Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Winter
) the character in question is listed in ISO-8859-1 as NBSP c) consequently displayed a NBSP for me. If your mail reader displayed something else, it is either misconfigured or broken. Please do not use your misconfiguration or broken software as an argument why using a beyond-ASCII character set

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi, As usual, the discussion of ASCII plain text versus beyond-ASCII plain text has been mixed up with the essentially unrelated discussion of plain text versus another format. +1 Stefan Martin Rex mrex at sap dot com wrote: Unicode characters are also a Royal PITA in specs, because

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-03 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org on behalf of John C Klensin Sent: Sun 3/1/2009 10:12 PM To: Patrik Fältström; Dave CROCKER Cc: Hannes Tschofenig; ietf@ietf.org; Lynn St. Amour; dai...@isoc.org Subject: Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why? Patrik, I fear that I need to side

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-03 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
So at this point the rule in the identity space is safety in numbers. The major waring factions are now spending considerable time and effort to show that the war is over and there is going to be a concerted joint effort. Thus ISOC joining liberty does not represent the IETF taking sides in a

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-03 Thread Lynn St . Amour
On Mar 1, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: At Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:59:00 +0200, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-02 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On 1 mrt 2009, at 23:49, Lynn St.Amour wrote: PS. Re: your side note below on the makeup of the ISOC Board, we'll update the list to show the community or mechanism that appoints/ elects Trustees. In the meantime, the IETF appoints 3 Trustees (out of 13, 12 voting and me non-voting).

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-02 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Hannes, Two mostly rhetorical questions... Hannes Tschofenig wrote: As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos Consortium (see

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-02 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi Joel, Hannes, Two mostly rhetorical questions... Hannes Tschofenig wrote: As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-02 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Hannes Tschofenig wrote: Hi Joel, Hannes, Two mostly rhetorical questions... Hannes Tschofenig wrote: As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
folks are very engaged with IETF participants. Is the IETF the right place to do this work? [By 'this' I assume you mean 'work on IdM'] I wonder why you think that the work on identity management could not something the IETF should we focusing on? It could be, but it isn't. We have had

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Lucy Lynch
On Sat, 28 Feb 2009, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: I would like to hear a bit more background about these activities, see https://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/internet_society_j oins_liberty_alliance_management_board Hannes - ISOC hat on As stated in the press release, ISOC

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos Consortium (see http://www.kerberos.org/), as Kerberos is a technology developed within

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
Hannes Tschofenig wrote: Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos Consortium (see http://www.kerberos.org/), as Kerberos is a technology developed within the IETF, or to support technologies like OpenID, OAuth, etc. that are closer

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Patrik Fältström
and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did not join the MIT Kerberos Consortium (see http://www.kerberos.org/), as Kerberos is a technology developed within the IETF, or to support technologies like OpenID, OAuth, etc. that are closer to the Internet

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 2009-03-02 07:17, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... What is particularly interesting to me, about this line of comment, is not whether the relevant IETF-based technologies are superior or whether Can you point me to the IETF WG(s) that are considering identity management as a whole? I know

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dave, On 2009-03-02 07:17, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... What is particularly interesting to me, about this line of comment, is not whether the relevant IETF-based technologies are superior or whether Can you point me to the IETF WG(s) that are considering identity

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-03-02 10:21, Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dave, On 2009-03-02 07:17, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... What is particularly interesting to me, about this line of comment, is not whether the relevant IETF-based technologies are superior or whether Can you point me to the

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread James M. Polk
Brian Taking a loose view of the OSI 7 layer stack for a moment - is there any group that's looking at more than 3 layers? Identity, as you know, can be at layer2 for link access sign on (the IEEE is addressing this area). There's identity associated to an IP address. There's identity

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 1 mar 2009, at 22.21, Dave CROCKER wrote: In any event, if it something ISOC considers worth making a strategic relationship about, and it is likely to entail Internet technical standards, then it would be strange to have the IETF skip dealing with it. As Lycy said, we in ISOC BoT do

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
Patrik Fältström wrote: So I do not think IETF should be the slightest worried ISOC is doing something here without coordination. And without visibility to the IETF. I don't know about anyone else, but I wasn't expressing worry. I was noting that the activity wasn't discussed with the

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Lucy Lynch
snip So I do not think IETF should be the slightest worried ISOC is doing something here without coordination. And without visibility to the IETF. And the more people in IETF is interested on this more meta-level-work than bits on the wire, the higher the quality will be of the work ISOC

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Eran Hammer-Lahav
My concern regarding this announcement is the fact that it gives support to a misguided effort by Liberty Alliance. I think it is somewhat irresponsible for the ISOC to actively support an effort without first engaging the community at large to fully understand the dynamics of the identity

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 2 mar 2009, at 04.12, John C Klensin wrote: I am not suggesting trying to undo this decision, but believe that, as ISOC adds sufficient technically-qualified staff to engage in activities like this on its own, we need to work, collectively, on better ways to facilitate communication in a

Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-02-28 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
I would like to hear a bit more background about these activities, see https://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/internet_society_j oins_liberty_alliance_management_board Thanks! Ciao Hannes ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-02-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Hannes Tschofenig wrote: I would like to hear a bit more background about these activities, see https://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/internet_society_j oins_liberty_alliance_management_board Hannes, that is a very good question. I look forward to clarification from the

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-02-28 Thread DOLLY, MARTIN C, ATTLABS
joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why? Hannes Tschofenig wrote: I would like to hear a bit more background about these activities, see https://www.projectliberty.org/news_events/press_releases/internet_society_j oins_liberty_alliance_management_board Hannes, that is a very good

RE: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Lawrence Rosen
patent claims. They may be as bogus as the hundreds of other patent infringement claims that companies receive letters about every day. OTOH, they may be deadly submarines ready to attack us all. Why don't we organize to answer the patent claim infringement issues like professionals do? Ask technical

Re: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
to attack us all. Why don't we organize to answer the patent claim infringement issues like professionals do? Ask technical experts. Consult a patent attorney. Render expert opinions. Absolutely -- that's everyone's right, privilege, and (arguably) duty. I haven't looked at it myself because I

RE: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
the disadvantages. An effective critique of that judgement _does not_ mean just saying 'encumbered technology is bad', because most of us already agree with that general statement. One would have to understand the details of why they felt that that the advantages of using this particular encumbered

Re: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Marshall Eubanks
just saying 'encumbered technology is bad', because most of us already agree with that general statement. One would have to understand the details of why they felt that that the advantages of using this particular encumbered solution outweighed the obvious disadvantages, and show where

RE: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Lawrence Rosen
Noel Chiappa wrote: I'm not sure I'd really believe any determination short of a court's anyway - attorneys can advise, but until the proverbial butcher-baker- candlestickmaker get their say after a trial, it's got an element of coin-toss to it, no? I respond only to this specific point.

Re: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Steve, On 2009-02-11 08:19, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:59:52 -0800 Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote: Why don't we organize to answer the patent claim infringement issues like professionals do? Ask technical experts. Consult a patent attorney. Render

Re: Why the IETF is irrelevant to the future of e-mail

2008-12-09 Thread John Levine
Nothing personal, but you could hardly ask for a better illustration. For one thing, this isn't a case of broken DNSBLs, it's a case of getting what you asked for. Rather than using shared DNSBLs, this tiny host on a non-profit public access network is desperately trying to run its own spam

Document Action: 'Why Authentication Data suboption is needed for MIP6' to Informational RFC

2008-11-06 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Why Authentication Data suboption is needed for MIP6 ' draft-ietf-mip6-whyauthdataoption-07.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Mobility for IPv6 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Mark

Why we need two seperate tables for inbound and outbound in draft-ietf-pwe3-pw-atm-mib-05.txt

2008-07-11 Thread Murugesan Ramalingam
Hi All, I have a query in the draft Managed Objects for ATM over Packet Switched Network (draft-ietf-pwe3-pw-atm-mib-05.txt) that why there are seperate tables for Inbound (pwAtmInboundNto1Table) and Outbound (pwAtmOutboundNto1Table). Is there any specific reason to have this, please let me

Re: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-03 Thread Arifumi Matsumoto
Rémi Denis-Courmont wrote: Le Monday 01 October 2007 20:50:00 ext Sam Hartman, vous avez écrit : Hi. I opened a ticket with the secretariat a few weeks ago complaining that I cannot reach www.ietf.org using a teredo address either allocated through the Microsoft Teredo server or the Debian

Re: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 1-okt-2007, at 19:50, Sam Hartman wrote: This is annoying because glibc's source address selection algorithm seems to prefer teredo addresses to v4 addresses. So, I get really bad response times to www.ietf.org when using teredo. It would help if vendors implemented the RFC 3484 policy

Re: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-02 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
Le Monday 01 October 2007 20:50:00 ext Sam Hartman, vous avez écrit: Hi. I opened a ticket with the secretariat a few weeks ago complaining that I cannot reach www.ietf.org using a teredo address either allocated through the Microsoft Teredo server or the Debian teredo server. This

Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-01 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi. I opened a ticket with the secretariat a few weeks ago complaining that I cannot reach www.ietf.org using a teredo address either allocated through the Microsoft Teredo server or the Debian teredo server. This is annoying because glibc's source address selection algorithm seems to prefer

Re: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses?

2007-10-01 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
I can work on that. Regards, Jordi De: Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] Responder a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Fecha: Mon, 1 Oct 2007 13:50:00 -0400 (EDT) Para: ietf@ietf.org Asunto: Would someone help the secretariat figure out why they cannot route to teredo addresses? Hi. I opened

RE: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Lawrence Rosen
, 2007 12:20 PM To: Paul Vixie Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point? On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 17:47:46 + Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/09/21/802_11n_patent_threat/, we see: Letters of Assurance

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Simon Josefsson
Lawrence Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Scott Brim responded: I'm with Ted ... let's take this over to ipr-wg. I respectfully disagree with Steven Bellovin and Scott Brim, and ask that we NOT turn this issue back to the IPR-WG unless and until its charter is revised to allow it to

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Chris Elliott wrote: You mean like: Cisco is the owner of US published patent applications 20050154872 and 20050154873 and one or more pending unpublished patent applications relating to the subject matter of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Session Resumption without Server Side State

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:32:21 -0700 Lawrence Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I respectfully disagree with Steven Bellovin and Scott Brim, and ask that we NOT turn this issue back to the IPR-WG unless and until its charter is revised to allow it to *completely revise* IETF's IPR policies with

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Scott Brim
On 26 Sep 2007 at 14:06 +0200, Harald Alvestrand allegedly wrote: Note that if: - Company A has a patent on nanosecond gate opening - Company A has issued the claim above, in conjunction with an IETF standard - Company B has a patent on the application of slow-drying oil paint -

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2007-09-27 03:35, Paul Hoffman wrote: ... At 10:02 AM +0200 9/26/07, Simon Josefsson wrote: Hear, hear. I believe a significant part of the IETF community would agree with Paul Vixie that something similar to what the IEEE have would be very useful for the IETF community as well. When I

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-26 Thread Marc Manthey
good evening , there was an intersting statement a while ago in the apple streaming list that i like to share: --- If you use a technique covered by a patent for your own, private use, you are not obliged to pay royalty fees. -- if you compile sources and build an executable you can then

why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Vixie
won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like it? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Chris Elliott
be applicable to any IEEE standard. Basically they state that the patent owner won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like it? ___ Ietf mailing

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Ted Hardie
they state that the patent owner won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like it? May I point you to the IPR mailing list, where discussions of this nature are in scope? [EMAIL PROTECTED], usual protocol

RE: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Why would you believe that a representation in the press on an issue as complex as this is at all accurate? That quote is not a correct or complete description of IEEE LoAs. First off, the IEEE-SA can request all it wants but has no power to require anything of parties who are not part

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Clint Chaplin
parties holding patents which may be applicable to any IEEE standard. Basically they state that the patent owner won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Vixie
You mean like: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/about/ no, i was thinking of the promise not to sue, rather than the promise to disclose the possibility of suing. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Weimer
won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like it? Perhaps because IEEE hasn't got anything like that, either? The IEEE has got a very expansive patent policy: | 7.14 Patent Rights of Employed Engineer

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Chris Elliott
On Tue, 25 Sep 2007, Paul Vixie wrote: You mean like: https://datatracker.ietf.org/ipr/about/ no, i was thinking of the promise not to sue, rather than the promise to disclose the possibility of suing. You mean like: Cisco is the owner of US published patent applications 20050154872 and

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Paul Vixie
no, i was thinking of the promise not to sue, rather than the promise to disclose the possibility of suing. You mean like: ... If technology in this document is included in a standard adopted by IETF and any claims of any Cisco patents are necessary for practicing the standard, any

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Stephan Wenger
On Sep 25, 2007, at 11:21 AM, Florian Weimer wrote: [...] I don't think it's fundamentally different from the IETF policy (that is, RAND is acceptable). Actually, per RFC 3978 and friends, the IETF does not even require a RAND commitment. There have recently been cases where RFCs have

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this?

2007-09-25 Thread Bernard Aboba
owner won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like it? Actually, this is a mistatement of what is in an IEEE letter of assurance. Check out the text here; it looks quite similar to an IETF IPR declaration

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
standard. Basically they state that the patent owner won't sue anyone for implementing the standard. ... i was thinking, what a great policy. why doesn't IETF have one like it? Because the strong consensus of the IPR WG a few years ago was to keep the current policy. As Ted

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Scott Brim
On 25 Sep 2007 at 18:40 +, Paul Vixie allegedly wrote: very clear, very well done, but if anything it adds to my list of questions rather than subtracting from that, since it begs the question, what is the objective definition of reasonable and nondiscriminatory? The more a disclosure

Re: why can't IETF emulate IEEE on this point?

2007-09-25 Thread Florian Weimer
* Paul Vixie: very clear, very well done, but if anything it adds to my list of questions rather than subtracting from that, since it begs the question, what is the objective definition of reasonable and nondiscriminatory? Any terms that prevent courts from granting compulsory patent licenses

Re: 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-06-04 Thread Mike Leber
On Wed, 30 May 2007, Jeroen Massar wrote: [let me whine again about this one more time... *sigh*] [guilty parties in cc + public ml's so that every body sees again that this is being sent to you so that you can't deny it... *sigh again*] Actually appreciated, as the only sessions with 3ffe

Re: 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-05-31 Thread Jeroen Massar
The IPv6 connectivity problems, at least the ones that I and some others encountered, where resolved yesterday. Thanks to all the folks involved who made that happen! Mike Leber wrote: [..] Would you similarly disconnect a nonresponsive customer because they used a /30 from RFC1918 space on a

Re: [ipv6] 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-05-30 Thread Jeroen Massar
Steve Powell wrote: Greetings. Thanks for the quick response. That is always appreciated. Some networks don't even take that decency to respond, and for the record, those are the ones that the previous mail is targeted at, in the hope that they at least maybe acknowledge that there is a problem

Re: [ipv6] 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-05-30 Thread Steve Powell
Greetings. I do not believe 6bone space has anything to do with it. 3ffe:80a::/64 is still being used by PAIX in Palo Alto. However, we should be filtering 6bone space. So were only using it until all peers are moved off of 6bone space. Unfortunately, moving those peers and getting rid of

RE: 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-05-30 Thread James Jun
I think what's going on is that packets from www.ietf.org don't make it back to my ISP. A ping6 or traceroute6 doesn't show any ICMP errors and TCP sessions don't connect so it's not a PMTUD problem. So it's an actual timeout. I also just started noticing this, that is, that it does not

Re: 6bone space used still in the free (www.ietf.org over IPv6 broken) (Was: why same names, was Re: NANOG 40 agenda posted)

2007-05-30 Thread bmanning
And what do we see: 6bone space and still in use. As a lot of places correctly filter it out, the PMTU's get dropped, as they are supposed to be dropped. The whois.6bone.net registry is fun of course: inet6num: 3FFE:800::/24 netname: ISI-LAP descr:Harry Try IPv6

Re: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft announcements this week?

2006-11-09 Thread James M. Polk
At 11:18 PM 11/8/2006 -0800, Ross Finlayson wrote: I'm curious: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft annnouncements (posted on the i-d-announce@ietf.org mailing list) this week? I thought that there were supposed to be no new Internet-Draft announcements from 1 week prior to each IETF

Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft announcements this week?

2006-11-08 Thread Ross Finlayson
I'm curious: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft annnouncements (posted on the i-d-announce@ietf.org mailing list) this week? I thought that there were supposed to be no new Internet-Draft announcements from 1 week prior to each IETF meeting, until after the end of the meeting

Re: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft announcements this week?

2006-11-08 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 8, 2006, at 11:18 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: I'm curious: Why are we still seeing new Internet-Draft annnouncements (posted on the i-d-announce@ietf.org mailing list) this week? I thought that there were supposed to be no new Internet-Draft announcements from 1 week prior to each

RE: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-10-22 Thread Kyse Faril
In regards to: '3 standards a year' remark? Please see 'these remarks' on; 'San Francisco Digital Inclusion Strategy' http://leftinsf.com/blog/index/php/archives/1174 And my remark is why not a 'standard'...for Three Years? (PROTO-TYPE) From: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Hallam

Newtrk and ISDs (was: Re: Facts, please not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 20 September, 2006 08:23 -0400 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spencer remembered: My understanding (as author of three of the proposals) was that for most of the time newtrk was in existence, the working group's attention was focused on ISDs as a way of avoiding

Re: Newtrk and ISDs (was: Re: Facts, please not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 21, 2006, at 5:08 AM, John C Klensin wrote: Having seen the consequences of one-step standards processes, especially in environments in which the standards designers are not very closely tied to products that are shipping or ready to ship, I remain strongly committed to a standards

Re: Newtrk and ISDs (was: Re: Facts, please not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-21 Thread Jefsey_Morfin
Fred, you talk about interoperability between vendors, this is good. Let not forget interoperability with users, i.e. our own IETF document interoperability with the external standard we leverage and the user demand. Waiting for industrial products not to excite the public is too long and

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: For what it is worth my takehome from the Montreal meeting was that there was genuine desire for change but no recognition of consensus on a particular way forward. One of the reasons that there is no recognition of consensus on a way forward is that we did not

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Dave Cridland
a specification has demonstrated that it is not useful...any more.) What we need is a more immediate basis for assessing current utility of recent IETF work. That's why I keep suggesting that we set a time-limit for deployment and use of Proposed specifications. Those failing to garner

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Eliot Lear
a working group consensus document, it should be more clear. It should say one of the following: 1. The IESG disagrees with this document in its entirety and refuses to advance it, and here's why; or 2. The IESG disagrees with part of this document and refuses to advance it, here's

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Eliot Lear
I garbled: To the IESG's credit you did provide at least something of a menu of options, but it was ... not clear you would advance a draft even if we advanced one of those options. Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
My apologies in advance for posting in this thread. There was, to recall history, no consensus in newtrk for any particular choice among the various options for simplifying the 3 stage process. So the IESG never saw or responded to any proposal in that area. My understanding (as author of

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: I garbled: To the IESG's credit you did provide at least something of a menu of options, but it was ... not clear you would advance a draft even if we advanced one of those options. Well, there wasn't likely to be a blank check promise to advance a draft, was there?

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian, But I think there is a message here - badly phrased perhaps - that running code is needed for such proposals to be thoroughly considered. Suppose there was a proposal that all RFCs should be sourced as XML files. We have a lot of running code to measure that proposal against. Douglas

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Jefsey_Morfin
At 11:17 20/09/2006, Dave Cridland wrote: Well, I think there's a lot of confusion between the statement We, as engineers trying to maintain our scientific integrity as a whole, consider this specification a good thing and recommend it, and We, as disinterested engineers trying to be

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-20 Thread Sam Hartman
Jefsey == Jefsey Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I think the following is a good summary of our quandary. Jefsey At 11:17 20/09/2006, Dave Cridland wrote: Well, I think there's a lot of confusion between the statement We, as engineers trying to maintain our scientific integrity

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Robert Sayre
On 9/19/06, Russ Allbery [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Robert Sayre [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Thankfully, the complete failure known as HTTP 1.1 would never make it to Proposed Standard under the unwritten process we have now. For example, it doesn't contain a mandatory, universally interoperable

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
We could argue this interminably or you could simply grasp the nettle and align theory with reality. It was clear in Montreal that there is no community consensus to spend effort on doing this, so we have closed down this avenue for now. Brian

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian E Carpenter wrote: We could argue this interminably or you could simply grasp the nettle and align theory with reality. It was clear in Montreal that there is no community consensus to spend effort on doing this, so we have closed down this avenue for now. I'm sorry, Brian, but this

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
I interpreted the microphone and hand-raising in Montreal that people were tired of interminable process discussions that consume lots of resources and in the end accomplish nothing. One way to ensure that there are no such discussions is to make all such discussions fruitless and

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: We could argue this interminably or you could simply grasp the nettle and align theory with reality. It was clear in Montreal that there is no community consensus to spend effort on doing this, so we have closed down this avenue for now. I'm

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Dave Crocker
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: I interpreted the microphone and hand-raising in Montreal that people were tired of interminable process discussions that consume lots of resources and in the end accomplish nothing. Henning and Brian, I think you are confusing accomplish nothing with produces a

RE: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Gray, Eric
- or it takes being on the inside track in dominant (or early) implementation. One of the reasons why it _looks_ like the Internet mainly runs on Proposed Standards, is that the people who know about the difference between what's technically done, and what's technically documented, have no real

RE: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process] Eliot Lear wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: We could argue this interminably or you could simply grasp the nettle and align theory with reality. It was clear in Montreal that there is no community consensus to spend effort

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Sam Hartman
Henning == Henning Schulzrinne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Henning For this particular case, I don't think there is a Henning scientifically provable right answer, so a reasonable Henning approach is to pick a number (1 or 2 or 3 steps) that Henning most active participants

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-19 Thread Dave Crocker
that it is not useful...any more.) What we need is a more immediate basis for assessing current utility of recent IETF work. That's why I keep suggesting that we set a time-limit for deployment and use of Proposed specifications. Those failing to garner the necessary community support automatically go

Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Phill, As a result the IETF is a standards body with 2000 active participants that produces on average less than 3 standards a year and typically takes ten years to produce even a specification. It is well understood that the Internet mainly runs on Proposed Standards, so the appropriate

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Phill, As a result the IETF is a standards body with 2000 active participants that produces on average less than 3 standards a year and typically takes ten years to produce even a specification. It is well understood that the Internet mainly runs on Proposed

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-18 Thread Jefsey_Morfin
At 09:09 18/09/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Phill, As a result the IETF is a standards body with 2000 active participants that produces on average less than 3 standards a year and typically takes ten years to produce even a specification. It is well understood that the Internet mainly runs

Re: Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-18 Thread Bill Fenner
On 9/18/06, Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have not done the work to review velocity from -00 to RFC, but perhaps Bill Fenner has. I haven't; I've been concentrating on the IESG part of the document lifecycle. Bill ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process

2006-09-18 Thread Theodore Tso
On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:16:11AM -0700, todd glassey wrote: For instance - would Harald H ever let me run an initiative through IPR? - not a chance and his refusal to allow me to file my drafts under his WG is a violation of the IETF charter, and tortuous interference by he and the IESG to

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-18 Thread grenville armitage
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: [..] Campaigns can be a pain, but they do have positive attributes. People who have to campaign for a position are forced to think about the contribution they intend to make, they have to set out a program of action, they have to communicate it to the

Re: Facts, please, not handwaving [Re: Its about mandate RE: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process]

2006-09-18 Thread Robert Sayre
On 9/18/06, Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Let's see - HTTP/1.1 was published as Proposed Standard in January 1997, and draft-ietf-http-v11-spec-00.txt was posted in November 1995. The first drafts of the spec were

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