Re: [pkix] Last Call: (X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP) to Proposed Standard

2013-03-22 Thread Martin Rex
The IESG wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure > (X.509) WG (pkix) to consider the following document: > - 'X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status >Protocol - OCSP' >as Proposed Standard > > The IESG plans to make a decis

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Bob Hinden
To raise this discussion up a bit, I can think two other related reasons why there may be less corporate diversity in the IETF. The first is that it's possible to build applications and businesses that take advantage of the Internet without having to come to the IETF to standardize anything.

RE: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread l.wood
Joel, the small shops you worked for were in the US, right? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Joel M. Halpern [j...@joelhalpern.com] Sent: 23 March 2013 03:24 To: Mark Prior Cc: John

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > Martin Rex wrote: > > > > My impression of todays IESG role, in particular taking their > > balloting rules and their actual balloting results into account, > > is more of a "confirming body" of work that happened elsewhere > > (primarily in the IETF, typically in IETF

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I would have to disagree with: On 3/22/2013 11:17 PM, Mark Prior wrote: ... Hi John, I think that any small shop (whatever that means) would be put off if they sent someone to an IETF as it appears that it is dominated by the big vendors pushing their own agendas. Given that impression I imagi

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Martin Rex
Melinda Shore wrote: > Stephen Farrell wrote: > > > > FWIW, seems to me you're describing one leg of the elephant > > each. From my experience I'd say you both actually have an > > appreciation of the overall elephant but that's not coming > > out in this kind of thread. Since I personally partici

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Mark Prior
On 21/03/13 1:33 PM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, March 20, 2013 23:36 +0100 Jari Arkko wrote: I think it is mostly market forces and historical reasons, and the development of the IETF to focus on more particular core aspects of the Internet (like routing) as opposed to what the sm

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/22/13 6:28 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: > FWIW, seems to me you're describing one leg of the elephant > each. From my experience I'd say you both actually have an > appreciation of the overall elephant but that's not coming > out in this kind of thread. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that he's

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 03/23/2013 02:22 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: > Sorry, Martin, but you're not describing how the IETF actually > works. > FWIW, seems to me you're describing one leg of the elephant each. From my experience I'd say you both actually have an appreciation of the overall elephant but that's not com

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/22/13 6:17 PM, Martin Rex wrote: > Before allowing a new WG to start, ADs seem to make an assessment > of whether there are sufficient volunteers of both kinds to do the > work, whether there is sufficient expertise in the IETF to perform > adequate review of the results and whether there is s

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Martin Rex
Melinda Shore wrote: > Martin Rex wrote: > > > > As I understand and see it, the IESG is running IETF processes, > > is mentoring IETF processes (towards WG Chairs, BOFs, individuals > > with complaints/appeals), and is trying to keep an eye on the > > overall architecture, and put togethe the pie

Re: Architecture

2013-03-22 Thread Keith Moore
On 03/22/2013 03:03 PM, John Curran wrote: On Mar 22, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Keith Moore wrote: I don't think we're in disagreement. I think that more diversity in IETF would help minimize the risk that some interests were shortchanged, but I certainly agree that another factor is a lack of und

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Joe Touch
On 3/22/2013 4:43 AM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: ... Granted, it may be that the list of _qualified_ candidates is less diverse than the set of all people who are willing to run. But, if so, that isn't because there aren't companies who are willing/able to

Re: Architecture

2013-03-22 Thread John Curran
On Mar 22, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > I don't think we're in disagreement. I think that more diversity in IETF > would help minimize the risk that some interests were shortchanged, but I > certainly agree that another factor is a lack of understanding of, and > respect for, the e

Re: Architecture

2013-03-22 Thread Keith Moore
On 03/22/2013 09:50 AM, John Curran wrote: On Mar 21, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Keith Moore wrote: ... Another result is that the Internet architecture has gone to hell, and we're now spending a huge amount of effort building kludges to fix the problems associated with other kludges and the new k

Re: Please review draft-housley-rfc2050bis-00.txt

2013-03-22 Thread SM
Hi Russ, At 08:43 22-03-2013, Russ Housley wrote: RFC 2050 contains rules that are superseded by RIR policies. That doesn't explain the label. :-) This document replaces RFC 2050. Since the publication of RFC 2050, the Internet Numbers Registry System has changed significantly. This docume

Re: Please review draft-housley-rfc2050bis-00.txt

2013-03-22 Thread Russ Housley
On Mar 20, 2013, at 6:04 PM, SM wrote: > At 12:43 20-03-2013, Elwyn Davies wrote: >> This contains some woolly hand-waving weasel words at the end: > > I looked up the meaning of weasel words and found the following: > > "words and phrases aimed at creating an impression that something specifi

Re: Please review draft-housley-rfc2050bis-00.txt

2013-03-22 Thread Russ Housley
Elwyn: > Two points: > >> Rereading things again, I have another suggestion; >> >> 4) Split the Goals of the Internet registry system out of the >> Introduction. The Intro starts out talking about the document, its >> goals, and what is in scope and out of scope of the document. Then >> tra

Architecture (was: Re: Less Corporate Diversity)

2013-03-22 Thread John Curran
On Mar 21, 2013, at 8:58 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > ... > Another result is that the Internet architecture has gone to hell, and we're > now spending a huge amount of effort building kludges to fix the problems > associated with other kludges and the new kludges will almost certainly > create

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Margaret Wasserman
On Mar 22, 2013, at 5:47 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > > But I suspect the idea that there are fewer companies when the word "startup" > seems to automatically imply something Internet related is wrong. There's > plenty of small companies, but engagement in the IETF is either irrelevant - > beca

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 1:28 AM, Eric Burger wrote: > Quite the contrary. I am interpreting a few of the 'diversity' posts as > saying the IETF has fewer companies participating and much fewer smaller > companies participating. And I am interpreting those posts as implying some > nefarious plot on