Re: Last Call: Adding a fragment identifier to the text/csv media type (see draft-hausenblas-csv-fragment-06.txt)

2013-10-14 Thread Tim Bray
I think this is sensible, could be useful, won’t break anything, and probably hits a huge 80/20 points for the ways people might want to address inside spreadsheets. Go ahead and publish it. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 11:50 AM, The IESG i...@ietf.org wrote: The IESG has received a request to

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Tim Bray
How about a BCP saying conforming implementations of a wide-variety of security-area RFCs MUST be open-source? *ducks* On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 2:34 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On Sep 6, 2013, at 2:06 PM, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: Right, because there's

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-09 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Aug 9, 2013 at 11:52 AM, Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.orgwrote: To the rest of the community: Does anyone else think it is not appropriate to publish CBOR as a Proposed Standard, and see who uses it? I have two moderate concerns: 1. I haven’t seen any particularly convincing

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-21 Thread Tim Bray
by billions of mobiles today with 2G and 3G networks. So again how is this more harmful for 4G than the current situation with 2G and 3G if a mobile device is transferred to a new owner? Andrew *From*: Tim Bray [mailto:tb...@textuality.com] *Sent*: Saturday, July 20, 2013 07:01 PM Central Standard

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
20, 2013 06:23 AM Central Standard Time To: S Moonesamy sm+i...@elandsys.com Cc: Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com; ietf@ietf.org ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt Thanks, SM, for finding what I said back in 2010. I still think this is architected wrong

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
, however. -T Andrew *From*: Tim Bray [mailto:tb...@textuality.com] *Sent*: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:58 AM Central Standard Time *To*: Andrew Allen *Cc*: ietf@ietf.org ietf@ietf.org *Subject*: Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 8:38 AM, Andrew

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
Except that for normal usages at the application level, the UUID is generated by the app and placed in its private per-app storage, which is always erased on a factory-reset. To Andrew Allen: I strongly recommend factory-resetting your phone before you sell it, and also factory-resetting any

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 3:20 PM, Andrew Allen aal...@blackberry.com wrote: Can it please be explained how the IMEI URN when used as stated in http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-allen-dispatch-imei-urn-as-instanceid/ Is any more harmful than as the IMEI is used today by over 90% of mobile

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-20 Thread Tim Bray
on millions of mobile devices which do not have IMEIs, but it’s quite possible that it’s non-applicable in the context of the draft. -T On Sat, Jul 20, 2013 at 6:23 PM, John C Klensin j...@jck.com wrote: --On Saturday, July 20, 2013 11:36 -0700 Tim Bray tb...@textuality.com wrote: So if it's

Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-19 Thread Tim Bray
Just wanted to point out that both Apple (for iOS) and Google (for Android) have strongly discouraged the use of IMEI to identify devices for the purposes of application software. There are privacy, quality, and availability issues with their use. Apple has removed the ability of developers to

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-19 Thread Tim Bray
at the apps level. -T That will explain the primary application of this URN which is intended for use in the 3GPP cellular standards. Andrew *From*: Tim Bray [mailto:tb...@textuality.com] *Sent*: Friday, July 19, 2013 10:02 AM Central Standard Time *To*: IETF-Discussion Discussion ietf

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-19 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Jul 19, 2013 at 9:52 AM, S Moonesamy sm+i...@elandsys.com wrote: It would be easier to have the draft discuss the GSMA URN only. The alternative is to have the draft discuss the privacy considerations of using IMEI and IMEISV. Good catch. Assuming this is a good idea (I’m dubious)

Re: Last call: draft-montemurro-gsma-imei-urn-16.txt

2013-07-19 Thread Tim Bray
personally identifiable information. In particular, the IMEI URN MUST NOT be included in messages intended to convey any level of anonymity covers the privacy issue? If not what is the additional privacy concern? Andrew *From*: Tim Bray [mailto:tb...@textuality.com] *Sent*: Friday, July

Re: W3C standards and the Hollyweb

2013-04-26 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Apr 26, 2013 at 12:59 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: 1. DRM is a fact of life, and it is therefore better that there should be a well-formulated standard than a free-for-all. A free-for-all is a guaranteed route to non-interoperability. Crack cocaine,

Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-arch...@w3.org from September 2012)

2012-10-22 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 2:46 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: On Mon, 22 Oct 2012, Roy T. Fielding wrote: What you are insisting on defining as a URL is the input to the process of making a hypertext reference (the arbitrary string typed into a dialog or placed inside an href/src

Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-arch...@w3.org from September 2012)

2012-10-22 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Oct 22, 2012 at 3:35 PM, Ian Hickson i...@hixie.ch wrote: The notion that curl, or an HTTP cache manager, or an XML namespace processor, is going to be routing around errors, strikes me on the face of it as being wrong. One of the main uses I put curl to is making sure I have the

Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-arch...@w3.org from September 2012)

2012-10-22 Thread Tim Bray
One more data point... I work on Web software all the time and have for many years; in recent years mostly at the REST (app-to-app HTTP conversations) rather than browser-wrangling level. I’d have to say that URI interoperability problems haven’t come near getting into the list of top-20 pain

Re: So, where to repeat?

2012-08-10 Thread Tim Bray
Frankfurt as the Minneapolis of Europe: central, well-connected, cold, unglamorous. -T On Thu, Aug 9, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Geoff Mulligan ge...@proto6.com wrote: On 08/09/2012 09:17 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: On Aug 9, 2012, at 6:07 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: offlist. Not so much Geoff, Frankfurt

Re: Basic ietf process question ...

2012-08-04 Thread Tim Bray
I gave such a Sunday tutorial at IETF70. The slides are here (somewhat dated, but still useful I’d say): http://www.tbray.org/tmp/IETF70.pdf -Tim On Sat, Aug 4, 2012 at 6:34 PM, Worley, Dale R (Dale) dwor...@avaya.com wrote: From: Mark Nottingham [m...@mnot.net] What surprises me and many

Re: Oauth blog post

2012-07-29 Thread Tim Bray
I have not been involved in the OAuth design processes, but for the last few months, I’ve been a heavy user of production OAuth2 software. Which I felt gave me a platform to comment on the issue: http://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/201x/2012/07/28/Oauth2-dead -Tim On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 2:57

Re: Long discussion about IETF on the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list

2012-05-28 Thread Tim Bray
Who are these people? -T On Mon, May 28, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: I believe it is relevant here since IETF is currently being discussed in depth on the Internet Governance Caucus mailing list (one of the biggest forums of the civil society about Internet

Re: Add a link to the HTML version in i-d-announce mails ?

2012-03-06 Thread Tim Bray
Not that voicing opinions on this topic has ever done any good. -T On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:15 PM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: Pictures in RFCs? Come to the RFCFORM BOF to voice opinions on this topic. Russ ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

2012-03-01 Thread Tim Bray
+1 On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 9:50 AM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: hat type='AD'/ On 2/21/12 11:10 AM, IESG Secretary wrote: A modified charter has been submitted for the Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis) working group in the Applications Area of the IETF.  The IESG has

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

2012-02-23 Thread Tim Bray
Your points granted, the feeling of the HTTP-using community is, by and large, that HTTP security/authz as it stands is “good enough”. Are you arguing that the security of HTTP 2.0 should be required to be qualitatively better? If so, someone is going to need to provide some useful language to

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

2012-02-23 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:13 PM, Roy T. Fielding field...@gbiv.com wrote: How many times do we have to do this before we declare insanity? I don't care how much risk it adds to the HTTP charter.  They are all just meaningless deadlines anyway.  If we want HTTP to have something other than

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

2012-02-23 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Feb 23, 2012 at 5:24 PM, Roy T. Fielding field...@gbiv.com wrote: Seriously, someone needs to propose some charter language or this discussion is a no-op.  -Tim Proposals for new HTTP authentication schemes are in scope. +1 I don’t think we’ll get one, but in the unlikely event

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Hypertext Transfer Protocol Bis (httpbis)

2012-02-21 Thread Tim Bray
[in-line] On Tue, Feb 21, 2012 at 2:40 PM, Mark Nottingham m...@mnot.net wrote: And then should it include adding some new options or MTI auth schemes as part of HTTP/2.0 or even looking at that? (I think it ought to include trying for that personally, even if there is a higher-than-usual

Re: ITC copped out on UTC again

2012-01-20 Thread Tim Bray
One consequence of your proposal, if adopted, is that there will need to be a specification of the canonical Internet-time-to-Sidereal-time function, so that in the long run, the time that your computer says it is will correspond with what you observe looking out the window. The Internet will be

Re: https

2011-08-26 Thread Tim Bray
I'm increasingly coming to think that *everything* should be done with TLS unless you can prove it's harmful. Call me paranoid, but given the general state of the world, secure-by-default seems like the way to go. -Tim On Fri, Aug 26, 2011 at 1:39 AM, t.petch daedu...@btconnect.com wrote:

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

2010-09-06 Thread Tim Bray
I should point out that Canada has most of the logistical advantages the usa enjoys, while imposing quite a bit less visa pain. - Tim On Sep 5, 2010 3:39 PM, Andrew G. Malis agma...@gmail.com wrote: I've been to several conferences at the Hilton Hawaiian Village in Waikiki. Both the hotel and

Re: Ok .. I want my IETF app for my iPad ..

2010-04-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Apr 4, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Mark Nottingham m...@mnot.net wrote: Step-by-step instructions (with illustrations) for Americans to use their credit cards overseas. Anyhow, it has to be an iPad app, rather than iPhone/iPod-touch, because the smaller devices can't display 80-char-66-line

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-04-02 Thread Tim Bray
What Iljitsch doesn't say, and should be said, is that Maastricht is a lovely and charming place in the summer; its central square is one of the nicer places in Europe to linger over lunch or dinner. When I went I rented a car in Frankfurt and enjoyed the Autobahn experience. Not a complicated

Data points with screenshots, on specification publishing formats

2010-03-21 Thread Tim Bray
If you add up the numbers, about a quarter of a million seriously Internet-capable mobile devices are being sold every day between iPhone, Android, and Blackberry. I'd like to illustrate the experience with some screenshots from such a device - this happens to be a Nexus One Android, which is a

Re: Make HTML and PDF more prominent, was: Re: Why the normative

2010-03-20 Thread Tim Bray
So you would argue that RFCs should normally be used in paper form? This is the only way I can see to avoid requiring internet access. This idea seems sane to me. Given the current policy, the documents are already not usable on the hundreds of millions of net-capable mobile devices; a high

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com wrote: If we really want to do something in this space first of all we need to agree on the problem, then on the requirements and THEN we can have a useful discussion. So far the only thing I hear is assertions offered

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-14 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: I don't want to enter a discussion about the merits of PDF/A over HTML at this time. For the record, if the IETF were to entertain the notion of blessing a format other than legacy-ASCII, I'd be strongly against any form

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Mar 11, 2010 at 8:54 AM, Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: The existing plaintext ASCII format is easy and univerval.  Any more fancy document formats come with plenty of problems and infinitesimal close to zero benefit. ARRRGGH ... which is the only contribution a

Re: Announcing Clouds bar BoF during IETF-77 (March, 2010, Anaheim, CA)

2010-02-22 Thread Tim Bray
If you're proposing OGF you should look at the 6 or 7 other SDOs doing useful work on clouds, e.g. the DMTF.  It's a complex situation. I would have said ridiculous actually. So much standards energy, so little shipping technology. -Tim ___ Ietf

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

2009-09-28 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:07 PM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: A number of people have indicated that they believe the draft contract language is standard, and required by the government. It occurs to me that we should try to obtain copies of the exact language used for meetings by

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

2009-09-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Sep 20, 2009 at 10:55 AM, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: Politeness and respect towards the Host, yes, of course. Censorship of technical discussions, pre or otherwise, no. Perhaps you'd like to rephrase that. It is an incontrovertible fact that there are many people who

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

2009-09-18 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 8:42 AM, Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: The Chinese government has imposed a rule on all conferences held since 2008 regarding political speech. Perhaps more material to this discussion, the government has imposed severe and wide-ranging restrictions on

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

2009-09-18 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Sep 18, 2009 at 12:29 PM, Henk Uijterwaal h...@ripe.net wrote: I think it is safe to assume that the government did run some checks on what the IETF is doing and, if we did keep ourselves busy with things they do not like, then I seriously doubt that they would have given the host

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-07 Thread Tim Bray
On Tue, Jul 7, 2009 at 1:42 PM, John C Klensinjohn-i...@jck.com wrote: I do not believe that we can reach agreement on even the last statement. I am afraid that you may be correct. I am flabbergasted that consensus on the superior usability of HTML over IETF legacy plain-text (all other

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-05 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 6:27 AM, Melinda Shoremelinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Right now ascii text is probably the most widely-supported display format. This statement is violently counter-intuitive and shouldn't be accepted unsupported by evidence. - ASCII is not usable for the languages of a

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-05 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:05 AM, Melinda Shoremelinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: You're heading into new territory, here. No, I disagreed with an unqualified assertion you made using the extremely well-defined termASCII. As others have pointed out, progress is being impeded by the conflation of a

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-05 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Jul 5, 2009 at 9:02 PM, Doug Ewelld...@ewellic.org wrote: Tim Bray tbray at textuality dot com wrote: I introduce by example the huge number of mobile devices that handle HTML effortlessly and IETF legacy ASCII not at all.  Also, the large number of standard office printers

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-02 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Jul 2, 2009 at 2:01 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnumiljit...@muada.com wrote: A much better solution would be HTML, if it's sufficiently constrained. HTML allows for the reflowing of text, solving issues with text and screen sizes. It's also extremely widely implemented, so it's easy to

Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-06-29 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Jun 28, 2009 at 10:45 AM, Phillip Hallam-Bakerhal...@gmail.com wrote: The TXT versions do not print on my printer and have not printed reliably on any printer I have ever owned. Yes, and that history goes back a couple of decades for me. I know that some UNIX folk just love to rub

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-04 Thread Tim Bray
On Wed, Mar 4, 2009 at 7:33 AM, Margaret Wasserman m...@lilacglade.org wrote: I would like to propose that we re-format Internet-Drafts such that the boilerplate (status and copyright) is moved to the back of the draft, and the abstract moves up to page 1. Oh, yes please. That would

Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate

2009-02-13 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Feb 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.eduwrote: I've heard from a number of the FSF thundering herd people to the effect of 'but the announcement says send email to ietf@ietf.org. (They're conveniently ignoring the fact that it says the IETF community all over the

Re: how to contact the IETF

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 4:07 PM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.eduwrote: From: Alex Loret de Mola edgarver...@gmail.com However, these are people who are upset, and want to make thier opinions known... it is good to know (and see) that so many people are interested and

Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard

2009-02-09 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW (and it would be good if other actual IETF participants care to indicate +1 if they agree): The actual words in RedPhone's current disclosure: RedPhone Security hereby asserts that the techniques for

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 11:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - There are several issues with Unicode. Many of the world's standards organizations, including the IETF to some degree, have more or less outsourced issues of character definition and specification to Unicode. Were your writing

Re: placing a dollar value on IETF IP.

2008-10-24 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Oct 24, 2008 at 8:27 AM, TS Glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since there is now a specific value estimated by the LINUX community at 1.4B for the kernel itself Hey, I've done an analysis and found that my toenail clippings are worth $3.8762 billion. That kernel-valuation exercise is

Re: Publishing RFCs in PDF Formal

2008-08-27 Thread Tim Bray
On Wed, Aug 27, 2008 at 9:53 AM, Julian Reschke [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm not saying [X]HTML RFCs are an inherently bad idea, just that they're not as simple to get right as it might seem. That's true, but I would expect *less* discussions as compared to just using PDF (for everything).

Re: Simpler than draft-rfc-image-files-00.txt

2008-08-25 Thread Tim Bray
Documents in the RFC series normally use only plain-text ASCII characters and a fixed-width font. However, there is sometimes a need to supplement the ASCII text with graphics or picture images. Pardon my reverse-parochialism, but I think the need to be able to spell editors' and

I18n of I-Ds (was Simpler than...)

2008-08-25 Thread Tim Bray
On Mon, Aug 25, 2008 at 4:23 PM, John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I see some fairly significant problems with most of the RFCs in UTF-8 or equivalent proposals I have seen, many of them having to do with environments in which UTF-8 is not as ubiquitous as one might like to believe. I

Re: New schemes vs recycling http: (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 1:56 AM, Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Well. There's definitively a total disconnect between that IESG recommendation, and the W3C TAG's point of view (see ongoing discussion on the TAG mailing list about the xri scheme). That discussion is just too long

Re: New schemes vs recycling http: (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 10:23 AM, Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The TAG is in fact clearly correct when they state that introduction of new URI schemes is quite expensive. To me it seems that this depends on the extent to which those new URI schemes are to be used in contexts where

Re: New schemes vs recycling http: (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 3:55 PM, Lisa Dusseault [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Right, but there's a contradiction lurking here. You probably wouldn't bother to use URI syntax unless you expected fairly wide utilization, or to benefit from the plethora of existing URI-parsing and -resolving

Re: New schemes vs recycling http: (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Aug 7, 2008 at 4:47 PM, Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: That's ridiculous. First of all it's not as if HTTP is an optimal or even particularly efficient way of accessing all kinds of resources - so you want to permit URI schemes for as many protocols as can use them. Well, it's

Re: Last Call: draft-snell-atompub-bidi (Atom Bidirectional Attribute) to Experimental RFC

2008-04-11 Thread Tim Bray
On Fri, Apr 11, 2008 at 12:03 PM, The IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Atom Bidirectional Attribute ' draft-snell-atompub-bidi-06.txt as an Experimental RFC The name of this draft is a

Re: Call for Comments: What Makes For a Successful Protocol?

2008-03-26 Thread Tim Bray
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 10:11 AM, IAB Chair [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What Makes For a Successful Protocol? draft-iab-protocol-success-03 as an informational RFC.Before doing so the IAB wants to solicit from the community any last comments on this document. ... The document can

Re: draft-duerst-iana-namespace-00.txt

2008-03-02 Thread Tim Bray
On Sun, Mar 2, 2008 at 3:23 PM, Ned Freed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Contrary to that, XML processors do not resolve namespace URIs, they are purely used as identifiers. That's certainly how things are supposed to work. It may or may not be how they actually work. I agree with Ned that

Re: Prague

2007-03-07 Thread Tim Bray
I haven't been following this discussion closely, but in case nobody else has made the point: the bad news is that the Prague taxi-driver community is (in my personal experience) crooked, while on the other hand Prague public transit is quite efficient. Last time I was there I arrived late and

Re: Protest: Complexity running rampant

2007-02-19 Thread Tim Bray
On 2/19/07, John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the record, I would have no problems with Informational or Experimental publication of this collection -- it is the proposed decision to standardize that bothers me. Exactly. Under no circumstances should it ever be OK to use IETF

Re: Last Call: draft-wilde-text-fragment (URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type) to Proposed Standard

2007-02-14 Thread Tim Bray
On 2/14/07, The IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'URI Fragment Identifiers for the text/plain Media Type ' draft-wilde-text-fragment-06.txt as a Proposed Standard Editorial point: Section 2.2.1

Re: +1

2006-07-17 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 15, 2006, at 4:13 AM, Michael Thomas wrote: Is it just in my part of the ietf woods, or is this becoming a widespread phenomenon? If so, is this a good thing or a bad thing? Over in Atompub, this has become the normal idiom for reacting to proposals, with common usages such as +/-

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-06-24 Thread Tim Bray
On Jun 24, 2006, at 8:55 AM, Keith Moore wrote: That's not quite sufficient, because most WGs aren't proceeding according to good engineering discipline (e.g. they're doing things in the wrong order, like trying to define the protocol before the problem space is understood) I'd

Re: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs (was: Re: Last Call: 'Propose d Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats))

2006-06-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Jun 20, 2006, at 12:25 PM, Carl Malamud wrote: May I make a suggestion to both the office of the RFC Editor and to the IESG? This sounds like a classic case for leadership. How about starting up a working group? Give it a capable chair, support from the AD (Brian), and twist some arms

Re: Image attachments to ASCII RFCs (was: Re: Last Call: 'Propose d Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats))

2006-06-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Jun 20, 2006, at 11:02 AM, Bob Braden wrote: * Quite true. But as long as the RFC Editor finds it necessary to use a * multi-stage process to produce RFCs with hand tweaking of the output at * different stages, I doubt that they will be willing to do this because the * input

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

2006-06-19 Thread Tim Bray
On Jun 19, 2006, at 7:05 PM, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: It's true that Unicode font support is somewhat spotty. It's worse than spotty; it is quite poor. It's pretty good on modern Mac Windows boxes. When I go to a page in Devanagari or Chinese or Russian, it usually displays OK.

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Tim Bray
On Jun 16, 2006, at 3:46 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Forcing the input format means one of two things: - edit source code (argh - back to the stone age) I think we would generally get better results if Internet Standards were authored by people who are comfortable editing source code.

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2006-01-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Dec 28, 2005, at 7:16 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: The 'illegal syntax' is not yet an RFC but is in draft-ietf- netconf-ssh-05.txt which says As the previous example illustrates, a special character sequence, , MUST be sent by both the client and the server after each XML Why

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2006-01-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Dec 28, 2005, at 12:46 PM, Randy Presuhn wrote: Reserving NUL as a special terminator is a C library-ism. I think that history has shown that the use of this kind of mechanism, rather than explicitly tracking the string's length, was a mistake. I used to think so too, but I don't any

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2006-01-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Dec 28, 2005, at 5:05 AM, Masataka Ohta wrote: That problem is that Unicode is stateful with complex and indefinitely long term states Has this ever caused a real problem to a real programmer in real life? I have written a whole bunch of mission-critical code that reads and generates

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2005-12-24 Thread Tim Bray
I agree with everything Ned said, this is a non-problem. On Dec 23, 2005, at 10:13 AM, Ned Freed wrote: (Unicode lacks a no-op, a meaningless octet, one that could be added or removed without causing any change to the meaning of the text). NBSP is used for this purpose. I think actually

Re: Examples of translated RFCs

2005-12-07 Thread Tim Bray
On Dec 6, 2005, at 10:56 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: You should admit that ISO 10646 useless for internationalization. Hogwash. Which is to say, for the benefit of those who have not had to internalize the complicated world of standardization and internationalization: Mr. Ohta's point of

Re: ASCII art

2005-12-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Nov 21, 2005, at 7:05 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: As others have pointed out on this thread, the ASCII art in IETF specs is (or should be) optional to implementers. The corollary is: why bother to go to a format that uses something other than ASCII art, if it is an optional component? Other

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Nov 30, 2005, at 2:54 PM, Frank Ellermann wrote: As Bob said raw UTF-8 characters won't fly with `cat rfc4567 /dev/lpt1` and other simple uses of RFCs. 1. I wonder what proportion of the population prints things this way? 2. If the file is correctly encoded in UTF-8 and the above doesn't

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Dec 1, 2005, at 12:16 PM, Keith Moore wrote: Also, the vast majority of printers in use don't natively support printing of utf-8, thus forcing users to layer each of their computer systems with more and more buggy cruft just to do simple tasks like printing plain text. Perhaps those are

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-01 Thread Tim Bray
On Dec 1, 2005, at 3:16 PM, Keith Moore wrote: the the ability to read and print UTF-8 in the field is still significantly worse than the ability to read and print ASCII. That assertion could use a little empirical backing. Empirically, there are people who find the ASCII versions

Re: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Tim Bray
On Sep 24, 2005, at 8:28 PM, Dean Anderson wrote: None of my emails have been abusive. Speaking as a 99.% passive observer around here, I consider Dean Anderson's emails, in aggregate, abusive. They consume precious mental bandwidth, in many cases with no material technical

Re: BitTorrentvs MBONE

2005-09-15 Thread Tim Bray
On Sep 15, 2005, at 7:34 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Sure bittorrent is probably not great design by many standards. For the record, I think bittorrent is a superb design, especially when seen as a first cut. It will improve. -Tim ___

Re: Unicode points

2005-02-24 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 24, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Bruce Lilly wrote: o 16-bit Unicode matched well with 16-bit wchar_t wchar_t is 32 bits on all the computers near me. This is one reason why UTF-16 is irritating for the C programmer. o while the raw data size doubles in going from 16 bits per character to 32

Re: Air condition ...

2004-11-12 Thread Tim Bray
On Nov 12, 2004, at 7:51 AM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Believe me, I know the difference between a big rat and a squirrel Everybody knows there are lots of rats in Washington, as in any capital city. -T ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-21 Thread Tim Bray
On Oct 21, 2004, at 7:59 AM, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I don't think we can require the IESG to negotiate anything. There are all kinds of legal issues there. To my knowledge, both WGs and the IESG do think carefully about this, but often conclude that the

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-20 Thread Tim Bray
On Oct 19, 2004, at 10:49 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i think that the ensuing ietf-isoc-malamud hairball should pay for IPR searches of all final-drafts In my experience, such searches, to be of any use, require the services of an intelligent (i.e. expensive) person, ideally with domain expertise,

Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

2004-08-10 Thread Tim Bray
On Aug 10, 2004, at 4:19 AM, Ian Jackson wrote: The IESG writes (Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard ): * Since mbox files are text files (assuming that any binary messages in the mailbox are themselves encoded) and can be read sensibly with the naked eye, the

Multicast doesn't work

2004-08-04 Thread Tim Bray
The OS X version doesn't work if you have NeoOffice/J installed, because it Neo thinks it owns one of the extensions (sdp or something). So I went to a totally vanilla patched up to date Win/XP box with an up-to-date Quicktime and Quicktime refused to handle .QT.esm files, so I downloaded the

Re: IETF60: time needed for check-in at San Diego?

2004-07-21 Thread Tim Bray
On Jul 21, 2004, at 2:48 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: What is Canada like in this regard? Seems to me this would be a perfect compromise for the North American meetings: reasonable distance for the US attendees, reasonable treatment of foreign nationals for everyone else (AFAIK). I noted to