Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
On 2/1/2011 9:19 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote: So to summarize what you are saying, ports are allocated based on an arbitrary view of the expert review. When this person will say yes or no too can't be described and will change over time. See my other post. Section 8.1.1 already states that

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
On 2/1/2011 10:00 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: On Tue, Feb 1, 2011 at 9:39 AM, Joe Touchto...@isi.edu wrote: To clarify some of this discussion, providing some context that might be useful: 1) the current doc already explicitly states the procedures for assignment in each range of ports (see

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
On 2/1/2011 10:29 AM, Eric Rescorla wrote: ... I'm sorry, but I'm still not clear. This document has an affirmative statement against the use of multiple ports for TLS. I'm sorry, but it does not. I states a goal, and a preference, and has plenty of wiggle room as I've repeatedly quoted,

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
On 2/1/2011 11:14 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Joe, the IESG had a fair amount of negative experience with this style of review just before I joined; this type of review was just about out of the process leading to blocking objections when I joined as an AD. I think that being able to discuss

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
On 2/1/2011 12:12 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Joe == Joe Touchto...@isi.edu writes: Joe On 2/1/2011 11:14 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: Joe ... Joe, the IESG had a fair amount of negative experience with this style of review just before I joined; this type of review was

TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-intarea-shared-addressing-issues-02

2011-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-31 Thread Joe Touch
Lars, On 1/31/2011 7:06 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, On 2011-1-31, at 16:51, Paul Hoffman wrote: On 1/31/11 12:23 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: On 2011-1-30, at 17:12, Paul Hoffman wrote: The above emphatic statements means that IANA can reject a request for an IETF-approved protocol that needs two

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-31 Thread Joe Touch
The procedures that are specified - for ALL assignments - are the PROCEDURES - the word itself is used specifically in the heading of section 8. That does not refer to the principles - again for which there are more than sufficient wiggle words, and which already cite existing RFCs that

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-31 Thread Joe Touch
On 1/31/2011 9:16 AM, Joe Touch wrote: Lars, On 1/31/2011 7:06 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, On 2011-1-31, at 16:51, Paul Hoffman wrote: On 1/31/11 12:23 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: On 2011-1-30, at 17:12, Paul Hoffman wrote: The above emphatic statements means that IANA can reject a request

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-31 Thread Joe Touch
Fwiw please see sec 8.1 of our doc which states which procedures of RFC 5226 are specified for each range, and already allows IESG approval as a path for user ports. Joe On Jan 31, 2011, at 9:25 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: On 1/31/2011 9:16 AM, Joe Touch wrote: Lars, On 1/31

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Touch
Hoffman wrote: On 1/29/11 9:34 PM, Joe Touch wrote: ... As per my other note: RFC2780 specifies Expert Review as *one* of the viable means by which IANA can decide on transport protocol port assignments. The term Expert Review is defined in RFC 2434. Neither document binds IANA to use the advice

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-29 Thread Joe Touch
On 1/29/2011 8:53 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 17:29 , Michelle Cotton wrote: We are changing that process right now. We have begun to report the reviewer (with the review) in the email to the requester. We just need to make sure this small change is communicated to

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-29 Thread Joe Touch
On 1/29/2011 8:54 PM, Cullen Jennings wrote: On Jan 27, 2011, at 17:10 , Joe Touch wrote: ... AFAICT, the experts team reports to IANA. We make recommendations to them. They are the ones who have the conversation with the applicant. They can take our advice or not - that's their decision

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (InternetAssigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Managementof the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port NumberRegistry) to BCP

2011-01-28 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Tom, On 1/28/2011 7:02 AM, t.petch wrote: Is there any text about this, old protocol, situation, for I cannot see any? Or are we at the mercy of the expert reviewer? Tom Petch See Sec 7.2: ...IANA has flexibility beyond these principles when handling assignment requests; other

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-27 Thread Joe Touch
On 1/27/2011 12:52 AM, Lars Eggert wrote: ... Small Issue #3: I object to anonymous review The current review is anonymous and this draft does not seem to change that. I don't like anonymous review - it's not how we do things at IETF and it encourages really bad behavior. I have several

Re: NAT behavior for IP ID field

2011-01-06 Thread Joe Touch
Although this is a fairly old thread, I didn't see mention of the IPv4 ID draft we've been working on in INTAREA that addresses this: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-intarea-ipv4-id-update/ It was updated last Oct. See esp. Sec 9. Joe On 8/31/2010 1:04 PM, John Kristoff wrote:

Re: tsv-dir review of draft-ietf-storm-ifcp-ipn133-updates-02

2010-09-22 Thread Joe Touch
, david.bl...@emc.com wrote: Joe, Many thanks for reviewing the draft. The requested changes look reasonable, with one clarification - protocol number 133 was used for a pre-standard version of FCIP, not iFCP . Thanks, --David -Original Message- From: Joe Touch [mailto:to...@isi.edu

tsv-dir review of draft-ietf-storm-ifcp-ipn133-updates-02

2010-09-21 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any

Re: TSV-DIR review of draft-daboo-srv-caldav-05

2010-07-19 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/18/2010 11:05 AM, Patrik Faltstrom (pfaltstr) wrote: On 18 jul 2010, at 19:18, Joe Touchto...@isi.edu wrote: That seems to means you use one of two different RRs, depending on the response. I don't see that as a step forward. No, the other way around. You, in a protocol, use either

Re: TSV-DIR review of draft-daboo-srv-caldav-05

2010-07-18 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/18/2010 12:14 AM, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 17 jul 2010, at 21.39, Joe Touch wrote: Are you suggesting a new RR instead of the SRV or in addition to the SRV? The latter seems useful; the former begs the question of how many SRV variants we would want. A new RR that is a replacement

Re: TSV-DIR review of draft-daboo-srv-caldav-05

2010-07-17 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Cyrus, On 7/16/2010 6:11 PM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Hi Joe, --On July 16, 2010 2:55:42 PM -0700 Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: 1) the document contains a section discussing the registration of caldev and caldevs (Sec 3); a corresponding section for carddev and carddevs should be added

Re: TSV-DIR review of draft-daboo-srv-caldav-05

2010-07-17 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Cyrus, On 7/17/2010 12:00 PM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: ... The SRV registry exists even in advance of IANA's management thereof. Further, aliases have no meaning in the SRV registry - they are meaningful only in the IANA ports registry, and only insofar as multiple strings are assigned the same

Re: TSV-DIR review of draft-daboo-srv-caldav-05

2010-07-17 Thread Joe Touch
Patrick, Are you suggesting a new RR instead of the SRV or in addition to the SRV? The latter seems useful; the former begs the question of how many SRV variants we would want. Joe On 7/17/2010 12:33 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 17 jul 2010, at 21.27, Joe Touch wrote: The appropriate

TSV-DIR review of draft-daboo-srv-caldav-05

2010-07-16 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-05-07 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Jari, Individual shop owners (and cab drivers) can always do what they want (anywhere), even when the company they work for accepts cards. As I noted, you can ask before you get into the cab. Though I agree with your recommendation that backup cash is always useful -- in any city. Joe

TSV-DIR review of draft-hethmon-mcmurray-ftp-hosts-11.txt

2010-05-06 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-05-06 Thread Joe Touch
Theodore Tso wrote: ... This was my experience as well (I travel a lot, to many countries in Europe and Asia, and have never had a problem until I travelled to the Netherlands last year) --- except my ATM card didn't work, either. When I talked to my bank, they told me it was because of

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-05-06 Thread Joe Touch
Jari Arkko wrote: Phillip, This is the main change from the US. In the US it is entirely practical to carry only plastic and no cash at all. This is mostly right, but maybe not universally true. Imagine my surprise when I walked to a cab at LAX and asked to be taken to the Anaheim

Re: Packet mood

2010-05-06 Thread Joe Touch
Dave CROCKER wrote: On 4/1/2010 11:05 AM, Fred Baker wrote: So - does RFC 5841 update RFC 3514, or obsolete it? Probably not. RFC 3514 is actually a protocol. RFC 5841 is not. A protocol needs to specify deterministic behavior by participants at both ends of the exchange.

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-15 Thread Joe Touch
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: ... Before you answer that, here is a list of consensus requirements on the document format: 1) Easy to generate 2) Readily supported by a wide range of authoring tools WYSIWYG authoring, IMO, ought to be required if we're claiming to climb out of the stone age

TSV-DIR review of draft-allbery-afs-srv-records-03

2010-02-02 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any

TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-mipshop-pfmipv6-09.txt

2009-09-25 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-14 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 RJ Atkinson wrote: ... BOTTOM LINE: There seems to be clear consensus amongst folks outside the IESG that (1) there is no current problem and (2) no process change is warranted to make IESG notes mandatory on non-IETF-track documents.

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Stephan Wenger st...@stewe.org For the IETF as an organization, I see no value beyond traditions in staying with the RFC publication model. (The marketing value of using the RFC series is IMHO

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Wed, Sep 09, 2009 at 09:19:05AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: First, you lack empirical data to substantiate your assessment of the perception. Well, Wikipedia (which IMO is primarily useful as a repository for finding

Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists [Fwd: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP]

2009-06-12 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ White wrote: If everyone knew, there would be more lobbying since there would be more people participating. I doubt the direct or secret-list lobbying would wane much as a result. I don't think you'll get any more lobbying than you get

Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists [Fwd: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP]

2009-06-11 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Melinda Shore wrote: SM wrote: Hi Phillip, At 08:32 10-06-2009, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: A more useful change would be to abolish NOMCON and for those currently qualified to sit on NOMCON to elect the IAB and ADs directly. The implications

Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists [Fwd: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP]

2009-06-11 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I am concerned about this development for several reasons: 1) exposing the full list to the entire community invites lobbying the nomcom This probably already happens to some extent, but do we really want to encourage this? 2)

Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists [Fwd: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP]

2009-06-11 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The deliberative process of NOMCON means that it is more likely that consensus will be reached on the candidates that fewest people object to rather than those that have the strongest support. Deliberation means that

Re: Publicizing IETF nominee lists [Fwd: Last Call: draft-dawkins-nomcom-openlist (Nominating Committee Process: Open Disclosure of Willing Nominees) to BCP]

2009-06-11 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 I do not debate the utility to the Nomcom of this change. I believe it comes with a cost, and I do not agree that it is a simple decision. I do not agree that the Nomcom is the only party here worth consideration. Joe Stephen Kent wrote: Joe,

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-21 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom.Petch wrote: ... If you're here for a rubber stamp, you came to the wrong WG ;-) Rubber-stamp? No, Joe. The UK CPNI rubberstamp is more than enough, and when it comes to advice on this issues, I believe it's even more credible. Ask the

Re: [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Gont wrote: Joe Touch wrote: I'm not at all clear that the WG needs this document. Yes, we still have the option to ignore that vendors have had to figure out by themselves how to produce a resilient implementation of TCP, because

Re: [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Gont wrote: Joe Touch wrote: So we had tcp-secure in 2004, icmp-attacks in 2005, a claim for a trivial attack in 2008 (Outpost24/CERT-FI), and we'll probably continue in this line, because we do nothing about it. Whether we have

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-Original Message- From: opsec-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:opsec-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Fernando Gont Sent: Monday, April 13, 2009 1:23 PM To: Joe Touch Cc: t...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org; Joe Abley; op...@ietf.org; Lars Eggert; Eddy,Wesley M. (GRC-RCN0)[Verizon] Subject: Re

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Gont wrote: Smith, Donald wrote: Please talk to vendors. I don't want to reproduce here what seems to be the consensus among vendors with respect to the current state of affairs in terms of how up-to-date our specs are. I talk to

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Smith, Donald wrote: ... The classic tenets for computer security is: CIA - Confidentiality, Integrity and Availability. TCP doesn't attempt to address Confidentiality. However it was designed to address integrity and availability so failures

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Fernando Gont wrote: Joe Touch wrote: The consensus seems to be that the current state of affairs is something like: a mess. Even if you do care to produce a resilient implementation, that task is going to be much harder than necessary. You

tsv-dir review of draft-atlas-icmp-unnumbered-06

2009-04-07 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their

Re: Secdir Review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Sam, Sam Hartman wrote: I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area

Re: Secdir Review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 1 Oct 2008 22:12:17 -0400 Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Steven Note 7.3.1 on Steven TCP considerations. (Also note that 7.3.1 disagrees Steven with 793 on the treatment of security

Re: Secdir Review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Hartman wrote: Joe == Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe I was wondering about that; it seems inconsistent to have Joe this document require something that is optional in RFC 4301. I suspect you realize this, but some

Re: Secdir Review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, Mike (et al.), Michael StJohns wrote: Hi Joe - ... At 02:18 PM 10/2/2008, Joe Touch wrote: First, I don't agree with this document's recommendation in section 7.3.1. TCP's current definition of a connection is: local IP address

Re: Secdir Review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Michael StJohns wrote: At 07:01 PM 10/2/2008, Joe Touch wrote: ... The fix was to virtualize TCP so that there was a complete set of TCP ports per distinct security domain. I agree that this fixes your problem, but what it does is create a new

Re: Secdir Review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05

2008-10-02 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:48:07 -0700 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The point I'm making is that there seems like there should be a way to prevent the covert channel without mucking up TCP's definition of what

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-09 Thread Joe Touch
Mark Andrews wrote: ... hk is not a legal fully qualified host name. Agreed. hk., however, is. No, it is not a legal hostname. RFC 952 explicitly excludes trailing periods. RFC 952 is not a standard. Joe signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-08 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: | | | Ted Faber wrote: | On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 12:54:16PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: | hk. is not a syntactically valid hostname (RFC 952). | hk. is not a syntactically valid mail domain. | Periods at the end are

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-08 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Joe Touch wrote: Keith Moore wrote: | RFC1043 defines the dot. The fact that some apps don't recognize it is a | bug. | | not when the application explicitly specifies that FQDNs are to be used. | in such cases the dot is superfluous. Superfluous is fine. Prohibited

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-08 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Many, many working groups have looked at the problems associated with relative names and determined that they're not acceptable. It's a bug that relative names are forbidden in these apps, nor that the final . is implicit and in many cases disallowed. These are

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-08 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: It's nonsensical for an application to decide that relative names are unacceptable, but to require users to input names as relative. it's nonsensical for you to unilaterally declare that such names are relative, when well over two decades of practice indicates otherwise.

Re: Westin Vancouver Update

2007-12-03 Thread Joe Touch
Ray, On Nov 28, 2007, at 11:03 AM, Ray Pelletier wrote: All; Some background as regards the Westin moving people to other hotels as a result of renovations. We executed a contract with the Westin in February 2007 when an Asian initiative fell through. In the contract we were provided a

Re: [PMOL] Re: A question about [Fwd: WG Review: Performance Metrics atOther Layers (pmol)]

2007-11-15 Thread Joe Touch
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 22:43:01 -0800 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: ... Yes, Steve almost certanily did slow down any heavy CPU use during the time when he was doing the backup. Our point--Steve, Steve and I--is that for a lot of uses

Re: [PMOL] Re: A question about [Fwd: WG Review: Performance Metrics atOther Layers (pmol)]

2007-11-15 Thread Joe Touch
Stephen Kent wrote: Joe, This discussion seems to have moved from a discussion of crypto use on home/office computers, to use in routers. There is no good motivation for other than edge (CPE?) routers to make use of IPsec for subscriber traffic. BGP... use of IPsec to protect BGP is

Re: [PMOL] Re: A question about [Fwd: WG Review: Performance Metrics atOther Layers (pmol)]

2007-11-14 Thread Joe Touch
Sam Hartman wrote: Romascanu, == Romascanu, Dan (Dan) [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: -Original Message- From: Sam Hartman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, October 29, 2007 10:24 PM To: Leslie Daigle Cc: IESG; ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: [PMOL]

Re: [PMOL] Re: A question about [Fwd: WG Review: Performance Metrics atOther Layers (pmol)]

2007-11-14 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Steve, Stephen Kent wrote: Joe, I disagree with your suggestion The software performance of security protocols has been the more substantial issue, and is likely to continue to be for the forseeable future. I suspect that most desktop users do not need hardware crypto for

Re: [PMOL] Re: A question about [Fwd: WG Review: Performance Metrics atOther Layers (pmol)]

2007-11-14 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Steve, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Wed, 14 Nov 2007 15:39:50 -0500 Stephen Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Joe, I disagree with your suggestion The software performance of security protocols has been the more substantial issue, and is likely to continue to be for the forseeable

Re: [PMOL] Re: A question about [Fwd: WG Review: Performance Metrics atOther Layers (pmol)]

2007-11-14 Thread Joe Touch
Sam Hartman wrote: ... Yes, Steve almost certanily did slow down any heavy CPU use during the time when he was doing the backup. Our point--Steve, Steve and I--is that for a lot of uses and a lot of users, no one cares. Perhaps that's why everyone is using security. We don't have a problem

Re: IESG workload problem (Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? )

2007-06-28 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Joe Touch wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... I don't see increasing the areas; I see splitting them down as a possible way. Leaving an AD at the top level with less work, and having sub-ADs report to them. draft-iesg-alvestrand-twolevel, published October 2003

Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

2007-06-27 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-06-27 15:52, Joe Touch wrote: Keith Moore wrote: We could have more ADs and split and/or layer the work to reduce the per-person load. That may not be the only - or even best - way forward, It's not clearly even a way forward. the more ADs

Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

2007-06-24 Thread Joe Touch
Ted Hardie wrote: ... That does not mean the IETF leadership is itself a meritocracy; it's not. I believe there remains a disconnect between what people think the I* roles are (primarily service, e.g., IMO), and what those in those roles have sometimes interpreted it as (oversight based on

Re: Non-priority baggage handling (Re: Warning - risk of duty free ...)

2007-03-16 Thread Joe Touch
AFAICT, they're just visible indicators of who flies a lot, which means they also tell people which bags might be more valuable to steal. I ask them not to put the tags on. Joe signature.asc Description: OpenPGP digital signature ___ Ietf mailing

Re: [INDEP] Re: [IAOC] Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-08-07 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Joe, What you say might have been true up until say the mid 1980s, but today, it's hard to defend that statement. For many years the vast majority of RFCs have been produced by IETF either from working groups or individual submissions. That vast number does not

Re: [IAOC] Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-27 Thread Joe Touch
Leslie Daigle wrote: ... [*] This is perhaps a reasonable time to reiterate that the IAB is, in fact, a separate entity from the IETF organization. There are many who believe that all RFCs are Internet standards documents, thus the current concern with adding IESG non-review statements to

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-27 Thread Joe Touch
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: ... I agree that things would be simpler if we could come up with a way to do things that didn't require figuring out the answer. Unfortunately, I'm not convinced we can. Before I go any further, let me point out that I have no reason to believe that ISI will act

Re: [IAOC] Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-27 Thread Joe Touch
Leslie Daigle wrote: Note that I never said that the IAB was not part of the IETF family/universe/collection. The important thing is that the IAB is independent in its decision making, and not subject to the IESG's whims or strictly bound by the IETF's input, which appeared to be the

Re: regarding Editors and their 'recreating new ip'...

2006-07-27 Thread Joe Touch
todd glassey wrote: So someone submits something to the IETF for standardization that is patented or that they intend to patent. But in the process of submitting the work-product to the IETF for publication it is altered by the editor's both in form and in functionality. Another variant

Re: [IAOC] Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-27 Thread Joe Touch
Eliot Lear wrote: Joe, [...] *independent* means that. It does NOT mean IETF-family controlled. I would first see independent submissions abolished altogether. There are many publishing outlets. This is not the 1970s. The term RFC has been appropriated by the IETF community.

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-21 Thread Joe Touch
Marcus Leech wrote: Todd Glassey wrote: H... The SOW MUST define all the elements of the Editor's responsibility and all the specific tasks they perform as well as the SLA's for those Tasks. It also MUST address the SOD (Separation of Duties) within the Editor's work since they are

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-21 Thread Joe Touch
Dave Crocker wrote: ... And that leads to the basic question of professional editing. As I've noted before, my recent experience with the RFC Editor's editors was quite good. They definitely improved the writing in the document. However, such an editorial effort it expensive and I do

Re: RFC Editor Function SOW Review

2006-07-21 Thread Joe Touch
to standards-track; there are other docs (Informational, BCP, Experimental) that are handled as well. Joe -Original Message- From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Jul 21, 2006 9:03 AM To: Marcus Leech [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Todd Glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED], Pete Resnick [EMAIL PROTECTED], IETF

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-19 Thread Joe Touch
Julian Reschke wrote: Joe Touch schrieb: ... And I'm worried about changes to XML that render the result uncompilable, not minor text formatting changes. See the changes to 2629 (sometimes referred to as 2629bis, although no I-D has been issued - and we're currently using this 'bis' version

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-18 Thread Joe Touch
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Fri, Jun 16, 2006 at 03:46:16PM -0700, Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 85 lines which said: - edit source code (argh - back to the stone age) I always assumed that most people involved in IETF edit source code daily (I did not say

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-17 Thread Joe Touch
Julian Reschke wrote: Joe Touch schrieb: Julian Reschke wrote: Joe Touch schrieb: Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 34 lines which said: IMHO, IETF should always publish the source of its documents

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-17 Thread Joe Touch
Julian Reschke wrote: Joe Touch schrieb: ... As long as future versions are backward compatible with all past versions, that's fine. That has not been my impression of xml2rfc over the small window I tried to use it. ... I guess that depends on the expectation. RFC2629 defines

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Joe Touch
Julian Reschke wrote: Joe Touch schrieb: Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Thu, Jun 15, 2006 at 09:01:22AM -0700, Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 34 lines which said: IMHO, IETF should always publish the source of its documents (the current RFC process is far from perfect

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Joe Touch
It's worth distinguishing the search for alternate normative output formats from the search for a standard input format. Or are you proposing 2629bis as a standard intermediate format, which makes both camps (input and output) unhappy? Joe Carl Malamud wrote: Hi - There's been an awful lot

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Joe Touch
Carl Malamud wrote: It's worth distinguishing the search for alternate normative output formats from the search for a standard input format. Or are you proposing 2629bis as a standard intermediate format, which makes both camps (input and output) unhappy? I think we should pick one

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Joe Touch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 17-jun-2006, at 0:18, Joe Touch wrote: It's worth distinguishing the search for alternate normative output formats from the search for a standard input format. I think the mistake is to make the output format normative. If we make the input format

Re: IETF IPv6 platform configuration

2006-06-15 Thread Joe Touch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 15-jun-2006, at 1:51, Mark Andrews wrote: *Only HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and DNS traffic are permitted through an IPv6 Native firewall (pings, traceroutes etc. are dropped) Why? Shouldn't we be prompting good firewall practices? Droping

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-15 Thread Joe Touch
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: ... IMHO, IETF should always publish the source of its documents (the current RFC process is far from perfect in that respect). Which source (XML2RFC is only one; some use troff, and others use Word, among others)? Why would inter-source conversion be more useful

Re: Best practice for data encoding?

2006-06-14 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Ted Faber wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: The problem with text is that you have to walk through memory and compare characters. A LOT. That's not where your code spends its time. Run gprof(1). The majority

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-14 Thread Joe Touch
John Levine wrote: This draft addresses none of the problems identified the last time it came around, and I strongly encourage the IESG to say no. Although I sympathize with the concern that some RFCs would work better with fancier graphics, PDF isn't a solution to any problem I

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-14 Thread Joe Touch
Spencer Dawkins wrote: The key question is whether there exists a format which is likely to be sufficiently stable that we won't have to revisit this decision in another 35 years. All the proposed formats - including PDF, XML, etc. - are moving targets at this time. That's why I suggested

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-06-12 Thread Joe Touch
Michael StJohns wrote: Brian - In absolute seriousness, I could publish an ID/RFC or other document that says that I'm the king of the Internet - doesn't make it so. These are the facts as I understand them. 1) The RFC Series has always been at ISI, originally under Jon Postel the

Re: Questions about draft-lear-iana-no-more-well-known-ports-00.txt

2006-06-06 Thread Joe Touch
Eliot Lear wrote: Joe, SRV records are not equivalent to either assigned or mutually-negotiated ports; they would require extra messages, extra round-trip times, and/or extra services (DNS) beyond what is currently required. Just to be clear, I am not suggesting that no assignments be

Re: Questions about draft-lear-iana-no-more-well-known-ports-00.txt

2006-06-06 Thread Joe Touch
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Joe Touch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] The second is a problem, for reasons explained in my I-D, because it puts control over host service offerings in the hands of whomever controls its DNS (e.g., another thing for ISPs to claim makes you a commercial

Re: Questions about draft-lear-iana-no-more-well-known-ports-00.txt

2006-06-06 Thread Joe Touch
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: ... You are confusing politics with technology and making a hash of both. I would encourage you to review the doc; it discusses the details of the differences in technical terms. I'll refrain from repeating them here. Joe signature.asc Description: OpenPGP

Re: Questions about draft-lear-iana-no-more-well-known-ports-00.txt

2006-06-05 Thread Joe Touch
Eliot Lear wrote: Jeff, Disclaimer - I wasn't even aware of this document before reading this thread. However, I have now read it, so feel prepared to comment. As it only just came out, you haven't missed much of a debate. (1) The IANA is a group of adults, but it is no longer a group of

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-04-14 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi, all, In response to some discussion on this mailing list, the following ID has been submitted. It's intended to become a TCPM work item (thus the header) if there's sufficient interest. PLEASE TAKE FURTHER DISCUSSION TO THAT LIST ([EMAIL

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-04-10 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, Noel (et al.), Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] TCPMUX doesn't 'handoff'. It expects that .. the service desired is served off of its port once opened after the initial exchange (in-band). .. The downside is that it then forces a two-step

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-04-10 Thread Joe Touch
Eliot Lear wrote: In thinking about this some more if we end up with a TCPMUX like approach for TCP, how shall UDP, SCTP, et al be handled? Is it okay to handle them differently? I'm addressing this in the draft (in progress). UDP can't support the idea; there's no option space.The

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