Re: IPR at IETF 54

2002-05-30 Thread Carsten Bormann
... we should prefer technology which will be available royalty-free, but that's not current policy Whose policy? Some WGs have a policy (or are actually chartered) to develop deployable protocols. Where a legal issue would make a protocol non-deployable, we have to look elsewhere. (Of

Re: IPR at IETF 54

2002-05-31 Thread Carsten Bormann
I think the most effective thing would be to send a strong signal of some kind: If you patent technologies and give non-RF licenses, _do not expect the technology be supported in IETF at all_. The problem is that there are enough companies out there that don't care. There are some areas of

Speaking about experiments in a live network...

2002-07-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
Somebody is running a number of ad-hoc nodes (or one chameleon-style node) in the 802.11b airspace of the IETF meeting. This is bad enough as it is not coordinated with the site's frequency plan. It is even worse when at least one of the nodes uses the SSID IETF, which causes all Macs (and a

Re: why we had wireless problems at IETF

2002-07-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
Japan can use all 14 WiFi channels (World/ETSI can use 13, US/FCC 11). The IETF network was restricted to the US 11 channels, obviously so that users of US cards would not be left cold. On Monday, and for some time on Wednesday, there were problems with overlapping channels. In WiFi, channel

Re: ietf 55 network

2002-11-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ymbk-termroom-op-07.txt ... which contains surprisingly little information about radio network planning. This has been wrong on most IETF Monday mornings, and tends to get fixed slowly during the week. How are the lessons learned relayed to the next

Re: A modertor for the IETF list? (Re: A plea for calm)

2003-04-04 Thread Carsten Bormann
(I've seen moderator used in 2 ways - the summarize and state consensus role Carsten mentions below, and the sanction inappropriate behaviour role that is commonly used with mailing list moderator - these roles don't have to be done by the same person) Ah, words. Moderator in the sense of

Re: re the plenary discussion on partial checksums

2003-07-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
The biggest questions I have are: - where to put this bit? Right now, the *only* way an L2 with varied service levels can derive what service levels to use for best-effort traffic is to perform a layer violation. Continuing this tradition, the bit would be:

Re: re the plenary discussion on partial checksums

2003-07-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
How would an app know to set this bit? The problem is that different L2s will have different likelihoods of corruption; you may decide that it's safe to set the bit on Ethernet, but not on 802.11*. Aah, there's the confusion. The apps we have in mind would think that it is pointless (but

Re: Korean cell phones

2003-07-18 Thread Carsten Bormann
- Some pages claim not compatible with your US handset -- i.e. no CDMA roaming Ole, I remember from the last time I worked on Korean CDMA systems they had a different frequency (1700 MHz?). Gruesse, Carsten

Re: IETF58 - Network Status - 12:05PM Local Time

2003-11-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
As for those people who run around with their cards in ad hoc mode, yes, especially here, they should know better. One problem may be those helpful features where the OS is switching to ad-hoc when there is no base station to be seen. In Mac OS X 10.2, you can disable that (switch off Allow

Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-13 Thread Carsten Bormann
it turned out that when I replaced my Linksys 802.11b with a brand new Motorola 802.11g the problem went away; there is a Radio Shark on the third floor of City Center that sells them for $70. Similarly, when I put a $70 Linksys WPC54G (directly supported by Mac OS X 10.2.8) into my Powerbook to

Re: dynamic keying via 802.1X on IETF wireless

2004-08-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
Interestingly, on the .1X SSID, I get 14 % loss and delays up to 8000 ms (!). The open SSID is about 0 % loss (didn't wait for the first loss long enough) and 60 ms on average. Just a data point why I'm back in the open net. Gruesse, Carsten ___ Ietf

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 21 2004, at 17:49 Uhr, Tim Bray wrote: If the IETF wants to ignore history and build an Internet where that doesn't hold, feel free, but it's not a very interesting kind of place. This has been rehashed a lot, but there are two little facts left out from the current repetition of the

Re: [Inquiry #19085] Issue with Meeting Schedule change at the last moment

2004-11-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 06 2004, at 21:27 Uhr, Stephane H. Maes wrote: disfranchised If you really have to continue your crusade on the IETF list, can you at least stop using this word (assuming you mean disenfranchised)? There is no voting in the IETF, so you can't be deprived of any voting right. Gruesse,

Re: Disfranchise - use of language [Was: Re: [Inquiry #19085] Issue with Meeting Schedule change at the lastmoment]

2004-11-07 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 07 2004, at 07:36 Uhr, Adrian Farrel wrote: Disfrachise is a perfectly good word. I believe it means exactly what Stephane intended it to mean... Probably. That's why I spoke up. To deprive of a franchise or chartered right; to dispossess of the rights of a citizen, or of a particular

Re: IPv6 in the network, please

2004-11-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 10 2004, at 14:18 Uhr, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: By the way, the press should take note about Airespace marketing versus reality. I hope this company can be honest an make a public correction on that, otherwise customers should not trust them anymore. Oh, come on, give them some slack.

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 18 2004, at 10:26 Uhr, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: if there is no hassle like [...] paying for this and that I'm a bit afraid there are players in this game that won't let us completely eliminate that hassle. Obviously, a situation where a /48 can only be obtained at business rates leads

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Dec 16 2004, at 12:46 Uhr, Eliot Lear wrote: RFC1618 PPP over ISDN We had a short discussion about this in pppext. The gist was: The document is pretty bad (partly because things were murky in 1994, but also because it was written by Martians that had no space ship to take them to the

Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Dec 16 2004, at 14:02 Uhr, Margaret Wasserman wrote: RFC0885 Telnet end of record option This option was, at least at one time, used for telnet clients that connected to IBM mainframes... It was used to indicate the end of a 3270 datastream. ... and 5250 (RFC2877). Note that there was

Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
Why do we care if there are still implementations that are based on these documents in use? The important question is whether there are going to be new or revised implementations based on these documents. A new implementation for tn5250 is about as likely as a new implementation for NTP.

Re: [Old-standards] Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Dec 16 2004, at 18:13 Uhr, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2, Ah good, I did. o Usage. A standard that is widely used should probably be left alone (better it should be advanced, but that is beyond the scope

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-13 Thread Carsten Bormann
I'm seeing a lot of confusion in this thread. In the past, we have had real problems with wireless. 802.11 implementations are too easy to confuse by stations with random settings, we have seen our share of stations that switched to ad-hoc/IBSS mode when there were connection problems, drawing

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 14 2005, at 14:07 Uhr, Keith Moore wrote: we used to get a lot more work done when we used our meetings primarily for discussion rather than scheduling presentations for most or all of the meeting time. Yes. WG chairs planning WG meetings, take note. But then, one difference is that a

Re: for your amusement

2005-03-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
Lucy, congratulations, but First intercontinental videoconference from the air; hmm. Some of us have done this before (using iChat, no less). Gruesse, Carsten ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Site selection [Re: reflections from the trenches of ietf62 wireless]

2005-03-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 16 2005, at 19:33 Uhr, Dave Crocker wrote: Cheap and easy travel and lodging, for diverse participation I wouldn't want to completely rule out the US that quickly... Gruesse, Carsten (who has had to stand in for a colleague with a Sri Lanka passport on 2 out of 3 IETFs recently)

Re: reflections from the trenches of ietf62 wireless

2005-03-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 17 2005, at 19:40 Uhr, Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: they could have broken out the emergency AP's and provided worse coverage to fewer areas than we had last week. It would have been better than nothing, but it would _not_ have been better than what we got. Actually, for those of us who had

Re: Unhosted IETF meetings

2005-03-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 21 2005, at 17:53 Uhr, Baker Fred wrote: worries about pick-pockets, the number of airports one has to go through to get to them, likelihood of being able to get a meal on schedule (which is a question of customs - many places in Europe a restaurant assumes that you don't enter the

Re: french crypto regulations relating to personal encryption usage by visitors?

2005-04-02 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Apr 02 2005, at 15:35 Uhr, Sam Hartman wrote: Similarly the rest of the world would like to show that we should have the meetings closer to them. You are making an assumption about the motives of the people that point out the continuing decline of suitability of the US as a meeting place for

Coach class

2005-08-01 Thread Carsten Bormann
Now that the two previous main concerns about the Paris IETF are under control (nobody has died from the heat yet and the pocket loss rate is at the expected levels), I have a real problem that is actually hindering the work: Coach class. Opening the laptop in the seat arrangement

Re: Keeping this IETF's schedule in the future...?

2005-08-03 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 03 2005, at 12:38 Uhr, Joerg Ott wrote: we should consider to organize out future meetings in a similar fashion. Yes, yes, yes! Another really useful feature here in Paris were the tables for sit- down breakfast. Result: Productive breakfast meetings. Gruesse, Carsten

Re: jabber rooms

2005-11-09 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 09 2005, at 06:27 Uhr, John C Klensin wrote: I've only occasionally found the network stable enough At the danger of spilling the beans: Once I switched may laptop to .11a, the network has been rock-solid. (I ran a ping yesterday, and it did not lose *a single packet* on the

Re: Please make sure that you do not run your WLAN in ad hoc mode

2005-11-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 10 2005, at 14:34 Uhr, Gray, Eric wrote: people wanting to have a private ad hoc network ought to look at the frequencies being used by local base-stations so that their signals do not interfere with people using the infrastructure mode. Paradoxically, they have to use *the same*

Re: Please make sure that you do not run your WLAN in ad hoc mode

2005-11-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
Guidelines would be nice, but wouldn't help here: The evidence seems to identify systems as the culprits with operating systems that have not been upgraded in the last half-decade. Those won't benefit from new information. (I don't want to start discussion about the economic realities that

Re: RFCs should be distributed in XML (Was: Faux Pas -- web publi cation in proprietary formats at ietf.org

2005-11-15 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 15 2005, at 18:47 Uhr, Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: Every little open source software project uses version control systems these days. The IETF does not. Many WGs, of course, do, in scattered places, using random identity/ authentication schemes, depending on individuals for hosting

Re: Audio streaming and slides suggestion

2005-11-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 15 2005, at 21:48 Uhr, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think anyone participating in the session will modify its own slides during the session. You cannot have been to IETFs much, have you? :-) People modify their slides even *during their presentation* all the time, certainly

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guerilla Party Events for Wednesday

2006-03-22 Thread Carsten Bormann
airline miles Don't know, but related trivia: On the IETF pain scale, I have crossed 230.5 timezones (and, apart from Dallas, the same number back) on the way to IETF meetings so far, which would be equivalent to going around the earth nearly 20 times just for IETF meetings (not countint

Re: Nokia 770?

2006-03-22 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 22 2006, at 13:00, Tim Chown wrote: non-US citizen Sure, get a credit card from a US bank with a US billing address. No comment (to forestall incessant ranting about *DELETED* 20th century policies). Gruesse, Carsten ___ Ietf mailing

Re: Best practice for data encoding?

2006-06-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jun 05 2006, at 23:43 , Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: What is considered best practice for encoding data in protocols within the IETF's purview? The best practice is to choose an encoding that is appropriate for the protocol being designed. (There is no single answer.) Maybe you can be

Re: Best practice for data encoding?

2006-06-12 Thread Carsten Bormann
A little post script to this discussion: I wrote a few small test programs in C to evaluate the performance of reading integers from a text file using stdio.h versus doing the same with direct read() s from a binary file. The difference is between two and three orders of magnitude. See

Re: Pingsta Invitation

2007-03-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
Well, http://pingsta.com/terms.php was written by a lawyer (so I can't claim to understand it), but the gist is that you give Pingsta the rights to everything you put in there but are not allowed to make anything in there available in the open (derivative works). They clearly haven't

Re: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?

2007-07-30 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 30 2007, at 16:46, John C Klensin wrote: meetings held in tourist destinations Is that *really* still an issue for anyone? It's not that the IETF is considered a boondoggle org (like some other standards organizations I have known). Places like Mallorca in Spain (or Orlando in

Re: IPv6 only Plenary Makes the News

2008-03-12 Thread Carsten Bormann
just a press release Slightly more than a press release: http://www.networkworld.com/cgi-bin/mailto/x.cgi?pagetosend=/export/home/httpd/htdocs/news/2008/031208-ipv6-ietf.htmlpagename=/news/2008/031208-ipv6-ietf.htmlpageurl=http://www.networkworld.com/news/2008/031208-ipv6-ietf.htmlsite=lanwan

Re: About IETF communication skills

2008-08-01 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 01 2008, at 08:53, Ole Jacobsen wrote: problem The problem is that the spin of the article is that NATs are being added to IPv6 itself (which is a misleading statement when taken at face value, actually surprising, hence perceived as sensational), when in reality they are being

Happy Birthday, IPv6

2008-08-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
Ten years ago, on August 10, 1998, the IESG announced the protocol action to make a set of Internet-Drafts into Draft Standards, now RFC 2460 to RFC 2463. For many of us this marked the end of the gestation and the start of what has become a long, long deployment process. In these ten

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-01 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Dec 1, 2008, at 15:43 , [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Process control doesn't need IP at all at the edge of their network. This is a side-track, but: Some people in the IETF, as well as in the industry, might disagree... Watch out for the next billion nodes on the Internet.

Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

2009-02-09 Thread Carsten Bormann
http://www.fsf.org/news/reoppose-tls-authz-standard While I have a lot of sympathy for the cause, I have very little sympathy for the methods. Rendering a mailing list that might be useful for actually resolving the issue inoperative by a campaign is idiotic. Somebody from I* (the IETF chair

Re: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

2009-02-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Feb 10, 2009, at 15:46, Michael Richardson wrote: The IETF should be *thrilled* that so many people care! In a world with unlimited time, yes. In the real world, polluting the discourse by hundreds of more or less unconsidered knee-jerk reactions just makes sure that *I* can't take

Re: Current mailbombing is instigated by FSF

2009-02-28 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Feb 9, 2009, at 23:55, Carsten Bormann wrote: not the way to win friends and impress people I sincerely apologize for sending a message that has elicited (much belated) responses from *both* TSG and av8. I wonder if a shower is enough to get the troll spit off my face. (I certainly

Re: IETF 78 Annoucement

2009-05-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 24, 2009, at 22:04, Ole Jacobsen wrote: you can order the tickets online and they will arrive (at least to California) in less than a week Nowadays, we tend to print them ourselves (www.bahn.de supplies them as PDF), this is confusingly called online-ticket at Deutsche Bahn. You need

Re: IETF 78 Annoucement

2009-05-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
Unless I'm mistaken, the ICE requires a reservation. You are mistaken. No, it doesn't. (Sprinter trains do, but they are not relevant here.) (But, yes. it's nice to have a reservation -- actually, get as many of them as you need :-) Again, these are easy to get on-line. At the Paris IETF I

Re: [Fwd: More information requested on publication status of draft-crocker-email-arch]

2009-05-27 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 27, 2009, at 20:40, Doug Otis wrote: [...no way to...] remain compliant with any fixed architectural concept We might need a new document class, Best Current Architecture (kind of the inverse of BCP). Gruesse, Carsten ___ Ietf mailing

Releasing xml2rfc 1.34pre3?

2009-07-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 3, 2009, at 19:49, Andrew Sullivan wrote: 1. The recent boilerplate/process-change events have resulted in a situation where the most-recommended tool for preparing IETF documents does not work at all in its stable version. To me, 1.34pre3 appears to be exactly as stable as 1.33

Re: XML2RFC must die, was: Re: Two different threads - IETF Document Format

2009-07-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
What we need is the ability to write drafts with a standard issue word processor. Why? I suppose if there were indeed a *standard* word processor, this might be feasible, but I think by standard issue you mean commercially available. http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/ Commercial, and the

Re: Releasing xml2rfc 1.34pre3?

2009-07-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 6, 2009, at 15:28, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I have actually run into a somewhat cryptic error message (which I was unable to reproduce on earlier releases, but which I was also unable to reproduce consistently anyway), and I've seen some other reports of issues with 1.34pre3, so it appears

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-18 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 18, 2009, at 17:42, Marshall Eubanks wrote: The IAOC does believe that this condition would not prevent the IETF from conducting its business. Marshall, I also do not believe that the IETF needs to violate this condition to do its business. However, in this case there are two

Re: Last call comments for ROHCoIPsec: draft-ietf-rohc-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ikev2-extensions-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ipsec-extensions-hcoipsec

2009-09-22 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:35, pasi.ero...@nokia.com wrote: 3) According to RFC 4224, ROHC segmentation does not work over reordering channels. Thus, it seems suggesting that ROHC segmentation could be used instead of pre-encryption fragmentation (e.g. ipsec-extensions, Section 3.3) -- and in

Re: publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:28, Tony Hansen wrote: published directly at Draft Standard status Raise the bar so they stay at I-D level for even longer? A sizable part of the Internet is run on I-Ds, not on PS. I think the right direction is to publish PS earlier. If done right, it's only

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-03-29 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 29, 2010, at 00:56, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: From Frankfurt it is (of course) faster to take a high speed train, and from Paris it's the only option. The downside of high speed trains is that you can't just hop on like on a regular train, you need to book or reserve a seat on a

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-03-29 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 29, 2010, at 12:05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: suitable for travel to Maastricht, such as Cologne/Köln More useful from, say, the US (often surprisingly inexpensive), and quite reasonably connected to Maastricht: Duesseldorf (DUS). I'd probably look for BRU, DUS, AMS, FRA (in that

Re: The IPv6 Transitional Preference Problem

2010-06-23 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jun 23, 2010, at 15:06, Martin Rex wrote: optimizing for their own interest alone I don't know about you, but when I set up a server, I have a strong interest that my clients get their data fast. So whatever it takes to do that, is in my interest. BTW, initial analyses of iOS 4 (iPhone OS)

Re: The IPv6 Transitional Preference Problem

2010-06-25 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jun 25, 2010, at 09:56, Brian E Carpenter wrote: trying v6 for a couple of seconds before trying v4 in parallel I don't think this is realistic for applications like the Web, where people are now creating Youtube-Spots with high-speed cameras that show, in slow-motion, a potato cannon

Re: The IPv6 Transitional Preference Problem

2010-06-25 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jun 25, 2010, at 16:16, Brian E Carpenter wrote: initial phase of contact with a server To get the front page of the New York Times (http://www,nytimes.com), a server a couple of minutes ago meant http://admin.brightcove.com/ http://b.scorecardresearch.com/ http://creativeby1.unicast.com/

Re: Ad Hoc BOFs

2010-08-03 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 30, 2010, at 14:54, Jari Arkko wrote: people consistently referring to the meetings as BOFs, The fix is to call the formal working group formation planning meetings working group formation planning meetings, not to stop calling the literal BoF meetings BoFs. A lot of conferences have

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

2010-08-28 Thread Carsten Bormann
OK Jordi, you fell victim to a marketing site. I've got some news for you: Not every site on the Web has accurate information. Let me explain how that works. Something new comes along (say, a new train service) and marketing material (a web site) is generated. Some budget is set aside. The

Re: spec gen tools, was: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff

2010-12-30 Thread Carsten Bormann
But while we're at the topic of *running* xml2rfc: I always advise people to run it locally; One problem is that the default way of doing references in RFC 2629 XML appears to perform an online fetch of the reference information for each build, with no caching whatsoever. If you do have to

Re: spec gen tools, was: Automatically updated Table of Contents with Nroff

2010-12-30 Thread Carsten Bormann
Yes, that's why I always recommend not to use that style. But hardwiring the references in the XML leads to manual updating (and forgetting that). Having a tool for that is useful here (which is why kramdown-rfc2629 does this). BTW, if you are on a Mac, get one of the package managers

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-iana-ports-09.txt (Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) Procedures for the Management of the Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry) to BCP

2011-01-27 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jan 27, 2011, at 09:52, Lars Eggert wrote: all new protocols should be security-capable Sure. How is this relevant? In some protocols, there is value to use them without communication security (think TLS) for some applications, and with communication security for others. We used to

Re: MHonArc mail archive line wrapping

2011-02-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Feb 15, 2011, at 21:46, Stuart Cheshire wrote: (readable E-Mail) How did you manage to get Apple Mail to properly use RFC 3676, i.e. ; Format=flowed; DelSp=yes on the Content-Type? Apple broke that in 10.6, IIRC. (Not that solving this problem on the sender side would solve it for

Re: [codec] Last Call: draft-ietf-codec-requirements-04.txt (Codec Requirements) to Informational RFC

2011-06-20 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jun 20, 2011, at 15:31, Cullen Jennings wrote: This is all a sort of confusing point of many IETF documents and not unique to this one. I think the important points is that for many IETF documents, the people listed on the front page are not the authors. Typically the list of authors is

The fallacy of perfection (Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email)

2011-08-09 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 9, 2011, at 20:30, Nathaniel Borenstein wrote: We worry too little about the opportunity cost of the passage of time, so we fight time-consuming battles. We should instead be trying to build an optimal pipeline of incremental progress in a generally positive direction,

Re: From Pandoc To RFC

2011-10-29 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 29, 2011, at 12:58, Olaf Kolkman wrote: Pandoc that in combination with Make and XSLT scripting to can produce internet-drafts in XML format Nice! There also is kramdown-rfc2629. See the example at https://github.com/cabo/kramdown-rfc2629 (the stupid.mkd there is the source for an

Re: From Pandoc To RFC

2011-10-31 Thread Carsten Bormann
It is mostly straightforward to obtain markdown format from an existing RFC or similar formatted text, and I have used this to manually compile input from various sources into one I-D. Doing this in a fully automatic way would probably need some more heuristics, e.g., for cross-reference

Re: [core] Last Call: draft-ietf-core-link-format-11.txt (CoRE Link Format) to Proposed Standard

2012-02-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
Hi Don, thanks for the feedback. link-format has been essentially stable for the better part of a year now (as the result of dispatching of the comments on the first WGLC in -03, IIRC). It has been used in a number of informal interop events, and the feedback always was that it did its job

Re: [core] Last Call: draft-ietf-core-link-format-11.txt (CoRE Link Format) to Proposed Standard

2012-02-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Feb 16, 2012, at 19:52, Don Sturek wrote: Hi Carsten, Somehow, luck is not how I would have described the process. I think if you thought it important enough to do a WGLC in November 2011, you maybe should have made it for longer than a week I did. and avoided the US Thanksgiving

Re: Is the IETF aging?

2012-04-27 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Apr 27, 2012, at 16:41, Yoav Nir wrote: Before 19502.9% 1950 - 1960 16.6% 1961 - 1970 33.7% 1971 - 1980 32.8% After 198014.0% Nice bell curve, יואב, but you can't pop that soap bubble of perception with the bluntness of raw data :-) Maybe just the areas where PHB

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-19 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 19, 2012, at 08:48, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Very seriously - after all that has been said on this thread, I see no reason to change anything. +1 This is one of those issues that is best addressed by *awareness*, not by new rules. Grüße, Carsten

Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

2012-05-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 24, 2012, at 16:12, Marshall Eubanks wrote: For what it is worth, here is my opinion on this subject (which I was asked to post here). I see possible privacy law problems with posting the blue sheets, so I would not. I see a good reason to scan and have images of new blue sheets,

Re: [IAOC] Feedback Requested on Draft Fees Policy

2012-07-22 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 22, 2012, at 21:38, Marshall Eubanks wrote: IETF volunteers will not be paid from these fees. I've been following this discussion only with one ear, but, I can't figure out why somebody would volunteer to do this. Grüße, Carsten

Re: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-23 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Jul 23, 2012, at 14:28, DRAGE, Keith (Keith) wrote: you need to take into account at least both the Friday and Monday in some countries. +1 In much of Europe, the Easter holidays run from Good Friday to Easter Monday, and exhibit -- strong travel activity -- zero to reduced opening times

Re: RFC and I-D Citation Tool

2012-07-31 Thread Carsten Bormann
Not yet quite optimal for e.g. RFC 3095: http://tools.ietf.org/tools/citation/?doc=3095template=%7Bauthors.andlist%7D%2C+%22%7Bdoctitle%7D%2C%22+%7Bdocname%7D%2C+%7Bdate%3A%25B+%25Y.%7Dsubmit=Generate+citation Grüße, Carsten

Re: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

2012-08-06 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 6, 2012, at 16:41, Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com wrote: If we were to choose one place in the U.S. to meet, Minneapolis is the best choice IMHO. +1 a lot. (If we indeed have to choose the US.) Great facility to get work done, good food, reasonable flights. And add Prague as

Re: Meetecho session recording for IETF-84 Telepresence (CLUE) Tutorial

2012-08-08 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 8, 2012, at 22:38, Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com wrote: If you've never had the time to watch a Meetecho session recording, OMG, was the audio recovered from air bubbling up from a submarine or what happened? Oh, and maybe somebody can explain the value of the audio spectrum

Re: Meetecho session recording for IETF-84 Telepresence (CLUE) Tutorial

2012-08-08 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 9, 2012, at 00:37, Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com wrote: It's surely not perfect, but given the technology being used, it's certainly good enough I'm sorry, I'm not a native English speaker, and the audio simply needs to be better to be legible for my ears. With Audio Hijack

Re: Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 11, 2012, at 16:41, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: consensus-oriented process Sometimes, though, you have to act. While a consensus-oriented process*) document could certainly be used to improve (or deteriorate) the document by a couple more epsilons, I agree with Randy Bush:

Re: Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 12, 2012, at 00:51, Scott O Bradner s...@sobco.com wrote: singing this statement is the right thing to do For 0.29 seconds, I imagined you in front of a microphone in a recording studio, singing Modern Global Standards Paradigm to the tune of All the young dudes. For 0.29 seconds...

Re: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-12 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 12, 2012, at 19:51, Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com wrote: If I interpret what you seem to be saying, it is that you care more for the micro-observance of IETF protocol, than taking steps to avoid Internet governance being transferred by government decree to a secretive agency of

Re: Please, not more process (was: [IAB] Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm)

2012-08-12 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 13, 2012, at 04:58, Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com wrote: Why is it useful? Because it elicits considered reactions like yours and Mike StJohns', and allows us to make explicit and affirm the (rough) consensus that we seem to share about the role and purview of our

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-08 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 8, 2012, at 13:02, Eric Burger eburge...@standardstrack.com wrote: Keeping I-D's around forever is incredibly important form a historical, technical, and legal perspective. They people understand how we work, think, and develop protocols (history). They help people what was tried and

Re: the usual mail stuff, was IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 10, 2012, at 12:46, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) chris.dearl...@baesystems.com wrote: If someone wants to provide guidance on how to do a least bad job with Outlook, that will be gratefully received. I'm not an expert for this, but, as far as I am aware of, it has not been possible to

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 11, 2012, at 15:10, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: rejecting this proposed statement in favor of discretion, I'm not privy to the circumstances that caused the original proposal to come up. Maybe the reason was that the IESG *wants* its hands bound so there is no further need

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-19 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 19, 2012, at 22:28, Joe Touch to...@isi.edu wrote: I'm simply refuting *any* argument that starts with because it's useful to the community. Interestingly, these kinds of arguments are the only ones I'm interested in. Until there is a court decision impacting this usefulness (or one

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-20 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 20, 2012, at 18:49, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: I personally don't consider it very likely that someone would actually sue or convince some appropriate prosecutor to come after us. But, however one assesses the likelihood of that happening and of that party winning, I

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-21 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 20, 2012, at 21:22, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: We just had a consensus call in one WG on adopting a draft that at this time had been expired for a year. The chairs didn't notice, because the URI was stable (as it should be). Send a message with a subject line of Resurrect I-D file

Re: Failing to convince an IETF WG

2012-09-26 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 26, 2012, at 10:55, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: stuff that's utterly incompressible In the header compression WG (ROHC), we had that a lot. (SCNR. I'm not sure that this thread has any other but comedy value at this point, anyway.) Grüße, Carsten

Re: [whatwg] New URL Standard from Anne van Kesteren on 2012-09-24 (public-whatwg-arch...@w3.org from September 2012)

2012-10-24 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 24, 2012, at 06:20, David Sheets kosmo...@gmail.com wrote: WHATWGRL Hey, call them EARLs. Error-tolerant web-Address Repairing Labels or whatever. (Just not URLs, that term is already taken in the Web.) Grüße, Carsten

Re: don't overthink, was Just so I'm clear

2012-10-25 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 25, 2012, at 16:37, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: retro-active I don't get how that is relevant. This is for the case the seat is still vacant when the new process comes into force. I'm still amazed at the number of messages the resolution of this issue has generated. There

Re: don't overthink, was Just so I'm clear

2012-10-25 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 25, 2012, at 20:52, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 10/25/2012 9:57 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: On Oct 25, 2012, at 16:37, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: retro-active I don't get how that is relevant. This is for the case the seat is still vacant when the new

Re: don't overthink, was Just so I'm clear

2012-10-25 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Oct 25, 2012, at 21:20, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: _punitive_ Again, you are confused. This action is not about punishing an individual, and I would be violently opposed to it if it were. This is my last message on this. I'm repulsed by the idea of discussing this under this

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 12, 2012, at 19:09, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Some people believe that the presence of an IETF meeting serves as a kind of recruitment marketing to a region, for IETF participation. Beyond the single-meeting boost in 'local' attendance, I believe we have no data

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 14, 2012, at 20:59, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 11/14/2012 9:34 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: (Another aspect beyond capturing regular attendees, of course, is gaining local mindshare and relevance. I believe I understand the concepts that are meant by such language. But I

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