Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-28 Thread Richard Shockey
Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/23/05 5:38 PM, "Dave Crocker" [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the proposed area, that does not seem to explain the inclusion of ENUM, instant messaging or presence. (This area is going to take over xmpp, too?) ENUM is ancillary to telephony and

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-26 Thread Adam Roach
Dave Crocker wrote: (This area is going to take over xmpp, too?) I don't think it is a useful exercise to go through all the closed working groups to determine which would have been in RAI had the area existed when they were still active. /a

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-25 Thread Yaakov Stein
Hi. I'm just catching up but I think signaling is not an essential discriminator of what we're talking about, and thus this name is in fact unreasonable. Some relationships are established or tailored through signaling that have nothing to do with interactiveness or delay tolerance

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-25 Thread sbrim
On Saturday, September 24, 2005 17:02 PM, Pete Resnick allegedly wrote: On 9/24/05 at 4:41 PM -0400, Scott W Brim wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 11:15:51AM -0500, Pete Resnick allegedly wrote: Signalling Applications and Infrastructure Area Actually, I screwed up: It's Signalled Applications

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-24 Thread Scott Michel
On 9/22/05, Melinda Shore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/22/05 1:14 AM, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term real-time tends to mean sub-second, and often much faster than that. That seems to be the vernacular use, but strictly speaking real-timeis about robust assurances of delivery

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-24 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/23/05 at 3:59 PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: So far, references have been made to time-sensitive and to signalling, yet it is not clear how this applies to the work that is being defined as seeding the area. Since SIP is really a signalling protocol, yes, that part is clear. But where is

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-24 Thread Scott W Brim
On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 11:15:51AM -0500, Pete Resnick allegedly wrote: On 9/23/05 at 3:59 PM -0700, Dave Crocker wrote: So far, references have been made to time-sensitive and to signalling, yet it is not clear how this applies to the work that is being defined as seeding the area. Since

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-24 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/24/05 at 4:41 PM -0400, Scott W Brim wrote: On Sat, Sep 24, 2005 11:15:51AM -0500, Pete Resnick allegedly wrote: Signalling Applications and Infrastructure Area Actually, I screwed up: It's Signalled Applications and Infrastructure. Some relationships are established or tailored

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yaakov Stein wrote: (Back to the original subject line) I must admit that I am still unclear as to the true purpose of this new area. At first I understood that the IETF was finally to address real-time and/or delay-sensitive applications, and Brian's list of WGs was just a proposed

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-23 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/23/05 at 8:51 AM +0200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Yaakov Stein wrote: I must admit that I am still unclear as to the true purpose of this new area. Firstly, I refer you to Ted Hardie's New area description/name http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg37849.html which

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Crocker
Melinda, et al, The term real-time tends to mean sub-second, and often much faster than that. Vernacular is not usually *more* precise. Note that I cited (human) interactive vs. real-time, with whereas the usage you describe one terms that encompasses both. The discussion at

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/23/05 5:38 PM, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: For the proposed area, that does not seem to explain the inclusion of ENUM, instant messaging or presence. (This area is going to take over xmpp, too?) ENUM is ancillary to telephony and not really to much else. But anyway, you'll note

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Crocker
Melinda, thanks for pursuing this. I tend to prefer naming it something around multimedia applications but as long as whatever it is is reasonably descriptive and won't lead to people thinking that it's a proper place to work on things like storage device controllers, I'm good. well, what I

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-23 Thread Dave Crocker
Adam Roach wrote: Dave Crocker wrote: (This area is going to take over xmpp, too?) I don't think it is a useful exercise to go through all the closed working groups to determine which would have been in RAI had the area existed when they were still active. i agree. so it's probably a

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-22 Thread Jari Arkko
Hi Lakshminath, The end result is that we have documents in the RFC Ed queue with another document in the wings called draft-blah-clarifications I'm plotting the growth rate of draft-blah-clarifications, and my current estimate is that it will exceed the size of draft-blah-original before

Re: TAWNNY! (Re: FW: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area)

2005-09-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eric Fenner wrote: On 9/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We will require all ADs that are the ADs for Bob to change their name formally to Bruce. Eric, That's the best idea I've heard yet. Eric Time was that the multicast name around here was Steve. Bob does at least

Hobby [Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area]

2005-09-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jari Arkko wrote: Hi Lakshminath, ... Perhaps the IESG job description should say in part, you are expected to work some 35-40 hours a week on IESG stuff, should keep your calendar open in the months of ... for a retreat, and should be able to participate in telecons at odd hours. If you

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/22/05 1:14 AM, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The term real-time tends to mean sub-second, and often much faster than that. That seems to be the vernacular use, but strictly speaking real-time is about robust assurances of delivery within a constrained time period, whether that time

Shifting sands [Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area]

2005-09-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bill, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there was a way to lighten-up the IESG review process, then this would be a good idea. For example, having a single DISCUSS per Area would be one way to reduce this could be one solution. Why do you

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... My read of most of the current responses on this thread is that the SIP related working groups are feeling pressure in the current Transport Area, so some re-arrangement is needed. What I haven't seen is how having more ADs involved would actually improve things.

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-22 Thread Yaakov Stein
(Back to the original subject line) I must admit that I am still unclear as to the true purpose of this new area. At first I understood that the IETF was finally to address real-time and/or delay-sensitive applications, and Brian's list of WGs was just a proposed seeding to start things off.

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-22 Thread Yaakov Stein
H. Someone told me once that real-time means on a time scale such that no measurable time elapses between event occurrences and their recognition. There are technically 2 different types of real-time. Hard real-time means that all processing required is always performed before

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-22 Thread Sam Hartman
john == john loughney [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: john Bill, On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there was a way to lighten-up the IESG review process, then this would be a good idea. For example, having a single DISCUSS per Area would be one way to

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Crocker
It seems that on the Internet so called real time applications are generally either delay sensitive and / or Jitter intolerant. (Which are, of course, different things.) Marshall, I think you are onto something quite fundamental. In recent times, the IETF has gotten quite good at

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-21 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there was a way to lighten-up the IESG review process, then this would be a good idea. For example, having a single DISCUSS per Area would be one way to reduce this could be one solution. Why do you think this would make any difference

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-21 Thread john . loughney
Bill, On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there was a way to lighten-up the IESG review process, then this would be a good idea. For example, having a single DISCUSS per Area would be one way to reduce this could be one solution. Why do you think this would make any

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-21 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
At 02:02 PM 9/21/2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bill, On Fri, 2005-09-16 at 14:36, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If there was a way to lighten-up the IESG review process, then this would be a good idea. For example, having a single DISCUSS per Area would be one way to reduce this could be one

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-21 Thread David Kessens
Lakshminath, On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:35:21PM -0700, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: I am curious about the scheduling issues. If the IESG job is a full-time job, why can't the people on IESG find time to meet with each other, f2f or in telecons; perhaps someone will help me understand

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-21 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Thanks David. Please see inline: At 05:49 PM 9/21/2005, David Kessens wrote: Lakshminath, On Wed, Sep 21, 2005 at 02:35:21PM -0700, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: I am curious about the scheduling issues. If the IESG job is a full-time job, why can't the people on IESG find time to meet

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-21 Thread Dave Crocker
I'm not sure 'real time' is being used here in the same sense it might be used outside IP communities, but that's a modest nit for now. (I liked Yaakov Stein's Interactive Services variant, though.) This highlights one of the points of confusion about the current proposal: the idea for

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-20 Thread Yaakov Stein
As we see from the comments so far, the problem with giving a name to this new area reveals uncertainty as to the intent. Signaling-centric comments Harald used the phrase SIP-type services (note the emphasis on the signaling aspects) implying that

FW: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-20 Thread Markus . Isomaki
. Apps, Transport and RAI. Regards, Markus -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of ext IETF Chair Sent: 16 September, 2005 16:14 To: IETF Announcement list Subject: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

TAWNNY! (Re: FW: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area)

2005-09-20 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
There seems to be rough consensus that the area should exist, and even what it's supposed to contain - but total confusion about the name! Suggestion: Let's have a popularity contest for the name - someone collect suggestions, and Henrik can make a voting site to gather opinions - and the

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area]

2005-09-20 Thread Loa Andersson
there when video is? /Loa Original Message Subject: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area Date: Fri, 16 Sep 2005 09:14:15 -0400 From: IETF Chair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IETF Announcement list ietf-announce@ietf.org As mentioned in the recent call

Re: TAWNNY! (Re: FW: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area)

2005-09-20 Thread C Wegrzyn
How about Converged Real-time APplications? (CRAP) Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: There seems to be rough consensus that the area should exist, and even what it's supposed to contain - but total confusion about the name! Suggestion: Let's have a popularity contest for the name - someone

Re: TAWNNY! (Re: FW: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area)

2005-09-20 Thread bill
How about just Bob... No need for acronym, just name it Bob. We will require all ADs that are the ADs for Bob to change their name formally to Bruce. Bill How about Converged Real-time APplications? (CRAP) Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: There seems to be rough consensus that the area

Re: TAWNNY! (Re: FW: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area)

2005-09-20 Thread Bill Fenner
On 9/20/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: We will require all ADs that are the ADs for Bob to change their name formally to Bruce. Eric, That's the best idea I've heard yet. Eric ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-19 Thread Yaakov Stein
I think that setting up this new area is a great idea, and shows that we are adapting the structure of the IETF to the applications people now want to use on the Internet. A few more detailed comments follow. The Real-Time Applications and Infrastructure Area develops protocols and

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-19 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On mandag, september 19, 2005 13:51:54 +0200 Yaakov Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The RAI Area is seeded with existing working groups from the Transport and Applications Area: SIP, SIPPING, XCON, SIMPLE, GEOPRIV, ECRIT, ENUM, IPTEL, MEGACO, MMUSIC, IEPREP, SPEECHSC, and SIGTRAN. I

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/19/05 4:23 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all areas in the IETF are more-or-less defined as core of the area + what is closely linked to the core + what fits less badly there than elsewhere - ECRIT would come under closely linked, since its subject area is

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-19 Thread James M. Polk
At 04:35 PM 9/19/2005 -0400, Melinda Shore wrote: On 9/19/05 4:23 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all areas in the IETF are more-or-less defined as core of the area + what is closely linked to the core + what fits less badly there than elsewhere - ECRIT would come

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-19 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mon, 19 Sep 2005 16:35:58 -0400 Melinda Shore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 9/19/05 4:23 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think all areas in the IETF are more-or-less defined as core of the area + what is closely linked to the core + what fits less badly there than

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-19 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:05 19/09/2005, Marshall Eubanks wrote: I guess I would go for Low Latency Applications and Infrastucture (LLAI) myself. Do you conceptually accept in that wording that an OPES can be plugged in there, for example as part of a service to the exchange? The WG-OPES has worked on HTTP,

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-19 Thread grenville armitage
Short form: I like this idea. Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area Description The Real-Time Applications and Infrastructure Area develops protocols and architectures for delay-sensitive interpersonal communications. I'm not sure 'real time' is being used here in the same

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-17 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 16 Sep 2005, IETF Chair wrote: The RAI Area is seeded with existing working groups from the Transport and Applications Area: SIP, SIPPING, XCON, SIMPLE, GEOPRIV, ECRIT, ENUM, IPTEL, MEGACO, MMUSIC, IEPREP, SPEECHSC, and SIGTRAN. A good rule of thumb for the incorporation of new work

RE: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-16 Thread john . loughney
PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of ext IETF Chair Sent: 16 September, 2005 16:14 To: IETF Announcement list Subject: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area As mentioned in the recent call for NomCom volunteers, the IESG is considering the creation of a new area

Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-16 Thread IETF Chair
As mentioned in the recent call for NomCom volunteers, the IESG is considering the creation of a new area, as set out below. We solicit feedback from the community on the scope of this potential new area as well as the impact on the IETF's infrastructure and efficiency of setting up this new