Re: The IETF Mission

2004-01-29 Thread Fred Baker
At 12:46 PM 1/29/2004, Leslie Daigle wrote: I'd like to come back to this point, and try a slightly different direction: Fred Baker wrote: "The purpose of the IETF is to create high quality, relevant, and timely standards for the Internet." I think I would state it in these words: "The Internet

Very summarized version of the "mission statement" discussion

2004-01-29 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Hitting some very high points - Talking is important. It's what the IETF does. - Standards are one, but not the only, output of that talking. - Publishing good ideas is important. It's what the RFC Editor does. - Mission statements are dangerous. Discussing them makes you have to admit tha

Re: Do we or don't we need a visa for the Korean IETF?

2004-01-29 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Aaron Falk writes: >This is insane. Can the Secretariat please give unambiguous advice >(preferably backed up by a letter from the Korean embassy) to >attendees? > As I posted to the IETF list a couple of days ago, the company that AT&T uses for advice on such

Re: visa requirements (US citizens)

2004-01-29 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
One more thing: They won't take a check. Cash and money order are the only things you can send 'em. -- nathaniel On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 11:48 AM, Ken Hornstein wrote: How about this for a twist: if you ask for an invitation (required for a visa), you are told you really, really

Re: SUMMARY: Processing of expired Internet-Drafts

2004-01-29 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 1/28/2004 8:15 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > Conclusions, all mine: > > - Documenting current procedures is good. - We won't expire tombstones. > They're not a big enough problem yet. - We'll think about naming > tombstones something else than the exact draft name (for instance > draft

Re: Visa for Korea

2004-01-29 Thread Gene Gaines
An attempt to attenuate the visa discussion. The Korean Consulate in Washington DC is preparing an official letter intended to clearly state that U.S. citizens do not need a visa to attend the IETF meeting in Seoul. I will forward a graphic of the letter to the IETF Directorate, who has agreed to

Re: Visa for Korea (same as Vienna)

2004-01-29 Thread Melinda Shore
On Thursday, January 29, 2004, at 01:59 PM, Kevin C. Almeroth wrote: U.S. citizens in possession of a valid U.S.-passport do not need a visa if traveling to Austria as a tourist for a period not to exceed 90 days (visa waiver program). We're not traveling as tourists, strictly speaking. The same

Re: Wiki RFC

2004-01-29 Thread arifumi
hi, > AFAIK, no. > Do you know of any effort to make stable documentation for the WIKI syntax > & functionality, or is it just "use the Source, Luke"? FYI, there are some efforts, http://www.usemod.com/cgi-bin/mb.pl?WikiMarkupStandard and Japanese Wiki syntax standardization, http://lab.lolipop

Visa for Korea (same as Vienna)

2004-01-29 Thread Kevin C. Almeroth
My suggestion: do what you did for Vienna. Vienna has the same rules: U.S. citizens in possession of a valid U.S.-passport do not need a visa if traveling to Austria as a tourist for a period not to exceed 90 days (visa waiver program). -Kevin

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-29 Thread John C Klensin
Noel, (1) Sorry to have misconstrued your comments. (2) Yes, I was trying to refer to situations in which each of the hosts on a multihomed LAN has exactly one address, largely because of bad experiences with client machines running widely-used junk software trying to handle multiple addresses

Re: Do we or don't we need a visa for the Korean IETF?

2004-01-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 29 January, 2004 12:47 -0500 John Stracke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Aaron Falk wrote: This is insane. Can the Secretariat please give unambiguous advice (preferably backed up by a letter from the Korean embassy) to attendees? It sounds like you might be safest contacting th

Re: visa requirements (US citizens)

2004-01-29 Thread Vijay Devarapalli
I am an Indian national (which means I need a visa). I know for a fact that I need a produce an invitation letter to get a visa. Vijay Ken Hornstein wrote: How about this for a twist: if you ask for an invitation (required for a visa), you are told you really, really don't need it. When I requ

Re: visa requirements (US citizens)

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I am an Indian national (which means I need a visa). I know for a fact >that I need a produce an invitation letter to get a visa. Please note that I did qualify my note by saying "US citizens". Of course entry requirements differ between countries. My point was that US citizens do not need an

Re: Do we or don't we need a visa for the Korean IETF?

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron Falk
On Jan 29, 2004, at 9:47 AM, John Stracke wrote: It sounds like you might be safest contacting the Korean embassy yourself and asking for a visa. If they say you don't need one, you're on firmer ground than if the IETF says you don't need one. I believe the risk is in how one characterizes what

Re: Do we or don't we need a visa for the Korean IETF?

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
>> This is insane. Can the Secretariat please give unambiguous advice >> (preferably backed up by a letter from the Korean embassy) to attendees? > >It sounds like you might be safest contacting the Korean embassy >yourself and asking for a visa. If they say you don't need one, you're >on fi

Re: Do we or don't we need a visa for the Korean IETF?

2004-01-29 Thread John Stracke
Aaron Falk wrote: This is insane. Can the Secretariat please give unambiguous advice (preferably backed up by a letter from the Korean embassy) to attendees? It sounds like you might be safest contacting the Korean embassy yourself and asking for a visa. If they say you don't need one, you'r

Re: The IETF Mission [Re: Summary status of change efforts - Updated Web page]

2004-01-29 Thread Leslie Daigle
I'd like to come back to this point, and try a slightly different direction: Fred Baker wrote: "The purpose of the IETF is to create high quality, relevant, and timely standards for the Internet." I think I would state it in these words: "The Internet Engineering Task Force provides a foru

Do we or don't we need a visa for the Korean IETF?

2004-01-29 Thread Aaron Falk
This is insane. Can the Secretariat please give unambiguous advice (preferably backed up by a letter from the Korean embassy) to attendees? --aaron Begin forwarded message: From: "Eric Burger" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: January 29, 2004 8:16:54 AM PST To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Subject: RE: vis

Re: visa requirements (US citizens)

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
>How about this for a twist: if you ask for an invitation (required for a >visa), you are told you really, really don't need it. When I requested a >visa from TTA, this is the response I got. Has anyone succeeded in getting >a letter? When I downloaded the visa application form (and checked the

Re: visa requirements (US citizens)

2004-01-29 Thread Ken Hornstein
>A U.S. citizen does NOT need a visa to visit Korea for a meeting >by a non-profit group such as the Internet Engineering Task Force. >I just confirmed this with the head of the visa section in the >Korean Consulate in Washington DC. Gene, Could you please post the contact information for the hea

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-29 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Of course, multiple A records works, is out there, and have worked for > years. But they worked better before we introduced routers (i.e., when > the hosts with multiple A records really had interfaces on different > networks). Today

RE: visa requirements (US citizens)

2004-01-29 Thread Eric Burger
How about this for a twist: if you ask for an invitation (required for a visa), you are told you really, really don't need it. When I requested a visa from TTA, this is the response I got. Has anyone succeeded in getting a letter? -Original Message- From: KeeMoon Roh [mailto:[EMAIL

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-29 Thread Daniel Senie
At 07:43 AM 1/29/2004, Randall R. Stewart (home) wrote: Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28-jan-04, at 23:47, Randall R. Stewart (home) wrote: - increased overhead compared to TCP Ok lets see. SCTP takes on average 4 more bytes per data packet then TCP. However, if the TCP implementation enables t

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 29 January, 2004 14:34 +0900 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... JCK> Yes. And it may speak to the IETF's sense of priorities that JCK> the efforts to which you refer are predominantly going into the JCK> much more complex and long-term problem, rather than the one JCK>

Re: Wiki RFC

2004-01-29 Thread Rick Stewart
On Wed, Jan 28, 2004 at 05:25:15PM -0800, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > > --On 28. januar 2004 12:49 +1200 Franck Martin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >I was just wondering if there has been any work to standardise the Wiki > >syntax/system into an RFC? > > AFAIK, no. > Do you know of any

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-29 Thread Randall R. Stewart (home)
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 28-jan-04, at 23:47, Randall R. Stewart (home) wrote: - increased overhead compared to TCP Ok lets see. SCTP takes on average 4 more bytes per data packet then TCP. However, if the TCP implementation enables timestamps then that is not true and TCP takes more over

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28-jan-04, at 23:47, Randall R. Stewart (home) wrote: - increased overhead compared to TCP Ok lets see. SCTP takes on average 4 more bytes per data packet then TCP. However, if the TCP implementation enables timestamps then that is not true and TCP takes more overhead by about 4 bytes... Hm...