Re: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread Dean Willis
On Mar 2, 2009, at 1:52 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: But now, if I come to IETF74, I won't have a laptop with me. Corporate policy, based on recent US legal decisions, is that I may not take a laptop (or PDA etc.) into the USA. This is not subject to modification.

RE: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Alexa Morris Actually, the Terminal Room will have two laptops set up for attendee use; these are traditionally used primarily for printing (boarding passes, etc) but are available for other uses as well. That's useful to know. I did enquire of the Secretariat (reference rt.amsl.com

RE: draft-ietf-ltru-4645bis-10.txt issue with preferred value for YU

2009-03-03 Thread Tex Texin
Hi guys, I sent the message to this list (as well as LTRU) in the belief I was following the instructions given to me... (My mail actually preceded Martin's request to the AD.) I admit to confusion about the suggestion I can register the change after 4645bis is accepted. 4645bis changes a code

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-03 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I think that a rather more fundamental problem is the fact that the IETF constitution prevents any organization or party speaking on behalf of the IETF as a whole. I agree that it would be rather better if the IAB could take on this particular role than ISOC. But even the IAB can only

Re: Last Call: draft-crocker-email-arch (Internet Mail Architecture) to Proposed Standard

2009-03-03 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
s...@resistor.net writes: If there isn't an authoritative reference and there are differences in semantics or syntax between the draft and RFC5321/5322 or future revisions of these documents, it can lead to serious issues. Standards Track documents are around years. The documents may be

Last Call: draft-ietf-avt-seed-srtp (The SEED Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP)) to Proposed Standard

2009-03-03 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Audio/Video Transport WG (avt) to consider the following document: - 'The SEED Cipher Algorithm and Its Use with the Secure Real-time Transport Protocol (SRTP) ' draft-ietf-avt-seed-srtp-09.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a

Re: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread Samuel Weiler
On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, John C Klensin wrote: * Machines in the netbook category have gotten very cheap (cheaper than IETF registration fees, for example). While I would not expect your company to change policy, obtaining a few of those machines and imaging them to contain nothing in local

Re: Last Call: draft-crocker-email-arch (Internet Mail Architecture) to Proposed Standard

2009-03-03 Thread ned+ietf
s...@resistor.net writes: If there isn't an authoritative reference and there are differences in semantics or syntax between the draft and RFC5321/5322 or future revisions of these documents, it can lead to serious issues. Standards Track documents are around years. The documents may be

RE: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-03 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
So at this point the rule in the identity space is safety in numbers. The major waring factions are now spending considerable time and effort to show that the war is over and there is going to be a concerted joint effort. Thus ISOC joining liberty does not represent the IETF taking sides in a

Tools to Publish I-Ds with pre-5378 Content

2009-03-03 Thread Ray Pelletier
All; Several tools to publish Internet Drafts have implemented the IETF Trust's recent policy changes that provide a work-around to the issues raised by the inclusion of material from contributions published before 10 November 2008. You may have already been aware of one or more of the

Re: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.0903021337550.15...@fledge.watson.org, Samuel Weil er writes: On Mon, 2 Mar 2009, John C Klensin wrote: * Machines in the netbook category have gotten very cheap (cheaper than IETF registration fees, for example). While I would not expect your company to

Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a new Considerations Section in future Internet-Drafts and RFCs: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-petithuguenin-running-code-considerations-00.txt Thanks.

Repair of Public Mail List Archives Complete

2009-03-03 Thread Alexa Morris
As I mentioned late last week, as a side effect of a recent Mailman upgrade some mail lists with previously public archives had their list configuration reset to private archiving, resulting in inaccessible archives. This archiving issue has now been repaired and the missing archives have

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Marc, and Henry, I think adding any new mandatory section to all I-Ds is a bad idea. It will quickly become bureaucratic. We've had proposals for mandatory Management Considerations, IPv6 Considerations, and no doubt others that I've forgotten, and they all have the same problem. However, I

Passing of Jim Bound

2009-03-03 Thread Russ Housley
This is very sad news. Jim was a very strong supporter of the IETF and IPv6. Jim served the community as: - IPv6 Forum Chief Technology Officer - Chair of the North American IPv6 Task Force - Active IETF contributor, including member of the IPng Directorate We will miss him. Russ

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Marc, and Henry, I think adding any new mandatory section to all I-Ds is a bad idea. It will quickly become bureaucratic. We've had proposals for mandatory Management Considerations, IPv6 Considerations, and no doubt others that I've forgotten, and they all have the

Re: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, March 04, 2009 07:51 +1100 Mark Andrews mark_andr...@isc.org wrote: ... There is no interesting direction. I'm pretty sure customs gets the same sort of search and ceasure rights on exit and it does on arrival. They do here in Australia. In principle,

Re: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread Mark Andrews
In message ee08613c757444318d788...@pst.jck.com, John C Klensin writes: --On Wednesday, March 04, 2009 07:51 +1100 Mark Andrews mark_andr...@isc.org wrote: ... There is no interesting direction. I'm pretty sure customs gets the same sort of search and ceasure rights on exit

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a new Considerations Section in future Internet-Drafts and RFCs:

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
I admit that I'm no friend of additional I-D sections, as they easily generate into boilerplate and make work projects. If the goal, which does not seem stated, is to acknowledge the contributions of implementations in improving a standards document, we already have a mechanism for

RE: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I don't see the value of running code quite as others do. For me the value of running code is that the requirement to actually implement stuff does tend to reduce the scope for complexity, you have someone in the room pushing against something that will make work for them. And the other

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Masataka Ohta
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I don't see the value of running code quite as others do. I agree. It was valuable in good old days, when implmenting a protocol was purely voluntary with no budget. Existence of multiple independent implementations, then, meant the protocol was widely accepted by

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Masataka! On Wed, 4 Mar 2009, Masataka Ohta wrote: So, existence of required running code does not mean much. Except a basic proof of real functionality and that is valuable. RGDS GARY -

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Andy Bierman
Masataka Ohta wrote: Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I don't see the value of running code quite as others do. I agree. It was valuable in good old days, when implmenting a protocol was purely voluntary with no budget. Existence of multiple independent implementations, then, meant the protocol

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread ned+ietf
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a new Considerations Section in future Internet-Drafts and RFCs:

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Masataka Ohta
Andy Bierman wrote: So, existence of required running code does not mean much. I disagree. It means the specification is implementable. If a protocol is so complex that its implementability is not obvious, you have lost from the beginning. Since the goal of our work is to produce

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-03 Thread Lynn St . Amour
On Mar 1, 2009, at 9:04 PM, Eric Rescorla wrote: At Sun, 1 Mar 2009 19:59:00 +0200, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: As you might have noticed, the WebSSO Identity Management space is not running out of organizations and groups. Someone could, for example, come up with the question why ISOC did

RE: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
We also certainly don't want to put yet more hurdles into the path of getting drafts published. Does the RFC editor have to verify the URLs and that they still exist? Do we worry about advertising pages and implementations that turn out to be malicious? I'd really rather not have to deal with

Protocol Action: 'ForCES Protocol Specification' to Proposed Standard

2009-03-03 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'ForCES Protocol Specification ' draft-ietf-forces-protocol-22.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Forwarding and Control Element Separation Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ross Callon and David Ward. A

WG Action: RECHARTER: IP Performance Metrics (ippm)

2009-03-03 Thread IESG Secretary
The charter of the IP Performance Metrics (ippm) working group in the Transport Area of the IETF has been updated. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. IP Performance Metrics (ippm) Last

RFC 5432 on Quality of Service (QoS) Mechanism Selection in the Session Description Protocol (SDP)

2009-03-03 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5432 Title: Quality of Service (QoS) Mechanism Selection in the Session Description Protocol (SDP) Author: J. Polk, S. Dhesikan, G.

RFC 5443 on LDP IGP Synchronization

2009-03-03 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5443 Title: LDP IGP Synchronization Author: M. Jork, A. Atlas, L. Fang Status: Informational Date: March 2009 Mailbox:

RFC 5484 on Associating Time-Codes with RTP Streams

2009-03-03 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5484 Title: Associating Time-Codes with RTP Streams Author: D. Singer Status: Standards Track Date: March 2009 Mailbox:sin...@apple.com

RFC 5485 on Digital Signatures on Internet-Draft Documents

2009-03-03 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5485 Title: Digital Signatures on Internet-Draft Documents Author: R. Housley Status: Informational Date: March 2009 Mailbox: