Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Frank Ellermann
Keith Moore wrote: >> if you are coming from outside the network, you do not get >> to "relay" through the network. You can post/submit from >> within, you can deliver into the net or you can post/submit >> from outside. > This is wrong. "outside the network" is irrelevant. What > matters is w

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Friday, June 03, 2005 05:27:55 PM -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In other words, if you are coming from outside the network, you do not get to "relay" through the network. You can post/submit from within, you can deliver into the net or you can post/submit from outside.

Re: mac layer in manets

2005-06-09 Thread Joseph Cosmas
Alex, sometimes 'SIR' can be used by someone to show his/her sincerity and loyalty when in need of assistance. It was simple to tell Prasanna to subscribe at http://www.isi.edu/nsnam/ns/ns-lists.html Joe. On Fri, 2005-06-10 at 01:04, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Prasanna S.J wrote: > > hello sir, >

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
Sam is correct here - the text as written is incorrect, even if it accurately reflects the authors' intent. You mean that you disagree with the authors' intent. That is quite different from the document being "incorrect". I meant what I said. You may infer that it is my opinion, and tak

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
The current document purports to be a candidate for BCP and yet it recommends a practice which is clearly no longer appropriate. clearly? please provide a citation to any sort of official consensus statement that establishes this clarity. you seem to be confusing two things - technical q

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Crocker
> The current document purports to be a candidate for BCP and yet it > recommends a practice which is clearly no longer appropriate. clearly? please provide a citation to any sort of official consensus statement that establishes this clarity. an ietf formal publication would be preferred for t

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Crocker
> > > Sam is correct here - the text as written is incorrect, even if it > > > accurately reflects the authors' intent. > > > > > You mean that you disagree with the authors' intent. That is quite > > different from the document being "incorrect". > > > I meant what I said. You may infer tha

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
The line of discussion about a particular algorithm reflects the rather unfortunately tendency to have every system-level effort involving security get dragged into low-level debates about basic algorithms and about the current views of various experts in the security community. That's no way t

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
The implications you are drawing are exactly what is intended. When the document said "treat as a submission" it meant exactly that. Sam is correct here - the text as written is incorrect, even if it accurately reflects the authors' intent. You mean that you disagree with the authors'

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Crocker
> The environment has changed a great deal. I don't know why people > thought MITM attacks weren't feasible in 1996 -- Joncheray published a > paper on how to carry them out in 1995 -- but they're now trivial. There are some meta-problems with this thread. (Aside: John K has raised his own

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Simon Josefsson
"Kurt D. Zeilenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > It is my recommendation that the mandatory-to-implement > "strong" authentication mechanism for this protocol be either: > DIGEST-MD5 (with a mandate that implementations > support its data security layers) > TLS+PLAI

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Dave Crocker
Keith, > > The implications you are drawing are exactly what is intended. When the > > document said "treat as a submission" it meant exactly that. > > > Sam is correct here - the text as written is incorrect, even if it > accurately reflects the authors' intent. You mean that you disagree

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Keith Moore
> > The good part of this requirement seems to be to subject such mail to > > authorization (and in many cases authentication). However I think > > that saying mail must be treated as submission rather than relaying > > may have effects significantly beyond authorization/authentication. > > F

Re: An interesting sub-note for all of you using the xml tool for drafts

2005-06-09 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Hi Frank, On 2005-06-09 20:29 Frank Ellermann said the following: > Brian E Carpenter wrote: > >> See http://ietf.levkowetz.com/tools/idnits/idnits.pyht > > I never got the idnits webservice version to do anything else > but show its 'usage' info. No idea what's wrong, maybe it's > only my brow

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ned Freed writes: >> From where I sat, the problem was trying to ensure that a WG thought >> about an issue. Neither mandatory material nor checkoff boxes >> accomplish that, but I think the former is often more useful because >> material in an I-D is visible to the

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Ned Freed
> From where I sat, the problem was trying to ensure that a WG thought > about an issue. Neither mandatory material nor checkoff boxes > accomplish that, but I think the former is often more useful because > material in an I-D is visible to the entire WG. I disagree completely and think you have

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John C Klensin writes: >The claims about man-in-the-middle attacks are another matter. >When the analysis was done in 1996, the conclusion was that such >attacks were not possible unless either the secrets were already >known to the attacker or there was a plausible

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread John C Klensin
Kurt and Sam, I hope someone else will pick up this discussion, as I'm not the right person to lead it. I would encourage you to read and react to Simon's comments as a start. However, let me make a couple of additional observations: * CRAM-MD5 was caused because folks in the security area said

Re: An interesting sub-note for all of you using the xml tool for drafts

2005-06-09 Thread Frank Ellermann
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > See http://ietf.levkowetz.com/tools/idnits/idnits.pyht I never got the idnits webservice version to do anything else but show its 'usage' info. No idea what's wrong, maybe it's only my browser. But ml2rfc and Bill's validator work online, his ABNF checker is also very

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Bruce Lilly
On Wed June 8 2005 14:30, Ned Freed wrote: > > The IETF Internet-Drafts page notes that "All Internet-Drafts that are > > submitted to the IESG for consideration as RFCs must conform to the > > requirements specified in the I-D Checklist". The current version of > > the ID-Checklist clearly state

Re: mac layer in manets

2005-06-09 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Prasanna S.J wrote: > hello sir, > > this is prasanna research student in SERC,IISc,Banglore. Hey Prasanna. > sir i am working on bandwidth utilization and power control in adhoc > n/ws. if it is possible to give some idea regarding basic power > control i.e. Pmax for control packets such as r

IAB DNS choices 02

2005-06-09 Thread Edward Lewis
Someone suggested that I repeat this post I made to namedroppers on the main list. The reference to "wayne" refers to the message archived at: http://ops.ietf.org/lists/namedroppers/namedroppers.2005/msg00864.html oo The forwarded message oo Date: Thu, 9 Jun 2005 10:51:49 -0400 To: namedro

Re: The IETF Golden Rules

2005-06-09 Thread Bob Braden
Nice list. How about adding: - Be very suspicious of centralized solutions that encourage monopolies and may introduce single points of failure. Bob Braden ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 15:38 09/06/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Please see RFC 2434 = BCP 26 Dear Brian, I was probably not clear enough. Bruce quoted RFCs, and others points postdate RFC 2434. Current http://www.iana.org site is not the best documentation site I saw. It said two things: 1. a IANA related ob

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John C Klensin writes: >Brian, > >We agree about the desirability of making sure than some things >are explicitly documented and explicitly part of what gets >reviewed. But I continue to believe, as I have believed for >years, that adding more and more mandatory mat

Re: The IETF Golden Rules

2005-06-09 Thread Ari Ollikainen
At 8:15 PM +0200 6/8/05, Jacob Palme wrote: > >Do not comment on the draft in ietf@ietf.org or >[EMAIL PROTECTED], use the new mailing list. There goes your first rule... -- +---+ |"Minds are like parachutes - they

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread John C Klensin
Brian, We agree about the desirability of making sure than some things are explicitly documented and explicitly part of what gets reviewed. But I continue to believe, as I have believed for years, that adding more and more mandatory material to RFCs or I-Ds is not the best solution to that partic

The IETF Golden Rules

2005-06-09 Thread Jacob Palme
I have written an Internet Draft on the IETF Golden Rules which may be very controversial. Abstract: This memo presents the following rules, which to some extend can be regarded as the golden rules of IETF, even though there are exceptions when these rules should not be adhered to. - Be liberal

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Please see RFC 2434 = BCP 26 Brian JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: Dear Bruce, you know what? I think it would be great to write a IANA obligations RFC. It would say that the IANA MUST maintain a list of all the obligations RFC authors should respect when writting the IANA considerations, and

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread Kurt D. Zeilenga
My personal view (e.g., SASL chair hat off) is that CRAM-MD5 use on the Internet should be limited. It fails to provide any form of data security itself. The lack of integrity protection means sessions are subject to hijacking. While this inadequacy can be addressed by protecting the session wit

Re: An interesting sub-note for all of you using the xml tool for drafts

2005-06-09 Thread Bill Fenner
On 6/9/05, Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's not illogical - if your source file says > you get exactly what you asked for, i.e. the > obsolete boilerplate. The id-nits tool will warn you - it is > well worth running that before submitting *any* I-D, whether produced > by xml2rfc

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-09 Thread John Leslie
Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:] >> On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ned Freed wrote: >>> [Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:] >>> A practical issue I have with this doc is that the recommendations are relatively few, and most of them are rather gen

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Bruce, you know what? I think it would be great to write a IANA obligations RFC. It would say that the IANA MUST maintain a list of all the obligations RFC authors should respect when writting the IANA considerations, and to document whatever additional information IANA may need (for examp

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ned Freed wrote: ... The IETF Internet-Drafts page notes that "All Internet-Drafts that are submitted to the IESG for consideration as RFCs must conform to the requirements specified in the I-D Checklist". The current version of the ID-Checklist clearly states: That's most unfortunate. What d

Re: An interesting sub-note for all of you using the xml tool for drafts

2005-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Carl Malamud wrote: Randall's method works, or you can do what the readme suggests: see: http://xml.resource.org/authoring/draft-mrose-writing-rfcs.html#ipr A number of us, including the IETF Chair, have discovered this experimentally. It's not illogical - if your source file says you get