Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin scripsit: your draft is not controverted for bettering RFC 3066 but for not bettering it enough, in an interapplication concerted way, for the standard you want your draft to become. The intent is that the draft become a BCP replacing RFC 3066 (also a BCP), not an

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and exte nsions

2005-01-05 Thread Hollenbeck, Scott
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JFC (Jefsey) Morfin Sent: Tuesday, January 04, 2005 10:55 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; John C Klensin; Christian Huitema Cc: ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08,

Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
[yes, it's back to that grind again] (This issue has been split from #727 in the issue tracker, because it's more specific than the original) Current draft says: The members of the IAOC shall select one of its appointed voting members to serve as the chair of the IAOC, with all of the duties

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: Finding country codes is straightforward: any non-initial subtag of two letters (not appearing to the right of x- or -x-) is a country code. This is true in RFC 1766, RFC 3066, and the current draft. On the contrary, in RFC 3066 the rule is any 2 letter value

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Scott W Brim
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: - There is nothing clear about whether the IAOC chair is peer, superior or subordinate to the IAB chair or the IETF chair (or, for that matter, the ISOC President). I don't think the last point should be addressed. This document lays out the specific mechanisms

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Margaret Wasserman
This proposal makes sense to me. In particular, I agree with what the proposed text says and with what it doesn't say. Margaret [yes, it's back to that grind again] (This issue has been split from #727 in the issue tracker, because it's more specific than the original) Current draft says:

RE: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
Harald writes: It also seems to me that it fits better if rearranged a bit. What about this? The members of the IAOC shall select one of its appointed voting members to serve as the chair of the IAOC. The chair of the IAOC shall have the authority to manage the activities

Re: Language Tags: Response to a part of Jefsey's comments concerning the W3C

2005-01-05 Thread Peter Constable
From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] why not to follow under IAB guidance (or to review) the charter I proposed yesterday, in an IETF way everyone could participate, and to have all these applications supported one shot in working on a linguistic ontology where each language instance

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
ditto Brian Margaret Wasserman wrote: This proposal makes sense to me. In particular, I agree with what the proposed text says and with what it doesn't say. Margaret [yes, it's back to that grind again] (This issue has been split from #727 in the issue tracker, because it's more specific

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-02 19:47 From: Addison Phillips [wM] [EMAIL PROTECTED] It would be entirely possible for en-Latn-US-boont to be registered under the terms of RFC 3066. But it hasn't been. No RFC 3066 parser will therefore find that complete tag in its list of IANA registered tags,

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability,  and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-03 02:09 From: Peter Constable [EMAIL PROTECTED] Precisely; an RFC 1766/3066 parser, based on the 1766 and 3066 specifications, can expect four classes of language tags: 1. ISO 639 language code as the primary subtag, optionally followed by an ISO 3166 country code as

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-04 13:04 From: John Cowan [EMAIL PROTECTED] Finding country codes is straightforward: any non-initial subtag of two letters (not appearing to the right of x- or -x-) is a country code. This is true in RFC 1766, RFC 3066, and the current draft. I believe that: 1. it is not

Re: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-02 21:56 From: Glen Zorn \(gwz\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] Bruce Lilly supposedly scribbled: OTOH, it's probably a beneficial side-effect considering the criticism that another organization whose abbreviated name also begins with I has attracted due to its choice of balmy,

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread ned . freed
Finding country codes is straightforward: any non-initial subtag of two letters (not appearing to the right of x- or -x-) is a country code. This is true in RFC 1766, RFC 3066, and the current draft. On the contrary, in RFC 3066 the rule is any 2 letter value that appears as the

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread EKR
Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: [yes, it's back to that grind again] (This issue has been split from #727 in the issue tracker, because it's more specific than the original) Current draft says: The members of the IAOC shall select one of its appointed voting

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On onsdag, januar 05, 2005 08:09:59 -0800 EKR ekr@rtfm.com wrote: The members of the IAOC shall select one of its appointed voting members to serve as the chair of the IAOC. The chair of the IAOC shall have the authority to manage the activities and meetings of the IAOC. The term

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread EKR
Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On onsdag, januar 05, 2005 08:09:59 -0800 EKR ekr@rtfm.com wrote: The members of the IAOC shall select one of its appointed voting members to serve as the chair of the IAOC. The chair of the IAOC shall have the authority to manage

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-01-05 10:33 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Section 2.5 (2.4.1 in the draft) states the matching rule in a succinct fashion. Everything in 2.4.2 is a non-normative elaboration of this. ??? Which in no way refutes my assertion that no matching rule algorithm was given in RFC 3066!

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
Bruce Lilly scripsit: I believe that John meant sect. 2.5 of RFC 3066, which does indeed mention a matching algorithm. Yes. However, the proposed changes in the structure of tags interact badly with that algorithm. It just makes the algorithm imperfect; however, it was imperfect before as

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 05 January, 2005 17:35 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So instead of: The chair of the IAOC may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the voting members of the IAOC, or as a result of his or her departure from

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Thanks for the language suggestion! --On onsdag, januar 05, 2005 16:19:54 -0500 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And, FWIW, I still hate all of the duties and responsibilities normally associated with such a position -- it is just too open-ended and an invitation to arguments about what

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread Peter Constable
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ietf-languages- [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Bruce Lilly [...] RFC 1766/3066 need to be able to deal with tags that contain pieces they don't know about -- the only subtags they can know about are initial subtags of i, x or ISO 639 IDs, or a second

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread John Cowan
[EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: Now, it may be the case that all _registered_ tags have avoided the use of non-country code two letter codes in the third and later position. But this is 100% irrelevant. If you say so. The point is that conformant code implementing RFC 3066 is broken if it

Re: Language Tags: Response to a part of Jefsey's comments concerning the W3C

2005-01-05 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 16:29 05/01/2005, Peter Constable wrote: From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] why not to follow under IAB guidance (or to review) the charter I proposed yesterday, in an IETF way everyone could participate, and to have all these applications supported one shot in working on a

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2005-01-05 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Sunday, December 12, 2004 16:19:39 -0500 Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: whatever the merits of Pete's suggestion I think John makes a very important point when he says that it would be better to refer to a RFC by number rather than a BCP by number (and title) because the text can

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread Mark Davis
Rather, the rule is simply that a country code, if present, always appears as a two letter second subtag. The new draft changes this rule, so applications that pay attention to coutnry codes in language tags have to change and the new algorithm for finding the country code is trickier. Your

Re: Consensus? #771 Powers of the Chair of the IAOC

2005-01-05 Thread Geoff Huston
So instead of: The chair of the IAOC may be removed at any time by the affirmative vote of two-thirds of the voting members of the IAOC, or as a result of his or her departure from the IAOC. we could say If the chair leaves the IAOC, or if two thirds of the voting IAOC members vote

Last Call: 'Key Management Extensions for Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP)' to Proposed Standard

2005-01-05 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Multiparty Multimedia Session Control WG to consider the following document: - 'Key Management Extensions for Session Description Protocol (SDP) and Real Time Streaming Protocol (RTSP) ' draft-ietf-mmusic-kmgmt-ext-12.txt as a Proposed Standard The

RFC 3947 on Negotiation of NAT-Traversal in the IKE

2005-01-05 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 3947 Title: Negotiation of NAT-Traversal in the IKE Author(s): T. Kivinen, B. Swander, A. Huttunen, V. Volpe Status: Standards Track Date: January 2005

RFC 3948 on UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets

2005-01-05 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 3948 Title: UDP Encapsulation of IPsec ESP Packets Author(s): A. Huttunen, B. Swander, V. Volpe, L. DiBurro, M. Stenberg Status: Standards Track Date: