a thanks to the Gen-ART reviewers

2008-03-08 Thread Andrew Newton
To Eric, Spencer, and all the other Gen-ART reviewers: Thank you. My experience with Gen-ART reviews has been very positive, and I appreciate your work and effort. I realize you weren't seeking public praise, but your volunteer contribution to the good of the IETF should be recognized. On

IONs, RFC 4693, Core Process Documents, and BCPs

2008-03-08 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. After reading both the "IONs and discuss..." thread and last month's discussion about the ION Experiment and RFC 4693, I want to repeat something that at least some of us discussed extensively during the NEWTRK period (and maybe the POISSON period before that). Part of this has been said in t

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Re: Sharing information from questionnaires (Re: Nomcom 2007-8 Chair's Report)

2008-03-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-03-07 21:10, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: ... >> The other question is why should the IAB get any special consideration >> here? Surely, the IESG and the ISOC BoT could ask for more >> information too and should be privy to the same level of information >> that

Re: IONs & discuss criteria

2008-03-08 Thread Tim Polk
Spencer, On Mar 7, 2008, at 8:56 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > (stuff deleted) > > So, for example, it probably IS worth finding out if the rest of > the ADs who sponsor reviewing bodies As an AD who sponsors a reviewing body (the Security Directorate), I guess it is my turn to step into the

Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Dan York
IETFers, Here's your Friday afternoon bit of humor - as you all who have been around for a while were designing this set of Tubes known as the Internet, did you imagine that someday it might be used for 242 Gbps of traffic related to 500,000 people joining a web collaboration session for.

Re: IONs & discuss criteria

2008-03-08 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 3/7/2008 11:18 AM, Thomas Narten wrote: > Lakshminath Dondeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> I have reviewed documents as a Gen-ART reviewer (during Brian's tenure I >> think), sec-dir reviewer and also provided IETF LC comments on some >> documents. As a reviewer, I am not sure whether I

Call for participation for possible IRTF Network Virtualization Research Group

2008-03-08 Thread Martin Stiemerling
Hi, This might interesting for the l1/l2/l3 vpn and vrrp people. You may have received the below email some days ago. The feedback to this email was very positive, i.e., there has been feedback from interested researchers in the US, Canada, Asia, and Europe. If you are interested you can -

Re: IONs & discuss criteria

2008-03-08 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 3/7/2008 10:56 AM, Russ Housley wrote: > Lakshminath: > >>> So, I'll tell everyone how I deal with Gen-ART Reviews. Other >>> General ADs may have done things slightly different. >>> When I use a Gen-ART Review as the basis of a DISCUSS, I put it in >>> one of two categories. >>> (1) The

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Joel Jaeggli
10 years ago I would have thought audiences of this scale or larger would be supported with multicast... joelja Dan York wrote: > IETFers, > > Here's your Friday afternoon bit of humor - as you all who have been > around for a while were designing this set of Tubes known as the > Internet, di

Re: a thanks to the Gen-ART reviewers

2008-03-08 Thread Michael Thomas
Andrew Newton wrote: > To Eric, Spencer, and all the other Gen-ART reviewers: Thank you. > > My experience with Gen-ART reviews has been very positive, and I > appreciate your work and effort. I realize you weren't seeking public > praise, but your volunteer contribution to the good of the IE

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 8, 2008, at 10:02 AM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > 10 years ago I would have thought audiences of this scale or larger > would be supported with multicast... And indeed they could be. Most consumer facing ISP's, however, say that they would rather not deploy multicast (to save deployment money

Re: a thanks to the Gen-ART reviewers

2008-03-08 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
And my thanks, specifically to Pasi, Miguel(twice), Vijay and Joel, who as GenART reviewers, provided thorough reviews of documents I recently shepherded or co-authored, and followed up diligently after revised documents have been published and sent a "ready for publication" or "addresses all c

Re: IONs & discuss criteria

2008-03-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 08 March, 2008 00:12 -0800 Lakshminath Dondeti <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> The ideal way to deal with them is to always respond, and to >> get an "I am satisfied with your response" to close the >> thread. > > "Ideal" being the keyword though. Not everyone, for any > number of

Re: IONs, RFC 4693, Core Process Documents, and BCPs

2008-03-08 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
John C Klensin skrev: > > Some of this points out, once again, that BCPs are probably the > wrong mechanism for reaching consensus on and publishing process > documents, regardless of what we do with IONs. > > Should we keep IONs and, if so, should we keep them in their > present form or so some tu

Re: IONs, RFC 4693, Core Process Documents, and BCPs

2008-03-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, 08 March, 2008 18:13 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (quibble - I call the BCPs that describe the principles for > the process "process" documents, so I'd say that BCPs are > probably the wrong mechanism for reaching consensus on and > publishing *proced

Re: Sharing information from questionnaires (Re: Nomcom 2007-8 Chair's Report)

2008-03-08 Thread Danny McPherson
On Mar 7, 2008, at 3:21 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > Fully agree. In fact, given that the IAB expectations have been on > the web for >4 years, it's surprising this debate hasn't happened > before. One might argue that it has, and it's specifically what prompted clarify - yet still ambiguous

Re: Sharing information from questionnaires (Re: Nomcom 2007-8 Chair's Report)

2008-03-08 Thread Danny McPherson
On Mar 7, 2008, at 1:10 AM, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: > > Agreed - and one of the process failures here is that a nomcom that > includes the previous chair and a liaison from the IAB designed a > questionnaire in ignorance of the stated requirements; if the IAB > expec

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Theodore Tso
On Sat, Mar 08, 2008 at 11:36:28AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > I have to wonder, though, if any ISP will have the guts to block Oprah. Heh. and if they tried, I'm just imagining what would happen when she tells all of her faithful audience to call up their congresscritters to support Net Neu

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 8 mar 2008, at 11.36, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > I have to wonder, though, if any ISP will have the guts to block > Oprah. Why would they? Each one of the 750k "friends" of Oprah is paying for their IP packets, and the server hosting people also pay for their IP packets. What is then wr

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Jeroen Massar
Patrik Fältström wrote: [..] P.S. And if multicast is in use, or unicast or some othercast, that is from my point of view part of the "innovation" the ISPs have to do (and will do) to ensure that the production cost is as low as possible so that their margin is maximized. I actually see a

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 8, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > Patrik Fältström wrote: > [..] >> P.S. And if multicast is in use, or unicast or some othercast, >> that is from my point of view part of the "innovation" the ISPs >> have to do (and will do) to ensure that the production cost is as >> lo

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 8 mar 2008, at 17.51, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Mar 8, 2008, at 5:43 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: > >> Patrik Fältström wrote: >> [..] >>> P.S. And if multicast is in use, or unicast or some othercast, >>> that is from my point of view part of the "innovation" the ISPs >>> have to do (and

Multicast and charging (Was: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?)

2008-03-08 Thread Jeroen Massar
Patrik Fältström wrote: [..] I am afraid that this is the sort of reasoning that has lead to P2P having such widespread use. I fully agree, (unicast) P2P is a godsend for Transit operators. The fun with "p2p" is though, that HTTP is also peer to peer and actually anything unicast is p2p from

RE: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-choices-05

2008-03-08 Thread Olaf Kolkman
Dear Philip, You referred to draft-hallambaker-xptr-00.txt and wrote: The list of comments does not include my core objection made in the 'Domain Centric Administration' and XPTR drafts, that it is in fact possible to create 'midpoint' wildcards of the form '_prefix.*.example.com' by the

Re: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-choices-05

2008-03-08 Thread Olaf Kolkman
A minute ago I wrote: I think that the DNSEXT working group is a better place to discuss the proposal and I've CC-ed them on this note. I used the wrong address in the CC line. Be aware of that if you want to continue the discussion on DNSEXT: [EMAIL PROTECTED] is the proper address of t

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Fred Baker
yes. those that built the integrated services model felt that it was appropriate for internet telephony to have a way to test the capacity available for a real time data stream, and if capacity wasn't available, to say "no". Those who have worked in ieprep have pointed out that absent such

Re: Multicast and charging (Was: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?)

2008-03-08 Thread Greg Shepherd
2008/3/8 Jeroen Massar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > Patrik Fältström wrote: > [..] > >> I am afraid that this is the sort of reasoning that has lead to P2P > >> having such widespread use. > > I fully agree, (unicast) P2P is a godsend for Transit operators. > > The fun with "p2p" is though, that HTT

RE: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of trafficfor Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
The problem with multicast in this application is that it only works if all the clients are accepting the same data stream and viewing it live. That's not how people tend to view Web video, there might be 50% of the crowd watching it as Oprah speaks but the rest are likely to be time shifted fro

Re: IONs, RFC 4693, Core Process Documents, and BCPs

2008-03-08 Thread Frank Ellermann
John C Klensin wrote: > Several of us have observed that the IETF is not very good at > writing precise procedural rules. Some of us would even claim > that history shows that we are fairly poor. You could say roughly the same about the IETF not being as good as it should at producing valid AB

Re: a thanks to the Gen-ART reviewers

2008-03-08 Thread Frank Ellermann
Andrew Newton wrote: > To Eric, Spencer, and all the other Gen-ART reviewers: Thank you. +1 And thanks for offering a public list allowing to see what is going on, for a boilerplate stating "treat it just like any other review", and for picking the nice name "review team" instead of "director