Re: Of governments and representation (was: Montevideo Statement)

2013-10-14 Thread Harald Alvestrand
For what it's worth, I think Russ and Jari did the right thing in signing the statement the way they did, at the time they did it, with the prior consultation they did. I was not consulted. And I'm glad they are capable of acting at this level without consulting me. On 10/11/2013 06:02

Re: Transparency in Specifications and PRISM-class attacks

2013-09-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I'd like to snippet Phil's suggestion to an abbreviated version of one sentence, becaue I think this is right on. On 09/19/2013 05:37 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The issue we need to focus on is how to convince our audience that our specifications have not been compromised To my mind,

Re: Transparency in Specifications and PRISM-class attacks

2013-09-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 09/20/2013 01:38 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: On 20.09.2013 13:20, Harald Alvestrand wrote: To my mind, the first thing to focus on is making our specs readable, so that it's possible to understand that they have not been compromised. Three questions for you Harald: 1) When you say

Re: Last Call: draft-nandakumar-rtcweb-stun-uri-05.txt (URI Scheme for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 08/15/2013 11:04 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: Hi Harald, On 14/08/2013 19:49, Harald Alvestrand wrote: On 08/13/2013 12:14 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: [...] But, in a personal capacity, not as designated reviewer, I have to ask *why* this needs to be a URI. As far as I can tell, it is intended

Re: Last Call: draft-nandakumar-rtcweb-stun-uri-05.txt (URI Scheme for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
, I have no idea whether it will be useful in other contexts or not, and I'm hesitant to put language that seems to claim that we've evaluated all possible contexts and say that there aren't other contexts in which it can be useful. #g -- On 15/08/2013 11:04, Harald Alvestrand wrote: On 08

Re: Last Call: draft-nandakumar-rtcweb-stun-uri-05.txt (URI Scheme for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 08/15/2013 04:20 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 8/15/13 8:10 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote: On 08/15/2013 04:05 PM, Graham Klyne wrote: Harald, Briefly: 1. Thanks for the reference, and 2. I misunderstood what you meant by This is a format for a piece of data. In light of your

Re: Last Call: draft-nandakumar-rtcweb-stun-uri-05.txt (URI Scheme for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-14 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 08/13/2013 12:14 AM, Graham Klyne wrote: From: The IESG iesg-secret...@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce ietf-annou...@ietf.org Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org Sender: iesg-secret...@ietf.org Subject: Last Call: draft-nandakumar-rtcweb-stun-uri-05.txt (URI Scheme for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT

Re: Last Call: draft-nandakumar-rtcweb-stun-uri-05.txt (URI Scheme for Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN) Protocol) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-14 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 08/13/2013 09:03 PM, S Moonesamy wrote: At 15:14 12-08-2013, Graham Klyne wrote: But, in a personal capacity, not as designated reviewer, I have to ask *why* this needs to be a URI. As far as I can tell, it is intended for use only in very constrained environments, where there seems to be

Re: [MMUSIC] Update on Orlando time for human language draft discussion

2013-03-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
marking, and not the media stream) as sending English, receiving Spanish? But this level of detail doesn't really belong on the IETF list - which list should we use? -Original Message- From: mmusic-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:mmusic-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Harald Alvestrand

Re: [MMUSIC] Update on Orlando time for human language draft discussion

2013-03-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Sorry for barging in late on this thread, but quick questions: - what's the right mailing list to post to on this one? - have everyone read RFC 3282 (the standalone accept-language spec)? Seems to me the desired semantic is more accept-language than content-language. On 03/10/2013 03:38 PM,

Re: Revised Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-10-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I like this. Nit: There's a missing to in the last line.

Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao-as-web-page-02.txt (Publishing the Tao of the IETF as a Web Page) to Informational RFC

2012-06-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 06/15/2012 11:27 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 2:03 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: One possible oversight is that this I-D does not describe how the editor will work on the tao-possible-revision.html file (e.g., will only the editor have permissions to work on that, might there

Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: IETF-822

2012-06-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 06/15/2012 08:46 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: On Jun 15, 2012, at 12:44 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 6/14/12 3:37 PM, IETF Secretariat wrote: List address: ietf-...@ietf.org Is no one thinking ahead to the 822nd meeting of the IETF in the year 2258?!? Well, I've started working on

Re: Is the IETF aging?

2012-04-27 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 04/27/2012 04:41 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: Hi Phil After each meeting, Ray sends out a survey to all participants. The results from the latest one: When were you born? Before 19502.9% 1950 - 1960 16.6% 1961 - 1970 33.7% 1971 - 1980 32.8% After 198014.0% The

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

2012-01-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John, a worry I have with going out with such a massive demand set for this IPR code violation is that we'd be encouraging the other IPR behaviour we've seen: That of saying nothing. The current Huawei people who caused this disclosure to be filed deserve our praise for doing the Right

Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-11-29 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 11/29/2011 05:47 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Nov 29, 2011, at 7:57 AM, Russ Housley wrote: +1 On Nov 29, 2011, at 10:51 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote: to be pedantic - a BCP stands for the best way we know how to do something it is not required that the process actually be in use before the

Re: RFC 3951 source code usage situation just got murkier

2011-09-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
We're working on an updated IPR statement. We had it on our list of things that need doing, but until now, it didn't seem the most urgent thing in the world. Harald (for once speaking for Google). On 09/07/11 17:18, Kevin P. Fleming wrote: RFC 3951 is the specification of

Re: Expiring a publication - especially standards track documents which are abandoned

2011-09-06 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 09/04/11 20:39, Eric Burger wrote: Why? No one has cared about the annual review from 2026. No one has time to do the bookkeeping and spend the effort to evaluate stuck documents. If there is an RFC that is harmful, then one can always ask to have it moved to Historic. On Sep 4, 2011,

Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

2011-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 07/20/11 01:24, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: On 20 Jul 2011, at 00:34, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/19/2011 14:01, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Clearly, the view that making something historic when it's in active use is offensive. No standards body could seek to stand behind their

Review of draft-doria-gen-art-08

2011-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I support the publication of this document. In general, the document is clearly written, explains the processes followed for gen-Art review, and forms a valuable snapshot of the procedures followed at this time. It makes it very clear that the document does not, in any way, shape or form,

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 07/20/11 09:22, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote: Except that the other Content-disposition values express the sender's intent, whereas this one expresses the receiver's [likely] perception. In this case, we have to invent a cute backronym for it that expresses the sender's intent what about

Re: Review of draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-06

2011-07-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 07/16/11 06:12, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Hello Harald, As you could see in one of my previous messages, I did intend to include some analysis in the draft (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg67491.html). However, numerous responses which discouraged me from doing this

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Content-disposition: noise. On 07/16/11 09:15, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote: Notice Of Intentions in Sending Email? On Jul 16, 2011, at 1:09 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent:

Review of draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-06

2011-07-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
My apologies for the lateness of this review. I am not happy with this document. I was unhappy with the IESG's decision to close the ION experiment, since I believe the mechanisms that were chosen to replace it failed to fulfil several of the requirements that were driving forces in the

Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

2011-05-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 05/09/11 19:53, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On May 9, 2011, at 6:51 AM, Eric Burger wrote: Agreeing with John here re: it's just a bug. IEEE Xplore regularly does deals (read: free) to add publishers to the digital library. It is part of the network effect from their perspective: if you are

Re: Google Scholar, was How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

2011-05-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 05/10/11 17:28, John Levine wrote: In the case of Google Scholar, I found the guidelines to be a bit intimidating: http://scholar.google.com/intl/en/scholar/inclusion.html but not something that would be hard for the RFC publisher to set up in a few hours based on the PDF form of the RFCs

Re: Google Scholar, was How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

2011-05-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 05/10/2011 10:08 PM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 20:22 +0200 Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: If only there was someone who worked at Google on this list who could send an internal message to get this rectified :-) From what I could tell from

Re: Call for a Jasmine Revolution in the IETF: Privacy, Integrity, Obscurity

2011-03-09 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Actually, this discussion has been going on for longer than so-far referenced docs show. One of my favourite RFCs on the subject: RFC 2804 IETF Policy on Wiretapping. IAB, IESG. May 2000. The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has been asked to take a position on the inclusion into

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Olaf Kolkman wrote: During previous technical sessions I mailed an announcement about the technical plenary and in those announcements I've asked something along the lines of: If you consider asking a question during the open-microphone session it would be helpful to send that question to

Re: [rfc-i] path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Aaron Falk wrote: Jari- The draft says: The RFC Editor reviews Independent Submission Stream submissions for suitability for publication as RFCs. As described in RFC 4846 [I3], the RFC Editor asks the IESG to review the documents for conflicts with the IETF standards process or

Re: [Trustees] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Robert Elz wrote: Date:Tue, 21 Jul 2009 18:40:52 +0200 From:Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no Message-ID: 4a65ef94.2050...@alvestrand.no | I'm afraid that your perception disagrees with the structure that RFC | 5378 set up. I was misunderstanding what's

Re: [Trustees] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 02:56:01PM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Rather, what it does is the RfC says the code must include whatever license the trust document says. When the code is produced, that link is dereferenced, the license is determined, and the license is

Re: [Trustees] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Jul 21, 2009 at 08:57:01AM +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote: We have two possibilities: 1 - the update consists of revisions of *every single RFC* that references the BSD license 2 - some RFCs continue to carry the BSD license, even while the real current

Re: [Trustees] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Robert Elz wrote: Date:Tue, 21 Jul 2009 08:57:01 +0200 From:Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no Message-ID: 4a6566bd.1080...@alvestrand.no | We have two possibilities: | | 1 - the update consists of revisions of *every single RFC* that | references

Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
in the TLP license provisions I would have no objection. This preserves the Trust's ability to change provisions. Harald Alvestrand ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [rfc-i] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Julian Reschke wrote: Harald Alvestrand wrote: ... Hi, I'm trying to understand whether this change affects me. So... 1) Many specs I'm editor of contain ABNF. Does it need to be labeled as code component (I believe not). In my understanding, all ABNF is code by definition (included

Re: [rfc-i] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, July 20, 2009 14:20 +0200 Julian Reschke julian.resc...@gmx.de wrote: Julian Reschke wrote: ... 3) If I *extract* ABNF from these documents (such as for the purpose of generating an input file for an ABNF parser), do I need to include the BSD

Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-06-30 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: I remain heartily fed up that the HTML versions of documents that I know were submitted with XML source are not available, nor is the XML source. The TXT versions do not print on my printer and have not printed reliably on any printer I have ever owned. just an

Voting (Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists)

2009-06-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Voting has all kinds of issues. I like the current Nomcom process because it depends on 2 things: - A pool of qualified volunteers - Luck in picking a nomcom that behaves sensibly (for whatever that means to you) Given that luck is involved, many of the possible attacks that people could

Re: Fw: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP

2009-06-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I support the use of should. Spencer Dawkins wrote: Brian Carpenter had a Last Call comment that I needed to follow up on... Hi, (IETF list not copied as I'm on leave and minimising email, but there is nothing confidential about this comment.) Feedback on nominees should always be

Re: Voting (Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists)

2009-06-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Thu, Jun 11, 2009 at 6:58 AM, Harald Alvestrandhar...@alvestrand.no wrote: Voting has all kinds of issues. Precisely the type of vague, non reason that I was complaining about. Consider the last ten years of yelling to be included by reference.

Re: Steve Coya

2009-06-08 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I am sad to hear this. I miss him. Fred Baker wrote: Steve Coya, the IETF's Executive Director at CNRI during much of the 1990's and early 2000's, has passed away. His wife, Mary Beth, wanted folks to know, as the IETF was a big part of his life.

Re: IETF 78 Annoucement

2009-05-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: And as I said before, I would be very interested to learn whether doing this in june rather than july would have made a different location in the Netherlands a more viable option. ICANN's holding its Latin America meeting June 20-25. Guess why they chose those

Re: [Fwd: Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate]

2009-02-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Jari Arkko wrote: Despite currently excessive number of comments, I think we should invite more comments and make it easier, not harder to send them. Even if traffic on the list is now too high and information content per message is low, in general our average number of comments in the IETF

Previous consensus on not changing patent policy (Re: References to Redphone's patent)

2009-02-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lawrence Rosen wrote: Chuck Powers wrote: +1 That is a legal quagmire that the IETF (like all good standards development groups) must avoid. Chuck is not alone in saying that, as you have just seen. These are the very people who refused to add patent policy to the charter of the

Including the GPL in GPL code (Re: IETF and open source license compatibility)

2009-02-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: I consider the inability to include immutable text in software released under the GPL a bug in the GPL. Nobody forces you to use the GPL, so if you perceive a problem I suggest to use another license for your program. However, the IETF should not prevent

Re: Including the GPL in GPL code (Re: IETF and open source license compatibility)

2009-02-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: This is getting off-topic, and seems like typical FAQ material, but I'll reply briefly. I suggest using, e.g., discuss...@fsfeurope.org to get other people's interpretations. If you want a more authoritative answer, talk to licens...@gnu.org. 2 - The words of the

Re: The Dean list

2009-02-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew Sullivan wrote: I also was resubscribed. I received the usual totally clarifying message one has come to expect from Mr Anderson. None of this suggests to me, however, that we ought to do something. My understanding (and I'd appreciate being disabused if I'm wrong) is that Mr Anderson

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility (Was: Re: yet another comment on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt)

2009-02-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jari Arkko wrote: I agree that there are problematic case, but I believe I hope everyone realizes this is only the case if the RFC in question has code. Otherwise it really does not matter. Only some RFCs have code. Except that it prevents using

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: actually that's intended to be permitted by RFC 5377 section 4.2: 4.2. Rights Granted for Quoting from IETF Contributions There is rough consensus that it is useful to permit quoting without modification of excerpts from IETF Contributions. Such excerpts may be

Re: Please Review Draft IESG Statement on Activities that are OBE

2009-02-03 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Two concerns. 1) As the chair of a WG that many will consider to be a prime example of OBE, I am a bit worried about the MUST NOT publish statements. A traditional antidote to long-running WGs has been to kill them and tell the editors if you really want to finish up, you can always do

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 1:38 PM +1300 1/15/09, Brian E Carpenter wrote: IANAL, but it seems to me that we should proceed on the assumption that this would fall under fair use provisions. Anything else would seem unreasonable to me. IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Contreras, Jorge wrote: Who owns the oft-repeated The key words MUST, MUST NOT, REQUIRED, SHALL, SHALL NOT, SHOULD, SHOULD NOT, RECOMMENDED, MAY, and OPTIONAL in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. I'm referring to the bits effectively

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no writes: Simon Josefsson skrev: Ray Pelletier rpellet...@isoc.org writes: On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Why do we need to send these license forms in at all? I thought the

Re: RFC5378 alternate procedure (was: Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary)

2008-12-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Material comments: - Section 3: RFC 5378 expected the date on which 5378 was effective to be set by the Trust (section 2.1), and explicitly did not want to cast into RFC stone the procedure by which the changeover date was determined. - I disagree with the decision to allow *all* of a

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Pekka Savola wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Harald Alvestrand wrote: The correct number from the presentation is 0.238% - only Russia, Ukraine and France have more than 0.5% IPv6. Presentation available from http://rosie.ripe.net/presentations-detail/Thursday/Plenary%2014:00/index.html

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
David Kessens wrote: Joe, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:20:11AM -0800, Joe St Sauver wrote: I'm not aware of DNS block lists which cover IPv6 address spaces at this time, probably in part because IPv6 traffic remains de minimis (see

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
start for a real revolution. The question is: where is any similar movement to those pushed the web development in the early nineties? Best, Géza On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: David Kessens wrote: Joe, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:20

Re: Publication track for IBE documents (Was Second Last Call...)

2008-10-23 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:51:23PM +0200, Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 23 lines which said: (That said, the RFC Editor's work on these will cost the IETF a known amount of dollars. Known by who? How an ordinary IETF participant

Re: Publication track for IBE documents (Was Second Last Call...)

2008-10-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephen Farrell wrote: So while I don't strongly object to these as informational RFCs, I do wonder why, if only one implementation is ever likely, we need any RFC at all. Its not like these docs describe something one couldn't easily figure out were there a need, given that the (elegant but not

Re: Second Last Call: draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms (Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)) to Proposed Standard

2008-10-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
SM wrote: At 05:37 20-10-2008, The IESG wrote: This is a second last call for consideration of the following document from the S/MIME Mail Security WG (smime): - 'Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) '

Re: Failing of IPR Filing Page when makling updates in re LTANS and other filings.

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
You can't change your earlier public statement; that would be tampering with the historical record. You can, however, file a new statement that updates the old one, as you have already done by filing #954, listed as an update of #201, and #955, #956, #957, #958, #959, #960, #961, #962 and

Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
IETF Chair wrote: From the discussion just prior to the recent appeal by John Klensin, it was clear that the guidance regarding example domain names in IETF documents provided in the ID-Checklist needed to be updated. This point was emphasized further during the discussion of the Klensin

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At least one of the removed patent licenses promises to make available patent licenses on fair, reasonable, reciprocal and non-discriminatory terms. It seems unfortunate that IETF allows organizations to file such claims

New schemes vs recycling http: (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Julian Reschke wrote: Well. There's definitively a total disconnect between that IESG recommendation, and the W3C TAG's point of view (see ongoing discussion on the TAG mailing list about the xri scheme). It would be good when both organizations could come up with consistent answers. If

Re: New schemes vs recycling http: (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
it's surprising how much we agree on :-) Julian Reschke wrote: Certain usages of HTTP (in particular, the use of HTTP URLs for XML schemas) have tended to denigrate this implication, and say you should regard this as an identifier. Still, the usage is prevalent enough that people have

Re: IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream

2008-07-31 Thread Harald Alvestrand
The IESG (by way of Russ Housley [EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: The attached describes the manner in which the IESG will be processing RFC Errata for the IETF Stream. The current tools on the RFC Editor site support approved and rejected, but they need to be updated to also permit hold for document

Re: IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream

2008-07-31 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Russ Housley wrote: Harald: I'd like to see this discussed on the rfc-interest mail list. Previously, you suggested that all errata and their disposition be available for historical review, regardless of the state that the errata is put into. I think that this is the plan, but these details

Re: Missing Materials

2008-07-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Eric Rescorla wrote: As I have done for previous IETFs I just ran getdrafts (http://tools.ietf.org/tools/getdrafts/) on the entire agenda and what follows is the output. As you can see, a pretty substantial number of WGs are without agendas, about 10% of the drafts listed are wrong, and about

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

2008-06-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Brian Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's my suggestion: List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples used to indicate that they are grandfathered non-2606 examples. So, in text that previously read not-example.com, it might read

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Eric Rescorla wrote: At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600, Randy Presuhn wrote: Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology choices at the CANMOD BOF. Our original proposal for consensus hums included getting a of sense of preferences among the various proposals.

Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2008-04-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew G. Malis wrote: Thomas, I would personally find this more useful if it were measured by subject line rather than by sender. At the time when these summaries started, it was obvious from some summaries that some participants seemed to be spending more time typing answers than

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I too like Ted's comments. If the job is really to preside over the Trust meetings, the title convener might be useful; if the job is to make sure Trust work gets followed up, call it an executive director. But I can live with the current proposal (although dropping #12 entirely would make

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ray Pelletier wrote: All, We are considering changing the meeting Blue Sheet by eliminating the need to enter an email address to avoid spam concerns. Is there any good reason to retain that info bit? I think you should ask Jorge whether the disambiguation factor matters - he's the lawyer,

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
After considering the comments so far, I think I disagree with having a separate Trust chair. The idea behind making the IAOC be the Trustees was, among other things, to make sure that we didn't create yet another nexus of control in the labyrinth of committees; I understood the legal

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ray Pelletier wrote: 12. The Trustees are the current members of the IAOC. When a member leaves the IAOC for whatever reason, he or she ceases to be a Trustee. When a new member joins the IAOC, he or she becomes a Trustee [ADD - upon their acceptance in writing]. This is already covered in

Sharing information from questionnaires (Re: Nomcom 2007-8 Chair's Report)

2008-03-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: On 3/6/2008 10:44 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Lakshminath Dondeti skrev: Folks, A report on the nomcom's activities is available at https://www.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/07/nomcom-report. Please direct any comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] I will make a

Re: Hasty attempt to create an IDN WG (Was: WG Review: Internationalized Domain Name (idn)

2008-03-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:32:08PM +0200, Jari Arkko [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 21 lines which said: But it is quite common when we revise a specification that we have only an incomplete defect list. Or we may not have determined if a particular

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Jeroen Massar wrote: Harald Alvestrand wrote: Mark Andrews skrev: You also don't want to do it as you would also need massive churn in the DNS. Microsoft gets this wrong as they don't register the privacy addresses in the DNS which in turn causes services to be blocked because

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Rémi Després wrote: Harald Alvestrand a écrit : Mark Andrews skrev: You also don't want to do it as you would also need massive churn in the DNS. Microsoft gets this wrong as they don't register the privacy addresses in the DNS which in turn causes services to be blocked because

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Rémi Després wrote: My desire to have privacy is, in itself, something I may want to keep private. I am not sure I see the practical consequences. If my source address says I am someone but you will not know who I am, isn't this sufficient? You're not thinking this through. Think of the

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 21 feb 2008, at 16:34, Harald Alvestrand wrote: Think of the case where there are 1000 users on a LAN, and one of them desires to use the address privacy option for all the normal reasons. Then think about the policeman / bad guy / secret agent / mafioso

PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Mark Andrews skrev: You also don't want to do it as you would also need massive churn in the DNS. Microsoft gets this wrong as they don't register the privacy addresses in the DNS which in turn causes services to be blocked because there is no address in the DNS. perhaps the advent of IPv6

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-02-06 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Cullen Jennings skrev: I'd like to comment as an individual on one part of our process for doing IONs. The process for publishing them has many bottlenecks and delays and we need a better way of doing it. If we decide to continue with IONs, I will provide detailed comments on issues with

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-02-06 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Cullen Jennings skrev: I'd like to comment as an individual on one part of our process for doing IONs. The process for publishing them has many bottlenecks and delays and we need a better way of doing it. If we decide to continue with IONs, I will provide detailed comments on issues with

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-rfc2026-changes (Changes to the ..

2008-01-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Russ Housley skrev: Scott: There have been several attempts to generate discussion on prior versions of this document by its author. Very little resulted. I am using the Last Call to make sure that discussion happens, and it has worked. It has generated review, and not just superficial

Re: Finding information

2008-01-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Henrik Levkowetz skrev: On 2008-01-21 11:24 Stephane Bortzmeyer said the following: On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 03:01:24AM -0800, Tony Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 23 lines which said: Or, you can google IMAP and come up with 3501 straight away... Bad idea. Not only it makes the

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-01-17 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Being the RFC author, I'm naturally very much interested. still, I'll observe that the procedure that seemed most important to me, which was getting new versions out whenever they were needed, has been exercised exactly once: in http://www.ietf.org/IESG/content/ions/dated/, the only document

Re: I-D Action:draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-00.txt

2008-01-17 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Paul Hoffman skrev: At 12:50 PM +1300 1/18/08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Added sentences to section 8.1 explaining that BCPs and FYIs are sub- series of Informational RFCs. Namely: The sub-series of FYIs and BCPs are comprised of Informational documents in the sense of

Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

2007-11-30 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Tom.Petch wrote: I recall a recent occasion when the IESG withdrew its approval, for draft-housley-tls-authz-extns a document that both before and after its approval generated a lot of heat, within and without a WG. Presumably the expedited process would, or at least could, have seen that

Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

2007-11-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
IETF Chair skrev: Dear IETF Community: Due to a lot of hard work, the RFC Editor is publishing approved Internet-Drafts more quickly. Overall this is just what we want to happen. However, I am concerned that the RFC Editor is might be getting too quick. Anyone can appeal the approval of a

NAT-PT (Re: FW: I-D Action:draft-narten-ipv6-statement-00.txt)

2007-11-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] skrev: ULA, No apparent consensus to do this. But is it needed to deploy IPv6? A lot of people say absolutely not. And if, during the next year or so of larger scale deployment of IPv6, we discover that ULA-C is needed, then it can be made available

Re: Megatron

2007-10-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Brian E Carpenter skrev: Afaik, non-member postings to the list are automatically held in moderation to trap spam, and moderators are only human. And I do think that one reason why letter-writing campaigns against the IETF have been rare is that it's hard to argue that people who care

Re: Offer of time on the IPR WG agenda for rechartering

2007-10-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ted Hardie skrev: I'd like the people who want time on the agenda to supply a text (preferably published as an I-D), which summarizes, as clearly as possible: - What they think has changed since the last IPR WG evaluation of patent policy - What changes in overall direction they think the

Re: Offer of time on the IPR WG agenda for rechartering

2007-10-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lawrence Rosen skrev: Harald, I am unable to be in Vancouver for the meeting, but I hope that someone else there will support the re-charter of the IPR WG as I suggested in my earlier email: *** I request that we charter the IETF IPR-WG to propose policies and procedures,

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Chris Elliott wrote: You mean like: Cisco is the owner of US published patent applications 20050154872 and 20050154873 and one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject matter of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Session Resumption without Server Side State

Re: RFC 1345 mnemonics table not consistent with Unicode 3.2.0

2007-08-31 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, 31 August, 2007 01:00 +0200 Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Harald, Ben has pointed out one important use for something like 1345, which involves references to characters in programming languages and command interfaces. The Unicode names

RFC 1345 as an input method

2007-08-31 Thread Harald Alvestrand
One part I didn't catch when first replying to this thread was Ben's focus on input methods. I'm curious about that - could someone give more details? In particular: - Is there any consistency among the input methods in how mnemonics are framed? That is, how do you tell the IME that you're

Re: RFC 1345 mnemonics table not consistent with Unicode 3.2.0

2007-08-30 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lisa Dusseault wrote: If the IETF were to consider something like RFC1345 today, there would be a lot of questions like - whether a registry would be more appropriate than a static document, after all it's a set of fields that might be extended, - how one would determine whether any two

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-08 Thread Harald Alvestrand
What happened to draft-hain-1918bis-01, which tried to get more address space for private Internets, but expired back in 2005? I see the point about regarding 240.0.0.0/4 as tainted space and therefore being less than useful on the public Internet. Harald Brian E

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