Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 6, 2013, at 4:37 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: If the problem is we don't know who's speaking, then fix that problem. In WGs I go to, both the WG chairs and the jabber scribes regularly yell NAME! if someone forgets to say it. Unlike DNS Ops, this isn't rocket

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-04 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is indeed Yoav Nir. But I have never been asked to present any of them at the IETF.

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Ted Lemon
While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that remote people see the slides at the same time as local people. For that, it seems to me that Meetecho support does exactly what is needed. You

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-04 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 4, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: No, I use a credit card in the name of my company's head of purchasing, so not in my name. Why wouldn't that be sufficient to identify you? Is the head of purchasing going to protect your anonymity? I would never lie at

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 2, 2013, at 1:56 PM, Deen, Glenn (NBCUniversal) glenn.d...@nbcuni.com wrote: -1 on doing it during the winter speaking as a Californian who doesn't even own a winter coat A winter coat used to be a prerequisite for attending winter IETF, and I don't think that's a bad thing. You can

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 2, 2013, at 9:13 AM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: In my opinion part of the answer has been provided by Brian Carpenter. The other part of the answer is the minutes. The rest of the answer is in something mentioned in the Note Well. Do you think I said something that contradicts what

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 1, 2013, at 5:32 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Perhaps that doesn't bother other folk very much but the differential result was so extreme -- as a single-event experiment -- it strongly suggests we should not call for hand-raising. (The likely explanations for the

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 3, 2013, at 6:34 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: That one sentence covers all the points which are relevant. It's an Area Director decision. It does not require consensus or any kind of number game. The working group charter explicitly requires IETF consensus. But if you mean

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 2, 2013, at 12:58 PM, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Venue was great, food options here and in the city were great, all-around great experience. Let's come again! +1 As venues go, this was a good one.

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 2, 2013, at 2:54 PM, Roberto Peon grm...@gmail.com wrote: I'd just prefer a venue where we had temps in the various conference/meeting rooms and facilities which were reliably below 80 degrees Fahrenheit. So, Autumn IETF in Berlin? :)

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-01 Thread Ted Lemon
We actually had a talk about this amongst several IESG and former IESG members. I am not going to report the results, because I might remember them wrong, but my thoughts on this are as follows: - The hum is not a means of determining consensus; it is a means of determining the sense of the

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: {{citation-needed}} - I've only ever seen specification conformance in procurement documents for military systems, never for anything else. It's quite common to see a list of supported RFCs in the spec sheet for a piece of

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials (was: IETF87 Audio Streaming Info)

2013-07-28 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 28, 2013, at 6:10 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: putting up yuotube/vimeo tutorials on the wg's technical space would be a good thing for folk with spare time to do. i am sure we could arrange pointer space on the wg's web page. Effective video presentations are _hard_.

Re: Remote participants access to Meeting Mailing Lists was Re: BOF posters in the welcome reception

2013-07-24 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 24, 2013, at 3:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I would envisage a fair amount of chatter about specific remote-participation issues, like this new codec isn't working for me, is it OK for anyone else using browser version on operating system version? We get

Re: I-D Action: draft-barnes-healthy-food-07.txt

2013-07-16 Thread Ted Lemon
As I mentioned to Mary privately, yogurt with fish in it is very common (yoplait, for example) and vegetarians who know that kosher gelatin is made of fish don't eat it; this can result in the food options at the cookie table being, essentially, cookies, which are of course a terrible thing to

Re: I-D Action: draft-barnes-healthy-food-07.txt

2013-07-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:03 AM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: And, if it is not and it is chosen anyway (either deliberately after considering other factors or out of ignorance), who is accountable and to whom? Part of the value of writing a document like this is to capture the issues

Re: I-D Action: draft-barnes-healthy-food-07.txt

2013-07-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:43 AM, Andy Bierman a...@yumaworks.com wrote: I suggest more cheese and crackers, sandwiches, etc. and perhaps less cookies. +1 Celery will not prevent a blood sugar crash.

Re: I-D Action: draft-barnes-healthy-food-07.txt

2013-07-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 16, 2013, at 11:37 AM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: I venture that starve is never a real outcome, but go to a supermarket or bring food in your luggage are alternatives that need some planning and are a small inconvenience. Try it sometime, then get back to us. :) I

Re: I-D Action: draft-barnes-healthy-food-07.txt

2013-07-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 16, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: It should not be an over-riding consideration. If not, then what _would_ be an over-riding consideration? I did the research on the venue for the Dublin IETF and concluded that I could not stay at the hotel, so I stayed

Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 11, 2013, at 8:14 AM, Hui Deng denghu...@gmail.com wrote: I personally feel that this is maybe one of not easier part for western people to do in today IETF. and chinese's names sound maybe more diffcult than other eastern languages. I think these documents are useful for IETFers who

Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 11, 2013, at 9:58 AM, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote: Is there a way to guess what order a name is written in? Sometimes it's not easy for non-Sinophones to know which part is the given name and which part is the family name. It's usually in the Chinese order in the

Re: Final Announcement of Qualified Volunteers

2013-07-09 Thread Ted Lemon
I find the presumption that IETF attendees employed by companies that send large number of attendees are robots to be somewhat distasteful. It also doesn't match my experience. I am sure that _some_ attendees from large companies are just as partisan as you fear, but some are not. So I am

Re: Final Announcement of Qualified Volunteers

2013-07-09 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: Is the great majority of the wisdom in the IETF incorporated into a few megacorporations? (That might reflect market share, in which case, is it a problem?) I don't know the answer to that question, but it's an interesting

Re: Appeal Response to Abdussalam Baryun regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats

2013-07-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 3, 2013, at 2:18 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: As with most 'social' analyses, it's usually a good idea to look for a bit more than an entirely trivial numbers game, such as by trying to find some criterion that helps to distinguish amongst the appellants. Yup. E.g.,

Re: [IETF] [IETF] Re: Appeal Response to Abdussalam Baryun regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats

2013-07-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 3, 2013, at 8:33 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: Wait, so now instead of voting we're using clubs? I think I need to pay more attention to this thread ... If you don't read ietf, you don't get to participate in the consensus... ;)

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 27, 2013, at 7:44 AM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: What is the rationale of the requirement to attend psychically to meetings? Acculturation: the opportunity over time to absorb the IETF culture and become a part of it. The other points you raised are valid, but this

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 27, 2013, at 8:06 AM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: must have attended at least 5 meetings of the last 15 and including one of the last 5. may be a good compromise. Also, I would suggest one of the last 6 (instead of 5). I guess in two years the IETF does not

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-03.txt (Resource Records for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS) to Proposed Standard

2013-06-20 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 20, 2013, at 1:04 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: Perhaps we could have a non-WG mailing list so that people could submit proposals for review prior to the expert review process. Even some of the get off my lawn crowd offered good suggestions for this EUI case (make 1

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 19, 2013, at 11:22 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Don't know about that one. In the US, at least, legal mandates have typically led social change, at least when it comes to civil rights, etc. Yup. First the Civil Rights act, then Selma... ;)

Re: Is the IETF is an international organization? (was: IETF Diversity)

2013-06-19 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:18 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Yeah, and act is what Americans call statutes, and Selma is a city in Alabama where there was some controversy about voting rights. You sure need to know a lot of Americana to participate meaningfully in some of these

Re: IETF, ICANN and non-standards

2013-06-19 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:43 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: Assuming we care about stability and interoperability, wouldn't it make sense for the IETF to spin up a WG, collect these drafts, clean up the language, make sure they agree with the widely implemented reality, and publish them?

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 12, 2013, at 4:43 AM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: I suspect the closest we get to getting an idea of IETF consensus is the interest gauging at the beginning of the process, though interestingly this is only positive interest - objections to doing the

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 12, 2013, at 3:31 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: I think these messages are useless, not harmful. But perhaps I have more confidence in the inherent skepticism of your average IETF participant than Pete does... FWIW, until I read Pete's document on consensus, I thought

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:51 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: so now i am expected to do a write-up of why i show simple support of a document i have read? may i use carbon paper for the triplicate, or will a copier suffice? surely we can find a way to waste more time and effort. If you say

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 7:52 AM, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: So, if wg discussion has been ordered mute by the wg chairs because some wg participants believe the group-think consensus is good enough, can those objections again be raised in IETF LC or are they set in stone? You

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 9:41 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: how much process chaos can we create? Don't ask questions you don't want answered! :)

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 1:52 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: The flip side of that argument is that we don't want to assume working groups are infallible, or more importantly not subject to the groupthink phenomenon. Otherwise what is IETF LC for? The IETF last call is for catching

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 4:24 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: But more seriously, what are you expecting Russ to do? What did you want him to write? If your answer is Nothing, then how do you read IETF consensus for a document that gets no response in its Last

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 5:27 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: That in turn presumes we are defaulting to publication in all cases, and that in turn seems problematic to me, because his answers become, in order: a) Russ, and by extension anyone who supports the document's publication for

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 11, 2013, at 6:03 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: ... and how would we judge IETF consensus on a document that doesn't get done under a charter (which would in turn have been granted consensus without any IETF comments?) I would expect that you'd start

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 10, 2013, at 5:52 PM, Bradner, Scott s...@harvard.edu wrote: I do not see all that much help in having someone list reasons they support publication unless there is some particularly wonderful feature or the prose is particularly clear I don't really see any point in expressing

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 10, 2013, at 6:19 PM, David Morris d...@xpasc.com wrote: I don't think there is another way to indicate you've reviewed a draft and found no issues. Surely rough concensus must include confidence that that silence means more than ignorance and I'm not aware of any mechanism to evaluate

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 10, 2013, at 7:21 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: I agree that one-line statements are not of much use. It's more tedious to write a statement to support a proposal than an objection to it. Non-silent Last Calls usually draw objections. It's going to be difficult to balance that

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 10, 2013, at 8:31 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: Which breaks some of the reasons why we do IETF last calls. WGs do get too focused on a problem and do fail to do a balance response to problems. If enough IETF last call people agree that the working group made a mistake, that

Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-06-07 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 7, 2013, at 4:33 AM, Abdussalam Baryun abdussalambar...@gmail.com wrote: I recommend to add a column for subjects (number of subjects), because the number of subject participated in is very important is such summary. It has always been my assumption that the point of this summary was

Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-06-07 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 7, 2013, at 11:48 AM, Andy Bierman a...@yumaworks.commailto:a...@yumaworks.com wrote: So why not move the signal? Put IETF Last Call mail on last-c...@ietf.orgmailto:last-c...@ietf.org and leave this list for everything else. The discussion still has to happen somewhere. I certainly am

Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-06-07 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jun 7, 2013, at 12:04 PM, David Morris d...@xpasc.com wrote: I've wondered for some time whether the reported bytes is the whole message I send included context quotes, or if there is an attempt by the summary logic to factor out quoted content. A penalty for top-posting sounds okay to me!

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 31, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Riccardo Bernardini framefri...@gmail.com wrote: Then I would suggest Antarctica as permanent location for future IETF meetings. :-) Maybe the only drawback is hotel availability, but nothing that a handful of tents and sleeping bags cannot cure... Also, penguins

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 31, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Elwyn Davies elw...@dial.pipex.commailto:elw...@dial.pipex.com wrote: Don't they use the ADs (Area Drones) controlled from the IESG bunker? Nope, ADs are autonomous.

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 31, 2013, at 8:49 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: i too, but tokyo. induce. answer, remote participation. i hope that a decade from now many of us will not need to fly. We could just always meet in Tokyo. I'd be down with that... :)

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-03.txt (Resource R ecords for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS) to Proposed Standard

2013-05-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 29, 2013, at 12:36 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: If I had been able to figure out what else to say that would be stronger, constructive, and not stray into Applicability Statement territory, I would have, so I'm out of ideas and it is possible that Joe is too. Even if you

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-03.txt (Resource R ecords for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS) to Proposed Standard

2013-05-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 29, 2013, at 5:51 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Here's what I would be told: Scenario a and Scenario b do not have privacy implications as they have been reviewed by a respected organization in Canada. I would also be told that there is an Office of the Privacy Commissioner of

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-03.txt (Resource R ecords for EUI-48 and EUI-64 Addresses in the DNS) to Proposed Standard

2013-05-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 29, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: I hope the responsible AD for this document will not count me as participating in the consensus on this document; it was not my intention in making the suggestion I made to indicate that I favor publishing the document

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 28, 2013, at 8:46 AM, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: Riiight. That is why one never has to attend an IETF meeting in person to serve on NOMCOM, one does not need travel support from one's employer to be on the IESG, and why people who never come to IETF meetings are the

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-24 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 24, 2013, at 12:07 PM, Lou Berger lber...@labn.net wrote: I personally am a big fan for going to uninteresting locations in their off season. Although, perhaps I'm alone in liking Minneapolis in the winter as an IETF destination... You are not. Although Vancouver seems to have taken

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-16 Thread Ted Lemon
I must say that I have enjoyed reading the discussion between the three of you, and think it is immensely valuable in explaining what the IESG ought to be doing. You three should write it up.

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 16, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: http://dcrocker.net/#gender That's what I do. It gets a bit awkward with verb agreement and constructs like themself, which elicits the dreaded red snake underline of doom. But I find it more comfortable than just

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 15, 2013, at 10:41 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: The motivation for a particular feature of a protocol is not clear enough. At the IESG review stage, protocols should not be blocked because they provide capabilities beyond what seems necessary to acquit their

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 15, 2013, at 12:36 PM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: I'm impressed that you have such a specific interpretation that this criteria refers to the entire document, even when it talks about the feature of a protocol. The motivation for a feature of a protocol is not clear enough. What's

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 15, 2013, at 1:23 PM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: You don't agree that the motivation for the difference between using 16-bit vs. 32-bit ExIDs is sufficient, even though that is already discussed in the document. I don't think this is a topic that the IETF as a whole is likely to

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 15, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: I suggest that the former is a bad result. Not that the authors/WG will ignore the discussion, but if they disagree on something the AD considers very important, the authors/WG have no incentive to participate in the

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) flu...@cisco.com 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

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 1:41 PM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie 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)

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 j...@joelhalpern.com 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

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net 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

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-14 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 14, 2013, at 8:27 PM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu 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

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-05 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 4, 2013, at 10:26 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: However, that is a bit of a problem, because I think it's fairly rare for documents to get additional review at last call time. Changing the name probably won't fix that. It feels like unless something is particularly

Re: Language editing

2013-05-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 3, 2013, at 4:24 AM, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: We really do need a tool, the like of which I was using 40 years ago when writing code, that allows patches to be applied independently and temporarily to see what it then looks like and if agreed that it looks good, incorporating

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: The RFC then and now takes around 100 days (with lots of variation between the then and the now, of course.) Bear in mind that one of the delays that can occur and is credited to the RFC editor is author delays in AUTH48; I

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Carsten Bormann c...@tzi.org wrote: People who aren't aware of it should look at the httpbis github experiment. The pull request is a powerful model of WG collaboration. Several authors in the dhc working group have been doing the same thing, to good effect.

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: If the community does not have enough interest in the work to write it well, it has bigger problems that won't be remedied by more RFC Editor effort... Also worth considering is that if a document is hard to read, it is hard to

Re: Balancing the Process (Was: Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE)

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: How do we deal with sites? How do we deal with vendors that ship such product? I say we punch 'em. Seriously, the IETF doesn't have an enforcement arm. It's up to buyers to check to see that what they are buying is protocol

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 1, 2013, at 5:00 PM, Scott Brim s...@internet2.edu wrote: Let's rename last call to something like IETF review and stop giving people the wrong expectations. Review outside the WG is vital, can be done repeatedly, and must be done by the whole IETF at least once. Yup. The term last

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-karp-crypto-key-table-07

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 25, 2013, at 2:49 PM, Black, David david.bl...@emc.com wrote: I have no problem with the field being a binary identifier, but I think implementers should be put on notice that binary comparison of human input Unicode strings doesn't work as expected unless some things are done to make

Re: [dhcwg] RE : Gen-art review: draft-ietf-dhc-triggered-reconfigure-05

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 29, 2013, at 10:18 AM, Bernie Volz (volz) v...@cisco.com wrote: But I don't really see this as a big issue and the must is the lower-case variant anyway. There's a big debate about whether this makes any difference. It's generally thought to be better not to say must if you don't

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 29, 2013, at 1:08 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: If raising awareness and sensitivity isn't enough to get people to think about and make decisions differently Statistical analysis shows that even when peoples' awareness is raised, biases continue to exist, not because the

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 18, 2013, at 5:02 AM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: but you can become prominent in the sense that people might say this document hasn't had enough review. Let's ask so-and-so to read it Yes, it's worth noting that working group chairs are often desperate for people about whom

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 18, 2013, at 1:06 PM, Dan Harkins dhark...@lounge.org wrote: What is this cure of which you speak? This diversity discussion has included statements like: Personally, not wearing an AD hat or attempting to anticipate the conclusions of the study group, I think the cure is to encourage

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 18, 2013, at 2:33 PM, James Polk jmp...@cisco.com wrote: I believe I did myself a disservice in assigning such a high ratio without saying it feels like 70:1, which it does. But I'd truly be surprised if it's only 10:1 - and you can't make effective and accurate estimates based on

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-18 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 18, 2013, at 7:23 PM, Dan Harkins dhark...@lounge.org wrote: Actually I think it would be better to explicitly state what is intended to be done. This is what we are trying to figure out!

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 16, 2013, at 11:51 AM, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: I've advocated the equivalent of the following opinion before (http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg77479.html), but in the current context it bears repeating: Here in the IETF we accept that low-status

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 15, 2013, at 4:44 AM, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: So perhaps, to reduce the bias, e.g. towards western white, any system of choosing should give preference to the views of those who do not attend IETF meetings, for whom judgement is based solely on the contributions the person in

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 10:47 PM, Andy Bierman a...@yumaworks.com wrote: During IESG review, the ADs from other areas should restrict their comments to issues related to their area. The final review should avoid changes made which are feature redesigns or feature enhancements, and limit changes

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 15, 2013, at 11:36 AM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: It gives the IESG an exemption to participating in WG and IESG last call processes, which then frustrates the rest of the community that does not have this opportunity. You could equally say that the IETF last call frustrates the

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 15, 2013, at 12:23 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: Maybe we should have an IETF first call (for objections), rather than last call. I think that would look a lot like a DoS attack on the IETF, but it would be nice if there were a way to make it work.

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-13 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 13, 2013, at 6:44 AM, Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com wrote: Me too, but when you have a diverse pool of people who feel strongly about open standards, rough consensus and running code and you choose only one category of the group, then we need to think about how we end up

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: I'm currently seeing a document with some serious defects in IETF Last Call (rfc2560bis) and an apparent desire to have it Rubberstamped by the IESG (recycling at Proposed Standard). FWIW, I raised the same question during IESG

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:01 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Let's take IAOC members as an example. NomCom chose two men from the United States. The IAB chose a man from the United States. The IESG chose a man from the United States. The ISOC Board of Trustees chose a man from the United

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:32 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Thomas Narten mentioned that: we have the tendency to pick the people we know and trust, which is understandable. How many IAB members feel strongly about open standards, rough consensus and running code? To know the answer I would

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:43 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: 12.5 % of IAOC voting members are female. 0.1% of IAB members are female 0 % of IESG members are female. Based on the above measurements the IAOC is more diverse. The IAOC already collects gender-related information. The

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 11, 2013, at 4:50 PM, David Meyer d...@1-4-5.netmailto:d...@1-4-5.net wrote: Agreed, however, it would seem to me that at least one question that one might as is whether these percentages are representative of the IETF population at large. A rough eyeball check at the plenary in Orlando

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 11, 2013, at 5:10 PM, David Meyer d...@1-4-5.net Yes, but that is a different question. --dmm IOW, you are suggesting that the percentages among non-attending participants may be substantially different than the percentages among attending participants? That's a point worth

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-savi-threat-scope-07

2013-04-09 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 9, 2013, at 6:36 PM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: Thanks for your efforts on this document. Your first review was in May 2011, and the document has improved greatly for you continued pushing on the concerns. Can we take this to mean that the concerns expressed in your

Re: Proposed solution for DPEP (Diversity Problem Entry Point) - IETF April 1 jokes.

2013-04-08 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 8, 2013, at 4:30 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.commailto:melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Anyway this strikes me as an unfortunate use of those documents. Although this is not entirely a good thing, it is worth noting that one purpose in creating borders is to lure people across

Re: Proposed solution for DPEP (Diversity Problem Entry Point) - IETF April 1 jokes.

2013-04-08 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 8, 2013, at 9:38 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.commailto:melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Well, the timing of this strikes me as one of those oh moments, following as quickly on the heels of the diversity discussion. Not so much because of language and culture issues (although

Re: Proposed solution for DPEP (Diversity Problem Entry Point) - IETF April 1 jokes.

2013-04-08 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 8, 2013, at 9:57 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.commailto:melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Your beef isn't with me, it's with Måns. I've got no beef with either of you—I'm a vegetarian! :) (I actually found what Måns had to say valuable, which illustrates one of the great

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-06 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 6, 2013, at 3:21 AM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: That's terrible for the IETF. It completely nullifies the NomCom random selection process; all the suggestions in RFC 3797 seem to be blown away by this. This seems like exactly the sort of problem that Jari's

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-05 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 5, 2013, at 10:29 AM, Spencer Dawkins spen...@wonderhamster.org wrote: There are days when I'm really glad to be part of this community ... Yes, but the question is, is this such a day? :)

Re: Sufficient email authentication requirements for IPv6

2013-04-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 3, 2013, at 6:16 PM, Dean Willis dean.wil...@softarmor.com wrote: I've tried to imagine using Facebook-like system for IETF work, and it is strangely compelling ... It would, however, be nice if it were peer-to-peer rather than monolithic.

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 2, 2013, at 6:41 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Kids! Remember, if we're not bright enough to do physics, we can always do engineering, the slow younger brother of physics! Is your point that if we do an engineering solution, that will slow things down enough that we won't have packet

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