 5, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: Frankly the feedback does not need to seen by anyone other than the voting members IMO. What do others think? So your point is that the chair of the nominating committee should not know who the candidates are? You might consider the t

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

2006-11-04 Thread Fred Baker
I have to say that my discussions with US DoD and DHS/NCS, and with their counterparts in other countries, doesn't suggest that the set of technical mechanisms is all specified. If we're looking only at voice, it is maybe so, but they're not looking only at voice. Questions abound around th

Interesting turn of events

2006-11-03 Thread Fred Baker
http://www.cnn.com/2006/TECH/internet/11/03/airforce.cyberspace.reut/index.html___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Scary technology

2006-11-01 Thread Fred Baker
if routing protocols aren't scary enough for you... http://money.cnn.com/popups/2006/fortune/scary_tech/index.html ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Requirements for Open Positions

2006-10-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 19, 2006, at 2:53 PM, John C Klensin wrote: I believe that potential candidates who (i) clearly understand what is involved in the relevant role but (ii) who have plausible ideas about how the tasks could be rearranged so as to reduce the workload should be taken very seriously rather

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