Re: Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] has already been denied posting rights on at least one IETF WG mailing list because of this behaviour. Is it time to dig out RFC 3683/BCP 83? BTW - has anyone, anywhere ever seen a response from him/them when they have been asked to stop spamming the IETF lists?

Draft version of the IAD job announcement from the IASA TT

2004-12-16 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 All, please find below the draft call for applications for the IAD position. The current timeline for moving forward is as follows DEC 18 Send out call for applications to o IETF-Announce list o ISOC announcement

Re: Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-16 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 08:45:51AM +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has already been denied posting rights on at least one IETF WG mailing list because of this behaviour. Is it time to dig out RFC 3683/BCP 83? BTW - has anyone, anywhere ever seen a response from

List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Hello, This is an update from the Old Standards experiment. Below are a list of proposed standards that are candidates to be obsoleted. The old standards mailing list has vetted out a good number, but still a good number remains. We are looking for experts who can say affirmatively whether

Re: Draft version of the IAD job announcement from the IASA TT

2004-12-16 Thread Adrian Farrel
Typos etc. are easily fixed (in-line). Isn't it normal to give a closing date for applications rather than to say when evaluation of applications will start? It might also be usual to indicate from when we are hoping to fill the post. Is Salary levels commensurate with experience and

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: Draft version of the IAD job announcement from the IASA TT

2004-12-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Is Salary levels commensurate with experience and qualifications a cop-out? You might say expected to be in the range... Adrian Agree with Adrian here - commensurate makes sense when you hire several people with a range of experience, or when you are waiting to see who actually applies before

Re: Issue #719: Transparency/Openness of the IAOC (IASA transition te

2004-12-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott Bradner wrote: I actually wonder if this is an issue for the IASA BCP document, because it is about the Transition Team Transparency. I do not think it is So I propose to remobve it from the iasa-bcp queue or declare it as No change needed. makes sense to me Agreed Brian

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread James M. Polk
I'm initially really surprised 1518/1519 is on this list. Wasn't there recent talk (like last week) of extending CIDR? And if this is true, shouldn't that work be completed before the existing docs are moved out to the pasture? At 12:46 PM 12/16/2004 +0100, Eliot Lear wrote: Hello, This is an

Re: Draft version of the IAD job announcement from the IASA TT

2004-12-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The current timeline for moving forward is as follows DEC 18 Send out call for applications to o IETF-Announce list o ISOC announcement lists o NANOG, SANOG, NORDNOG, AFNOG, etc o Ask RIRs to forward to their respective announcement lists That's pretty tight... 24

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
James M. Polk wrote: I'm initially really surprised 1518/1519 is on this list. Obviously, it's a bug. Of the Proposed Standards that the Internet runs on, those are among the most important. I believe this was pointed out on the old-standards list already, but it must have got lost. Brian

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 Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16-dec-04, at 14:55, Carsten Bormann wrote: It's probably necessary to do a full dependency analysis to do this right. OMG, what a visit to the technology attic. Why do we care if there are still implementations that are based on these documents in use? The important question is whether

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: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, Thanks for your note. Please see below for responses: 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. I

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

2004-12-16 Thread George Swallow
Maybe we need a new category STABLE? I don't think that would be a good name since it might imply that others are INSTABLE ;-). Perhaps FROZEN, STATIC, MATURE? ...George George Swallow Cisco Systems

Re: Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Could this not be used for an enhancement? The IETF needs to globalize, to motivate and reward its members (see current analysis), to motivate (cf. RFC 3869) local Govs (meeting, debates, PR announces) and industries (PR on products) and to get independent and stable money for its budget. Why

Re: RFC1269 - [was: RE: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired]

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Bert, I'll remove it from the list with the expectation that the new MIB will obsolete the old one. However, I note that is currently not stated in the header of the draft. Eliot Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: W.r.t. RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
The way we've been running the experiment, if there is a portion of the doc that is still useful then we leave it alone but recommend an update. In other words no status change until someone takes further action. Having said that, I will remove RFC 1618 from the list, but it would be great if

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

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Braden
* * It's probably necessary to do a full dependency analysis to do this * right. * If it's not broken, why break it? Bob Braden ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Braden
* Standards have been invented for creating markets. That's strange, all these years I thought standards were for interoperability. Bob Braden * Gruesse, Carsten * * * ___ * Ietf mailing list * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

Re: Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-16 Thread Gene Gaines
Based on the comments over the last several days and my interpretation of RFC 3683/BCP 83, I ask the firm of Upper Side, Paris France, to STOP POSTING COMMERCIAL NOTICES to the IETF general list [EMAIL PROTECTED] I quote from RFC 3683/BCP 83: Guidelines have been developed for dealing with

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Eric Rosen
I see this exercise has already reached the point of absurdity. How can it possibly be worth anyone's time to look at each telnet option and determine whether it is deployed? What possible purpose could be achieved by changing the standards status of some telnet option? Is there some

Re: Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-16 Thread Adam Roach
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] has already been denied posting rights on at least one IETF WG mailing list because of this behaviour. Is it time to dig out RFC 3683/BCP 83? BTW - has anyone, anywhere ever seen a response from him/them when they have been asked to stop

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Vijay Devarapalli
Eliot Lear wrote: This is an update from the Old Standards experiment. Below are a list of proposed standards that are candidates to be obsoleted. RFC1793 Extending OSPF to Support Demand Circuits the NEMO Basic Support protocol

RE: New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

2004-12-16 Thread Peter Constable
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ietf-languages- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Lilly The point is that under RFC 3066, the bilingual ISO language and country code lists are considered definitive. That is nowhere stated or even suggested in RFC 3066. RFC 3066 section 2.2

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric Rosen wrote: Let me echo Bob Braden's if it's not broken, why break it? query. Because maybe it is broke. Even if someone *has* implemented the telnet TACACS user option, would a user really want to use it? The process is broke. We say in 2026 that proposed standards should hang around

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

2004-12-16 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote: James M. Polk wrote: I'm initially really surprised 1518/1519 is on this list. Obviously, it's a bug. Of the Proposed Standards that the Internet runs on, those are among the most important. I believe this was pointed out on the old-standards list

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
Carsten Bormann 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 ISDN planet), (sorry,

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eric Rosen
This is a simple way to simply do what we said we were going to do. The worries about this whole anti-cruft business have always been (a) the likelihood that it would do more harm than good, and (b) the likelihood that it would waste enormous amounts of time on issues of no importance.

Re: IASA BCP -02 Designated Donations - section 5.3

2004-12-16 Thread Leslie Daigle
Let me try a slightly different cut on the discussion. 1/ I believe the IETF is trying to address the fact we would like to be able to accept support in chunks that are greater than individual meeting fees, and less than $100kUS. IMHO, it's not that the IETF needs to be able to accept

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

2004-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
Bob Braden wrote: If it's not broken, why break it? * Standards have been invented for creating markets. That's strange, all these years I thought standards were for interoperability. Hear, Hear! Folks, I took a look at the first posting, and was surprised at those where I'm personally

Re: IASA BCP -02 Designated Donations - section 5.3

2004-12-16 Thread Carl Malamud
Hi Leslie - There's something I'm not quite understanding, and I was wondering if others might share my confusion. I can think of two reasons why taking small targeted donations is bad: 1. It's a pain to administer and account for. 2. It screws up the overall marketing plan in some way (e.g.,

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

2004-12-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
At 05:53 PM 12/16/2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: RFC1828 IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 RFC1829 The ESP DES-CBC Transform Now *THESE* were historic when written! Due to US government pressure, it took years (and big plenary protests) for them to be published! Especially

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

2004-12-16 Thread Pekka Savola
Hi, On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, John C Klensin wrote: [...] I suggest that the RFC Editor's traditional rule about normative references from standards track documents to things of a lower maturity level should apply here as well, even going backwards. If you think there is value in RFC 1517, and it makes

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric Rosen wrote: Even if someone *has* implemented the telnet TACACS user option, would a user really want to use it? I don't know. Do you? Yes, I do. Many of us do. And that's the point. How do we go about answering a question like that? We will spend less time discussing that

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

2004-12-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Carsten, please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2, and see if it answers your question this has been a major discussion source Harald --On 16. desember 2004 15:40 +0100 Carsten Bormann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what does HISTORIC

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

2004-12-16 Thread Margaret Wasserman
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. I don't know if it is still used in that fashion, but Bob Moskowitz might know. RFC1041

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Alexey Melnikov
Eliot Lear wrote: RFC1277 Encoding Network Addresses to Support Operation over Non-OSI Lower Layers This is still in use. draft-melnikov-nsap-ipv6-00.txt references it and in theory it can be updated to include bits of RFC 1277 which are still relevant.

Re: Draft version of the IAD job announcement from the IASA TT

2004-12-16 Thread avri
On 16 dec 2004, at 04.18, Kurt Erik Lindqvist wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- The IETF Administrative Entity Isn't it the transition team that is seeking the IAD at this point? is seeking a highly capable individual to serve as Administrative Director. You will report to the

RFC1269 - [was: RE: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired]

2004-12-16 Thread Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
W.r.t. RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol: Version 3 Why would this be cruft? The BGP4 MIB was just recently approved... Good thing too. Take a good look at 1269. I don't think it would pass a MIB compiler test today.

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

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Braden
* From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Thu Dec 16 05:23:25 2004 * Mime-Version: 1.0 * Date: Thu, 16 Dec 2004 08:02:44 -0500 * To: Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED], IETF Discussion [EMAIL PROTECTED] * From: Margaret Wasserman [EMAIL PROTECTED] * X-Spam-Score: 0.1 (/) * X-Scan-Signature:

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Eric Rosen [EMAIL PROTECTED] I see this exercise has already reached the point of absurdity. How can it possibly be worth anyone's time to look at each telnet option and determine whether it is deployed? What possible purpose could be achieved by changing the standards status

Re: RFC1269 -

2004-12-16 Thread Simon Leinen
Eliot Lear writes: I'll remove it from the list with the expectation that the new MIB will obsolete the old one. However, I note that is currently not stated in the header of the draft. I think RFC1269 (BGP-3 MIB) can safely be dropped even today, because nobody is using BGP-3 anymore, and as

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

2004-12-16 Thread stanislav shalunov
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RFC1598 PPP in X.25 RFC1618 PPP over ISDN At one time, these were incredibly important in the 3rd world, and some parts of Europe and Japan. Is X.25 completely non-existant today? Heck, folks were running X.25 over ISDN

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

2004-12-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 16 December, 2004 22:07 +0200 Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote: James M. Polk wrote: I'm initially really surprised 1518/1519 is on this list. Obviously, it's a bug. Of the Proposed Standards that the Internet runs on,

Last Call: 'Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6)for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification' to Draft Standard

2004-12-16 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the IP Version 6 Working Group WG to consider the following document: - 'Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6)for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification ' draft-ietf-ipngwg-icmp-v3-06.txt as a Draft Standard The IESG plans to make a