Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Mark Nottingham
I'm seeing two things here. One is that you need some context of *why* something is supported, as per your examples. The other is that you need a level of detail that's more than one line. However, I'd note that *all* of those examples are (in my MUA) one line each. So, can you clarify?

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-pkix-est-07.txt (Enrollment over Secure Transport) to Proposed Standard

2013-06-11 Thread SM
At 07:45 10-06-2013, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) WG (pkix) to consider the following document: - 'Enrollment over Secure Transport' draft-ietf-pkix-est-07.txt as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
so now i am expected to do a write-up of why i show simple support of a document i have read? may i use carbon paper for the triplicate, or will a copier suffice? surely we can find a way to waste more time and effort. randy

Re: [manet] Last Call: draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats-03.txt (Security Threats for NHDP) to Informational RFC

2013-06-11 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
The IETF Last Call has finished after 06.06.13 and now you request discussions. I think only IESG can call for discussions not editors. On 6/10/13, Ulrich Herberg ulr...@herberg.name wrote: We have submitted a new revision of the draft, addressing one comment from Adrian during IETF LC (which

RE: [manet] Last Call: draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats-03.txt (Security Threats for NHDP) to Informational RFC

2013-06-11 Thread Adrian Farrel
We have submitted a new revision of the draft, addressing one comment from Adrian during IETF LC (which we wanted to address in the previous revision, but forgot about it). We added a new section that can trigger future work, as requested by Adrian. I don't see that Adrian requested a

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:51 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: so now i am expected to do a write-up of why i show simple support of a document i have read? may i use carbon paper for the triplicate, or will a copier suffice? surely we can find a way to waste more time and effort. If you say

RE: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread l.wood
We have to know, not that you have read the document, but that you have -understood- it. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Randy Bush [ra...@psg.com] Sent: 11 June 2013 09:51 To:

RE: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread l.wood
Ad-hominem arguments are not good arguments. Peer review depends on what the peer says, not who the peer is - something any academic should know. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
A comment is a comment (important for discussing) which I want to see, no matter if content-free or not, the origin requester (IETF Last Call/WGLC) of such comments SHOULD specify which type of comment they want if necessary. As long as it is a comment-on-discuss-lists any can ask questions to the

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jun 11, 2013, at 13:17, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: We have to know, not that you have read the document, but that you have -understood- it. Process experiment: end all Internet-Drafts with a multiple-choice test. Grüße, Carsten

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 9:37 PM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.comwrote: A statement such as the above is almost entirely useless to me as an IESG member trying to determine consensus. It is content-free. I think this is, in part, due to the question asked. The IETF's Last Call

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Content-free Last Call comments Date: Mon, Jun 10, 2013 at 11:46:29PM + Quoting Ted Lemon (ted.le...@nominum.com): Determining consensus in an IETF last call is a bit more complicated than that. It's not a working group last call. If someone objects to publication during

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: Content-free Last Call comments Date: Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 01:52:46PM +0200 Quoting Måns Nilsson (mansa...@besserwisser.org): So, if wg discussion has been ordered mute by the wg chairs because some wg participants believe the group-think consensus is good enough, can those

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Crocker
On 6/11/2013 6:36 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: I think this is, in part, due to the question asked. The IETF's Last Call announcement presumes much on the part of those reading it. You're aiming to solicit something that's not asked for. Compare and contrast with the XSF's Last Call announcements,

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: So, if wg discussion has been ordered mute by the wg chairs because some wg participants believe the group-think consensus is good enough, can those objections again be raised in IETF LC or are they set in stone? You

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 12:58 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: If we want the statements of support to be meaningful, they need to have the creator of the statement do some real work -- more than mechanically checking boxes -- demonstrating the 'understanding' that Lloyd suggests.

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Crocker
On 6/11/2013 5:25 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: We want understanding, of course, but I think requiring Russ to demonstrate that by writing a paragraph or six on the finer points of the proposal would be daft. That's the problem with special-case exceptions, such as requiring less work by an

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 1:45 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 6/11/2013 5:25 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: We want understanding, of course, but I think requiring Russ to demonstrate that by writing a paragraph or six on the finer points of the proposal would be daft. That's the

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Sean Turner
On 6/11/13 8:12 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: So, if wg discussion has been ordered mute by the wg chairs because some wg participants believe the group-think consensus is good enough, can those objections again be raised in IETF

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
Re-formulating the LC text sounds like an excellent idea, to call for more substantive comments. perhaps we should go to the source of the problem and require a phd dissertation and defense from draft authors. how much process chaos can we create? randy

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: how much process chaos can we create? Don't ask questions you don't want answered! :)

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 2:41 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: Re-formulating the LC text sounds like an excellent idea, to call for more substantive comments. perhaps we should go to the source of the problem and require a phd dissertation and defense from draft authors. how much

RE: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread l.wood
How many RFCs describe things that are implemented? How many RFCs describe things that are deployed? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Dave Cridland [d...@cridland.net] Sent: 11 June

Re: [IETF] Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Warren Kumari
[ Not sure if this is adding to the Signal or the Noise on the Discuss list, but it *will* help bump up my ranking on the Weekly posting summary, which I use to justify my participation to my management. That's what it's for, isn't it?!* ] On Jun 10, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Pete Resnick

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread John Levine
So, if wg discussion has been ordered mute by the wg chairs because some wg participants believe the group-think consensus is good enough, can those objections again be raised in IETF LC or are they set in stone? If that were ever to happen, I don't see why not. In the recent cases I've seen

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/11/2013 10:43 AM, John Levine wrote: So, if wg discussion has been ordered mute by the wg chairs because some wg participants believe the group-think consensus is good enough, can those objections again be raised in IETF LC or are they set in stone? If that were ever to happen, I don't

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The flip side of that argument is that we don't want to assume working groups are infallible, or more importantly not subject to the groupthink phenomenon. Otherwise what is IETF LC for? The IETF last call is for catching

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/11/13 9:52 AM, Doug Barton wrote: The flip side of that argument is that we don't want to assume working groups are infallible, or more importantly not subject to the groupthink phenomenon. Otherwise what is IETF LC for? Right. We've had some issues with document quality, and I can think

Bullseye (was Re: [IETF] Content-free Last Call comments)

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Crocker
On 6/11/2013 10:21 AM, Warren Kumari wrote: [ Not sure if this is adding to the Signal or the Noise on the Discuss list, but it*will* help bump up my ranking on the Weekly posting summary, which I use to justify my participation to my management. That's what it's for, isn't it?!* ] oh boy.

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/11/13 10:02 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: The IETF last call is for catching things the working group missed, not for rehashing arguments that were beaten to death in the working group. I am not sure I fully understand why we're having this conversation, or rather why this aspect of the broader

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Pete Resnick
It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. There is no reason to send one line of support, and it only encourages the view that we're voting. Details below. Specifically on Stephen's message: On 6/10/13 7:36 PM,

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pete, On 12/06/2013 07:45, Pete Resnick wrote: It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. There is no reason to send one line of support, and it only encourages the view that we're voting. Details below. Just to

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 8:45 PM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.comwrote: It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. Well, this thread is surely evidence that you don't always get what you want. But more

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: But more seriously, what are you expecting Russ to do? What did you want him to write? If your answer is Nothing, then how do you read IETF consensus for a document that gets no response in its Last

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Pete Resnick
On 6/11/13 3:05 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Pete, On 12/06/2013 07:45, Pete Resnick wrote: It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. There is no reason to send one line of support, and it only encourages the

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Doug Barton
On 06/11/2013 11:02 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The flip side of that argument is that we don't want to assume working groups are infallible, or more importantly not subject to the groupthink phenomenon. Otherwise what is IETF LC for?

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 9:33 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: But more seriously, what are you expecting Russ to do? What did you want him to write? If your answer is Nothing, then how do you read IETF

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Crocker
On 6/11/2013 1:50 PM, Doug Barton wrote: As I understand it cross-disciplinary review is also an important function of the IETF LC. This gets at the reality that the current IETF uses processing phases rather more robustly than we used to. It certainly used to be that IETF LC was

RE: Last Call: draft-thornburgh-adobe-rtmfp-07.txt (Adobe's Secure Real-Time Media Flow Protocol) to Informational RFC

2013-06-11 Thread Michael Thornburgh
hi SM. thanks for your comments. sorry for the delay in response; i was on vacation and unable to reply. replies inline. From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of SM Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2013 9:13 AM At 09:12 28-05-2013, The IESG wrote: The IESG has

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: That in turn presumes we are defaulting to publication in all cases, and that in turn seems problematic to me, because his answers become, in order: a) Russ, and by extension anyone who supports the document's publication for

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 10/06/13 21:37, Pete Resnick wrote: Russ, our IAB chair and former IETF chair, just sent a message to the IETF list regarding a Last Call on draft-ietf-pkix-est. Here is the entire contents of his message, save quoting the whole Last Call request: On 6/10/13 1:45 PM, Russ Housley wrote: I

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jun 11, 2013 at 10:54 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: It is presumed that some degree of consensus to do the work of a working group existed when that working group was chartered; otherwise it would not have been chartered. When the working group reaches consensus to

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: ... and how would we judge IETF consensus on a document that doesn't get done under a charter (which would in turn have been granted consensus without any IETF comments?) I would expect that you'd start

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-pkix-est-07.txt (Enrollment over Secure Transport) to Proposed Standard

2013-06-11 Thread Sean Turner
On 6/11/13 4:30 AM, SM wrote: At 07:45 10-06-2013, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) WG (pkix) to consider the following document: - 'Enrollment over Secure Transport' draft-ietf-pkix-est-07.txt as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Randy Bush
Right. We've had some issues with document quality, and I can think of several documents that sailed through WG last call and should not have. there was a doc with which i had a small, but non trivial, issue. the author and the wg did not think it worthwhile. i did not want to argue

Document Action: 'Routing for IPv4-embedded IPv6 Packets' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-ospf-ipv4-embedded-ipv6-routing-14.txt)

2013-06-11 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Routing for IPv4-embedded IPv6 Packets' (draft-ietf-ospf-ipv4-embedded-ipv6-routing-14.txt) as Informational RFC This document is the product of the Open Shortest Path First IGP Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Stewart Bryant and

New Non-WG Mailing List: posh -- Discussion about PKIX Over Secure HTTP

2013-06-11 Thread IETF Secretariat
A new IETF non-working group email list has been created. List address: p...@ietf.org Archive: http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/posh/ To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/posh Purpose: Discussion about PKIX Over Secure HTTP, a method for secure delegation of application