Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jan 8, 2008, at 4:22 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: On 2008-1-3, at 11:11, ext Stewart Bryant wrote: Wouldn't Bittorrent fail congestion considerations review? Since Bittorrent is heavily used now by endusers and is likely to be used by commercial enterprises (either as is, or with

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-08 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
or vice versa for the sake of prettification then its not likely to happen. From: Marshall Eubanks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 08/01/2008 5:56 AM To: Lars Eggert Cc: 'Tony Finch'; Ping Pan; 'IETF discussion list'; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Deployment

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread Stewart Bryant
Ping Pan wrote: Exactly! It is one impressive spec: clean and simple. Looking at its adaptation, I wonder why in the world it was not adapted and done in IETF. On the other hand, it may take too long in IETF, and would require extensive debate over architecture, framework, requirements... ;-) -

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread Jeroen Massar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unless I've missed something recent, the IETF did not do a lot of work on the scenario where IPv4 islands need to communicate over an IPv6 Internet, talking to both IPv4 and IPv6 services. It is called dual-stack. That seems to simply ignore the issue by saying,

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread michael.dillon
Unless I've missed something recent, the IETF did not do a lot of work on the scenario where IPv4 islands need to communicate over an IPv6 Internet, talking to both IPv4 and IPv6 services. It is called dual-stack. That seems to simply ignore the issue by saying, let there be IPv4

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Sandisc. Yes, whole industries can and do march right off a cliff in lockstep even when they see the cliff comming. From: Jeroen Massar [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 03/01/2008 5:44 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Deployment Cases

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 3 jan 2008, at 17:30, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Yes, as you point out the generic answer to the problem is NAT-PT which was recently squashed after a cabal got together. I think the second v6ops meeting in Vancouver showed a decent amount of interest in resurrecting it again. (This

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-01-04 05:30, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Yes, as you point out the generic answer to the problem is NAT-PT which was recently squashed after a cabal got together. That's a bizarre statement. Which of the technical arguments in RFC 4966 are you referring to as being products of a

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-03 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
it is 100% transparent to application developers and end users. From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 03/01/2008 2:42 PM To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip Cc: Jeroen Massar; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Deployment Cases On 2008-01

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I think the questions of precedence, scope, etc. are interesting but not particularly on point. In may view there are two types of work the IETF performs: Infrastructure and Functional. Most IETF protocols fall into the functional category. They may be building blocks for other protocols to

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
and even fewer care about. From: Ping Pan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tue 01/01/2008 11:00 PM To: 'Franck Martin' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'IETF discussion list' Subject: RE: Deployment Cases Personally, I don't believe in any authority telling me what's needed

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2 jan 2008, at 17:16, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Another difference with IP is that the IETF is competing with its past success. What made IPv4 successful is also the reason that end users are reluctant to change. There is a major difference between reseach and development. IPv4 was

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread Ping Pan
-Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 02, 2008 10:32 AM To: Tony Finch Cc: Ping Pan; 'IETF discussion list' Subject: Re: Deployment Cases Tony Finch wrote: On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Ping Pan wrote: Another place that needs some serious help

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread michael.dillon
The reason I am proposing deployment cases is that while I beleive that #1 is the ultimate end state I also believe the same of PKI and cryptographic security systems. There is no technology developed in computer science that provides a more compelling intellectual case ...to computer

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread Jeroen Massar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [..] Unless I've missed something recent, the IETF did not do a lot of work on the scenario where IPv4 islands need to communicate over an IPv6 Internet, talking to both IPv4 and IPv6 services. It is called dual-stack. One will have IPv4 NAT and IPv6 e2e. This is

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-02 Thread Tony Hansen
Dave Crocker wrote: Well, that's such a reasonable question, I did a subjective review of Proposed Standard RFCs for the last number of years -- ignoring that most recent and going back to rougly RFC 2500 -- looking for acronyms that were for significant IETF-generated efforts. ... A

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Julian Reschke
Dave Crocker wrote: Well, that's such a reasonable question, I did a subjective review of Proposed Standard RFCs for the last number of years -- ignoring that most recent and going back to rougly RFC 2500 -- looking for acronyms that were for significant IETF-generated efforts. ... I'd also

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Dave Crocker
Folks, Felíx Año Nuevo. From some feedback, here are changes to the list. I'm adding guesses about the current degree of success each has had. Please take it as a request to comment, whether you agree or disagree, as well as a request to add items. However, besides indicating a simple

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Dave, RTP is implemented and used in millions of devices, including just about all enterprise VoIP systems and H.323. Not as widely used for streaming, from what I can tell. There are obviously other IETF streaming and VoIP technologies with RFC # 2500 that are seeing large-scale use,

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 31 dec 2007, at 21:09, Dave Crocker wrote: I don't think that's valid statistics: obviously many of the protocols in question were already successful before they were given to the IETF, which isn't necessarily the case for protocols developed in-house. That's the point: protocols

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Dave Crocker
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: There are obviously other IETF streaming and VoIP technologies with RFC # 2500 that are seeing large-scale use, including SIP, SDP, MGCP and RTSP, both in the enterprise and across closed and open IP networks. SIP does seem to have reached critical mass for

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Dave Crocker
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: But you missed my point, which is that stuff brought to the IETF will almost certainly already have some measure of success, while stuff developed within the IETF doesn't, because it's completely new. To make that comparison fair, we'd have to compare work

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Dave Crocker
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: But you missed my point, which is that stuff brought to the IETF will almost certainly already have some measure of success, while stuff developed within the IETF doesn't, because it's completely new. To make that comparison fair, we'd have to compare work

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 1 Jan 2008, Dave Crocker wrote: IMAP4 Success within organizations? Not much between? Lots between. It's common for IMAP clients to access remote message stores across organizational boundaries. The work on remote message submission (RFCs 4409 and 5068) are complementary to

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 12:46:08PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: In other words, I believe IMAP gets used as a MAPI surrogate, but not as a general-purpose means of accessing mailboxes supplied by consumer-oriented service providers. Those providers usually make IMAP available, but my sense is

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Dave Crocker
Theodore Tso wrote: On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 12:46:08PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: In other words, I believe IMAP gets used as a MAPI surrogate, but not as a general-purpose means of accessing mailboxes supplied by consumer-oriented service providers. Those providers usually make IMAP

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 2 jan 2008, at 0:01, Dave Crocker wrote: You and I and pretty much everyone reading this email are not representative of the broader Internet community. So the question is how to document the assessment that lots of people do use IMAP. What was the purpose of this dicussion again? If

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
So the question is how to document the assessment that lots of people do use IMAP. Start to ask oufits like https://www.imap4all.com/ but what is the poinmt of this discussion anyway? jaap ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Deployment cases

2008-01-01 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Jan 01, 2008 at 03:01:04PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: You and I and pretty much everyone reading this email are not representative of the broader Internet community. So the question is how to document the assessment that lots of people do use IMAP. So all of the people who wanted

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Ping Pan
-Original Message- From: Dave Crocker [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 11:45 AM From outside IETF: XMPP iSCSI MPLS Dave, MPLS is an IP technology that has been largely driven inside IETF. Millions of users have benefited from the backbones

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Franck Martin
Isn't it the role of the IRTF/IAB/? to look at which areas should the IETF put more effort into? Is there some kind of vision, road map, looking forward? A wish list, which would stay as a wish list pending people willingness to work on the items. I think there is a need to analyse

RE: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Ping Pan
regards, - Ping _ From: Franck Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:09 PM To: Ping Pan Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'IETF discussion list' Subject: Re: Deployment Cases Isn't it the role of the IRTF/IAB/? to look at which areas should the IETF put more

Re: Deployment Cases

2008-01-01 Thread Franck Martin
*From:* Franck Martin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] *Sent:* Tuesday, January 01, 2008 7:09 PM *To:* Ping Pan *Cc:* [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'IETF discussion list' *Subject:* Re: Deployment Cases Isn't it the role of the IRTF/IAB/? to look at which areas should the IETF

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28 dec 2007, at 7:41, Franck Martin wrote: The What makes a protocol successful presentation, shows that the best protocols are the ones given to IETF for it to refine and complete. They have already a user pull when they reach IETF. I don't think that's valid statistics: obviously many of

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Crocker
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28 dec 2007, at 7:41, Franck Martin wrote: The What makes a protocol successful presentation, shows that the best protocols are the ones given to IETF for it to refine and complete. They have already a user pull when they reach IETF. I don't think that's

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
I think this whole discussion would benefit from some concrete examples. What wholly new protocols has the IETF developed in the past decade? Which ones would you consider successful or not? Almost by necessity, newer protocols tend to cover niches, relatively speaking, as opposed to broad

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Dave Crocker
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: I think this whole discussion would benefit from some concrete examples. What wholly new protocols has the IETF developed in the past decade? Which ones would you consider successful or not? Well, that's such a reasonable question, I did a subjective review of

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Thanks for the list; the cut-off point is probably somewhat subjective, but I see at least several protocols on the list that one can consider reasonably successful, as in having several well-known implementations, shipping as part of common desktop or server operating systems, references

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Franck Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I thought XMPP came from outside (www.jabber.org)? Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Thanks for the list; the cut-off point is probably somewhat subjective, but I see at least several protocols on the list that one can consider reasonably successful, as

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-31 Thread Ned Freed
I thought XMPP came from outside (www.jabber.org)? I believe that's correct. Sieve is another interesting case. It was originally developed at the IETF but not by the IETF, in that there were various informal meetings where it was designed but the initial documents were all individual

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-30 Thread TS Glassey
they constrain.. Todd Glassey - Original Message - From: Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, December 27, 2007 4:35 PM Subject: RE: Deployment Cases However we do need to have a basis for believing that the work we are doing

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Re: Deployment CasesPhil, I think I kinda do see what Brian's point is. I don't think it should be a conversation-ender, but Brian is pointing out an issue that we need to work through... As an organization of individuals developing protocol specifications - that's who we are, and that's what

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I don't want to repeat myself unduly, but I believe that the IETF is institutionally incapable of taking this type of approach, for exactly the same reasons that's it's quite good at doing protocol design. I think that the organisations that do emphasise business cases and deployment have a

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-27 Thread Dave Crocker
Spencer Dawkins wrote: I think I kinda do see what Brian's point is. ... As an organization of individuals developing protocol specifications - that's who we are, and that's what we do - we don't even have a natural way to interact with operators, ... I think Brian is saying the same thing

RE: Deployment Cases

2007-12-27 Thread Christian Huitema
However we do need to have a basis for believing that the work we are doing will actually get used. We went through that many times. The best way we have found so far is to verify that the proposed working group has a sufficient constituency. This has the advantage of not requiring economic

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-27 Thread Dave Crocker
Christian Huitema wrote: However we do need to have a basis for believing that the work we are doing will actually get used. We went through that many times. The best way we have found so far is to verify that the proposed working group has a sufficient constituency. This has the advantage

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-27 Thread Franck Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 The problem is not to produce specifications, but to get them used. The What makes a protocol successful presentation, shows that the best protocols are the ones given to IETF for it to refine and complete. They have already a user pull when they

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-26 Thread Franck Martin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian et al, I remember Vint told me in the early days, he had to pay people to develop a TCP/IP stack on various OSes. This is how partly he got adoption and interoperability. While it is not the role of IETF to do that, I feel part of the solution

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-26 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Wireless Handheld (www.good.com) -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 26, 2007 12:32 PM Pacific Standard Time To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject:Re: Deployment Cases Phill, On 2007-12-24 07:32

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-24 Thread Rémi Després
Yes the 6to4rd technology is the one I will soon describe in an Internet Draft. Incidentally, its proposed name is likely to change: its purpose (rapid deployment of Ipv6 on IPv4 infrastructures) is too different from that of 6to4 (Connection of IPv6 Domains via IPv4 Clouds). Regards and

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-23 Thread Rémi Després
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote : *Problem*: We have a lot of specifications that work fine, but have not seen deployment That's coming. See: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?id=196198 And, if you read French: http://www.freeplayer.org/viewtopic.php?p=55711#55711 An I-D on the

Re: Deployment Cases

2007-12-23 Thread Marc Manthey
On Dec 23, 2007, at 10:04 PM, Rémi Després wrote: Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote : *Problem*: We have a lot of specifications that work fine, but have not seen deployment That's coming. See: http://www.telecompaper.com/news/article.aspx?id=196198 And, if you read French: