Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Yangwoo Ko
Stig Venaas wrote: 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

RE: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Ray Plzak
Why should AfriNIC be considered any less of an RIR than the other APNIC, ARIN, LACNIC, or RIPE NCC(meeting is at RIPE meeting)? Why should AFNOG be considered any less of an operator's forum than NANOG or EOF(meeting is at RIPE meeting)? We are talking about an entire continent. It seems to me in

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Thanks to Keith for changing the Subject when changing the subject. 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

Re: About cookies and refreshments cost and abuse

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The IAOC will have a look at this issue. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Terry Gray wrote: Perhaps someone could document what was done differently this time, so that all may learn the secret? A lot of it is obsessive attention to detail, but the other part is choosing equipment that is known to work at IETF scale. Writing it up is a good idea, if our good friends

Re: Clarification of my comment on giving up on process issues

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: Ed == Ed Juskevicius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed I wonder if part of the reason is we often resort to a modus Ed operandi of let a thousand flowers bloom and let the market Ed decide for contentious issues. While that *might* work for a Ed technology spec,

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ray, I think our goal is to not lose essential participants from the IETF due to clashes. In fact that's why we want to schedule several years out, so as to make it easier for many other organizations to do their scheduling. If we do that, it's each organization's choice whether or not they

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello; On Mar 25, 2006, at 1:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should leave the Jabber meeting rooms up all the time, and use them for more dynamic discussions. John Do you mean during the meetings (which I think was done this time, Monday - Friday) or permanently ? Regards

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Hello all; Note that IETF 79 includes Halloween. IETF 79 October 31 -November 5 2010 I know it's a little far away, but I think that this might be a good time for the first Masked Ball / Costume Party Social. I plan to come as the dreaded IPv6 NAT. Regards Marshall On Mar 24, 2006, at

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Stig Venaas
Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello; On Mar 25, 2006, at 1:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should leave the Jabber meeting rooms up all the time, and use them for more dynamic discussions. John Do you mean during the meetings (which I think was done this time, Monday - Friday) or

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Dear Stig; On Mar 25, 2006, at 11:27 AM, Stig Venaas wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hello; On Mar 25, 2006, at 1:28 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe we should leave the Jabber meeting rooms up all the time, and use them for more dynamic discussions. John Do you mean during the

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ray Plzak (private), Can you give the email addresses of the AfriNIC, AfNOG and SANOG leaders? I'd like to write to them explicitly about this. It would be good to get them more involved in the IETF. Thanks Brian Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray, I think our goal is to not lose essential

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Carl Malamud
Hi Brian - I understand the difficulty of adding too many constraints to the scheduling process, but I'd like to point out that particpants in events such as AFNOG and AfriNIC meetings don't necessarily all come from Africa. In fact, strong participation from other regions is one of the most

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 24 mar 2006, at 18.07, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: If I am going to send a copy of a $200 million action movie to a viewer I am going to expect to be paid for that. The viewer is going to expect a high quality viewing experience. The problem is that the bandwidth they subscribe to for

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Edward Lewis
At 15:51 +0100 3/25/06, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If somebody comes to the IETF for a two hour meeting and wastes the opportunity of another 30+ hours of learning about what other WGs and BOFs are up to, that would indeed be a shame. I agree with this, but find that (in some instances) that

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Geoff, things were indeed different then, as long distance bandwidth costs were a serious concern. That has changed. I think the fact that content providers who are paid for that content don't (in effect) pay for the congestion that they cause hasn't changed. But mainly I was interested to see

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Just a general comment: I think that as far as decision-taking is concerned, we need to treat WG jabber sessions (and teleconferences) exctly like face to face meetings - any decisions taken must in fact be referred to the WG mailing list for rough consensus. Otherwise, the people who happen to

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Andy Bierman
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Thanks to Keith for changing the Subject when changing the subject. 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

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith Moore wrote: It will also be a more open process. Today, in my opinion, having to negotiate with each possible sponsor in secret, is a broken concept, and against our openness. I'm a lot more concerned about openness in IETF protocol development. some kinds of negotiations really do

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 24 March, 2006 16:28 -0600 Scott W Brim sbrim@cisco.com wrote: 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

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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. My head hurts. If more people can participate how come we would need *smaller* venues? And by what miracle does lowering the fee allow us to reduce

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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. In so far as it's required, it's

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

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Here is a guess at the rule we should impose: A sponsor donating a sufficiently large amount may have a small booth for the sale of a single product that is a) unannounced or has been announced within the last [6] months, and b) appropriate for purchase and use by individuals. I really

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. Brian, this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying in the overpriced Hilton hotel rooms, my IETF65 meeting fee was almost exactly the

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 05:56:09PM +0100, Patrik F?ltstr?m wrote: Only path forward is, I think, that end users start to demand better service, and the ones that do are prepared on paying more. Like if you just want broadband, buy blue service, but if you want better quality, buy red service

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Andy Bierman
Edward Lewis wrote: At 15:51 +0100 3/25/06, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If somebody comes to the IETF for a two hour meeting and wastes the opportunity of another 30+ hours of learning about what other WGs and BOFs are up to, that would indeed be a shame. I agree with this, but find that (in

Re: Clarification of my comment on giving up on process issues

2006-03-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 22 March, 2006 13:43 -0500 Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... However I don't think we're building the sort of community consensus behind RFC 3933 as an approach to breaking process reform deadlock that it will actually be useful to us. What happens when John submits

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Edward Lewis
At 9:56 -0800 3/25/06, Andy Bierman wrote: Edward Lewis wrote: Temper, not remove. Taking a few moments to set the problem up for the uninitiated and then assuming they have the protocol engineering smarts is all I'm asking. The purpose is not to explain the entire draft to tourists with

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 25 March, 2006 12:54 -0500 Jeffrey I. Schiller [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The problem is how do we differentiate between cases where content providers pay to get a higher then default QOS for their streams vs. the case where the provider pays to prevent the ISP from

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I agree that having presentations which review all the detailed context is not helpful. One slide reminding folks of context can be very helpful even for folks who have been reading and following all the drafts. At the same time, I have always found it very helpful that different working

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Geoff Huston
Brian, Actually the document I referenced is also around 9 years old - so even then we were having a Fine Debate about settlement systems in this industry. The introduction of Content into this debate has also been interesting with the earliest intersection of the two groups (ISPs and content

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Andy Bierman
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. Brian, this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying in the overpriced Hilton hotel rooms, my IETF65 meeting fee

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Dave Crocker
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. 1. There are more bean counters to consider, that only those in commercial corporations, if the IETF still considers it important to be

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 25 March, 2006 11:57 -0500 Edward Lewis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 15:51 +0100 3/25/06, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If somebody comes to the IETF for a two hour meeting and wastes the opportunity of another 30+ hours of learning about what other WGs and BOFs are up to, that

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Fenner
I also noticed that IPv6 disappeared from the network and reported it to the NOC. I think they figured out the problem at least in one of the APs or whatever it was. I've requested to know the reason but got no information at the time being. Jordi, At the heart of this problem was that we

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-25 Thread Bill Fenner
Mmm... well, my laptop (Mac Powerbook) fell off the b/g network several times, mostly during plenary sessions, but the problems were brief, and I usually had no trouble getting back on. Ken, I experienced this too, several times. Our best guess was that it had to do with the older IOS

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Michael Thomas
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Just a general comment: I think that as far as decision-taking is concerned, we need to treat WG jabber sessions (and teleconferences) exctly like face to face meetings - any decisions taken must in fact be referred to the WG mailing list for rough consensus. Otherwise,

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I don't mean to hijack this conversation, only add a data point... I have a great deal of respect for the people who have done the heavy lifting in BEHAVE, but it seems like every time we meet, someone discovers a new and previously un-observed NAT behavior that Is Not Helpful. This week was