Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
grenville armitage wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: grenville armitage wrote: ... My only concern is that we're using codepoint assignment denial as a means of protecting the Internet from poor, TCP-unfriendly end2end algorithms. Who's we? The IESG said that the IESG wasn't going to

RE: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread Nicholas Staff
Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Keith Moore Sent: Monday, July 04, 2005 3:50 AM To: Robert Elz Cc: Margaret Wasserman; ietf@ietf.org; grenville armitage Subject: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread grenville armitage
Brian E Carpenter wrote: grenville armitage wrote: ... My only concern is that we're using codepoint assignment denial as a means of protecting the Internet from poor, TCP-unfriendly end2end algorithms. Who's we? The IESG said that the IESG wasn't going to approve a codepoint, and that

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Robert Elz wrote: Date:Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:39:37 -0400 From:Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The arguments against what the IESG has done seem, | mostly, to be that we should have gotten IETF consensus before | making a

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
grenville armitage wrote: ... My only concern is that we're using codepoint assignment denial as a means of protecting the Internet from poor, TCP-unfriendly end2end algorithms. Who's we? The IESG said that the IESG wasn't going to approve a codepoint, and that the only way to get it approved

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pete Resnick wrote: ... Personally, I find nothing in 2026 which indicates in the best interests of the IETF and the Internet as a criteria for the IESG to evaluate much of anything. And I think that is part of the concern you are hearing expressed in the objections to the decision process.

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-04 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Fri, 1 Jul 2005 15:16:09 -0400 From:Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | In what way would that differ from Specification Required? See below. | No. That one (Specification Required) explicitly states that the | document

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-04 Thread Keith Moore
The problem is that the IETF, and the IESG in particular, sees a protocol, sees it is planned to be used with internet related protocols, and so perhaps on some part of the internet, and decides that's ours, we must be the ones to decide whether that is any good or not, now how do we force that

Re: Moving forward with the option (Was: Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jari, As I've told Larry, and as Margaret and you both say, there are two ways forward: 1. The proponents submit an I-D and ask the IETF to review it. The IETF's IPR rules would apply. 2. Another standards body sends a liaison to the IETF asking for an assignment, backed up by a publicly

RE: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-07-02 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Larry, At 12:30 PM -0700 6/25/05, Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts wrote: I need help as to any process that can mitigate this major conflict with the TIA/ITU and the IETF and I need to act now. Please send your thoughts, I was looking back over this thread, and I just happened to notice this

Moving forward with the option (Was: Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-02 Thread Jari Arkko
Hi Margaret, And thanks for posting constructive suggestions for moving forward on this issue! What you say below makes sense. However, it occurs to me that there's also another possibility which has perhaps more commonly been used when IETF works together with other standards bodies, and has

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Wed, 29 Jun 2005 17:39:37 -0400 From:Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The arguments against what the IESG has done seem, | mostly, to be that we should have gotten IETF consensus before | making a decision. That is

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 30 Jun 2005 18:50:01 -0400 From:Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Have you read the spec in question? I have not, and I expressly will not, because that cannot possibly be relevant. | The issue is not that the presence

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi, At 12:53 PM +0700 7/1/05, Robert Elz wrote: Failing to register whatever parameter they need, because the protocol proposed is disgusting, even if true, helps absolutely no-one. On the other hand, if the documentation of what the parameter means, or how to use it, is inadequate, then

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:39:05 -0400 From:Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | You seem to be arguing that the only thing that the IESG _should_ | have done regarding this allocation was to determine whether or not a | document

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Robert, At 1:18 AM +0700 7/2/05, Robert Elz wrote: | You seem to be arguing that the only thing that the IESG _should_ | have done regarding this allocation was to determine whether or not a | document exists. No, I didn't say that at all, ever. What I said was that the IESG should

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Sat, Jul 02, 2005 at 01:18:31AM +0700, Robert Elz wrote: Date:Fri, 1 Jul 2005 11:39:05 -0400 From:Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] No, I didn't say that at all, ever. What I said was that the IESG should have determined whether there was adequate

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread Pete Resnick
On 7/1/05 at 3:16 PM -0400, Margaret Wasserman wrote: At 1:18 AM +0700 7/2/05, Robert Elz wrote: ...the IESG should have determined whether there was adequate documentation for the option. That is, whether the documentation was clear, unambiguous, complete, and would allow an implementation

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-01 Thread grenville armitage
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Friday, July 01, 2005 07:58:42 AM +1000 grenville armitage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Scenario (a) would seem to be solved by assigned a non-conflicting option codepoint and then hoping the competing protocol dies of irrelevance. Scenario (b) suggests we

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread John C Klensin
Jefsey, Many of us await, with great interest, the appearance of an Internet Draft from you that explains how, with a field with a finite (and fairly small) number of bits available, once can carry out an arbitrary number of properly-identified experiments. Even a discussion about how one might

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread John C Klensin
Hans, I think this formulation is consistent with what I, and others, have been trying to say. I would, however, add one element. The IESG was asked to approve a code point for work developed elsewhere. There is no question that they could have approved it and approved it on the basis of the

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear John, the subject is of importance and cannot be dealt with an individual's draft in Franglish. Qui va piano va sano, doucment, doucement nous sommes pressés (Talleyrand). As a liaison to ICANN BoD you know that the criteria I quote are those (reviewed by a two years experiment) of the

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hans Kruse wrote: ... but otherwise I _cannot_ see how the _content_ of the option could harm a device that does not want to deal with it. If it interferes with congestion management elsewhere along the path, it can potentially damage every other packet stream. This is a *very* complex

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, June 29, 2005 04:18:18 PM -0400 Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't think the fact that the IESG did not choose to exercise its authority to allocate this IP option number precludes the proponents of this allocation from attempting to gain IETF consensus (for

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread grenville armitage
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Hans Kruse wrote: ... but otherwise I _cannot_ see how the _content_ of the option could harm a device that does not want to deal with it. If it interferes with congestion management elsewhere along the path, it can potentially damage every other packet stream.

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-30 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Friday, July 01, 2005 07:58:42 AM +1000 grenville armitage [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Hans Kruse wrote: ... but otherwise I _cannot_ see how the _content_ of the option could harm a device that does not want to deal with it. If it interferes with congestion

Status in LTRU (was: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 28 June, 2005 21:16 -0700 Randy Presuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... More untruths. The working group's members include Harald Alvestrand, and John Klensin, to name a few who know something about the Internet standard process. ... Randy, Since you mentioned my name, to be

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 29 June, 2005 01:04 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John, I'm probably replying out of sequence, and I'll say this once again only: I don't believe that the IESG is entitled, under the BCP in force, to authorise the IANA to assign a hop by hop option

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
I am quite glad we cooperate to the outreach of the WG-ltru. At 06:16 29/06/2005, Randy Presuhn wrote: Yes. But we are missing experts in networking, Internet standard process, multilingualism, national cultures, LDAP, standard document witing. This is a actually complex issue (mix of

Re: Status in LTRU (was: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Sigh. I, like John, have been following LTRU only with half an eye; it seemed to be running fairly well, apart from the problems of dealing with Jefsey's comments, but I haven't read the documents for quite some time. But I'm confident enough about my reading of the mail in my mailbox to say

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Hans Kruse
Just a quick (one-time I plan) note in support of John's position. I, too, think it is counterproductive to avoid/deny registration in this case. Maybe a slightly different way of saying it: - A group of folks has designed an IP _option_ they intend to use - They have documented the option

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Hans Kruse
But the refusal of a code point is not effective, and in fact counter-productive (since the option will indeed be deployed, you just won't know what code point it self-assigned). On Jun 28, 2005, at 23:10, Keith Moore wrote: those are both valid concerns, but relatively minor concerns

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Keith Moore
Hans Kruse wrote: But the refusal of a code point is not effective, and in fact counter-productive (since the option will indeed be deployed, you just won't know what code point it self-assigned). that's not true in general. each situation is different. the alternative - to blindly assign

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Dave Crocker
we need to allow IESG to use some discretion here. what *kind* of discretion? should we allow the IESG the discretion to decide what they like or don't like and then allow them the authority to make the decision based on that? or, should we allow the IESG the discretion to note

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
As a matter of information, my habit is to ignore messages under a given subject field that discuss something else, e.g. messages under a header like 'RFC 2434 term IESG approval' that actually discuss language tags. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Larry, One thing that may not be immediately obvious is that if the IETF reviews a contribution (whether it's an Internet-Draft or an email), it automatically falls under IETF IPR rules. Alternatively, if another SDO sends a liaison requesting IETF review of their document, we presume that the

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Bradner
Yakov asks: What was the reason(s) the request was made for an assignment that required IESG Approval, rather than either Specification Required or First Come First Serve ? it semed to be the right thing at the time it seemed to be too lose to have the IETF out of the loop when changing one

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-29 Thread Sam Hartman
John, as I understand it, the IESG believed it was turning down this specific request. The IESG believes this option will never be assigned through the IESG review process. I don't think the IESG did turn down the option of IETF consensus nor the option of standards action. I do not believe the

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Keith Moore
we need to allow IESG to use some discretion here. what *kind* of discretion? should we allow the IESG the discretion to decide what they like or don't like and then allow them the authority to make the decision based on that? IESG should have discretion to evaluate such

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Bradner
Margaret sed: Personally, I think that if the IETF doesn't want to give the IESG the right to approve (and refuse to approve) the allocation of IP options, then the IETF should update RFC 2780. for what it's worth (speaking as an IETFer, forment IESGer co-author of RFC2780) - to me its

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Scott, I agree that this would be a reasonable process, but wouldn't that be IETF Consensus (an entirely separate choice in RFC 2434 from IESG Approval)? I said that I was confused... and this is the main point that is confusing me. The arguments against what the IESG has done seem,

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Scott Bradner
I agree that this would be a reasonable process, but wouldn't that be IETF Consensus (an entirely separate choice in RFC 2434 from IESG Approval)? see RFC 2434 IETF Consensus - New values are assigned through the IETF consensus process. Specifically, new assignments are

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Scott, RFCs are made to be adapted to needs. The question should be what do we want?. I think the response is to experiment. This means that every registry should include an ad-experimendam area. If the experimentation is OK it will permit to document the allocation of a code point

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread grenville armitage
Values for the IPv6 Hop-by-Hop Options and Destination Options fields are allocated using an IESG Approval, IETF Consensus or Standards Action processes. I read that as suggesting, in order, the groups who could _allocate_ a new codepoint without requiring further review. But _not_

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-29 Thread Hans Kruse
Margaret, my concerns (and those of others) are a bit different I think. Again, I see what happened as: 1. A non-IETF standard is being developed. 2. The standard is being reviewed by another organization. 3. The group working on the standard requests a code point from IANA The IESG review

RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
(Changing the subject and flushing most of the CCs including the IESG. They will probably read it anyway.) As the other co-author of 2434, I want to point out that the term IESG Approval was not invented by 2434. In fact, a simple-minded grep for iesg approval shows that RFC 2048, the first

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yakov Rekhter wrote: Ned, To state that somewhat differently, since we cannot effectively prohibit the deployment of an extension or option of which the IETF disapproves, the best things we can do for the Internet are make it as easy as possible to identify the use of the extension so it can

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts
Ned, The document on my packet.cc web site is certenatly close enough to the final ITU documents attached (which I sent to Brian) that there should be no trouble reviewing it for the concepts. The attached documents are the latest ITU documents and the TIA 1039 document is identical in content.

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 28 June, 2005 09:37 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... In fact, a simple-minded grep for iesg approval shows that RFC 2048, the first MIME registration procedures, was the first to use it, 2 years earlier; that only shows where I cribbed the term from, I

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph Droms
Brian - I think part of my difficulty in understanding what has transpired is that the process was truly invisible and what little written record exists is misleading. I now infer that the initial entry in the minutes of the IESG meeting of 2005-04-14 records that Allison took responsibility for

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, juni 28, 2005 07:39:35 -0400 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To preview what would otherwise be a discussion on the new I-D, here we disagree, for two reasons: (i) For some registrations, especially those for which there are no alternate registration

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
My personal opinion is that it's quite reasonable to require IESG approval of an IP-level option. IMHO the IESG should solicit public input before making such a decision, probably in the form of a Last Call. But the potential for harm is such that somebody needs to have the ability to say

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, The presence of the X- option, and the fact that it can be used among consenting parties without loss of function, puts both of the cases you mention into the area of refusal means a different choice of category not refusal encourages the behavior to occur without proper identification.

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Jari Arkko
Harald, I have no strong opinion about the IPv6 hop-by-hop header in question. But I don't want to (effectively) remove the ability to refuse registration - I think we'll pay a high price for that later. I tend to agree. To me, IESG Approval in an IANA considerations text means that we expect

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph Droms
John - as a concrete example of the problem you describe, the dhc WG perceived that there was a looming problem with exhaustion of the DHCP option code space. So, we wrote up a procedure (RFC 2939) requiring documentation of new options in an RFC, implying technical review by the dhc WG. Now, we

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph Droms
Allison... On Sun, 2005-06-26 at 10:22 -0700, Allison Mankin wrote: Ralph, Under RFC 2780, IPv6 hop-by-hop option numbers are granted either with an approved IETF document, or an IESG review. It seems that neither the reference to IESG review in RFC 2780, nor the definition of IESG review

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts
Scott, The discussion in SG12 was where the work should be done. The concept was accepted but, being a QoS group, the details were left for SG13. The submission to SG 13 was slightly improved, but how much was from the discussion I am not clear about. But thats the function of such meetings. I

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Ralph, Are you saying that the vendor community interprets registration delay as damage, and routes around it? Spencer John - as a concrete example of the problem you describe, the dhc WG perceived that there was a looming problem with exhaustion of the DHCP option code space. So, we

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
Ralph, Are you saying that the vendor community interprets registration delay as damage, and routes around it? or maybe, the vendor community insists on inflicting damage? Keith ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 00:15, Scott W Brim wrote: In SG13 there was considerable debate, and at the end the group *allowed* exploration of the topic through development through a new draft recommendation. assuming, for sake of argument, that the general proposal makes sense[1], it sounds like

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph Droms
Bill... On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 10:23 -0400, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-28 at 00:15, Scott W Brim wrote: In SG13 there was considerable debate, and at the end the group *allowed* exploration of the topic through development through a new draft recommendation. assuming, for

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Dave Crocker
We can reasonably delegate a determination of definitional adequacy to an individual, but decisions about good or bad, or recommendations to use or not use something, require community consensus. nice, simple language. seems to capture the distinction --

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 28 Jun 2005 10:23:47 -0400 From:Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | assigning a final IPv6 option codepoint might actually be | counterproductive (as early behavior might be cast in code, concrete, or | silicon and forever

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
We can reasonably delegate a determination of definitional adequacy to an individual, but decisions about good or bad, or recommendations to use or not use something, require community consensus. nice, simple language. seems to capture the distinction -- and the

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 14:37 28/06/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: 1) The language tag reviewer (a designated expert) rejected the tag es-americas after due debate on the ietf-languages mailing list. (Debate led to the same functionality now being registered as es-419. That namespace also allows for use of x-

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 28 Jun 2005 00:16:56 +0200 From:Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Yakov Rekhter wrote: | What was the reason(s) the request was made for an assignment | that required IESG Approval, rather than either Specification

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Hinden
Keith, At 05:40 AM 06/28/2005, Keith Moore wrote: My personal opinion is that it's quite reasonable to require IESG approval of an IP-level option. IMHO the IESG should solicit public input before making such a decision, probably in the form of a Last Call. But the potential for harm is

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Ralph Droms
Allison - in pervious e-mail to you, I made the statement blaming the tools is a pretty lame excuse, which makes several unwarranted assumptions about motivations and the constraints within which the IESG works. I could have expressed my frustration with the lack of clarity and detail in the

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Rob, | is whether the proposed mechanism will interfere | with existing or other proposed mechanisms. This is totally irrelevant. We're talking about an option. Options, by their very nature are optional. If use of an option interferes with some other processing that you require,

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread John C Klensin
Eliot, There are at least two things that are wrong with the model you describe below,... (1) The assignment of address space, and the whole notion of private networks with specialized space, are not just options to a protocol, regardless of whatever else they

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 28 Jun 2005 20:13:20 +0200 From:Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Let's look at an analogy that worked just as you suggest: the assignment | of 10/8 172.16/16 and 192.168/16 in RFC 1597. They'e not options. There's no

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, June 28, 2005 09:48 -0700 Bob Hinden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith, At 05:40 AM 06/28/2005, Keith Moore wrote: My personal opinion is that it's quite reasonable to require IESG approval of an IP-level option. IMHO the IESG should solicit public input before making such a

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Randy Presuhn
Subject: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option) ... 2. this concerned list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) is not an IETF list, but an Harald Alvestrand's private mailing list. At least this what Harald told me, to be able to ban me, without proper

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Please see below: Whether that discussion amounted to consensus or not I wouldn't like to say after all of this time, but it certainly occurred. Not publicly. Certainly there was a problem. Indeed someone (I forget who) had made a request for a /8, which forced the issue. | What

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
_However_ if some rogue group comes along (and I hope that we are a long distance from where Larry Roberts would be considered a rogue group, even though I have disagreed about some things he has advocated in the past and may do so in the future) and has the resources and commitment to

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, I'm probably replying out of sequence, and I'll say this once again only: I don't believe that the IESG is entitled, under the BCP in force, to authorise the IANA to assign a hop by hop option number to a usage that we believe clearly needs IETF technical review. So we don't go to question

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread grenville armitage
Keith Moore wrote: [..] Basically I think we need to do whatever will be most effective at discouraging the bad idea. If that means any of the following: - not registering the idea, or - registering the idea and clearly marking it as bad, or - delaying registration of the idea until

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Joel M. Halpern
To whatever small degree it matters, I agree with Brian on this. There have been many clear statements indicating that the writer believes that the policy in force for the allocation of these code points is wrong. The policy may be right, and it may be wrong. But that is not the point. But

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
This is a beautifull troll :-) However the good of the WG-ltru work calls for short comments where we will probably partly agree. At 22:23 28/06/2005, Randy Presuhn wrote: The review of the management of the IANA langtag registry is subject to the work of the WG-ltru.

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
In this case 'the idea' was we would like an option code point assigned. if that's all there is to the proposal, it should be rejected out-of-hand without discussion. I'd have thoughth the discussion should have been about whether there was an intention of deployment by the requestor (the

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Thomas J. Hruska
John C Klensin wrote: [..] snip But the notion that the IETF can prevent something from happening or being deployed by declining to register it, or by turning our collective backs on it without any real explanation -- even at the waist of the hourglass-- is, in this world, just

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread grenville armitage
Keith Moore wrote: In this case 'the idea' was we would like an option code point assigned. if that's all there is to the proposal, it should be rejected out-of-hand without discussion. who said that's all there was to the proposal? there was clearly a proposed use. but the use factors

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
In this case 'the idea' was we would like an option code point assigned. if that's all there is to the proposal, it should be rejected out-of-hand without discussion. who said that's all there was to the proposal? there was clearly a proposed use. but the use factors into the question only

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-28 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Tue, 28 Jun 2005 23:21:35 +0200 From:Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Not publicly. Certainly there was a problem. Indeed someone (I forget | who) had made a request for a /8, which forced the issue. At the time 1597 was being

Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Randy Presuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 5:11 PM Subject: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option) ... Some members are linguists by training

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
procedures. Steve Silverman -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [ mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Ralph Droms Sent: Friday, June 24, 2005 6:42 PM To: IESG Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; IETF Announcement list Subject: Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Dave Crocker
Vinton G. Cerf wrote: I want to clarify something here. IANA is not at fault. It submits requests like this to IESG to assure that there is consistency in standards work. In the past there have been attempts to circumvent standards work that is under way by directly submitting requests to

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ralph, I'm not sure I understand your question. This is the IETF so we take decisions by on line deliberation inside the IESG just as much as any WG does, and the minutes or IESG announcements are the public record. And this decision, and the formulation of the response to IANA and the

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Barbara Roseman
All, To address some misunderstandings of IANA's role in this action, Dr. Roberts requested a hop-by-hop option number from section 5b in the following registry: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-parameters. Currently, the registration rule for this particular registry is IESG Approval,

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Thomas Narten
On one point (since it was mentioned in other thread as well): (ii) For the reasons above and in my earlier note, I think the IESG, and the IETF more broadly, must exert great caution in rejecting a registration request and must exert that caution in public. For example, the language of

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Yakov Rekhter
Ned, To state that somewhat differently, since we cannot effectively prohibit the deployment of an extension or option of which the IETF disapproves, the best things we can do for the Internet are make it as easy as possible to identify the use of the extension so it can be effectively

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Vinton G. Cerf wrote: I want to clarify something here. IANA is not at fault. It submits requests like this to IESG to assure that there is consistency in standards work. In the past there have been attempts to circumvent standards work that is under way by directly

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 27 June, 2005 17:00 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The debate (except that since the work hadn't been brought to the IETF, the debate hasn't happened) is whether the proposed mechanism will interfere with existing or other proposed mechanisms. It isn't about

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 27 Jun 2005 17:00:22 +0200 From:Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The debate (except that since the work hadn't been brought to the IETF, | the debate hasn't happened) Except that it has been reported that the work was

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 27 Jun 2005 09:26:46 -0700 From:Barbara Roseman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | To address some misunderstandings of IANA's role in this action, [...] I hadn't actually noted any. As best I can recall, there neither has been, nor

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Scott W Brim
On Sat, Jun 25, 2005 12:30:44PM -0700, Dr. Lawrence G. Roberts allegedly wrote: Steve, Thank you for your thoughts. I am not sure about the next step, but I can clarify some of the points that were unclear. British Telecom submitted it to the ITU SG12 in January and we had unanimous

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Mon, 27 Jun 2005 13:28:24 -0400 From:Thomas Narten [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | What 2434 says about IESG approval is: | |IESG Approval - New assignments must be approved by the IESG, but | there is no requirement

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Vinton G. Cerf wrote: I want to clarify something here. IANA is not at fault. It submits requests like this to IESG to assure that there is consistency in standards work. In the past there have been attempts to circumvent standards work that is under way by directly submitting requests to IANA

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ralph, Ralph Droms wrote: I'd like to understand the process through which Dr. Roberts' request was reviewed. The first reference I can find to Dr. Roberts' request is in the 2005-04-14 minutes of the IESG (https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/view_telechat_minute.cgi? command=view_minuteid=318

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John Leslie wrote: Thomas Narten [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... The right thing to do is to have this document reviewed proper in the IETF and then let the IETF decide what it wants to do with it. Then why don't we do that? There has never been an Internet-Draft or other form of IETF

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