A reference too wonderful not to share - S4

2005-07-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
http://www.bcr.com/bcrmag/2005/07/p62.php While its chief aim seems to be at organizations that the IETF loves to claim it's different from, we should try to not become what we denigrate as we prepare to congregate for our Paris togetherness week. Harald

RE: Port numbers and IPv6 (was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy-00.txt)

2005-07-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On fredag, juli 15, 2005 13:11:09 -0700 Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Friday, July 15, 2005 11:48:28 AM -0700 Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agree, for the most part. Fixed port numbers do have

Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On torsdag, juli 14, 2005 21:33:05 -0400 Sandy Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Directed towards the IESG: Recording meetings, and publishing those recordings, may be a hassle, but it answers all questions about the integrity of the decision-making process. There may still be questions

Re: Need for an open access IPv6 working group at the IETF

2005-07-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Francois, In 1999 you asked my predecessor's predecessor: I wonder if we should not have a new working group within the IETF that would issue informational RFC's on the topics of equal access using Internet Protocol technologies. Well, I'm quite sure the answer is no. That is a business

Re: Meeting Locations

2005-07-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott W Brim wrote: On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 05:27:45PM +0200, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: My expectation is that we'll stick to the pattern of two N American meetings plus one in another region - but meeting planning is an art, not a science. I like the deterministic formula based on

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I'm saying that one source system can generate more than 64K IMAP4 sessions. These are systems running various sorts of proxies, so they are in effect hosting many clients at once. True, but if we are running IPv6 then surely the solution to this problem would be

Re: Test version of the Parking Area

2005-07-18 Thread Stewart Bryant
Alexey Melnikov wrote: Frank Ellermann wrote: I'm working on other sort orders Neither REF nor IANA in the state column before the date could be very interesting. Or some statistics, but I guess you already have that elsewhere. Actually I disagree. It is quite useful to be able to

Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-18 Thread Ned Freed
--On torsdag, juli 14, 2005 21:33:05 -0400 Sandy Wills [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Directed towards the IESG: Recording meetings, and publishing those recordings, may be a hassle, but it answers all questions about the integrity of the decision-making process. There may still be

Re: Meeting Locations

2005-07-18 Thread Ray Pelletier
John, The short answer is Yes - identifying meeting locations and times 18 to 24 months out is a plausible target. Site ID is less a problem than Sponsor commitment, but the answer remains Yes. Ray Is it reasonable for us to hope that, as things settle down over time, we can reasonably expect

RE: Port numbers and IPv6 (was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy-00.txt)

2005-07-18 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
warning... implementing control by denying information (such as not telling the bad guy which port the secured-by-obscurity process is ACTUALLY running on) is not terribly good security. It is certainly reasonable control over people who want to be controlled (management), but not

Re: Need for an open access IPv6 working group at the IETF

2005-07-18 Thread Francois Menard
On Mon, 18 Jul 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In 1999 you asked my predecessor's predecessor: I wonder if we should not have a new working group within the IETF that would issue informational RFC's on the topics of equal access using Internet Protocol technologies. Well, I'm quite sure the

RE: Need for an open access IPv6 working group at the IETF

2005-07-18 Thread Tony Hain
Since the CMTS is not the originating node it can not modify the flow label field, so do not look there. This sounds exactly like the case that the routing header was created for, but for some reason people consistently refuse to look there ... I agree there needs to be some thought about a

Last Call: 'Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record (RR) Types' to Draft Standard

2005-07-18 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the dnsext WG to consider the following document: - 'Handling of Unknown DNS Resource Record (RR) Types ' RFC 3597 as a Draft Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send any