Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
on 2005-06-16 01:53 Henning Schulzrinne said the following: > Henrik Levkowetz wrote: > >> Sounds like a good idea. However it requires direct integration with the >> tracker, which means that the tools team can't just put up a prototype, > > Not really - one could associate the WGLC with just t

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

2005-06-15 Thread Ned Freed
> I don't see that sort of probing on our MXs, except on rare occasions, and > we haven't seen it recently. FWIW, my logs on mrochek.com (my home domain) show around 35,000 relay attempts during the past 6 months. This number is almost certainly much too low, in that I have various other blocks in

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

2005-06-15 Thread Dean Anderson
I don't see that sort of probing on our MXs, except on rare occasions, and we haven't seen it recently. What sort of mail volume to you handle? 2000-4000 attempts isn't a lot for large volume domain handling millions of messages per day. You said it is more prevalent on hosts named mail or smt

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

2005-06-15 Thread Dave Crocker
> The notion that email authentication has helped reduce spam is completely > unsubstantiated by actual practice. Which bit of text in the document are your referring to? > Email authentication isn't a weakness that is exploited by spammers. But the lack of accountability for message senders

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Sounds like a good idea. However it requires direct integration with the tracker, which means that the tools team can't just put up a prototype, Not really - one could associate the WGLC with just the draft name, and use that name as the key into the tracker. A simila

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

2005-06-15 Thread Tony Finch
On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Dean Anderson wrote: > > Had anyone bothered to ask, I would have reported that open relay abuse > has dropped off to nearly nothing since the open relay blacklists shutdown > in 2003. MXs are routinely probed by relay attempts: we see about 2000-4000 such attacks each day. A

Re: put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
on 2005-06-15 22:31 Bruce Lilly said the following: >> Date: 2005-06-15 15:06 >> From: wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > Note that "tools.ietf.org" is: >> > >> > [dns info about tools.ietf.org deleted] >> >> I'm sorry, but I do

my Last Call comments on draft-hutzler-spamops-04

2005-06-15 Thread Keith Moore
Folks, It has been suggested to me via private mail that because my Last Call comments about this document were sent only to IESG, that people might be left with the impression that the disagreement over this document was without substance. For this reason, I've enclosed a copy of my Last Ca

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

2005-06-15 Thread Dean Anderson
There is a tremendous amount of myth propogated in this document. The notion that email authentication has helped reduce spam is completely unsubstantiated by actual practice. We have just recently observed the failure of SPF, largely due to the fact it didn't work. Email authentication, even if

Re: put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-06-15 15:06 > From: wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Note that "tools.ietf.org" is: > > > > [dns info about tools.ietf.org deleted] > > I'm sorry, but I don't understand what you are trying to point out > with this info

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2005-06-15 21:02 Jeffrey Hutzelman said the following: > > On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 08:06:08 PM +0200 Henrik Levkowetz > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> True on both counts. I have code in place to track WG last calls, but >> haven't had resources to handle the mails from all mailing lis

draft-hutzler-spamops-04

2005-06-15 Thread Tony Finch
I very much like the goals of this document, but I think there's a little room for improvement and clarification, as follows: Authentication vs. authorization The draft mostly talks about authentication (authn) rather than authorization (authz). I'm not sure whether the aim is to require actual

Re: alternative recommendations for submission of mail

2005-06-15 Thread wayne
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Keith Moore writes: > In response to Dave Crocker's challenge to me to submit replacement > text for portions of draft-hutzler-spamops-04.txt, I decided to try my > hand at writing my own set of recommendations with similar (though not > identical) scope.[big snip] I l

Re: put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread wayne
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Bruce Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> Date: 2005-06-15 10:20 >> From: wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Lucy E. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> > Many of the issues related to WG progress can be managed using the >> > excellent web tools

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, June 15, 2005 08:06:08 PM +0200 Henrik Levkowetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: True on both counts. I have code in place to track WG last calls, but haven't had resources to handle the mails from all mailing list so far. Possibly I'll have that in place before IETF-63. Maybe an

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Hi Henning and Lucy, First thanks, Lucy, for the ack on the wg tools :-) More inline: On 2005-06-15 11:05 Henning Schulzrinne said the following: > Lucy E. Lynch wrote: >> Excuse top posting, please. >> >> Many of the issues related to WG progress can be managed using the >> excellent web to

Re: Appeal of decision to standardize "Mapping Between the Multimedia Messaging Service (MMS) and Internet Mail"

2005-06-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: On 16:07 14/06/2005, John C Klensin said: John, I don't see any text in RFC 2026 that gives an appeal suspensive effect. However, as a matter of common sense, I have asked the Secretariat to request the RFC Editor to suspend RFC publication. I support this. It cre

Re: put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-06-15 10:20 > From: wayne <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Lucy E. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > > Many of the issues related to WG progress can be managed using the > > excellent web tools provided at tools.ietf.org - see for example: > > http://tools.ietf.or

Re: put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread David Hopwood
wayne wrote: "Lucy E. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Many of the issues related to WG progress can be managed using the excellent web tools provided at tools.ietf.org - see for example: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ccamp/ Very useful. For example, apparently IESG is waiting for the authors of

RE: The IETF needs your input about the Spamops document

2005-06-15 Thread Dave Crocker
> In the part 4 (external submission), the document offers no recommendation > concerning the blocking of SMTP port 25. > Even if the ISP decides not to block it, this ISP should be covered by > this future RFC to legitimate its choice of closing port 25.(a single MAY > can be enough) Unfortu

Re: put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread Edward Lewis
At 9:20 -0500 6/15/05, wayne wrote: It is hard to get people to use tools when they don't know they exist and are very hard to find. I'd like to add a me too to that and a few suggestions... I'd like to add that the datatracker be easier to find that having it "buried" under the IESG roster

put http://tools.ietf.org/ on the IETF website

2005-06-15 Thread wayne
In <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Lucy E. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Many of the issues related to WG progress can be managed using the > excellent web tools provided at tools.ietf.org - see for example: > http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ccamp/ This link should be put on the font page of the IETF websit

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Spencer Dawkins wrote: Whether "the main problem with timeliness is now in the WG process itself" is true or not, it is worth removing systemic sources of delay in the WG process. You can also read it as "we've tried to reform the tail end of the process and we have either succeeded or run o

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Henning, Thank you for a series of reasonable suggestions. My thoughts are inline. Spencer There has been a fair amount of effort in accelerating the tail end of the document process, i.e., after IETF last call. It is unclear whether this has succeeded (as there don't seem to be any publish

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

2005-06-15 Thread Dave Crocker
> > > But I will insist that it be fixed and that the fixes get adequate > > > review. > > i apologize. i did not realize that you had a personal veto. > > > and I didn't realize that you had personal authority to expect that your > documents be published as IETF consensus documents without a

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

2005-06-15 Thread Dave Crocker
> Dave, you don't have a leg to stand on here. boy, it's a good think i'm sitting. > But I will insist that it be fixed and that the fixes get adequate review. > i apologize. i did not realize that you had a personal veto. i always thought that the ietf requirement was to obtain support fr

RE: The IETF needs your input about the Spamops document

2005-06-15 Thread EDELSTEIN Eric SCR
Hi, My comment on the "Email Submission Between Independent Networks draft-hutzler-spamops-04" document : In the part 4 (external submission), the document offers no recommendation concerning the blocking of SMTP port 25. Even if the ISP decides not to block it, this ISP should be covered by t

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

2005-06-15 Thread Dave Crocker
> Perhaps ... or perhaps ... or perhaps, or perhaps , or perhaps... > I consider it a contribution to the discussion. Keith, if you want your postings to have a constructive effect, it would help if they took a constructive tone and had constructive content, rather than making essentially slan

Re: Last Call: 'Process for the IAB and IESG selection of IAOC members' to BCP

2005-06-15 Thread Steve Crocker
Comments in line below... On Jun 14, 2005, at 5:31 AM, Geoff Huston wrote: It seems to me that what would be required to do so would be three statements: ISOC's appointees do not represent ISOC, in the same way that IAB and IESG appointees do not represent the IAB or IESG. They serve

Re: alternative recommendations for submission of mail

2005-06-15 Thread John Leslie
Keith Moore wrote: > > http://www.cs.utk.edu/~moore/opinions/email-submission-recommendations.html I wish to compliment Keith on an excellent first draft. Alas, there's no hope of reaching consensus on all his points. Personally, I'd be willing to work on editing his points into draft

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Keith, I think there are two stages of chartering: - the early "we don't quite know what we're doing and what shape this will take, just the general direction" and the - "most work items have drafts associated with them" In my suggestion, a WG would amend the charter with additional detail

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Lucy E. Lynch wrote: Excuse top posting, please. Many of the issues related to WG progress can be managed using the excellent web tools provided at tools.ietf.org - see for example: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ccamp/ This site makes review quick and easy. Clicking on a draft title gets you not jus