Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: What might be illuminating is to to a quick poll on the RRG list so we can correlate home region with: - flying home after RRG on friday - flying home after leaving RRG early on friday - flying home saturday after RRG I won't attend RRG at all this trip, and I have

Re: Will IPv4 be turned off at IETF 72?

2008-07-18 Thread Russ Housley
No. The wireless network will offer an IPv6 ONLY network all week long, but the IPv4 will not be turned off during the plenary at Dublin. I agree that we learned a lot from the experiment, and I'm not opposed to trying it again at a future meeting. Russ At 06:52 PM 7/18/2008, Olivier MJ Cre

Will IPv4 be turned off at IETF 72?

2008-07-18 Thread Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
I just wanted to know whether there was any plan to turn off the IPv4 stack for an hour at IETF 72 just like it happened @ 71 ? http://wiki.tools.isoc.org/IETF71_IPv4_Outage See: IPv4 off at the IETF 71 plenary for 1 hour. http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/ietf-ipv6-switchoff.ars Looks li

Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

2008-07-18 Thread James M. Polk
This could be WG chair approved too, i.e., WG chairs provide a list of IDs that are permitted to be submitted that are involved in the IESG process (but only ones that have gone through their first IESG meeting). Not that many per WG should be in this state during any one (normal blackout) per

Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

2008-07-18 Thread Adrian Farrel
S, How come I-Ds don't expire after publication has been requested? Could this be a field in the data base that could be accessed to allow continued submission of revisions regardless of cut-off dates? Well, if it is too hard or needs many hours of volunteer time, the answer is obvious.

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread James Galvin
The question I have is what are we trying to achieve, i.e., what problem are we trying to solve? Is the problem really just that we want all WGs who want a second (or even third) meeting slot to be able to get one? Do we have any statistics on how many groups meet at each meeting? Assuming a

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Fred Baker wrote: On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Rather than expanding the number of slots why don't we look at using the time we have more efficiently. Let me throw in v6ops as an example. We are very efficient, I think - we have 10-15 minute discussions on each of a numbe

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 18, 2008, at 3:47 AM, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: On 17 jul 2008, at 23.33, IETF Chair wrote: The IESG is considering an experiment for IETF 73 in Minneapolis, and we would like community comments before we proceed. Face-to-face meeting time is very precious, especially with about 120

Re: IANA Update: Project to convert registries to XML

2008-07-18 Thread James Cloos
This is a useful progression. But there still must be an easy and efficient way to mirror the whole repository. It appears that this change broke ftp and rsync access, the only reasonable methods of mirroring the old repo. You need to either make the full repo available via rsync and ftp or -- e

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 jul 2008, at 9:47, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: so while I sympathize with the need for this, and won't argue against it. I do want to point out that it means that overseas travelers will be 'stuck' for another day (depending on where in the world we are, you can normally make an aftern

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On 17 jul 2008, at 23.33, IETF Chair wrote: The IESG is considering an experiment for IETF 73 in Minneapolis, and we would like community comments before we proceed. Face-to-face meeting time is very precious, especially with about 120 IETF WGs competing for meeting slots. Several WGs are not

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Keith Moore
Do we spend too much time with overviews of drafts that really should have been read by all attendees beforehand? Maybe it would be good for the first session on Monday to be an "Area Overview" session where an overview of all the latest drafts can be "presented" to give people a broader view o

Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

2008-07-18 Thread Russ Housley
Adrian: This has been discussed many times, and there is no easy way for the Secretariat to distinguish these document from others. With the on-line Internet-Draft Submission Tool (IDST), it might be possible to search the database for such documents and let them through. However, we're try

Re: Conference calls (Was: Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73)

2008-07-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Jari, No disagreement here. Good to give people a heads-up, but to use the same notification periods for conference calls and face-to-face interims (which is the way I read the current (right?) rules) is excessive. Thanks, Spencer Spencer, IMO, since we see author/editor/review/desi

RE: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Mary Barnes
Dave, You have lots of good and valid questions below. I'll respond below and also cc RAI area mailing list. We have discussed this topic recently, in particular with regards to concerns over scheduling for IETF-72. One concern that the RAI area has, as well is some overlap and dependencies on T

Conference calls (Was: Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73)

2008-07-18 Thread Jari Arkko
Spencer, IMO, since we see author/editor/review/design team teleconferences in a fair number of working groups, and these teleconferences aren't covered by the rules, I'd be in favor of revisiting the rules... Lets be clear about the different types of calls people might have. A design team

RE: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Mary Barnes
Real-time Applications and Infrastructure - home of all the SIP related stuff that was born in TSV. Mary. -Original Message- From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:40 AM To: Barnes, Mary (RICH2:AR00) Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subje

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Dave Crocker
Mary Barnes wrote: Dave, There are a few topics for which mailing list discussion has failed to reach consensus and would really benefit from f2f time. You can look at SIP WG archives for example for a couple of the hot topics. As chairs, we do try to push for completion of work on the mailing

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 jul 2008, at 18:29, Mary Barnes wrote: The other issue is just the sheer volume of work incoming to RAI - it's over 20% of overall IETF drafts per Jari's stats: http://www.arkko.com/tools/stats/areadistr.html What is a RAI? ___ Ietf mailing l

RE: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Mary Barnes
Dave, There are a few topics for which mailing list discussion has failed to reach consensus and would really benefit from f2f time. You can look at SIP WG archives for example for a couple of the hot topics. As chairs, we do try to push for completion of work on the mailing lists, but this isn't

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Let's hope it's not too little coffee, and that I am in fact mistaken, but I never said that we have rules that *prevent* teleconferencing. To elaborate, my understanding is that the rules for teleconferencing are governed by the rules for interim meetings, which require something like one m

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Dave Crocker
John's questions, here, go to the basic challenge we constantly face when there are demands for more resources: Are they really needed, and if they are, why? If they are not needed, is there a deeper problem that needs to be addressed? From external observation, the IETF deals with the issues in

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Dave Crocker
Mary Barnes wrote: In my mind, these additional Friday sessions are really a must for RAI, What work do RAI groups need to perform during these meetings that cannot be done on the various RAI mailing lists? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Marshall, It may just be too little coffee, but I am not sure what you meant here. What rule prevents teleconferencing ? Let's hope it's not too little coffee, and that I am in fact mistaken, but I never said that we have rules that *prevent* teleconferencing. To elaborate, my understanding

Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

2008-07-18 Thread Adrian Farrel
Hi, The cut-off period before IETF meetings has (IMHO) some value to help people read an digest stable documents that will be discussed face-to-face. However, some I-Ds are beyond WG last call and are going through other review cycles. Why should updates to these be barred? For example, I h

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Andy Bierman
Eric Rescorla wrote: At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:41:15 +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: Maybe it's just me, but... (Fanning the flames...) I do not understood why WGs are forbidden from conducting interim or other official extended technical f2f meetings before, during, or after, an IETF meeting. Consid

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Cyrus Daboo
Hi, --On July 18, 2008 7:20:37 AM -0700 Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 2. People's ability to meet tends to expand to fill out the available meeting time. I think this is a key point. Rather than expanding the number of slots why don't we look at using the time we have more effic

RE: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Mary Barnes
My response is likely redundant with that of other RAI folks, but I have a feeling that RAI likely has the highest requirement for additional meeting slots. And, for us RAI folks, The Friday sessions have never been considered the least important. Indeed, when both SIP and SIPPING required 2 sessio

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Cyrus Daboo
Hi Eliot, --On July 18, 2008 11:41:15 AM +0200 Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I oppose this experiment. I already donate to my employer a significant amount of travel time on weekends without wanting to add to it. Flight schedules are tightening, thanks to the cost of fuel, which means

Re: Draft Trust Policy re: Rights in IETF Documents

2008-07-18 Thread C.T. Aiken
> > Until "7f" that all sounds good, but I'm not sure about "7f": > > > ADD - For the avoidance of doubt, each Contributor to the > > IETF Standards Process licenses each Contribution that he > > or she makes as part of the IETF Standards Process to the > > IETF Trust pursuant to the provisions of

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Russ Housley
Marshall: I do not know of any repository for the attendance at interim meetings other that the proceedings. Interim meeting minutes are included with the proceedings of the following IETF meeting. The reason that the experiment is scoped as proposed deals with the contract that is already

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Russ Housley
Olafur: I try to gather some data to see if this would help. My intuition is that we need 2.5+ hours for some very significant working groups so these groups would end up with multiple adjacent slots. But, maybe the smaller slots would help with the things that they are scheduled against.

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Jari Arkko wrote: Joel, In many locations this may preclude departure until saturday which effectively makes the meeting longer by a day. Hmm. The likelihood of having to depart the next day increases, but the question is by how much. For the record, my flights out of Minneapolis leave 15:20,

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Jari Arkko
Joel, In many locations this may preclude departure until saturday which effectively makes the meeting longer by a day. Hmm. The likelihood of having to depart the next day increases, but the question is by how much. For the record, my flights out of Minneapolis leave 15:20, 17:30, or 19:15. T

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Dave Crocker
John's questions, here, go to the basic challenge we constantly face when there are demands for more resources: Are they really needed, and if they are, why? If they are not needed, is there a deeper problem that needs to be addressed? From external observation, the IETF deals with the issues

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Fri, 18 Jul 2008 11:41:15 +0200, Eliot Lear wrote: > > Maybe it's just me, but... > > I oppose this experiment. I already donate to my employer a significant > amount of travel time on weekends without wanting to add to it. Flight > schedules are tightening, thanks to the cost of fuel, whi

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 jul 2008, at 4:45, Scott O. Bradner wrote: With today's half day on Friday a good percentage of those people who chose to stay until noon can still catch a flight home that same day in most IETF meeting locations (except for people flying across some ocean). Actually the meetings I've

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Keith Moore
one thing to measure is how many WG or BOF chairs say "Please don't give us a Friday afternoon session". Brian E Carpenter wrote: The proposed Friday schedule would be: 0900-1130 Morning Session I 1130-1300 Break 1300-1400 Afternoon Session I 1415-1515 Afternoon Session II Try i

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Elliot; On Jul 18, 2008, at 5:41 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: Maybe it's just me, but... I oppose this experiment. I already donate to my employer a significant amount of travel time on weekends without wanting to add to it. Flight schedules are tightening, thanks to the cost of fuel, wh

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eric Rosen
I oppose this experiment. A better experiment would be to eliminate the Friday morning sessions. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Draft Trust Policy re: Rights in IETF Documents

2008-07-18 Thread Frank Ellermann
Ray Pelletier wrote: Until "7f" that all sounds good, but I'm not sure about "7f": > ADD - For the avoidance of doubt, each Contributor to the > IETF Standards Process licenses each Contribution that he > or she makes as part of the IETF Standards Process to the > IETF Trust pursuant to the provi

Draft Trust Policy re: Rights in IETF Documents

2008-07-18 Thread Ray Pelletier
The IETF Trust is considering adopting a policy for granting rights in IETF documents as required by draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights-06.txt. The IPR WG will be considering this policy during its session on 31 July at IETF 72 in Dublin. Community comments during that session and on this list a

RE: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread michael.dillon
> I oppose this experiment. I already donate to my employer a > significant amount of travel time on weekends without wanting > to add to it. Flight schedules are tightening, thanks to the > cost of fuel, which means that having sessions on Friday at > all poses a problem now, if I want to ge

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-18 Thread Eliot Lear
Maybe it's just me, but... I oppose this experiment. I already donate to my employer a significant amount of travel time on weekends without wanting to add to it. Flight schedules are tightening, thanks to the cost of fuel, which means that having sessions on Friday at all poses a problem no