RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread l.wood
...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even without attending, although you would need to collaborate with some people who do go. But pushing a new

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread Yoav Nir
: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even without attending, although you would need to collaborate with some people who do go. But pushing a new technology requires team building anyway

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread Joe Touch
On 4/19/2013 2:02 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even without attending, IETF work officially happens on IETF lists, not at in-person meetings. As per the Tao of the IETF: Any decision made at a face-to-face meeting must also

RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread l.wood
@ietf.org Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has several co-authors that I recognize as current goers. You also have a current draft with several co-authors, but I have no idea

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
2013 15:18 To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) Looking in Jari's statistics site, you have three RFCs. One of those has several co-authors that I recognize as current

RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread l.wood
: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Yoav Nir
:38 To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before (http

RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread l.wood
@ietf.org Subject: Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) Not entirely true. It is true that getting management positions (chairs, AD, NomCom) requires meeting attendance. But a non-attender can get recognition for quality technical points, and can even

RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Yoav Nir
...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review) I've written RFCs without attending meetings; easy to do if the work is a aligned with a workgroup. That's fine if you're happy to be a technical resource with skills to be drawn upon

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 18, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: but you can become prominent in the sense that people might say this document hasn't had enough review. Let's ask so-and-so to read it Yes, it's worth noting that working group chairs are often desperate for people about whom

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-17 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but in the current context it bears repeating:

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-16 Thread Dale R. Worley
How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the manager's decisions or performance? It is IMO the *obligation* of a professional to call his manager on wrong decisions or performance. I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but in the current context it bears repeating: Here in the IETF we accept that low-status

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread t . p .
] On Behalf Of t.p. [daedu...@btconnect.com] Sent: 12 April 2013 21:52 To: Arturo Servin; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review - Original Message - From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:28 PM Not answering any particular

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Jari Arkko
Responding to various people in one e-mail. To summarise, we have procedures that say what kinds of Discusses are appropriate, and personal engineering preferences are not. Legitimate issues should be raised, however, and in the case of most big issues, the right approach would be to send a

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Andy Bierman
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 5:27 PM, Fred Baker (fred) f...@cisco.com wrote: In my opinion, some individual ADs seem to, from their behavior, feel that they have not done their jobs unless they have raised a discuss. The one that took the cake for me personally was a discuss raised by a

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-15 Thread Klaas Wierenga
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 8:24 PM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the manager's decisions or performance? Only Owners/shareholders can question managers and staff. IMO, the meeting/list discussions on

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Andy Bierman a...@yumaworks.com wrote: During IESG review, the ADs from other areas should restrict their comments to issues related to their area. The final review should avoid changes made which are feature redesigns or feature enhancements, and limit changes

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 15/04/2013 15:23, Ted Lemon wrote: ... So in practice, although I feel great sympathy for this position, I think it's mistaken. I want the other ADs to comment on anything that they notice that looks like a problem. There's an important class of problem that can only be found by

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Apr 15, 2013, at 7:45 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 15/04/2013 15:23, Ted Lemon wrote: ... So in practice, although I feel great sympathy for this position, I think it's mistaken. I want the other ADs to comment on anything that they notice that looks

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Joe Touch
On 4/15/2013 7:23 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: So it's hard to see the harm in [late non-area input by the IESG], It gives the IESG an exemption to participating in WG and IESG last call processes, which then frustrates the rest of the community that does not have this opportunity. It says that

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: It gives the IESG an exemption to participating in WG and IESG last call processes, which then frustrates the rest of the community that does not have this opportunity. You could equally say that the IETF last call frustrates the

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 15/04/13 15:45, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 15/04/2013 15:23, Ted Lemon wrote: ... So in practice, although I feel great sympathy for this position, I think it's mistaken. I want the other ADs to comment on anything that they notice that looks like a problem. There's an important class

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Michael Richardson
Ted == Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com writes: Ted You could equally say that the IETF last call frustrates the WG Ted process, since a document can fail IETF last call, and this can Ted be extremely frustrating for working groups. Witness the Ted fiasco in the MIF working

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Joe Touch
On Apr 15, 2013, at 9:09 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: It gives the IESG an exemption to participating in WG and IESG last call processes, which then frustrates the rest of the community that does not have this

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 15, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: Maybe we should have an IETF first call (for objections), rather than last call. I think that would look a lot like a DoS attack on the IETF, but it would be nice if there were a way to make it work.

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 04/15/2013 05:26 PM, Joe Touch wrote: We can continue to appoint groups with additional rounds of review, but IMO, they are scoped (and the IESG review guidance appears to back up that point). I think Joe is correct there. Another data point is that we asked secdir (who currently have an

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-14 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Murray, I don't want me, you or anyother volunteer to leave, but also don't want IESG memebrs to leave. I don't disagree with the concept of discussing with managers or in the IETF to discuss with IESG (against indirect methods of doing that). Please don't ignore that the first message and all

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-13 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Arturo, and all, (sorry that this message is long but I want to make this my last post on the subject) The reason of this message/subject is that I want to avoid some group working together to achieve their purpose (while they may be fogetting the IETF purpose) within a WG. If I am a company

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-13 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
, IMO. -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 3:19 PM To: Abdussalam Baryun; ietf Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review --On Friday, April 12, 2013 20:24 +0100 Abdussalam Baryun

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of t.p. [daedu...@btconnect.com] Sent: 12 April 2013 21:52 To: Arturo Servin; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-13 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 12/04/2013 14:17, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-13 Thread Stewart Bryant
AB Have you considered that the key thing to remember in the IETF is that: Foo is broken because of (carefully reasoned) Bar always trumps Foo is OK because of who I am ... and of course vise versa. Thus in the IETF influence is a function of the ability to carefully construct a well reasoned

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, April 12, 2013 23:50 + Pat Thaler ptha...@broadcom.com wrote: +1 on for John's response. I will argue with my manager if I think they are wrong and I've gotten positive results from giving managers feedback on their performance. Of course, disagreeing with management

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-13 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 12:24 PM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the manager's decisions or performance? Only Owners/shareholders can question managers and staff. IMO, the meeting/list discussions on any

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread John Leslie
Fred Baker (fred) f...@cisco.com wrote: Also, in my opinion, IESG review that raises a certain number of issues should not result in the document sitting in the IESG's queue for a few months while the authors go back and forth with the AD or the GEN-ART reviewer pounding the document into

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review by the IESG does serve a purpose. IMHO, if the IESG members sticks to their own criteria at

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Reply to below message The subject SHOULD be: Evaluating Review Process Performance I prefer the Subject is: Evaluating WG input, the WG review process, and the WG output, NOT IESG review. Hi Joe, My

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/12/2013 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review by the IESG does serve a purpose. Brian, Of course it serves a

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review by the IESG does serve a

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 12/04/2013 14:17, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review,

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review by the IESG does serve a purpose. I'm currently seeing a document with some serious

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I have no interest in or knowledge of the technical details, but there is a pretty complicated DISCUSS against this draft, which doesn't look like rubber-stamping to me: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2560bis/ballot/ I assume you've already let the IESG know about the defects

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: I'm currently seeing a document with some serious defects in IETF Last Call (rfc2560bis) and an apparent desire to have it Rubberstamped by the IESG (recycling at Proposed Standard). FWIW, I raised the same question during IESG

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: I have no interest in or knowledge of the technical details, but there is a pretty complicated DISCUSS against this draft, which doesn't look like rubber-stamping to me: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2560bis/ballot/ I assume you've already let

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the manager's decisions or performance? Only Owners/shareholders can question managers and staff. IMO, the meeting/list discussions on any issue without an I-D written is the staff talking/working. If you write an I-D and to

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
Not answering any particular post. Just a comment. The IESG should be there to attest that the IETF procedure was followed and the document reached consensus in the WG and in the IETF LC and it was successfully reviewed by the Gen-ART. If it wasn't then this particular process

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 11:28 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: But if a single individual of the IESG can technically challenge and change the work of a whole WG and the IETF, then we have something wrong in our process because that means that the document had a serious problem and we didn't spot it in the

The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
I just change the subject because I still beleive the problem with review is in the WG not IESG. Some WGs have few reviews on each WG document, that may not be bad, but I think having only one review or comment (excluding authors) within a WGLC is wrong in a WG review process. I think WG chair can

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/12/13 4:32 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 4/12/2013 11:28 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: But if a single individual of the IESG can technically challenge and change the work of a whole WG and the IETF, then we have something wrong in our process because that means that the document had a

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/12/13 4:58 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: I just change the subject because I still beleive the problem with review is in the WG not IESG. Some WGs have few reviews on each WG document, that may not be bad, but I think having only one review or comment (excluding authors) within a WGLC is

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:28 PM Not answering any particular post. Just a comment. The IESG should be there to attest that the IETF procedure was followed and the document reached consensus in the

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/12/13 5:52 PM, t.p. wrote: - Original Message - From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:28 PM Not answering any particular post. Just a comment. The IESG should be there to attest that the IETF procedure was followed and

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, April 12, 2013 20:24 +0100 Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the manager's decisions or performance? In most successful companies, yes. Only Owners/shareholders can question managers and

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Pat Thaler
...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 3:19 PM To: Abdussalam Baryun; ietf Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review --On Friday, April 12, 2013 20:24 +0100 Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: How can a memebr of staff

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread l.wood
. [daedu...@btconnect.com] Sent: 12 April 2013 21:52 To: Arturo Servin; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review - Original Message - From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:28 PM Not answering any particular post. Just a comment

Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, As an author who has had (and has) multiple documents in IESG review, I've noticed an increasing trend of this step to go beyond (IMO) its documented and original intent (BCP 9, currently RFC 2026): The IESG shall determine whether or not a specification submitted to it

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: As an author who has had (and has) multiple documents in IESG review, I've noticed an increasing trend of this step to go beyond (IMO) its documented and original intent (BCP 9, currently RFC 2026): The IESG shall determine

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread l.wood
/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Paul Hoffman [paul.hoff...@vpnc.org] Sent: 11 April 2013 19:55 To: Joe Touch Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Adrian Farrel
: 11 April 2013 19:55 To: Joe Touch Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: Purpose of IESG Review On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: As an author who has had (and has) multiple documents in IESG review, I've noticed an increasing trend of this step to go beyond (IMO

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread John Leslie
l.w...@surrey.ac.uk l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: +1 to Joe's comment. Example: the existence of the extensibility bit in multipath tcp, which i understand came out of a review by the iesg member responsible for security. I assume you're talking RFC 6824. I recommend reading the Narrative

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Adrian Farrel
@ietf.org Subject: RE: Purpose of IESG Review Hi Ian, Examples are useful because they give the IESG something to chew on. If you don't call us when we do bad stuff we might never know. Examples can be dangerous because we can rat-hole into the specific rather than the general, but i would

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Joe Touch
On 4/11/2013 11:55 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Apr 11, 2013, at 10:54 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: As an author who has had (and has) multiple documents in IESG review, I've noticed an increasing trend of this step to go beyond (IMO) its documented and original intent (BCP 9,

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
In my opinion, some individual ADs seem to, from their behavior, feel that they have not done their jobs unless they have raised a discuss. The one that took the cake for me personally was a discuss raised by a particular AD (who shall remain nameless) that in essence wondered what he should