Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 8 Aug 2007, Douglas Otis wrote: Some larger providers and private organizations who depend upon private IPv4 addresses have complained there is no suitably large private IP address range which can assure each user within their network can obtain a unique private IP address. It would

Re: Last Call: draft-hutzler-spamops (Email Submission: Access and Accountability) to BCP

2007-06-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 10 Jun 2007, Tony Finch wrote: On Fri, 8 Jun 2007, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: Side note: on Unix, will cron be forced to authenticate to send emails at 2 am? :-) cron sends email by invoking sendmail, which knows the user that invoked it. authentication is therefore automatic and

Re: References to prior work

2007-03-05 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Stephen Farrell wrote: I think something along these lines might be ok, so long as its not a significant barrier to progress - I'd hate if every new author had to be an I-D historian, or if anyone who wanted to slow down a document could play the system using this. I have a

Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

2006-11-29 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Joe Abley wrote: On 29-Nov-2006, at 08:30, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the NANOG list it has already been pointed out that a lot of network management software cannot handle such notation and in some cases, 1.0 could be interpreted as the IP

Re: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

2006-11-29 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 29 Nov 2006, Joe Abley wrote: I did not see any consensus on that issue when it was brought to NANOG-m. Interesting. I didn't notice any support for separating the 32-bit quantity into two sections, but I remember many people decrying the need for any separator at all. I'd have

RE: SRV records considered dubious (was: Re: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys)

2006-11-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 22 Nov 2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Microsoft showed the source code to the MARID group. It simply does not support saving unknown RR blobs. Someone in the DNSEXT working group did a test that showed that if you violate the administration model of Windows it is possible to

Re: Last Call: 'A Lightweight UDP Transfer Protocol for the the Internet Registry Information Service' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz)

2006-08-16 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 16 Aug 2006, Harald Alvestrand wrote: Andrew Newton wrote: 3 - Why is LWZ limited to UDP, desperately trying to solve various size issues with delated XML and other tricks ? TCP is handled by XPC and BEEP. But for very short and quick answers (and lots of them, such as domain

ip6 at the meeting

2006-07-10 Thread william(at)elan.net
Its not that I have a big issue with it but is it really necessary to assign 3 ipv6 global-scope addresses (in addition to two link-local) for my interface (yes, I know we have plenty of ip space :)? And BTW wasn't 6/6/6 the last day for 6-bone? -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL

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

2006-06-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Eliot Lear wrote: Mike, Are you suggesting that the ISOC pull RFC Editor funding and invest in another series where the community has more say? Otherwise one person can override the will of the community, as Jon did on more than one occasion. I don't think we want that

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

2006-06-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Jun 2006, Leslie Daigle wrote: Mike, I am not going to engage in a public debate about what constitutes the complete set of facts here: there is no dispute (afaict) that the RFC Editor series started before the IETF, or that it has had a broader mandate than IETF standards. What

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

2006-04-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 15 Apr 2006, Masataka Ohta wrote: There was debate. But, 8+8 was rejected without any discussion or reasoning. Could someone tell me where I can read about 8+8? -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)

2006-03-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
I will however caution against the assumption that IESG is inherently overbearing and a separate review function is inherently more reasonable. No matter who does the review there will always be the potential for capriciousness on the part of the reviewer. It seems to me that while many

Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)

2006-03-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Dave Cridland wrote: If they were popular projects pulling useful input away from the IETF and Lemonade respectively, I'd classify that as harm. Why? Harm to who and in what way? -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)

2006-03-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 19 Mar 2006, Keith Moore wrote: I will however caution against the assumption that IESG is inherently overbearing and a separate review function is inherently more reasonable. No matter who does the review there will always be the potential for capriciousness on the part of the

RE: Multinational Internet or Balkanization?

2006-03-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 1 Mar 2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dear Phillip, Full agreement. Let not confuse alt-roots and open-roots. I was not suggesting confusing them, I was suggesting ignoring them. Ignore China? I know some do it with their

Re: What's an experiment?

2006-02-15 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, william(at)elan.net wrote: Just by itself without last call experiment is probably ok when you have some new concept that needs to be tested and documented and its use should would cause any significant problems for anything else. This was supposed to be: Just

Against PR-action against Jefsey Morfin

2006-01-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
I'm against the PR action. From links included with PR action, I do not see that Jefsey's actions include anything that maybe deemed as personal attacks or similar actions clearly prohibited by IETF and his posts seem to be an advocacy and representing his views and IETF as organization is

Re: Against PR-action against Jefsey Morfin

2006-01-24 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 24 Jan 2006, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] Free speech is at the core of discussions at IETF and those representing minority positions should not be prevented from expressing it OK, I'll bite. How do you reconcile this principle

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-05 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 5 Jan 2006, Scott Kitterman wrote: As I understand it, one of the major concerns of the people pushing for alternative formats is a desire to be able to include drawings and diagrams with something other than ASCII art. I don't believe that XML does much to help that. It does in the

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sun, 1 Jan 2006, Yaakov Stein wrote: 2: Folks who can't read MS Word documents are also irrelevant. It's the most 'standard' document exchange language on the Internet. (Actually all its versions are from the people who invented the Internet, please don't forget to submit an IPR

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

2005-12-27 Thread william(at)elan.net
issue. So in what follows I will try to give a reasonably simple explanation of why a bunch of long-term IETF guys decided to form a private group to develop DKIM: I think simple explanation is the one you can fit in one sentence, this wasn't it... On Dec 21, 2005, at 12:23 PM, william

Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

2005-12-23 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Stephen Farrell wrote: Hi Eric, Eric Rescorla wrote: The not-DKIM proponents want something better, for some value of better. More accurately, we want the charter not to foreclose the option of doing something better, on the grounds that it's incompatible. I hope

Re: Pre-picking one solution (Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail) (dkim)

2005-12-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Keith Moore wrote: Sometimes feed-forward _is_ useful, and I would agree that the use of DNS to store public key information is one of the fundamental assumptions behind DKIM. Change that assumption and you will probably produce a system with very different

Re: Pre-picking one solution (Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail) (dkim)

2005-12-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 22 Dec 2005, Barry Leiba wrote: Actually, the DKIM base spec does provide a mechanism for replacing the DNS keystore with something else. Look at 1.4 for a general statement, and the description of the q= tag in 3.5. DKIM's intended to be able to support user-level keys in a future

Re: Pre-picking one solution (Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail) (dkim)

2005-12-22 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 23 Dec 2005, Mark Delany wrote: On Thu, Dec 22, 2005 at 06:35:47AM -0800, william(at)elan.net allegedly wrote: Not necessarily. One of the proposals that went into DKIM had characteristic of storing public key fingerprints in dns. This seems quite close to DK but has a number

Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

2005-12-21 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, John C Klensin wrote: (i) you are obligated to demonstrate that sufficient production-level deployment actually exists to justify such a request and that it has been successful in There is no wide deployment of DKIM. What is there are several

Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

2005-12-21 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 21 Dec 2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On onsdag, desember 21, 2005 05:36:08 -0800 william(at)elan.net [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I also think that if allowed to be presented alternatives to putting public keys in DNS, those would technically be found superior and less damaging

Re: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-12-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 13 Dec 2005, Douglas Otis wrote: The reduction to 111 DNS lookups is not a resounding impact with respect to this concern. You can do setup that involves multiple CNAME and NS redirections with DNS and it all could come to those 100 lookups. In practice these setups do not exist

Re: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-12-14 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 14 Dec 2005, Douglas Otis wrote: Actually there was case that came close to this limit by an access provider, but was rewritten into CIDR notation to reduce the number of records, increasing their chances for error. At the email authentication summit in NY, there was a large company

Re: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-12-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Pekka Savola wrote: Basically the IESG decided that accurate documentation of the running code is more important than documenting something that does not exist, and maybe never will exist. That's certainly an understandable tradeoff to make, and it gets back to the more

Re: [spf-discuss] Re: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-12-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Dick St.Peters wrote: Do you know if Sendmail Inc. is committed to conforming to the RFCs and will change if the RFCs change? You'll have to ask them. However, I suspect it's safe to say that they will conform to any RFCs that become standards. SPF SID document if

Re: [spf-discuss] Re: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-12-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 9 Dec 2005, Sam Hartman wrote: wayne == wayne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: wayne Isn't the time to fix the problem now? Before the wayne experiment is run? Can you convince the sender ID authors to do so and to change their implementations? I don't think the IETF or IESG could

Re: draft-dnsbl-harmful-01

2005-12-05 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 5 Dec 2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On 4. desember 2005 10:26 -0500 Daniel Feenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a proper place to discuss http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-church-dnsbl-harmful-o1.txt ? There has been some discussion of the draft in the ASRG

Re: ASCII art

2005-11-23 Thread william(at)elan.net
You can not have two authoritative texts. Yes I understand that it may happen (probably already did) that RFC text is translation from original written in another language. The reason it got translated however is so that it could be checked on and commented by IETF community and so that it

Re: Oops

2005-11-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 1 Nov 2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On tirsdag, november 01, 2005 08:13:26 +0100 Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: I'm told that my recollection is faulty It's not, that breach of RfC 2418 chapter 4 caused two of the three pending

Re: Can the USA welcome IETF

2005-10-17 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 17 Oct 2005, Melinda Shore wrote: On 10/17/05 1:25 PM, Scott W Brim [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I'm done. Ever the optimist, I like to think that the fact that the leadership's energy is increasingly going into stuff like this indicates that the IETF has reached a new level of

Re: a new DNS root for the world?

2005-10-03 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 3 Oct 2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Wouldn't it at least make sense to require that the .gprs pseudo-TLD be reserved by IANA under Section 4 of RFC 2860 (technical work items and assignments of domain names for technical uses), with the proviso that this TLD must not be resolved,

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-09-30 Thread william(at)elan.net
Would it be too much to ask for new rules so that in the future these petitions be discussed on some other mail list setup for this purpose (and for other general issues of ietf email lists administration) and that ietf@ietf.org be only used to indicate new petition or results of one and

Re: DNSEXT Minutes @ IETF-63 [Software Patent issues denied discussion]

2005-09-08 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 8 Sep 2005, Dave Crocker wrote: [Note: Not very long ago, I argued persuasively to a large and broad movement within the IETF seeking to have the IETF adopt an anti-patent position. my memory is slipping worse that I thought. i don't recall seeing evidence of the community's being

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-sanz-rfc1032-historic-00.txt

2005-08-31 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 31 Aug 2005, Frank Ellermann wrote: It is completely outside of its technical standards-setting mission. With that idea you could also claim that RfCs should not talk about postmaster@ or [EMAIL PROTECTED] This cannot work. I don't care who publishs / maintains these RfCs, maybe

Additional appeal against publication of draft-lyon-senderid-* in regards to its recommended use of Resent- header fields in the way that is inconsistant with RFC2822

2005-08-29 Thread william(at)elan.net
Hello Brian, With IESG already considering other issues with publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core as experimental RFC, I'd like to request it also formerly consider and make determination in regards to issues raised at the very end of MARID regarding use of Resent- header fields by

Re: [spf-discuss] Re: Additional appeal against publication of draft-lyon-senderid-* in regards to its recommended use of Resent- header fields in the way that is inconsistant with RFC2822

2005-08-29 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 29 Aug 2005, Frank Ellermann wrote: incompatible with RFC2822 I'm still a bit lost how this could actually _break_ something. For obvious reasons the author can't say updates 2822, how should he fix it ? As you said the 822 issue is mentioned in the senderid-pra draft. Do you want

Re: IESG powers

2005-08-27 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Frank Ellermann wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: (I am not referring to our own process BCPs in this statement.) Please consider to split BCP vs. meta / admin documents. I agree. There needs to be new track for IETF standardization work procedures. -- William

RE: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 inconflictwith referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-08-27 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, John Glube wrote: |The only relevant boundary is between what the sender |controls and what they do not. All that any sender, |forwarder or any other mail injector can ever be expected |to do is to define the boundaries of the systems they |control. | |Once that boundary

RE: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 inconflictwith referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-08-27 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 27 Aug 2005, Douglas Otis wrote: On Sat, 2005-08-27 at 12:00 -0700, william(at)elan.net wrote: But if reuse of spf1 records is really realy the only way for MS and it wants to continue, then the only possibility for negotiation I see is to get it part the way for both sides

RE: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflictwith referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-08-26 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 26 Aug 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: As has recently been pointed out on the namedroppers list, the dual track RR and TXT approach does not work. It leads to ambiguities when the records do not match - which they will inevitably dur to the DNS protocol. Actually what has been

Re: IESG intends to publish conflicting RfCs causing loss of legit e-mails

2005-06-13 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Mon, 13 Jun 2005, Ted Hardie wrote: Hi Frank, This is one of the issues that the IESG believes is at the heart of concerns about using them in tandem. Your message highlights, though, that one of the statements in the IESG note got dropped accidentally. The original said: the IESG

Re: draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02: informational or proposed?

2005-06-02 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Keith Moore wrote: The argument in favor of publishing this document at proposed is that the existing arcfour cipher is part of a standard and that many other IETF protocols use rc4 in standards track documents. previous mistakes are not valid justifications for new

Re: draft-harris-ssh-arcfour-fixes-02: informational or proposed?

2005-06-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 1 Jun 2005, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sam Hartman writes: Hi, folks. The IESG has received a last call comment recommending that the new rc4 cipher for ssh be published as informational rather than as a proposed standard because of weaknesses in rc4.

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Eliot Lear wrote: Yakov, Perhaps the IETF traditional motto, rough consensus and working code should be revised to make it clear that the rough consensus goes only up to a certain point, but after that point the IETF operates solely by a decree from the IESG. You and I were

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-19 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Eliot Lear wrote: At the same time reverse is not true, i.e. I do not think IESG should be allowed to make a decision on document on its own if there is no consensus. An individual has the ability to write a draft. The IESG has the ability to gauge consensus as to whether

Re: Internet-Draft cutoffs and getting work done

2004-10-18 Thread william(at)elan.net
without changing the rules the closest we can get is two weeks Personally I'd actually prefer 10 days, but two weeks is much better then 4 weeks and is a reduction of no-draft-can-be-published time from 30% to 15%. -- William Leibzon Elan Networks [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: IETF 62 (was: Re: first steps)

2004-09-17 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Fri, 17 Sep 2004, Tim Chown wrote: On Thu, Sep 16, 2004 at 04:33:33PM -0400, Michael Richardson wrote: We know that booking early saves money, and we know that locations fill up early. (Me, I like Minneapolis just fine. I do wish to have fewer meetings in the US) Minneapolis is

Re: How IETF treats contributors

2004-09-01 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Wed, 1 Sep 2004, Dean Anderson wrote: This is a personal message, and doesn't qualify as being published. You mentioned that you failed to follow up. That may be true. And that's why you shouldn't be credited for originating the idea, and why David Green and later Hadmut Danisch should

Re: How IETF treats contributors

2004-08-30 Thread william(at)elan.net
At 4:55 PM -0400 8/30/04, Dean Anderson wrote: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-marid-core-03.txt http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2002/msg00658.html The idea came from David Green, and Vixie says it originated from Jim Miller in 1998. Vixie had little

Re: spoofing email addresses

2004-05-28 Thread william(at)elan.net
Paul, MARID was formed to merge Microsoft Caller-ID with SPF and so far has been successfully used by Microsoft to bully us to submit to their own proposal or else ... There are better ways to implement mail-from (i.e. as from Paul's draft which is basicly still the basis for MARID) which

Re: Principles of Spam-abatement

2004-03-17 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Thu, 18 Mar 2004, Yakov Shafranovich wrote: Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Vernon Schryver) writes: ... but I don't see any direct connection between [DNSSEC] and a replacement for DNS blacklists. i know. but you asked about trust query protocols, not about

Re: e-Yentl

2004-03-03 Thread william(at)elan.net
Dave Aronson writes: On Tue March 2 2004 18:18, Michael Thomas wrote: Or is this just a covert way of saying that we need an e-Yentl? Nitpick: yenta (meddler/gossiper/busybody, but especially matchmaker), not Yentl (name chosen by girl disguised as boy to get accepted to a

Re: How Not To Filter Spam

2004-02-17 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Vernon Schryver wrote: It is also a classic example of what is wrong with the MUA filtering You certain dont assume that there is nothing wrong with the filtering system you use and others may try duplicate as well. Otherwise how would you explain that you have Elan and

Re: How Not To Filter Spam

2004-02-17 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Tue, 17 Feb 2004, Vernon Schryver wrote: From: william(at)elan.net It is also a classic example of what is wrong with the MUA filtering You certain dont assume that there is nothing wrong with the filtering system you use and others may try duplicate as well. Otherwise how would