Re: [Tools-discuss] independant submissions that update standards track, and datatracker

2013-10-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 10/2/2013 9:15 AM, Scott O Bradner wrote: 1 April RFCs excepted Ah. I'm sitting here banging my head on a desk thinking I knew that ... thanks, Scott! Spencer

Re: feedback blog entry

2013-09-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
is what counts. As we know, that does not necessarily correlate with any particular statistic... Spencer Dawkins made an insightful comment which I would look into if I was looking for a better metric. Ok. Which comment are you referring to? I'm sorry, too much e-mail to know what you

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/18/2013 8:59 AM, John C Klensin wrote: Andy, we just don't have a tradition of identifying people whose contributed to RFCs with either contact or identification information. It is explicitly possible when Contributors sections are created and people are listed there, but contact or

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

2013-09-06 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/6/2013 10:46 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: The threat model isn't really the NSA per se—if they really want to bug you, they will, and you can't stop them, and that's not a uniformly bad thing. The problem is the breathtakingly irresponsible weakening of crypto systems that has been alleged here,

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

2013-09-06 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/6/2013 11:38 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Spencer Dawkins spencerdawkins.i...@gmail.com I have to wonder whether weakening crypto systems to allow pervasive passive monitoring by national agencies would weaken them enough for technologically savvy corporations

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/4/2013 11:14 AM, Scott Brim wrote: On Wed, Sep 4, 2013 at 10:34 AM, Barry Leiba barryle...@computer.org wrote: The only concern I have is that once we do this -- declare that PS is always more mature than that -- we can't go back. Do we *really* want to say that we will never again

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

2013-09-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/3/2013 9:26 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: S Moonesamy sm+i...@elandsys.com wrote: The new text is as follows: Participants, particularly those with English as a first language, attempt to accommodate the needs of other participants by communicating clearly. Participants try to accommodate

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 Spencer Dawkins
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 summary of standards actions completed and pending shall appear in each

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 Spencer Dawkins
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, some of which have been updated themselves./rant

Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-05 Thread Spencer Dawkins at IETF
On Monday, August 5, 2013, Aaron Yi DING wrote: On 05/08/13 10:38, Scott Brim wrote: Right, but Fuyou was talking about *spoken* English being more challenging than written English (if you can't *read* English fairly quickly, drafts and mailing lists are impenetrable, and you're done in

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 8/4/2013 3:10 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: OK, I'll bite. Why do you and Michael believe you need to have the slides 1 week in advance? You have the agenda and drafts 2 weeks in advance. The slides aren't normative. Even when they're not about a draft in particular, the slides are not

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 8/4/2013 8:36 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: Regarding the need for presentations early to get them translated, and the non-Procrustean[1] improvement of having cutoffs for presentations of new drafts: new drafts are still submitted 2 weeks in advance, and ISTM that a real non-Procrustean

Re: Final Announcement of Qualified Volunteers

2013-07-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 7/9/2013 8:59 AM, Scott Brim wrote: The sample is better at 140 if individuals represent themselves, but not if they are swayed by their organizational affiliation, and organization is now a significant factor in what we can expect from volunteers -- not all, but even some of those from

Re: Call for Review of draft-iab-rfc4441rev-04.txt, The IEEE 802 / IETF Relationship

2013-06-06 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 6/6/2013 8:12 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: - 3.3.1.4 says: Since it is possible to participate in IETF without attending meetings, or even joining a mailing list, IETF WG chairs will provide the information to anyone who requests it. However, since IEEE 802 work-in-progress is

Hands across the water/hands across the sky

2013-05-31 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For those of you looking at where I-D and RFC authors are from, I'd like to suggest one other thing to look at - the extent that participants are co-authoring with folks outside their region. It's pretty tempting for new participants to submit drafts that they like, and maybe reaching out to

Re: When to adopt a WG I-D

2013-05-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 5/28/2013 10:22 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: In reading through the draft, particularly the section on questions for WG adoption of a draft, I did not see the questions I consider most pertinent: I appreciate Dave and Adrian for producing this helpful start, and I'm mostly comfortable with

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 5/8/2013 10:50 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Heather, all, You are correct, Peter. MISSREF and AUTH48 are not part of the RFC Editor timed states, and the RFC Editor timed states have been largely under 7 weeks for the last year. Indeed. The actual time for what RFC Editor does for documents is

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

2013-04-21 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/19/2013 1:47 PM, Dave Cridland 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 discuss the draft, rather than

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/12/2013 12:49 AM, SM wrote: At 13:46 11-04-2013, Spencer Dawkins wrote: If the IAB means members, the number for females, as far as I know(*), is 2/15, or 13 percent. If it means voting members, the number for females is 1/13, or just under 8 percent. If I use the 13% I can say

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/12/2013 8:51 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:32 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Thomas Narten mentioned that: we have the tendency to pick the people we know and trust, which is understandable. How many IAB members feel strongly about open standards, rough consensus and

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/11/2013 3:09 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: Dave Crocker suggested getting an expert. I don't think that would help. Such an expert would tell you that the questions you can ask depends on the group you are asking. Questions that would be acceptable in one country, would be inappropriate in

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, SM, This may be a misprint ... On 4/11/2013 3:21 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Apr 11, 2013, at 3:43 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: 12.5 % of IAOC voting members are female. 0.1% of IAB members are female 0 % of IESG members are female. Based on the above measurements the IAOC is

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-05 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/5/2013 9:09 AM, Steve Crocker wrote: I too have always found at least one of the Crocker brothers {suspicious, smart, funny, irrelevant, prescient, handsome, annoying, etc.}. I've never been able to tell which is which :) There are days when I'm really glad to be part of this community

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I'm somewhat worried at the lurch this thread has taken into the land of protected classes, legal advice, etc. I hope we do not go there. Having said that ... since Eric asked ... On 3/20/2013 9:57 AM, Eric Burger wrote: Going a bit over-the-top: is there an interaction between sex and

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/20/2013 11:21 AM, Mary Barnes wrote: On Wed, Mar 20, 2013 at 11:10 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: So I guess I've formed the impression that merely being nominated for a position doesn't really mean that a person is available. [MB] You have to keep in mind in the past

Re: Getting rid of the dot

2013-03-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/19/2013 4:09 PM, Scott Brim wrote: It costs a lot more to get lanyards that attach at two corners. Why am I encouraged every time I come across a problem that can be solved with duct tape? :-) Spencer

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/19/2013 8:01 PM, Ben Campbell wrote: I think this means we should closely consider the goals of a mentoring effort. Is it to help them navigate the IETF structure, personalities, and immune system to get something done? Is it to help them become the next generation of IETF leaders? I

Re: meetecho praise

2013-03-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
What Mary said, especially from a chair perspective. I stepped down as co-chair of three working groups just as the Meetecho team reached cruising speed, but they were very active in MediaCtrl and we benefited considerably from using an early version in Hiroshima. If I was co-chairing three

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/18/2013 2:34 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: Yes and no. I would get rid of all the dots, possible yes. In general, I like the scope of what's being questioned in the past week or so, even if the answer comes back we talked about this, and the other stuff we could think of

Re: Getting rid of the dot

2013-03-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/18/2013 5:04 PM, SM wrote: At 13:49 18-03-2013, Spencer Dawkins wrote: There are dots, and then there are dots. The one I'd like to see continued the most is the orange dot, for Nomcom members. We choose the voting members at random out of a volunteer pool, with some qualifications

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-14 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/14/2013 7:30 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Mary, I need to check but... [MB] What I find interesting is that there was 200+ newcomers, but I certainly didn't find that many at the meet and greet. I have to wonder whether this doesn't have to do with the overlap between Sunday tutorials and

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-14 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/14/2013 7:53 AM, John C Klensin wrote: (2) Our newcomers model doesn't distinguish likely long-term participants from tourists. I think we should be welcoming to the tourists but, in terms of, e.g., scarce mentoring resources, spending time on them is a bad optimization. In addition

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-14 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/14/2013 3:07 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: As to the newcomer meet and greet... I actually think we got it a bit backwards. I think that WG chairs should be uninvited. (as much as I like free beer). Rather, I think that the newcomer meet and greet (and free beer) should follow the

Re: Consensus on the responsibility for qualifications? (Was: Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications)

2013-03-13 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/13/2013 1:45 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 3/13/2013 10:27 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: 4. Nomcom makes its own decision about the criteria it will use for selecting nominees; as such, it really is defining the /actual/ requirements for positions. I think we need to acknowledge that the

Re: Martians

2013-03-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/12/2013 1:45 PM, John C Klensin wrote: In any event, I've gotten some feedback that some people thought I was identifying them as Martians and were offended. No offense was intended and I used the Martian terminology precisely to avoid that possibility. I obviously failed and apologize

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/11/2013 11:41 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: On Mar 10, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Spencer Dawkins spen...@wonderhamster.org wrote: On 3/10/2013 5:22 AM, IETF Diversity wrote: I'm listed as a signatory and agree that this is important. There are several steps that could be taken, in the short

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/11/2013 1:03 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On 03/11/2013 01:43 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: My opinion is that we agree we have a situation that we should improve, but also we shouldn't focus on the nomcom process, the problem is not about how we select people (it may help but it is not the root

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-10 Thread Spencer Dawkins
the community is comfortable with. Thanks, Spencer (In alphabetical order) Spencer Dawkins

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-10 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/10/2013 2:50 PM, Scott Brim wrote: On 03/10/13 15:43, John Levine allegedly wrote: - Each of the confirming bodies (the ISOC Board for the IAB, the IAB for the IESG, and the IESG for the IAOC) could make a public statement at the beginning of each year's nominations

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-10 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For what it's worth, On 3/10/2013 5:45 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 3/10/2013 1:04 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: +1. We do not want to manage by ideology - consider how well that serves political parties. Right. My right here was in the context of the snipped line above +1, which

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-10 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/10/2013 9:08 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: Do you feel that what's described in the letter is an accurate and complete description of the/a problem? Well, sure. I signed it, right? :D I have some heartburn about the paragraph on the confirming bodies in the short-term, within-BCPs section,

What anyone can read about recent Nomcoms

2013-03-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I posted a couple of links to detailed Nomcom reports from Mary (2009-2010) and Joel (2008-2009) yesterday - they're available at http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-barnes-nomcom-report-2009-00 and http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-halpern-nomcom-report-00 Mike provided a pointer to

Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications

2013-03-07 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/7/2013 5:01 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 1:56 PM, Joel M. Halpern j...@joelhalpern.com wrote: One of the interesting things is that the nomcom does not in practice have a way to tell the community exactly what it decided the job requirements are. Why is the Nomcom

Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications

2013-03-07 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/7/2013 6:54 PM, Mary Barnes wrote: [MB] Personally, I don't think the .ppts at the plenary should be the only Nomcom report. It's really hard to tease things out from bullet points. Per my earlier note, I believe the community should expect that the nomcom chair produce a written report

Re: Nomcom off in the wilderness: Transport AD

2013-03-06 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/6/2013 3:11 PM, John C Klensin wrote: On this specific point ... Less likely, but still possible, a candidate may disclose (presumably with permission based on the Nomcom's confidentiality obligations when needed) truly confidential material such as future job prospects or even plans

Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/5/2013 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 05/03/2013 11:55, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: I've no idea about the example quoted, but I can see some of their motivation. TCP's assumptions (really simplified) that loss of packet = congestion = backoff aren't necessarily so in a

Re: Nomcom Reports

2013-03-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 3/4/2013 2:31 PM, Mary Barnes wrote: As far as I can tell, the last official Nomcom report was from the Nomcom I chaired (2009-2010): http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-barnes-nomcom-report-2009-00.txt I have a general question for the community as to whether they find such reports useful and

Re: FW: Last Call: draft-farrell-ft-03.txt (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-29 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Just as a follow-up here ... I was John's co-author on RFC 3933 (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3933). When we were working on the draft, the problem I thought we were solving, was that the IESG needs to update the IETF's BCP processes from time to time, but (1) it was like 32 simultaneous

Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: IETF work is done on the mailing lists)

2012-11-29 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 11/29/2012 3:16 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Just picking at one point... According to some RFC: All relevant documents to be discussed at a session should be published and available as Internet-Drafts at least two weeks before a session starts. If the above was followed there

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 11/10/2012 10:57 AM, Mary Barnes wrote: On Sat, Nov 10, 2012 at 10:51 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.comwrote: I think that we haven't done a sufficiently good job of acculturating newer participants and that can probably make the organization look more opaque and closed than it

Re: I-D Action: draft-jaeggli-interim-observations-00.txt

2012-10-26 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Thank you, Joel, for putting pen to paper (pixels to glass?) on this, and thank you, Jari, Randy, and Warren for sharing your thoughts. As was pointed out, we've had conversations about LIMs previously. It might be worth asking Ray to provide a paragraph or two on history and the motivations

Re: IAB Seeks Executive Director

2011-12-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Thomas, Thanks for your help in the talent search! I haven't seen a reply to your note, but it's worth mentioning that the IAB ExecDir is no longer responsible for weekly telechat minutes, and at least some of the IT/web responsibilities performed by previous ExecDirs are moving to the

Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-17 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Yaakov, I'm not the right guy to answer this, but I believe the right guy would say that when we are asked for evidence about prior art, it would be more helpful if you could actually read the presentations from the working group meeting where somebody's invention was discussed by other

Clarification on EDU tram

2011-11-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Russ, I won't take plenary time to ask this, but ... My memory from being on the EDU Team for a while was that the EDU Team itself was broader than just the list of people who did tutorials - looking at what additional training was required, etc. Is that still true? It might be helpful

Re: Clarification on EDU tram

2011-11-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 11/16/2011 3:36 AM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: HI Spencer, We are responsible for the tutorials, which includes deciding what new tutorials are needed, and working with people in the community to deliver them. Not all of the people who _teach_ the tutorials are on the EDU Team, although

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For what it's worth, I've been a repeat-offender note-taker for a bunch of groups at the IETF, and was doing that when we mass-created all the jabber.ietf.org rooms. It was obvious to me at that time (but I was wrong) that I should be continuing to take notes in the jabber room, so people had

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
We've come a long way. That would make sense to me. Spencer It was obvious to me at that time (but I was wrong) that I should be continuing to take notes in the jabber room, so people had the chance to correct things I wasn't getting right, but the volume of my notes swamped the ability of

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For Mike, Marshall, and for others who might be noodling on this ... I hesitate to suggest this, but its probably time: Let's add a position to the IESG - Executive Vice-Chair or Co-Adjutor Chair. Basically, either the chair's personal representative (Executive Vice-Chair) or their

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-03.txt(IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Transition Space) toInformational RFC

2011-09-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Jari, I found your review comments to be very thoughtful and helpful. I understand the concerns you are raising, and I agree that your proposed way forward is reasonable. I did have one question: So here's what I would like to propose. The document goes forward but we make a much clearer

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For what it's worth, I largely agree with John's statement of the justification for Olaf's proposal. Anything that the IETF can do, to make the IAB and IETF Chair positions less of a full-time (or more) job, is a good thing. I could be in the rough on whether this specific proposal is the

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Murry, I think I agree that a wiki page for every RFC is too chaotic an idea to be workable. I agree with the thought that the suggestion under consideration could usefully be amended as a wiki page for every RFC that needs one. If I write a specification, it's published as an RFC, and we

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-09-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Dave, Anything that the IETF can do, to make the IAB and IETF Chair positions less of a full-time (or more) job, is a good thing. Anything? I believe you do not believe that statement, but I think it accurately summarizes the focus of this thread, so far. Thanks for the wake-up

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I'm speaking as an individual, albeit an individual who helped with the decrufting effort in NEWTRK ... http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4450.txt, for those who missed it. undertaking an effort to reclassify many pre-IETF (pre-1000) RFCs as Historic. Given that these are pre-IETF RFCs, I move

Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-eggert-successful-bar-bof-06

2011-09-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Lars, For what it's worth, I have the same question as Ben - if this guidance applies to the kinds of informal meetings in restaurants and bars that the IESG is encouraging, even if they aren't publicized and aren't open to the community, is there any way for two or more IETF participants to

Re: Minimum Implementation Requirements (Was: 2119bis)

2011-09-01 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Melinda, Can anybody point to an incident in which lack of clarity around 2119 language caused problems, and it was determined that 2119 itself was the problem and not authors or editors being careless? Melinda My recollection is that, at least since the early 2000s, most problems were

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Jari, During the discussion of the two maturity levels change, a question was brought up about DISCUSSes appropriate for documents that advance on the standards track. We discussed this in the IESG and I drafted some suggested guidelines. Feedback on these suggestions would be welcome.

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread Spencer Dawkins
the S in IESG, AFAICT. Thanks, Spencer - Original Message - From: Keith Moore To: Spencer Dawkins Cc: Jari Arkko ; IETF Discussion Sent: Wednesday, August 31, 2011 10:35 AM Subject: Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track thanks Spencer

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-30 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Umm, wait. I'm confused. The boilerplate in existing documents points to 2119, right? and the updated boilerplate would point to this spec, if approved, right? so we're not retroactively changing the meaning of anything, right? What am I missing? Spencer - Original Message -

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-29 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Peter, Thank you for submitting this draft. It clarifies some of the most consistent sources of cyclic discussion that appear on the IETF discussion list. I have a couple of questions. The most consistent source of cyclic discussion that I didn't see addressed, is the use of RFC 2119

Re: Last Call: draft-eggert-successful-bar-bof-05.txt (Considerationsfor Having a Successful Bar BOF Side Meeting) to Informational RFC

2011-08-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I have been looking at various revisions of this draft since -00. I'm glad Lars did the first version during IETF 77, and I'm glad that Lars and Gonzalo kept working on it. I think it's important guidance for the community. I think it's on the right track. I think it could reasonably be

Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule

2011-08-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Peter, A side benefit is that the IESG/IAB could have a lunch meeting on Friday (as opposed to the current breakfast meeting) and cover all the hot topics from the week (not the week minus Friday). /psa I agree with your point here, and add that the joint IAB/IESG Friday session isn't only

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Spencer Dawkins
The IETF chair, the IAB chair, and the ISOC President/CEO may delegate their responsibilities to other persons. The delegations by the IETF chair and the IAB chair need to be confirmed by the IESG and IAB respectively. The terms of delegation is for a longer term for instance

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I was not assuming that delegation was limited to another member of the same NomCom-reviewed body. One case was that you might delegate to a NomCom-reviewed member who then leaves the NomCom-reviewed body. If the NomCom-reviewed chair and the NomCom-reviewed body were OK with that person

Re: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, J.D., But I do think posting draft text does allow you to say and the community saw this if you guys get any pushback at all... +1 The same process internet-drafts go through, right? Or as close as makes sense. If process means a chance for the community to look and comment before

Re: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-21 Thread Spencer Dawkins
For what it's worth, I agree that when you're talking to the community about RFPs, it's great if that doesn't turn into a wordsmithing exercise on the ietf mailing list, And I agree that providing a list of things that lawyers have already done for us is a very reasonable basis for an RFP

Re: Use of unassigned in IANA registries

2011-01-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Phillip, Lars can speak for himself, but what I THOUGHT he was talking was changing the phrase unassigned to something like reserved for future assignment. That made sense to me... Spencer - Original Message - From: Phillip Hallam-Baker To: Lars Eggert Cc: Iljitsch van

Re: Poster sessions

2011-01-10 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I like the idea of using break time for these conversations, much better than either burning a regular meeting slot or expecting poster authors to hang around all day waiting for interested parties to surface ... if this goes forward, that's what I would suggest. Thanks, Spencer On Jan 10,

Re: Two step, three step, one step, and alternatives

2010-11-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Eliot, I'm agreeing with John here, but have one addition ... Call it what you will, this sounds like NEWTRK revisited. What will be different? At least three things... maybe. First, I/we have been told repeatedly that this is a new IESG and that, even were we to revisit NEWTRK exactly, we

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Russ, Dave: This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, allowing the community to support or challenge them. Russ Thank you for the

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I think it would be sufficient to say something like: The following implementations represent a significant Internet deployment and they are based on the specification in RFCn: -a -b -c - ... wfm. and seems very reasonable to me as well... Spencer

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Ned, Russ, Dave: This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, allowing the community to support or challenge them. Russ

Re: Proposed WG and BOF Scheduling Experiment

2010-11-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Assuming, of course, that we continue to expect that the IESG will do the right thing, whatever that turns out to be ... Henk == Henk Uijterwaal h...@ripe.net writes: Henk So, I'd take it a step further: Starting Monday morning, 2 of the 7 Henk or 8 meeting slots in each session are

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (wasRe:

2010-11-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Yoav, Recognizing that we all work in different parts of the IETF, so our experiences reflect that ... RFCs have one big advantage over all kinds of blessed internet drafts. The process of publishing an RFC gets the IANA allocations. Every implementation you make based on a draft will

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (wasRe:

2010-11-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
You could call me a blue-eyed optimist, but I have brown eyes ... What other motivation could there be to publishing documents earlier than vendors implementing and shipping it earlier? And if they do that, there is hardly any room for any substantial or backwards- incompatible changes. And

Re: Nomcom 2010-2011: READ THIS: Important Information on OpenDisclosure

2010-09-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Ummm, no. So would you even make public the comments that people send in? IMHO we have not agree to this (and I wouldn't support it). Ross Here's the new text from RFC 5680 (and it's all additions, no deletions or changes) at the end of the three paragraphs in [RFC3777], Section 3,

Re: [78attendees] WARNING !!! Re: Maastricht to Brussels-Nat-Aero, Sat 07:09

2010-08-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
If this was some place in the US, I could easily find a cheap hotel chain nearby (like I did in Anaheim). In Europe, it's a little more difficult, but still doable (thanks, Google Earth). In China, I have no idea where to even look. Sure, I can find a list of cheap hotels in Beijing, but I

Re: Varying meeting venue -- why?

2010-08-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
(snork!) Why do we not simply choose a single venue and have all our meetings there? Or perhaps three venues, one on each continent of interest. Figuring out where to meet is Hard. I'm glad the NomCom can find people who will play this game for no salary. Just to mention one point

Re: Varying meeting venue -- why?

2010-08-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I'm sure other people remember this, but ... I know you meant it in jest, but to be clear to everyone else, qualifying a new venue is a lot of work. One point raised during the plenary is that we might be able to save money if we regularly return to a given venue. Is it possible to quantify

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Offlist I also believe that the goal of moving the meeting around is to minimize the cost of getting our work done, not to minimize the cost for walk-in attendees. However, to measure this, I suggest we count contributions as we do for IPR purposes: c. IETF Contribution: any submission to

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
HAH... Offlist Awesome. My apologies for asking the offline question onlist. It's like they'll let ANYBODY post here :-( Spencer ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-08-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
In the case of the 2 BarBOFS I organized at IETF-78, in both cases there were very useful contributions made by people I didn't know and therefore wouldn't have invited. Even if the efforts fail (and one of them was DOA and will not move forward), I am glad to have had the opportunity to get to

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-07-29 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Just saying ... too late. http://trac.tools.ietf.org/bof/trac/wiki/BarBofsIETF78 and predecessors have been out there for at least a couple of IETFs (like you guys, I'm exhausted, and in my case, too exhausted to check how many IETFs we've had such pages, but I know we had a list in Anaheim).

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selectionprocess

2010-07-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dave, John, On 7/24/2010 2:24 PM, John Leslie wrote: How can we impose additional experience requirements on some NomCom members without implying that we want their opinions to be considered better? I've been on 3 Nomcoms. Voting members with experience are typically notable, but those

Re: Call for IESG narrative scribe volunteers

2010-07-21 Thread Spencer Dawkins
As a former IESG scribe, I would encourage anyone who is interested in understanding the IETF (and especially the IESG) better to volunteer as scribes - and there would be little penalty (from my perspective) in having several more scribes. When I started, Marshall Eubanks and I shared scribe

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I've mentioned this to Russ privately, but it's worth saying it out loud ... Phillip: Obviously, I was not General AD when this happened. However, I was Security AD at the time, so I was involved in the discussions that included the whole IESG. I made my reply to your posting because I want

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
OK, we really do seem determined to relive the early 2000s... It seems to me that abolishing the third level is possible, now, because the handling of I-Ds has been enhanced. IMHO, it is an advantage to require some experience before giving an I-D the rank of Proposed Standard. Because I-Ds

Re: Last Call: Policy Statement on the Day Pass Experiment

2010-05-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Russ, Thank you/the secretariat for chasing this level of detail down. I suspected the numbers would look something like this, and didn't want to ask for it, but it's much appreciated that you guys did check. With the addition of this information to the previous debate I am supportive of

Re: Last Call: Policy Statement on the Day Pass Experiment

2010-05-14 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Doug, I had also wished for numbers that more clearly translated into impact on who was NomCom eligible (as you requested), but decided not to, simply because I wasn't convinced this would matter enough on who was selected to serve on NomCom, to justifiy spending secretariat time gathering

Re: Last Call: draft-hethmon-mcmurray-ftp-hosts (FileTransfer Protocol HOST Command) to Proposed Standard

2010-05-13 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I would like to chime in on this aspect of John's note... I'd also suggest that those who don't like FTP and think we should do no more work on it should not be complaining about this draft, or others, but should be writing an I-D explaining their case. If they can get enough consensus to get

Re: Last Call: Policy Statement on the Day Pass Experiment

2010-05-06 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear IESG, I'm conflicted on this one. I agree that three days at IETF meetings does not a NomCom member make, but I know several people who are very experienced, but who are self-funding, and I can easily imagine someone doing a day pass during a trough in their business cycle. I would be

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