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

2009-07-20 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think Harald's suggestion makes sense and should be implemented. Joel Contreras, Jorge wrote: Ok. So is the point then just not to have to issue a new RFC if the Trust decides they want a different license? I.e. is that the future-proofing that the proposed change is supposed to

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

2009-07-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
XML2RFC normative and mandatory. If they can figure out how to automatically and accurate convert the other mechanisms people use, then that can be considered. Otherwise, mandating would be inappropriate, as some folks do indeed find it difficult. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Iljitsch van Beijnum

Re: Two different threads - IETF Document Format

2009-07-03 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Just so it does not get completely overlooked, I will point out that the page numbers are also useful for the table of contents. And the ToC is very helpful to me when I need to find something in the document. (Yes, hyperlinks would help in many cases. But not all.) the ToC is also helpful

Re: Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-06-23 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There is an explicit list of what is automatically covered as code. After discussion, that list does not (did not, the last time I checked) include pseudo-code. Document authors are free to mark their pseudo-code using the code marker if they want it treated as code. The problem, as far as I

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

2009-06-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
it would need to be quite general, not specific about nominees opinions on any one dimension. And certainly not a list of thing on which the nominee is not expressing an opinion in public. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Stewart Bryant wrote: Stephen Farrell wrote: Something like: This is the list of those

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

2009-06-09 Thread Joel M. Halpern
While philosophically I agree with Brian, practically I have to disagree. My reasoning is that while we don't want that sort of thing to happen, the only enforcement mechanism is what the nomcom chooses to do. And while I would hope that they would consider such misbehavior a negative, I

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Joel M. Halpern
to be operable. This does not mean we have to simply accept what they (OSP) say. But it does mean we should give it a fair review, looking at the details, rather than objecting on principle. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Sam Hartman wrote: Eric == Eric Rosen ero...@cisco.com writes: Eric I don't

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis (IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions) to BCP

2009-06-01 Thread Joel M. Halpern
The changes described in your other note (copied after your text to preserve context) are reasonable in the abstract. However, the devil is in the details. As I understand it, the reason for calling the extra note exceptional is that the IESG has in the past sometimes used that note to place

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-12 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I disagree Simon. Free Software authors (for any variety of free software I know of) are free to submit I-Ds describing protocols that they define. They can not take their licensed code, with license restrictions, and put it in the RFC. The primary reason for this restriction, in my view, is

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Let's be quite clear here. Your stated requirement for doing this was that authors had to be able to take and modify any text from anywhere in an RFC. The Working Group concluded that while that was reasonable relative to code (and we tried to give the open source community that ability

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Joel M. Halpern
My own take has been that the code reuse problem is the dominant problem. Document transfer outside the IETF is sufficiently rare that I would agree with Fred that not solving that is fine. This also means that from my personal perspective, a solution that says (loosely based on a suggestion

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Based on the discussion I have seen, an escape mechanism for old text that really can not be processed otherwise is probably reasonable. However, if we are making an effort to retain the work that was done, my personal take is that the barrier to that escape mechanism has to be high enough that

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
to decide that it doesn't want to do that. While some folks who were there say that they feel not enough attention was paid to this issue, it is the case that we did discuss at least some of the impact, and none of what turned out to be needed surprised me. Yours, Joel M. Halpern

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-12 Thread Joel M. Halpern
to me to be a case of the trust contravening the stated intention of the IETF, as captured in the RFCs. Yours, Joel M. Halpern PS: TO be quite clear, the question of whether the enforcement date is December 12 2008, February 29, 2009, or April 1, 2009 is not a matter of meeting the IETF

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. The NAT solution, as I understand it, does not make this problem worses. That is about all one can ask of the NAT side of the equation. Yours, Joel M. Halpern TJ wrote: FWIW - I wholeheartedly agree with If we're going to standardize NATs of any kind, they need to be defined in such a way

Re: SECDIR review of draft-ietf-forces-model-14

2008-09-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Thanks Richard. It is heartening that someone from another aspect of the community can read and understand the document. I will await instructions from the ADs as to whether some text on the degree of control a lying FE can exercise while misleading the CE (almost unlimited) is a helpful

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
confirming what was historically relied on, having available information if a working group returns to an item, and other issues. Adding annotations, and organizing information for simplicity and clarity are fine. Removing information is not fine. Yours, Joel M. Halpern

Re: Proposals to improve the scribe situation

2008-08-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Well, I personally would not recommend that $30 investment. My machine speaks B and G (I don't think it speaks N, although the site monitor can detect that.) I had repeatedly awful connectivity. When rooms were sparse, (i.e. away from Convention 1, 2, 3 or before morning start) things worked

Re: [Gen-art] IETF LC review: draft-ietf-capwap-protocol-binding-ieee80211-07

2008-08-04 Thread Joel M. Halpern
-capwap-protocol-binding-ieee80211-07.txt CAPWAP Protocol Binding for IEEE 802.11 Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: August 2, 2008 IETF LC End Date: Any day now IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is almost ready for publication as a Proposed Standard. Question

Re: [Gen-art] IETF LC review: draft-ietf-capwap-protocol-binding-ieee80211-07

2008-08-04 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Thank you. Those changes address my concerns very well. Please work with your document shepherd to determine when a new draft should be produced with those changes. I appreciate your prompt response, Joel Pat Calhoun (pacalhou) wrote: Thanks for your review, Joel. Please see my comments

Second Nomcom 2008-9 Call for Volunteers?

2008-07-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
as a volunteer, Joel M. Halpern Once again, the IETF nominating process has begun, and the community (and I) need your help. The IETF Nominating Committee appoints folks to fill the open slots on the IAOC, the IAB, and the IESG. The people who do that are 10 folks selected randomly from the pool

Nomcom 2008-9 Call for Volunteers?

2008-07-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, Joel M. Halpern [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf-announce

Re: Qualitative Analysis of IETF and IESG trends (Re: Measuring IETF and IESG trends)

2008-07-01 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Of course, we also get complaints whenever anyone raises an issue without providing text. So, by a strict reading of the argument, the AD is hanged if he provides text (directing the working group) and hanged if he does not provide text (you didn't make clear what your problem is, and how to

Re: Guidelines for authors and reviewers

2008-06-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
to provide text for all three alternative meanings? After all clarify the text while clear is not very specific as to what action is needed. There are also other cases that come up where it may be impractical to require actionable comments. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Ted Hardie wrote: At 5:12 PM

Re: Guidelines for authors and reviewers

2008-05-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
the same mistakes sometimes.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern Ted Hardie wrote: At 3:04 PM -0700 5/29/08, Suresh Krishnan wrote: Hi Folks, We have written a draft describing some guidelines for authors and reviewers of internet drafts. We would really appreciate it if you can spend some time to go

Re: Guidelines for authors and reviewers

2008-05-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Comment inline, with most of the discussion elided. I believe that one particular question gets to the heart of what is bothering me. Ted Hardie wrote: At 4:08 PM -0700 5/30/08, Joel M. Halpern wrote: ... On design decisions, there is an even more complex tradeoff. I have reviewed several

Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
references to example licenses, even if we were sure they matched our goals, will not help anyone understand the agreed goals. The existing statement is quite clear English. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Simon Josefsson wrote: Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 7:30 PM +0200 3/30/08, Simon

Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. Referencing the specific documents is more restrictive than what the working group recommended. I don't see why that would help anything. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

-outbound copying rights grant

2008-03-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
approach is for this document to state our goal, and for the trust to achieve what we ask. The goal is not for us to shoehorn legal text into the outbound document. Yours, Joel Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Joel M. Halpern wrote: I do not understand the problem you want addressed. The way

Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
said it wants. In the worst case, if the community concludes that the trustees actions aren't what we want, we can either replace the trustees or write another IETF RFC. Trying to work that out in this draft did not seem productive. Peter Yours, Joel M. Halpern

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
The inner comment, does not match my memory of the discussions. Theodore Tso wrote: Attributed to Fred Baker: I have heard it said that the IETF, in the most recent discussion that failed up update that portion of what we now call 3777, had a 90/10 consensus and didn't come to a perfect

draft-ietf-hokey-emsk-hierarchy-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
for the Derivation of Root Keys from an Extended Master Session Key (EMSK) Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 17-March-2008 IETF LC End Date: 17-March-2008? IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document appears ready for publication. Comments: While there has been much

Re: draft-ietf-hokey-emsk-hierarchy-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Thank you. Comment following your clarification. Joel Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: ... The one thing that bothers me a little is the intended status of this document. Given that the EMSK is entirely inside a system, and that therefore the actual generation process is internal to that

Re: Gen-Art IETF LC review: draft-ietf-ipfix-testing-04.txt

2008-03-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
As I understand the gist of the comments, the document in question was driven by the observation that folks were having trobule achieving interoperability. Trying to fix that is clearly sensible and very much in the IETF and working group interest. Have you looked at things like the SIP

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
that the IAB was going to see the questionnaires in full. While I have heard the argument that the nomcom can extend the confidentiality umbrella as far as they want, it seems to me that extending it that far would be a mistake. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Michael StJohns wrote: At 07:18 PM 3/16/2008, Dave

Re: Gen-Art IETF LC review: draft-ietf-ipfix-testing-04.txt

2008-03-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
the distinction between a transport session and the identifying characteristics of a transport session.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern Paul Aitken wrote: Joel, Apologies for not responding sooner to your review, as it came right ahead of the -00 and -nn cutoffs. Please see some responses inline. I

Gen-Art IETF LC review: draft-ietf-ipfix-testing-04.txt

2008-02-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
for IP Flow Information eXport (IPFIX) Testing Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 15-Feb-2008 IETF LC End Date: 26-Feb-2008 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document needs some additional work before publication as an informational RFC. I would particularly recommend considering addressing

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
is near the forwarding element. I am not worried about there being a NAT between those. So SCTP or DCCP over IP is very relevant. Yours, Joel M. Halpern Jonathan Rosenberg wrote: I wrote this because of a discussion that happened during behave at the last IETF meeting in Vancouver

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
the advice remains the same. There is no drawback to having it over UDP to start with - it works when there are no NAT, and it can work when there are NAT. -Jonathan R. Joel M. Halpern wrote: However, I would really like to reinforce the point from another note. There are quite a few

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
My assertion wasn't that we can not implement (or even can not define) such a thing, but that we had not done so. Thats why the constraint do not design any new transports was an important part of the puzzle. Dan Wing has pointed to an I-D that has started to fill that hole. Yours, Joel

Re: LC reviews: draft-brenner-dime-peem

2008-01-06 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Processing Application Reviewer: Joel M. Halpern Review Date: 6-January-2008 IETF LC End Date: 17-January-2008 IESG Telechat date: N/A Summary: This document is nearly ready for publication as an information RFC. The first of the two comments below is probably primarily the IESG's concern

Re: Daily Dose version 2 launched

2007-11-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I second John's note. When I saw Pasi's note, I had assumed that he was referring to a link off of the tools page. Replacing the tools page with an activity summary is quite surprising. Joel At 12:51 PM 11/2/2007, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, 02 November, 2007 15:04 +0200 [EMAIL

Re: Daily Dose version 2 launched

2007-11-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, the page loading time is not an issue. But I think that it is an issue for enough people that it at least should have been thought about. Yours, Joel At 03:32 PM 11/2/2007, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Hi Joel, On 2007-11-02 18:00 Joel M. Halpern said the following: I second John's note. When I

Experimental makes sense for tls-authz

2007-10-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
for the registration needs that go with this document, I strongly support publication. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 02:04 PM 10/26/2007, Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - The existence of IPR claims potentially relevant to the implementation of a specification has never been sufficient grounds to block

RE: A priori IPR choices [Re: Third Last Call:draft-housley-tls-authz-extns]

2007-10-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
of the working group was that there was not a need to revisit the existing IETF patent policy. So the chairs did not ask the IESG to consider making such a change. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 06:45 PM 10/19/2007, Lawrence Rosen wrote: Ted Hardie wrote: Ah, I see why you appear to have changed your

Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

2007-06-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, we should expect an understandable explanation. (BoF sponsorship is harder, but still refusal ought to be explained.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-lemonade-rfc2192bis (IMAP URL Scheme) to Proposed Standard

2007-06-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Clarification below. At 06:16 AM 6/18/2007, Dave Cridland wrote: On Mon Jun 18 08:30:00 2007, Simon Josefsson wrote: If you do believe the ABNF needs special licensing in this case, I am sorry to say that your remedy is not sufficient. This document imports ABNF from other documents

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-lemonade-rfc2192bis (IMAP URL Scheme) to Proposed Standard

2007-06-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Since the FAQ specifically says that code extracts can be modified, and since RFC 3978 specifically gives us the right to modify code for any purpose (explicitly not limited to the standards process) it seems that we are already covered on this, and no extra or special license is required.

Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

2007-06-12 Thread Joel M. Halpern
to hearing responses which may change their view. But that does not change the fact that they are expect to exercise judgement. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 03:17 PM 6/12/2007, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: Folks, If you want the history of this thread, please see the SAAG mailing list archive

Re: consensus and anonymity

2007-05-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Maybe I have misread the exchange. But I do expect chairs to receive private comments about the state of things. And to try to respond helpful to those comments when they can. And I expect them to make use of that exchange to help the public conversation. To use a current example, the chair of

Re: [Geopriv] Irregularities with the GEOPRIV Meeting at IETF 68

2007-04-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, then maybe there would be a problem. Frankly, the ADs did their job. The chairs should now determine if the conclusions reached in Prague are teh agreement of the WG on the WG email list. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 07:08 PM 4/18/2007, Sam Hartman wrote: It's reasonably common that I will try

Re: Last Call: draft-legg-xed-asd (Abstract Syntax Notation X (ASN.X)) to Proposed Standard

2007-01-13 Thread Joel M. Halpern
or any portion of it. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 05:21 AM 1/13/2007, Simon Josefsson wrote: Hi! These documents contains normative ASN.1 modules which, if I understand the documents correctly, is typically included in implementations of this standard. Is that correct? The modules contain

Re: Discuss criteria status

2007-01-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
have a useful debate on what changes we would like to see in what the IESG does. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Discuss criteria

2006-12-29 Thread Joel M. Halpern
scratch by someone who spoke English (First second, or third language, but English.) They were simply too badly written to tell if they were accurate. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: [David Kessens] DISCUSS: draft-carpenter-rescind-3683

2006-10-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. Hypothetically, there might be some better alternative, so I am not coupling my response to the two questions. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 04:33 PM 10/19/2006, Sam Hartman wrote: Hi, folks. david filed the following discuss on Brian's draft to rescind 3683. David is concerned that the IETF consensus

RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process ratherthansome

2006-09-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 08:09 PM 9/14/2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: There is no need to define the concept of membership. The term 'membership' is essentially a legal term and the courts will define it according to their convenience. One can be a member without having a vote and can have

RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process ratherthansome

2006-09-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
At 09:28 PM 9/14/2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Joel M. Halpern [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I doubt that in the brief consideration based on your note I have found all of the problems. Obviously. As Winston Churchill once remarked, Democracy is the worst possible system

Re: Now there seems to be lack of communicaiton here...

2006-08-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I agree that this seems to be the best course available. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 09:08 PM 8/31/2006, Theodore Tso wrote: On Thu, Aug 31, 2006 at 05:55:25PM -0400, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Therefore, I propose the following: (1) Andrew's decision stands. Under RFC 3777, the only recourse

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-23 Thread Joel M. Halpern
process. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 08:04 PM 7/22/2006, Dave Crocker wrote: What I HAVE said is that the process of getting and demonstrating sufficient community support should include requiring acceptable writing of the specifications. If an effort is not able to recruit sufficient resources

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
meetings where we have active participants makes good sense. And folks can actively participate by email / I-D writing without attending meetings. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 11:00 AM 7/15/2006, Patrick Vande Walle wrote: Fred Baker said the following on 13/07/2006 13:38: My point

RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
by attempting to draw a conclusion about the evidence suggested for evaluating the experiment. I found the suggested evaluation criteria awkward. And when I asked myself what would constitute reasonable criteria, it seemed to me that the existing evidence was relevant. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 08:53

RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
are not.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 09:44 AM 6/15/2006, Ash, Gerald R \(Jerry\), ALABS wrote: As Joel mentions, this experiment will have a negative impact on RFC Editor throughput. Shouldn't the IAB and perhaps the IAD have some part in this? .pdf is allowed now for drafts and RFCs

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-15 Thread Joel M. Halpern
ASCII art. But then, I hate producing document art in any form. The problem is not ASCII. It is finding a good, clean, understandable, way to express ones ideas. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
idea? How do we fix it? Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 10:56 AM 6/14/2006, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text ' draft-ash-alt-formats-02.txt

Re: Last Call: 'A Process Experiment in Normative Reference Handling' to Experimental RFC (draft-klensin-norm-ref)

2006-06-12 Thread Joel M. Halpern
current procedures in a sensible fashion. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 06:20 AM 6/12/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: C. M. Heard wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Eric Rosen wrote: There are also other reasons why I find this proposed experiment disheartening. For one thing, it really

RE: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-06-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
goes in which contract, or whose pocket the money comes from. Please. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-06-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
in the charter to reflect what we have agreed we want. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 12:40 PM 6/11/2006, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Joel, I don't think that the document that Mike and I have been discussing is the same one that you're talking about... The one we've been discussing is draft-iab

Re: Acknowledgements section in a RFC (Was: Last Call: 'Matching of Language Tags' to BCP (draft-ietf-ltru-matching)

2006-06-07 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, Joel M. Halpern At 07:47 AM 6/7/2006, Spencer Dawkins wrote: Perhaps I lead a sheltered life, but on two of these points... - Appendix A - some names seem to be missing. I could quote a small score of them? I do not know if there are written rules about the Acknowledgements or Credits

Re: LC on draft-mankin-pub-req-08.txt

2006-06-01 Thread Joel M. Halpern
ends, during IESG deliberations. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
the framework document and sending your feedback. Please see my response below. On Fri, May 26, 2006 at 08:27:29AM -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: In reading the PANA Framework document, what I read seemed to me to be more of a system or solution document than a clean IETF protocol framework. I

RE: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
to guess. But the document is quite unclear. The appendix about DSL is not helpful in that regard. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
somewhere (the framework document would seem the obvious place) why there is a need for a new solution. I am not claiming that the PANA protocol can't work. As was said many years ago with sufficient thrust, pigs will fly. But that does not make flying pigs a good thing. Yours, Joel M. Halpern

Re: LC on draft-mankin-pub-req-08.txt

2006-05-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
ends, during IESG deliberations. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: LC on draft-mankin-pub-req-08.txt

2006-05-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I can live with that. And I hope so can those who want to be restrictive as to what editing takes place. Yours, Joel At 09:27 PM 5/25/2006, Stephen Hayes (TX/EUS) wrote: After some consideration, I can understand how the current text in mankin-pub-req would be discouraging to the technical

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

2006-04-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
it will be widespread (either because the barriers will still be high or because the demand for BGP based multi-homing is small, or maybe for some other reason.) If that assumption is correct, then the comparison with NAT is irrelevant. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 06:57 PM 4/17/2006, Terry Gray wrote

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
If we are willing to accept arbitrarily long paths to get from point A to point B, there are techniques which allow topologically insensitive packet handling. The Home-Register (aka HLR lookup) is one way. (The routing reserachers have described this topic as stretch 1 routing. There are

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
.) Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 12:56 PM 3/25/2006, Andy Bierman wrote: Edward Lewis wrote: At 15:51 +0100 3/25/06, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If somebody comes to the IETF for a two hour meeting and wastes the opportunity of another 30+ hours of learning about what other WGs and BOFs are up to, that would

RE: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would not that starting dynamic ports above 1024 or even above 4096 is not sufficient. There are already services with assigned ports higher than that. And it keeps growing. The IANA list of well-known ports is quite long. If we could go back and start over, something like dynamic DNS

RE: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-18 Thread Joel M. Halpern
While in general I would like to see this approach taken, this particular case is a perfect example of where I think one can not reasonably do that. The protocol is for the purpose of configuring a router. The router that needs to be configured could easily be between the network engineer

Re: Suggestion on a BCP specific WG...

2006-03-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
issue I know of to manage with the collection of BCPs. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 12:37 PM 3/14/2006, todd glassey wrote: Not that you folks take suggestions from me - but there would be a tremendous value in creating a specific BCP WG that was a permanent part of the IETF to manage the collection

Re: Reminder: Copyright 2006

2006-03-05 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Actually, the copyright notice covers more than just the boilerplate. The authors retain their copyrights (there is no transfer of rights as confuses some folks sometimes.) However, the IETF needs a right to copy (a copyright) so as to distribute, and work on, the Internet-Drafts and RFCs. The

RE: I-D ACTION:draft-ash-alt-formats-01.txt

2006-01-31 Thread Joel M. Halpern
is important. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 11:29 AM 1/31/2006, Ash, Gerald R \(Jerry\), ALABS wrote: Hi All, As a follow-up to our recent discussion, please review the draft at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ash-alt-formats-01.txt, .pdf version available at http://www.ietf.org/internet

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-00.txt

2006-01-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
rights to that IETF mailing list for a period of time not to exceed the remaining period of the suspension from any other IETF list?) Thanks, Spencer This experiment is a good idea. Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https

Re: John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin

2006-01-23 Thread Joel M. Halpern
that necessary authority in the light of Mr. Morfin's exhibited and asserted behavior. Yours, Joel M. Halpern ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria-04.txt

2006-01-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
M. Halpern At 04:01 AM 1/22/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Meetings should not be held in countries where some attendees could be disallowed entry or where freedom of speech is not guaranteed for all participants. This is a very important issue as we consider visiting countries we've

Re: EARLY submission deadline - Fact or Fiction?

2005-11-29 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There is an aspect of the deadline that is helpful for me, even when the deadline is not rigidly enforced. The presence of the deadline means that the bulk of I-Ds are in by the deadline, and are out by not too long after the deadline. This means that I can collect announcements for I-Ds of

Re: IETF Process Evolution

2005-09-16 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Two observations: 1) Having been an active participant in the Nomcom working group, it is amaxing it actually worked. The process took an absurdly long time to converge on a very small set of changes. Having tried to drive ICAR, which many people said was important, I again conclude that WGs

Re: Last call comments on LTRU registry and initialization documents

2005-09-06 Thread Joel M. Halpern
This document defines structure and meaning for labels, as well as the procedure for registering parts of that structure. As such, the structure is bits on the wire and is subject to interoperability concerns. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 03:14 PM 9/6/2005, Sam Hartman wrote: John, what does

Re: [Re: regarding IETF lists using mailman: nodupes considered harmful]

2005-08-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I really hate lists with reply-to pointing to the list. I know when I want to reply to the list, and when I want to reply individually to the sender. When reply-to points to the list, it is extremely difficult with most mailers to send a reply to the originator. Yours, Joel At 11:49 AM

Re: I'm not the microphone police, but ...

2005-08-06 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 06:00 AM 8/6/2005, Keith Moore wrote: I actually think IETF might function better if nobody's badge had his company's name on it, and nobody used a company email address. People place way too much importance on someone's employer. Yes, sometimes people break

Re: On standards review panel and division of work

2005-08-04 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 06:09 AM 8/4/2005, John C Klensin wrote: See my note posted a short time ago (which was written before seeing yours). But, yes.This is exactly the thing I was commenting about in that note. It is, at some level, a detail. It can be tuned in any of a number of ways

Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-27 Thread Joel M. Halpern
risk of backing ourselves into a corner. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 08:42 AM 7/27/2005, Spencer Dawkins wrote: I too like this draft and agree that having most IESG members serve for two terms is ideal and making it more the exception that people serve for three or four terms. I also like

Re: S stands for Steering [Re: Should the IESG rule or not?]

2005-06-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
and should be encouraged to experiment. But not all spaces have that property. We have enough trouble with junk in spaces like DNS without agreeing to register any type code / meaning that someone wants to write up. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 12:11 AM 7/1/2005, Spencer Dawkins wrote: If I may

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
. But the policy as written in the RFC requires that the IESG review the proposal. Such a review clearly implies technical review, not just a check for document completeness. The IESG did what the RFC tells them to do. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 07:04 PM 6/28/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: John

Re: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again))

2005-05-08 Thread Joel M. Halpern
in a significant increase. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 01:33 PM 5/8/2005, Geoff Huston wrote: And there is some risk (small, I think) of people pushing others to endorse them. This would seem easier with a public list, because the nomcom is not left wondering why they got the supportive email

Re: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again))

2005-05-07 Thread Joel M. Halpern
You raise two questions about making the candidate list public. You raise the question of whether we can afford the loss of candidates from those people not willing to be seen as losing. I will admit to not being sure I understand the driver for people who both have that concern and could do

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
, and reduce actual interoperability in the field. Yours, Joel M. Halpern At 05:36 AM 3/11/2005, shogunx wrote: On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Erik Nordmark wrote: Tony Hain wrote: Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT traversal crap??? FWIW I'm also concerned that we are doing

Re: business deals and BCP for IAOC / IAD

2005-01-26 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Maybe I am naive, but the discussion I have seen on the list is not actually about something the IETF can or should approve. Reportedly, ForeTec, CNRI, and Neustar are in negotiations. The IETF has no say in such negotiations. Reportedly, what has been asked is will the IETF react badly to

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I like this resolution. I think the review against a zero base assumption captures the essential goal, and the minimum staff was a weak restatement. Yours, Joel At 07:44 AM 1/12/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On onsdag, januar 12, 2005 07:29:27 -0500 Scott W Brim sbrim@cisco.com

RE: Issue: #748: Section 5.4 - Quarterly deposits inappropriate

2004-12-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I think that there is a different side of this. Suppose that a budget was worked out (as below), with a plan for a certain expected coverage from ISOC general funds, meeting fees, and directed donations. Lets presume the budget includes the plan for building the reserves. If meeting fees run

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