Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Julien Laganier
Hi Spencer, On Thursday 24 February 2005 13:15, Spencer Dawkins wrote: Maybe we could improve the announcements to say what the WG (WGs?) are for a draft, and we could quit twisting in this self-inflicted wind? But isn't it already the case? Quoting I-D announce: A New Internet-Draft is

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Carl Malamud
Merci bien pour votre suggestions ... JSPF (Je suis pas francais). :)) Regards, Carl [ Charset ISO-8859-1 unsupported, converting... ] This is an interesting proposal, however I would suggest that the grammatical mistakes relative to the french language and the cultural references be fixed.

Re: BOF: SLRRP

2005-02-24 Thread Michael Thomas
On Wed, 2005-02-23 at 10:32, Marshall Rose wrote: may i draw your attention to the Simple Lightweight RFID Reader Protocol BOF being held at IETF 62? Isn't putting not just one, but _two_ diminutives into a name severely tempting the gods? Mike signature.asc Description:

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
Spencer, It seems to me that there is another issue here, one that is quite real, happens fairly regularly, and that may call for some rethinking down the line. Suppose you post a draft, as draft-dawkins-foo-bar-00, as a means of documenting an idea to see if a currently-operating WG is

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 24 Feb 2005, at 10:00, Carl Malamud wrote: Merci bien pour votre suggestions ... JSPF (Je suis pas francais). :)) Tiny grammatical nits in the last paragraph of section 5: - In summary, for senders and receivers of email, use of the - No-Solicit: mechanism would be simply to understand and

Re: BOF: SLRRP

2005-02-24 Thread Marshall Rose
On Feb 24, 2005, at 06:55, Michael Thomas wrote: Isn't putting not just one, but _two_ diminutives into a name severely tempting the gods? almost certainly. further, some folks just don't like rfid, so we've got a triple crown going... /mtr ___ Ietf

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:04:26 AM -0500 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Spencer, It seems to me that there is another issue here, one that is quite real, happens fairly regularly, and that may call for some rethinking down the line. Suppose you post a draft, as

RE: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Brian Rosen
I read the first draft of this document, and wondered: Does this propose to change IETF behavior on list management, so that the name of the list (usually same as working group) is not put in the Subject: using the feature of mailman that does this? When it was just a draft, it was just

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 24 February, 2005 13:23 -0500 Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I agree with Spencer - a filename is just a filename, and shouldn't carry metadata. It should not be used as the way to decide what WG a document belongs to, and it _also_ should not be used to

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Tony Hansen
Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft AND they've been previously published as an individual submission. Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] John C Klensin wrote: The notion that

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Carl Malamud
Hi Brian - I read the first draft of this document, and wondered: Does this propose to change IETF behavior on list management, so that the name of the list (usually same as working group) is not put in the Subject: using the feature of mailman that does this? That isn't the specific

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt says: Internet-Drafts must be in ASCII. No 8bit chars are currently allowed. If you need to include codepoints, a suggestion might be to use the unicode convention: U+, where X is a hexadecimal digit. So, for the quotes, if retaining the

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 24 February, 2005 16:03 -0500 Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft AND they've been previously published as an individual submission.

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
on 2005-02-24 7:23 pm Jeffrey Hutzelman said the following: [...] Personally, I think it's more useful to keep the existing filename for the life of the document, and that is the practice we have been following in the Kerberos WG since its creation (well before I became chair). We have

Re: Unicode points

2005-02-24 Thread Bruce Lilly
Date: 2005-02-21 17:48 From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] --On mandag, februar 21, 2005 13:20:54 -0500 Bruce Lilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Unicode code size increased overnight by more than 4 orders of magnitude (a factor of 65536) when it went from 16 bits 65536 code

Re: Unicode points

2005-02-24 Thread Peter Constable
From: Bruce Lilly [EMAIL PROTECTED] I apologize for not being sufficiently clear. But part of the issue appears to be one of being sufficiently informed. Given the flip-flop on musical notation, I expect that the consortium will have no trouble finding other non-text things to encode

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Carl Malamud
Hi - http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt says: Internet-Drafts must be in ASCII. No 8bit chars are currently allowed. If you need to include codepoints, a suggestion might be to use the unicode convention: U+, where X is a hexadecimal digit. So, for the quotes, if retaining

Re: Unicode points

2005-02-24 Thread Tim Bray
On Feb 24, 2005, at 2:53 PM, Bruce Lilly wrote: o 16-bit Unicode matched well with 16-bit wchar_t wchar_t is 32 bits on all the computers near me. This is one reason why UTF-16 is irritating for the C programmer. o while the raw data size doubles in going from 16 bits per character to 32

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:55:20 PM +0100 Henrik Levkowetz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: on 2005-02-24 7:23 pm Jeffrey Hutzelman said the following: [...] Personally, I think it's more useful to keep the existing filename for the life of the document, and that is the practice we have been

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Tony Hansen
The document does not discuss the type of mailing list subject labels that you're referring to. I'm arguing that a better title of the document would be Legislated Labels in Email Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] Carl Malamud

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Ken Raeburn
--On Thursday, 24 February, 2005 16:03 -0500 Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft AND they've been previously published as an individual submission. But not

Re: [idn] nameprep2 and the slash homograph issue

2005-02-24 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Eric, let not confuse the issues. There is no problem in introducing a Draft for information. This Draft should only be a about color code for displaying the URI when the U/IRI is displayed in a non unique color. It should only include an introduction to document the needs for a multicolored

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 00:15 25/02/2005, Carl Malamud wrote: http://trusted.resource.org/no-solicit/ has the xml source and the html rendition. In the xml, I use the proper utf-8, which shows up in full glory in the html. For the ascii version, I concur with Randy's opinion that it makes the most sense to sacrifice

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Julien, I'm enjoying the conversation in this thread, but do need to provide a word of explanation: - I actually believed Coya, and spent several IETFs doing the newcomers orientation and WG chair training telling people that they DON'T have to rename drafts, - I got significant pushback

Re: Last Call: 'Labels in Subject Headers Considered Ineffective At Best' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
Carl Malamud wrote: my repeated apologies to any citizens of Freedonia as well Maybe you could mention that RfC 3834 with its [Auto] label is and was no problem, and it doesn't need any solicitation classes to work. But don't mention Re: unless you REally plan to REvive some endless threads,

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Crocker
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:03:32 -0500, Tony Hansen wrote:   Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to   be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft   AND they've been previously published as an individual submission. from the line of

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
... it's just a name - and it's not like working groups are (or that working groups should be) consistent in when they adopt a draft as a working group draft. I see this as a bigger problem - some working groups that have more work in individual drafts than in working group drafts, because

Document Action: 'The 'tag' URI scheme' to Informational RFC

2005-02-24 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The 'tag' URI scheme ' draft-kindberg-tag-uri-07.txt as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ted Hardie. Technical Summary The authors

Protocol Action: 'Securing FTP with TLS' to Proposed Standard

2005-02-24 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Securing FTP with TLS ' draft-murray-auth-ftp-ssl-16.txt as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Ted Hardie. Technical Summary This

Protocol Action: 'LDAP:String Representation of Distinguished Names' to Proposed Standard

2005-02-24 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following documents: - 'LDAP:String Representation of Distinguished Names ' draft-ietf-ldapbis-dn-16.txt as a Proposed Standard - 'LDAP: String Representation of Search Filters ' draft-ietf-ldapbis-filter-09.txt as a Proposed Standard - 'LDAP: Directory Information

WG Review: Language Tag Registry Update (ltru)

2005-02-24 Thread The IESG
A new IETF working group has been proposed in the Applications Area. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The following description was submitted, and is provided for informational purposes only. Please send your comments to the IESG mailing list (iesg@ietf.org) by March 2nd. +++

WG Action: Conclusion of Internet Fax (fax)

2005-02-24 Thread The IESG
The Internet Fax (fax) working group in the Applications Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Ted Hardie and Scott Hollenbeck. The mailing list will remain active. ___ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org

WG Action: Conclusion of Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (idmr)

2005-02-24 Thread The IESG
The Inter-Domain Multicast Routing (idmr) working group in the Routing Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Bill Fenner and Alex Zinin. The mailing list will remain active. ___ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org