Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Yaron Sheffer
Hi Dave, I agree with you about the counter-marketing text that will only turn off potential implementers. However I think this would be more appropriate as Experimental. Yes, we give PS to specs that may not ever be implemented. But at least working groups are (usually) good at avoiding

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Aug 10, 2013, at 08:46, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: If we foresee multiple solutions being published for this problem space, which is what I'm hearing, then Experimental is the better choice. By that argument, TCP and UDP should be Experimental, too -- they are both in the

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 08/10/2013 03:33 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 8/9/2013 6:09 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: So some kind of statement that CBOR is one point in a design space (as opposed to an optimal solution for some set of design objectives) would be worthwhile. huh? That's fair. My suggestion above

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
Howdy, You asked for community input, so I'll pipe up from the peanut gallery. I happen to be looking for a JSON-ish on-the-wire encoding with binary support, and I actually like what I see in CBOR. (I'll probably end up using MessagePack anyway though... popularity has a quality all its own)

Re: Faraday cages...

2013-08-10 Thread Keith Moore
On 08/09/2013 09:39 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Would being able to reliably know exactly who said everything that was said in a WG meeting visibly improve the quality of our standards? If the answer is not a clear yes (and

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 10, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: I'm not saying that will happen in this case at all, but we shouldn't kid ourselves that it doesn't matter. If it didn't matter, people wouldn't care about labeling their IDs Informational or Experimental. People

Re: Faraday cages...

2013-08-10 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Friday, August 09, 2013 09:39:12 Ted Lemon wrote: On Aug 8, 2013, at 9:05 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Would being able to reliably know exactly who said everything that was said in a WG meeting visibly improve the quality of our standards? If the answer is not a

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Dave Crocker
On 8/10/2013 12:07 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: On Aug 10, 2013, at 08:46, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: If we foresee multiple solutions being published for this problem space, which is what I'm hearing, then Experimental is the better choice. By that argument, TCP and UDP

Re: Faraday cages...

2013-08-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:52 AM, Scott Kitterman sc...@kitterman.com wrote: Unless you're checking identification provided by sources all agree are trustworthy, you've done nothing of the sort. You may be able to attach an unverified identifier to a group of statements, but there's still no

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Most of this thread has ignored the IETF's own rules and criteria. As such, it's wasteful, at best, though I think it's actually destructive, since it provides fuel to the view that the IETF is a questionable venue for

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:21 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: The reason we call things proposed standard is because we expect interoperability. A thing that can't have or affect interoperability probably isn't a proposed standard. In this case, what we have is definitely a

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, August 10, 2013 11:14 -0400 Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:00 AM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Most of this thread has ignored the IETF's own rules and criteria. As such, it's wasteful, at best, though I think it's actually

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: I'm not sure if you intended to, but you're implying non-standards-track docs are only for things we don't expect interoperability for, or cannot have or affect interoperability. I've read RFC 2026, and afaict

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 10, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: Section 1.1 goes on at some length about the intended use for the document is. If you believe it is unclear or incomplete, some pointed questions about it would be entirely appropriate. To expand on this slightly, the

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 10, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: But, if the IESG feels an encoding mechanism doesn't need any targeted use-case to be published as a PS, then please ignore my email for purposes of consensus. I'm not strongly for/against - just answering

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Eliot Lear
On 8/10/13 5:00 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: One of the reasons we find groups choosing to avoid the IETF's standards process is its unpredictability. Our processes must be stable, but people have different reasons for articulating concern. 2026 is not meant to be the singular criteria. In fact

Re: TCPMUX (RFC 1078) status

2013-08-10 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 8/10/2013 1:43 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any idea how widely is TCPMUX (RFC 1078) protocol used? Is it the case that there are inetd daemons in TCPMUX mode running everywhere, or can it be rather considered a dead protocol? Specifically, if I implement a new

Re: TCPMUX (RFC 1078) status

2013-08-10 Thread Martin Sustrik
On 10/08/13 21:29, Wesley Eddy wrote: On 8/10/2013 1:43 AM, Martin Sustrik wrote: Hi all, Does anyone have any idea how widely is TCPMUX (RFC 1078) protocol used? Is it the case that there are inetd daemons in TCPMUX mode running everywhere, or can it be rather considered a dead protocol?

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 3:21 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2013, at 8:32 AM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: I'm not saying that will happen in this case at all, but we shouldn't kid ourselves that it doesn't matter. If it didn't matter, people

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: But, if the IESG feels an encoding mechanism doesn't need any targeted use-case to be published as a PS, then please ignore my email for

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 10, 2013, at 10:55 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.commailto:hal...@gmail.com wrote: On Sat, Aug 10, 2013 at 7:12 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.commailto:y...@checkpoint.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2013, at 6:30 PM, Hadriel Kaplan

Re: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 10, 2013, at 12:25 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Aug 10, 2013, at 11:30 AM, Hadriel Kaplan hadriel.kap...@oracle.com wrote: That's fair, and I should have been clearer. I think 'Informatonal' is more appropriate for now, because I don't think we know what the it is

RE: Last Call: draft-bormann-cbor-04.txt (Concise Binary Object Representation (CBOR)) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-10 Thread Larry Masinter
BCP 70 Guidelines for the Use of Extensible Markup Language (XML) within IETF Protocols attempted to outline some of the design considerations for data representation using XML. In 2003, it represented the consensus and also the disagreements about what was best current practice at the time.

Gen-ART Telechat review of draft-jabley-dnsext-eui48-eui64-rrtypes-05

2013-08-10 Thread Peter Yee
I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft. Document:

meeting summary article

2013-08-10 Thread IETF Chair
I wrote a brief summary of the meeting and what was important from my perspective. Here's the article: http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013/08/meeting-summary/ Thank you all for a very productive meeting! For your information, we also had some media interested in the meeting, e.g., radio programs

meeting summary report

2013-08-10 Thread IETF Chair
I wrote a brief summary of the meeting and what was important from my perspective. Here's the article: http://www.ietf.org/blog/2013/08/meeting-summary/ Thank you all for a very productive meeting! For your information, we also had some media interested in the meeting, e.g., radio programs