Re: Venue for Dallas IETF ?

2006-01-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John L wrote: Do we know where the meeting will be yet? I see that registration was supposed to start today. I believe it will start in another couple of days. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Normative figures

2006-01-12 Thread Stewart Bryant
Bob Braden wrote: * The draft has expired so I need to point to an external version. This draft * which is looking at the properties of a routing network under conditions of * failure would have been much clearer if it could have used mathematical * notation rather than ASCIIised equations

RE: PDF, Postscript, and normative versions (was: Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs))

2006-01-12 Thread Lars-Erik Jonsson \(LU/EAB\)
Before I go on, I continue to be fascinated by the observation that, each time the we really need pictures and fancy formatting and need them frequently argument comes up, the vast majority of those who make it most strongly are people whose contributions to the IETF -- in designer, editor,

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Bill Fenner
On 1/11/06, Henrik Levkowetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: the tools team has not received any feedback or comments from the RFC-Editor regarding the xml2rfc tool. If we had, we would have forwarded it to the xml2rfc list. Aaron (for the RFC Editor) asked me to proxy their findings, and I worked

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Bill Fenner
On 1/10/06, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 9:45 AM -0500 1/10/06, Brian Rosen wrote: Do you have any idea how painful it is to build any kind of product that has good management simply because there is no library of MIBs, with references to documents? There isn't even a LIST of IETF

Re: PDF, Postscript, and normative versions (was: Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs))

2006-01-12 Thread Stewart Bryant
Lars-Erik Jonsson (LU/EAB) wrote: Before I go on, I continue to be fascinated by the observation that, each time the we really need pictures and fancy formatting and need them frequently argument comes up, the vast majority of those who make it most strongly are people whose contributions to

RE: PDF, Postscript, and normative versions (was: Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs))

2006-01-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 12 January, 2006 12:28 +0100 Lars-Erik Jonsson \\(LU/EAB\\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before I go on, I continue to be fascinated by the observation that, each time the we really need pictures and fancy formatting and need them frequently argument comes up, the vast majority

Re: PDF, Postscript, and normative versions (was: Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs))

2006-01-12 Thread Robert Sayre
On 1/12/06, John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: increasing experience within the IETF and with our style of developing and working on documents (not just publishing them) tends to cause both patience and respect for the ASCII graphics and formats to rise. I'm surprised folks are

RE: Normative figures

2006-01-12 Thread Nelson, David
Stewart Bryant writes... If linearised formulas were a good idea mathematicians would use them :) Translation to ASCII representation should surely be the final step in implementation not something imposed during the understanding and description phase. If symbolic formulas were useful in

OK this discussion is OLD!!! (was: Re: Normative figures)

2006-01-12 Thread Eliot Lear
How about a new mailing list or some such?! Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: PDF, Postscript, and normative versions (was: Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternativeformats for IDs))

2006-01-12 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Lars-Erik Jonsson (LU/EAB) Before I go on, I continue to be fascinated by the observation that, each time the we really need pictures and fancy formatting and need them frequently argument comes up, the vast majority

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2006-01-12 14:50 Bill Fenner said the following: Aaron (for the RFC Editor) asked me to proxy their findings, and I worked with Charles and Marshall directly instead of going through the list; perhaps this was a mistake. The comments from the RFC Editor can be found at

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Braden
* From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Jan 11 13:53:32 2006 * X-Spam-Status: No, score=-2.5 required=5.0 tests=AWL,BAYES_00 autolearn=ham *version=3.1.0 * Date: Wed, 11 Jan 2006 16:52:31 -0500 * From: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] * To: Bob Braden [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Julian Reschke
Bob Braden wrote: ... Now, this may not actually be too bad; most of the changes at the nroff stage are very cosmetic, and we could use diffs and perhaps other tools to make it quite easy. OR, we could change the AUTH48 policy to let the author(s) deal only with the edited xml, without the

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Crocker
Bob, Suppose that we edit the document in XML (we are already doing this part of the time), do a final nroffing pass to get the format just right, and then give the author(s) the edited xml, final .txt, and a diff file. (We could easily do this today). The author(s) change the .xml (or give

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 12, 2006 08:50:26 AM -0500 Bill Fenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Aaron (for the RFC Editor) asked me to proxy their findings, and I worked with Charles and Marshall directly instead of going through the list; perhaps this was a mistake. I don't think so. In order to

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, January 12, 2006 02:07:29 PM -0800 Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Bob, Suppose that we edit the document in XML (we are already doing this part of the time), do a final nroffing pass to get the format just right, and then give the author(s) the edited xml, final

RE: PDF, Postscript, and normative versions (was: Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs))

2006-01-12 Thread Lars-Erik Jonsson \(LU/EAB\)
John, Stewart and others, I believe some might have taken my previous note more personally than intended, as well as John's. As also made clear by John below, we both looked at this with a significantly longer time-perspective than just the last weeks or months, as these issues have been brought

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Braden
Who is volunteering to maintain xml2rfc and guarantee backwards compatibility for the next 20 years? (And why should we believe them?) Bob Braden ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Bob Braden
* * 2. Given that the RFC Editor has the current practice of converting .txt * submissions to nroff, it is equally reasonable to pursue their changing that * conversion, to instead be into xml2rfc. Dave, Are you suggesting that the IETF adopt the xml2rfc source as the normative

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Crocker
Are you suggesting that the IETF adopt the xml2rfc source as the normative version of a specification, rather than the .txt (or .pdf) version? yes. as I understand your current operation, the *real* normative version is in nroff. i believe that an incremental process of switching to

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jeffrey Hutzelman writes: It seems like the more efficient approach would be to essentially have two stages, where the authors first sign off on the result of copy-editing, and then on whatever cosmetic changes are needed after the final conversion. That

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Keith Moore
It seems like the more efficient approach would be to essentially have two stages, where the authors first sign off on the result of copy-editing, and then on whatever cosmetic changes are needed after the final conversion. That assumes that the xml-nroff conversion is always error-free.

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Bill Fenner
On 1/11/06, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 2. Given that the RFC Editor has the current practice of converting .txt submissions to nroff, it is equally reasonable to pursue their changing that conversion, to instead be into xml2rfc. I don't think that converting to xml is the same class

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Scott Bradner
Dave sed: Nroff has no current industry penetration. fwiw - Nroff is on every Mac OSX shipped it is a shell procedure that fronts groff Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-12 Thread Dave Crocker
I don't think that converting to xml is the same class of work. There's a great deal of semantic information that should be encoded in the XML that isn't in the submitted text and doesn't have to be in the nroff. Strictly speaking, you are certainly right. But I lived with nroff for

Protocol Action: 'Bootstrapping TESLA' to Proposed Standard

2006-01-12 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Bootstrapping TESLA ' draft-ietf-msec-bootstrapping-tesla-03.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Multicast Security Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Russ Housley and Sam Hartman. A URL of this

Document Action: 'Requirements for Internet Media Guides' to Informational RFC

2006-01-12 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Requirements for Internet Media Guides ' draft-ietf-mmusic-img-req-08.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jon Peterson and Allison

Last Call: 'A Resource Reservation Protocol Extension for the Reduction of Bandwidth of a Reservation Flow' to Proposed Standard

2006-01-12 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Transport Area Working Group WG to consider the following document: - 'A Resource Reservation Protocol Extension for the Reduction of Bandwidth of a Reservation Flow ' draft-ietf-tsvwg-rsvp-bw-reduction-01.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans

Document Action: 'OPES SMTP Use Cases' to Informational RFC

2006-01-12 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'OPES SMTP Use Cases ' draft-ietf-opes-smtp-use-cases-06.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Open Pluggable Edge Services Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Scott Hollenbeck. A URL of this