Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 01:41 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 12/2/12 9:37 AM, Keith Moore wrote: Perhaps roughly the first 2(?) days of an IETF meeting could be largely devoted to presentation sessions, and the remainder of the time to discussion sessions. I think you'd end up with 2 days of presentation

Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 02:21 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 12/2/12 10:18 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/02/2012 01:41 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: I think you'd end up with 2 days of presentation sessions and the remainder of the meeting given over to presentation sessions. In which case the ADs should fire

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 03:57 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: On 12/2/12 11:15 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/02/2012 01:46 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: We have non-native english speakers and remote participants both working at a disadvantage to follow the discussion in the room. We should make it harder for them

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 10:49 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote: On 12/2/12 19:02 , Keith Moore wrote:\ I saw very little productive discussion happening in Atlanta in the vast majority of working group meetings which I attended. True, there were times when people queued up at the microphones. (though that's

Re: Barely literate minutes

2012-12-01 Thread Keith Moore
On 11/29/2012 10:36 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: F2f meetings are explicitly managed, with significant control of the room. Mailing list exchanges are typically not managed at all. Given the difference, it's not surprising that one proves more productive than the other. Please don't confuse

PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-01 Thread Keith Moore
On 11/29/2012 06:06 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: On 11/29/12 3:45 PM, Lee Howard wrote: I can't take notes while I'm standing up, facilitating discussion. Interesting. I am forced to (only somewhat facetiously) ask: Why are *you* standing up, facilitating discussion, if you are the editor?

Re: IETF work is done on the mailing lists

2012-11-28 Thread Keith Moore
On 11/27/2012 01:00 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: This brings up a question that I have as an AD: A number of times since I started in this position in March, documents have come to the IESG that prompted me (or another AD) to look into the document history for... to find that there's basically no

Re: [Softwires] [BEHAVE] Last Call: draft-ietf-behave-v4v6-bih-06.txt (Dual Stack Hosts Using Bump-in-the-Host (BIH)) to Proposed Standard

2011-09-28 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 28, 2011, at 2:12 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: In the end (as well as IPv6-only near term in mobile), IP version agnostic apps will prove to be more reliable and therefore will get more market share. Not clear. There's a tradeoff between the additional reliability of being

Re: 240/4 unreservation (was RE: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC)

2011-09-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 26, 2011, at 10:07 AM, George, Wes wrote: From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Keith Moore Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:04 PM To: Cameron Byrne Cc: IETF Discussion Subject: Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt

Re: 240/4 unreservation (was RE: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC)

2011-09-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 26, 2011, at 12:47 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 26 Sep 2011, at 18:41 , Keith Moore wrote: The problem isn't in the difficulty of finding these changes and fixing them, for currently maintained code. The problem is in the zillions of systems in the field that have

Re: 240/4 unreservation (was RE: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC)

2011-09-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 26, 2011, at 2:15 PM, George, Wes wrote: From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Keith Moore Sent: Friday, September 23, 2011 10:04 PM The problem is in the zillions of systems in the field that have assumptions about 240/4 wired into them, most

Re: 240/4 unreservation (was RE: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC)

2011-09-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 26, 2011, at 6:21 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: We see here a proposal to create site local IPv4 addresses for Internet providers. The IETF previously expanded significant efforts to deprecate IPv6 site local addresses. Why exactly do we believe that IPv4 site local addresses would

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

2011-09-25 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:42 AM, John C Klensin wrote: Remembering that an ISP who wants to avoid the use of public IPv4 addresses on its backbone/infrastructure has the option of simply converting that infrastructure to IPv6, tunneling public-address IPv4 packets (both its own and those of its

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

2011-09-25 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 25, 2011, at 2:34 PM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, September 25, 2011 13:25 -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Remembering that an ISP who wants to avoid the use of public IPv4 addresses on its backbone/infrastructure has the option of simply converting

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

2011-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
I already made one Last Call comment, but I neglected to state unambiguously whether I supported the proposal. I do support this proposal. I think that this question needs to be viewed as a choice between two risks: 1) the risks associated with this proposal 2) the risks associated with

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) to Informational RFC

2011-09-23 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 23, 2011, at 9:53 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: So if there is going to be breakage, and folks are willing to fix it over time because the good outweighs the bad (I personally do not believe this), then why not dedicate 240/4 for this purpose? The 240/4 work has been shot down multiple

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-19 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 19, 2011, at 12:27 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 9/19/11 10:14 AM, Alejandro Acosta wrote: +1 I also support the idea of every RFC havving the associated wiki. I think that if some people support the idea, they can easily create a wiki somewhere (e.g., specsannotated.com) and get

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 17, 2011, at 3:38 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Instead of having a wiki, why not have a wikipedia article for each RFC ? Whatever problems we would have with change control, wikipedia is already dealing with. wikipedia has different goals. they're really trying to be an encyclopedia;

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 17, 2011, at 4:28 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote: we have abundant evidence of there being color added in the context of ietf mailing lists. problem is, there's a lot more than color added there. a wiki is a different medium than email. because people can alter and even delete

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-17 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 17, 2011, at 5:37 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: Like Keith, I believe we can benefit a lot from users being able to freely annotate RFCs with implementation notes, corrections and even opinions (this protocol option sucks!). But I also tend to agree with Joel that the wiki format is

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
My impression is that the IETF quite regularly does new things that break current, actively used, maintained, and even standards-track protocols. Maybe we should worry about those before worry about breaking older protocols. Keith On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote: Scott,

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
I hit send too quickly after answering the first question, neglecting to answer the latter two. 2. In general, IETF has a difficult time maintaining a cadre of people with expertise in any particular area. There's very little representation by applications developers; there's also

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors to add comments, annotations, clarifications, corrections etc to augment the RFCs. Whilst such

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:07 PM, hector wrote: I don't see these ass Wikis but basically blog style flat display of user comments, which I often do find useful, especially for the user (this way) upon user (not always) follow ups. A Wiki is more where you can change the main content and

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Andrew Feren wrote: On Fri 16 Sep 2011 03:22:08 PM EDT, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:07 PM, hector wrote: I don't see these ass Wikis but basically blog style flat display of user comments, which I often do find useful, especially for the user

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Moore
My recollection is that this has already been done to a large degree. Also, focusing on this specific set of RFCs would be a lot of work, for very little actual value to the community. On the other hand, I'd be very much in favor of IETF periodically reviewing ALL standards-track RFCs for

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 15, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote: On 15 September 2011 20:39, Scott O Bradner wrote: as Keith points out - a round of this type of effort was undertaken by the newtrk working group a while back About five years back, IIRC, and with some limiting parameters. I think this

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-15 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 15, 2011, at 6:44 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: I was in the rough on that one in 2005, but since we're looking at another bulk recategorization effort, I might make this suggestion again - perhaps we could define a new level, which might be called something like Not Maintained, with

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-13 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 13, 2011, at 11:25 AM, Joe Touch wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 8:09 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: ... SRV indicates the port number (useful if not the default) and weight, etc. right. but given that you can include the same things in a TXT record, if you have

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 11, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Joe Touch wrote: We've been discussing this in the Transport area lately. DNS SRVs are defined in RFC 2782 as I have described. Additional info is passed in TXT

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:32 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: Keith == Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com writes: Keith 2) This will not do any good Keith IMO, that is a valid objection. Stability in our process is Keith desirable; therefore change merely for the sake of change

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 10:57 AM, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/11/2011 11:32 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 2:09 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Joe Touch wrote: We've been discussing this in the Transport area lately

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
I think at this point we're just talking past each other, but I simply disagree with your assertion that RFC 2782 should be taken as a prohibition on using SRV RRs in any way other than defined in RFC 2782. My bigger concern is why you insist on wanting to play in the SRV sandbox and

Re: [nfsv4] TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Joe Touch wrote: The issue is that if this document wants to go outside the spec, *it* needs to update RFC2782 - and survive the discussion that will incur. Well, in a pedantic sense I'm sure that's true. But it doesn't need to update RFC2782 as it pertains to

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/12/2011 11:41 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I think at this point we're just talking past each other, but I simply disagree with your assertion that RFC 2782 should be taken as a prohibition on using SRV RRs in any way other than defined in RFC

Re: [nfsv4] TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/12/2011 11:46 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 2:31 PM, Joe Touch wrote: The issue is that if this document wants to go outside the spec, *it* needs to update RFC2782 - and survive the discussion that will incur. Well

Re: [nfsv4] TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:23 PM, Nico Williams wrote: On Mon, Sep 12, 2011 at 3:15 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Joe Touch wrote: I think RFC 2782 inappropriately specified SRV RRs by defining both the label syntax and the RDATA syntax

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:22 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/12/2011 1:15 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 12, 2011, at 3:50 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 9/12/2011 11:41 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I think at this point we're just talking past each other, but I simply disagree with your assertion that RFC 2782

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 4:57 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Most RRs tie some set of data to a domain name which is historically a host name, though in recent years it's become a somewhat more nebulous concept (e.g. a collection of services, or in the case of MX records a collection of recipient

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 6:23 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Again I'm confused. You claim there's a clear need to revise SRV syntax, but not the registry that basically defines that syntax? I don't claim that there's a clear need to revise the syntax of the RDATA. I claim that the syntax defined in

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-12 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 12, 2011, at 7:06 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Given that I think service location is almost inherently application-specific anyway, that solution is also fine with me. I don't know what value is added by SRV, other than confusion. SRV indicates the port number (useful if not the default)

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Moore
I've always thought that insistence on the use of RFC 2782 labels with SRV records unreasonably overconstrained the use of SRV records; and thus, limited their applicability. Part of the problem, I suspect, is that at the time that 2782 was being drafted there may have been some belief that

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-nfsv4-federated-dns-srv-namespace

2011-09-11 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 11, 2011, at 4:46 PM, Joe Touch wrote: We've been discussing this in the Transport area lately. DNS SRVs are defined in RFC 2782 as I have described. Additional info is passed in TXT records for current DNS SRVs. I.e. what I have proposed is what is both current spec and current

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-10 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 10, 2011, at 10:44 AM, Russ Housley wrote: That said, at the plenary at IETF 81, Harald suggested that we have waited so long that incremental improvements may not be the right approach, rather it was time for 2026bis. I agree that it is needed, but I am not sure the IETF community

Re: Conclusions on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-10 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 10, 2011, at 11:47 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: In the current case, it's been particularly impressive to see criticisms against the proposal because it does not solve problems it is not trying to solve and because other problems are deemed higher priority. Nevermind whether the

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-10 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 10, 2011, at 4:11 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: I do not think the following types of comments should be considered as objections when judging this sort of consensus: 1) You are not solving the most important problem I don't think that was anybody's objection. Rather, the objection were

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-07 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 7, 2011, at 10:17 AM, Ned Freed wrote: Face it, we've effectively had a one-step process pretty much ever since 2026 was approved. For the most part, the documents that have advanced have been those that were buggy enough to need to be fixed, but not so buggy that they had to recycle

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-06 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 6, 2011, at 12:11 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Tue, Sep 06, 2011 at 11:38:14AM -0400, Ross Callon wrote: I haven't heard anyone currently on the IESG say that the two step process would require higher more rigorous document reviews. That particular refusal to recognize part

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-06 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 6, 2011, at 2:26 PM, Ned Freed wrote: I find it impossible to believe that this will not result in even more hard-line positions on the part of some IESG members when something with which they disagree is a candidate for PS. I see no way in which the draft solves this problem, which

Re: Who raised the bar? [Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels]

2011-09-06 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 6, 2011, at 6:01 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-09-07 09:35, Ted Hardie wrote: ... My personal opinion for some time has been that we ought to recognize that the previous PS moved into WG draft years ago and that anything named an RFC should be recognized as something that

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-06 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 6, 2011, at 5:35 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: The document doesn't actually say out loud there that the requirements for Proposed Standard have been considerably increased by IESG practice over the years, nor does it charge subsequent IESGs to return to a faithful reading of the actual

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-06 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:33 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: but it means we are changing out a standard that doesn't accurately reflect what we do now for one that doesn't accurately reflect what we will do. Yup. And IMO we're better off with the old incorrect statement than a new one. At least with

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-06 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 6, 2011, at 7:48 PM, Fred Baker wrote: I wonder if we would be better off discarding the concept of layers of standards, call PS Standards track, and instead specify a way to report interoperability tests. +1. Perhaps along with periodically updated applicability statements.

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Keith Moore
Honestly, the thing that is the most broken about this draft is the idea that there's something wrong with our process because few drafts make it to full standard, so the solution is to short-circuit the process. The transition from Draft to Full Standard is the least of the problems with our

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:29 PM, Ross Callon wrote: Two things that I don't seem to have picked up on: (i) Any consensus that a 3 step process is better than a 2 step process; (ii) Any hint of moving towards an agreement on other things that we might do to improve the process. (iii) Any

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 2, 2011, at 5:36 PM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: In looking through this discussion, I see: - People saying that moving from 3 steps to 2 steps is a small step in the right direction, lets do it. Many people who have said this (including I) have been silent for a while quite

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Keith Moore
think two levels are enough. Jari On 03.09.2011 00:34, Keith Moore wrote: (iii) Any consensus that a 2 step process is better than a 3 step process. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 2, 2011, at 7:07 PM, Ned Freed wrote: As far as our process is concerned, the question is, do we have rough consensus to accept it? I think it's dubious that we have such consensus, and apparently so do others. Simply put, I've watched the responses to this fairly closely, and I

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-01 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 1, 2011, at 2:58 AM, Hector wrote: 6. Guidance in the use of these Imperatives Imperatives of the type defined in this memo must be used with care and sparingly. In particular, they MUST only be used where it is actually required for interoperation or to limit behavior which

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:31 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, August 30, 2011 14:51 -0700 Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: What's also not fair game is to raise the bar - to expect the document at DS to meet more stringent criteria than it was required to meet at the time of PS

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 2:36 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Keith, thank you for the feedback. Some responses inline: 1. Fix the broken IESG voting system before you try to establish more decision criteria. I do agree with your general thinking here. The way that you describe the different

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 4:34 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Eric, John, Would having professional editors make a difference here? I know it is controversial, but there is at least one other area in which we should be raising the bar for DS/IS by dropping the bar for Proposed. If we really want to

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Hector wrote: In my view, SHOULD are user protocol options to set. In my view, SHOULD should rarely be used for optional protocol features, because optional protocol features should themselves be rare. And the primary purpose of SHOULD is not to permit optional

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:12 AM, Hector wrote: Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 8:30 AM, Hector wrote: In my view, SHOULD are user protocol options to set. In my view, SHOULD should rarely be used for optional protocol features, because optional protocol features should themselves

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:03 AM, Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: On the other hand, given the current SHOULD definition in RFC2119, I'm at a loss to understand how one could reasonably come to other than the second interpretation you give here. It's fairly explicit to me. The simplest explanation

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:57 AM, hector wrote: SHOULD is IMO most often useful not when specifying how a protocol acts on the wire, but when specifying how a protocol needs to be implemented on a particular platform, where the precise semantics, API details, etc. naturally differ from one

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 10:42 AM, John C Klensin wrote: We ought to, IMO, be permitting publication of PS documents at the second level as long as there are no _obvious_ ambiguities that cannot be figured out (the same way) by people of good will acting in good faith and with help from WG lists

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
thanks Spencer for pointing this part out. On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: IESG reviews should be considered as a review of last resort. Most documents reviewed by the IESG are produced and reviewed in the context of IETF working groups. In those cases, the IESG

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:36 AM, John C Klensin wrote: We ought to, IMO, be permitting publication of PS documents at the second level as long as there are no _obvious_ ambiguities that cannot be figured out (the same way) by people of good will acting in good faith and with help from WG lists

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
or maybe just file an erratum. I think it's fairly obvious that any document that actually uses NOT RECOMMENDED should define what it means, if it expects those words to have any meaning other than the ordinary English meaning of those words (with or without capitalization). I've seen

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 11:55 AM, Hector wrote: Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 31, 2011, at 9:57 AM, hector wrote: Yeah, but its also very very useful to offering what parts of a protocol are on and off and let operators decide what they want. Don't we already do this? yes, it is done to some

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 12:19 PM, John C Klensin wrote: we either ought to be identifying real problems and fixing them or just staying with what we have until we have the knowledge and will needed to make real changes. That would certainly be my preference. Keith

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:07 PM, Hector wrote: Murray S. Kucherawy wrote: The only difference between SHOULD and MAY is that the implementor / deployer needs a good excuse to not implement / employ a SHOULD. That's not the same as IGNORE. But that's a big difference. I think some people are

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 31, 2011, at 3:44 PM, Hector wrote: I'm having a hard time understanding why you continue to work on the basis that people fail to read essentially implying stupidity in the process. I work on the basis of fail to read because I've seen countless examples of it. And stupidity is not

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
and end-to-end principles, and then building your complex protocols out of them? On Aug 29, 2011, at 11:11 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Eric Burger wrote: I would offer that ANY construction of SHOULD without an UNLESS is a MAY. The essential beauty of SHOULD

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:24 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I support adding the SHOULD ... UNLESS formalism (although maybe it should be MUST... UNLESS). It would be useful as there will be times where the UNLESS can be specified and has been given due consideration at the time of writing. That,

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Eric Burger wrote: Every SHOULD/MAY results in at least one if statement, to test the presence or absence of the feature in the remote end. false. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:13 AM, Eric Burger wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 9:56 AM, Eric Burger wrote: Every SHOULD/MAY results in at least one if statement, to test the presence or absence of the feature in the remote end. false

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 06:54 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I think you're overgeneralizing. My experience is that judicious use of SHOULD seems to make both protocols and protocol specifications simpler

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 07:35 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:14 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 06:54 AM, Keith Moore

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:38 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 07:58 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 10:54 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 08/30/2011 07:35 AM, Keith

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
the crutch, will help alleviate the root cause. On Aug 30, 2011, at 11:44 AM, Keith Moore wrote: e.g. For the specific case of optional features that must be negotiated, I don't think that SHOULD is the problem. Rather I think that optional features are too common. That's not to say that optional

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:06 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: The meaning of SHOULD is clear for the authors (it mean[s] that there may exist valid reasons in particular circumstances to ignore a particular item, but the full implications must be understood and carefully weighed before choosing a

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:07 PM, Bill McQuillan wrote: On Tue, 2011-08-30, Keith Moore wrote: But in general I get the impression that people are attacking SHOULD because of specific problems rather than general problems. Since I find SHOULD very useful, to me it makes more sense to try

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 12:46 PM, Eric Burger wrote: Can you give an example of where a dangling SHOULD makes sense? Most often I see something like: SHOULD implement security meaning SHOULD implement security, unless you do not feel like it or are in an authoritarian regime that

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 1:11 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: Umm, wait. I'm confused. The boilerplate in existing documents points to 2119, right? and the updated boilerplate would point to this spec, if approved, right? so we're not retroactively changing the meaning of anything, right? What

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:02 PM, Eric Burger wrote: Note the language MUST implement, SHOULD use is a common compromise. ^^^ This is my heartache. Why is it a compromise? Most use of SHOULD I run into in WG's is either this precise one:

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:49 PM, Adam Roach wrote: Does SHOULD get abused by some authors in some documents? Of course it does. But your crusade to throw out a useful tool just because it has been misused on occasion is an extreme over-reaction. I like this tool. I use this tool. If you see

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
There's something inherently wrong with trying to establish criteria for voting DISCUSS. My understanding was always that DISCUSS was supposed to be an indication that, at a minimum, the AD needs to understand the situation better before casting a yea or nay vote. The resolution of a

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 30, 2011, at 5:51 PM, Fred Baker wrote: On Aug 30, 2011, at 2:17 PM, Keith Moore wrote: My understanding was always that DISCUSS was supposed to be an indication that, at a minimum, the AD needs to understand the situation better before casting a yea or nay vote. The resolution

Re: voting system for future venues?

2011-08-29 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:40 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Obviously the date needs to be fixed at some point, but does it really have to be six years in advance? ( http://www.ietf.org/meeting/upcoming.html ) I've been wondering the same thing. Would it be reasonable to specify ballpark

Re: authenticated archives, was https

2011-08-29 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 27, 2011, at 7:30 PM, Hector Santos wrote: Keith Moore wrote: On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:31 AM, John Levine wrote: TLS for session privacy is nice, but I find negligible value in a little lock icon in my browser that means only that one of the several dozen cert issuers configured into my

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-29 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 29, 2011, at 9:12 PM, Randy Presuhn wrote: RFC 2119 SHOULD is appropriate when the UNLESS cases are known (or suspected) to exist, but it is not practical to exhaustively identify them all. +1. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-29 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 29, 2011, at 10:44 PM, Eric Burger wrote: I would offer that ANY construction of SHOULD without an UNLESS is a MAY. The essential beauty of SHOULD is that it gets specification writers and working groups out of the all-too-common rathole of trying to anticipate and nail down every

Re: Hyatt Taipei cancellation policy?

2011-08-28 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 28, 2011, at 2:35 AM, Glen Zorn wrote: I'm familiar with the refrigerator full of caffeinated sugar water, even the occasional tray of treats or keg of beer, but cookies (often 2 or 3 varieties)/brownies (ditto), fresh fruit, crudites dip, twice a day? Wow, I've really been working

Re: authenticated archives, was https

2011-08-27 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 27, 2011, at 10:31 AM, John Levine wrote: TLS for session privacy is nice, but I find negligible value in a little lock icon in my browser that means only that one of the several dozen cert issuers configured into my browser, most of whom I've never heard of, and many of whom aren't

Re: Routing at the Edges of the Internet

2011-08-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 26, 2011, at 12:03 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 11:04, Worley, Dale R (Dale) dwor...@avaya.com wrote: There must be at least a few hundred million mobile phones with data capability, and a similar number of homes and small businesses with WiFi systems. So we can

Re: https

2011-08-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 26, 2011, at 3:22 PM, Adam Novak wrote: On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:12 PM, Ned Freed ned.fr...@mrochek.com wrote: It ensures that what you're getting is the same as what the IETF has on file, No, it really doesn't do that. There can be, and usually are, a lot of steps involves besides

Re: voting system for future venues?

2011-08-25 Thread Keith Moore
On Aug 25, 2011, at 2:13 AM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: On 24/08/2011 23:12, Keith Moore wrote: Maybe there needs to be some sort of voting system for future venues. First of all, remember that the community asked for venue selections 2 to 3 years in advance. I don't think that many people can

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