RE: Improving the ISOC Fellowship programme to attract people from under-represented regions into the IETF

2013-10-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On Oct 12, 2013 6:51 AM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: I don't understand your assertion that there is no procedure in the IETF to support the existence of a Design Team. I'd be sorry to see this discussion dragged down a procedural rathole. Melinda

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/10/13 9:49 AM, manning bill wrote: the leaders are there to inform and moderate the discussion and where possible, indicate that consensus has been reached (or not). when leaders speak out on behalf of organization -particularly- this organization and they are _NOT_ relaying the

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/10/13 10:52 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: 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, when I am pretty sure Phill's model of his job was indeed as a 'facilitator', not a 'leader' in the sense you seem to be

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

2013-10-09 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/9/13 4:35 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Oct 9, 2013, at 1:30 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: Rough consensus - An agreement by almost everyone that the proposed That's a lot like voting, I think. It's worse than voting, because it encourages people to invite their friends

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

2013-10-08 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/8/13 3:21 PM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: To my small and somewhat naive mind, the difference between rough consensus on a topic and a vote on the same topic is something about winners and losers. In a purely political process, when a set of parties vote on something and the preponderance

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

2013-10-08 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/8/13 9:20 PM, Loa Andersson wrote: FWIW - my personal way of thinking about consensus vd. rough consensus, please note that it my personal view not a definition. Consensus - An agreement by everyone in a group that a proposed solution is the best of all of all possible

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/6/13 1:03 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: My goal is to publish it as an Informational RFC. It is an explanation of principles and how they can be applied to productively move IETF discussions forward. While there is no change to IETF processes or any presumption that guidance from this document

Re: Review of: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05

2013-10-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/6/13 4:34 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: On 07/10/2013, at 11:03 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: 1. in a natural state; without decoration or other treatment. a diamond in the rough 2. in difficulties. even before the recession hit, the project was in the rough I think he's

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/18/13 8:59 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: There have been (counting me) four sitting ADs posting on this 90-email thread, plus another six or so former ADs, including a former IETF chair, plus at least six or so WG chairs, plus other participants of good mind and good hearts. I'm thinking

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/17/13 3:56 AM, Andy Mabbett wrote: Thank you. So how might we raise awareness of ORCID among RfC contributors and and encourage its use by them? I'm not sure much needs to be done other than talking with Heather Flanagan (the RFC Editor), getting her sign-off, and then getting it into the

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/17/13 9:55 AM, Michael Tuexen wrote: ... and that is my point. One level of indirection might be useful here. I would prefer to update only one mapping and not go through a list of RFCs and change the mapping for each document. I really think that you all are completely over-engineering

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
indirectly. It's a way to establish that the author Melinda Shore who worked at Cisco is the same author Melinda Shore who worked at the Center for Research Libraries. It is NOT a contact mechanism, a personal tracking mechanism, etc. Melinda

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

2013-09-17 Thread Melinda Shore
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, and quite a few publish Academic papers.

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/16/13 6:49 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: That's not to say you can't put any particular URI against your name in an RFC, mind, but I'd be rather hesitant to leap at mandating a registration procedure for authors. I think it's an interesting idea. It might be worth talking with Heather and

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/16/13 1:02 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: If we use ORCID instead of email, we get less strong authentication. That's not its job - it's there to distinguish between authors with similar names. As I understand the proposal the intent is to have it provide additional information, not supplant

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/16/13 3:41 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Fair enough, but adding a public key to the record would enable authentication too. I suppose it was inevitable that when it came into the IETF it would balloon into an overcomplicated mess. Think of it as one metadata element, not a big blob of

Re: pgp signing in van

2013-09-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/6/13 4:10 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Sep 6, 2013, at 6:42 PM, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: I've noted elsewhere that the current typical key-signing party methods are very weak. You should sign only the keys of those who you know well enough to claim you can attest to their identity.

Re: pgp signing in van

2013-09-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/6/13 5:09 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: This is what I mean by a high bar. Signing someone's PGP key should mean I know this person as X, not this person is X. I have no idea what should means in this context. It seems to me, from looking at this discussion (as well as from other discussions

Re: pgp signing in van

2013-09-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/6/13 6:24 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: It's naive to think that keys are any more trustworthy than this, because any signature's trustworthiness is only as good as the trustworthiness of the individual who decides to sign it. If you trust a key signed by someone you don't know, but who someone

Re: pgp signing in van

2013-09-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/6/13 7:04 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: It's not at all clear to me that serious trust mechanisms should be digital at all. They're not. Be that as it may, we have an existence proof that a web of trust is useful—Facebook, G+ and LinkedIn all operate on a web of trust model, and it works

Re: pgp signing in van

2013-09-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/6/13 7:45 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: They have different problems, but are inherently less reliable than web of trust GPG signing. It doesn't scale well, but when done in a defined context for defined purposes it works quite well. With external CAs you never know what you get. Vast

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

2013-09-05 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/5/13 7:19 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I'm not talking about what implementors and operators and users should be doing; still less about what legislators should or shouldn't be doing. I care about all those things, but the question here is what standards or informational outputs from the

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

2013-09-05 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/5/13 8:59 PM, Randy Bush wrote: side discussion wonders whether bruce may be a bit on the pollyanna side on this aspect. That's a really interesting question, and I have no idea what the answer is. One reason it's interesting is that until this all broke there was a reasonable assumption

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

2013-09-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/3/13 6:50 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: I think that is a given without having pre-emptive blame assignment in the text. *Blame*? I know that I've inadvertently used regional idioms that were hard for non-native speakers to understand and I've been grateful when it's been pointed out.

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

2013-09-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/3/13 6:58 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: I agree that trying to figure things out is a net positive. What I want to avoid is someone making excuses claiming that since they aren't a native speaker it's somebody else's problem to understand them. I'd like to think that we're going to retain

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

2013-09-01 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/31/13 10:15 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: That does seem better, but don't all parties have an obligation to attempt to communicate clearly? Yes, but ... I think it's particularly incumbent on native English speakers to avoid highly idiomatic or stylized language - English that is not

draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-08-31 Thread Melinda Shore
It seems like this would be a good time for an update. A few comments: . I think there are a few things that we've been taking for granted that everybody knows, because they did, but that may not longer be the case and consequently they should be made explicit. One that really popped out

Re: Rude responses (sergeant-at-arms?)

2013-08-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/27/13 9:11 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: I would expect the sergeant-at-arms to be reining in that sort of rudeness before reining in the sort of supposed overt rudeness that we are discussing here. That suggestion makes me want to say something a little rude. Managing the discussion is the

Re: Charging remote participants

2013-08-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/16/13 9:53 AM, John C Klensin wrote: As someone who favors charging remote participants, who has paid most or all of the travel and associated costs for every meeting I've attended in the last ten plus years, and who doesn't share in a view of if I can, everyone can, let me make a few

Re: Community Input Sought on SOWs for RFC Production Center and RFC Publisher

2013-08-13 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/12/13 11:36 PM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: Anyway, I use Linux, so I guess I will not be able to give my input about it. I agree in principle (MS document formats are not a suitable document exchange format for an open standards body) but in truth, it's been awhile since Open Office hasn't

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/6/13 11:58 AM, Joe Abley wrote: For what it's worth (not much) I would miss the line at the mic. There are useful conversations that happen within the line that I think we would lose if the mic followed the speaker, and I also think that pipelining the people at the mic promotes more

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/4/13 11:53 AM, John Levine wrote: As far as I can tell, one person objects, everyone else thinks it's fine. More to the point, the objections that are being raised appear to be bogus and based in a misunderstanding of how the IETF operates. Melinda

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Melinda Shore
We're all different, and for my purposes, in all honesty, having slides unavailable until 45 seconds before a session start hasn't been an issue as a remote participant. It's definitely aggravating as a chair, though, since we need to get those uploaded via the meeting materials manager.

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-01 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/1/13 1:29 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: Consensus for any particular outcome is in the end a judgment call. Well, yes and no, but this situation strikes me as odd, and probably a mistake on the part of the chairs. If you can't tell whether or not you've got consensus, you don't have consensus.

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-01 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/1/13 12:54 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In the case of a WG-forming BOF, it seems to me that a nucleus of people willing and competent to do the work, and a good set of arguments why the work needs to be done and how it will make the Internet better, are more important than any kind of

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-31 Thread Melinda Shore
I have to say that I was very impressed with how the oauth session went. There was minimal presentation and maximal discussion, and the discussion was not interrupted until it started getting circular. But, I suspect that this is a reflection of the fact that there's some substantial

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Melinda Shore
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 cheaper if there were more demand for it, and

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/30/13 12:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Users want applications to just work, but they (and many business managers in our industry) don't understand that when applications fail unpredictably, it's often because of glitches in what we call transparency. I suspect applications are not

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/27/13 1:38 PM, Moriarty, Kathleen wrote: I think it would be really helpful/useful if working groups could provide short video overviews to help people understand the work. This includes newcomers and also interested observers, who may include implementers. Can that be accommodated,

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/27/13 3:52 PM, Aaron Yi DING wrote: What do you mean by conference? too much information inferred in your term that may confuse others on the list. Will appreciate, if you can share bit more on it, behind the single term conference that you particularly don't like. I love conferences

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/27/13 8:13 PM, Randy Bush wrote: yup. i guess it is time for my quarterly suggestion to remove the projectors and screens. Then I guess it's time for my quarterly I'd be good with that. Melinda

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/27/13 8:23 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: I would be very sorry to see IETF *working* meetings turned into something closer to conferences, with poster sessions! A! Melinda

Re: BOF posters in the welcome reception

2013-07-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/24/13 12:30 AM, John C Klensin wrote: Yes. I was thinking a bit more generally. For example, schedule changes during the meeting week, IIR, go to NNall, and not ietf-announce. As a remote participant, one might prefer to avoid the usual (and interminable) discussions about coffee

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

2013-07-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/24/13 10:35 AM, Eric Gray wrote: These lists are not - AFAIK - intended for meeting participation anywhere near as much as they are for meeting logisitics. My experience has been that they're for both, and while I'll be a remote participant this time I've already subscribed to the

Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/11/13 4:14 AM, Hui Deng 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 know it is for me, and I'm grateful for the draft. I agree that this is

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/27/13 5:08 AM, Cullen Jennings wrote: I have attended some IETF meetings remotely and I am not in favor of this change. To be honest, I'm skeptical, myself. I have attended a lot of meetings remotely and I don't think that it provides enough context to be able to provide the background

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/24/13 12:18 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: - What are the subtle differences in meaning between these two sentences? I think I recommend is rather clearly different from you should, in terms of strength and (in the case of normative text) obligation. I don't think that recommend is useful in the

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 7:16 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Actually I see lots of structural problems -- I just happen to be of the mindset that working from the bottom up is the only sustainable model for change. Don't know about that one. In the US, at least, legal mandates have typically led social

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 7:26 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 6/19/13 9:22 AM, Melinda Shore 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. That's a topic for the ietf-philosophy discussion list, methinks

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 7:56 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Why do you believe that my opinions are unexamined? I have been thinking and reading about social, cultural, and personal change for a very long time. You made an assertion that's at least a little ahistorical, you used it to support an argument

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 8:12 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 6/19/13 10:00 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 6/19/13 7:56 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Why do you believe that my opinions are unexamined? I have been thinking and reading about social, cultural, and personal change for a very long time. You

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 10:03 AM, Doug Barton wrote: Short version, if everyone does what they can to encourage diverse participation, we won't need legislation to fix the problem. I'd like it if that were true but I don't think it is. For example, the majority of academic librarians are women (one

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 10:16 AM, Doug Barton wrote: It's not clear to me how this example relates to the IETF. Even in fields in which the overwhelming majority of practitioners, the majority of people in leadership or management positions are men. Everybody's got good intentions - I'd be very surprised if

Re: Is the IETF is an international organization?

2013-06-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/19/13 12:40 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: Sorry. That was directed largely at Melinda who is, to the best of my understanding, an American. Binational. Thanks for asking. Melinda

Re: New non-WG malign list : Network Service Chaining (NSC)

2013-06-17 Thread Melinda Shore
How about a new non-malign WG list? Melinda

Re: [IETF] Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/12/13 3:17 AM, Romascanu, Dan (Dan) wrote: Hi, I agree with Warren and disagree with Pete on this issue. Of course, adding more arguments, being more verbose when expressing support is very useful. However, I consider the brief comments like the one made by Russ useful - at least in

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/11/13 9:52 AM, Doug Barton 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? Right. We've had some issues with document quality, and I can think

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/11/13 10:02 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: The IETF last call is for catching things the working group missed, not for rehashing arguments that were beaten to death in the working group. I am not sure I fully understand why we're having this conversation, or rather why this aspect of the broader

Re: ietf@ietf.org is a failure

2013-06-08 Thread Melinda Shore
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 some point people can live with decisions with

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

2013-06-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/7/13 11:52 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: 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

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/29/13 10:53 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: I see a wedge :-) The problem is where to stop. Well, I don't know. Maybe the problem is where to start. That is to say, I don't know what problem this document is trying to solve, or if there even is a problem. I know that we've had some major

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/29/13 11:16 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Which is why this isn't a process document. Are you sure? Melinda

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/29/13 11:56 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Yes, I'm sure. Your turn now. Are you sure? No, not at all. Melinda

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/30/13 4:37 PM, John C Klensin wrote: ultimately call the IETF's legitimacy and long-term future into question. As you suggest, we may have good vendor participation but the operators are ultimately the folks who pay the vendor's bills. Here in Alaska was the first time I'd worked in an

Re: [IETF] Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/30/13 6:21 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: You'd love the Pacific. Few IETFers get exposed to these kinds of environments. I'd had no idea. The point here isn't to derogate techies working in this kind of environment, but that because the sorts of informal technology and skills transfer

Re: What do we mean when we standardize something?

2013-05-29 Thread Melinda Shore
I think this is one of the best discussions of what we're about that I've seen anywhere, and I'm grateful to John for working this through. One thing I'd like to take up further is this: On 5/29/13 9:23 AM, John C Klensin wrote: Similarly, we sometimes hear it argued that we should accept a

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/28/13 6:20 AM, Christian O'Flaherty wrote: Probably, this lack of social interaction in our region is one of the main reasons for low participation. Most of latin american IETFers are currently living outside the region and they engaged in the IETF when living in the US or Europe. It's

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/28/13 3:06 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: The centres for networking industry in Australia are Melbourne and Sydney, in that order. It's a bit like IETF 51 being held in Grimsby, not London or Cambridge. Okay. So, should we be extrapolating from this to what we can expect from

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-28 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/28/13 6:27 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: Going to Buenos Aires, Sao Paulo, Mexico City or Santiago will always split audiences as these are the major tech hubs in the region (also add Bogota, Lima, San Jose and other cities). So, I think it is not comparable with Australia. I actually

Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/26/13 9:52 PM, John Levine wrote: I have to say that I don't see one or two meetings in South America addressing any of these. I don't, either. However, Given that the incremental cost to the participants, compared to meeting in North America, would likely be on the order of a

Re: [manet] Last Call: draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats-03.txt (Security Threats for NHDP) to Informational RFC

2013-05-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/27/13 10:39 AM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: I also didn't see objection of my comments from the WG. I also didn't see support of your reply from the WG. (WG decisions are WG-rough-consensus, not the editors opinion). Chairs call consensus.

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/24/13 8:07 AM, Lou Berger 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... No, not alone. At any rate I think that the core questions about participation

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/24/13 9:31 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: You are not. Although Vancouver seems to have taken over for Minneapolis. Feh. There is no winter in Vancouver. On the other hand there are salmon and steelhead. Melinda

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/23/13 10:30 AM, Alia Atlas wrote: Never been to Buenos Aires - but it sounds like a great idea. I'm skeptical that it will change much - it seems likely to me that we'll get a bunch of one-time attendees and that we'll be doing really well to get one new person who becomes a continuing

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/23/13 5:34 PM, Juliao Braga wrote: Currently there are three. How many? To twelve meetings per year, for example! Sounds like a sure-fire way to shift the participation from skewing towards working engineers to skewing towards professional standardizers. How can we encourage people from

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/23/13 6:37 PM, Juliao Braga wrote: Maybe they can not submit drafts, but can contribute to foster the knowledge of those who produce drafts or working as reviewers. Anyone can submit a draft and anyone can review a draft. The barrier to that sort of participation is extremely low. So

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-29 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/29/13 1:11 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: The other thing to remember is that whilst your proportional estimates are likely to be correct, in a random process you will get long runs of bias that only average out in the long run. Right, although if normal statistical fluctuation gives us a

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-20 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/20/13 6:12 AM, Hector Santos wrote: There is much more that can be done, but we are still holding on to a version of the past that is keeping the IETF behind. Behind what? Melinda

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-13 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/13/13 4:09 AM, Lou Berger wrote: Do you disagree, are you saying that the IETF should only/first try to address only gender bias? Clearly not, Lou. For one thing, I've repeatedly said that we're underperforming on a number of axes - repeatedly, and for another I've said some number of

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 10:12 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote: I still think that the IETF community at large has no intentional diversity bias, so the process of discussing and analyzing diversity in the context of leadership is to help better describe diversity induced job qualifications as well as

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 11:04 AM, Lou Berger wrote: While I've been very reluctant to jump on this topic, I have to ask what's the basis for this assertion? I think the numbers are pretty compelling, which is why I think they would deserve scrutiny if there's the possibility of remediation if a problem

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 11:28 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: But if a single individual of the IESG can technically challenge and change the work of a whole WG and the IETF, then we have something wrong in our process because that means that the document had a serious problem and we didn't spot it in the

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/13 1:26 PM, Lou Berger wrote: No argument from me, I'm just asking that a comment/position/question that I don't understand be substantiated. And I'm telling you that I think the numbers are highly suggestive of bias. We can take a swing at getting a very rough handle on that but I'm

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/11/2013 8:00 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote: The first three question could allow based on self assessment to evaluate whether IETF leadership is biased based on diversity stats or not. There are actually several questions in there. It would be interesting to know how the pool of people

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/11/2013 1:38 PM, Toerless Eckert wrote: Suggesting that simply diversity stats across all IETF participants can help to deduce anything about leadership diversity bias is ignoring qualification and availability of candidates. Thats why i proposed the questions i would like to see in a

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

2013-04-08 Thread Melinda Shore
Doesn't it strike you as odd that this discussion has moved towards some sort of tacit/accepted acknowledgment of the role of joke RFCs as insider/outsider cultural markers rather than just clever bits of writing that are widely enjoyed? I'm a little surprised to find myself developing sympathy

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

2013-04-08 Thread Melinda Shore
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 those are unavoidable) but because it strikes me as kind of unhealthy to use the April Fool RFCs as a tool to

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

2013-04-08 Thread Melinda Shore
I am absolutely not suggesting changing anything other than the unfortunate attitude that the right response to someone missing the joke is to read them out of the meeting/declare them anathema or unworthy or not members of this community. Your beef isn't with me, it's with MÃ¥ns. Melinda

Re: Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated April the first

2013-04-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/6/13 1:33 PM, Ulrich Herberg wrote: Indeed. The wikipedia entry is somewhat misleading though: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_Fools%27_Day_RFC Fix it or ignore it. Wikipedia is neither authoritative nor reliable. Melinda

Re: Appointment of Scott Mansfield as new IETF Liaison Manager to the ITU-T

2013-03-28 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/28/13 5:13 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: Therefore it seems unlikely that there would be any candidate that the IAB did not already know about. So whilst I agree in general, this is not a case that should raise any concerns. Wow. Allow me to suggest that even if you think this is true,

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/24/13 10:02 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: I like what we have so far, but are those connected processes/information reflected into the produced document? Why ignoring names of volunteers? I suggest to fix this, My experience over lo, these many years is that the best way to ensure that

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/24/13 10:28 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: Some people never recognise new comers ideas until backed up with old comer idea. Do you think that is right? No, I think that is not right. I brought middlebox work to the IETF as my initial involvement. It did not go smoothly, but it went, and

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/25/13 8:17 AM, Scott Brim wrote: or a statement that acknowledgments is not a required section and not subject to IETF guidance. Excellent. Melinda

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/24/13 4:55 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: In this way we have connections between inputs otherwise the IETF system has no connection between its important information. We have the mailing list archives, we've got the document shepherd writeups, we've got the IESG evaluation record, we've got

Re: On the tradition of I-D Acknowledgements sections

2013-03-24 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/24/13 4:55 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: In this way we have connections between inputs otherwise the IETF system has no connection between its important information. We have the mailing list archives, we've got the document shepherd writeups, we've got the IESG evaluation record, we've got

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/22/13 6:17 PM, Martin Rex wrote: Before allowing a new WG to start, ADs seem to make an assessment of whether there are sufficient volunteers of both kinds to do the work, whether there is sufficient expertise in the IETF to perform adequate review of the results and whether there is

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/22/13 6:28 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: FWIW, seems to me you're describing one leg of the elephant each. From my experience I'd say you both actually have an appreciation of the overall elephant but that's not coming out in this kind of thread. Well, maybe, but it seems to me that he's

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/21/13 8:23 AM, Martin Rex wrote: As I understand and see it, the IESG is running IETF processes, is mentoring IETF processes (towards WG Chairs, BOFs, individuals with complaints/appeals), and is trying to keep an eye on the overall architecture, and put togethe the pieces from reviews

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/21/13 9:19 AM, SM wrote: I welcome feedback from anyone. All righty, then. I do think that when someone is offering an opinion on the role of the IESG in moving work through the IETF, it's helpful if they've actually brought new work to the IETF, socialized it, negotiated with ADs around

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-20 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/20/13 3:20 PM, Martin Rex wrote: While I agree that it helps avoiding a few big vendors bias. is this really a significant problem _today_, adversely affecting a non-marginal amount of the current IETF output, and in a fashion where simply more diversity in the I* leadership would bring a

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