Re: Last Call: draft-ellermann-news-nntp-uri (The 'news' and 'nntp'URI Schemes) to Proposed Standard

2008-03-17 Thread Frank Ellermann
Tom Petch wrote: Perhaps, in a year or two, when the surrounding landscape is more stable, there will be scope for a revision I did consider to bet on 2822upd as the faster horse. See a recent thread on the SMTP list about email-arch I18N, EAI, 2822upd, and all the rest for the context of bet.

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Ralph Droms
Agreeing with Brian's dislike of http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-07-23-nomcom.html, it was drafted, as far as I know, before RFC 3777 was published. RFC 3777 defines the process, with the consensus of the IETF community as a whole. I suggest that the IAB at least review its

Re: Gen-Art IETF LC review: draft-ietf-ipfix-testing-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Paul Aitken
Joel, Apologies for not responding sooner to your review, as it came right ahead of the -00 and -nn cutoffs. Please see some responses inline. I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see

RE: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rohc-rfc3095bis-rohcv2-profiles-05

2008-03-17 Thread Ghyslain Pelletier
Thanks you for your careful review and for your comments. We have looked into your comments, and we try to provide answers inline within your original email included below. We will update the draft according to our answers below, please let us know in case the proposed resolutions to your

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-avt-rtp-jpeg2000-beam-09.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Black_David
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document:

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Stewart Bryant
I believe that it's appropriate for the confirming bodies to ask for additional information if they have reason to doubt that due proces has been followed or that some of the proposed appointees are suitable. Isn't one of the roles of the liaisons to ensure that due process is followed to the

Nomcom liaison duties

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Stewart Bryant wrote: Isn't one of the roles of the liaisons to ensure that due process is followed to the extent required by the body they represent, and to give advanced notice when the choice of candidate is likely to be unacceptable to their body? Hmmm. RFC 3777, Section 4. #7

RE: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I think you have the whole confirmation process backwards. If you start from the premise that the absolute priority is to keep control in the hands of the establishment you naturally arrive at a need for at least two bodies arranged so that each acts as a guardianship council to the other.

Re: Nomcom liaison duties

2008-03-17 Thread Danny McPherson
On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:17 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: Stewart Bryant wrote: Isn't one of the roles of the liaisons to ensure that due process is followed to the extent required by the body they represent, and to give advanced notice when the choice of candidate is likely to be unacceptable

Re: Thoughts on the nomcom process

2008-03-17 Thread Stephen Kent
Mike, I have to disagree with your characterization of the proper role of the IAB with regard to the NOMCOM process. I have been on three NOMCOMs, including the one prior to this, so I too have some experience in the process. My feeling is that the IAB may have been trying to assert too

draft-ietf-hokey-emsk-hierarchy-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html ). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: Specification

Re: EAP applicability (Was: Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet)

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Harkins
Hi Jari, On Thu, March 13, 2008 8:49 pm, Jari Arkko wrote: Avi, For what it is worth, this ex-EAP co-chair also thinks that the use of EAP keys for applications is a very bad idea. Why? For a number of reasons. Take this from someone who has actually tried to do this in the distant

Re: Thoughts on the nomcom process

2008-03-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Mike, Thanks for your note. Are you saying that there is text within 3777 that says that confirming bodies should not ask for verbatim feedback but could ask for verbatim questionnaire responses? Consider this: what if the next nomcom were to be asked to provide verbatim feedback by one of

Re: draft-ietf-hokey-emsk-hierarchy-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Hi Joel, Many thanks for your review. Some notes inline: I am a bit under the weather, and so if I am incoherent, please feel free to say so. Thanks. On 3/17/2008 1:47 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 3/16/2008 7:36 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: My apologies, I was going to leave this alone, but this ... chastisement .. is off-target. At 09:50 PM 3/16/2008, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Mike, whatever your personal opinion, based on the public information many people have concluded in good

RE: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet

2008-03-17 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
As much fun as I've had in catching up with this thread, I'd like to remind all of us that we, at the IETF, do not dictate the way systems get built in the real world. There are SDOs that have gone ahead and defined their own hierarchies out of the MSK and EMSK for various usages at higher

Re: On the confidentiality of the information and communication within the nomcom context

2008-03-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
I have been a bit under the weather and responding to some of the emails. I hope to catch up in the next couple of days. On 3/16/2008 1:56 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Hi Lakshimnath, just a few notes and queries... On 2008-03-16 16:10, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: ... * Nominee lists

Re: EAP applicability (Was: Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet)

2008-03-17 Thread Bernard Aboba
Actually I think it's a little more technical than editorial. This problem is due to the fact that HOKEY is extracting a key derived from the EMSK and making that The Mother Of All Root Keys (MOARK), which can be used to derive all keys for all purposes to solve all problems in the world.

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Fred Baker wrote: are confidential to the nomcom. For example, every question including a new do you have anything else you would like to add question needs to have two slots, one confidential to the nomcom and one confidential to the nomcom plus the confirming body. How about

RE: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Wing
There is an expectation that the information provided to the nominating committee is confidential. The confirming body needs some information to determine whether the candidate fits the stated requirements. There is a simple solution to that. The nomcom asks the candidates a

RE: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Wing
And in order to make the confidentiality issue more concrete (ie, real) would folks offer some examples of what falls under it. I accept the nomination of area director. The current area director, Mr. J. Sixpack, has been attempting to impose his opinion that beer should contain rice.

RE: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Christian Huitema
And in order to make the confidentiality issue more concrete (ie, real) would folks offer some examples of what falls under it. I accept the nomination of area director. The current area director, Mr. J. Sixpack, has been attempting to impose his opinion that beer should contain rice.

Re: draft-ietf-hokey-emsk-hierarchy-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Joel M. Halpern
Thank you. Comment following your clarification. Joel Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: ... The one thing that bothers me a little is the intended status of this document. Given that the EMSK is entirely inside a system, and that therefore the actual generation process is internal to that

RE: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Dan Wing
And in order to make the confidentiality issue more concrete (ie, real) would folks offer some examples of what falls under it. I accept the nomination of area director. The current area director, Mr. J. Sixpack, has been attempting to impose his opinion that beer should contain

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:44:49 -0700 Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in order to make the confidentiality issue more concrete (ie, real) would folks offer some examples of what falls under it. I accept the nomination of area director. The current area director, Mr. J.

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Danny McPherson
On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:08 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Try this one, quite non-hypothetical: a candidate for the IESG is contemplating switching jobs. His or her current employer does not yet know this. It has a clear bearing on whether or not that person can do the job of AD, but

Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet

2008-03-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Narayanan, Vidya skrev: All said and done, here is what it boils down to - any application of EAP keying material to other services (using the term here to include things ranging from handoffs to mobility to L7 applications) is only feasible when those services are provided either by or

Re: On the confidentiality of the information and communication within the nomcom context

2008-03-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Brian E Carpenter skrev: Hi Lakshimnath, just a few notes and queries... On 2008-03-16 16:10, Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: ... * Nominee lists should be made public. In fact, other selection processes within the IETF make the candidate lists public and so it is time we let go of this

Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet

2008-03-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
On 3/17/2008 7:23 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Narayanan, Vidya skrev: All said and done, here is what it boils down to - any application of EAP keying material to other services (using the term here to include things ranging from handoffs to mobility to L7 applications) is only

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Dave Crocker
Christian Huitema wrote: And in order to make the confidentiality issue more concrete (ie, real) would folks offer some examples of what falls under it. I accept the nomination of area director. The current area director, Mr. J. Sixpack, has been attempting to impose his opinion that beer

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Lixia Zhang
On Mar 17, 2008, at 7:08 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Mon, 17 Mar 2008 18:44:49 -0700 Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And in order to make the confidentiality issue more concrete (ie, real) would folks offer some examples of what falls under it. I accept the nomination of

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Theodore Tso
On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 02:08:15AM +, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Try this one, quite non-hypothetical: a candidate for the IESG is contemplating switching jobs. His or her current employer does not yet know this. It has a clear bearing on whether or not that person can do the job of AD,

Re: draft-ietf-hokey-emsk-hierarchy-04.txt

2008-03-17 Thread Lakshminath Dondeti
Thanks Joel. Followup notes inline: On 3/17/2008 6:47 PM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Thank you. Comment following your clarification. Joel Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: ... The one thing that bothers me a little is the intended status of this document. Given that the EMSK is entirely

RE: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet

2008-03-17 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
-Original Message- From: Lakshminath Dondeti [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 17, 2008 7:58 PM To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand Cc: Narayanan, Vidya; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet On 3/17/2008 7:23 PM, Harald Tveit

Last Call: draft-ietf-sieve-notify-mailto (Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto) to Proposed Standard

2008-03-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Sieve Mail Filtering Language WG (sieve) to consider the following document: - 'Sieve Notification Mechanism: mailto ' draft-ietf-sieve-notify-mailto-06.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits

Last Call: draft-ietf-mip4-vpn-problem-solution (Mobile IPv4 Traversal Across IPsec-based VPN Gateways) to Proposed Standard

2008-03-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Mobility for IPv4 WG (mip4) to consider the following document: - 'Mobile IPv4 Traversal Across IPsec-based VPN Gateways ' draft-ietf-mip4-vpn-problem-solution-05.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and

Protocol Action: 'Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization' to Proposed Standard

2008-03-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Internet Message Access Protocol Internationalization ' draft-ietf-imapext-i18n-15.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Internet Message Access Protocol Extension Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Lisa

Protocol Action: 'Network Mobility (NEMO) Extensions for Mobile IPv4' to Proposed Standard

2008-03-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Network Mobility (NEMO) Extensions for Mobile IPv4 ' draft-ietf-mip4-nemo-v4-base-11.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Mobility for IPv4 Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Mark Townsley. A