Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule

2011-08-01 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, August 01, 2011 19:02 -0400 Margaret Wasserman m...@lilacglade.org wrote: ... If we don't want to hold meetings on Friday afternoons due to conflicts, I'd much rather see us eliminate one of the plenaries and hold meetings during that time slot. Margaret, FWIW, I personally

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

2011-07-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:40 +0200 Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: ... Actively being used. In production. So that taking it away would hurt the entity using it, threaten the entity's comfort and convenience, or just generally go against the stated goals of making the

RE: Standards

2011-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, July 20, 2011 10:54 -0400 Worley, Dale R (Dale) dwor...@avaya.com wrote: From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com] Very appropriate for XKCD to post this just a few days before an IETF meeting. http://www.xkcd.com/927/ And yet sometimes a standard will sweep away

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

2011-07-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, July 15, 2011 15:39 -0700 Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: To address your concern about whether or not vendors are paying attention to this discussion, and why historic status is substantively different than off by default, no really, OFF BY DEFAULT, I'll put my FreeBSD

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

2011-07-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 16, 2011 20:27 -0700 Murray S. Kucherawy m...@cloudmark.com wrote: -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 2:02 PM To: Brian E Carpenter Cc: v6...@ietf.org; IETF

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

2011-07-16 Thread John C Klensin
FWIW, +1 --On Friday, July 15, 2011 17:18 +0200 Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: 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

Re: Last Call: draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-06.txt (Report on the Experiment with IETF Operational Notes (IONs)) to Informational RFC

2011-07-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:48 -0400 Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: Let me explain why I'm planning to include this sub-section. Why? Your explanation lacks substance, and further effort here is a waste of time. The document as it stands is just fine, except for one

Community time as a limited asset (was: Re: Last Call: draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-06.txt (Report on the Experiment with IETF Operational Notes (IONs)) to Informational RFC)

2011-07-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 10:20 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Mykyta, I think the draft is fine without this addition, which contains some statements that I disagree with. I don't think analysis is needed; this is all ancient history anyway. Brian and

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

2011-07-16 Thread John C Klensin
Ron -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel Jaeggli Sent: Friday, July 15, 2011 3:17 PM To: John C Klensin Cc: v6...@ietf.org; IETF Discussion Subject: Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other

Re: Last Call: draft-yevstifeyev-ion-report-06.txt (Report on the Experiment with IETF Operational Notes (IONs)) to Informational RFC

2011-07-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 16, 2011 14:41 -0400 Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: Barry, ... So, if only to increase my understanding, why do you think reviewing this type of document (presumably through multiple cycles as we quibble about language, etc.) is worth a Last Call and the

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

2011-07-15 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. I've been thinking about this and having a few off-list conversations and want to make a suggestion that draws together a few others. Since many people don't like my long notes with the conclusion at the end, this one is suggestion-first. If the suggestion offends you sufficiently, you can

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

2011-07-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, July 15, 2011 09:40 -0700 Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: So the rational for the advice document not being combined with the standards action in it is that the later has some polarizing impact, the advice document does not. the advice document is through and done,

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

2011-07-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, July 16, 2011 08:34 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: ... We can spend another few months debating the exact form of words for a normative document advising implementors to do what most of them are now doing; I don't care and it basically doesn't

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, July 14, 2011 11:00 -0700 Randall Gellens ra...@qualcomm.com wrote: At 6:19 PM -0400 7/13/11, John C Klensin wrote: Content-type: text/noise; noise-type=bogus-legal-disclaimer, charset=... Ooh, I like this proposal. We can also have noise-types for exhortations

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, July 13, 2011 09:38 -0700 Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: ... Yes, and perhaps disclaimers/confidentiality notices should be standardized with their own MIME type to make automatic processing easier so receivers of this kind of notice (mailing-list or other) can

RE: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-27 Thread John C Klensin
+1 --On Saturday, 25 June, 2011 04:18 + Christian Huitema huit...@microsoft.com wrote: It seems that we have wide consensus to publish the advisory document, not so much for the 6to4 historic part. Can we just publish the advisory and be done with this thread?

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 24 June, 2011 16:10 -0700 james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: On Jun 24, 2011, at 09:08 , John C Klensin wrote: What I saw was what appeared to me to be some fairly strong arguments for looking at the problem in a different way -- a way that I've seen no evidence the WG

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 24 June, 2011 13:34 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: ... I think that's about right. There were several strong and very raional opinions against this, including some who were not involved in the similarly rough consensus in the WG discussion. But

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 24 June, 2011 12:57 -0700 Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: What I saw was what appeared to me to be some fairly strong arguments for looking at the problem in a different way -- a way that I've seen no evidence the WG considered at all. That would be to explore

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 24 June, 2011 16:17 -0400 John Leslie j...@jlc.net wrote: and which are just to bring additional input to the IESG for a non-consensus decision? Clearly, RFC 2026 does not require any kind of consensus for Informational documents. ... John, A small nit... While in this

Re: External IPR Disclosures vs IPR disclosures in the document.

2011-06-22 Thread John C Klensin
Mike, Answer from a 10Km altitude perspective... Our rules do not have dependencies on particular licensing terms, whether RAND, free license, free without any notification or specific license, defensive/reciprocal, or otherwise. The obligation of authors and companies is to disclose whatever

Re: Has anyone found a hotel for Quebec City that isn't exorbitant?

2011-06-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, June 20, 2011 13:32 -0400 Michael Richardson m...@sandelman.ca wrote: ... It's a peak season destination. We seem to do this a lot. March would be no better, but early November there would be, I think, low peak. What's a non-peak destination for July? Phoenix. Probably

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

2011-06-17 Thread John C Klensin
Given the controversies, I decided I needed to do a careful reading of this document. While I respect and appreciate what the authors are trying to do, as a would-be standards track specification, it is pretty troubling. It is troubling editorially as well. I think all or most of the specific

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, June 11, 2011 01:34 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: ... You're correct that some ISPs will try to get monopoly rents out of the IPv4 shortage, and use CGN to capture customers in walled gardens, but fortunately capitalism provides a solution to such

RE: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, June 10, 2011 12:10 -0400 Worley, Dale R (Dale) dwor...@avaya.com wrote: OTOH, my cable ISP provider has an Expected IPv6 Transition Phases chart, in which Phase 3 says, Customer Premesis Equipment (CPE) IP addressing: IPv6 only. And they've started trials of IPv6 already.

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, June 11, 2011 05:28 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: John, On 2011-06-11 05:05, John C Klensin wrote: ... But, to the extent to which the motivation for moving 6to4 to Historic is what Tony describes as kill-what-we-don't-like, Unfortunately

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, June 10, 2011 15:10 -0700 Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: I'm a content provider. I'm am prepared to turn on more ipv6 services that are visible to consumers. 6to4 is a visible and measurable source of collateral damage. If consenting adults want to use it that's fine, I

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-faltstrom-5892bis-04

2011-06-08 Thread John C Klensin
+1 --On Wednesday, June 08, 2011 12:50 +0100 Alexey Melnikov alexey.melni...@isode.com wrote: Vint Cerf wrote: setting aside interpretation and semantics for a moment, would there be utility in maintaining tables for each instance of Unicode? Yes, because developers will have different

Contents of the IDNA Derived Properties registry (was; Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-faltstrom-5892bis-04)

2011-06-08 Thread John C Klensin
(Subject line changed to reflect my belief that this is not about 5892bis. I've also removed the copy to the gen-art list -- if this isn't about 5892bis, it isn't on their agenda, even though Roni's review may have partially stimulated the thread.) --On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 19:45 -0700 Paul

Re: New Non-WG Mailing List: fun -- FUture home Networking (FUN)

2011-06-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 04:56 + Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: ... We've seen quite a few non-WG mailing lists announced, where the title of the list was all we got, and we'd have no idea whatsoever if we wanted to subscribe to it. Please, when we send out

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-faltstrom-5892bis-04

2011-06-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 07, 2011 14:43 -0700 Paul Hoffman paul.hoff...@vpnc.org wrote: Section 5.1 of RFC5892 says If non-backward-compatible changes or other problems arise during the creation or designated expert review of the table of derived property values, they should be flagged for

Re: Proposed text for IESG Handling of Historic Status

2011-06-02 Thread John C Klensin
Sean, Seems fine to me but, like Sam, I'd prefer to not clutter abstracts For a specification RFC that is rendered Historic by a new specification, the combination of an Obsoletes header and a note in the Introduction ought to be sufficient. While the IESG is considering this, I would encourage

Re: Proposed text for IESG Handling of Historic Status

2011-06-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, June 02, 2011 17:51 -0500 Pete Resnick presn...@qualcomm.com wrote: Agree, but producing such a no one cares anymore RFC and getting it through the process should be lightweight enough already. It should slide right through. For better or worse, I don't believe that has

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, May 05, 2011 09:13 -0700 The IESG iesg-secret...@ietf.org wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels' draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt as a BCP

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06.txt (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, May 31, 2011 08:27 -0500 Pete Resnick presn...@qualcomm.com wrote: 1. Make the changes in (A). We still need to say how to make that happen, and how to deal with the increased number of RFCs. The annual review provides an alternative to deal with the increased number of

Re: Last Call: draft-faltstrom-5892bis-04.txt (The Unicode code points and IDNA - Unicode 6.0) to Proposed Standard

2011-05-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, May 29, 2011 08:58 +0200 Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: in a Unicode 6.0 environment, evaluate U+19DA as PVALID and therefore not raise that error, then it is not compliant with RFC 5892, irrelevant of the Updates status of the present document. I don't see how.

Re: Last Call: draft-faltstrom-5892bis-04.txt (The Unicode code points and IDNA - Unicode 6.0) to Proposed Standard

2011-05-25 Thread John C Klensin
Just for the record,.. I favor the publication of this document with a minimum of further fuss. I read and studied this document before the first I-D was published, participated in discussion of it on the IDNABIS WG list and again on the APPSAWG list. In each case, essentially the same

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

2011-05-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, May 11, 2011 16:43 -0400 Steven Bellovin s...@cs.columbia.edu wrote: It is a lot more time (and money) saving to search free versions before entering transactions to purchase them than to rely blindly on PubMed, IEEE, ACM, google scholar etc. Unfortunately, the IEEE has

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

2011-05-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, May 12, 2011 08:50 -0700 Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: My comment was in reply to Masataka Ohta's note saying that he often evades the pricing on things like IEEE or ACM pappers by finding free ones online. That looks like it won't be possible going forward. Current IEEE

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

2011-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 07:42 +0300 Pekka Savola pek...@netcore.fi wrote: On Mon, 9 May 2011, Steve Crocker wrote: A simpler and more pragmatic approach is to include a statement in the boilerplate of every RFC that says, RFCs are available free of charge online from ... The copyright

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

2011-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 09, 2011 21:47 -0400 Ross Callon rcal...@juniper.net wrote: This reminds me of what a colleague once said about government-run lotteries: A tax on people who are bad at math. In this case the fools don't seem to be throwing all that many dollars away (at least not per

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

2011-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, May 10, 2011 13:20 + John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: ... It's not just that. A little poking around in the ACM DL reveals that they don't have any RFCs published after May 2004. It looks like someone did a one time data dump, and nothing since. It's also fairly

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

2011-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--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 the instructions, Scholar is using some heuristics

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

2011-05-09 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 09, 2011 23:41 + John Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: In article 516ebea6-e089-4952-ae33-de799e375...@mnot.net you write: If only there were some uniform resource locator system, whereby we could use a string to both identify and locate such a document, and include such a

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

2011-05-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, May 08, 2011 15:06 -0700 Bob Braden bra...@isi.edu wrote: I just discovered an astonishing example of misinformation, shall we say, in the IEEE electric power community. There is an IEEE standards document C37.118, entitled (you don't care) IEEE Standard for Synchrophasors for

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, May 06, 2011 18:15 +0200 Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are constituencies that will fight hard against specifications getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been published as RFC. Martin, That is an interesting

Re: problems with mail.ietf.org

2011-04-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, April 22, 2011 14:29 +0200 Francis Dupont francis.dup...@fdupont.fr wrote: mail.ietf.org changed its IPv4 address (it was 64.170.98.32, now it is 208.66.40.236) leaving at its previous address something (i.e., a SMTP server) which blindly eats messages. I strongly suggest to

Re: problems with mail.ietf.org

2011-04-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, April 22, 2011 18:14 +0200 Francis Dupont francis.dup...@fdupont.fr wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: So I'm having trouble guessing why your systems are still seeing64.170.93.22, much less sending mail to it. = a long time ago mail.ietf.org anti-spam

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, April 21, 2011 10:49 -0700 Joel Jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 4/21/11 10:38 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 4/20/2011 2:21 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In the case of the IETF Chair I believe the issue is that it's highly desirable, from a governance viewpoint, that the

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-19 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, April 16, 2011 07:51 -0700 Lucy Lynch lly...@civil-tongue.net wrote: The implication is that the people sitting in the positions of IAB Chair and IETF Chair are essential to the good operation of the IAOC/Trust. Someone else from their groups or even someone else that they

Re: [secdir] Secdir review of draft-ietf-sidr-res-certs

2011-04-17 Thread John C Klensin
Steve, Two things: (1) Given the variable amount of time it takes to get RFCs issued/ published after IESG signoff, are you and the WG sure that you want to tie the phases of the phase-in procedure to RFC publication? (2) There is an incomplete sentence at the end of (2): This allows CAs to

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, April 13, 2011 11:19 -0700 Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: Olaf, On Apr 2, 2011, at 1:28 AM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: [as editor:] It seems that the high order bit of this discussion circles around the question on whether it a requirement for the IETF Chair to

Re: Buckets of spam coming through IETF lists

2011-04-01 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, April 01, 2011 16:28 -0400 John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: Some clever spambot seems to have scraped a bunch of addresses out of the archives and is sending spam with multiple addresses on the From: line through IETF and IRTF mailing lists. Surely I'm not the only one

Re: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff

2011-03-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, March 24, 2011 02:14 +0100 Stefan Santesson ste...@aaa-sec.com wrote: I can't escape the feeling that this discussion of using markup language editing to produce RFCs, is a bit upside down. I'm much more concerned with draft writers having to deal with markup syntax than I

Re: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff

2011-03-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, March 25, 2011 13:06 -0400 Andrew G. Malis agma...@gmail.com wrote: I know that XML is the wave of the future, but I just want to give Stefan a plug as a happy user that NroffEdit makes the mechanical and formatting part of writing drafts almost effortless. And, had it

Re: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff

2011-03-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, March 17, 2011 12:36 -0400 Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: If we're going to put more work into xml2rfc, I would much rather figure out what the production people are doing with nroff that xml2rfc doesn't currenty do, and add twiddeles so they can do that in xml2rfc and skip

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

2011-03-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, March 07, 2011 10:50 -0800 Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com wrote: The IAB and IESG control STD1, and have every right and in fact a responsibility to say what status they think any document has. You or anyone else can disagree and have your own list. The

RE: Where to find IONs?

2011-03-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, March 06, 2011 11:15 + Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: Hi Mykyta, Please see http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg 04792.html Adrian Adrian, With the understanding that this is a different question than Mykyta's, how is someone new

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

2011-03-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, March 03, 2011 10:41 -0500 Joel M. Halpern j...@joelhalpern.com wrote: No, I do not agree with you. Our current definition for historic, and our current choices for when to move things, have worked sufficiently well. I have not seen any evidence that there is a problem that

Re: RFC production center XML format usage, was: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, February 24, 2011 09:42 -0500 Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com wrote: On Wed, Feb 23, 2011 at 01:59:23PM -0500, Dave CROCKER wrote: I was impressed with just how steady that increase appears to be over a reasonably extended period of time, as well as its seeming to be

Re: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, February 21, 2011 11:23 -0800 Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: John, Support for the xml2rfc tool was discussed on the IETF mail list when Marshall Rose indicated he could no longer support the tool. Several people volunteered to maintain the tool, and they

xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-19 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. This is not an attempt to derail either of these RFPs, nor is it a formal appeal (request for review). However, these two RFPs raise an issue that may be worth some consideration. The clear intent of the discussions leading up to RFC 4071/ BCP 101, and some of text in that document, was

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:01 PM +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Scott and John, I don't see this as inconsistent with the current 2-stage proposal, if the latter's omission of a requirement for independent interoperable implementations for stage 2 is

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, January 27, 2011 09:41 +0200 Gonzalo Camarillo gonzalo.camari...@ericsson.com wrote: Hi, yes, I also agree the first one is the most important point and has not been addressed so far. If we want a system that works (and is used), it needs to include incentives to move from

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-26 Thread John C Klensin
+1 on all points, especially the first one. john --On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 22:29 -0500 Scott O. Bradner s...@harvard.edu wrote: 1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any realimpact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that moveto a (in this

Re: Poster sessions

2011-01-11 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 09:32 +0200 Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: We can have as high a barrier as necessary to ensure there are no more than, say, 12 posters. Yes, but that is another aspect of why I don't want to go down this path. As soon as you say high barrier, you imply

Re: I-D Action:draft-white-tsvwg-netblt-00.txt

2011-01-11 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, January 08, 2011 07:37 -0800 Lixia Zhang li...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: I am not sure why this rush to get a new internet draft out, without consultation to any of its original authors, and given the rough consensus on ietf mailing list discussion is to keep NETBLT RFC as is

Re: SDO vs academic conference, was poster sessions

2011-01-11 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, January 11, 2011 10:35 -0800 Randy Presuhn randy_pres...@mindspring.com wrote: At issue though is that these individuals get paid (sponsored) by someone, either directly or indirectly by corporations and/or governments. Not necessarily. Some of us have no employer and just

Re: Poster sessions

2011-01-10 Thread John C Klensin
+1. Very strongly. Whether the logistics of space and times could be worked out or not, poster sessions strike me as a really bad idea and Fred has summarized at least most of the reasons. If we had a high barrier to posting I-Ds, it might be different. But we don't. john --On Monday,

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, January 07, 2011 21:26 -0800 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 1/6/2011 12:40 PM, Bob Braden wrote: Historic might imply that they were once in service, but have later been replaced/deprecated. We assign labels to indicate the status of the specification, not

RE: BCP request: WiFi at High-Tech Meetings

2011-01-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, January 03, 2011 10:49 -0500 Worley, Dale R (Dale) dwor...@avaya.com wrote: ... Whereas the NYT article seems to be describing large rooms full of journalists and other technology illiterates, many of whom are trying to send or receive streaming video, sometimes the video of

Re: Two step, three step, one step, and alternatives

2010-11-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, November 13, 2010 08:45 +0100 Eliot Lear l...@cisco.com wrote: On 11/13/10 12:01 AM, John C Klensin wrote: For protocol specs, our normal way to sort of competing and variant proposals is to form a WG. We know that doesn't work well for procedural documents. Partially

Re: Publishing list of non-paying IETF attendees, was Re: [IAOC] Badges and blue sheets

2010-11-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, November 14, 2010 10:20 -0500 Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: How many of those are volunteers/host/NOC/future host, and how many are discretionary comp? There was exactly 1 discretionary in Beijing. Wearing no hats, and just my own personal opinion, this seems

Two step, three step, one step, and alternatives

2010-11-12 Thread John C Klensin
Russ, I'd like to make a suggestion that I hope you will find helpful. We've now got your/the IESG's two-step proposal, Dave's alternative, discussions about going directly to single step, an orthogonal proposal about STD numbers (or an alternative), some other suggestions that haven't made it

Re: Two step, three step, one step, and alternatives

2010-11-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 13 November, 2010 07:35 +0800 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 11/13/2010 7:01 AM, John C Klensin wrote: We've now got your/the IESG's two-step proposal, Dave's alternative, discussions about going directly to single step, Single step??? That's

RE: No single problem... (was Re: what is the problem bis)

2010-11-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 04 November, 2010 05:50 -0400 Ross Callon rcal...@juniper.net wrote: Commenting on one issue from John's email from Sat 10/30/2010 4:18am (and ignoring the issue of what John was doing up at 4am): :-) However, a change to the handling of documents that are candidates for

Re: More labels for RFCs (was: what is the problem bis)

2010-11-01 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, October 29, 2010 12:20 -0400 Hadriel Kaplan hkap...@acmepacket.com wrote: On Oct 27, 2010, at 9:57 PM, Keith Moore wrote: That's why I think we need a different set of labels, e.g. Protocol-Quality. We need a statement about the perceived quality of the protocol

Re: No single problem... (was Re: what is the problem bis)

2010-10-30 Thread John C Klensin
Ted, I agree with almost everything you say, but want to focus on one issue (inline below). --On Friday, October 29, 2010 16:15 -0700 Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.com wrote: ... As we stare down this rathole one more time, let's at least be certain that there is more than one rat down there,

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-10-30 Thread John C Klensin
A few quick observations... --On Friday, October 29, 2010 13:20 -0700 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: ... While my instinct is that RFC publication would be desirable, if that didn't seem workable we could move the idea a bit closer to the Snapshot idea by posting the document in the I-D series

Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-10-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, October 28, 2010 14:15 -0400 RJ Atkinson rja.li...@gmail.com wrote: On 28 Oct 2010, at 13:29 , Dave CROCKER wrote: On 10/28/2010 9:22 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote: Most times it would be better if IETF WGs initially create an Experimental status RFC, possibly doing so quite

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 10:54 -0700 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 10/26/2010 9:32 AM, Ross Callon wrote: There are two problems that Russ's draft may very well solve: One issue with our current system is that there is no incentive to go from Proposed Standard to Draft

RE: what is the problem bis

2010-10-26 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, October 26, 2010 14:27 -0400 Ross Callon rcal...@juniper.net wrote: This is where I disagree with you. The simple change that Russ has proposed is not what is taking away from discussion of the actual barriers. What is taking attention away from discussion of the actual

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-10-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, October 08, 2010 09:47 -0400 Steve Crocker st...@shinkuro.com wrote: Let me say this more strongly. These two defects, it wasn't economically feasible ... and it didn't offer any interesting/desirable new capabilities were mild compared to an even bigger defect: There simply

Re: can we please postpone the ipv6 post-mortem?

2010-10-08 Thread John C Klensin
On 10/8/10 1:02 PM, james woodyatt j...@apple.com wrote: everyone-- IPv6 may have been born with a developmental disability, but we're not dealing with a corpse yet. The patient is still alive, getting better, and with a bit of love and proper care, might yet grow up to make better and

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-09-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 28, 2010 14:34 -0400 RJ Atkinson rja.li...@gmail.com wrote: ... However, in this case, that question is directly answered in the article that Noel originally mentioned. To quote directly: I don't forsee a crisis, per se … the big driver, in my mind,

Re: Fisking vs Top-Posting

2010-09-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, September 23, 2010 10:43 -0700 Randy Dunlap rdun...@xenotime.net wrote: ... the same people also complain when I trim. So its a combination of pathological behaviours, UI, and dominance behaviour That should just be a function of where the UI software positions the

Re: Fisking vs Top-Posting

2010-09-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 24, 2010 08:17 -0700 Randy Dunlap rdun...@xenotime.net wrote: One thing that bothers me is when people do mixed-line posting but end their reply say, 50% thru the message, but then they don't delete the rest of the message, so the reader has to scan the rest of the

Re: Nomcom 2010-2011: READ THIS: Important Information on Open Disclosure

2010-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 08:53 -0700 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 9/21/2010 5:02 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: The list of accepted candidates should be posted on the IETF site like the rest of the noncom information. +1 On the other hand, the practical reality is that

Re: Nomcom 2010-2011: READ THIS: Important Information on Open Disclosure

2010-09-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, September 22, 2010 10:19 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Tom, On 2010-09-22 04:29, NomCom Chair wrote: Hi Folks, A few folks have submitted some very helpful comments and I'd like to share the answers publicly. Q: If the List is Open why

Re: draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec-08

2010-09-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 17, 2010 10:44 +0200 Alessandro Vesely ves...@tana.it wrote: On 16/Sep/10 01:57, John C Klensin wrote: [...] I think it is safe to conclude that the rough consensus in the email is that the mechanism is really not workable regardless of whether it can be implemented

Re: draft-gennai-smime-cnipa-pec-08

2010-09-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, September 15, 2010 13:59 -0700 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Hello, At 09:37 08-08-10, Dave CROCKER wrote: This is a summary review, with a focus on design goals and systems-level issues. Based on my reading of the specification, much more in-depth reviews of this

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 03, 2010 12:08 -0400 Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: This sounds like there is potential for crowd sourcing here. For example, I can tell you nothing about Vonage, but a fair amount about Cox Cable Internet. What you want to know is known, just not

Re: Is this true?

2010-09-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 17:36 -0400 Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: Surprising as it may seem, I was aware of the prior existence of FTP and Telnet. I actually assumed that. Where I think there was a disconnect is in your understanding of how they were used and by whom.

Re: Is this true?

2010-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, August 31, 2010 13:54 -0400 Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu wrote: From: Fernando Gont ferna...@gont.com.ar As far as I recall *reading* (I wasn't around at the time :-) ) email was a couple of FTP commands? That was more back in the NCP days (prior

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

2010-08-31 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, August 30, 2010 21:57 +0200 Olaf Kolkman o...@nlnetlabs.nl wrote: The recent remark on bias against individuals[*] made me think about weighing the location preference by number of participants from certain regions. Suppose an individual from Asia attends all IETFs then her

Re: Meeting Venue Preference Survey

2010-08-30 Thread John C Klensin
+1 on all of the analysis/ observations below. Couldn't say it better myself and have tried. john --On Sunday, August 29, 2010 17:10 -0700 Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: At the risk of turning this into a string of competing anectdotes It turned into that long ago. In terms

Re: Tourist or business visa from US?

2010-08-30 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, August 30, 2010 08:46 -0700 Paul Hoffman paul.hoff...@vpnc.org wrote: At 5:50 PM -0700 8/27/10, Randall Gellens wrote: I am not a lawyer, but my understanding is that it depends on the primary purpose of the visit. ...even though the first answer on the FAQ on the IETF site

Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-08-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, August 29, 2010 14:29 -0500 Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com wrote: Joel, Thank you so much for your sensitivity - you've done a wonderful job of re-enforcing the idea that IETF is a hostile environment for women. My guess is that you've never personally been in a

Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-08-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, August 29, 2010 15:59 -0700 Ole Jacobsen o...@cisco.com wrote: John, I agree 100% with everything you said here, execpt for the part about we don't get it. I don't think I need to go over again why Maastricht was chosen nor elaborate further on the surprises we encountered

Re: Tourist or business visa from US?

2010-08-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 25, 2010 07:54 -0400 Richard L. Barnes rbar...@bbn.com wrote: FWIW, I was required to provide such a letter for a visa to Saudi Arabia earlier this year. So it's not without precedent. --Richard On Aug 24, 2010, at 11:59 PM, Andrew Allen wrote: Mary It seems

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