Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread John C Klensin
Jari, Inspired by two of your recent notes and Dave Crocker's long one last weekend (with which I almost completely agree should that be notable), let me make a few observations: (1) To the extent to which the IETF's focus is on protocols that we hope vendors and others (producers in the

RE: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Adrian Farrel
OK, I think Dave and I are going to discuss this. I see a wedge :-) The problem is where to stop. I completely agree that the current I-D does not cover everything and I can see that *some* things can usefully be added. OTOH, if we don't draw lines, mission creep will lead us, step-by-step,

Re: Participation per Region of Authoring IETF documents vs Marketing

2013-05-30 Thread Jari Arkko
Lloyd, http://www.arkko.com/tools/recrfcstats/d-contdistr.html (Jari, what time period is that across? Oceania doesn't rate a mention…) Recent RFCs is anything from RFC 5400 onwards. An arbitrary definition. And Oceania is listed under Australia per http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continent...

Re: Participation per Region of Authoring IETF documents vs Marketing

2013-05-30 Thread Jari Arkko
Mark: I would take those numbers with a HUGE grain of salt (as Jari documents). Indeed For example, I've lived in Australia since 2006, and yet am only listed as producing RFCs in the USA. My apologies. I added a data item to recognise you… Jari

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/29/13 10:53 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: I see a wedge :-) The problem is where to stop. Well, I don't know. Maybe the problem is where to start. That is to say, I don't know what problem this document is trying to solve, or if there even is a problem. I know that we've had some major

Re: Participation per Region of Authoring IETF documents vs Marketing

2013-05-30 Thread Mark Nottingham
Thanks :) On 30/05/2013, at 5:06 PM, Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: Mark: I would take those numbers with a HUGE grain of salt (as Jari documents). Indeed For example, I've lived in Australia since 2006, and yet am only listed as producing RFCs in the USA. My apologies.

Aw: What do we mean when we standardize something?

2013-05-30 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi John, this is a great summary. Regarding the question about the type of standardization we want I would argue for amixture of both since inpractice there are, of course,a lot of grey areas. I suspect that setting the expectations right at the beginning of starting the work (in a group or

RE: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Adrian Farrel
Hi Melinda, Funny, but I agree. To be honest at this point I'm sort of reflexively anti-process-documents, unless there's an actual problem that needs actual solution. Which is why this isn't a process document. The origin is a WG chairs Edu session. Turns out there was not a lot of clarity

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/29/13 11:16 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Which is why this isn't a process document. Are you sure? Melinda

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/30/2013 9:06 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 5/29/13 10:53 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: I see a wedge :-) The problem is where to stop. Well, I don't know. Maybe the problem is where to start. That is to say, I don't know what problem this document is trying to solve, or if there even is a

RE: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Adrian Farrel
Which is why this isn't a process document. Are you sure? Oooh, a quiz. I like quizzes. Let me see. Yes or no. Hmmm. Yes, I'm sure. Your turn now. Are you sure? Ciao, Adrian

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/29/13 11:56 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Yes, I'm sure. Your turn now. Are you sure? No, not at all. Melinda

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/30/2013 9:58 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 5/29/13 11:56 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Yes, I'm sure. Your turn now. Are you sure? No, not at all. Let me try to help... A process document is a normative statement of structure and sequence for a process. It is the organization's means of

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-03.txt (Resource R ecords for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS) to Proposed Standard

2013-05-30 Thread SM
At 15:21 29-05-2013, Ted Lemon wrote: I didn't say that I support the draft; just what I think could be done to somewhat mitigate its scope. My personal (non-hat) feeling about the draft is that if there is I did not read those messages as meaning that you support the draft or that there

Re: Participation per Region of Authoring IETF documents vs Marketing

2013-05-30 Thread Roque Gagliano (rogaglia)
On May 30, 2013, at 2:45 AM, Mark Nottingham m...@mnot.net wrote: I would take those numbers with a HUGE grain of salt (as Jari documents). I appreciate Jari's effort and use his page extensively. However, I agree taht geography data should be taken with a grain of salt. In my case I created

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-03.txt (Resource R ecords for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS) to Proposed Standard

2013-05-30 Thread Michael Richardson
Joe == Joe Abley jab...@hopcount.ca writes: Okay, I felt a bit embarrassed about having said this, so I went back and reviewed the justification for bringing this forth as an IETF document. The stated reason for publishing the document as an IETF document is that there is a

Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Randy Bush
(2) As far as I can tell, the operators in most regions are generally well represented in, and collaborate using, the various *NOGs. the first derivative is generally positive. a lot of fluff, machismo, and posturing, but that seems to come with any endeavor involving us funny monkeys. We

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Randy Bush
Yes, I'm sure. Your turn now. Are you sure? No, not at all. did you somehow miss the pdu data formats and exchange ladder diagram? if this is not a process document, then what the heck is it, chopped liver? randy

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
On May 29, 2013, at 11:53 PM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: I can also see potential for adding some info to the Tao, but the danger there is that document becomes too big and too detailed to be of use. Many would claim it already is. We discussed that here a few years ago, and

Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread John C Klensin
Forwarding a discussion that started offlist for operational reasons with permission. I've tried to elide some irrelevant material; I hope that, if Eliot thinks it was relevant after all, he will add it back in once he gets to an appropriate machine. --On Thursday, May 30, 2013 09:20 -0400 John

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Thomas Narten
To be honest at this point I'm sort of reflexively anti-process-documents, unless there's an actual problem that needs actual solution. Which is why this isn't a process document. Watching this thread, I sense the authors trying hard not to make a process document, presumably because that

Re: What do we mean when we standardize something?

2013-05-30 Thread SM
Hi John, At 10:23 29-05-2013, John C Klensin wrote: The IETF has traditionally chosen the first model and a great deal of our thinking and public rhetoric are based on it. Even when we have adopted proposals, sometimes implemented ones, from elsewhere, we have insisted on change control and

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Warren Kumari
On May 30, 2013, at 1:24 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: Forwarding a discussion that started offlist for operational reasons with permission. I've tried to elide some irrelevant material; I hope that, if Eliot thinks it was relevant after all, he will add it back in once he

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, May 30, 2013 15:31 -0400 Warren Kumari war...@kumari.net wrote: The below is not a direct response to John, it is more my general views on IETF interaction with operators. So, I've been a long time participant in some NOG's and still (perhaps incorrectly) view myself as an

RE: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Adrian Farrel
Hi, This thread is helpful to me. This is somewhat of a vicious cycle -- operators participate less, and so the IETF understands less about how their networks run. This leads to solutions that don't understand the real world, and so operators lose faith/interest in IETF, and

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/30/13 4:37 PM, John C Klensin wrote: ultimately call the IETF's legitimacy and long-term future into question. As you suggest, we may have good vendor participation but the operators are ultimately the folks who pay the vendor's bills. Here in Alaska was the first time I'd worked in an

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk ... But who pays the operators' bills, and do we need to encourage participation at that level as well? Participation as: RFC uptake: - using something based on an RFC? - deploying something based on an RFC? -

RE: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread l.wood
Melinda Shore, all at sea: Here in Alaska was the first time I'd worked in an environment that had technologists at a considerably less than elite skill level, and I'd previously had no idea the extent to which average operators/data centers rely on vendors (worse: VARs and consultants) to

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/30/13 6:21 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: You'd love the Pacific. Few IETFers get exposed to these kinds of environments. I'd had no idea. The point here isn't to derogate techies working in this kind of environment, but that because the sorts of informal technology and skills transfer

Re: [IETF] Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Douglas Otis
On May 30, 2013, at 7:08 PM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/30/13 4:37 PM, John C Klensin wrote: ultimately call the IETF's legitimacy and long-term future into question. As you suggest, we may have good vendor participation but the operators are ultimately the folks who

Re: Fixing: the standards track or RFC series (was: Re: What do we mean when we standardize something?)

2013-05-30 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On 5/30/13, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: difficult problems arise when someone comes to us with a spec that might be ok but isn't how we would do it and tries to say you can have this and we will turn over change control as long as you don't really want to make any changes. When a

Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-05-30 Thread Thomas Narten
Total of 283 messages in the last 7 days. script run at: Fri May 31 00:53:02 EDT 2013 Messages | Bytes| Who +--++--+ 6.71% | 19 | 6.76% | 149502 | abdussalambar...@gmail.com 5.30% | 15 | 4.74% | 104777 |

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-30 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On 5/30/13, George Michaelson g...@algebras.org wrote: At risk of alienating my comrades from locations seeking to attract an IETF for local development/inclusiveness and the like reasons, I think John gets to the nub of the matter: the wider community cost, borne by all attendees as a 'silent

MMUSIC Working Group Virtual Interim Meeting, June 17, 2013

2013-05-30 Thread IESG Secretary
Greetings, This is to announce a(nother) virtual interim meeting for the MMUSIC Working Group to take place on Monday, June 17, from 7:00 am - 10:00 am Pacific Time. The goal of this meeting is to come to a resolution on the so-called Plan A or Plan B approach related to SDP signaling needed by