OPSDIR review of draft-dusseault-impl-reports-02

2009-06-08 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, I have reviewed draft-dusseault-impl-reports-02 from operations directorate point of view. Operations directorate reviews are solicited primarily to help the area directors improve their efficiency, particularly when preparing for IESG telechats, and allowing them to focus on documents

RE: [MIB-DOCTORS] Last Call: draft-ietf-rserpool-mib (ReliableServerPooling: Management Information Base using SMIv2)toExperimental RFC)

2009-01-30 Thread David B Harrington
I am also not sure I would let the TC names have a suffix of Type. But that may be personal taste. There have been quite a few textual conventions with the suffix TC I think that makes it easy to see this is a Textual convention, including in IMPORT clauses. But that may be personal

ops-dir review of draft-ietf-lemonade-convert-17.txt

2008-04-08 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, I have reviewed draft-ietf-lemonade-convert-17.txt as part of the Operations and Management directorate effort. These comments were primarily written for the benefit of the OM area directors. Document editors and WG chairs should treat these comments just like any other last call comments.

RE: IETF65 hotel location

2006-01-28 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, This conversation of the IETF65 location started with an issue of security. I'd like to get this discussion back on track. What are the security requirements for a distributed burrito processing protocol? If you are traveling from the conference hotel to a restaurant and are mugged, is that

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-10 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, What we are seeing is increasing use of fully automated tools that don't have humans identifying which octets are MIB and which are code. You can't do that with plain ASCII. MIB modules may be a bad example for you to use. All MIB modules start with a BEGIN character string and end

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-07 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, As a MIB Doctor and chair of the Bridge WG, I have been working with the IEEE 802.1 WG, who will assume maintenance responsiblities for the Bridge WG Mib modules. IEEE 802.1 publishes their standards in PDF. We had to make a special request that they make the MIB portion of their documents

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-02 Thread David B Harrington
Lets go ahead and ask then - Does anyone else think that IETF should allow documents which format/structure is not publicly known as one of the ways to distribute IETF specifications? Not me (or not I, whichever) David Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: Announcement: Notifications List

2005-12-20 Thread David B Harrington
Burger, Eric wrote: This list is for discussions relating to the requirements, definition, and directions for message notifications. Is this message notifications related to specific technologies, or is this a general notification mechanism? If it's a general notification

RE: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it

2005-09-13 Thread David B Harrington
Hi, Personally, I'd rather see the issue of working through NATs and firewalls solved at the SSH level, and then SNMP and other SSH-using applications, such as Netconf and CLI, could use the solution in a consistent manner. The OM community has gone through a multi-year effort to better