RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread l.wood
and the point of your ad-hominem argument is what, exactly? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com] Sent: 18 April 2013 15:18 To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Cc: wor...@ariadne.com;

RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-19 Thread l.wood
A statistician? This entire thread is basically arguing that the IETF needs a human resources department. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Brian E Carpenter

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
Only that you know enough people so that you could push a new technology even without attending, although you would need to collaborate with some people who do go. But pushing a new technology requires team building anyway. The same should apply to other non-attenders who have gained some

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-19 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Andrew Because some people report that they experience a chilly environment, and we respect those people for their other contributions and would like more people like them to contribute in similar ways, and therefore we want to make the environment less chilly. I'm sort of surprised that that

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-19 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: Dan Harkins dhark...@lounge.org To: Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, April 19, 2013 4:59 AM On Thu, April 18, 2013 6:44 pm, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Thu, Apr 18, 2013 at 08:17:21AM -0700, Dan Harkins wrote: So a problem

RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-19 Thread l.wood
Female ADs include Allison Mankin, whose bio recently appeared on this list in relation to her new appointment. There's now a diversity discussion list, where this discussion should move to. http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013/04/diversity/ Does what you think matter, when you clearly don't know

Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Narten
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Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-04-19 Thread Thomas Narten
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Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-19 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
No name in the AD list appear so far, but if your the discuss-list is right then it may be good progress, hoping for more names for diversity. Your input not helping discussion, AB On 4/19/13, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Female ADs include Allison Mankin, whose bio recently

RE: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-19 Thread Adrian Farrel
On 19 April 2013 at 12:22 Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote on this list: No name in the AD list appear so far, but if your the discuss-list is right then it may be good progress, hoping for more names for diversity. I count three ADs on the diversity discussion list at the

Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
Following a number of the threads on diversity and, in particular, on whether the effort to get a better demographic view of participation will lead to quotas, I have been increasingly uncomfortable with some of the arguments which appear to have some presumptions about how diversity and

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
I like your analysis. A comment while I am still warm The first suggestion is a Newcomer's directorate. (snip) The second suggestion is a simple tool that at WG call time (be it last call or call for adoption) randomly selects a set number of participants from the mailing list, and then

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Simon Pietro Romano
Hi Ted, interesting points indeed. I don't really know whether or not the approach you propose might work in practice, though. My personal experience in the IETF is that it is really hard to gain some 'popularity' among the members of this variegated gallery of characters, especially if you

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Dave Cridland
Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to discuss the draft, rather than review it in isolation. It'd be a different

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
Hi Simon, On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:38 AM, Simon Pietro Romano sprom...@unina.itwrote: Hi Ted, interesting points indeed. I don't really know whether or not the approach you propose might work in practice, There is certainly a risk there, but I hope we can find ways of increasing the

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Ted Hardie
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:26 AM, Riccardo Bernardini framefri...@gmail.com wrote: I like your analysis. A comment while I am still warm The first suggestion is a Newcomer's directorate. (snip) The second suggestion is a simple tool that at WG call time (be it last call or call

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.commailto:ted.i...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Jari Arkko
Ted: Very nice post and good ideas. Thanks. Jari

Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-ietf-ospf-ipv4-embedded-ipv6-routing-11

2013-04-19 Thread Ben Campbell
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq. Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft. Document:

Gen-ART Telechat Review of draft-ietf-ospf-ospfv3-iid-registry-update-03

2013-04-19 Thread Ben Campbell
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq. Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft. Document:

[Gen-art] Review: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

2013-04-19 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq. Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-ietf-netmod-rfc6021-bis-01

HTTPBIS WG Interim Meeting, June 13-14, 2013

2013-04-19 Thread IESG Secretary
This is an announcement of an Interim Meeting for the HTTPbis WG. The goal of the meeting is to discuss the issues against HTTP/2 and formulate proposals to bring back to the WG. We'll be meeting in San Francisco from 13-14 June 2013. Twitter has kindly offered to host. More details are

KITTEN WG Virtual Interim Meeting: May 6, 2013

2013-04-19 Thread IESG Secretary
The Kitten WG is planning to hold a virtual interim meeting on May 6th, 2013 at 8am PDT, using Jabber, WebEx and/or conference dial-in. The latest agenda is/will be at: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/interim/2013/05/06/kitten/agenda/agenda-interim-2013-kitten-1 Additional information will be

Last Call: draft-ietf-geopriv-relative-location-04.txt (Relative Location Representation) to Proposed Standard

2013-04-19 Thread IESG Secretary
The IESG has received a request from the Geographic Location/Privacy WG (geopriv) to consider the following document: - 'Relative Location Representation' draft-ietf-geopriv-relative-location-04.txt as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final

Last Call: draft-ietf-netmod-ip-cfg-09.txt (A YANG Data Model for IP Management) to Proposed Standard

2013-04-19 Thread IESG Secretary
The IESG has received a request from the NETCONF Data Modeling Language WG (netmod) to consider the following document: - 'A YANG Data Model for IP Management' draft-ietf-netmod-ip-cfg-09.txt as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final

Last Call: draft-ietf-netmod-interfaces-cfg-10.txt (A YANG Data Model for Interface Management) to Proposed Standard

2013-04-19 Thread IESG Secretary
The IESG has received a request from the NETCONF Data Modeling Language WG (netmod) to consider the following document: - 'A YANG Data Model for Interface Management' draft-ietf-netmod-interfaces-cfg-10.txt as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and