Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-13 Thread Douglas Otis
On Jul 12, 2009, at 4:42 PM, Doug Ewell wrote: This thread has been headed down the wrong path from the outset, as soon as Tony Hain wrote on July 1: An alternative would be for some xml expert to fix xml2rfc to parse through the xml output of Word. If that happened, then the

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-13 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 13 jul 2009, at 21:56, Douglas Otis wrote: Visual Basic would represent a more likely tool, since it is already supported by the Word application. Only in some versions. In the latest MacOS version it's not supported. This makes one wonder whether there could be a better way. I think

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-13 Thread Julian Reschke
Douglas Otis wrote: ... Use of xml2rfc conversions has uncovered some odd quirks. The tool does not cache bibliographic database selections. Either this works on-line, or the entire database needs to be local. Not to diminish the service offered by Carl Malamud, occasional sporadic

RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-pkix-ta-format (Trust Anchor Format) to Proposed Standard

2009-07-13 Thread Carl Wallace
This document has been discussed previously relative to TAF. A portion of that discussion is here: http://www.imc.org/ietf-pkix/mail-archive/msg05573.html. -Original Message- From: owner-ietf-p...@mail.imc.org [mailto:owner-ietf- p...@mail.imc.org] On Behalf Of Pope, Nick Sent:

Re: Panel at IETF 75 -- Securing the DNS: Towards a more secure Internet

2009-07-13 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
While I agree that deployment of DNSSEC is important in order to enable improved application security, it was not originally designed to address DNS security issues and only addresses one DNS security issue and a not very interesting one at that. Unfortunately deployment of DNSSEC has come to

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-13 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Well one approach would be to simply write a spec for using MIME as an archive format for HTML and associated documents as has been supported in Internet Explorer for a decade. MHT is a very simple format that uses IETF standards in a very obvious way. We could probably get Firefox to add support

Nomcom 2009-2010: (Updated) Final list of Volunteers

2009-07-13 Thread Mary Barnes
Below is an updated final list of eligible volunteers (total is now 93), sorted alphabetically by lastname. If your name is not on the list and you think it should be or if it is and it shouldn't be, please contact me ASAP. Also, if there are any names on the list that you do not believe are

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-13 Thread Doug Ewell
Douglas Otis dotis at mail dash abuse dot org wrote: ... The concern related to the use of the Word input format, which has changed in 97, 00, 02, 03, 07, and is likely again in 10, remains that of security. Changes are not always apparent, and even format documentation can not be relied

Last Call: draft-harkins-emu-eap-pwd (EAP Authentication Using Only A Password) to Informational RFC

2009-07-13 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'EAP Authentication Using Only A Password ' draft-harkins-emu-eap-pwd-04.txt as an Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this

Second Last Call: draft-green-secsh-ecc (Elliptic-Curve Algorithm Integration in the Secure Shell Transport Layer) to Proposed Standard

2009-07-13 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Elliptic-Curve Algorithm Integration in the Secure Shell Transport Layer ' draft-green-secsh-ecc-08.txt as a Proposed Standard During this second Last Call, comments are requested on the

Nomcom 2009-2010: (Updated) Final list of Volunteers

2009-07-13 Thread Mary Barnes
Below is an updated final list of eligible volunteers (total is now 93), sorted alphabetically by lastname. If your name is not on the list and you think it should be or if it is and it shouldn't be, please contact me ASAP. Also, if there are any names on the list that you do not believe are