Re: Appeal Response to [removed] regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats

2013-07-03 Thread Michael StJohns
Before we go down this rathole too far again - 1) If you want to second guess the working group, AD and IESG, then the best approach is to probably review the bidding by reading the emails on the working group list and then forming an opinion based on that record. I have and I'm pretty

Re: Comments For I-D: draft-moonesamy-nomcom-eligibility-00 (was Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility)

2013-06-29 Thread Michael StJohns
The shortest ietf email was sent at least 20 years ago, consisted of a single ! as the body. Of course the subject went on for two lines. I forget what the subject was. Mike Sent from my iPad On Jun 29, 2013, at 15:43, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 06/29/2013 05:28 AM, Noel

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Michael StJohns
At 09:42 AM 6/27/2013, Eliot Lear wrote: On 6/27/13 3:34 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Why not just say directly that 'to prevent capture, no more than X% of the NomCom may work for a single organization' (where X is 15% or so, so that even if a couple collude, they still can't get control). It's

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:13 AM 6/27/2013, Scott Brim wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 11:07 AM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: Once scenario for this - both benign intentions and non-benign - is that a company instead of sending one person to all the meetings starts rotating the opportunity to attend

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Michael StJohns
At 09:51 AM 6/27/2013, David Meyer wrote: On Thu, Jun 27, 2013 at 6:42 AM, Eliot Lear l...@cisco.com wrote: On 6/27/13 3:34 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Why not just say directly that 'to prevent capture, no more than X% of the NomCom may work for a single organization' (where X is 15% or so, so

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:38 PM 4/29/2013, Ted Lemon wrote: On Apr 29, 2013, at 1:08 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: If raising awareness and sensitivity isn't enough to get people to think about and make decisions differently Statistical analysis shows that even when peoples' awareness is raised,

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:34 AM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: On 4/28/2013 9:05 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: Let's consider for a moment that this may not actually be the correct question. Instead, consider Why the diversity of the IETF leadership doesn't reflect the diversity of the set of the IETF WG chairs? I

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:57 AM 4/29/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: including such things as interaction (in)sensitivities, group tone and style, and observable misbehaviors, all of which are likely to produce biasing results. But in which direction? The same thing could be said of pushing personal or cultural biases

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 12:51 PM 4/29/2013, Melinda Shore wrote: On 4/29/13 1:11 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: The other thing to remember is that whilst your proportional estimates are likely to be correct, in a random process you will get long runs of bias that only average out in the long run. Right, although if

How does the IETF evolve to continue to be an effective, efficient, and relevant source of high quality Internet standards? Was: Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 03:30 PM 4/29/2013, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Mike, On Apr 29, 2013, at 3:15 PM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: We have an IETF culture - like it or not. It changes over time, as the population changes. We can't and shouldn't expect to be able to change it by fiat

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-28 Thread Michael StJohns
At 08:53 PM 4/28/2013, Margaret Wasserman wrote: The question that people are asking is why the diversity of the IETF leadership doesn't reflect the diversity of _the IETF_. Let's consider for a moment that this may not actually be the correct question. Instead, consider Why the diversity

Re: last call comments for draft-ietf-6man-stable-privacy-addresses-06

2013-04-22 Thread Michael StJohns
At 09:56 AM 4/22/2013, Sam Hartman wrote: RJ == RJ Atkinson rja.li...@gmail.com writes: RJ I oppose Eliot's proposed edits on grounds that they would RJ reduce the clarity of the specification and also would reduce RJ IETF and WG consensus about this specification. Ran, I just

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-18 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:43 AM 4/18/2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Indeed. Ideally, though, we need a statistician to look at the historical ratios (e.g. M/F ratios) in the attendee lists vs the I* membership, to see whether there is a statistically significant bias in the selection process over the years. Brian

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-13 Thread Michael StJohns
At 12:15 PM 4/13/2013, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, April 12, 2013 23:37 -0400 Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com wrote: The only lesson I really learned from that experience is that it is incredibly hard for women[1] to be treated as adult colleagues in an environment that acts

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:11 AM 4/11/2013, Ray Pelletier wrote: All The IETF is concerned about diversity. As good engineers, we would like to attempt to measure diversity while working on addressing and increasing it. To that end, we are considering adding some possibly sensitive questions to the registration

Re: Appointment of Scott Mansfield as new IETF Liaison Manager to the ITU-T

2013-03-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 10:02 AM 3/28/2013, John C Klensin wrote: For me, it seems especially odd when compared to the liaison position to the ICANN Board. Both are very important to the IETF community. Both involve organizations with which the IETF has a complicated and multidimensional relationship. Both

Re: Appointment of Scott Mansfield as new IETF Liaison Manager to the ITU-T

2013-03-29 Thread Michael StJohns
At 01:14 AM 3/29/2013, David Kessens wrote: Mike, On Thu, Mar 28, 2013 at 09:03:25PM -0400, Michael StJohns wrote: The process for selecting and appointing liaisons is the purview of the IAB and not currently subject to external review - and I don't find any problem with that. I fully agree

Re: Appointment of Scott Mansfield as new IETF Liaison Manager to the ITU-T

2013-03-28 Thread Michael StJohns
The IETF and various members occasionally break out in back seat driver's syndrome. It's disappointing. We need to remember that we are organized more as a republic than a democracy. We select various folks through the Nomcom process to make decisions on various things. E.g.. the IESG for

Re: Getting rid of the dot (was: Mentoring)

2013-03-19 Thread Michael StJohns
At 10:08 AM 3/19/2013, Jeffrey Haas wrote: On Tue, Mar 19, 2013 at 08:22:46AM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: Jeffrey == Jeffrey Haas jh...@pfrc.org writes: Jeffrey Such an exercise would probably generate a lot less Jeffrey controversy than my unsanctioned badge experiment.

Re: Consensus on the responsibility for qualifications? (Was: Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications)

2013-03-13 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:27 PM 3/13/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: So I suggest: 2. The nominating committee selects candidates based on its determination of the requirements for the job, synthesized from the desires expressed by the IAB, IESG or IAOC (as appropriate), desires express by

Re: Consensus on the responsibility for qualifications? (Was: Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications)

2013-03-13 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:57 PM 3/13/2013, Scott Brim wrote: On 03/13/13 14:51, Michael StJohns allegedly wrote: At 02:27 PM 3/13/2013, Dave Crocker wrote: So I suggest: 2. The nominating committee selects candidates based on its determination of the requirements for the job, synthesized

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-12 Thread Michael StJohns
At 07:56 AM 3/12/2013, Dan Harkins wrote: While these studies are interesting and thought provoking, I think it is wrong, and very dangerous, to use these studies to justify blanket statements about intelligence, group or otherwise. I'm laughing a bit about this thread. For example, there's also

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-12 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:19 AM 3/12/2013, Mary Barnes wrote: On Tue, Mar 12, 2013 at 10:00 AM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: At 07:56 AM 3/12/2013, Dan Harkins wrote: While these studies are interesting and thought provoking, I think it is wrong, and very dangerous, to use these studies to justify

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-11 Thread Michael StJohns
I'm not sure I have enough data to evaluate the comments in this letter. I don't disagree with the general goal diversity is good. I do believe that the proposed actions are not realistic in that they would tend to make the Nomcom process even more moribund. I will note that Appendix A

RE: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications

2013-03-08 Thread Michael StJohns
work with out much additional benefit. Mike -- Eric From: Michael StJohns [mailto:mstjo...@comcast.net] Sent: Thursday, March 07, 2013 7:06 PM To: Eric Gray; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications Importance: High At 05:27 PM 3/7/2013, Eric Gray wrote

RE: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications

2013-03-08 Thread Michael StJohns
in choosing the leadership of the IETF. Rather than defining precise rules for how to define affiliation, the IETF community depends on the honor and integrity of the participants to make the process work. From: Michael StJohns [mailto:mstjo...@comcast.net] Sent: Friday

Re: What anyone can read about recent Nomcoms

2013-03-08 Thread Michael StJohns
In addition, check the plenary section of the proceedings for each March meeting since about 2004. There are at least a few slides Bout the NOMCOM and sometimes process issues. Mike Sent from my iPad On Mar 8, 2013, at 17:23, Spencer Dawkins spen...@wonderhamster.org wrote: I posted a

RE: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications

2013-03-07 Thread Michael StJohns
At 05:27 PM 3/7/2013, Eric Gray wrote: In addition to trying to guess what the talent-set requirement is for a complete slate, the NomCom also has to try to figure out balance on a lot of different dimensions. Company-mix, representation by regions, extra skills and/or tools each AD might bring

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Michael StJohns
At 08:50 AM 3/6/2013, Jari Arkko wrote: I didn't want to imply that we necessarily couple the actions we take. I agree of course that right now we have an issue to solve. I agree that we should do whatever to complete the current process, and that waiting for a reorganisation would be a bad

Re: IETF Challenges

2013-03-03 Thread Michael StJohns
At 07:38 AM 3/3/2013, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: Under the IETF role it is very easy of WG chairs to ignore minority participants of large communities. I've come to the conclusion - possibly wrong - that you're lacking some basic understanding in the operational model of the IETF. Unlike most

Re: The RFC Acknowledgement

2013-02-10 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:04 PM 2/8/2013, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: The problem is that most people don't complain or don't like to complain, that is reality, they will leave such society easily. Are we talking about the same IETF? Seriously, this group as a whole does not tend to shy away from making their issues

Re: [IETF] Re: Recall petition for Mr. Marshall Eubanks

2012-11-01 Thread Michael StJohns
Per Olafur's email, I submitted my signature directly to him, along with my Nomcom eligibility status. I'm sure other's did as well, so you shouldn't take the absence of emails on this list as lack of support for the proposal. Mike At 06:25 AM 11/1/2012, Turchanyi Geza wrote: Hello, I am

I* Member Removal Process

2012-11-01 Thread Michael StJohns
using the same random selection process and same constraints on number members from the same organization/company. Also, stick the current nomcom PAST chair as the recall chair. Mike Russ On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:22 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: At 06:01 PM 11/1/2012, Bob Hinden wrote: While

Re: [RFC 3777 Update for Vacancies]

2012-10-26 Thread Michael StJohns
I've read the draft. I think its the wrong approach, mainly because its focusing on the current problem rather than a new mechanism. In general, I know of 5 ways an elected or appointed position may become vacant: resignation, death, incapacity, recall or expulsion. We currently have

Re: [RFC 3777 Update for Vacancies]

2012-10-26 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:02 AM 10/26/2012, Eliot Lear wrote: On 10/26/12 4:29 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: I'm using expulsion here the way its used in the US political system - a legislative body may choose to expel one of its members for various reasons. I propose that we define such a mechanism

Re: [RFC 3777 Update for Vacancies]

2012-10-26 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:39 AM 10/26/2012, John C Klensin wrote: In principle, I have no problem with setting up a list of repeated/ long-term non-feasance, non-appearance, or non-responsiveness conditions that are treated as equivalent to a more formal resignation unless the body of which that person is a member

Re: don't overthink, was Just so I'm clear

2012-10-25 Thread Michael StJohns
At 08:53 AM 10/25/2012, Noel Chiappa wrote: We're all agreed that the IETF in plenary mode (i.e. all of us) can change any/all policy/procedures, right? Actually, that's my point here. Once upon a time, we did everything by group hum. Then we became a standards body with formal procedures and

Re: Just so I'm clear

2012-10-25 Thread Michael StJohns
At 03:46 AM 10/25/2012, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 24/10/2012 20:34, Doug Barton wrote: ... ... Nothing in the text suggests an unfettered right of creating new definitions of vacant. You mean, new compared to the first definition in Merriam-Webster.com? 1: not occupied by an incumbent,

Re: Just so I'm clear

2012-10-25 Thread Michael StJohns
At 05:08 PM 10/25/2012, Melinda Shore wrote: don't think that these are in any way analogous, since in each case that you mentioned the individual who left was either incapacitated or had pre-arranged an absence. If someone simply disappeared from work without notice or comment I expect it would

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-10-23 Thread Michael StJohns
Wait just one minute. Marshal has neither resigned nor died (both of which would vacate the position). He apparently *has* abrogated his responsibilities. I'm not sure why the IAOC thinks that the recall procedure shouldn't be followed. Get a petition signed. Run a 1 week call for

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-10-23 Thread Michael StJohns
petition, and requesting Marshall's views on the matter. It may not get any response which is a good datum in and of itself. Later, Mike At 02:42 PM 10/23/2012, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net The IAOC is requesting feedback from the community concerning

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-10-23 Thread Michael StJohns
At 05:55 PM 10/23/2012, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Oct 23, 2012, at 10:16 AM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: Wait just one minute. Marshal has neither resigned nor died (both of which would vacate the position). I don't see anything in BCP 10 that says those are the only

Re: Just so I'm clear

2012-10-23 Thread Michael StJohns
Yes but - The process you refer to deals with temporary incapacity where the office holder might not want to go away for a while. And even then there's a process and a defined group of people who run that process. (cf 25th amendment). I agree with you that removing him would be the

Re: New Version Notification for draft-leiba-3777upd-eligibility-01.txt

2012-08-18 Thread Michael StJohns
Below At 07:44 PM 8/17/2012, Michael StJohns wrote: Read section 10, 3rd paragraph of RFC3777. The prior year's Chair may select a designee from a pool composed of the voting volunteers of the prior year's committee and all prior Chairs if the Chair is unavailable

Re: New Version Notification for draft-leiba-3777upd-eligibility-01.txt

2012-08-17 Thread Michael StJohns
The advisor is the Immediately previous chair, or a member of the previous noncom designated by that chair if he/she declines to serve or is otherwise unavailable. Sent from my iPad On Aug 17, 2012, at 12:09, John C Klensin j...@jck.com wrote: --On Friday, August 17, 2012 10:05 -0400

Re: New Version Notification for draft-leiba-3777upd-eligibility-01.txt

2012-08-17 Thread Michael StJohns
iPad On Aug 17, 2012, at 15:36, John C Klensin j...@jck.com wrote: --On Friday, August 17, 2012 15:30 -0400 Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: The advisor is the Immediately previous chair, or a member of the previous noncom designated by that chair if he/she declines to serve

Re: Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-12 Thread Michael StJohns
Glen and others - I wanted to go back and comment on the assertion that Glen made that the IETF and IAB chairs do not 'represent' [him] or any one other than themselves. I believe he is correct with respect to himself, and incorrect with respect to the IETF. I agree the IETF is not a

Re: NomCom 2012-2013: Third Call for Volunteers

2012-08-01 Thread Michael StJohns
I reported both when I volunteered. Sent from my iPad On Aug 1, 2012, at 22:10, Yoshihiro Ohba yoshihiro.o...@toshiba.co.jp wrote: What is the exact definition of affiliation in IETF? If a consultant who runs his/her own consulting company X is paid by his/her customer company Y for

Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

2012-04-24 Thread Michael StJohns
At 10:30 AM 4/24/2012, David Morris wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2012, Dave Crocker wrote: However as much as I appreciate the benefits of privacy and the detriments of eroding it, I think there is an odd conceptual confusion taking place here: This is an entirely public event. It makes no sense to

Re: primary Paris hotel booking

2012-01-03 Thread Michael StJohns
The pre-pay is pretty annoying. And the if you cancel too late, we'll take all your money *really* annoys me. So much so that I booked on-line, direct with the hotel at a higher rate for a nicer room, but still better than the rate for the alternate hotel. And no-prepay and cancel by 4pm the

Re: Last Calls: [SOME RFCs] to HISTORIC RFCs

2011-10-29 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Andy - As I said elsewhere - it seems silly to move a superseded document to Historic when you don't move the Standard to Historic. In the case of three of these RFCs, the new entry will read Obsoleted by Status: Historic. If I happen to read that entry and not notice the Obsoleted

Re: Last Calls: [SOME RFCs] to HISTORIC RFCs

2011-10-27 Thread Michael StJohns
I would suggest that the pre-IETF RFCs that weren't adopted as Internet standards (I.e. the first four you listed) are not properly the purview of the IETF for the purpose of declaring them historical. For the other three - a quick check indicates these were properly superseded as you note.

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-22 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Bob - I actually think that delegating this to a co-chair or executive vice chair would work. The similar military model is commander/executive officer where the commander (chair) is responsible for strategic thinking and the XO (co-chair) is responsible for tactical execution. Also the

Re: A or B [was Trust membership]

2011-09-21 Thread Michael StJohns
The INARC - Internet Architecture Task Force and the IAB were never the same thing. The INARC was what was left of the Gateway Algorithms and Data Structures group after the IETF (actually the INENG at the time) was created halfway through the GADS meeting. Both GADS and INARC were chaired

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-21 Thread Michael StJohns
I've been watching this with interest. I'm especially in agreement with Leslie's comments about chair load. Because of the legal issues with respect to the IETF trust and the implementing documents for the IAOC, its going to be pretty difficult to come up with a way to remove some of the

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-01 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Dave - Mostly I think 2119 works well. But there are some interesting places where I believe it doesn't and the interpretation of SHOULD is smack dab in the middle of those places. There are at least two different classes of things where SHOULD can be applied: behavior and feature.

Hyatt Taipei cancellation policy?

2011-08-22 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi folks - I just reserved with the hotel and was quite surprised at the cancellation policy. Could you please confirm - Cancel before 1 Nov - no charge, 1-7 Nov 1 night, after 7 Nov full amount? Seriously? This is extreme. I can understand a 1 day fee up to the date of the reservation and

Re: Hyatt Taipei cancellation policy?

2011-08-22 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Ray - See below At 08:15 PM 8/22/2011, Ray Pelletier wrote: On Aug 22, 2011, at 3:17 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: Hi folks - I just reserved with the hotel and was quite surprised at the cancellation policy. Could you please confirm - Cancel before 1 Nov - no charge, 1-7 Nov 1

Re: Hyatt Taipei cancellation policy?

2011-08-22 Thread Michael StJohns
At 08:30 PM 8/22/2011, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Guest Substitution: Guests may substitute names for reserved rooms without penalty up to the event. This sounds like a good use of the Attendees list. Anyone with reservations who can't come should publicize it - I am sure that there will be

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

2011-06-23 Thread Michael StJohns
- do not be specific - see section 11 of the same RFC Scott On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: At 11:42 AM 6/22/2011, Scott Brim wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:11, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: A quick couple of questions to the list based on a document I saw

External IPR Disclosures vs IPR disclosures in the document.

2011-06-22 Thread Michael StJohns
A quick couple of questions to the list based on a document I saw recently. If a document (an ID in this case) contains encumbered material (in this case consists of 90%+ encumbered material), and the document is authored by the organization (or members of the organization) that holds the

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

2011-06-22 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:42 AM 6/22/2011, Scott Brim wrote: On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:11, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: A quick couple of questions to the list based on a document I saw recently. If a document (an ID in this case) contains encumbered material (in this case consists of 90

Re: Getting to Quebec City

2011-06-18 Thread Michael StJohns
Why didn't you fly ORD-YQB? There's a 7pm flight that gets in around 10:23. It had to be cheaper than a hotel and train ride. Mike At 12:20 PM 6/18/2011, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Here is what I am doing: * Fly SFO-ORD and ORD-YUL, gets me to Montreal at 21:14 * Spend the night at the Hilton

Re: XKCD - Nanobots

2011-02-28 Thread Michael StJohns
At 04:45 AM 2/28/2011, Bob Hinden wrote: Yoav, Yes, but I think the nanobots are supposed to devour the entire earth, so it's volume that counts. The volume is about 1x10^21 m^3. So 40% is 4 x 10^20 m^3. But they start from the outside and eat down. This causes the surface area to

Re: Poster sessions

2011-01-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Fred said: Personally, call me stuck-in-the-mud, but this isn't an academic conference in which grad students are advertising for a professor that might be interested in mentoring them or a sponsor might fund their research. Ted said: But you have to bring your own engineering talent. It's

Re: Last Call: draft-cheshire-dnsext-dns-sd-07.txt

2010-11-21 Thread Michael StJohns
At 07:51 AM 11/18/2010, RJ Atkinson wrote: IESG Folks, The IETF already has taken MUCH MUCH too long handling this document. Each time this I-D gets revised, new and different issues are raised. While I am generally OK with the way IETF processes work, this document is an exception.

Re: [79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-12 Thread Michael StJohns
At 11:19 PM 11/11/2010, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Mike, (Why doesn't your email client display your name by the way?) Because It sent it via the annoying Comcast web client. I know you asked the question of Ray, but: Thanks for answering a question I didn't ask. And editing my email to remove the

Re: Document Action: 'ANSI C12.22, IEEE 1703 and MC12.22 TransportOver IP' to Informational RFC

2010-10-27 Thread Michael StJohns
Standards and the manner in which they are implemented. Avygdor Moise - Original Message - From: Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net To: Ralph Droms rdroms.i...@gmail.com; Avygdor Moise a...@fdos.ca Cc: Ralph Droms rdroms.i...@gmail.com; Jonathan Brodkin jonathan.brod...@fdos.ca; IETF

Re: Document Action: 'ANSI C12.22, IEEE 1703 and MC12.22 Transport Over IP' to Informational RFC

2010-10-26 Thread Michael StJohns
to the problem and as a possible starting point for a discussion on a creation of an IETF standard Context. Mike At 05:48 AM 10/26/2010, Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos wrote: On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Michael StJohns mstjo...@comcast.net wrote: Hi - I'm confused about this approval. As I read

RE: Document Action: 'ANSI C12.22, IEEE 1703 and MC12.22 TransportOver IP' to Informational RFC

2010-10-26 Thread Michael StJohns
] On Behalf Of ext Nikos Mavrogiannopoulos Sent: Tuesday, October 26, 2010 11:49 AM To: Michael StJohns Cc: i...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Document Action: 'ANSI C12.22, IEEE 1703 and MC12.22 TransportOver IP' to Informational RFC On Mon, Oct 25, 2010 at 7:39 PM, Michael StJohns mstjo

Re: Document Action: 'ANSI C12.22, IEEE 1703 and MC12.22 TransportOver IP' to Informational RFC

2010-10-26 Thread Michael StJohns
contributed to the making of this RFC. ANSI, NEMA, NIST, SGIP, MC, IEEE, IETF, AEIC and EEI are fully aware of this effort and this RFC. The work was carried in plain view. Avygdor Moise - Original Message - From: Michael StJohns To: Avygdor Moise Cc: ietf@ietf.org ; IESG IESG

Re: Document Action: 'ANSI C12.22, IEEE 1703 and MC12.22 Transport Over IP' to Informational RFC

2010-10-25 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi - I'm confused about this approval. As I read the draft and the approval comments, this document is an independent submission describing how to do C12.22 over IP. But the document is without context for who does this typical to an informational RFC. Is this a) A document describing how

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-13 Thread Michael StJohns
Heh... The TOS field was designed to mimic the DOD's message preemption scheme - lower priority messages were only sent if there were no higher priority messages waiting (a message in this case being more like an email than a packet). Routine, Priority, Operational Immediate, Flash and Flash

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

2010-09-07 Thread Michael StJohns
Dave and I don't always agree :-) I don't think we've got either the database of people not attending because of costs nor a good model for factoring them in if we did (e.g. N pnac's times some percentage who would still not attend because of other issues times some percentage where the

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-09-01 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Marshall - A method that works for any ratio using running totals: Let NAp, Ep, Ap be the value of each regions part of the ratio (e.g. NAp = 1.7 for a 1.7:1:1) Set NAt(0), Et(0), At(0) = 0 Set NAs= NAp/(NAp+Ep + Ap) (basically the decimal version of the ratio), repeat for Es and As

Re: Meeting Venue Preference Survey

2010-08-27 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Ray - I started to take this survey then bounced out of it on the second page. This comes under the heading of bad survey design. I object to the way gateway/secondary cities are defined here and specifically equating Maastricht with Minneapolis seems somewhat stacking the deck. What I'm

Re: Finding a patent

2010-08-17 Thread Michael StJohns
This is an application number for a patent application filed between 93 and 97 (that's what the 08 at the beginning indicates). The USPTO doesn't keep these online prior to 2001 as near as I can tell, but Google has a patent which points to the resultant patent and application. US 5874938

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Marshall - I would suggest that given you've chosen the location based on the assumption that Bob's 1/1/1 model is most correct and that its possible that a review of the data relative to more persistent attendees or more active attendees may suggest a different model, that you toll closing

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Bob - A hallway conversation is NOT by default an IETF Session or even an IETF Activity in any way, shape or form and to be clear, it's unclear whether or not even a Bar BOF as semi-formal as it is should be considered an IETF Session. If we go more targeted to the definition -

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Michael StJohns
At 12:35 PM 8/11/2010, Bob Hinden wrote: While I can't speak for Marshall, I think he was pointing out that the IAD sent out proposed dates for 2014-2017 to the community and no comments were received. This was done twice and afterwards the IAOC adopted the dates. Also, to your other query,

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Michael StJohns
While personally I agree (as in I have no idea what I will be doing in 2017), in order to schedule meetings and avoid conflicts with other organizations I don't see any alternative to set these dates into the future. Once they are published other organizations see them and make their

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Andrew - Interesting take but one that probably isn't supported by the black letter reading of the Note Well. In general, the Note Well describes the class of things that might be contributions, but for them to become actionable contributions, they need to make it into the IETF record. I

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Sorry - forgot to add: or portion thereof refers to things like design teams, not a random group of people who happened to sit in the WG session. Mike At 02:40 PM 8/11/2010, Michael StJohns wrote: Andrew - Interesting take but one that probably isn't supported by the black letter reading

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-08 Thread Michael StJohns
of the work itself. Bob On Aug 7, 2010, at 4:15 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: Fred said this much more eloquently than I could. On the IETF78 attendees list there's been a lot of discussion about where to meet - with the primary consideration seeming to be pretty and small.I may

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-07 Thread Michael StJohns
At 06:50 PM 8/6/2010, DOLLY, MARTIN C (ATTLABS) wrote: Though interesting, what is the intent of the use of this data Martin Martin C. Dolly Seems pretty obvious - same intent as the original data. Determining if a 1-1-1 model is appropriate. ___

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-07 Thread Michael StJohns
Fred said this much more eloquently than I could. On the IETF78 attendees list there's been a lot of discussion about where to meet - with the primary consideration seeming to be pretty and small.I may be in the minority, but I'd really rather the IETF go places where the ability to get

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-07 Thread Michael StJohns
At 09:05 AM 8/7/2010, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Dear Noel; On Aug 6, 2010, at 9:26 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com I do note that it seems clear that registration is related to where we meet. That show up pretty clearly the current data. So judging where to have

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-07 Thread Michael StJohns
Hmm... folding Australia into Asia, Africa into Europe and S America into N America (for discussion purposes only) that's roughly 1/1/1.7 as a ratio. (Asia/Europe/NA). Or 4/4/7. It will be interesting to see what the other runs of the data show. Mike At 07:49 PM 8/7/2010, Donald

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-06 Thread Michael StJohns
Bob - Would it be possible to get two additional version of this chart? 1) Including only those who were nomcom eligible (3 of 5 of the last meetings) at each meeting. 2) Including only those who were one of WG chair, document editor or author for a an active document at that meeting (e.g. WG

Re: Admission Control to the IETF 78 and IETF 79 Networks

2010-07-01 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:52 PM 7/1/2010, Russ Housley wrote: No matter where a meeting is held, we are subject to the laws of that location. Nothing new there. Hi Russ - I agree with the above statement, but its really beside the point. The issue is not that the IETF and IETF attendees are required to obey the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread Michael StJohns
I think its a good idea to readdress this. Part of the issue with the current system, is that there is both no great benefit to advancing a standard to the next level for the advocates, and no real downside to not advancing it. In many cases, having gone through the pain of getting to RFC

Re: Proposed IAOC Administrative Procedures

2010-05-29 Thread Michael StJohns
It may be that there needs to be a separate document covering conflict of interest for the IAOC and Trustees and this document would then just indicate that members will comply with that policy at all times. I found www.nonprofitrisk.org/advice/samples/ConflictPolicy.doc and others googling

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

2010-05-14 Thread Michael StJohns
My $.02 worth. 1) For the purposes of the upcoming Nomcom, the decision to not count a day pass as attending is reasonable and timely and within the purview of the IESG (or for that matter the IETF chair) to decide. 2) The IESG/IAOC can choose whether or not to offer such a day pass as that is

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Michael StJohns
Hi Ole - Sorry, but I read your comments as partisan as well. I took the use of boycott and what sort of message would we be sending in your recent messages as a clear bias in favor of going to the PRC. I'm not all that bothered about it per se, but it has been hard to tell when its Ole the

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:32 PM 10/11/2009, Dave CROCKER wrote: I believe that the IETF has not previously challenged a venue on the basis of political or social concerns. We've sometimes challenged it for matters of logistics and cost, but not social policy. I think it is an extremely dangerous precedent for us

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a futuremeetingof the IETF

2009-10-11 Thread Michael StJohns
At 04:24 PM 10/5/2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Do you know if the PGP signing (and taking the keys home) was legal when we did it in France? It is my understanding that there are (or were) French laws forbidding the export of crypto. However, I don't remember this being raised as a big

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Michael StJohns
At 04:07 AM 10/7/2009, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: (Personal opinion) On Mon, 5 Oct 2009, Margaret Wasserman wrote: While I do think that the IAOC should be aware of the potential legal implications of where we hold our meetings, I wonder if we are treating China unfairly in this discussion... I

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Michael StJohns
Michael StJohns mailto:mstjo...@comcast.netmstjo...@comcast.net So no, we're not treating China unfairly in this discussion. We're not holding China to a higher standard, we're questioning - as we must for due diligence - whether the standard to which they want to hold the IETF is too high or too

Re: Legality of IETF meetings in PRC. Was: Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-08 Thread Michael StJohns
At 09:55 PM 10/8/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: I think there is general agreement that no normal IETF topic should have to be off limits for any IETF meeting in any location. We can argue about the finer details of what normal implies and we certainly need to establish that such speech would not

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

2009-09-23 Thread Michael StJohns
At 02:17 PM 9/23/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: BUT I am at a loss to understand why such a statement would be a required part of our technical discussion. And I'm at a loss to understand why censoring such a statement (or ejecting an individual who says it, or terminating the IETF meeting in

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