Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Frank Ellermann
Keith Moore wrote: If IESG people were to personally benefit from their exercise of this privilege you'd have a valid gripe. But I don't recall ever seeing this happen. If it does happen, I don't think it happens very often. Publishing mutually exclusive experimental RfCs simultaneously,

Re: Ietf Digest, Vol 15, Issue 17

2005-07-06 Thread Stephen Casner
On Tue, 5 Jul 2005, Bruce Lilly wrote: Date: 2005-07-05 11:18 From: Magnus Westerlund [EMAIL PROTECTED] Magnus, Comments in-line: [...] registered a large amount of names (70) makes it very hard to see that moving into separated registries will resolve any confusion. In addition

Re: S stands for Steering [Re: Should the IESG rule or not?]

2005-07-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 05 July, 2005 08:47 -0700 Bill Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe that is true in this case, as long as RFC 2780 is in force. Especially since there is a clear path for Larry Roberts to ask for IETF consensus, which by definition would overrule the IESG.

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-iesg-media-type-00.txt

2005-07-06 Thread Magnus Westerlund
Hi Bruce, Please consider what Stephan Casner says. I totally agree with his response. I simply want to make a few comments. I think you really should ask yourself how it comes that the current process has been used in 6-7 years and for more than 70 registrations without anyone raising any

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith Moore wrote: Keith, The IESG can still exercise their best engineering judgment as individuals, as the rest of us do. The IESG role itself need not incorporate a privileged position from which to wield that judgement. There's plenty left to do. Joe, The IESG has several duties that

Re: S stands for Steering [Re: Should the IESG rule or not?]

2005-07-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, 05 July, 2005 08:47 -0700 Bill Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe that is true in this case, as long as RFC 2780 is in force. Especially since there is a clear path for Larry Roberts to ask for IETF consensus, which by definition would

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ned Freed wrote: Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA Considerations? There is no requirement that such sections appear in published RFCs. This debate has never been about what's required in RFCs, but rather what's required in drafts submitted to the IESG. RFC 2434

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Ned Freed wrote: Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA Considerations? There is no requirement that such sections appear in published RFCs. This debate has never been about what's required in RFCs, but rather what's required in drafts submitted to the IESG. Why

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: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Keith Moore
If IESG people were to personally benefit from their exercise of this privilege you'd have a valid gripe. Personal gain is not the only motive; power can be its own motive. The gripes are validated by cases of abuse of privilege. If there's no obvious personal interest, whether a particular

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ned Freed wrote: Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA Considerations? There is no requirement that such sections appear in published RFCs. This debate has never been about what's required in RFCs, but rather what's required in drafts

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

2005-07-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Robert Elz wrote: Date:Tue, 5 Jul 2005 00:58:36 -0700 From:Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | The problem is the really small size of the option type field in IPv6. | There really only are 5 bits available for numbering both the

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Joe Touch writes: This is an OpenPGP/MIME signed message (RFC 2440 and 3156) It seems like such considerations are, by definition, relevant only for standards-track RFCs. It is not useful to require it for other documents. Not at all -- code points can be assigned

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Keith, The IESG can still exercise their best engineering judgment as individuals, as the rest of us do. The IESG role itself need not incorporate a privileged position from which to wield that judgement. There's plenty left to do. Joe, The IESG has several

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: If IESG people were to personally benefit from their exercise of this privilege you'd have a valid gripe. Personal gain is not the only motive; power can be its own motive. The gripes are validated by cases of abuse of privilege. If there's no obvious personal

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Joe, It seems like such [IANA] considerations are, by definition, relevant only for standards-track RFCs. It is not useful to require it for other documents. I think you're correct in general but this is not always the case. Consider URI schemes. I think they're often informational, and in

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain them, as we discuss RFC2434bis. Which we need to do fairly soon. In my

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Keith Moore
2026 separates process management from _independent_ technical review, IMO for good reason. I think you're reading more emphasis on independence than was intended in 2026. But this is also subjective. History reminds us of the abuses of power that started with act first, appeal later.

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 5:15 PM +0200 7/6/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain them, as we discuss RFC2434bis. I don't see any discussion of the RFC Editor

Re: Ietf Digest, Vol 15, Issue 19

2005-07-06 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-07-06 04:06 From: Stephen Casner [EMAIL PROTECTED] Stephen, you wrote: That's not it.  Of course all the existing registrations would be copied.  However, all of the many RTP-related RFCs that refer to MIME registrations would become obsolete and need to be revised.  A fair

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: 2026 separates process management from _independent_ technical review, IMO for good reason. I think you're reading more emphasis on independence than was intended in 2026. But this is also subjective. History reminds us

What RFC 2460 means (was: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment ofan IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option))

2005-07-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 17:28 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It isn't really that bad, the option with 17 in the low 5 bits and 0 in the upper 3 is a different option than the one with 17 in the low 5 bits and 7 in the upper 3. So, really there are 8 distint groups

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: External reviews are what I'm favoring - external, independent reviews. so when IESG provides the external review, that's bad, but when someone else does external review, that's good? Yup. When judges decide cases, that's

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Keith Moore
External reviews are what I'm favoring - external, independent reviews. so when IESG provides the external review, that's bad, but when someone else does external review, that's good? I disagree. part of IESG's purpose is to do review from a broad perspective.

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Ned Freed wrote: This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA considerations section has now become part of the boilerplate in at least one I-D template. (Actually make that two - I put in in my own equivalent template some time back.) This opens the

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Keith Moore
External reviews are what I'm favoring - external, independent reviews. so when IESG provides the external review, that's bad, but when someone else does external review, that's good? Yup. When judges decide cases, that's bad. When juries do, that's good. not necessarily. judges can

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain them, as we discuss RFC2434bis. Which we need to do fairly soon. In

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Ned Freed wrote: This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA considerations section has now become part of the boilerplate in at least one I-D template. (Actually make that two - I put in in my own equivalent template some time back.) This opens

Re: S stands for Steering [Re: Should the IESG rule or not?]

2005-07-06 Thread bmanning
On Wed, Jul 06, 2005 at 05:24:40PM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, 05 July, 2005 08:47 -0700 Bill Manning [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't believe that is true in this case, as long as RFC 2780 is in force. Especially since there is a clear path for

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ned Freed wrote: On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
This opens the door to the author forgetting to check and the various reviewers assuming the prsence of the sections means a check was done. The goal of putting it in the template is to encourage it be addressed, rather than forgotten altogether. I am well aware of what the goal is, and

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ned Freed wrote: This opens the door to the author forgetting to check and the various reviewers assuming the prsence of the sections means a check was done. The goal of putting it in the template is to encourage it be addressed, rather than

IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-07-06 16:16 From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ned Freed wrote: This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA considerations section has now become part of the boilerplate in at least one I-D template. (Actually make that two - I put in in my own equivalent

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Bob Braden
* harmful, and that the best way to insure coverage of IANA issues is to have an * explicit check for such things as part of our review process. * Ned, As I expect you know, the IANA checks all documents at Last Call time, and the RFC Editor checks them before publication, for missing

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Bruce Lilly wrote: This memo adds no new IANA considerations. The presence of this template text indicates that the author/editor has not actually reviewed IANA considerations. I like it. Consider my template to have changed.

Re: What RFC 2460 means (was: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment ofan IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option))

2005-07-06 Thread John Leslie
John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 17:28 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Robert Elz wrote:] It isn't really that bad, the option with 17 in the low 5 bits and 0 in the upper 3 is a different option than the one with 17 in the low 5 bits

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
* harmful, and that the best way to insure coverage of IANA issues is to have an * explicit check for such things as part of our review process. * As I expect you know, the IANA checks all documents at Last Call time, and the RFC Editor checks them before publication, for missing

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 15:23 -0700 Bob Braden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * harmful, and that the best way to insure coverage of IANA issues is to have an * explicit check for such things as part of our review process. Ned, As I expect you know, the IANA checks all documents at

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
Date: 2005-07-06 16:16 From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Ned Freed wrote: This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA considerations section has now become part of the boilerplate in at least one I-D template. (Actually make that two - I put in in my own

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Bill Strahm
John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 15:23 -0700 Bob Braden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: * harmful, and that the best way to insure coverage of IANA issues is to have an * explicit check for such things as part of our review process. Ned, As I expect you know, the

Re: What RFC 2460 means (was: Re: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment ofan IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option))

2005-07-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 20:37 -0400 John Leslie [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Wednesday, 06 July, 2005 17:28 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [Robert Elz wrote:] It isn't really that bad, the option with 17 in the low 5 bits

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
That said, I think we should be paying careful attention to Bruce's implied suggestion about how template boilerplate-generators should be constructed. In terms of the checking process Ned asks for (and which I still believe is the right solution) there is a world of difference between a

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Bruce Lilly wrote: Date: 2005-07-06 16:16 From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... However, I'm not at all in favor of requirements to IDs that are added ad-hoc; until this actually makes it into an RFC as a formal requirement, it won't be in the word template I manage. I wouldn't call it

Last Call: 'Constrained VPN Route Distribution' to Proposed Standard

2005-07-06 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Layer 3 Virtual Private Networks WG to consider the following document: - 'Constrained VPN Route Distribution ' draft-ietf-l3vpn-rt-constrain-02.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final

Last Call: 'Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using the Label Distribution Protocol' to Proposed Standard

2005-07-06 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge WG to consider the following document: - 'Pseudowire Setup and Maintenance using the Label Distribution Protocol ' draft-ietf-pwe3-control-protocol-17.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in

Last Call: 'Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet Over MPLS Networks' to Proposed Standard

2005-07-06 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge WG to consider the following document: - 'Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Ethernet Over MPLS Networks ' draft-ietf-pwe3-ethernet-encap-10.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the

Protocol Action: 'IPv6 Host to Router Load Sharing' to Proposed Standard

2005-07-06 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'IPv6 Host to Router Load Sharing ' draft-ietf-ipv6-host-load-sharing-04.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the IP Version 6 Working Group Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Margaret Wasserman and Mark