Re: Naming crap (Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents)

2004-03-28 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
On Sun, 28 Mar 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Date: Sun, 28 Mar 2004 13:38:13 +0200 From: Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: IETF Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... To me it seems that the IETF can't make up its mind: are RFCs just drafts that don't expire, or are they hugely

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-13 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
Maybe I'm confused but, as I understand it, standards track level is already, in principle, completely decoupled from write and publish an RFC in that the standards level is not incorporated in the RFC anywhere but listed separately. In general, I agree with John Klensin as to what are considered

Re: Question for the DNS system.

2004-03-10 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
Deep (many label) DNS names work fine. But for some reason the DNS system has long suffered from lust for the root where people scramble for DNS names with the minimum number of labels. This, coupled with the marketing efforts of some TLD owners resulting in very wide zones that require huge

Re[4]: national security

2003-11-28 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
See RFC 1715, November 1994, and the endless discussions that appeared on a variety of mailing list about IPv6 addresses. Thanks, Donald == Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 155 Beaver Street

Re: Proposal to charge for commercial use of ISO country codes?

2003-09-25 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
If ISO is never going to charge for use of such fundamental standards as country codes, it should warrant that it never will. In todays age of Intellectual Property Rights madness, their failure to so warrant leaves all users vulnerable to arbitrary future disruption and charges. Thanks,

Re: how to get a filename for ID?

2003-09-10 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
Yes, just make up a file name according to the rules and it will probably be fine. If not, the secretariate will either adjust it for you or send back the draft with the file name they want you to insert. Thanks, Donald ==

Re: Network Working Group

2003-03-12 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
Donald Eastlake 3rd wrote: I sometimes put the working group name on drafts also. But an RFC is never issued by a working group. It is issued by the I* after IESG review and usually after IETF Last Call. I'm dubious about putting the WG name in the RFC but if that were done, As a practical

Re: Network Working Group

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
I sometimes put the working group name on drafts also. But an RFC is never issued by a working group. It is issued by the I* after IESG review and usually after IETF Last Call. I'm dubious about putting the WG name in the RFC but if that were done, it shouldn't be more than an interior

Re: Registration silliness

2003-03-11 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
(1) Tradition. (2) To distinguish people with similar names that are affiliated with different organizations. Thanks, Donald == Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 155 Beaver Street

Re: DNSEXT WGLC Summary: AXFR clarify

2002-12-19 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
On Thu, 19 Dec 2002, RJ Atkinson wrote: ... I agree with the notion that all folks in positions of perceived power (e.g. IAB, IESG, WG Chairs, IRTF Chair) should be required to disclose publicly all of their relationships (e.g. employment, presence on other Internet-related

Re: namedroppers mismanagement, continued

2002-11-27 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
I second this. If some WG wants to maintain such a bounced list, that's fine, but there isn't sufficient reason for it to be a requirement. It's too bad that the exponentially increasing volume of spam has such corrosive effect but that is the reality. Every IETF WG list I have anything to do

Re: Status of draft-christey-wysopal-vuln-disclosure-00.txt

2002-09-23 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
Personal draft have no status. Anyone who thinks they are supported by the IETF has no idea how the IETF works. Drafts expire in six months and get automatically removed unless they are under consideration by the IESG or RFC Editor. The only way to re-activate an expired draft is to submit a new

Re: how to take minutes

2002-07-24 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
On Wed, 24 Jul 2002, Pekka Savola wrote: Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 08:43:24 +0300 (EEST) From: Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Scott Brim [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: how to take minutes On Tue, 23 Jul 2002, Scott Brim wrote: On Tue, Jul 23, 2002 05:54:25PM

Re: SHA1 source code!!

2002-07-24 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
RFC 3174 http://www.rfc-editor.org/cgi-bin/rfcdoctype.pl?loc=RFCletsgo=3174type=ftpfile_format=txt == Donald E. Eastlake 3rd [EMAIL PROTECTED] 155 Beaver Street +1-508-634-2066(h)

Re: Comment on 'RFC Editor Guidelines on Author Lists'

2002-05-23 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
I always put Acknowledgements sections early in my documents. It's sometimes a bit arbitrary who is listed as an author and who is listed as contributing. If you have have one to three authors and handful of contributors, seems like they both should be pretty prominent. On the other hand, if you

Re: Moving Towards UTF8 vs ASCII(ACE) Forever

2002-03-31 Thread Donald Eastlake 3rd
There is now a standard way to encode URIs containing arbitrary UNICODE characters. This is described in RFC 3275 (which is currently a Draft Standard), in Section 4.3.3.1, and in the corresponding W3C document and has appeared in other W3C documents, for exampe XML Base. Donald On 30 Mar 2002,