Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-29 Thread Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)
On Tue, 28 May 2002, Melinda Shore wrote: At 02:58 PM 5/28/02 -0500, Pete Resnick wrote: Again, I'm not going to object to using meeting time for this kind of session if that's what's needed. But other than Harald's message, I have not heard anything about this since Minneapolis and have not

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-29 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 28. mai 2002 14:58 -0500 Pete Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Again, I'm not going to object to using meeting time for this kind of session if that's what's needed. But other than Harald's message, I have not heard anything about this since Minneapolis and have not heard folks

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Melinda Shore wrote: ... IPR is increasingly a huge nuisance, and because the current policy is less than completely clear there's a lot of confusion about it when it comes up. I think it's pretty clear. That doesn't mean it doesn't cause confusion, because it certainly does. There is a

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-29 Thread Melinda Shore
At 11:03 AM 5/29/02 +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think it's pretty clear. That doesn't mean it doesn't cause confusion, because it certainly does. There is a strong case for an informational document and presentation to try to get rid of the confusion, but that doesn't need a meeting or a

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-29 Thread Scott Brim
On Wed, May 29, 2002 09:36:44AM -0400, Melinda Shore wrote: Aside from situations in which some competing technologies are encumbered and some are not, we're now finding ourselves in situations where all of the proposed technologies are encumbered but have different licensing terms. I think

Re: IPR Re: IETF 54 calendar (fwd)

2002-05-29 Thread Keith Moore
If what you are asking for is that for every proposal / i-d that shows up in the IETF, the IPR holder is automatically required to provide an RF license, you really don't understand the reason people bother with patents to begin with. doesn't follow. it's entirely possible to understand why

Re: IPR Re: IETF 54 calendar (fwd)

2002-05-29 Thread Marshall Rose
As I recall, RAND was explicitly selected over RF because there are and will be technologies that are interesting to incorporate in a system-wide standard approach, and forcing RF terms would automatically exclude those. There is enough of a bias in the participants toward RF when available,

RE: IPR Re: IETF 54 calendar (fwd)

2002-05-29 Thread Tony Hain
Marshall Rose wrote: As I recall, RAND was explicitly selected over RF because there are and will be technologies that are interesting to incorporate in a system-wide standard approach, and forcing RF terms would automatically exclude those. There is enough of a bias in the

Re: IPR Re: IETF 54 calendar (fwd)

2002-05-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Keith Moore writes: If what you are asking for is that for every proposal / i-d that shows up in the IETF, the IPR holder is automatically required to provide an RF license, you really don't understand the reason people bother with patents to begin with. doesn't

Re: IPR Re: IETF 54 calendar (fwd)

2002-05-29 Thread Keith Moore
doesn't follow. it's entirely possible to understand why people bother with patents and still believe that IETF shouldn't support their use to prevent free implementation of a standard. There's an interesting dilemma here. I know of one case where some IETFers tried *hard* -- and

Re: IPR Re: IETF 54 calendar (fwd)

2002-05-29 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 29 May 2002 15:40:55 PDT, Tony Hain said: Clearly from the responses I didn't make my point in that last paragraph. The original note mentioned VRRP specifically, and in that case the IPR holder didn't bring the proposal to the IETF. The way I read that note, the Free Software

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-28 Thread Marc Blanchet
-- dimanche, mai 26, 2002 20:04:30 +0200 Harald Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote/a écrit: conflict with just about EVERY working group: The meeting that will talk about the IETF procedures for intellectual property rights, including copyright issues and - most ominously - patent issues.

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, May 26, 2002 3:32 PM -0500 Pete Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It seems to me that exactly the same thing can be said about POISSON and it gets along just fine conflicting with other meetings. Actually, Pete, POISSON didn't have a face to face meeting for years, and the

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-28 Thread Keith Moore
- We now have 2 ADs per area. It would certainly be possible to schedule this in such a way that at least one of them can attend, even if it did overlap with other groups. that's a stretch. there are often 2 simultaneous WG meetings in a given area, and there are often meetings in other

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-28 Thread Dave Crocker
At 07:43 PM 5/28/2002 -0400, Keith Moore wrote: putting meetings of general interest in time slots with little competition seems like a good way to do this. That is called a plenary. d/ -- Dave Crocker mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] TribalWise, Inc. http://www.tribalwise.com tel

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-28 Thread Keith Moore
That is called a plenary. so call it a plenary, then. Keith

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
there's a reason POISSON has lately avoided having physical meetings unless it absolutely had to --On 28. mai 2002 08:30 -0700 Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 03:32 PM 5/26/2002 -0500, Pete Resnick wrote: It seems to me that exactly the same thing can be said about POISSON and

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Cedric, as Julie said, we are not scheduling things into Friday before the other slots are full. BUT - Yokohama will probably see one meeting that is, by definition, a conflict with just about EVERY working group: The meeting that will talk about the IETF procedures for intellectual property

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-26 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/26/02 at 8:04 PM +0200, Harald Alvestrand wrote: Yokohama will probably see one meeting that is, by definition, a conflict with just about EVERY working group: The meeting that will talk about the IETF procedures for intellectual property rights, including copyright issues and - most

Re: IETF 54 calendar fireworks

2002-05-26 Thread ggm
I suspect if you haven't already arranged to stay for the fireworks, your chances of finding accommodation are vanishingly small. I've certainly just been told all the IETF recommended hotels have no vacancies for beyond Friday night. cheers -George -- George Michaelson | APNIC

Re: IETF 54 calendar

2002-05-24 Thread Julie Kirchhoff
Cedric - We are do not have anything scheduled on Friday at this point and we are trying to keep it clear. We will, of course, use that time if we have to - if there are so many working groups that need to meet, So, in all likelihood, there will not be meetings on Friday. Thanks for