Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
Let me see: 1) you don't want to read the wg mailing list yup, because early participation on the list and in the BOFs convinced me it was not a good use of my time. Beating my head against the wall isn't my idea of fun. 2) you don't want to have issues opened up on the issue tracker I'

Re: IANA SLA Input Sought

2006-06-28 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Who does or will pay for the IANA function?  Does funding come from IASA, ICANN, or some other source?   Ray Pelletier wrote: To my knowledge, it's ICANN, not the IETF. Ray Brian E Carpenter wrote Yes, this has been an ICANN contribution to the community since the crea

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Thomas
Keith Moore wrote: I am still waiting to see a description of the defects you believe that you have identified in either forum. I have asked you to describe them here several times, you have refused. And I've already partially explained why I'm not doing things that way. But in additio

RE: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > And furthermore, because of the I-D cutoff and my travel > schedule you won't see any I-D until early August at the earliest. Do you plan to do that before or after the working group last call? I doubt that your travel schedule is a quarter as

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
> And everyone else has pointed out 'there is a problem here but I am not going > to tell you what it is' is not a useful mode of discourse. Ah, but I *am* going to describe what the problems are. I'm just not going to describe what the problems are in a way that makes it as easy for people to d

RE: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I am still waiting to see a description of the defects you > believe that you have identified in either forum. I have > asked you to describe them here several times, you have refused. > > And I've already partially explained why I'm not doing

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
> I am still waiting to see a description of the defects you believe that you > have identified in either forum. I have asked you to describe them here > several times, you have refused. And I've already partially explained why I'm not doing things that way. But in addition to that - mailing li

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
> >And you're not just one voice, you are one of the document authors. > > No he isn't. I stand corrected. Too much history between me and Dave, I suppose. > Thus far, I see a huge amount of effort on your part at making disparaging > oblique remarks with no substance that anybody could act o

RE: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Keith Moore [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > No, Dave, you insisted on interrupting me and shouting me > down when I tried to raise these issues in the BOFs - doing > your best to prevent me from making my case. And you're not > just one voice, you are one of the document authors. > >

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Michael Thomas
Keith Moore wrote: No, Dave, you insisted on interrupting me and shouting me down when I tried to raise these issues in the BOFs - doing your best to prevent me from making my case. We had three bof's, and Dave was a chair of bof #2 only. And you're not just one voice, you are one of the do

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

2006-06-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Jeffrey Hutzelman [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > I do think that there should be a fixed rule prohibiting members of > > the IESG being WG chairs. I would also include the IETF > chair in this. > > I don't. While I agree this should be a rare occurrance, I > have seen no evidence of a

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
No, Dave, you insisted on interrupting me and shouting me down when I tried to raise these issues in the BOFs - doing your best to prevent me from making my case. And you're not just one voice, you are one of the document authors. As for rough consensus, you seem to forget that there are two ne

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

2006-06-28 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Wednesday, June 28, 2006 09:45:27 AM -0700 "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do not think it would be a good thing to make it an inviolate rule that a chair can never be an editor. Nor do I. I do think that there should be a fixed rule prohibiting members of the IE

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

2006-06-28 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
> From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > This is exactly my take as well. I've seen many cases where a chair > > has refused to become a document author or editor in a > group because > > of the conflict it creates. I've also seen at least one > case where a > > chair stepped

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

2006-06-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ned Freed wrote: I think that the single change most likely to keep WGs on track is to ensure that they do not have a single dominant participant, eg one who is both chair and author of key I-Ds. The WGs I see most at risk of going round in circles and/or producing output that falls short of wh

RE: Call for Artworks! 'Graphic & Drawing' Deadline 25th July 2006.

2006-06-28 Thread Yaakov Stein
How is this event related to the IETF? This is the third e-mail I've seen to ietf@ietf.org about this event, but I have yet to figure out how it's related. Can you please clarify the connection for me? [YJS] Maybe it is in response to the thread about graphics in RFCs :-> ___

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Dave Crocker
>> My recollection is that every issue raised, by anyone, got considered. > > Well, you kept claiming that we couldn't possibly anticipate the ways in > which the DKIM protocol would be used, therefore there was no > justification for the WG to change DKIM significantly from its original > desig

Call for candidates for additional WG co-chair for CAPWAP

2006-06-28 Thread Romascanu, Dan \(Dan\)
In order to increase the efficiency of the work in the CAPWAP Working Group (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/capwap-charter.html), and in order to accelerate the consensus process in the Working Group, the Area Directors decided to create a third co-chair position for the CAPWAP WG. The ADs ha

Re: IETF 66 Agenda in iCal Format

2006-06-28 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Eliot Lear wrote: > Can be found at http://www.ofcourseimright.com/pages/lear/ietf66.ics. > > Finally I can use something like this. Got Mozilla Calendar running and imported directly from the URL. Thanks Eliot! > Usual disclaimers apply. May harm small children and animals, etc... > None

Re: IANA SLA Input Sought

2006-06-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Who does or will pay for the IANA function? Does funding come from IASA, ICANN, or some other source? To my knowledge, it's ICANN, not the IETF. Ray Yes, this has been an ICANN contribu

Re: Specifying a state machine: ASCII-based languages

2006-06-28 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
Having a more formal description of state machines is a natural next step from having, say, a good syntax description in ABNF. Unfortunately, unlike ABNF, none of these (except SDL) have a long- term stable reference. If we worry about PDF not being around for future RFC readers, I am a bit

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

2006-06-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Dave Cridland wrote: > It's sometimes difficult to find the drafts you could comment on as > they're produced, especially if you're not part of the WG, and it's > also tricky to find the background to some of the decisions. > > It's fustrating, too, to have issues which are brought up continuously

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-28 Thread Keith Moore
I can understand that you may be reluctant to dive back in having seen the WG formed but I think "not listening" isn't really correct. Maybe you meant "didn't listen"? Even if that's what he really meant, it is not correct. My recollection is that every issue raised, by anyone, got considered.

Re: The Accountable Web RE: not listening

2006-06-28 Thread Douglas Otis
On Jun 27, 2006, at 8:48 PM, Keith Moore wrote: I also believe that creating an authentication system that favors large domains over small ones, and inflexible signing policy over flexible signing policy, is bad for society. The trick is getting a balance between these. Some of my conce

Tables in specifications, and looking back (was: Specifying a state machine: ASCII-based languages)

2006-06-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On one minor note... Tables are a possible solution (if the machine is finite). But most people find them too low-level. I have just returned from about three days of fairly intense conversations about one of our current BOF topics, that - would have been a lot easier to have, if the use ca

Specifying a state machine: ASCII-based languages

2006-06-28 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
There have been a lot of talk here recently about the "need" to allow something more than US-ASCII (and some people require even more than raw text) in the RFCs. A common "use case" is the need to specify state machines. This is often done by a drawing (sometimes in ASCII-art or may be in Unicode-

Re: The Accountable Web RE: not listening

2006-06-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: If we are going to do anything about the pedophile predators lurking in Internet chat rooms we have to create the understanding that there is accountability. The perverts would not approach a minor in a public area with the type of advance they use in a chat room,

Re: IANA SLA Input Sought

2006-06-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Who does or will pay for the IANA function? Does funding come from IASA, ICANN, or some other source? To my knowledge, it's ICANN, not the IETF. Ray Yes, this has been an ICANN contribution to the community since th