Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-04-06 Thread Joe Touch
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Friday, March 24, 2006 08:23:20 AM -0500 Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:56:51 -0800, Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Since it seems like this might be useful, I'll pull a draft together on how to do this without

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Joe Touch
Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu ... It would be easy to run a tiny little U[D]P binding server that took in an application name (yes, we'd have to register those, but string

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-24 Thread Joe Touch
Dave Crocker wrote: I agree that interim WG meetings would be useful, but here is a further proposal: There are quite a few really good ideas for improvements to IETF productivity. The problem with taking a particular suggestion and then adding others to it will be that nothing gets

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-23 Thread Joe Touch
Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Regarding SRV, it's not acceptable to expect that as a condition of deploying a new application, every user who wishes to run that application be able to write to a DNS zone. Most users do not have DNS zones

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-23 Thread Joe Touch
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 20 Mar 2006 12:47:46 -0500 (EST), [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noel Chiappa) wrote: Another option, now that I think about it, though, is a TCP option which contained the service name - one well-known port would be the demux port, and which actual application you

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-23 Thread Joe Touch
Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Steven M. Bellovin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Another option, now that I think about it, though, is a TCP option which contained the service name - one well-known port would be the demux port, and which actual application you connected to would

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-23 Thread Joe Touch
PS... Joe Touch wrote: Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Keith Moore moore@cs.utk.edu Regarding SRV, it's not acceptable to expect that as a condition of deploying a new application, every user who wishes to run that application be able to write to a DNS zone. Most users do

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-19 Thread Joe Touch
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The whole idea of fixed ports is broken. ... The Internet has a signalling layer, the DNS. Applications should use it. The SRV record provides an infinitely extensible mechanism for advertising ports. And with what port would I reach this magical DNS that would

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-19 Thread Joe Touch
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Joe Touch [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] And with what port would I reach this magical DNS that would provide the SRV record for the DNS itself? You use fixed ports for the bootstrap process and only for the bootstrap process. Which means that the DNS

Re: Suggestion on a BCP specific WG...

2006-03-18 Thread Joe Touch
todd glassey wrote: Response- No Joel - you are dead wrong IMHO. The IETF doesnt get to redefine the Industry Term BCP to mean 'some document we publish'. We use the term Request for Comments when after last call for input. We use the term Standard when we have no official compliance

Re: and once again for your calendaring pleasure and planning

2006-02-27 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 And for those using PalmOS (import into desktop): http://www.isi.edu/touch/tools/ietf65-draft.vcs Same info; same warranties; different format ;-) Joe Eliot Lear wrote: You can find a ical version of the draft agenda at

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-18 Thread Joe Touch
Tom.Petch wrote: The phrase 'monotonic increasing' seems to be a Humpty-Dumpty one, used with a different sense within RFC to that which I see defined elsewhere; and this could lead to a reduction in security. Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that

Re: What's an experiment?

2006-02-15 Thread Joe Touch
There are two different potential intentions to 'Experimental': 1. to conduct an experiment, as Eliot notes below, i.e., to gain experience that a protocol 'does good' 'in the wild' 2. to gain experience that a protocol does no harm 'in the wild' I think of IETF Experimental track as being

Re: udp source address change

2006-02-14 Thread Joe Touch
mharrima101 (sent by Nabble.com) wrote: Please excuse if this post is not in the correct place - I wasn't sure where to put a question such as this. We are using an HP ProCurve switch in our network as a router ( it’s a layer 3 switch ). We are communicating with all devices on the far

Re: Document Action: 'US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)' to Informational RFC

2006-02-07 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Russ Housley wrote: Most RFCs do not contain source code. Algorithm specs are the exception, and typically do contain reference code, though. They tend to include licenses in that code, however. That code is typically given as an example, in

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On 13. januar 2006 11:44 -0800 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is my impression, from trying to use it as well. I was troubled by 'yet another embedded text system' that necessitated editing source, which seemed like a stone-age throwback when I

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On 13. januar 2006 22:40 -0800 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I haven't used it for production yet, but it looks wonderful - not WYSIWYG, but WYSIPU - What You See Is Pretty Useful. Pretty useful compared to text-editing the source code, yes

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Joe Touch
Elwyn Davies wrote: Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Faber wrote: On Thu, Jan 12, 2006 at 04:22:53PM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: Maintaining xml2rfc is going to far less fragile than maintaining nroff. Nroff has no current industry penetration. XML has quite a lot. I'd be cautious here.

Re: Henning's proposal (Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-23 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ted Faber wrote: On Wed, Nov 23, 2005 at 02:24:53PM -0500, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: A slightly different question is whether we can come up with a Word template that makes this feasible or at least minimizes the manual conversion labor at the

Re: Henning's proposal (Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-23 Thread Joe Touch
John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, 23 November, 2005 13:54 -0800 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To others: I'm seeking help with two aspects of this template: a) being able to generate ASCII printer output from Macs and under OpenOffice the current

Re: Correct middlebox behavior

2005-09-29 Thread Joe Touch
This doesn't cover all of what middleboxes do, but the part about them faking responses (e.g., to splice connections), hijacking, or NATing are covered in RFC1122 sec 3.2.1.3: When a host sends any datagram, the IP source address MUST be one of its own IP addresses (but

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-13 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: I'm hesitant to relaunch this thread, but there are a number of points that incite me to comment. Since there's been a fair amount of repetition, may I ask people only to chime in with new thoughts? ... Joe Touch wrote: ... [re a mandatory section in all drafts

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-07 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Joe, ... Re-reviewing 2026, in all places the IESG is noted as being largely reactive to the community and guiding process. Only sec 6.1.2 notes the application of technical judgement, but only regarding maturity of the document and the standards level being sought

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Ned Freed wrote: Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA Considerations? There is no requirement that such sections appear in published RFCs. This debate has never been about what's required in RFCs, but rather what's required in drafts submitted to the IESG. Why

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ned Freed wrote: Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA Considerations? There is no requirement that such sections appear in published RFCs. This debate has never been about what's required in RFCs, but rather what's required in drafts

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Keith, The IESG can still exercise their best engineering judgment as individuals, as the rest of us do. The IESG role itself need not incorporate a privileged position from which to wield that judgement. There's plenty left to do. Joe, The IESG has several

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: If IESG people were to personally benefit from their exercise of this privilege you'd have a valid gripe. Personal gain is not the only motive; power can be its own motive. The gripes are validated by cases of abuse of privilege. If there's no obvious personal

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: 2026 separates process management from _independent_ technical review, IMO for good reason. I think you're reading more emphasis on independence than was intended in 2026. But this is also subjective. History reminds us

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: External reviews are what I'm favoring - external, independent reviews. so when IESG provides the external review, that's bad, but when someone else does external review, that's good? Yup. When judges decide cases, that's

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ned Freed wrote: On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Ned Freed wrote: This opens the door to the author forgetting to check and the various reviewers assuming the prsence of the sections means a check was done. The goal of putting it in the template is to encourage it be addressed, rather than

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Bruce Lilly wrote: Date: 2005-07-06 16:16 From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... However, I'm not at all in favor of requirements to IDs that are added ad-hoc; until this actually makes it into an RFC as a formal requirement, it won't be in the word template I manage. I wouldn't call it ad

Re: Should the IESG rule or not? and all that...

2005-07-05 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: Nothing like responsibility to look after the overall technical health of the Internet was assigned to the IESG. You seem to be forgetting something, Dave. Every IETF participant is supposed to use his best engineering

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-05 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA Considerations? I found it on the website, but it's not listed in any RFC (just in an expired ID, one that even mentions that empty IANA Considerations sections may be dropped by the RFC

Re: Uneccesary slowness.

2005-05-18 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian E Carpenter wrote: Joe Touch wrote: ... The decision of whether something is an end run should be relatively fast. One can always air on the conservative side if in doubt and say looks like end run, while getting more detailed reviews

Re: Uneccesary slowness.

2005-05-17 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Thomas Narten wrote: Well, there are always going to be judgement calls about whether something is or isn't an end-run, which is where I would expect discuss positions to come from on such documents. Process-wise, this isn't right, IMO (which

Re: Voting (again)

2005-05-09 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian E Carpenter wrote: Joe Touch wrote: ... Nobody died and made the IESG cop. They took it upon themselves, and that's not how things (should) work in the IETF. I suggest you read RFC 2026 again. Brian I did; you might as well

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-07 Thread Joe Touch
Sam Hartman wrote: Joe == Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Thursday, April 28, 2005 03:39:36 PM -0700 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're only equivalent if another AD can't tell the difference

Re: Voting (again)

2005-05-06 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Sam Hartman wrote: Joe == Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Joe delegation) or make their work smaller (by encouraging Joe feedback to be directional - as in 'take to WG X' - rather Joe than technical review). I'll certainly

Re: Time to charter

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: (John's long and interesting message severely truncated) John C Klensin wrote: ... We may need a way to have an experimental or probationary WG: to say to a group we don't have much confidence in this, but you are welcome to try to run with it and prove us

Re: improving WG operation

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: It seems to me that the fundamental problem is that most of the meeting has not read most of the drafts let alone the latest version under discussion. I think that's a symptom; a more fundamental problem is that WGs are trying to do too many things at once. I've

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: At the same time for each AD there is more than one person in the IETF who is more technically astute than that AD. perhaps. however, it's hard to identify those people, They're the ones disagreeing with the ADs in some cases ;-) and they may not have either the

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Ralph Droms writes : So, without meaning any offense to the ADs, I suggest we lump random participants, WG members, doc editors and ADs together when the spec is reviewed - and ensure that all comments are published in the same forum

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: At the same time for each AD there is more than one person in the IETF who is more technically astute than that AD. perhaps. however, it's hard to identify those people, They're the ones disagreeing with the ADs in some cases ;-) The set of people disagreeing with ADs

Re: improving WG operation

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: I think that's a symptom; a more fundamental problem is that WGs are trying to do too many things at once. I've lost track of how many times I've seen a WG a) take valuable meeting time to have a presentation about a draft that is only peripherally related to the WG's

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: The set of people disagreeing with ADs include both technically astute people and egocentric fools. Ditto for the ADs themselves. Depending on whom you ask, you'll get differing opinions as who which people are in which

Re: improving WG operation

2005-05-05 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: I've never seen an AD insist that a WG devote valuable face-to- face meeting time to checking work that was peripheral to the WG's interest. Check again, please. I personally have been asked to take items to WGs that I've

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-30 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Let me suggest that the rules be quite simple: 1. A Discuss may be asserted only when it pertains to a normative concern that involves the viability of the specification. not reasonable. even merely informative text can cause interoperability problems if it is wrong

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-29 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Thursday, April 28, 2005 03:39:36 PM -0700 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: They're only equivalent if another AD can't tell the difference between the two. IMO, they could, were they involved in the process

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-28 Thread Joe Touch
Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 27 Apr 2005, Joe Touch wrote: Not Sec 4.2.3 for individual submissions; that one talks about checking for conflict, not editing for content. Have you taken a look at RFC 3922 (The IESG and RFC Editor Documents: Procedures)? While these were previously also

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-28 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith, The case John outlines is the one I am concerned about as well. Keith Moore wrote: John, I agree - the situation you describe does occur. However such cases include major technical omissions and disagreements in addition to minor

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-28 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: The case John outlines is the one I am concerned about as well. [...] And, FWIW, when the AD suggests specific text changes, it's often enough the desire of that AD rather than based on feedback from some other WG. I don't

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: I wasn't advocating for more ADs, but for more 'virtual' ADs, i.e., to move the work of reviewing out of the ADs, and let the ADs distrbute the reviews and collect and interpret the results. This is _more_ work for the ADs, not less, because the ADs have to read the

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: The only way to releive work is to distribute it, not concentrate it. False. You can also relieve work while keeping throughput constant by reducing overhead. Distributing work often reduces throughput by creating more overhead. Only a few applications are

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: okay, this is getting way too long, and starting to get repetitive and even personal, so I'm going to summarize: And I'll provide some final comments, since the summary isn't particularly unbiased. 1. A review structure that

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: ... I would prefer a bottom up organization that helped us create better, more coordinated protocols than the top-down one that we have now. We already have a bottom-up organization. It's because the bottom is failing to do

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: Joe, I don't agree with your interpretation of 2026. Keith I knew that; the disagreement of the interpretation of 2026 is at the heart of this issue overall. Joe -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.2.4

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-26 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Crocker wrote: Note, however, that reducing the workload is not the only possible solution. I suspect that even partial funding for these positions would make it easier for people to volunteer. not really. most people have full-time

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-26 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: So the real requirement is to reduce the load the IETF places on an AD. This seems like an extremely difficult problem to me. Most of IESG's workload is in reviewing technical specifications. I don't see any way to provide

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-26 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Crocker wrote: Why isn't a larger number of ADs - or, more specifically, removing the review process from the ADs and having a real review group, the solution here? 1. the repeated assessment has been that the aggregate size of the iesg

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-26 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Keith Moore wrote: Why isn't a larger number of ADs - or, more specifically, removing the review process from the ADs and having a real review group, the solution here? The more ADs there are, the more things get bogged down at the IESG level.

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-18 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... The IESG rules mean that any AD can vote 'Discuss'. Er, yes, I think it's known as collective responsibility in some circles. It would happen much less often if WGs conducted their own cross-area review before

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: ... The real point of a working group process is to establish the coalition of support you need to get the work deployed. And this has to be taken into account when you are considering votes. ... The problem is even bigger when the chair decides to abuse

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Dave Crocker wrote: Joe, When the IETF pays for the 60% (80%, 100%, take your pick) of an AD's salary, they can elect ADs. Funding of candidates isn't the issue. I disagree; short of funding candidates or reducing the workload (the

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Why can't we elect the WG chairs? Why can't we elect the ADs? ... When the IETF pays for the 60% (80%, 100%, take your pick) of an AD's salary, they can elect ADs. Unfortunately, the current system is heavily biased

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-13 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The problem with voting is that the IETF does not have a membership list, so there is no real basis for running a vote. The nomcom process is intended as a surrogate, randomly selecting motivated representatives.

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' t o Informational RFC

2005-04-08 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: -Original Message- From: Scott W Brim Sent: Friday, April 08, 2005 14:27 On 4/7/2005 10:36, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: Regardless of the interesting side-discussion about 'voting', what the toy shows

Re: Intermediate Drafts of network layer protocols

2005-04-08 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Carl Malamud wrote: Hi - I think a research request to study how protocols are designed and features added over time deserves a more accurate answer than an official incantation of they're gone. Is this more official: Internet-Drafts are

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-19 Thread Joe Touch
Joe Touch wrote: Tony Hain wrote: -Original Message- From: Tony Hain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'iab@iab.org'; 'iesg@ietf.org' Cc: 'ietf@ietf.org' Subject: Why? Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-18 Thread Joe Touch
Tony Hain wrote: -Original Message- From: Tony Hain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'iab@iab.org'; 'iesg@ietf.org' Cc: 'ietf@ietf.org' Subject: Why? Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT traversal crap???

Re: [e2e] Introduction to ATP

2005-03-18 Thread Joe Touch
Jason Gao wrote: Sorry, there isn't any paper on it yet. I think I should write a paper in a few weeks. Anyway, it is just a paper design with many open issues, such as quantitive comparison with TCP, SCTP and so on. What is a paper design without even a paper? What is it that is being

Need for an Agenda Cutoff date?

2005-03-07 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, With agendas appearing ever later - including last night, the issue of cutoff dates should be revisited. If reading the drafts to be discussed is NOT an issue, then the I-D cutoff dates should be dropped. If reading the drafts IS an issue, then, by correlary, there should be a

Re: Need for an Agenda Cutoff date?

2005-03-07 Thread Joe Touch
. For BOFs, the formal BOF proposal must include an agenda, and that was due this time on February 21. We need to try and follow our own rules next time. What we have, IMO, is a deadline, but not a cutoff - as in miss the date and you don't get to hold your WG. Joe Brian Joe Touch wrote: Hi, all

Re: connection latching -- comments on rfc2401bis (draft-ietf-ipsec-rfc2401bis-04.txt)]

2004-12-15 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Nicolas Williams wrote: | Connection latching is a simple concept: connections, for connection- | oriented protocols, such as TCP or SCTP, that are run over IPsec should | be 'bound' to the same quality of protection parameters and initiator | and

Re: Suggest new mailing list for IASA stuff

2004-12-10 Thread Joe Touch
Leif Johansson wrote: Leslie Daigle wrote: | | Well, the choice to put this on the ietf-discuss list was deliberate: | including making sure that a reasonable cross section of the IETF | would see the discussion. It's not at all clear that such a cross | section would bother to subscribe to a

FYI - BTNS BOF

2004-11-08 Thread Joe Touch
- Better-Than-Nothing Security [BTNS] BOF (pronounced 'buttons') IETF 61, Wash. DC November 9, 2004 Tuesday 9:00-11:30am CHAIR: Joe Touch ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) AGENDA: (1) Agenda bashing (5 minutes) (2

FYI - IETF calendar in Palm .vcs format available

2004-11-07 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, The IETF-61 calendar (at least as of a few days ago) is available as a .vcs file suitable for importing into Palm desktop. This version is based on Lars Eggert's Ical calendar. The file has been tried only with Desktop V4.1.4 and PalmOS v5.2.1. Use at your own risk; no guarantees for

FYI - new word RFC/ID template available

2004-11-07 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, A new Word template for IDs and RFCs is available, along with a preliminary Internet Draft describing it and a post-processing perl script is now available on-line. Comments appreciated. Joe -- Network Working Group

Re: NomCom 2004/05 Volunteers

2004-09-28 Thread Joe Touch
Sorry for the missing subtext: If the nominations themselves ended up being more diverse, a more diverse set of people might care to help select them. Joe Joe Touch wrote: Lars Eggert wrote: Danny McPherson wrote: Only one week left until the cutoff to volunteer for the 2004/05 IETF

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Touch) wrote on 11.09.04 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Spencer Dawkins wrote: Dear Harald-the-General-AD, Can we PLEASE do as Melinda says - change the policy now for new drafts? That may have a chilling effect on new drafts. I.e., this isn't as simple

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Christian Huitema wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Touch Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:42 AM To: Kai Henningsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: archives (was The other parts of the report Kai Henningsen wrote: Joe

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Melinda Shore wrote: On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 04:02 PM, Joe Touch wrote: It's still unclear - the document contains required wording about its expiration, under the same document. The two statements are in conflict in that regard. I have some problems with retroactively changing

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Melinda Shore wrote: On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 06:03 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Even the IETF distinguishes between normative refs and non-normative (though it has a penchant for wanting to redefine those words too). Private correspondence is not citable as a normative ref, nor

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
Spencer Dawkins wrote: Dear Harald-the-General-AD, Can we PLEASE do as Melinda says - change the policy now for new drafts? That may have a chilling effect on new drafts. I.e., this isn't as simple as let's just change it now for future stuff. IMO, changing the policy would indeed be making

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
Carl Malamud wrote: Hi Scott - Thanks for pointing out the proceedings. Having the i-d's published there certainly demonstrates how futile it is to pretend that we can erase history. The position that Bill Manning and Joe Touch are taking reminds of when I was ordered by the Secretary-General

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-10 Thread Joe Touch
Carl Malamud wrote: You could do an opt-out period, say 6 months, before publishing the database. With sufficient publicity, say periodic reposting of the opt-out announcement on the ietf list, this seems to strike a balance between the unspecified policy of the past and a new policy for the

Re: List of standards

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Touch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it and see what I mean.) It deserves top ranking on search engines; knowing that

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-06-17 Thread Joe Touch
Mike S wrote: At 12:34 AM 6/16/2004, Sally Floyd wrote... Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, and I have a draft paper on Measuring the Evolution of Transport Protocols in the Internet that has a section (Section V.B.) on Path MTU Discovery. From the paper: Table X shows that PMTUD is used and succeeded

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Touch
Michael Richardson wrote: Valdis == Valdis Kletnieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Valdis But anyhow, if we ever update STD005, we'll just do the Valdis obvious - create STD079 or whatever we're up to, stick an Valdis Obsoletes: STD005 on it, and stick an Obsoleted By: Valdis STD079

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Touch
Michael Richardson wrote: Joe == Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing to consider, is having a web server which, when asked for: http://www.ietf.org/ref/rfc0791.txt redirects to: http://www.ietf.org/std/std005.txt Joe STD-5 is a nice choice - it actually refers to 6

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-04 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Braden wrote: * * And what happens when a STD is updated/revised? * * Joe Joe, Unnnh, let me guess. Update the web pointer to the new RFC(s)? Bob Braden I was thinking of the case where 791 - STD3 In which case when STD3 points to a new RFC, papers citing STD3 would be

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-04 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Braden wrote: * * * Bob Braden wrote: * ** ** And what happens when a STD is updated/revised? ** ** Joe * * Joe, * * Unnnh, let me guess. Update the web pointer to the new RFC(s)? * * Bob Braden * * I was thinking of the case

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-03 Thread Joe Touch
Michael Richardson wrote: One thing to consider, is having a web server which, when asked for: http://www.ietf.org/ref/rfc0791.txt redirects to: http://www.ietf.org/std/std005.txt STD-5 is a nice choice - it actually refers to 6 different RFCs. So which one redirects to

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Okay, I read draft-iesg-rfced-documents-00.txt regarding a proposed change in IESG policy regarding RFC-Ed documents. I'm opposed to the change, because I believe it would make it too easy for harmful documents to be published as RFCs. As someone who has been waiting over

Re: power in Korea..

2004-02-25 Thread Joe Touch
Matt Holdrege wrote: I am shocked that the IETF didn't rewire downtown Seoul to accommodate our conference! The next thing we'll hear is that our TDMA phones won't work. Or that they don't have TGI Friday's within easy walking distance. :-) About phones: You can use a tri-mode CDMA USA phone

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-13 Thread Joe Touch
Eric A. Hall wrote: On 1/12/2004 9:03 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: IPv6's only hope of some modest level of deployment is, as the latter part of your message points out, as the substrate for some hot application(s). Somehow I doubt anything the IETF does or does not do is going to have any affect

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-13 Thread Joe Touch
John C Klensin wrote: Noel, I'm slightly more optimistic along at least two other dimensions... ... (2) The no servers unless you pay business rates, and its close relative, you don't get to run VPNs, or use your own email address rather than ours nonsense you and many others are experiencing

Re: arguments against NAT?

2003-12-03 Thread Joe Touch
Michel Py wrote: Joe Touch wrote: Since we've been lacking a similar non-NAT solution, we (ISI) built one called TetherNet, as posted earlier: http://www.isi.edu/tethernet What is this beside a box that setups a tunnel? What's the difference with: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372

Re: arguments against NAT?

2003-12-02 Thread Joe Touch
Zefram, Our take on why NATs are bad is at: http://dsonline.computer.org/0207/departments/wp4icon.htm And our method for undoing what a NAT does, called TetherNet is at: http://www.isi.edu/tethernet and paper about it is at: http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/discex03-tethernet/ (Contact me if you

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