Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread John C Klensin
Tony, I agree completely and believe the IAB has, of late, been altogether too timid in this area. I think you know all of what I'm about to say, but your note is, IMO, easily misread, so an additional observation about 4084 and its potential relatives: In this sphere, a document that says

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
I agree. I never got around to buying an 802.11a NIC card, but I never really felt like I needed it here. The worst it got was that in some of the full rooms my Mac would drop the link once or twice in an hour, and have to be manually reconnected to the network. And, I noticed a singular lack

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
I think that the IETF neglects (or, rather, has neglected in the past) many possible opportunities for sponsorship. That implies that increasing the income from sponsorship should be possible. People who are concerned with this issue should talk (or email) our IAD, Ray Pelletier, who has a n

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
At the beginning of our Jabber "experiment" several years ago, I volunteered to Jabber-scribe exactly once, fell off the network five minutes into a working group meeting, spent ten minutes trying to get hooked back up, gave up, and never volunteered again until this IETF. I never felt like th

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Noel Chiappa wrote: >>> From: Keith Moore >>> Regarding SRV, it's not acceptable to expect that as a condition of >>> deploying a new application, every user who wishes to run that >>> application be able to write to a DNS zone. M

RE: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
Agreed. I had a few troubles on Monday in (I think it was monet or one of those rooms upstairs), but other than that it worked great! Thanks to the NOC team and whoever else helped make it work! Bert > -Original Message- > From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursd

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Bierman
Marshall Eubanks wrote: I think that the IETF neglects (or, rather, has neglected in the past) many possible opportunities for sponsorship. That implies that increasing the income from sponsorship should be possible. People who are concerned with this issue should talk (or email) our IAD, Ray

2 hour meetings

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
I know you've heard this all before, but it's been getting increasingly difficult for us WG Chairs to get all the key people working on a protocol to fly across the planet for a 2 hour meeting. These are busy people who can't afford to block out an entire week because they don't know when or wher

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Bierman
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think the meeting fees could actually go down, may be more in the other way around if we are realistic with the cost figures. Actually the cost is already high for a sponsor, and I believe trying to get more from the industry (or other kind of sponsors) for ea

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Ack on Noel's other points, but this is worth mentioning... > But we cannot assume a hosts' DNS is available for that purpose. For > most of us, the DNS entry isn't under our control, nor is it likely to > be for the forseeable future. Keith and I concurred on that. Noel I have le

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Ray Pelletier
Spencer, Thanks for all your scribe contributions. They add real value to the process. The wireless has been fantastic. A great job by Nokia and our intrepid volunteers. This meeting Jabber services were provided by NeuStar Secretariat Services pursuant to the SOW. Much thanks to Peter Saint

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Thu, 23 Mar 2006 20:56:51 -0800, Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Since it seems like this might be useful, I'll pull a draft together on > how to do this without 1078's extra connection, more like the > late-binding we do in datarouter, very shortly... > 1078 doesn't use an extra

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Ray Pelletier
Andy Bierman wrote: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think the meeting fees could actually go down, may be more in the other way around if we are realistic with the cost figures. Actually the cost is already high for a sponsor, and I believe trying to get more from the industry (or oth

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:35:13PM -0600, Ken Raeburn wrote: > On Mar 23, 2006, at 21:58, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > >Just wanted to state what's obvious to all of us by now: > > > >This time the wireless WORKED, and Just Went On Working. > > > >That hasn't happened for a while. THANK YOU! > > Mmm

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-24 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:48:19PM -0600, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: > > The results is also better for all (even participants), because the > logistics and local-planning is done more coherently. I think there's some unfair handwaving in this thread. One option however would be to seek 'partne

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > I have learned not to tell people (especially Keith and Noel) Hey, I'm nowhere near as hypergolic on this as Keith is... :-) > that DNS is the right answer to all questions, Well, it works fine for what it was designed to do. Problem i

Update: Problems with OrangeWare Mac 802.11a driver solved (was Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF)

2006-03-24 Thread Pekka Nikander
Related to this, an update to my problems with the OrangeWare Mac driver: After having exchanged a few e-mails with the tech support, they finally figured out that they driver indeed did not work with the card I had. So, eventually, they agreed to swap my DWL-AG660 card against an SMC ca

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 24, 2006, at 7:37 AM, Andy Bierman wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: I think that the IETF neglects (or, rather, has neglected in the past) many possible opportunities for sponsorship. That implies that increasing the income from sponsorship should be possible. People who are concerned

Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Tim Chown wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:48:19PM -0600, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: The results is also better for all (even participants), because the logistics and local-planning is done more coherently. I think there's some unfair handwaving in this thread. One option however wo

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Mar 24 13:03:11 2006, Keith Moore wrote: sometimes I find remote participation (via audio streaming and jabber) more effective than actually attending the meeting. I sometimes am surprised to find that the extra distance makes it easier for me to see what is relevant. I also think it m

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Eliot Lear
Joe Touch wrote: > Since it seems like this might be useful, I'll pull a draft together on > how to do this without 1078's extra connection, more like the > late-binding we do in datarouter, very shortly... > This sounds like a neat extension. Eliot

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Crocker
Harald Alvestrand wrote: One option however would be to seek 'partnerships' between vendors and the IETF that span more than one meeting. Unless that impacted the perceived 'neutrality' of the IETF and its standardisation processes. I suspect that this would indeed be a question. To invok

Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-24 Thread Ray Pelletier
The IETF is proposing dates for its meetings being held 2008 through 2010. Those dates can be found at http://www.ietf.org/meetings/future_meetings0810.html The dates will be evaluated and selected to meet the IETF's standards development objectives, while avoiding conflicts with SDOs and oth

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Bierman
Ray Pelletier wrote: Andy Bierman wrote: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think the meeting fees could actually go down, may be more in the other way around if we are realistic with the cost figures. Actually the cost is already high for a sponsor, and I believe trying to get more fro

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> > From: "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > I have learned not to tell people (especially Keith and Noel) > > Hey, I'm nowhere near as hypergolic on this as Keith is... :-) "hypergolic"... great word! (even if a tad unflattering...) > > that DNS is the right answer to all

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Ned Freed
Just wanted to state what's obvious to all of us by now: This time the wireless WORKED, and Just Went On Working. That hasn't happened for a while. THANK YOU! Agreed. I had a couple of problems early in the week, but after that it Just Worked, even at the plenaries. Kudos to those who mad

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> >> One option however would be to seek 'partnerships' between vendors and > >> the IETF that span more than one meeting. Unless that impacted the > >> perceived 'neutrality' of the IETF and its standardisation processes. > >> > > I suspect that this would indeed be a question. > > To invoke

Meeting format (Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors")

2006-03-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andy Bierman wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: Andy Bierman wrote: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think the meeting fees could actually go down, may be more in the other way around if we are realistic with the cost figures. Actually the cost is already high for a sponsor, and I believe t

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-24 Thread Joe Touch
Noel Chiappa wrote: > > From: Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > >> Noel Chiappa wrote: > > >>> From: Keith Moore ... > >> It would be easy to run a tiny little U[D]P "binding" server that > >> took in an application name (yes, we'd have to register those, but > >> stri

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Josefsson
Andy Bierman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > my $0.02: > > Nothing -- not in the current meeting format. > > A more workable model would be to treat the current > type of meeting as an Annual Plenary, full of Power-Point > laden 2 hour BOFs, and status meetings of almost no value > in the production

Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Michael Thomas
Keith Moore wrote: sometimes I find remote participation (via audio streaming and jabber) more effective than actually attending the meeting. I sometimes am surprised to find that the extra distance makes it easier for me to see what is relevant. I also think it might be less distracting to a

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Yu-Shun Wang
Tim Chown wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:35:13PM -0600, Ken Raeburn wrote: On Mar 23, 2006, at 21:58, Harald Alvestrand wrote: Just wanted to state what's obvious to all of us by now: This time the wireless WORKED, and Just Went On Working. That hasn't happened for a while. THANK YOU! Mmm.

RE: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Andy Bierman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > A more workable model would be to treat the current type of > meeting as an Annual Plenary, full of Power-Point laden 2 > hour BOFs, and status meetings of almost no value in the > production of standards-track protocols. Most of the meetings I

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Tony Hansen
I've been a happy camper since switching to 11a several meetings ago. It wasn't intentional; I had just gotten a new laptop that just happened to have a/b/g. But while everyone else was losing their connections, the 11a network just kept humming along. Life was no different at this meeting; the 11a

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Crocker
I agree that interim WG meetings would be useful, but here is a further proposal: There are quite a few really good ideas for improvements to IETF productivity. The problem with taking a particular suggestion and then adding others to it will be that nothing gets considered in detail and no

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Crocker
Harald Alvestrand wrote: One option I do NOT want to consider (and which the 770 stand in the lobby kind of dented a little) is to add a tradeshow to the IETF meeting. Thinking about this further, I am struck by the fact that the 770 booth and the wifi phone booth in Japan were wildly popu

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> There are quite a few really good ideas for improvements to IETF > productivity. > The problem with taking a particular suggestion and then adding others to it > will be that nothing gets considered in detail and nothing gets done. you say that like it's a bad thing. not to pick on you perso

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Henk Uijterwaal
> If the meeting fees could be lowered over time because > smaller venues are needed 2 out of 3 IETFs, then more > people will be able to participate. In my case, the meeting fees are small compared to travel and hotel costs. I think there are some good ideas here. I find that WG meetin

RE: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Gray, Eric
Dave, Certainly there are organizations that do this. Those organizations are significantly different from the IETF. For one thing, the first thing we would have to do in the IETF - if we adopted a model like this - is to establish a marketing over-sight function to ensure fair and equi

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 Thread Ole Jacobsen
The "wifi phone booth in Japan [...] wildly popular with attendees," was actually at APRICOT in Kyoto, but I know it all blends together after a while :-) At $50, vs the retail price of around $350, it was a loss-leader give-away. I think we'd be happy to get more "free stuff" like that :-) Ol

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Simon Josefsson
Henk Uijterwaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >>I think there are some good ideas here. >> >>I find that WG meetings are too short to get anything useful done, and >>all the issues that would benefit of longer face-to-face discussions >>are taken to the mailing list before any concrete proposal are

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Mar 24 16:20:26 2006, Simon Josefsson wrote: Henk Uijterwaal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > That means that there are 50 or so people sitting there doing > nothing. While I agree that face-2-face discussions are useful, I > much rather see the discussion take place in the hallway, then ha

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Crocker
one thing, the first thing we would have to do in the IETF - if we adopted a model like this - is to establish a marketing over-sight function to ensure fair and equitable disposition of sponsorship funds. Eric, I am not sure why this would be required. The IETF already takes in money for

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 07:49:46AM -0800, Michael Thomas wrote: > > Maybe there's an intermediate between email and full f2f time? > Something like having well known jabber chats to simulate the > quickness of f2f conversation without having to be there? There > is some amount of precedence for th

RE: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in differentregions)

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > One of the services that ISOC provides to the IETF is a layer > of indirection for sponsors; they give money into a pool > administered by ISOC (and get a seat on the ISOC AC in > return), but the procedures make it pretty clear that they

RE: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Tim Chown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Well, if we make remote participation too good, we may end up > with rather empty meeting rooms and a bankrupt IETF ;) > > What we should do, given the rush of work that happens pre-ID > cutoff, is maybe look at such technology for interim > mee

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:49:28AM -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > > You mean like holding a bi-weekly teleconference? > > VOIP is getting to the point where this is practical. Well yes, telecons are fine for design team work, but for an open interim meeting you need to determine which sy

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Stig Venaas
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: >> From: Tim Chown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > >> Well, if we make remote participation too good, we may end up >> with rather empty meeting rooms and a bankrupt IETF ;) >> >> What we should do, given the rush of work that happens pre-ID >> cutoff, is maybe look a

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in differentregions)

2006-03-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The current funding model makes the IETF disproportionately reliant on one single company that currently employs far more ADs and working group chairs than any other. It also has a habit of recruiting through the IETF. If that company were to have an unexpected earni

RE: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I think that people need to consider that maybe there might be advantages to non-flat rate, non-consumer pays charging models. I don't expect the attempted shakedown of Google to work and there are certainly tactics that they could use to preclude any desire on the part of the carriers to do any s

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Leibrand
On 03/24/06 at 5:00pm -, Stig Venaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Personally I find jabber (and similar technologies) much more convenient > than voice. I've used that a few times with a small group of people to > discuss and solve technical problems. I feel it allows more interactive > discus

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 12:10:47PM -0500, Scott Leibrand wrote: > On 03/24/06 at 5:00pm -, Stig Venaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Personally I find jabber (and similar technologies) much more convenient > > than voice. I've used that a few times with a small group of people to > > discus

RE: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in differentregions)

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Harald Alvestrand [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > > > > The current funding model makes the IETF disproportionately > reliant on > > one single company that currently employs far more ADs and working > > group chairs than any other. It also has a habit of

RE: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Tim Chown [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 at 08:49:28AM -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > > > > You mean like holding a bi-weekly teleconference? > > > > VOIP is getting to the point where this is practical. > > Well yes, telecons are fine for design team work,

Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors"

2006-03-24 Thread Joe Touch
Dave Crocker wrote: > >> I agree that interim WG meetings would be useful, but here is a >> further proposal: > > > There are quite a few really good ideas for improvements to IETF > productivity. The problem with taking a particular suggestion and then > adding others to it will be that nothi

are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> > There are quite a few really good ideas for improvements to IETF > > productivity. > > The problem with taking a particular suggestion and then adding others to > > it > > will be that nothing gets considered in detail and nothing gets done. > > you say that like it's a bad thing. > > not

Re: Jabber chats

2006-03-24 Thread Jari Arkko
Michael Thomas wrote: > Maybe there's an intermediate between email and full f2f time? > Something like having well known jabber chats to simulate the > quickness of f2f conversation without having to be there? There > is some amount of precedence for this with the IESG's telechats. > They could b

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Andrew McGregor
On 24/03/2006, at 9:52 AM, Yu-Shun Wang wrote: Just another me-too data point about the Mac. It'll be good to know why that happened. Mine is a 15" Powerbook. I also brought a Cisco 11a NIC, and used it about 3-4 times w/out any problems. yushun The problem also occurs with Broadcom radios

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-24 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Hi Ray, I know is difficult already to manage to avoid clashes, but I think is unfair and discriminatory to have all the RIRs and *NOGs in the MUST NOT list, but AfriNIC, AfNOG and SANOG in the other list. Anticipating for so many years is good enough to allow all those organizations to chat toge

Re: Meeting format (Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors")

2006-03-24 Thread Andy Bierman
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Andy Bierman wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: ... A more workable model would be to treat the current type of meeting as an Annual Plenary, full of Power-Point laden 2 hour BOFs, and status meetings of almost no value in the production of standards-track protocols. The oth

RE: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
May be if you think the other way around, you reinvent the Minitel model? Not sure as the final text is not voted and is _very_ confused, but this _may_ be what the French DADVSI law _may_ lead to. jfc At 18:07 24/03/2006, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:messa

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - > From: "Keith Moore" > To: > Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Friday, March 24, 2006 9:47 AM > Subject: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: > moving from hosts to sponsors) ... > My question is - do others see this as a problem, and (without trying > to propose

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Mar 24 17:47:04 2006, Keith Moore wrote: I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in IETF that we talk a lot about particular problems and never seem to do anything about them. When people express that frustration, they often seem to think that the solution to this frus

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> On Fri Mar 24 17:47:04 2006, Keith Moore wrote: > > I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in IETF > > that we talk a lot about particular problems and never seem to do > > anything about them. When people express that frustration, they > > often seem to think that the solu

RE: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in > IETF that we talk a lot about particular problems and never > seem to do anything about them. Quite so, which is why most of us feel that there should be a strong bias in favor of ac

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> > From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in > > IETF that we talk a lot about particular problems and never > > seem to do anything about them. > > Quite so, which is why most of us feel that there should be a strong bias

RE: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > > > I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in IETF > > > that we talk a lot about particular problems and never seem to do > > > anything about them. > > > > Quite so, whi

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri Mar 24 19:50:15 2006, Keith Moore wrote: > In other words, there are working groups where a substantial number > of people involved in the discussion are not only not going to be > implementing the proposals, but don't actually do any kind of > implementation within the "sphere" - we're

Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Scott Bradner
maybe I can summerize John's note by asking if this IAB has the will to write a RFC 1984 about net neutrality Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> > > > I think that Dave's message reflects a common frustration in IETF > > > > that we talk a lot about particular problems and never seem to do > > > > anything about them. > > > > > > Quite so, which is why most of us feel that there should be > > > a strong bias in favor of action and exp

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
> On Fri Mar 24 19:50:15 2006, Keith Moore wrote: > > > In other words, there are working groups where a substantial > > number > of people involved in the discussion are not only not > > going to be > implementing the proposals, but don't actually do any > > kind of > implementation within the

Draft notes from Wednesday plenary

2006-03-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The draft notes from the Wednesday plenary are posted at http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06mar/minutes/plenaryw.txt Please let me know of any errors. No need to copy the list unless it's a discussion point. Thanks to Mirjam Kuehne for scribing. Brian __

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread Ned Freed
On Fri Mar 24 19:50:15 2006, Keith Moore wrote: > > In other words, there are working groups where a substantial > number > of people involved in the discussion are not only not > going to be > implementing the proposals, but don't actually do any > kind of > implementation within the "sphere" - w

RE: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-24 Thread Glenn Parsons
.11a has worked fine for me at this and at previous meetings with no problems. However, at this meeting I occasionally noticed congestion/latency -- appearing as dropouts on VoIP sessions and audio streaming -- that I did not experience at previous meetings. Not sure if this was in .11a or in the

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF? (was: moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-24 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 18:47 24/03/2006, Keith Moore said: My question is - do others see this as a problem, and (without trying to propose a concrete solution that will be seen as a threat) is there a shared sense that this is a problem and general willingness to try new ways of conducting our discussions? I do.

Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I know I'm going to regret saying this, but we haven't made much progress in ten years. http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-carpenter-metrics-00.txt I got a lot of interest in that draft, none of which came from ISPs... Brian Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I think that people need to consider that

Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Scott W Brim
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 05:00:07AM -0500, John C Klensin allegedly wrote: > There are two strategies that make more sense and have more > chance of success. One is precisely what 4084 attempted to do: > lay out categories and boundaries that, if adopted, make better > information available to pote

Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Geoff Huston
To quote from the Carpenter draft:... "One approach to resolving the current crisis in Internet performance is to institute an efficient system of inter-carrier settlements." Progress is often hard when you are heading in off in the weeds. Try http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-01/interconn.h

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-24 Thread Scott W Brim
On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 02:29:23PM +, Dave Cridland allegedly wrote: > I don't actually have the choice, but I find remote participation > generally okay, for the most part, albeit I have the slight advantage > of starting off my internet experience in telnet BBS systems, so I'm > generally use

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-24 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Mar 24, 2006, at 9:31 PM, Scott W Brim wrote: On Fri, Mar 24, 2006 02:29:23PM +, Dave Cridland allegedly wrote: I don't actually have the choice, but I find remote participation generally okay, for the most part, albeit I have the slight advantage of starting off my internet expe

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-24 Thread john . loughney
Maybe we should leave the Jabber meeting rooms up all the time, and use them for more dynamic discussions. John - original message - Subject:Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings) From: Stig Venaas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: 03/24/2006 5:01 pm Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: >>

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
yOn Fri, 24 Mar 2006, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Hi Ray, I know is difficult already to manage to avoid clashes, but I think is unfair and discriminatory to have all the RIRs and *NOGs in the MUST NOT list, but AfriNIC, AfNOG and SANOG in the other list. having attended two of three I would