Re: [IPsec] More WG Last Call on draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-fragmentation

2013-10-25 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 25, 2013, at 11:23 PM, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: Section 2.5.1 recommends using 1280-byte max IP datagram size for IPv6 (based on RFC 2460), and 576 bytes (based on RFC 1122). The big difference between those two RFCs is not some technical difference between IPv6

Re: [IPsec] Editorial changes to RFC5996

2013-10-19 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi, Yaron Suppose that instead of sending the message to the list yesterday, Valery had submitted his comments as errata a few months ago, before Sean asked us to do the revision. Would those errata not have been verified? If so (and I think it's true for at least #3, #4, #7, and #11, and #6

Re: [IPsec] Updated version of RFC5996bis

2013-10-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 17, 2013, at 5:13 PM, Paul Wouters p...@cypherpunks.ca wrote: While updating the retransmit timers in libreswan, I found no useful information in 5996. Is that something we could add? I know it is local policy but perhaps it would be good to add some guidance for implementors. Do

Re: [IPsec] I-D Action: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-fragmentation-03.txt

2013-10-17 Thread Yoav Nir
Yes, it says so in RFC 1122. Microsoft sends 576-byte packets when it does IKEv1 fragmentation. Still, I don't think you're going to find on the modern Internet any networks that aren't usable by IPv6. So I think we should be pretty safe in adoption IPv6's minimum of 1280 Yoav On Oct 17,

Re: [IPsec] Call for adoption: draft-kivinen-ipsecme-signature-auth-01

2013-10-17 Thread Yoav Nir
The message [2] references a discussion on the list. Reading over that discussion, I see that everyone who participated (with the exception of Scott Fluhrer) ended up on the design team, all 5 of us. Within the design group there was intense discussion until we settled on the encoding in the

[IPsec] Fwd: New Version Notification for draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-03.txt

2013-10-15 Thread Yoav Nir
Third version of this draft, now including Tero's comments. Begin forwarded message: From: internet-dra...@ietf.orgmailto:internet-dra...@ietf.org Subject: New Version Notification for draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-03.txt Date: October 15, 2013 9:49:06 AM GMT+03:00 To: Yoav Nir y

Re: [perpass] mandatory-to-implement vs. more?

2013-10-15 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 15, 2013, at 1:26 PM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: Following up on my own point - not stylish but I think in this case justified:-) On 10/15/2013 12:41 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: I don't see why we shouldn't be equally comfortable in saying don't send

Re: [IPsec] Comments to draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-02

2013-10-11 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:10 PM, Tero Kivinen kivi...@iki.fi wrote: In section 2.2. Verifying the HAND_OVER_CHILD_SAS Notification the document lists operations which needs to be done when handling the notification. The process seems otherwise quite good, expect the error handling seems to be bit

Re: [IPsec] Virtual Interim on two AD VPN drafts: Call-in details

2013-10-09 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 9, 2013, at 5:12 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: The call-in details are: Tele: +1 712-775-7400 Code: 809604# mcr Two LD suppliers (entirely different phones) tell me that I can not reach mcr this

Re: Review of: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05

2013-10-08 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 7, 2013, at 11:56 PM, Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: dcroc...@bbiw.net From what you've written, your basic point seems to be that 51% isn't enough; it's worth making that explicit. To add to the confusion, and to emphasise the point about

Re: [IPsec] NUDGE: Reviewing the AD VPN drafts

2013-10-03 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 3, 2013, at 4:57 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: I also read: draft-mao-ipsecme-ad-vpn-protocol and while conceptually I found it okay, I think that the protocol should be inside IKE. Funny, I came to the opposite conclusion. I think it's too much like IKE. But

Re: [IPsec] NUDGE: Reviewing the AD VPN drafts

2013-10-03 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi There is something that I think is missing from all three proposals, and that is the handling of duplicate protected networks. As long as we live in a predominantly IPv4 world, we have a lot of NATs and a lot of RFC 1918 addresses. So unprotected traffic from such networks gets NATted by

Re: [IPsec] NUDGE: Reviewing the AD VPN drafts

2013-10-02 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi I have read the DM-VPN draft. I would not call my reading a review, as it was quite superficial, but here's some thoughts: - I have to admit that I'm still having trouble wrapping my head around some of the concepts. I understand domain-based and route-pased VPNs, as well as IPsec and GRE

Re: independant submissions that update standards track, and datatracker

2013-10-01 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 1, 2013, at 9:29 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: This morning I had reason to re-read parts of RFC3777, and anything that updated it. I find the datatracker WG interface to really be useful, and so I visited http://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/nomcom/ first. I guess

Re: Remote participation to igovupdate BoF

2013-09-27 Thread Yoav Nir
, Yoav Nir wrote: Hi Arturo. This BoF, like any other BoF or WG meeting, will have an audio stream and a jabber room, and comments from the Jabber room will be channeled to the room microphones. The BoF chairs (yet to be determined) or the AD MAY request that the meeting be covered

Re: Remote participation to igovupdate BoF

2013-09-24 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Arturo. This BoF, like any other BoF or WG meeting, will have an audio stream and a jabber room, and comments from the Jabber room will be channeled to the room microphones. The BoF chairs (yet to be determined) or the AD MAY request that the meeting be covered with MeetEcho or WebEx.

Re: [IPsec] Matching certificates in IKEv2

2013-09-24 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 24, 2013, at 3:04 PM, Valery Smyslov sva...@gmail.com wrote: I just reread the introduction of RFC 4945 and I don't understand its purpose. So I'm not sure it should be referenced from 5996bis. Ok, if there is any disagreement about it, then I think it is better to leave it out from

Re: [IPsec] [dane] Bootstrapping IPSec from DNSSSEC/DANE

2013-09-21 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi David I believe this would require a separate document. But I'm not sure that tying it to an IP address is appropriate. IKE implementations work from behind NAT devices and sometimes move around (see MOBIKE), so I think it would be more appropriate to tie the record to any type of ID

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 17, 2013, at 10:44 PM, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: On 9/17/2013 1:55 PM, Michael Tuexen wrote: On Sep 17, 2013, at 7:48 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 1:37 PM, Michael Tuexen michael.tue...@lurchi.franken.de wrote: I was always

Re: [wpkops] Cert-pinning, CA-pinning part of trust model: suggestion

2013-09-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 17, 2013, at 11:17 PM, joel jaeggli joe...@bogus.com wrote: On 9/16/13 5:23 PM, Tom Ritter wrote: On 16 September 2013 17:10, Bruce Morton bruce.mor...@entrust.com wrote: Sounds reasonable. One question is that since it is not widely used, does it meet the 0.1 percent of connections

Re: ORCID - unique identifiers for contributors

2013-09-16 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 16, 2013, at 11:31 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: How do I know that the sender of this message actually has the right to claim the ORCID in question (-0001-5882-6823)? The web page doesn't present anything (such as a public key) that could be used for authentication. I

[IPsec] Matching certificates in IKEv2

2013-09-15 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi While working on some text for the AD-VPN document, I came across some weirdness in the base IKEv2 specification: The IDi and IDr payloads have any of several types: ID_IPV4_ADDR, ID_FQDN, ID_RFC822_ADDR, ID_IPV6_ADDR, ID_DER_ASN1_DN, ID_DER_ASN1_GN, and ID_KEY_ID. Section 4 (conformance

Re: not really pgp signing in van

2013-09-11 Thread Yoav Nir
On Sep 11, 2013, at 2:45 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Sep 10, 2013, at 6:50 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com wrote: Could be but I have been working through what we know versus what would be required and I really can't see how a group of people who would let Snowden

Re: [IPsec] Discover IP network type using Configuration Payload

2013-09-06 Thread Yoav Nir
Why not both? Regular network interfaces in most operating systems are dual-atack: they can have an IPv4 address and several IPv6 addresses. So it makes sense for the client to ask for both, and for the IRAS to offer both, if it runs both IPv4 and IPv6 traffic. If for example IPv6 is missing

Re: [IPsec] [Technical Errata Reported] RFC5996 (3718)

2013-09-04 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi I believe this report should be rejected. The address returned in the INTERNAL_IP6_ADDRESS attribute is not a /64 subnet, it is just one address. The fact that it belongs to a /64 subnet is besides the point, and in fact the TSi payload in both the original and corrected versions contains

Re: Mail lost yesterday

2013-08-30 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 30, 2013, at 5:26 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: The nit is why is the IETF still using PDT. Because we don't want to get into a religious war of GMT vs UTC.

[IPsec] FW: New Version Notification for draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-02.txt

2013-08-27 Thread Yoav Nir
PM To: Yoav Nir Subject: New Version Notification for draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-02.txt A new version of I-D, draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-02.txt has been successfully submitted by Yoav Nir and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr Revision:02 Title

Re: [IPsec] CAFR -01 comments

2013-08-25 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 25, 2013, at 9:45 AM, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Yoav, I started by reading -01, then went back to -00. And I think the two can be merged to create a better solution. Including the notification as soon as the peers know they want a handover is cleaner. So

Re: [IPsec] CAFR -01 comments

2013-08-25 Thread Yoav Nir
I guess, but it's still using one notification to announce another notification. On Aug 25, 2013, at 1:08 PM, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: And this would imply support for Childless, too? Thanks, Yaron On 2013-08-25 13:01, Yoav Nir wrote: Or do my other favorite

[IPsec] FW: New Version Notification for draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-01.txt

2013-08-22 Thread Yoav Nir
22, 2013 11:26 AM To: Yoav Nir Subject: New Version Notification for draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-01.txt A new version of I-D, draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr-01.txt has been successfully submitted by Yoav Nir and posted to the IETF repository. Filename:draft-nir-ipsecme-cafr Revision:01 Title

Re: [IPsec] New Version Notification for draft-sathyanarayan-ipsecme-advpn-01.txt

2013-08-21 Thread Yoav Nir
-21 06:47, Yoav Nir wrote: Hi IPsec-WG, Based on the review comments from various working group members, we have made a revision to our original proposal for ADVPN protocol. In this revision, we have tried to address most review comments. More review comments will be addressed in future

Re: [websec] Resuming the cookie discussion

2013-08-20 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Trevor. I think (a) is definitely worth doing, but I also think that (b) can be done along the way. Is there some reason why (a) and (b) can't be requirements filled by a single mechanism? Regarding smart cookies vs channel ID: Not changing TLS is a definite advantage of Smart Cookies.

Re: [websec] Resuming the cookie discussion

2013-08-20 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 20, 2013, at 9:01 PM, Trevor Perrin tr...@trevp.net wrote: On Tue, Aug 20, 2013 at 1:39 AM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Hi Trevor. I think (a) is definitely worth doing, but I also think that (b) can be done along the way. Interesting... If we were to prioritize them

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 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 hadriel.kap...@oracle.commailto:hadriel.kap

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-08-08 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 9, 2013, at 12:21 AM, Jorge Contreras cntre...@gmail.com wrote: Can you elaborate on why the license makes a difference? We have been told it would make it easier for people to make and distribute translations. --Paul Hoffman Actually, verbatim translations are already

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-05 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 5, 2013, at 2:43 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: On 08/05/13 07:31, Hadriel Kaplan allegedly wrote: Yup, afaict we were doing ok until IETF 87... but at least one anonymous jabber participant (named Guest) did remotely speak multiple times at the mic on one of the RAI

Re: [websec] #60: Well Known URIs vs Response Headers

2013-08-05 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Let me try to summarize where we are with this discussion. There has been some suggestions that all policy headers such as CSP. However, a well-known URI is unique per domain, while CSP can be different for each resource. So only policy elements that are domain-specific rather than

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-04 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is indeed Yoav

Re: Speaking of VAT

2013-08-04 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:11 PM, John Levine jo...@taugh.com wrote: At last week's very successful Berlin meeting, the finances were thrown of whack by the late discovery that the IETF had to pay 19% German VAT on the registration fee. At the IAOC session they said that about half of that is

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-03 Thread Yoav Nir
the requirements of the note well acceptance in my view. Hi Olle The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is indeed Yoav Nir. But I have never been asked to present any of them at the IETF. I claim

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-02 Thread Yoav Nir
There's the slight matter of $123.50 in VAT. To me personally that is minor compared with the much lower price of a flight to Germany as compared with a flight to the US. But for people working in the US, there's the more expensive flight, and the more expensive meeting. Yoav On Aug 2, 2013,

Re: Berlin was awesome, let's come again

2013-08-02 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 2, 2013, at 1:19 PM, Martin Thomson martin.thom...@gmail.com wrote: On 2 August 2013 13:04, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: There's the slight matter of $123.50 in VAT. This was such a good meeting, I think that I could justify paying extra to cover VAT. I agree, but it's easy

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-01 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 1, 2013, at 11:14 AM, Andy Bierman a...@yumaworks.com wrote: Hi, Isn't it obvious why humming is flawed and raising hands works? (Analog vs. digital). A hand is either raised or it isn't. The sum of all hands raised is comparable across tests. The sum of the amplitude of all hums

Re: [websec] #58: Should we pin only SPKI, or also names

2013-08-01 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 1, 2013, at 6:43 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.commailto:hal...@gmail.com wrote: On Thu, Aug 1, 2013 at 12:30 PM, Chris Palmer pal...@google.commailto:pal...@google.com wrote: On Mon, Jul 29, 2013 at 9:13 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.commailto:hal...@gmail.com

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: Rooms are set up not to facilitate discussion, but to discourage it. The lights are dim, the chairs are facing forward rather than other participants, the

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-28 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 28, 2013, at 6:23 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: I would be very sorry to see IETF *working* meetings turned into something closer to conferences, with poster sessions! And mandatory suit and tie (or women's equivalent business attire) for presenters and chairs.

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-28 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 28, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 7/27/13 8:13 PM, Randy Bush wrote: yup. i guess it is time for my quarterly suggestion to remove the projectors and screens. Then I guess it's time for my

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-28 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 28, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/28/2013 09:10 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: On Jul 28, 2013, at 7:35 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On Jul 28, 2013, at 6:17 AM, Melinda Shore

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-28 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 28, 2013, at 10:14 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 07/28/2013 09:47 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: On Jul 28, 2013, at 9:33 AM, Marc Petit-Huguenin petit...@acm.org wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256

Re: [IPsec] Comments on draft-sathyanarayan-ipsecme-advpn-00

2013-07-22 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 19, 2013, at 3:10 PM, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.commailto:yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, the comments below are focused on the protocol, rather than on its fit with our requirements. So in a sense I'm jumping the gun here. Summary First, the document is very well written,

Re: Dotless Domain conflict with user searching and branding [was: IAB Statement on Dotless Domain]

2013-07-14 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 14, 2013, at 4:34 PM, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: On 7/13/2013 2:20 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: So finding your site is not that difficult for first-timers. But regardless, the people who type in addresses or DNS names in full are rare and far between. Agreed. Just

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 13, 2013, at 7:58 PM, Hector Santos hsan...@isdg.net wrote: Try typing out my domain, winserver.com. First timers will not get the WINSERVER.COM web site, but Microsoft's WIN SERVER 201x and/or WINDOWS SERVER web sites first. I did as you suggested earlier, and typed winserver, but

Re: Excuse me for not able to reply shortly

2013-07-12 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 12, 2013, at 5:03 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Jul 12, 2013 at 1:14 AM, Hui Deng denghu...@gmail.com wrote: I really don't know whether IETF should recommend Deng Hui or Hui Deng That's the question! :-D I believe the Chinese participants should reach this

Re: [websec] Call for adoption: draft-ietf-websec-session-continue-prob-00

2013-07-11 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 11, 2013, at 12:32 AM, Trevor Perrin tr...@trevp.netmailto:tr...@trevp.net wrote: ChannelID seems to solve these problems, seems more polished than other proposals, and apparently is being experimentally deployed (see Chrome | Preferences | Cookies and site data |

Re: [websec] Call for adoption: draft-ietf-websec-session-continue-prob-00

2013-07-11 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 11, 2013, at 7:51 PM, Trevor Perrin tr...@trevp.netmailto:tr...@trevp.net wrote: But even if we restrict our solution to HTTPS, I don't see how ChannelID helps a problem like the BEAST and CRIME attacks. In both cases, the issue is the scoping of cookie use. An attacker's web page or

Re: Final Announcement of Qualified Volunteers

2013-07-09 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 10, 2013, at 12:07 AM, Ted Lemon ted.le...@nominum.com wrote: On Jul 9, 2013, at 4:58 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: Is the great majority of the wisdom in the IETF incorporated into a few megacorporations? (That might reflect market share, in which case, is it a

Re: The Nominating Committee Process: Eligibility

2013-06-27 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jun 27, 2013, at 1:03 PM, Eggert, Lars l...@netapp.com wrote: Hi, Section 2 says: RFC 3777 [RFC3777], Section 5, Nominating Committee Operation, Paragraph 1 of Rule 14, is replaced as follows: Members of the IETF community must have attended at least 3 of last 5 IETF

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-25 Thread Yoav Nir
there. -- HLS On 6/24/2013 4:18 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: On Jun 24, 2013, at 10:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: On 6/24/13 1:47 PM, Michael Thornburgh wrote: my feeling and belief is that RFC 2119 only gives SHOULD and RECOMMENDED the same normative requirement level

Re: SHOULD and RECOMMENDED

2013-06-24 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jun 24, 2013, at 10:52 PM, Peter Saint-Andre stpe...@stpeter.im wrote: On 6/24/13 1:47 PM, Michael Thornburgh wrote: my feeling and belief is that RFC 2119 only gives SHOULD and RECOMMENDED the same normative requirement level, but that it does not override or change the distinct meanings

Re: [websec] HPKP and preloaded pin lists

2013-06-23 Thread Yoav Nir
I think remembering the nullified and expired pins for max-max-age adds complexity. It's fine to do, but we shouldn't require it. A website that issues a bad pin for 30 days has to live with the consequences of that pin for all of those 30 days. Getting a pre-loaded pin list could save you and

Re: [websec] Comments on draft-ietf-websec-key-pinning-06

2013-06-23 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi David As far as I know, this idea was not discussed before. If we were to do this, the proper URI for this would be some kind of RFC 5785 URI like /.well-known/pins or /.well-known/hpkp. Looking at the examples in the key-pinning draft, an HPKP header using SHA-1 takes just under 120

Re: Is the IETF is an international organization? (was: IETF Diversity)

2013-06-19 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:07 PM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: Hi Aaron, At 11:40 19-06-2013, Aaron Yi DING wrote: Relating to the statement above(I assume Phillip is addressing the US Academia), not quite sure are we still discussing the same topic? sorry, I am bit confused .. since IETF is

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jun 19, 2013, at 10:12 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 19/06/13 18:33, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Academia is still one of the worst environments for discrimination. They don't have formal barriers as in the past but the informal barriers are steep. Relating to

Re: IETF Diversity

2013-06-19 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jun 19, 2013, at 6:26 PM, Brian Haberman br...@innovationslab.net wrote: To help facilitate the mentoring aspect, there will be a call soon for volunteers to act as mentors for newcomers (starting with IETF 87). Once the web page for the mentoring program with all the information is up,

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-06-04 Thread Yoav Nir
://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows7/smartscreen-filter-frequently-asked-questions-ie9 [4] http://www.imperialviolet.org/2012/02/05/crlsets.html On Sat, Jun 1, 2013 at 11:41 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.commailto:y...@checkpoint.com wrote: Hi Just trying to get us close to consensus. Still

Re: Time in the Air

2013-06-02 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jun 2, 2013, at 10:38 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: Always Europe gets better results because it is the favoriate meeting-location for ALL businesses {{citation needed}} Here you go: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edsel_Citation (idea taken from http://what-if.xkcd.com/47/ - is this a

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-29 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 29, 2013, at 5:09 AM, Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com wrote: On 5/28/13 3:06 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: The centres for networking industry in Australia are Melbourne and Sydney, in that order. It's a bit like IETF 51 being held in Grimsby, not London or Cambridge.

Re: [websec] #53: Clarify status of pin validation when used with private trust anchors

2013-05-28 Thread Yoav Nir
I agree. I think that this non-strict behavior is something that UAs will implement anyway, because otherwise the UA doesn't work in any place that has a next generation firewall (which is pretty much any firewall these days) And if they did stick to only strict behavior, pretty much none of

Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-27 Thread Yoav Nir
LCD? Anyway, What I found most useful when I was starting out 9 years ago, was to look over the list of areas and working groups ( http://tools.ietf.org/area/ ) and find out which of them are working on something that is of interest to me. In my case it was mostly the security area, and the

Re: Issues in wider geographic participation

2013-05-27 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 27, 2013, at 5:23 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 5/27/2013 4:13 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: Anyway, What I found most useful when I was starting out 9 years ago, One might wish for a document that gives such guidance to folk who are new to the IETF. And indeed

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-24 Thread Yoav Nir
I used Expedia to price flights for me on March 2014: - Buenos Aires: $1401 (21h each way) - London (where the meeting actually happens): $413 (7h each way. Direct costs a bit more) - Vancouver: $1217 (24 h each way? $1288 with a more reasonable 16h) - Honululu: $1535 (28h each way) -

Re: Deployment of standards compliant nameservers

2013-05-22 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 22, 2013, at 3:10 PM, John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com wrote: --On Tuesday, May 21, 2013 11:07 +0200 Stephane Bortzmeyer bortzme...@nic.fr wrote: ... Although these tests certainly contributed to the good technical quality of the name servers, they were removed both for

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 16, 2013, at 11:55 PM, Stephen Farrell stephen.farr...@cs.tcd.ie wrote: I think Dave's idea is worth looking at, but have one comment: On 05/16/2013 09:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: There is a problem, though, that this will increase the load on ADs. There is that. But don't forget

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 17, 2013, at 12:58 AM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: On 05/16/2013 04:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: The time for asking whether the group has considered making this field fixed length instead of variable, or whether RFC 2119 language is used in an appropriate way

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 17, 2013, at 1:38 AM, Fred Baker (fred) f...@cisco.com wrote: On May 16, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Yoav Nir y...@checkpoint.com wrote: There is a problem, though, that this will increase the load on ADs. Other concerns raised during IETF LC may lead to revised I-Ds, which the ADs

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 17, 2013, at 6:37 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 5/17/2013 7:01 AM, Keith Moore wrote: But WGs should be able to periodically summarize what they're doing - what problem they're trying to solve, what approach they're taking, what technologies they're using, what major

Re: [IPsec] IPsecME virtual meeting minutes, and way forward with fragmentation

2013-05-17 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 17, 2013, at 2:54 AM, Brian Weis b...@cisco.com wrote: [snip] Yaron: do we want to stay with the current TCP-based solution? Brian: might be running on sensors that don't have a TCP stack Someone made this comment, but it wasn't me. That was Daniel. Yoav

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 16, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Scott Brim scott.b...@gmail.commailto:scott.b...@gmail.com wrote: On Thursday, May 16, 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: By the time the IESG schedules the vote, ADs need to already have educated themselves about the document. Oh, so you're suggesting adding another phase

Re: [IPsec] IPsecME virtual meeting minutes, and way forward with fragmentation

2013-05-16 Thread Yoav Nir
+1 On May 16, 2013, at 10:43 PM, Valery Smyslov sva...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I approved the conclusion. Regards, Valery. - The group still thinks this is an important problem that needs an interoperable solution. - We would like to abandon the work on IKE-over-TCP. - And to work

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-15 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 15, 2013, at 6:06 PM, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: IMO, IESG should have grounds to reject any document that isn't specifically authorized in a WG's charter. - Keith Why? There's definitely a process failure there, and it should be blamed on the WG chairs

Re: [IPsec] IPR Disclosure: Certicom Corporation's Statement about IPR related to draft-ietf-ipsecme-dh-checks-04

2013-05-13 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Matthew. Actually, that section makes it all the more puzzling. It lists 3 disclosures that relate to several RFCs, but none of those RFCs relates to Diffie-Hellman. Instead they relate to lists of algorithms, so I'm not sure how this helps cover the concerns. Yoav On May 13, 2013, at

Re: [websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-12 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Martin Such guidance in the spec is relevant for the rightful domain owners. Suppose an attacker got some CA to issue a bad certificate for facebook.com. The attacker now sets up this certificate on some public proxy, and sets a pin for 20 years. Within days the attack is discovered, the

Re: Detective story (was: Language editing)

2013-05-07 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 7, 2013, at 1:08 AM, SM s...@resistor.net wrote: At 13:23 06-05-2013, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I don't that is quite right. The problem in this case is not to do with linguistic quality. It's due to a lack of formal verification Quoting from the detective story: At [censored] we

Re: [IPsec] IPsecME virtual interim meeting (revised date)

2013-05-07 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Valery. I agree with your conclusion (that we should do an IKE fragment thing, maybe based on your draft). However, 2 comments: 1. You can never know if anything is IPR free. At best you can say that nobody has said anything yet. 2. IKE over TCP has worked for over 10 years in my

[websec] Consensus call: Issue #57 (max-max-age)

2013-05-07 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi folks We think it's time to move on with Key Pinning, as there haven't been substantial issues raised in months. The one outstanding contentious issue is the one in the subject: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/websec/trac/ticket/57 We've heard the argument that allowing pins to exist for

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-05-02 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 2, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Michael Richardson mcr+i...@sandelman.ca wrote: SM == SM s...@resistor.net writes: SM There is an open position which has not been filled. Is NomCom SM 2012 still continuing its work? SM The IETF usually has a NomCom Chair. Who is the current

Re: [IPsec] One comment to this draft//Fwd: I-D Action: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ad-vpn-problem-06.txt

2013-05-02 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Toby. Let's see if I understand the issue. I'll describe this with an example. Please let me know if I got it. Suppose we have satellite gateways A, B, C, D, and E. A through D each have a bandwidth of 10 Mb/s, while E has 20 Mb/s. The center gateway, Z, has plenty of bandwidth and the

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-04-30 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Martin, On Apr 30, 2013, at 6:21 PM, Martin Stiemerling martin.stiemerl...@neclab.eu wrote: Hi Ted, On 04/30/2013 01:19 AM, Ted Hardie wrote: So, this page: http://www.ietf.org/iesg/members.html still has TBD listed for one of the transport ADs. Is there a projected date for

Re: [IPsec] IPsecME virtual interim meeting

2013-04-28 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 27, 2013, at 8:02 PM, Yaron Sheffer yaronf.i...@gmail.com wrote: Dear IPsec folks, The ipsecme working group is chartered to come up with a solution for transporting long IKEv2 messages over networks that do not perform IP fragmentation correctly, and as a result drop overly long

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-22 Thread Yoav Nir
a wg. But still worth documenting as experimental. Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com] Sent: 19 April 2013 10:02 To: Wood L Dr (Electronic Eng) Cc: wor...@ariadne.com; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
reputation. On Apr 19, 2013, at 11:23 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: and the point of your ad-hominem argument is what, exactly? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/publications/internet-drafts From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com] Sent: 18 April

Re: Meritocracy, diversity, and leaning on the people you know

2013-04-19 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 19, 2013, at 10:31 PM, Ted Hardie ted.i...@gmail.commailto:ted.i...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Apr 19, 2013 at 11:47 AM, Dave Cridland d...@cridland.netmailto:d...@cridland.net wrote: Nice post. I wonder whether a better mechanism for drawing newcomers into the inner circle - which is

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Yoav Nir
Not entirely true. It is true that getting management positions (chairs, AD, NomCom) requires meeting attendance. But a non-attender can get recognition for quality technical points, and can even progress technical work. RFC 4478 was published long before I attended my first meeting. My own

RE: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-18 Thread Yoav Nir
attend because I think that makes me more effective. If for any reason I were no longer able to attend, I think I would still participate meaningfully. -Original Message- From: l.w...@surrey.ac.uk [mailto:l.w...@surrey.ac.uk] Sent: Thursday, April 18, 2013 1:12 PM To: Yoav Nir Cc: wor

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-11 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 11, 2013, at 6:11 PM, Ray Pelletier rpellet...@isoc.org wrote: All The IETF is concerned about diversity. As good engineers, we would like to attempt to measure diversity while working on addressing and increasing it. To that end, we are considering adding some possibly sensitive

Re: [IPsec] NUDGE: WG Last Call for draft-ietf-ipsecme-dh-checks

2013-04-09 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi tl;dr: Looks fine, please publish I am not a cryptographer and not competent to comment on the issues that this draft is trying to solve or on the quality of this solution. Speaking strictly as a developer, the text is clear and understandable. Doing the mental exercise of estimating what

Re: Proposed solution for DPEP (Diversity Problem Entry Point) - IETF April 1 jokes.

2013-04-08 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 8, 2013, at 10:19 PM, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: Subject: Re: Proposed solution for DPEP (Diversity Problem Entry Point) - IETF April 1 jokes. Date: Mon, Apr 08, 2013 at 05:57:54AM -0800 Quoting Melinda Shore (melinda.sh...@gmail.com): I am absolutely not

RE: [IETF] Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated April the first

2013-04-07 Thread Yoav Nir
I mostly share the sentiment that this is just humor, so what's the harm. That said, I did at one point have to exercise my diplomatic skills when I got forwarded a customer (nameless here for evermore) question about whether support for RFC 3514 was on our roadmap. While the people on this

Re: [IETF] Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated April the first

2013-04-07 Thread Yoav Nir
On Apr 7, 2013, at 6:41 PM, Måns Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org wrote: Subject: RE: [IETF] Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated?April the first Date: Sun, Apr 07, 2013 at 11:59:30AM + Quoting Yoav Nir (y...@checkpoint.com): I mostly share the sentiment

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