Re: Meeting format (Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Andy, As I hope everybody knows, about 60% of the IASA budget comes from meeting fees, and we must make enough surplus on the meetings to fund the secretariat. So, if we did decide to change the nature of any of our meetings, we'd really have to understand the budget implications. That being

Re: Last Call: 'PANA Framework' to Informational RFC

2006-03-27 Thread Pekka Savola
On Sat, 18 Mar 2006, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Protocol for carrying Authentication for Network Access WG to consider the following document: - 'PANA Framework ' draft-ietf-pana-framework-06.txt as an Informational RFC I read the PANA framework document on the

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:21:31PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray, I think our goal is to not lose essential participants from the IETF due to clashes. In fact that's why we want to schedule several years out, so as to make it easier for many other organizations

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. Brian, this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying in the overpriced Hilton hotel rooms, my IETF65 meeting

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... I guess I was just wishing out loud when I said maybe the meeting fee could trend down instead of up. I would be happy if the IETF had more control over the meetings We have complete control since December 15, 2005. so the fees were stable, The fees have to cover our costs. It would

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying ... Understood, but you are fortunate to

Re: technical tutorials

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Excuse front-posting but this will be short. The EDU team discussed this very issue with the IAOC in Dallas. There will be a draft revised charter for EDU out for comment soon, but the short version is that (for the reasons John gives) EDU will stick to classes aimed at the IETF's own

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying ...

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear All, My apologies for not being clearer - my intention was not to criticize WG or IAB actions in the past, but to point out that we are now in an escalating game of whack-a-mole with our applications as the moles that NATs and FWs are finding new ways to frustrate. The security guys

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/27/06 6:45 AM, Spencer Dawkins [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My apologies for not being clearer - my intention was not to criticize WG or IAB actions in the past, but to point out that we are now in an escalating game of whack-a-mole with our applications as the moles that NATs and FWs are

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-27 Thread Edward Lewis
At 15:00 -0500 3/25/06, John C Klensin wrote: Ed, although I don't remember seeing you there, I have a nervous feeling that I know which WG you are referring to and who said (roughly, although I don't recall don't participate) those words early in the session. Whether that feeling is correct

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Crocker
Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying ... Understood, but you are fortunate to find cheap airfares from where you happen to

Re: Meeting format (Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-27 Thread Andy Bierman
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Andy, As I hope everybody knows, about 60% of the IASA budget comes from meeting fees, and we must make enough surplus on the meetings to fund the secretariat. So, if we did decide to change the nature of any of our meetings, we'd really have to understand the budget

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-27 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I don't think the analogy holds, for a number of reasons. (As a matter of interest, there were about 6 participants out of 350 with addresses in Europe at the March 1991 IETF meeting, and about 19 out of 530 in March 1993. At

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 27 March, 2006 09:31 -0500 Edward Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But to get back to the point at the top of this side-bar, the mass gatherings for the IETF are done for cross-area review. Ok, we disagree about the believe that cross-area review is the only reason for holding

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-27 Thread Scott W Brim
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 04:18:42PM +0100, Tim Chown allegedly wrote: On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 10:38:03AM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I don't think the analogy holds, for a number of reasons. (As a matter of interest, there were about 6 participants out of 350 with addresses in Europe at

Re: Meeting format (Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Crocker
(IMO, BOFs should be early in the week, not on Friday. Cross-area review of new ideas is just as important as anything else.) This is an interesting suggestion. Any meeting that is early in the week gets the benefit of follow-on hallways discussions, during the rest of the week. However

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Traditionally, it was sufficient for the IETF to publish an RFC specifying requirements or behavior; the purchasing process, through RFIs and RFPs, then cited the long list of RFCs, essentially creating the protocol police force that the IETF doesn't have. That list-of-RFC-numbers approach is

Re: Meeting format (Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-27 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
For what it's worth, this approach seemed to work reasonably well for the SIP P2P BOF + ad-hoc (or interim) meeting. The former was on Tuesday, the latter on Friday afternoon. Dave Crocker wrote: (IMO, BOFs should be early in the week, not on Friday. Cross-area review of new ideas is just

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I think Henning and I are saying the same thing (he's just saying it better). From: Henning Schulzrinne [EMAIL PROTECTED] Trying to devise ever more elaborate NAT traversal mechanisms that include sending keep-alives every few seconds and various let's try this and then that algorithms

RE: technical tutorials

2006-03-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I do not like the idea of adding yet another area where the ISOC gets into the business of competing with IETF participants. The number of people who make their living from giving training is probably much larger than the number of people who make their living providing registry services. I

Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Henning Schulzrinne [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Trying to devise ever more elaborate NAT traversal mechanisms that include sending keep-alives every few seconds and various let's try this and then that algorithms clearly don't scale if we want to get to consumer-grade reliability,

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
maybe this is because protocol purity zealots take a long term view and want to preserve the flexibility of the net market to continue to grow and support new applications, whereas the NAT vendors are just eating their seed corn. Your long term view is irrelevant if you are unable to

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Aronson (re IETF)
the NAT vendors are just eating their seed corn. Your long term view is irrelevant if you are unable to meet short term challenges. very true. but at the same time, it's not enough to meet short term challenges without providing a path to something that is sustainable in

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] maybe this is because protocol purity zealots take a long term view and want to preserve the flexibility of the net market to continue to grow and support new applications, whereas the NAT vendors are just eating their seed corn.

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
OK, it is an intersubjective truth accepted throughout the IETF that a decade is far to long for deployment of DNSSEC. It is an empirical fact that this is four years longer than it need have been. Deployment would have taken place in the .com zone 2002 if the necessary changes to the

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
maybe this is because protocol purity zealots take a long term view and want to preserve the flexibility of the net market to continue to grow and support new applications, whereas the NAT vendors are just eating their seed corn. Your long term view is irrelevant if you

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Austin Schutz
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 02:16:57PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: maybe this is because protocol purity zealots take a long term view and want to preserve the flexibility of the net market to continue to grow and support new applications, whereas the NAT vendors are just eating their

IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-27 Thread Scott Leibrand
On 03/27/06 at 1:51pm -0800, Austin Schutz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is reasonable, but there is no realistic path to ipv6 that the known world can reasonably be expected to follow. I think a good number of exclusively-IPv4-using* realists (like myself) will disagree with you here.

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
Your long term view is irrelevant if you are unable to meet short term challenges. very true. but at the same time, it's not enough to meet short term challenges without providing a path to something that is sustainable in the long term. This is reasonable, but there is no realistic

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon Mar 27 22:51:35 2006, Austin Schutz wrote: NAT is a done deal. It's well supported at network edges. It solves the addressing issue, which was what the market wanted. It voted for NAT with dollars and time. It is the long term solution - not because it is better, but because it

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Michel Py
Austin Schutz wrote the ipv6 vs. NAT battle is over in the marketplace. Especially now that the size of the routing table is not a problem anymore. So the real question is: Given NAT, what are the best solutions to the long term challenges? A protocol that would be only v4 with more bits

IETF Social/Way-back machine presentation available online?

2006-03-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
David Clark's presentation on Tuesday night at the social was great - I'm trying to find a reasonable URL for the slides; I HAVE found them in the 1992 IETF Proceedings for the summer meeting, but they are scanned (not actually slides), and were printed at six slides per page, (so, they are

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
So the real question is: Given NAT, what are the best solutions to the long term challenges? A protocol that would be only v4 with more bits in the first place, with routers / NAT boxes that would pad/unpad extra zeroes (also including extra TBD fields). As this would be 100% compatible with v4

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Austin Schutz
On Mon, Mar 27, 2006 at 05:11:18PM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: Your long term view is irrelevant if you are unable to meet short term challenges. very true. but at the same time, it's not enough to meet short term challenges without providing a path to something that is sustainable in the

Re: IETF Social/Way-back machine presentation available online?

2006-03-27 Thread Susan Estrada
This stuff will be on the web RSN. I'll post an announcement when available. Susan At 03:15 PM 3/27/2006, Spencer Dawkins wrote: David Clark's presentation on Tuesday night at the social was great - I'm trying to find a reasonable URL for the slides; I HAVE found them in the 1992 IETF

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-27 Thread Leslie Daigle
John, everyone, I think it's fair to say that the IAB has heard the concern at this point -- about the net neutrality issue, and the desire to see some concrete IAB action. I've also seen a fair bit of discussion about what an appropriate stance *is*, and whether or how to express it as a

Re: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Scott Leibrand writes: NAT (plus CIDR) was the short-term solution, and is realistic as a medium-term solution. In the long term, though, I don't think it will be the only solution. It will be if ISPs continue to charge for extra IP addresses, as they probably always will. And if someday I

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Keith Moore writes: NAT is a dead end. If the Internet does not develop a way to obsolete NAT, the Internet will die. I hardly think so, but in any case, the solution is pretty simple: give out IP addresses for free, instead of charging an arm and a leg for anything other than a single

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Keith Moore writes: and at some delta-T in the future, some things will be different. it might (or might not) be that lots more hosts run v6, it might (or might not) be that NATs are discredited, it might (or might not) be that the Internet mostly exists to connect walled gardens. Probably

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
This is reasonable, but there is no realistic path to ipv6 that the known world can reasonably be expected to follow. That's because people keep thinking that there needs to be a path from IPv4 to IPv6 that makes sense for all applications. No such path exists, because applications

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Keith Moore writes: don't think upgrade; think coexistence. How do IPv4 and IPv6 coexist? Like ASCII and EBCDIC, perhaps? As an engineer, the right thing to do is to transition away from NAT (along with IPv4), so that eventually it can be discarded. I'm not aware of a smooth transition

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] I agree, but that opportunity may be to enhance NAT rather than throw it away (you state something similar in your conclusion). As an engineer, the right thing to do is to transition away from NAT (along with IPv4), so that eventually

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-27 Thread Keith Moore
In this case the benefit to running NAT on my home network is that it saves me $50 per month in ISP fees, means I have wireless service to the whole house and means that guests can easily connect. one immediate benefit to my running IPv6 on my home network is that I can access any of my

WG Action: Conclusion of Media Gateway Control WG (megaco)

2006-03-27 Thread IESG Secretary
The Media Gateway Control WG (megaco) in the Real-time Applications and Infrastructure Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Jon Peterson and Cullen Jennings. The mailing list will remain active. ___ IETF-Announce mailing list

WG Action: Conclusion of Intrusion Detection Exchange Format (idwg)

2006-03-27 Thread IESG Secretary
The Intrusion Detection Exchange Format WG (idwg) in the Security Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Russ Housley and Sam Hartman. The mailing list will be closed. +++ The IDWG lost momentum while working on IESG comments for its core specification, IDMEF. There was not enough

Issue with current IAB mid-term replacement

2006-03-27 Thread Leslie Daigle
An issue has been raised about how to interpret RFC 3777 in the case of the replacement for Pekka Nikander on the IAB. Specifically, the duration for the replacement's appointment is ambiguous, as different interpretations are possible (have been made) as to whether the point of interest is when