Re: [ietf-privacy] [Int-area] WG Adoption

2014-06-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Brian, in my experience working group adoption is more than the working group agreeing to work on the topic. It is generally the working group agreeing that the given document is a good basis for starting the work. Yes, there will almost always be need for improvement. Sometimes major

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
for the IETF. You need to actually get a determination of IETF rough consensus on the ietf email list. That consensus would need to be based on a more specific question than do we want to allow ORCHIDs, and then would be judged on that question by the IETF chair. Yours, Joel M. Halpern On 9/17

Re: Radical Solution for remote participants

2013-08-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Maybe I am missing something. The reason we have face-to-face meetings is because there is value in such meetings that can not reasonably be achieved in other ways. I would like remote participation to be as good as possible. But if would could achieve the same as being there then we should

Re: Registration for IETF 87 in Berlin has re-opened

2013-07-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Thank you, and ISOC. Well done. Joel On 7/5/2013 11:57 AM, The IAOC wrote: Registration was suspended after discussions with tax specialists and attorneys convinced us that that the rules had changed in the EU and Germany with regard to the impact of the Value Added Tax (VAT) on registration

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
In reading through the draft, particularly the section on questions for WG adoption of a draft, I did not see the questions I consider most pertinent: Does the WG think this is a reasonable (preferably good) basis for starting to work collectively on the deliverable? (Apologies if it was

[Gen-art] review: draft-ietf-cuss-sip-uui-10

2013-05-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
A Mechanism for Transporting User to User Call Control Information in SIP Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 19-May-2013 IETF LC End Date: 29-May-2013 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is nearly ready for publication as a Proposed Standard Major issues: Minor issues

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that if it is really a discussion, then there may be many possible things which could resolve it, and the AD raising the question may not know exactly what is feasible to clear it. Otherwise it is a demand, not a discussions. And in my experience while ADs can be pushy (like

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Below: On 5/14/2013 6:04 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 5/14/2013 3:00 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me that if it is really a discussion, then there may be many possible things which could resolve it, and the AD raising the question may not know exactly what is feasible to clear

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
And your bottom line is exactly what te rules say, what I said, what Ted said, and what Joe agreed is reasonable. It also matchesthe practice I have seen. Even the discuss that I had a lot of arguments with did include proposals for paths forward. Sometimes they were ard to understand.

Re: [Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. (The fact that I find the vague pattern for the child misleading is not a fault with the document, but rather in my head, under that requirement.) Yours, Joel On 4/19/2013 6:24 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see

Re: [Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-05-10 Thread Joel M. Halpern
for X and the pattern for Y? If so, then my concern below is misplaced. (The fact that I find the vague pattern for the child misleading is not a fault with the document, but rather in my head, under that requirement.) Yours, Joel On 4/19/2013 6:24 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I am

[Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-04-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Common YANG Data Types Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 19-April-2013 IETF LC End Date: 1-May-2013 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is nearly ready for publication as a Standards Track RFC Major issues: (The following may well be a non-issue.) In the revision of the ietf

Re: [savi] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-savi-threat-scope-06

2013-03-29 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I have a draft version with this correction. David, would adding: When such a move is done without changing the MAC address, the SAVI switches will need to update their state. While the ARP may be helpful, traffic detection, switch based neighbor

Re: [savi] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-savi-threat-scope-06

2013-03-27 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Would it suffice to replace Old: If the bridging topologies which connects the switches changes, or if LACP [IEEE802.3ad] changes which links are used to deliver traffic, the switch may need to move the SAVI state to a different port, are the state may need to be moved or

Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections)

2013-03-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that you are setting up by assertion a standard that has never applied to this community. Having said that, if we want to go down this path, then we could do what groups like IEEE do. Remove all authors names, all personal acknowledgements, etc. The work is simply the product

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
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 with giving credit to folks who made particularly large, but

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would have to disagree with: On 3/22/2013 11:17 PM, Mark Prior wrote: ... Hi John, I think that any small shop (whatever that means) would be put off if they sent someone to an IETF as it appears that it is dominated by the big vendors pushing their own agendas. Given that impression I

[Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-ipfix-flow-selection-tech-14.txt

2013-03-21 Thread Joel M. Halpern
-14.txt Flow Selection Techniques Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 21-March-2013 IETF LC End Date: 1-April-2013 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is ready for publication as a proposed standard. Major issues: none (the previous major issue has been resolved by revision

Fwd: Re: [IAB] WCIT slides

2013-03-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
With apologies for the problems making these slides available, and thanks to Bernard for finding a work-around, for now the slides are available via links from http://www.iab.org/2013/03/14/wcit-what-happened-whats-next/ Yours, Joel M. Halpern Original Message Subject

Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications

2013-03-07 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I read 3777 as somewhere in between, with some important caveats. As I understand the rules and practice of the game we are playing: The IESG (and the IAB and IAOC) specify what they want to see (their job requirements). The nomcom collects those, and community input. Community input is

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-03 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Gaving discussed TCP Congestion behavior with the TCP folks, and tried to understand the issues, it seems to be very hard. And if the AD is not well-versed in it, there is a serious issue. It seems to me that unless we restructure the entire way the IESG operates (maybe a good idea, but a

Re: Remote Participation Services

2013-02-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Keith, you seem to be asking for something (discussion, wit no presentation), that has never happened in the WGs I have attended in the last 20 years. Even the WG sessions that had the best, most useful, discussions, generally started with a presentation of the topic and issue. Such initial

Re: Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-ietf-karp-routing-tcp-analysis-06

2012-12-20 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, can we live with these? I would think so. Yours, Joel On 12/19/2012 6:14 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 18/12/2012 22:26, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Nick, I appreciate that you have read this document and commented. Two general questions: 1) Can you be more specific about where you see unclear

Re: Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-ietf-karp-routing-tcp-analysis-06

2012-12-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Nick, I appreciate that you have read this document and commented. Two general questions: 1) Can you be more specific about where you see unclear language usage? It is hard to fix a general coment. 2) A number of your comments seem to be about general router security. Many of them would see

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

2012-12-03 Thread Joel M. Halpern
And I will strongly oppose any IETF policy that treats commercial or proprietary code differently from Open Source code. Out mantra is running code. We try to stay out of people's business models. The presence of a implementation is a useful measure. The presence of interoperability

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There is another unfortunate community habit that I have noticed. It is, I believe, a consequence o their being simply too much stuff to look at. If you have a working group that is considering new ideas (looking to recharter), you are more likely to get folks to read the draft, either

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It is a fair question to ask whether the allocation strategy and polices need to be spelled out at the time of the reservation. Possibly we made the wrong call on keeping them separate. Part of the issue is that fo current experimentation having the block is more important, but for longer

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
sizes for everyone. Yours, Joel On 11/16/2012 11:35 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Joel, On 16/11/2012 16:00, Joel M. Halpern wrote: ... With regard to interworking and deployment, there are a number of documents that deal with that. They discuss what the currently understood deployment

Re: [lisp] Last Call: draft-ietf-lisp-eid-block-03.txt (LISP EID Block) to Informational RFC

2012-11-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Whatever else is going on, LISP EIDs do not have geographic significance. They do not have IP Routing topological significance. The are not aggregateable. They are intended to beused by a site as a single prefix. Hence, the desired behavior (within the /16) is exactly the same as that

Re: [lisp] WG Review: Recharter of Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp)

2012-03-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
management quesiton is made significantly easier by having a clean architecture description. Yours, Joel On 3/14/2012 10:40 AM, John Scudder wrote: One further remark: On Mar 13, 2012, at 3:04 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: ... It may take engineering and evaluating some cache management schemes

Re: [lisp] WG Review: Recharter of Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp)

2012-03-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Actually John, I would have to disagree with your assertion about what it takes to describe the archtiecture. It may take engineering and evaluating some cache management schemes before one can decide whether the archtiecture is a good one. But that is very different from being able to

Re: [lisp] WG Review: Recharter of Locator/ID Separation Protocol (lisp)

2012-02-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
If I may separate issues for a moment, the absence of milestones is because Terry and I have to come up with a proposal for them which matche sthe revised goals. If you read the rest of the differences, you will see that the general question of what LISP is aimed at providing is indeed still

Re: Another last call for draft-weil

2012-02-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I agree. This needs to be published by the IETF as an RFC. the current form is quite suitable for that. Yours, Joel On 2/14/2012 1:28 PM, Scott O Bradner wrote: +1 On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Ross Callon wrote: +1. Ross *From:*ietf-boun...@ietf.org

Re: Protocol Definition

2012-01-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I suspect that the correct choices depends upon how you look at the analogy. What seemed to me the closest analog to process would be the actual messages on the wires. yours, Joel On 1/5/2012 10:03 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 1/5/2012 1:41 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: Association, to my mind,

Re: An Antitrust Policy for the IETF

2011-11-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
a) It would seem sensible to leave the selection of the specific lawyer to the IASA / IAOC. b) I would hope that they will select a lawyer with specific exposure to anti-trust issues. That may well turn out to be the existing IETF counsel. Yours, Joel On 11/28/2011 1:57 PM, Marshall Eubanks

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Regarding the delegating the IETF chair participation in the IAOC, On 9/22/2011 8:55 AM, Bob Hinden wrote: IETF Chair The IETF chair is chosen by the nomcom. The job requirements are clear in advance. Anyone applying is aware of the job. I don't think the IETF Chair position on the IAOC

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART LC Review of draft-eggert-successful-bar-bof-06

2011-09-09 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There seem to be at least two different dimensions here, probably more. On the one hand, when I discuss with someone (in an airport, hotel, whatever) an idea for a protocol behavior, that does not consistute permission for them to submit an I-D (with or without my name on it) with thewords I

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. I believe I understand your point below that without understanding how we ought to address problem 1, it is hard to be confident we are not making it worse rather than better. Yours, Joel On 8/2/2011 6:51 PM, John C Klensin wrote: On 7/30/11 11:05 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me

Re: Languages, idiom, reference, subtext, ...

2011-08-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It was once explained to me that a government agency that takes information extraction seriously has several levels of testing for language proficiency. For all (okay, maybe almost all, I do not have the details) the languages they care about, the higher level testing focuses on knowledge of

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that this does two things, both small but useful. 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement procedures so that they are more reasonable. They may still not be sufficiently reasonable to be used, but it improves them, and thereby improves the odds. 2) It is coupled to an

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think I understand your request taht we move beyond personal anecdotes. In principle, I even agree with you. However, when I try to act on that, I am stumped. I do not see any way to evaluate say the last 2 years discusses to determine whether they were more harmful or more helpful. Any

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

2011-07-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
After all, we moved RIPv1 to Historic when it was still widely implemented, and used in many networks. Yours, Joel On 7/19/2011 5:34 PM, 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.

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Replacing a widely used term (on the wire) with term that folks will not understand does not seem to me personally to be a benefit. In terms of this document, I do not see a problem with the usage as it is. This is not a protocol document. The use of the current term in this context seems

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
that in this document it is used to refer to the message sent from one routing process to another. Apparently, this does not address Joe's concern. Yours, Joel On 7/13/2011 2:24 PM, Wesley Eddy wrote: On 7/13/2011 1:31 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Replacing a widely used term (on the wire) with term

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, Wesley Eddy wrote: On 7/13/2011 2:34 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: As I said in my earlier note proposing responses to Joe, we would be happy to some text in the front clarifying the usage. Quoting from my earlier email: This text would note that it is a widely used term in IETF documents

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
: On 7/13/2011 11:34 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: As I said in my earlier note proposing responses to Joe, we would be happy to some text in the front clarifying the usage. Quoting from my earlier email: This text would note that it is a widely used term in IETF documents, including many RFCs

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
is in scope. it does not require any assumption or inference. If there is specific wording you would like to suggest to improve the introductory scoping material, I would be happy to look at it. Yours, Joel On 7/13/2011 5:08 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 1:58 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
-blown framework document. With that understanding, if there is an extra paragraph that will help the introduction be clear about this, please send text. Yours, Joel On 7/13/2011 7:02 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 2:26 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: You wording seems to induce

Re: notes from discussion of KARP design guidelines

2011-07-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I am not sure we are in sync, but it looks clsoe enough that proposed introductory text would be veyr helpful at this point. Yours, Joel On 7/13/2011 7:59 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, Joel, On 7/13/2011 4:24 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I am not sure what you are asking. KARP is never concerned

Review: draft-ietf-mpls-tp-identifiers-06- Tunnel Identifier

2011-07-01 Thread Joel M. Halpern
In performing a gen-art review of this document, which seems quite good over all, I noticed a minor question, but did not remember to include it in my gen-art review. The defines a Tunnel-Identifier, identifying the end-point of a tunnel within a node. That identifier is defined as 16 bits.

Re: [sidr] TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-karp-design-guide

2011-06-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. As such, it is not at all clear what the reviewer is asking be clarified in this regard. Yours, Joel M. Halpern On 6/30/2011 1:54 AM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written

Re: [sidr] TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-karp-design-guide

2011-06-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
as well. (The abstract needs to be replaced with an actual abstract. I had thought that could be resolved in parallel with the IETF last call.) Would that help, or would you have the same concerns? Yours, Joel On 6/30/2011 9:52 AM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi Joel, On 6/30/2011 6:13 AM, Joel M. Halpern

[Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-mpls-ldp-p2mp-14

2011-06-23 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Distribution Protocol Extensions for Point-to-Multipoint and Multipoint-to-Multipoint Label Switched Paths Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 23-June-2011 IETF LC End Date: 4-July-2011 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is close to ready for publication as a Proposed

Re: Last Call: draft-holsten-about-uri-scheme-06.txt (The 'about' URI scheme) to Proposed Standard

2011-06-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
The question is what necessary means in terms of willful violations of specs. There are at least three cases I can understand, with different implications: There are cases where the existing spec, while it claims to apply, actually is a bad idea. Then we need to document the problem and the

[Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-mboned-maccnt-req-10

2011-04-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Requirements for Multicast AAA coordinated between Content Provider(s) and Network Service Provider(s) Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 22-April-2011 IETF LC End Date: 5-May-2011 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is not ready for publication as an Informational RFC

Re: [paws] WG Review: Protocol to Access White Space database (paws)

2011-04-20 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Building from Bernard's note, it strikes me that if we are going to get into device identity, we probably need to be communicating with (liaise) 3GPP/3GPP2, because they have very strong views on that topic. (Whether one agrees or disagrees with their biases, talking to them seems important.)

Re: [paws] WG Review: Protocol to Access White Space database (paws)

2011-04-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think this working group is a good idea. My inclination would be to place it in the Applications area. It looks like a nice application protocol to me. There is a reasonable argument for placing it in RAI, as that is where the relevant GEOLOC work has been done up till now. Yours, Joel M

Re: [paws] WG Review: Protocol to Access White Space database (paws)

2011-04-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10:50 AM To: i...@ietf.org Cc: p...@ietf.org; IETF discussion list Subject: Re: [paws] WG Review: Protocol to Access White Space database (paws) I think this working group is a good idea. My inclination would be to place

Re: [paws] WG Review: Protocol to Access White Space database (paws)

2011-04-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, quick to make a web application solutions using XML or the like ... My concern is that Applications imply that efficiency does not matter. Paul -Original Message- From: paws-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:paws-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern Sent: Tuesday, April 19, 2011 10

Re: [IAB] IETF and APIs

2011-03-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Specifying the service interface a protocol provides (and what it requires from other protocols) is often very useful. And is something we have done in many cases. Writing a set of subroutine definitions in some specific language is, in my experience, usually far less useful. As a related

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
of this draft. Please do not conflate the two. Yours, Joel M. Halpern On 3/24/2011 11:32 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Russ, all, Another proposal as for your document. So, it fails to mention what are the procedures for reclassification of Standards Track RFCs to Historic. Therefore, I propose

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There seems to be a minor but important inconsistency which leaves us still not clearly addressing the interoperability issues. The commentary text on the second standards level includes, when commenting on the removal of the requirement for interoperability testing reports: subsumed by

[Gen-art] review: draft-ietf-netext-pmip6-lr-ps-05

2011-03-09 Thread Joel M. Halpern
PMIPv6 Localized Routing Problem Statement Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 7-March-2011 IETF LC End Date: 14-March-2011 IESG Telechat date: 17-March-2011 Summary: This document is close to ready for publication as an Informational RFC. Moderate issues: The abstract is misleading

Re: Request for review of draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-03

2011-03-03 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There are, in my opinion, two problems with Mr. Yevstifeyev's assertion below that it is easy to determine when things are out of use. The first point, to echo Andrew Sullivan, is that even if a protocol is in use on the public Internet, it is not always easy to detect. It may be used in only

Re: Request for review of draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-03

2011-03-03 Thread Joel M. Halpern
/ 03.03.2011 17:11, Joel M. Halpern wrote: There are, in my opinion, two problems with Mr. Yevstifeyev's assertion below that it is easy to determine when things are out of use. The first point, to echo Andrew Sullivan, is that even if a protocol is in use on the public Internet, it is not always easy

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
for verified interoperability with the assumption of interoperability based on wide deployment is an understandable compromise. I am not sure I like this change, but I can live with it, which is good enough. I do like the more relaxed wording on the removal of unused features. Yours, Joel M. Halpern

Re: Fwd: [OPS-DIR] OPS-DIR Review of draft-yevstifeyev-tn3270-uri-12

2011-01-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would also point out that there is a difference between a contact for a draft and a contact for a registry. For a draft, there is always an individual contact. We frequently accept that the only contact information is an email address. For a registry, the contact information requirement

Re: Poster sessions

2011-01-10 Thread Joel M. Halpern
To be blunt, if someone is holding a bar BoF without making it primarily a focus for discussion, they are missing the benefit of a Bar BoF. Yes, we have a lot of bar bofs. And to the degree people are using these as unapproved BoFs for presenting their ideas to a wider audience, rather than

Re: Alternate entry document model

2010-10-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think that there are some issues that are not being mentioned, but which are important. In general, there is the issue of impact. This takes many forms. But the underlying effect is taht protocols which get widely deployed can have distinctly negative impact on the net. Thus, for many

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-10-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
spend=t serously working on what the needs were, what the deployments could be, and what the technology could look like, might have given us a better path. (No, there is no guarantee. We could have blown it anyway.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern On 10/10/2010 6:41 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 10/10

Posting Placement (was Re: Fisking vs Top-Posting)

2010-09-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
shortly after the initial note was just beautiful. Thank you. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Discussion of draft-hardie-advance-mechanics-00.txt

2010-09-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Two very different kinds of questions occur to me, reading this. Firstly, the one really good thing about our current draft advancement process is that we go look carefully and figure out what pieces of the RFC have not been implemented. Given that this takes work, it is unlikely to be

Re: Optimizing for what? Was Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
That is a well defined target metric. It is defensible. It is not the one the community has used up till now. One could also aim to minimize total cost (or total pain). Arguably, that would place all the meetings in california. Up to till now, we have worked on a balance between those two

Re: Tourist or business visa from US?

2010-08-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would note that the Chinese entry from (that you have to hand over to Immigration along with your visa and passport) specifically has a single box labelled business/conference, which is clearly the applicable box for attending the IETF. Yours, Joel On Tue, August 24, 2010 7:09 pm, Edward Lewis

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-ietf-forces-implementation-report-02

2010-08-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
With regard to the major issue, in response to other comments, the offending sentence (which is, as Ben observes, wrong, has been removed. More precisely, there is now a note to the RFC Editor to remvoe the sentence. If we need to revise the document for other reasons, we will remove it

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-08-01 Thread Joel M. Halpern
In hallway discussion about this, it was suggested to me that part of the problem is that some folks can not figure out how to socialize their ideas. If ideas are really preliminary, sitting down with 4-6 other folks who are skilled and informed on the particular topic to discuss the idea,

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

2010-07-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I do not think it is reasonable to ask people to commit for serving a two year term on nomcom. Some folks have the energy and interest to do so. Wonderful and thank you to them. But given that it is an intense personnel selection process, I do not think expecting two years of service for it

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-07-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think it may be important to better emphasis the difference between formal BoFs and informal promotional meetings. While Formal BoFs are not absolutely necessary for process purposes, they are usually a good idea to help the IAB and IESG judge interest. Process-wise, these informal barBoFs

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

2010-07-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
on the committee. (The most inexperienced committee on record, as far as we could tell, occurred when we had a very good turnout for the nomcom volunteer pool, something I at least really appreciate, and not an especially high turnout of experienced people.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern PS: When we updated

Re: Last Call: Policy Statement on the Day Pass Experiment

2010-05-10 Thread Joel M. Halpern
This note assumes that it was correct (not merely reasonable, as reasonable folks can differ, and sometimes come to incorrect conclusions) for someone using the day pass program to assume that said attendance would count. While some people have asserted that they find it obvious that it should

Re: Gen-Art Review: draft-ietf-nsis-qspec-22.txt

2009-11-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
and suggestions. Regarding your suggestion on RFC type (change it from Informational to PS), I believe it could not become PS since the other NSIS documents (GIST QoS-NSLP) are Experimental. Thanks again, Jerry --- On *Sat, 11/21/09, Joel M. Halpern /j...@joelhalpern.com/* wrote: From

Gen-Art Review: draft-ietf-nsis-qspec-22.txt

2009-11-21 Thread Joel M. Halpern
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:

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meetingof the IETF

2009-09-29 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Just so some of the gallery is heard from on the list, I am presuming that they are also counting the input from the survey. I have no idea how many people responded to that, nor what they said. I know that I indicated that I thought this was reasonable as long as certain specific risks had

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
RFC 5620 calls for the appointment of an RFC Series Advisory Group, to be appointed by the IAB, and a Independent Submissions Stream Editorial Board (ISSEB for now), which serves at the pleasure of the ISE. This was reviewed and approved by the community. I presume with cognizance of the

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
can not come to agreement. (Note, I do not think that the degree of review correlates with the degree of quality. That is a further confusion about these notes.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern Richard Barnes wrote: Being a relatively short-term IETF participant, I lack the history that many

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Independent series. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Jari Arkko wrote: I would like to get some further input from the community on this draft. But first some background. This draft was brought to a second last call in June because several IESG members felt uncomfortable with the IESG notes being used only

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
If I understand your note properly, your primary concern is that folks will think that Independent submission are IETF products. This is a fair concern. But the same could be said all our experimental and informational RFCs. Should we insist that all experimental and informational RFC, even

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. But the IESG review is for checking for conflicts with IETF work. It is for reporting such conflicts. It is not a general review for does the IETF like this work. Yours, Joel Adam Roach wrote: Joel M. Halpern wrote: And given that these are Independent Submissions, they aren't supposed

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
If we really feel that the current approach does not make non-standards clear enough, then we should address that for all experimental or informational documents. It is basically unrelated to the Independent Stream issue. With regard to documents that are alternatives to existing IETF work,

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Making the IESG note mandatory, even if that required IETF agreement, would essentially give the IETf veto over the Independent stream. The IESG would simply propose a note so extreme that no author would accept it on their document. Given that I have seen proposed notes almost that bad in

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
of difficulties in the converse. If the ISE / RSE is unreasonable, the IAB will slap the editor and say stop doing that. There is no equivalent process if we reverse the structure. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Ben Campbell wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Making the IESG note

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would agree with Brian, but phrase it differently. The Trust Legal Provisions document specifies exactly how the trust, and people acting based on the trust, are doing things. There are (at least) two kinds of changes that can occur. 1) There can be changes in policy, particularly policy as

Re: Obnoxious license

2009-08-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
1) There is no need to put licenses in the RFC at all. In fact, the trust document says clearly that putting license text in RFCs is a bad idea. 2) The trust policy states that when code is extracted from an RFC, it must be marked for attribution, and that the extractor can modify and use the

Re: Obnoxious license

2009-08-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would consider that OBE. As I understand it, the trust procedures no longer require those license statements in RFCs. Yours, Joel Sean Turner wrote: Julian Reschke wrote: Sean Turner wrote: ... In the documents I've worked on, it seems that they just want to put the statement in the

Re: 2nd Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP

2009-08-10 Thread Joel M. Halpern
While we can wordsmith the proposed resolution from now till doomsday, what has been suggested seems good enough. I can certainly live with it. Please, approve this document for publication as an BCP. Yours, Joel M. Halpern The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual

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

2009-07-21 Thread Joel M. Halpern
NO, I believe he is suggesting something slightly different. First, realize that the structure does not include any license statement with the code in the RFC. That is covered by the boilerplate. Second, the issue being addressed is the instruction to someone who extracts the code from the

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

2009-07-21 Thread Joel M. Halpern
... they have a right to expect a particular set of license conditions will apply to their contribution. I can imagine being willing to release code under BSD or GPL but not either based on my personal philosophy, etc. Dave Morris On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Joel M. Halpern wrote: NO, I believe he

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

2009-07-21 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, Jul 21, 2009 at 03:07:15PM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: And, even more specifically, it is only about how we describe that license in the event that we want to change forward-going extractors. I think it is exactly this premise that some are wondering about. Is there any circumstance under

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

2009-07-21 Thread Joel M. Halpern
folks extracting large pieces of code to mark the RFC they got it from, and when they took it. But that is up to them. The IETF ought not mandate any more details than we absolutely have to about how the code is extracted / used. Joel David Morris wrote: On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Joel M. Halpern

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

2009-07-20 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I don't think it means that. 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 inserted in the code. No, no one can reasonably produce code

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