Re: [ietf-privacy] [Int-area] NAT Reveal / Host Identifiers

2014-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/06/2014 04:43, Ted Lemon wrote: On Jun 9, 2014, at 12:32 PM, Eliot Lear l...@cisco.com wrote: But does adding a header solve the problem? Not unless it is signed AND I believe the signature. And then I had better be willing to spend the processing time to sort out your good customers

Re: [ietf-privacy] [Int-area] NAT Reveal / Host Identifiers

2014-06-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Stephen, On 06/06/2014 00:48, Stephen Farrell wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hiya, On 05/06/14 08:05, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: If you want to review a document with privacy implications then have a look at the NAT reveal / host identifier work (with

Re: [ietf-privacy] [Int-area] NAT Reveal / Host Identifiers

2014-06-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 06/06/2014 09:26, Ted Lemon wrote: On Jun 5, 2014, at 4:28 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I have to call you on that. WG adoption is not approval. It's agreement to work on a topic. It is not OK to attempt a pocket veto on adoption because you don't like

Re: [ietf-privacy] [Int-area] WG Adoption

2014-06-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
, Joel On 6/5/14, 4:28 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... I have to call you on that. WG adoption is not approval. It's agreement to work on a topic. It is not OK to attempt a pocket veto on adoption because you don't like the existing content

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-08.txt (Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains) to Proposed Standard

2013-10-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred, On 15/10/2013 06:38, Templin, Fred L wrote: ... We could have that discussion in 6man, sure, but I don't believe that it's relevant to the question of whether draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header- chain is ready. If it messes up tunnels, then it's not ready. That doesn't follow. See

Terms and Conditions May Apply

2013-10-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I know we don't normally do movie plugs on this list, but anyone who's planning to attend the technical plenary in Vancouver could do worse than watch Terms and Conditions May Apply. It covers both commercial and governmental invasions of privacy, and how they are interlinked.

Re: Of governments and representation (was: Montevideo Statement)

2013-10-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi John, On 12/10/2013 05:02, John Curran wrote: ... In my personal view, it is a very important for the IETF to select leadership who can participate in any discussions that occur, Without obsessing about the word leadership, but following up on a comment made by Noel Chiappa on the leader

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-08.txt (Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains) to Proposed Standard

2013-10-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 12/10/2013 06:04, Fernando Gont wrote: ... P.S.: Reegarding enforcing a limit on the length of the header chain, I must say I symphatize with that (for instance, check the last individual version of this I-D, and you'll find exactly that). But the wg didn't want that in -- and I did raise

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-08.txt (Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains) to Proposed Standard

2013-10-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred, On 12/10/2013 08:56, Templin, Fred L wrote: Hi Brian, -Original Message- From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com] Sent: Friday, October 11, 2013 12:50 PM To: Fernando Gont Cc: Templin, Fred L; Ray Hunter; 6man Mailing List; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/10/2013 07:52, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Then we have a big problem as organization, we are then leaderless. I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era,

Re: leader statements

2013-10-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/10/2013 08:27, Andrew Sullivan wrote: ... What I am not sure about is whether people are willing to accept the chairs acting in that sort of leader of organization role. If we do accept it, then I think as a consequence some communications will happen without consultation. For a CEO is

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-6man-oversized-header-chain-08.txt (Implications of Oversized IPv6 Header Chains) to Proposed Standard

2013-10-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred, See below... On 10/10/2013 06:42, Templin, Fred L wrote: Hi Ole, -Original Message- From: Ole Troan [mailto:otr...@employees.org] Sent: Wednesday, October 09, 2013 10:31 AM To: Templin, Fred L Cc: Ronald Bonica; i...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Last Call:

Re: leader statements

2013-10-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Björn, On 10/10/2013 10:21, Bjoern Hoehrmann wrote: * Brian E Carpenter wrote: Either we trust our current and future chairs, on certain occasions, to speak in our name without there being a discursive debate in advance, or we will have no voice on those occasions. We should think before

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05.txt (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC

2013-10-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 08/10/2013 08:03, Ted Hardie wrote: ... were. On the second point, the truth is that informational RFCs are [not] treated as actual requests for comments much any more, but are taken as fixed; I've inserted the not that Ted certainly intended. But I think he raises an important point. If

Re: independant submissions that update standards track, and datatracker

2013-10-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The place to go is definitely not the page for a closed WG. How can that be expected to track things that happened after the WG closed? Since it's a BCP, you get the lot at http://www.rfc-editor.org/info/bcp10 or http://www.rfc-editor.org/bcp/bcp10.txt. In this particular case, you can also find

Re: IPR Disclosures for draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-qoe

2013-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/09/2013 05:34, Alan Clark wrote: ... It should be noted that the duty to disclose IPR is NOT ONLY for the authors of a draft, and the IETF reminder system seems to be focused solely on authors. The duty to disclose IPR lies with any individual or company that participates in the IETF not

[Fwd: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt]

2013-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I got my arm slightly twisted to produce the attached: a simple concatenation of some of the actionable suggestions made in the discussion of PRISM and Bruce Schneier's call for action. Brian Original Message Subject: I-D Action: draft-carpenter-prismatic-reflections-00.txt

Re: I-D Action: draft-kolkman-proposed-standards-clarified-02.txt

2013-09-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Is it just me, or does this sentence now seem like hubris? In fact, the IETF review is more extensive than that done in other SDOs owing to the cross- area technical review performed by the IESG, a position that is further strengthened by the common presence of interoperable running

Re: Why we don't want to actually replace 2026

2013-09-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/09/2013 17:49, S Moonesamy wrote: Hi John, At 08:31 16-09-2013, John C Klensin wrote: By the way, while I understand all of the reasons why we don't want to actually replace 2026 (and agree with most of them), things are getting to the point that it takes far too much energy to

Re: [IETF] Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 18/09/2013 09:11, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/17/13 1:08 PM, Warren Kumari wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 4:52 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Having an IETF identity is OK if all you ever publish is in the IETF. Some of our participants also publish at other SDOs such as IEEE, W3C, ITU,

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/09/2013 02:39, Andy Mabbett wrote: [First post here] Hello, I'm a contributor to RFC 6350 - but I'm listed there by name only, and there is nothing to differentiate me from some other Andy Mabbett (the problem is no doubt worse for people with less unusual family names). Like many

Re: IPR Disclosures for draft-ietf-xrblock-rtcp-xr-qoe

2013-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 17/09/2013 08:10, Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 16, 2013, at 3:51 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: This is a claim in the boilerplate which the IETF, not the authors, are making. I am sure flames are already directed my way for being imprecise here, but what I mean is that although

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
especially valuable for people who change their name but want to keep a unified publication history. Also for people who've published under legitimate variants (B Carpenter, B E Carpenter, Brian Carpenter and Brian E Carpenter have all published, and brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com asserts

Re: Practical issues deploying DNSSEC into the home.

2013-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/09/2013 09:59, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: ... My colleagues and I worked on OpenWrt routers to get Unbound to work there, what you need to do is to start DNS up in non-validating mode wait for NTP to fix time, then check if the link allows DNSSEC answers through, at which point you can

What real users think [was: Re: pgp signing in van]

2013-09-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/09/2013 01:58, Ted Lemon wrote: ... Seriously, this perfectly illustrates the reason why PGP hasn't seen widespread deployment: it doesn't address a use case that anybody understands or cares about, True story: Last Saturday evening I was sitting waiting for a piano recital to start,

Re: What real users think [was: Re: pgp signing in van]

2013-09-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/09/2013 08:39, Steve Crocker wrote: Yes, I am speaking of what would be possible today with a fresh start. The fresh start would also include signatures and encryption as a required part of the design. (If everyone has to have a key, the key management problems would be greatly

Re: Equably when it comes to privacy

2013-09-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 09/09/2013 03:03, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Sun, Sep 8, 2013 at 10:27 AM, Noel Chiappa j...@mercury.lcs.mit.eduwrote: Probably best if we keep the politics off the IETF list. Noel I grew up in politics. There is a method to my approach here. Nevertheless, it is the wrong

Re: decentralization of Internet (was Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

2013-09-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 07/09/2013 08:55, Tim Chown wrote: On 6 Sep 2013, at 21:32, Roger Jørgensen rog...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Sep 6, 2013 at 9:47 AM, Adam Novak interf...@gmail.com wrote: The IETF focused on developing protocols (and reserving the necessary network numbers) to facilitate direct network

Teachable moment

2013-09-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ted, On 07/09/2013 03:32, Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 6, 2013, at 2:46 AM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: At 20:08 05-09-2013, Ted Lemon wrote: I think we all knew NSA was collecting the data. Why didn't we do something about it sooner? Wasn't it an emergency when the PATRIOT act was passed?

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt (Retirement of the Internet Official Protocol Standards Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I tend to agree with Pete - the minutes are more like an official record, as well. BTW, the IESG Charter (RFC 3710) says: The IESG publishes a record of decisions from its meetings on the Internet,... In any case, apart from this detail, I think the draft is good to go. Brian On 06/09/2013

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

2013-09-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'm sorry, I don't detect the emergency. I'm not saying there's no issue or no work to do, but what's new about any of this? Was PRISM a surprise to anyone who knew that the Five Eyes sigint organisations have been cooperating since about 1942 and using intercontinental data links since 1944)?

Re: Bruce Schneier's Proposal to dedicate November meeting to saving the Internet from the NSA

2013-09-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 06/09/2013 15:08, Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 5, 2013, at 9:36 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: I'm sorry, I don't detect the emergency. I think we all knew NSA was collecting the data. Why didn't we do something about it sooner? Wasn't it an emergency when

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt (Retirement of the Internet Official Protocol Standards Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 04/09/2013 04:16, Pete Resnick wrote: On 9/3/13 9:32 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote: the quoted text came from RFC 1602 and is descriptive not proscriptive removing a description of a process that is no longer followed makes sense to me but might not warrant a RFC to do but the 3rd paragraph in

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt (Retirement of the Internet Official Protocol Standards Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Comment at the end... On 04/09/2013 08:58, Spencer Dawkins wrote: On 9/3/2013 3:49 PM, Bradner, Scott wrote: in line On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Pete Resnick presn...@qti.qualcomm.com wrote: at it - maybe you should remove the 2nd paragraph in the same section An official

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-retire-std1-00.txt (Retirement of the Internet Official Protocol Standards Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 04/09/2013 11:20, Spencer Dawkins wrote: On 9/3/2013 6:02 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: On 9/3/13 3:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: rant class=shortSo that the reader of RFC 2026 will need to read yet another document to get the full picture? There are currently 8 RFCs that update RFC 2026

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Jari, On 03/09/2013 02:23, Jari Arkko wrote: ... At the time of this writing, the IETF operates as if the Proposed Standard was the last chance for the to ensure the quality of the technology and the clarity of the standards document. There's a point that I think should be made here,

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/09/2013 04:22, Dave Crocker wrote: On 9/1/2013 9:08 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: I think Scott has put this perfectly, and it's exactly right. The main point is clear communication. Everything else is advice about how to achieve that. Both are needed. Especially for a topic like this.

Re: Mail lost yesterday

2013-08-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/08/2013 02:26, SM wrote: ... The nit is why is the IETF still using PDT. I assure you that things were operationally much worse when the Secretariat was using EDT. Really - the service level has improved continuously over the last eight years. Of course things can always be better, and

Re: I-D Action: draft-sweet-uri-zoneid-00.txt

2013-08-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I am *not* an author of this draft, which Michael Sweet produced on his own. I have not read the draft and have no idea whether I agree with it. (I believe this was an honest mistake on his part but I don't want there to be any misunderstanding.) Regards Brian Carpenter On 28/08/2013 03:55,

Re: Call for Review of draft-rfced-rfcxx00-retired, List of Internet Official Protocol Standards: Replaced by an Online Database

2013-08-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think that if we worried about every minor deviation from RFC 2026, we would be here for a long time and wasting most of it. I have no particular objection to publishing the draft. Regards Brian Carpenter (who tried and failed - see draft-carpenter-rfc2026-critique,

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I've been doing some more thinking about this, and I have received quite a bit of private feedback about my previous comments, ranging from don't be so picky, let these guys do their thankless job to please be more picky, this is the thin end of the wedge. So - this isn't really about being

Re: [Trustees] The Trust Agreement

2013-08-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 06/08/2013 03:11, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com Thanks for the careful explanations. I'll second that; it does seem that some tweaking may be in order. Clearly the Trust shouldn't have blanket permission to abandon

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 05/08/2013 06:54, Ted Lemon wrote: 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

Re: [Trustees] The Trust Agreement

2013-08-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
cgriffi...@gmail.comwrote: On Aug 1, 2013, at 10:59 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Brian, Re the Trust's plenary slides (I was not in Berlin): I have an allergy to modifying the Trust Agreement unless there's an overwhelming reason to do so. It was a very

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

2013-08-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 03/08/2013 00:13, Scott Brim wrote: I'm completely against participating anonymously because of IPR issues. I'm mostly against pseudonymous participation for the same reason. I need to be able to know who I'm dealing with, in order to know if there are IPR issues that should be brought

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/08/2013 01:30, Andy Bierman wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 4:24 AM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: On Aug 1, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Andy Bierman a...@yumaworks.com wrote: Hi, Isn't it obvious why humming is flawed and raising hands works? (Analog vs. digital). A hand is either raised

The Trust Agreement

2013-08-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Re the Trust's plenary slides (I was not in Berlin): I have an allergy to modifying the Trust Agreement unless there's an overwhelming reason to do so. It was a very hard-won piece of text. Issue #1 We have recently been asked permission to republish the TAO with a creative commons

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Keith, On 31/07/2013 18:35, Keith Moore wrote: On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: It's been pointed out before that in a group with very diverse languages, written words are usually better understood than speech. It's a fact of life that you can't have a full-speed

Re: PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 06:27, John C Klensin wrote: --On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 16:41 +0200 IETF Chair ch...@ietf.org wrote: Last night there was a question in the plenary about how many PS-IS transitions have occurred since RFC 6410 was published in October 2011. That RFC changed the three-step

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 05:21, Melinda Shore wrote: On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most users don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them. So transparent Internet access isn't a commodity.Transparency would be

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 05:47, Bob Braden wrote: On 7/30/2013 9:35 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Easy fix: 'slide' (well, nobody uses real slides anymore :-) rationing. E.g. if a presenter has a 10 minute slot, maximum of 3 'slides' (approximately; maybe less). That will force the slides to be 'discussion

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 30/07/2013 06:18, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, July 29, 2013 01:37 -0400 Brian Haberman br...@innovationslab.net wrote: ... One of the things that I ask the Internet Area chairs to do is send in a summary of their WG after each IETF meeting. Those summaries generally give folks

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 28/07/2013 00:23, Dave Crocker wrote: On 7/27/2013 7:17 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: newcomers who attend Working Group meetings are encouraged to observe and absorb whatever material they can, but should not interfere with the ongoing process of the group ... The first quote might discourage

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 27/07/2013 03:32, John C Klensin wrote: Hi. For a newcomer or someone expecting to write I-Ds, some of the most important sessions at the IETF are the various Sunday afternoon tutorials and introductions. Many of them are (or should be) of as much interest to remote participants as to

Oh look! [Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials]

2013-07-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
And there is a Training section in the meeting materials page. It's empty... but thanks to somebody for putting it there. All we need to do is figure out how to pre-load it. Regards Brian On 27/07/2013 08:33, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 27/07/2013 03:32, John C Klensin wrote: Hi

IEEE Internet Award winner: Jon Crowcroft

2013-07-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Some people here will remember that Jon was an IETF participant and an IAB member a number of years ago. Brian 2014 IEEE Technical Field Award Recipients and Citations IEEE INTERNET AWARD-recognizes exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet

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

2013-07-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 25/07/2013 05:01, Scott Brim wrote: The point of having a separate list for participants was to avoid spamming the ietf list. It can be open to everyone to subscribe to, since anyone can see the archives, HOWEVER I recommend that only registered participants be allowed to post. Ahem.

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

2013-07-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
- as John Klensin said, we should come up with a reasonably complete and welcoming set of info and facilities for the remotes. That may well include pro forma registration. Brian On Jul 24, 2013 3:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: On 25/07/2013 05:01, Scott Brim

Re: IETF 87 Technical Plenary Experiment

2013-07-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The wiki page uses the phrase WebRTC-compatible browser. For those who know zilch about WebRTC, a list of such browsers would be handy. Also a test page for OPUS, since otherwise people will have exactly 5 minutes before the session to get set up. Finally, is the list 87all of any help to

IAOC overview clash

2013-07-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sanjay, A comment from an old-timer: if you want to understand the IETF as a whole, put your priority on the Newcomer's orientation. There's plenty of time in the future to understand details of the IETF's administration. Unfortunately, clashes between interesting sessions are unavoidable at the

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Do you think they are lying when they say they won't be dotless? Since http://dotless won't work in any host that has a default domain configured, which as far as I can tell is most hosts on earth, I don't think they're lying. It may be stupid and a license to print money, but that's another

Re: IETF registration fee?

2013-07-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Douglas, ... Those traveling thousands of miles already confront many uncertainties. Those that elect to participate remotely should be afforded greater certainty of being able to participate when problems occur at local venues or with transportation. Increasing participation without the

Re: IETF registration fee?

2013-07-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/07/2013 07:44, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/10/13 1:41 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On 07/10/2013 02:50 PM, Donald Eastlake wrote: The IETF values cross area interaction at IETF meeting and attendees have always been encouraged to attend for the week. Allowing one day passes is a recent

Re: Final Announcement of Qualified Volunteers

2013-07-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
(2) Four companies account for 44.3% of the volunteers. OK, but what would X be in Four companies account for X% of people eligible to volunteer? That said, the not more than two from the same employer rule was written in anticipation of a theoretical problem; it seems that it was a good idea,

Re: Evi Nemeth

2013-07-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
.) Regards Brian Carpenter On 28/06/2013 11:24, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Evi used to be an IETF regular. There is rather ominous news - she is lost at sea between New Zealand and Australia: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1objectid=10893482 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news

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

2013-07-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 03/07/2013 14:23, Russ Housley wrote: http://www.ietf.org/iesg/appeal.html Every appeal ever submitted to the IESG and its response can be found here. ...since late 2002, that is. There were appeals earlier in history. The first one I recall reached the IAB in 1995, and had presumably

Re: Evi Nemeth

2013-06-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Further bad news: no sighting and no debris after considerable searching. http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-asia-23110736 Regards Brian Carpenter On 28/06/2013 11:24, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Evi used to be an IETF regular. There is rather ominous news - she is lost at sea between New

Evi Nemeth

2013-06-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Evi used to be an IETF regular. There is rather ominous news - she is lost at sea between New Zealand and Australia: http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1objectid=10893482 http://www.nzherald.co.nz/nz/news/article.cfm?c_id=1objectid=10893503 Regards Brian Carpenter

Re: IAOC Website Updated

2013-06-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tom, On 25/06/2013 22:48, t.p. wrote: ... The main impression that this page has on me is that this is a part of the IETF, Yes. It is a committee set up by the IETF (with help from ISOC). ... The very brief description - the fiscal and administrative support - makes me think of taxes (and

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 26/06/2013 05:58, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: On Tue, Jun 25, 2013 at 11:51 AM, Doug Ewell d...@ewellic.org wrote: Scott Brim scott dot brim at gmail dot com wrote: 2119 overrides anything you might think you know about what words mean. No, 2119 PURPORTs to do that. It can try but it

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 25/06/2013 08:38, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, June 24, 2013 16:28 -0400 Alia Atlas akat...@gmail.com wrote: I read SHOULD and RECOMMENDED as different. SHOULD is how a implementation ought to behave unless there are special circumstances (deployment, additional functionality,

Re: IAOC Website Updated

2013-06-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Ray, I think it's very good. One micro-comment: the menu at the left is headed up by the IETF logo (which is in fact a link to the main site). I did find that momentarily confusing - maybe the first two items could be labelled IASA Home and About IASA to make it clear which menu this is? Best

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01.txt (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 19/06/2013 18:25, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 18 jun 2013, at 18:54, Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: As for the rest of the discussion - I'm sure there are things to be improved in ICANN. I'd suggest though that some of the feedback might be better placed in an ICANN discussion

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
, especially if it comes from a known expert. YMMV Regards Brian On 12/06/2013 08:31, Pete Resnick wrote: On 6/11/13 3:05 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Pete, On 12/06/2013 07:45, Pete Resnick wrote: It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pete, On 12/06/2013 07:45, Pete Resnick wrote: It's interesting to see that people are interpreting me to mean I want more text. I don't. I want less. Save your breath. There is no reason to send one line of support, and it only encourages the view that we're voting. Details below. Just to

Re: ietf@ietf.org is a failure

2013-06-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 09/06/2013 07:55, Melinda Shore wrote: On 6/8/13 10:09 AM, SM wrote: As an off-topic comment, there are are alternative ways in making a decision; the best judgement of the most experienced or IETF Consensus. I don't think it's off-topic. Consensus (rough or otherwise) requires that at

Re: ietf@ietf.org is a failure

2013-06-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 09/06/2013 13:20, Andy Bierman wrote: Hi, I'm not sure how the desire for IETF Last Call discussions to be on a dedicated and constrained mailing list in any way implies that this generalized and unconstrained list is somehow a failure. Filtering by subject line is unreliable. For

Best list for IETF last calls [was: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org]

2013-06-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Rule 1 for complex and divergent mail threads is to change the Subject header when the subject changes. If you don't do that, your mail is rather likely to get junked. I think that IETF last call threads should stay on the main IETF discussion list. That is exactly the right place for them. It's

Re: I-D Action: draft-crocker-id-adoption-02.txt

2013-06-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, My main positive comment is that it's a good idea to document guidelines in this area, and that (viewed as guidelines) I largely agree with the draft. My main negative comment is that although the draft says it's not a formal process document, its language in many places belies that. For

Re: Not Listening to the Ops Customer

2013-05-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 01/06/2013 15:00, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, May 31, 2013 17:23 -0700 Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: rant the sad fact is that the ietf culture is often not very good at listening to the (ops) customer. look at the cf we have made out of ipv6. the end user, and the op,

Re: What do we mean when we standardize something?

2013-05-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 30/05/2013 08:04, Dave Cridland wrote: On 29 May 2013 18:42, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: /me wonders if we need a separate series for informational documentation Or maybe multiple paths, with multiple entry points. We already do have exactly that, and there are many

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 28/05/2013 21:32, Adrian Farrel wrote: Hi, Dave Crocker and I have this little draft [1] discussing the process and considerations for creating formal working group drafts that are targeted for publication. We believe that this may help clarify some of the issues and concerns

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

2013-05-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Publication of EUI-48 or EUI-64 addresses in the global DNS may result in privacy issues in the form of unique trackable identities. This might also result in such MAC addresses being spoofed, thereby allowing some sort of direct attack. So it isn't just a privacy concern. ... These

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

2013-05-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 21/05/2013 13:06, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, May 20, 2013 19:49 -0400 Rob Austein s...@hactrn.net wrote: At Mon, 20 May 2013 10:18:21 -0400, John C. Klensin wrote: This is not my primary (or even secondary) area of expertise but, given that the RR space is not unlimited even

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01.txt (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC

2013-05-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 18/05/2013 05:23, John C Klensin wrote: ... I, however, do have one significant objection to the current draft of the document and do not believe it should be published (at least as an RFC in the IETF Stream) until the problem is remedied. The Introduction (Section 1) contains the

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01.txt (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC

2013-05-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 18/05/2013 11:59, John C Klensin wrote: --On Saturday, May 18, 2013 08:14 +1200 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: John, On 18/05/2013 05:23, John C Klensin wrote: ... I, however, do have one significant objection to the current draft of the document and do

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

2013-05-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 17/05/2013 04:23, Dave Crocker wrote: ... The problem here is that basic reviewing is being done by the ADs too late in the process. You are making a lot of assumptions in that sentence. At least these: 1. Basic reviewing means 2. At some stage before approval, ADs should

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

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

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01.txt (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC

2013-05-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 12/05/2013 03:17, SM wrote: ... The fact that the IPv6 address pool is very large does not remove the fact that it is a not an infinite resource and thus, constraints must be applied to allocation policy. The constraints are not set by the IETF. It's up to other communities to see what

Re: Gen-art telechat review: draft-ietf-6renum-gap-analysis-06.txt (updated for -07)

2013-05-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/05/2013 04:58, Stig Venaas wrote: On 5/10/2013 8:12 AM, Robert Sparks wrote: Thanks Bing - The updates make the document better, and I appreciate the resolution of referencing Tim's expired draft. So the solution is to not reference it? I see the name of the draft is mentioned in

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 10/05/2013 01:13, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, May 09, 2013 03:32 -0500 Spencer Dawkins spen...@wonderhamster.org wrote: So in this case, we're looking at RFC Editor state = Heather, please do something + some working group, please do something + author(s), please do something,

Re: Language editing

2013-05-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 08/05/2013 03:28, John C Klensin wrote: ... I'll also point out that this has diddley-squat to do with formal verification processes. Again as Mark Anrdrews points out, we deployed something with a restriction that subsequently turned out to be unnecessary, and now we're stuck with it.

Re: Language editing

2013-05-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 08/05/2013 08:33, Ned Freed wrote: On 08/05/2013 03:28, John C Klensin wrote: ... I'll also point out that this has diddley-squat to do with formal verification processes. Again as Mark Anrdrews points out, we deployed something with a restriction that subsequently turned out to be

Re: Language editing

2013-05-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 07/05/2013 02:10, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: http://labs.apnic.net/blabs/?p=309 an excellent detective story on badly-written, poorly edited, standards track RFCs leading to interop problems. Enjoy. I don't that is quite right. The problem in this case is not to do with linguistic

Re: Language editing

2013-05-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 04/05/2013 09:22, Yaron Sheffer wrote: GEN-ART is a good example, but actual document editing is much more work and arguably, less rewarding than a review. So I think this can only succeed with professional (=paid) editors. I think I disagree, if we can find the knack of effective

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Would people like to see a new version of the SIRS draft? In addition to the questions John raised below, Francis and others mentioned: lack of reviewers. Also there is the question of overlap with Area review teams such as secdir, and there is accumulated experience from Gen-ART (RFC 6385).

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/05/2013 05:59, Dave Crocker wrote: The blog nicely classes the problem as being too heavy-weight during final stages. The quick discussion thread seems focused on adding a moment at which the draft specification is considered 'baked'. I think that's still too late. What, you agree

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 30/04/2013 08:49, Sam Hartman wrote: ... Statistical analysis is only useful if it's going to tell you something that matters for your decision criteria. Yes. And I would like to know, in statistical terms, whether there are significant differences between (for example) the M/F ratios among

Re: W3C standards and the Hollyweb

2013-04-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 27/04/2013 20:02, Alessandro Vesely wrote: A DRM add-on that individuals or small groups use to protect their stuff seems to be a chimera. Has anybody tried to design one? Brian

Re: W3C standards and the Hollyweb

2013-04-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 26/04/2013 23:38, Alessandro Vesely wrote: On Fri 26/Apr/2013 02:53:58 +0200 Mark Nottingham wrote: Personally, I don't have a firm position on these issues, but I couldn't let this pass by. I've thought about this a bit and looked at some on-line discussions. In as far as this might be

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