Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
resources (not only funds, also students are nowadays a scarce resource) we must concentrate our efforts where the return for unit of work is larger. Riccardo AB On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 6:46 AM, Riccardo Bernardini framefri...@gmail.com wrote: On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 AM, George Michaelson g

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Wed, Sep 18, 2013 at 3:14 AM, George Michaelson g...@algebras.org wrote: Currently, IETF standards activity carries little or no weight for an academic career profile. It doesn't appear to have a weighting compared to peer review publication. I think this is a shame, because the contribution

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

2013-08-13 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
Is this the document with the proposed SOW? http://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/RPC-Proposed-SoW-2013-final.doc I know that I should not this, but... I am a bit surprised (disappointed) in seeing a proprietary format used here. I am not saying that you should not use the Office suite to write it,

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

2013-08-13 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 3:51 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: http://iaoc.ietf.org/documents/RPC-Proposed-SoW-2013-final.doc I know that I should not this, but... I am a bit surprised (disappointed) in seeing a proprietary format used here. I am not saying that you should not use the

Re: [iaoc-rps] RPS Accessibility

2013-08-07 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
Just thinking out aloud What about a web-cam (maybe a wireless one? Never tried to use them...) right under the mic, so that it takes a picture of the badge and shows it on the screen? Everyone (right?) in a meeting has a badge wit his/her/its :) name and affiliation, so privacy concerns

Re: RFC 6234 code

2013-06-28 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
script, piped to ar to extract the files (and if you have Windows, you install cygwin :-). With this approach the source code would also remain human-readable in the RFC text. The only drawback is the length of the resulting RFC if the embedded code is very large. Riccardo Bernardini Tony

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Fri, May 31, 2013 at 4:03 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: clearly, all IETF meetings should be in Cape Town, Wellington, or Perth, because more time in the air means more time without interruption where drafts can be read before the meeting. quiet time on a plane can be productive time.

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

2013-04-22 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Mon, Apr 22, 2013 at 3:04 PM, Moriarty, Kathleen kathleen.moria...@emc.com wrote: Being a scribe can be a good way for people to know who you are (the scribe). From reading the thread on this, when you ask someone who is new, how about having them sit next to someone who is more familiar

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

2013-04-19 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
I like your analysis. A comment while I am still warm The first suggestion is a Newcomer's directorate. (snip) The second suggestion is a simple tool that at WG call time (be it last call or call for adoption) randomly selects a set number of participants from the mailing list, and then

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

2013-04-19 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 8:47 PM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is what I think you're intent is here - would be to randomly select people to be involved in a short online meeting to

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-20 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Margaret Wasserman m...@lilacglade.orgwrote: Hi Stewart, On Mar 20, 2013, at 2:04 AM, Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com wrote: Age Disability Gender reassignment Marriage and civil partnership Pregnancy and maternity Race Religion and belief

Re: I'm struggling with 2219 language again

2013-01-07 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
There appears to be interest in clarification, but nobody really wants to revise the immortal words of RFC 2119, although there is a proposal to add a few more words, like IF and THEN to the vocabulary (I'm hoping for GOTO, myself; perhaps we can make 2119 a Turing-complete language.)

Re: Running code, take 2

2012-12-14 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 1:36 PM, Alessandro Vesely ves...@tana.it wrote: On Fri 14/Dec/2012 09:49:30 +0100 Yaron Sheffer wrote: to clarify, my proposal only applies to Internet Drafts, and clearly states that the implementation section should be removed from the document before it is

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-12 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se wrote: On Mon, 12 Nov 2012, Brian E Carpenter wrote: For WGs that do *not* have a low bar for entry, a detailed complaint to the chairs and the AD would be very appropriate (and probably more effective than a rant on this

Re: in-person vs remote participation (was: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF])

2012-11-12 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Mon, Nov 12, 2012 at 6:15 PM, George, Wes wesley.geo...@twcable.com wrote: From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mikael Abrahamsson Personally I believe there could be value in describing what the value is to attend the meeting physically. I attended the

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-08 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
That we are not reflects our inability to retain, not our inability to attract (assuming that we are not completely refreshing the IETF attendance every three or four years). Should not be rocket science to follow up with some newcomers to find out why they only attend once and never come

Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

2012-05-01 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Mon, Apr 30, 2012 at 7:03 PM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On 4/30/12 7:33 AM, Riccardo Bernardini wrote: So it seems (by this anecdotal and very limited evidence) that [ ... ] So it seems to me that when in possession of only anecdotal, limited evidence that it might

Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

2012-04-30 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
I understand that this was the result of a high-level dialogue (whatever that means) among few (how many?) people. This reminds me of the the Emperor of China nose length problem http://imaginatorium.org/stuff/nose.htm Discussion among a limited group of people is not guaranteed to give you

Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

2012-04-30 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
. On Apr 30, 2012 4:04 AM, Riccardo Bernardini framefri...@gmail.com wrote:

Re: Query to the community -- An additional IETF Meeting event?

2012-03-16 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Fri, Mar 16, 2012 at 8:49 PM, IAOC Chair bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: The IESG and IAOC are considering an addition to the IETF meeting week, and we would like your views before we develop the idea further. At NANOG, there is a Beer and Gear reception one evening.  There are exhibitor

Re: Issues relating to managing a mailing list...

2012-03-15 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 8:07 AM, Francesco Gennai francesco.gen...@isti.cnr.it wrote: Is this really a big enough problem to be worth solving? I can't recall a single instance where I received IETF list with a problematic attachment. i travel to places with very poor bandwidth.  it is a

Re: Issues relating to managing a mailing list...

2012-03-15 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 3:43 PM, Lixia Zhang li...@cs.ucla.edu wrote: On Mar 15, 2012, at 6:47 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, March 15, 2012 00:00 -0400 Ross Callon rcal...@juniper.net wrote: I don't like this proposal for two reasons: I frequently read email while not

Re: Add a link to the HTML version in i-d-announce mails ?

2012-03-06 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 2:53 PM, Simon Perreault simon.perrea...@viagenie.ca wrote: On 2012-03-06 08:51, Julian Reschke wrote: On 2012-03-06 14:41, Xavier Marjou wrote: As a subscriber of the i-d-annou...@ietf.org list, I generally prefer reading the HTML version of the draft rather than the

Re: Add a link to the HTML version in i-d-announce mails ?

2012-03-06 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
On Tue, Mar 6, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: I would be much happier with a link to the datatracker HTML version: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-name/ Would this meet your needs? Yes, it would be fine. From my point of view the two versions are almost equivalent,

Re: Last Call: draft-nottingham-http-new-status-03.txt (Additional HTTP Status Codes) to Proposed Standard

2011-12-16 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
Hi all, just a couple of doubts about this draft 1) In Section 3 (about code 428 Precondition Required) it is said that Responses using this status code SHOULD explain how to resubmit the request successfully. The example shown in Section 3 shows an error message embedded in an HTML document.

Re: Fwd: [81all] Quick Meeting Survey

2011-09-21 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
2011/9/21 Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com On Tue, Sep 20, 2011 at 04:03:21PM -0700, Wes Hardaker wrote: Do you have a Gray Beard? [Ob.SpelThrd] That's spelled Grey Beard! Oh... I believed it was a beard of Frank Gray ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Gray_(researcher) ) :-)

Re: A modest proposal...

2011-08-01 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
Well, Margaret, thank you for the information (I am serious, not ironical). I (and, I guess, many other IETFers) was not aware about this historical usage of A Modest proposal... Although I did not make any proposal so far, I would have used it out of modesty. You know, to say Listen, I have this

Re: On attending BoFs

2011-07-29 Thread Riccardo Bernardini
2011/7/28 Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org You're going to ask attendees to self-identify as tourists and leave the room? Today's tourists may well become tomorrow's document editors. ... Let's just assign large enough rooms to BoFs and newly-formed WGs so that the work can start