Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-10 Thread Martin Stiemerling
On 03/08/2013 01:44 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Can you point out what is unclear? margaret asked Russ whether we were talking about the future of the area or n whether we were talking about requirements/expertise nomcom should use for this year. After reading your message I still don't

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-08 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Sam, On 03/07/2013 04:41 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Martin == Martin Stiemerling martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu writes: Martin Hi Margaret, I will answer as the agenda below is out of the Martin TSVAREA session. Martin On 03/07/2013 03:21 PM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-08 Thread Sam Hartman
Can you point out what is unclear? margaret asked Russ whether we were talking about the future of the area or n whether we were talking about requirements/expertise nomcom should use for this year. After reading your message I still don't understand which it is.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-08 Thread Margaret Wasserman
On Mar 7, 2013, at 3:01 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: Unfortunately, Sam, your model is simply wrong. The IESG defines the job requirements. The Nomcom selects according to those criteria. I'm been in a number of Nomcom's that wished for some flexibility concerning job

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 7, 2013, at 07:55, Toerless Eckert eck...@cisco.com wrote: Really ? You don't think a good AD should primarily look for factual evidence (lab, simulation, interop, ..) results produced by others to judge whether sufficient work was done to proof that the known entry critera are met

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Russ, On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: The rest of your question ought to be discussed at the TSVAREA meeting in Orlando. I have looked at the agenda of the TSV Area Open Meeting (on Wednesday from 9:00am to 11:30am), and it includes the following

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Toerless Eckert
PS.: I just spent a day at CeBIT. One guy there reported to that he has seen 35000 active devices on his WiFi snooper. I'm not quite sure what that means, but he seemed to be implying at a specific point in time. Go congestion control that. And then prove that your solution works. Bear

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi Margaret, I will answer as the agenda below is out of the TSVAREA session. On 03/07/2013 03:21 PM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Russ, On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: The rest of your question ought to be discussed at the TSVAREA meeting in Orlando.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Toerless Eckert
Btw: RFC3777 3.7.2 seems to define only the criteria to be applied by NomCom, not for the confirming body. On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 09:21:41AM -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Russ, On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: The rest of your question ought

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Greg Shepherd
On Thu, Mar 7, 2013 at 7:09 AM, Toerless Eckert eck...@cisco.com wrote: PS.: I just spent a day at CeBIT. One guy there reported to that he has seen 35000 active devices on his WiFi snooper. I'm not quite sure what that means, but he seemed to be implying at a specific point in time. Go

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Sam Hartman
Martin == Martin Stiemerling martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu writes: Martin Hi Margaret, I will answer as the agenda below is out of the Martin TSVAREA session. Martin On 03/07/2013 03:21 PM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Russ, On Mar 5, 2013, at 11:18 AM, Russ Housley

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread David Kessens
Sam, Can we please stop the hairsplitting ? It is not the IESG's fault if you feel that the nomcom is taking the IESG input as absolute software style 'requirements' as opposed to often more lightly interpreted 'job requirements' as desirable from the IESG's perspective. Please take that

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Sam Hartman
David == David Kessens david.kess...@nsn.com writes: David Sam, David Can we please stop the hairsplitting ? David It is not the IESG's fault if you feel that the nomcom is David taking the IESG input as absolute software style David 'requirements' as opposed to often more

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread David Kessens
Sam, On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:32:59PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: I don't think there is hair splitting going on here; I think the issues that are being raised are quite real and important. It's not the IESG's fault if the nomcom does x. It is the IESG's fault if the IESG takes on tasks

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Toerless Eckert
:gs/nomcom/nomcom process/ On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 10:40:32AM -0800, David Kessens wrote: Sam, On Thu, Mar 07, 2013 at 01:32:59PM -0500, Sam Hartman wrote: I don't think there is hair splitting going on here; I think the issues that are being raised are quite real and important.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Dave Crocker
On 3/7/2013 10:32 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: David == David Kessens david.kess...@nsn.com writes: David Can we please stop the hairsplitting ? David It is not the IESG's fault if you feel that the nomcom is David taking the IESG input as absolute software style David

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Sam Hartman
Dave == Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net writes: Dave I agree it's not hairsplitting and that it is vitally Dave important. Dave Unfortunately, Sam, your model is simply wrong. Dave The IESG defines the job requirements. The Nomcom selects Dave according to those criteria.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-07 Thread Samuel Weiler
On Thu, 7 Mar 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: The IESG defines the job requirements. The Nomcom selects according to those criteria. I'm been in a number of Nomcom's that wished for some flexibility concerning job requirements, but each of these Nomcoms was very clear that it did not have a

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

2013-03-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
Cameron Byrne wrote: In the 3GPP case of GSM/UMTS/LTE, the wireless network will never drop the packet, by design. According to the end to end argument, that's simply impossible, because intermediate equipments holding packets not confirmed by the next hop may corrupt the packets or suddenly

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

2013-03-06 Thread l.wood
/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Masataka Ohta [mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp] Sent: 06 March 2013 11:37 To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

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

2013-03-06 Thread Masataka Ohta
l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: 3GPP has to never drop a packet because it's doing zero-header compression. has to never? Even though it must, when it goes down. Lose a bit, lose everything. You totally deny FEC. Wow!!! And ROHC is an IETF product. I'm pretty sure the saving on headers is

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Jari Arkko
A few personal thoughts follows. For the record this is completely at the general level, I have no inside knowledge about the nomination process. I am of the opinion that ADs should not be selected based on them being rare super experts. The ability to learn, as Sam pointed out, is perhaps

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Jari, On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:24 AM, Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: And I think we should have a broader view about this than just updating the requirements for the seat. There are a couple of other aspects to consider as well. First, perhaps the way that we have organised TSV is

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Jari Arkko
Margaret, However, I question the wisdom of choosing to work on this issue _right now_ in the middle of the nomcom selection process, rather than choosing the best candidates we can and working on this problem for next year, or for future years. It doesn't seem likely that there are

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Margaret Wasserman
On Mar 6, 2013, at 8:50 AM, Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: I'd like to receive some explanation (privately or publicly) about why we are doing this in the middle of the nomcom process that makes any sense to me… I didn't want to imply that we necessarily couple the actions we

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Michael StJohns
At 08:50 AM 3/6/2013, Jari Arkko wrote: I didn't want to imply that we necessarily couple the actions we take. I agree of course that right now we have an issue to solve. I agree that we should do whatever to complete the current process, and that waiting for a reorganisation would be a bad

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Joe Touch
On 3/5/2013 2:52 PM, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: While the IETF is unique in many ways, the staff-volunteer issue isn't all that unique. Many organizations face this. As one example, organizations like IEEE and ACM struggle with this. (For example, they have, over the years, delegated many

How do they select people (was: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-06 Thread SM
Hi Mike, At 08:44 06-03-2013, Michael StJohns wrote: I would suggest that it's probably time to re-convene the how do we select people working group. Given the number of issues - recall, IAOC, this, ineligible others - we've encountered lately, I don't think just cutting and pasting a new

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

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
Martin, An article like this is the best reason why we should never finally resolve the buffer bloat issue: Doing that would take away the opportunity for generations of researcher to over and over regurgitate the same proposed improvements and gain PhDs in the process. I mean the Internet wold

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

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 07:52:56AM +, Eggert, Lars wrote: On Mar 4, 2013, at 19:44, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: The Transport Area has all of the groups that deal with transport protocols that need to do congestion control. Further, the (current) split of work

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
+1 +1 +1 On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 08:24:58PM +, Scott Brim wrote: On 03/03/13 15:14, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca allegedly wrote: To be considered qualified the candidate needed to: a) have demonstrated subject matter expertise (congestion in this case) (I just want to

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread S Moonesamy
Dear IAB and NomCom 2012, In a message dated February 6, the NomCom Chair requested feedback from the IETF Community for the TSV Area Director position. In a message dated March 3, the IETF Chair mentioned that it might be that no candidate has yet been found that meets the specific

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
On Sun, Mar 03, 2013 at 03:55:39PM +, Eggert, Lars wrote: only if the Y directorate reviews all IDs going through the IESG. Which in itself is a scaling issue. It may work for some topics, but things will fall through the cracks for various reasons. IMO congestion control is important

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-06 Thread Toerless Eckert
Really ? You don't think a good AD should primarily look for factual evidence (lab, simulation, interop, ..) results produced by others to judge whether sufficient work was done to proof that the known entry critera are met (like no congestion cllapse) - instead of trying to judge those solely by

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

2013-03-05 Thread Eliot Lear
Roger, On 3/4/13 7:20 PM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an educational way - Why is congestion control so important? And where does it apply? ... :-) That basic question is a very important one to ask from time to time. Others have

RE: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Alia Atlas Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 1:12 AM To: Benoit Claise Cc: John Leslie; IETF IETF Subject: Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director Perhaps even dedicate a WG-Chairs lunch meeting to it? I think the role

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu To: Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com Cc: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu; IETF ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 8:26 PM Mary == Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com writes: Mary And, I continue to

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi Dave, On 03/04/2013 11:19 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 3/4/2013 1:48 PM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: The problem with this argument is that it appears that we have a choice between limited knowledge of congestion control and an empty seat. Which one is more likely to be able to learn about

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi Tom, On 03/05/2013 11:38 AM, t.p. wrote: - Original Message - From: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu To: Mary Barnes mary.ietf.bar...@gmail.com Cc: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu; IETF ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, March 04, 2013 8:26 PM Mary == Mary Barnes

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Brian, On 03/03/2013 03:35 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Lars, Let's try that statement parametrised: *Someone* on the IESG needs to understand X. I think there are many plausible values of X, certainly including congestion control. But what do we do when, for some value of X, there is no

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Mary, On 03/03/2013 05:32 PM, Mary Barnes wrote: Lars, Do you not have individuals in the directorate that are experts on congestion control (that aren't document authors) that can review for technical sanity of the proposal? ISTM that some of the TSV nominees We have individuals in the

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: Martin Stiemerling martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu To: t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com Cc: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu; IETF ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:13 AM Hi Tom, On 03/05/2013 11:38 AM, t.p. wrote: - Original Message - From:

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

2013-03-05 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Martin Rex Sent: 05 March 2013 00:42 To: bra...@isi.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director) Bob Braden wrote

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

2013-03-05 Thread l.wood
? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director) 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 wireless network, where packets can be lost without

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Mar 5, 2013, at 12:43, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: but I am positing that for most of the IETF, congestion control is a solved topic and little expertise is needed I have seen too many WGs trying to build lightweight UDP-based application protocols that do not correctly back off

RE: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread l.wood
Ah, the 'but security, unlike transport, is actually important' argument. Having seen subscribers to that philosophy unsuccessfully attempt to design transport protocols (and raise the MD5 issue repeatedly, because it's considered a security issue, and they're at home with security), I would

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Russ, On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: The problem with this argument is that it appears that we have a choice between limited knowledge of congestion control and an empty seat. Which one is more likely to be able to learn about it? If that were

RE: Difficulty finding ADs (was: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread George, Wes
From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Benoit Claise Recently, for a single draft, I spent hoouuurrr trying to track all the open issues from the directorates and the IESG, and chasing the authors. [WEG] While I realize that Benoit was originally speaking

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

2013-03-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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 wireless network, where packets can be lost

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread t . p .
inline - Original Message - From: l.w...@surrey.ac.uk To: daedu...@btconnect.com; martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu Cc: hartmans-i...@mit.edu; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 12:53 PM Ah, the 'but security, unlike transport, is actually important' argument. Having seen

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi Tom On 03/05/2013 12:43 PM, t.p. wrote: - Original Message - From: Martin Stiemerling martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu To: t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com Cc: Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu; IETF ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 11:13 AM Hi Tom, On 03/05/2013 11:38 AM, t.p.

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: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Mar 5, 2013, at 15:10, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: The question is can we do with a Transport Area Director whose congestion control skills are limited; I am suggesting we can, because of all the work over the years in congestion control and the relative stability of the topic.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Russ Housley
Allison: The split between Transport and RAI was needed. Together it is too much work for one Area. The rest of your question ought to be discussed at the TSVAREA meeting in Orlando. Russ On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:44 PM, Allison Mankin wrote: Hi, Russ, Was there something causative about

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Mar 4, 2013, at 23:44, Allison Mankin allison.man...@gmail.com wrote: Was there something causative about extracting RAI from Transport? a lot of thought went into making sure that the WGs that went on to form RAI formed a cohesive whole. In hindsight, we should have thought more about

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Crocker
On 3/5/2013 8:42 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote: Finally, let's not forget that this year was a special case, I'm going to strongly suggest that that is both wrong and counter-productive to claim. As Mary (and I) noted, TSV has been at a crisis level to fill for some years now, but I believe it

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread PFRC - jhaas
On Mar 5, 2013, at 8:25 AM, Margaret Wasserman m...@lilacglade.org wrote: Hi Russ, On Mar 4, 2013, at 5:05 PM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: The problem with this argument is that it appears that we have a choice between limited knowledge of congestion control and an empty

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Bob Braden
On 3/5/2013 8:18 AM, Eggert, Lars wrote: Martin already mentioned RMCAT. And I mentioned Wgs wanting to build lightweight UDP-based protocols, which are hitting transport issues incl. congestion control all the time. Which is why we learned 30 years ago that building a transport protocol

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread t . p .
Original Message - From: Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com To: t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com Cc: l.w...@surrey.ac.uk; martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, March 05, 2013 4:18 PM On Mar 5, 2013, at 15:10, t.p. daedu...@btconnect.com wrote: The question is can we do with a

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Joe Touch
On 3/4/2013 2:19 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: ... ADs do not 'lead' the work of their area. They do not initiate the work, produce the charters or write the specifications. Work that fails or succeeds does so because it has community consensus and demand, not because an AD was diligent

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Dave Crocker
Joe, On 3/5/2013 10:28 AM, Joe Touch wrote: On 3/4/2013 2:19 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: ... ADs do not 'lead' the work of their area. They do not initiate the work, produce the charters or write the specifications. Work that fails or succeeds does so because it has community consensus

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/5/13 9:28 AM, Joe Touch wrote: We should not expect to appoint IESG members that need a tutorial on basic protocol principles. I haven't seen anybody propose appointing someone who needs a tutorial on basic protocol principles. The discussion so far has seemed mostly to be whether or not

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Joe Touch
On 3/5/2013 10:33 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: Joe, On 3/5/2013 10:28 AM, Joe Touch wrote: On 3/4/2013 2:19 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: ... ADs do not 'lead' the work of their area. They do not initiate the work, produce the charters or write the specifications. Work that fails or

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

2013-03-05 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 3/5/2013 10:40 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: 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 =

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

2013-03-05 Thread Cameron Byrne
:42 To: bra...@isi.edu Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director) Bob Braden wrote: On 3/4/2013 10:20 AM, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I'll ask a rather basic question and hope someone will answer in an educational way - Why

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

2013-03-05 Thread Wesley Eddy
On 3/5/2013 3:01 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: In the 3GPP case of GSM/UMTS/LTE, the wireless network will never drop the packet, by design. It will just delay the packet as it gets resent through various checkpoints and goes through various rounds of FEC. The result is delay, TCP penalties

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 5, 2013, at 18:58, Bob Braden bra...@isi.edu wrote: Which is why we learned 30 years ago that building a transport protocol at the application layer is generally a Bad Idea. Why do the same bad ideas keep being reinvented? Because we don't have a good selection of transport protocols

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread David Kessens
Russ, On Tue, Mar 05, 2013 at 11:18:20AM -0500, Russ Housley wrote: The split between Transport and RAI was needed. Together it is too much work for one Area. Not everybody believed at the time, and still believes that increasing the size of a committee makes the committee function better.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-05 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
While the IETF is unique in many ways, the staff-volunteer issue isn't all that unique. Many organizations face this. As one example, organizations like IEEE and ACM struggle with this. (For example, they have, over the years, delegated many functions in conference management that used to be

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Mar 3, 2013, at 21:14, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: To be considered qualified the candidate needed to: a) have demonstrated subject matter expertise (congestion in this case) b) have demonstrated IETF management expertise (current/former WG chair) c) have time

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 03/03/2013 20:14, Michael Richardson wrote: Eric == Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com writes: Eric There are two other interpretations of this situation, neither Eric of which I think is true, but we should consider the Eric possibility. The first is the TSV is too narrow a

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/3/13 11:18 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Incidentally, while mulling this over, it occurred to me that RFC 3777 doesn't (I believe) talk about conflict of interest within the confirming bodies. I do recall members of the IAB and the ISOC Board recusing themselves from confirmation

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
The time commitment is a very good point, Dave. If we want to also involve people who do not work for big corporations (or get otherwise sponsored by big organizations) then the idea of having ADs review every document may need to get a bit relaxed. Today, almost all of the ADs (and IAB

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Eric Burger
Dave said what I was thinking, but with many more words. *We* have put ourselves in a box. If we work the way we worked when we published 100 RFC's a year, we are sure to fail. As a side note, there are over 100 drafts in the RFC Editor queue this instant. As Dave and Hannes have pointed

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Mar 4, 2013, at 13:18, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: I will say it again - the IETF is organized by us. Therefore, this situation is created by us. We have the power to fix it. We have to want to fix it. Saying there is nothing we can do because this is the way it

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Ralph Droms
On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:07 AM 3/4/13, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Hi, On Mar 4, 2013, at 13:18, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: I will say it again - the IETF is organized by us. Therefore, this situation is created by us. We have the power to fix it. We have to want

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Eric Burger
There is obviously no easy fix. If there was, we would have fixed it, obviously. What I find interesting is after saying there is nothing we can do, you go on to make a few concrete proposals, like bringing the directorates more into the process. It is thinking like that, how to do things

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Hector Santos
One item to consider is to lower the work load of the AD, in particular in reviewing docs towards of the end of projects. Issues and dilemmas are piled on. I think one approach to lowering appeals, for example, is to address unresolved delicate WG issues much faster, in particular the

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Stewart Bryant
On 03/03/2013 14:25, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Clearly the NomCom felt it was between a rock and a hard place; I just want to assert the principle that balancing both managerial and technical abilities is within NomCom's remit. Brian There is a subtly in the manager vs technical expert

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread John Leslie
Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: On Mar 4, 2013, at 13:18, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: I will say it again - the IETF is organized by us. Therefore, this situation is created by us. We have the power to fix it. We have to want to fix it. Saying there is nothing we can do

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Mary Barnes
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: There is obviously no easy fix. If there was, we would have fixed it, obviously. What I find interesting is after saying there is nothing we can do, you go on to make a few concrete proposals, like bringing the

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Mary Barnes
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 8:34 AM, Stewart Bryant stbry...@cisco.com wrote: On 03/03/2013 14:25, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Clearly the NomCom felt it was between a rock and a hard place; I just want to assert the principle that balancing both managerial and technical abilities is within NomCom's

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Russ Housley
The leadership in the ITU does not read the documents. Why? Their job is to make sure that the process was followed. The IESG needs to make sure the process was followed too. But, the IESG also has a quality check job. I would hate for this debate to lead to a step toward the ITU model.

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Sam Hartman
I think tasking the IESG to look at how to reduce the time commitment would be an incredibly good idea. I'd feel a lot more comfortable with the community giving the IESG clear guidance that we'd like them to solve that problem than with the community trying to come up with the solution. That

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Eggert, Lars
Hi, On Mar 4, 2013, at 15:57, John Leslie j...@jlc.net wrote: Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Especially when technical expertise is delegated to bodies that rely on volunteers. We're _all_ volunteers! right, but ADs are basically full-time volunteers of whom the community expects

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Dale R. Worley
From: Randy Bush ra...@psg.com as an area director, it was not the technical load which was hard, and i read every single draft (draft load has grown since). it was the social and political 'work'. One possibility might be to split TSV into two areas, so the workload on the TSV ADs (both

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread l...@pi.nu
+1, if anything we need to move away from the ITU model. /Loa Skickat från min iPhone 4 mar 2013 kl. 16:26 skrev Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com: The leadership in the ITU does not read the documents. Why? Their job is to make sure that the process was followed. The IESG needs

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Eggert, Lars
On Mar 4, 2013, at 16:42, Dale R. Worley wor...@ariadne.com wrote: One possibility might be to split TSV into two areas, so the workload on the TSV ADs (both technical and social) is reduced. Doesn't help much. Management of ones area takes some time, but at least as much time is spend on

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Elwyn Davies
+1 to Mary's comments.. few words in line.. Elwyn Davies On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 09:11 -0600, Mary Barnes wrote: On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: There is obviously no easy fix. If there was, we would have fixed it, obviously. What I find

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Dave Crocker
On 3/4/2013 7:26 AM, Russ Housley wrote: The leadership in the ITU does not read the documents. Why? Their job is to make sure that the process was followed. The IESG needs to make sure the process was followed too. But, the IESG also has a quality check job. I would hate for this debate

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 3/4/13 6:38 AM, Ralph Droms wrote: On Mar 4, 2013, at 8:07 AM 3/4/13, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: On Mar 4, 2013, at 13:18, Eric Burger ebur...@standardstrack.com wrote: The IETF is set up so that the top level leadership

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Allison Mankin
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:37 PM, Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu wrote: I'd like to live in an IETF where we have room for people who do want to spend a lot of time on all those issues as well as a place where ADs can take responsibility for the technical work in their area and minimize

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Mon, Mar 04, 2013 at 09:42:22AM -0700, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: long-term health of Internet. If that leads to fewer working groups producing higher-quality output, so be it. I'd go further and say, That's a bonus. A -- Andrew Sullivan a...@anvilwalrusden.com

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Russ, I would never argue for non-technical ADs. But when we are short of candidates, it may be necessary to appoint technically expert ADs who are not deep experts in the specific area. It's a practical matter. Regards Brian On 04/03/2013 15:26, Russ Housley wrote: The leadership in the

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Randy Bush
There is technical work other than late-stage document reviews. We might get a larger return on investment if community members who are temporarily serving in the area director role were to spend more of their combined technical and management talent on making sure that our working groups are

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Behcet Sarikaya
My humble suggestion is to go with a single AD for Transport Area. I think it could work. Regards, Behcet On Sat, Mar 2, 2013 at 11:00 PM, IETF Chair ch...@ietf.org wrote: Dear IETF Community, The 2012-2013 IETF nomination process has not yet filled the Transport Area Director position

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Sam Hartman
Brian Russ, I would never argue for non-technical ADs. But when we Brian are short of candidates, it may be necessary to appoint Brian technically expert ADs who are not deep experts in the Brian specific area. It's a practical matter. I actually think expecting ADs to learn a

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Mary Barnes
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:34 AM, Sam Hartman hartmans-i...@mit.edu wrote: Brian Russ, I would never argue for non-technical ADs. But when we Brian are short of candidates, it may be necessary to appoint Brian technically expert ADs who are not deep experts in the Brian

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: The leadership in the ITU does not read the documents. Why? Their job is to make sure that the process was followed. The IESG needs to make sure the process was followed too. But, the IESG also has a quality check job. I would hate for this debate to lead to a step toward the

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Mary Barnes
On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 11:44 AM, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com wrote: Dave: The leadership in the ITU does not read the documents. Why? Their job is to make sure that the process was followed. The IESG needs to make sure the process was followed too. But, the IESG also has a

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