Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Alan Barrett
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Martin Sustrik wrote: For an implementor it's often pretty hard to decide whether to implement functionality marked as SHOULD given that he has zero context and no idea whether the reason he has for not implementing the feature is at all in line with RFC authors'

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Hector
Alan Barrett wrote: On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Martin Sustrik wrote: For an implementor it's often pretty hard to decide whether to implement functionality marked as SHOULD given that he has zero context and no idea whether the reason he has for not implementing the feature is at all in line with

Re: Other proposals (Was: :Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-09-03 Thread SM
Hi Jari, At 15:05 02-09-2011, Jari Arkko wrote: But what I really wanted to say here was a response to your concern about those proposals to do something else. Let me just state this clearly. I know I would be VERY happy to sponsor many different kinds of improvement proposals. In sequence or

IESG note?, was: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-09-03 Thread Julian Reschke
Hi, I believe that almost everything Roy says below is non-controversial; if we can tune the language to be less offensive it might fit well into the Introduction (and not require an IESG Note to get into the document). Best regards, Julian On 2011-09-01 21:55, Roy T. Fielding wrote: I

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Hector
Sam Hartman wrote: Eric == Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com writes: Eric This highlights an interesting issue as an RFC goes from PS to Eric IS. I would offer that most SHOULDs in a document will, if Eric there are real implementations out there, migrate to MUST or Eric

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, August 31, 2011 23:10 -0400 Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu wrote: Eric == Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com writes: Eric This highlights an interesting issue as an RFC goes from PS to Eric IS. I would offer that most SHOULDs in a document will, if Eric

Re: IESG note?, was: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-09-03 Thread Julian Reschke
On 2011-09-03 12:54, Julian Reschke wrote: Hi, I believe that almost everything Roy says below is non-controversial; if we can tune the language to be less offensive it might fit well into the Introduction (and not require an IESG Note to get into the document). Best regards, Julian ... Like

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Noel Chiappa
On Tue, 30 Aug 2011, Martin Sustrik wrote: For an implementor it's often pretty hard to decide whether to implement functionality marked as SHOULD given that he has zero context and no idea whether the reason he has for not implementing the feature is at all in line with

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Hector
Noel Chiappa wrote: For me, I would say that unless the implementor in question has experience in designing protocols, and fairly deep understanding of that particular area, they are not in a position to make a good judgement on whether or not they can ignore a 'SHOULD'. True Noel, but the

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-03 Thread Russ Housley
Keith: The current IETF Standards Process has become essentially a one-step process. The goal, as I believe is stated in the document, is gather some benefit from implementation and deployment experience. We are not getting that today. When we do get it, the document recycles at the same

Re: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Hector sant9...@gmail.com Cc: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 7:52 AM Subject: Re: 2119bis ... For protocol v2.0, X2 is a improved version of X1. SHOULD USE X2 IF POSSIBLE, IF NOT MUST USE X1 Its the same as saying MUST USE X2 first or X1 as

Re: [hybi] IESG note?, was: Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-09-03 Thread Roy T. Fielding
I don't know if this is a cultural issue or not, but neither of those changes is an improvement, nor should they be any less offensive. Convoluted and inefficient describes the hashing algorithm in the least offensive way possible -- complex doesn't say anything. There are a lot of complex

RE: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alan Barrett Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 12:20 AM To: IETF Discussion Subject: Re: 2119bis It's really simple. If an interoperability problem arises from your failure to implement

RE: 2119bis

2011-09-03 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
-Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of John C Klensin Sent: Saturday, September 03, 2011 6:00 AM To: Sam Hartman; Eric Burger Cc: IETF discussion list Subject: Re: 2119bis Note that this loops back to the the discussion about