Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Keith Moore
On 05/15/2013 02:42 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Wed, 15 May 2013, Keith Moore wrote: Yes, I'm aware that some people (including myself) have effectively participated on occasion without doing either of the above. But I think it's hard to effectively participate in IETF on a regular basis

Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 15 May 2013, Keith Moore wrote: Yes, I'm aware that some people (including myself) have effectively participated on occasion without doing either of the above. But I think it's hard to effectively participate in IETF on a regular basis without a significant investment in both time and

Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Keith Moore
On 05/15/2013 02:00 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: Otoh hand the whole point with IETF is that *nobody* is *excluded*, it consists of all interested parties and the barrier of entry is really low. That's what many of us would like to believe. But IETF certainly doesn't consist of all intereste

Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 14 May 2013, Dale R. Worley wrote: The critical difference is that the IETF is an organization of *buyers* rather than an organization of *sellers*. Not that I have been active in the IETF that long (only a few years), but IETF is pretty vendor-heavy. Otoh hand the whole point with

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Keith Moore
On 05/14/2013 04:45 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Brian, et al., On 5/14/2013 1:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think this exchange between Cullen and Ted says it all, except for one tweak: the IESG is allowed, even encouraged, to apply common sense when considering the DISCUSS criteria. They are guid

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Keith Moore
On 05/14/2013 06:30 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 5/14/2013 3:12 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On May 14, 2013, at 6:00 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" wrote: At the same time, discussions do have to be resolvable. If there is no way to address it, then it is not a discuss. But "required to clar" is the wrong pic

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Sam Hartman
I'll say that about a year and a half ago I found myself pushing back on discusses that in my opinion clearly were not within the discuss criteria significantly more than I ever had to do as an AD. My role was as WG chair/editor. Interestingly it's been less of an issue in my experience lately.

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > That is what happens exactly because the DISCUSS holds up the document, and > most ADs don't want to burn time stalling their documents if there's a way > around that delay. It can only happen if an author values getting their document through the

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joe Touch
On 5/14/2013 4:03 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: If the authors think that the goal is to "please the AD," something's wrong. This would suggest that they will just do what the AD says without debate, which is exactly the wrong thing. The whole point of a DISCUSS is to have a discussion. Frankly, it'

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
And your bottom line is exactly what te rules say, what I said, what Ted said, and what Joe agreed is reasonable. It also matchesthe practice I have seen. Even the discuss that I had a lot of arguments with did include proposals for paths forward. Sometimes they were ard to understand. That

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/14/2013 3:46 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: To be fair, for what it's worth as a WG chair I've had the latter experience at least as often as the former in the use of DISCUSS, and I've observed some DISCUSSes cleared without any change at all to the document in question. We suffer a continuin

Re: Review of: draft-otis-dkim-harmful

2013-05-14 Thread Douglas Otis
On May 12, 2013, at 9:59 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: Dear Dave, Thank you for your thoughtful review, it was most helpful. I have updated the draft in hopes of adding greater clarity and to address your concerns. The new information not available to the WG at the time is how the DKIM specificat

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > And of course, that's still everyone's preference. But the reality is > that the imposition of the Discuss is an assertion that changes are > being required. No, it absolutely is not. That may have been the theory when you were AD, but I can

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 03:30:52PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: > > And of course, that's still everyone's preference. But the reality is > that the imposition of the Discuss is an assertion that changes are > being required. > > For reference, that milder uses of Discuss, which is something akin

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/14/2013 3:12 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On May 14, 2013, at 6:00 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" wrote: At the same time, discussions do have to be resolvable. If there is no way to address it, then it is not a discuss. But "required to clar" is the wrong picture as far as I can tell. Exactly right.

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 6:00 PM, "Joel M. Halpern" wrote: > At the same time, discussions do have to be resolvable. If there is no way > to address it, then it is not a discuss. But "required to clar" is the wrong > picture as far as I can tell. Exactly right. It would actually be pretty presum

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Below: On 5/14/2013 6:04 PM, Joe Touch wrote: On 5/14/2013 3:00 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me that if it is really a discussion, then there may be many possible things which could resolve it, and the AD raising the question may not know exactly what is feasible to clear it. Other

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joe Touch
On 5/14/2013 3:00 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me that if it is really a discussion, then there may be many possible things which could resolve it, and the AD raising the question may not know exactly what is feasible to clear it. Otherwise it is a demand, not a discussions. And in

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that if it is really a discussion, then there may be many possible things which could resolve it, and the AD raising the question may not know exactly what is feasible to clear it. Otherwise it is a demand, not a discussions. And in my experience while ADs can be pushy (like th

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: > I've not found that a real problem. When its happened that we > did turn up something bigger than we thought after the telechat > (and updating your discuss points before or during the telechat > is considered fair game) then I think the author

Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Tue, May 14, 2013 at 04:37:11PM -0400, Dale R. Worley wrote: > The critical difference is that the IETF is an organization of > *buyers* rather than an organization of *sellers*. Without wishing to be nasty, I will point out that we have way more vendors than operators participating in our sta

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joe Touch
On 5/14/2013 1:59 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: Joe, On 05/14/2013 09:45 PM, Joe Touch wrote: As important as the DISCUSS criteria are, there are NON-DISCUSS criteria that ought to be more carefully followed - including the point that disagreements with the WG or clarifications are not justific

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Joe, On 05/14/2013 09:45 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > As important as the DISCUSS criteria are, there are NON-DISCUSS criteria > that ought to be more carefully followed - including the point that > disagreements with the WG or clarifications are not justification for > DISCUSS. I had assumed that the

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joe Touch
On 5/14/2013 10:18 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: And a Discuss should be required to assert which criteria apply and how. +1 Joe

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Joe Touch
Brian, et al., On 5/14/2013 1:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think this exchange between Cullen and Ted says it all, except for one tweak: the IESG is allowed, even encouraged, to apply common sense when considering the DISCUSS criteria. They are guidance, not rules. Also, everybody needs to

Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Jari Arkko > > Just FYI that I wrote another article, this time on "permissionless > innovation" and the role of open standards. A nice summary! No permit had to be applied [for], no new network had to be built, and no commercial negotiation with other parties was needed when

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think this exchange between Cullen and Ted says it all, except for one tweak: the IESG is allowed, even encouraged, to apply common sense when considering the DISCUSS criteria. They are guidance, not rules. Also, everybody needs to take the word "discuss" literally. An entirely possible outcome

Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC

2013-05-14 Thread David Conrad
Hi, On May 14, 2013, at 11:02 AM, David Farmer wrote: > The third goal you refer to focuses on the need for "accurate registration > information ... in order to meet a variety of operational requirements." I > believe this to be a valid technical concerns of the IETF, it is difficult to > ima

Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC

2013-05-14 Thread David Farmer
On 5/11/13 10:17 , SM wrote: At 18:36 10-05-2013, David Conrad wrote: ... > Is it up to the IETF to set up a one-stop shop for personal data requests? I suspect not, but I suspect it isn't up to the IETF to dictate global privacy policy either. Section 2 is about the goals for distributing n

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Cullen, On 05/14/2013 02:58 PM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote: > I would like to see the whole IESG say they agree with the Discuss Criteria > document and will stay within that (or change it if they disagree). That I'm pretty sure is the case. When I started as a new AD one of the first t

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/14/2013 6:58 AM, Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote: when you look at the changes that are made to drafts from point they go in, to point they come out of IESG it seems to be a rare example where people don't agree that major changes were an improvement and needed. This is an important asse

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Cullen Jennings (fluffy)
inline On May 14, 2013, at 10:34 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > On May 14, 2013, at 9:58 AM, "Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" > wrote: >> 2) On the point of what the IESG should be doing, I would like to see the >> whole IESG say they agree with the Discuss Criteria document and will stay >> within that

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
Just to echo in some form what others have said, I believe that an intermediate stage between I-D and RFC is needed. I don't have a name for it, but conceptually would be something like 'feature freeze', e.g. no more tweakings to the protocol, or base spec are to be introduced (unless a major show

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 9:58 AM, "Cullen Jennings (fluffy)" wrote: > 2) On the point of what the IESG should be doing, I would like to see the > whole IESG say they agree with the Discuss Criteria document and will stay > within that (or change it if they disagree). The cross area review teams > m

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Cullen Jennings (fluffy)
Few thoughts. 1) don't get wrapped around the axel of STD, PS, Foo bar label, it has nothing to do with the problem that that IESG believes many drafts need changes to fix significant problems. Lots of people imply that the IESG is setting the bar too high but when you look at the changes tha

article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-14 Thread Jari Arkko
Just FYI that I wrote another article, this time on "permissionless innovation" and the role of open standards. We've talked about these topics earlier, but this has been on my mind recently - I've been traveling in recent weeks and talking about the roles of various organisations and styles of