Re: [Ltru] Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread Peter Constable
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Randy Presuhn wrote: However, the vocabulary, style, content, and peculiar world-view of this latest missive leave me more convinced than ever that LB is indeed JFC Morphin, and that under the terms of RFC 3683

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-09.txt

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
Spencer Dawkins wrote: I'm amazed that the downref isn't being called out in the Last Call announcement I wonder if you confused downref with the opposite case for EAI, the drafts modify more mature RFCs, in essence 2822 and arguably MIME, that's an upref, not a downref. If John *would*

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 12 lines which said: Does the IETF have a policy regarding misrepresented identities? I don't know but, in this case, the problem is not that he used a pseudonym (after all, noone here knows if

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-09.txt

2008-03-24 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Spencer Dawkins skrev: Hi, Harald, Thanks for the quick feedback (Gen-ART reviewers like this because we can remember writing the review, and at least part of what we were thinking about :-) Looks like mostly goodness. If we're in synch, I dropped it from this e-mail. Spencer 1.2.

RE: [HOKEY] EMSK Issue

2008-03-24 Thread Bernard Aboba
For example, consider using a USRK to secure HTTP. If your access provider did this to deliver firmware updates to your handset, this might be reasonable, but if amazon.com required it for authentication, this would be unreasonable. I do not believe that either application is reasonable.

Re: Objection to Last Call - draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-09.txt

2008-03-24 Thread Charles Lindsey
On Wed, 19 Mar 2008 09:32:42 +0100 Frank Ellerman nobody at xyzzy.claranet.de said: Apologies, I confused (1) and (2): [...] 1 - The use of a nested CTE B64 if all else fails to send DSNs to an EAI sender with a 7bit bit hop on the route. 2 - The use of UTF-8 in MIME version 1.0

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-09.txt

2008-03-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I sigh in my own general direction ;-) 1.2. Relation to other standards This document also updates [RFC2822] and MIME, and the fact that an experimental specification updates a standards-track spec means that people who participate in the experiment have to consider those standards

Re: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19 mrt 2008, at 1:46, Eric Rescorla wrote: A more interesting experiment would be to do away with SSL for a bit and use IPsec instead. Why would this be either interesting or desirable? SSL is vulnerable to more attacks than IPsec and IPsec is more general than SSL. As such it would be

Re: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16 mrt 2008, at 21:42, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: ... Nearly all IETF mailinglists are still hosted on IPv4-only servers, to name just one issue. Umm... At this time, most IETF mailing lists are hosted on mail.ietf.org a.k.a. www.ietf.org, which is IPv6 enabled. (The numbers I have for

Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
Finally back at the office today... While it is a fact of life that sessions clash at IETF meetings, I must say that Philadelphia has been especially bad in this regard. Does anyone else have the same experience? If it wasn't just me, I think it's time to look at the scheduling algorithm

Re: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Marc Manthey
Umm... At this time, most IETF mailing lists are hosted on mail.ietf.org a.k.a. www.ietf.org, which is IPv6 enabled. (The numbers I have for active WGs are that 90 out of 120 lists are hosted on ietf.org). I can't really reconcile that with your statement above. Could you expand on your

RE: [Ltru] Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread Russ Housley
I cannot find one. It seem to be a hole than needs filled. Russ At 11:45 AM 3/23/2008, Christian Huitema wrote: Does the IETF have a policy regarding misrepresented identities? In the particular incident, it is assumed that the person using the name of a famous French aviation pioneer is in

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Manning
one has to schedule unpleasentness, since there is so much of it. -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). ___ IETF mailing list

RE: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Eric Gray
Iljitsch, I'm not sure that I would say that Philadelphia was worse than most meetings, but it may have been from your perspective. This sort of scheduling problem is very well known to be NP hard and trying to meet the scheduling conflict matrix for 1500 to 2500 people would

RE: [Ltru] Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread Wes Beebee (wbeebee)
The closest I could find was: Working groups SHOULD ensure that their associated mailing list is manageable. For example, some may try to circumvent the revocation of their posting rights by changing email addresses; accordingly it should be possible to restrict the new email address. from

Re: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Joe Abley
On 24 Mar 2008, at 11:18 , Marc Manthey wrote: hello ipv6 peoples, sorry for crossposting how can i use ipv6 from my machine ? using leopard 10.5.2. mail ? my endpoint is 2001:6f8:1051:0:20d:93ff:fe79:f1e thought its automatic :-P I think you just need to make sure that the servers

RE: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
These claims are meaningless to me. Transport and network layer security have distinct objectives and purposes. They are not replacements or interchangeable in any sense. If you beleive that there is an attack that SSL is vulnerable to you should bring it up in TLS. In general the higher

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Jari Arkko
Iljitsch, Tell me about it... I had more than one WGs of my own meeting at the same time (6MAN and MEXT), triple booked on slots like the Tuesday morning slot where we had MEXT, V6OPS, and RRG at the same time, etc. INT has for years generally met (at least!) twice on every slot, and the ADs

Write an RFC Was: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Enough, already. If we are going to have experiments in IETF week then lets do the thing right and have a process. In particular - Proposer MUST write an Internet Draft prior to the experiment stating: 1) Purpose - the information to be obtained 2) Method - what it to be done 3) Resources -

TLS vs. IPsec (Was: Re: experiments in the ietf week)

2008-03-24 Thread Jari Arkko
Phillip, Iljitsch, If you beleive that there is an attack that SSL is vulnerable to you should bring it up in TLS. I think Iljitsch meant that TLS cannot protect against TCP vulnerabilities, such as spoofed connection resets. This is obviously well known. The upside of TLS has of course been

Re: Write an RFC Was: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Jari Arkko
Phillip, write an Internet Draft prior to the experiment, +1 *IPv6 Next Steps* The Philadelphia IPv6 outage tested one specific aspect of the transition - is there an IPv6 network on the other side to connect to in due course, is it possible to run a pure IPv6 network? I think that

RE: [HOKEY] EMSK Issue

2008-03-24 Thread Narayanan, Vidya
Charles, -Original Message- From: Charles Clancy [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, March 23, 2008 7:18 PM To: Narayanan, Vidya Cc: Glen Zorn; ietf@ietf.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Bernard Aboba Subject: Re: [HOKEY] EMSK Issue Vidya, ... do the responsible thing, which

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread John Leslie
John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Saturday, 22 March, 2008 23:02 -0700 Douglas Otis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The update of RFC2821 is making a _significant_ architectural change to SMTP by explicitly stating records are within a list of SMTP server discovery records.

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread Ned Freed
John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Saturday, 22 March, 2008 23:02 -0700 Douglas Otis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The update of RFC2821 is making a _significant_ architectural change to SMTP by explicitly stating records are within a list of SMTP server discovery records.

Re: Write an RFC Was: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Russ Housley
Phillip: Have you tried the SSID at the IETF meetings that is configured to make use of 802.1x? Russ At 01:49 PM 3/24/2008, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Secure WiFi Connection I would like to see some demonstration of the fact that the default WiFi configuration on all existing platforms

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
John Leslie wrote: Whether or not we have any consensus that this historical practice should be deprecated (I would vote YES!), +1 rfc2821-bis is not, IMHO, the right place to deprecate it. It could be seen as an unintended chance to keep out of this business, because RFC 2821 forgot

IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-24 Thread Russ Housley
During the Wednesday Plenary at IETF 71, I gave the IETF community a heads up on two documents from the IPR WG that were nearing IETF Last Call. Both of the documents have now reached IETF Last call. The Last Call announcements are attached. Please review and comment. Russ == == == == ==

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread Douglas Otis
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Ned Freed wrote: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Saturday, 22 March, 2008 23:02 -0700 Douglas Otis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The update of RFC2821 is making a _significant_ architectural change to SMTP by explicitly stating records are

Re: [Ltru] Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread LB
Cher Russ, The debate about me is depressing. Only signatories to the PR-action against JFC Morfin are interested. They are not very credible. Their doctrine is globalization: internationalization of the medium (Unicode), localization of the terminal (CLDR) and identification of linguistic context

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread Ned Freed
On Mar 24, 2008, at 11:42 AM, Ned Freed wrote: John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On Saturday, 22 March, 2008 23:02 -0700 Douglas Otis [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The update of RFC2821 is making a _significant_ architectural change to SMTP by explicitly stating records are

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Brian Dickson
Eric Gray wrote: Iljitsch, I'm not sure that I would say that Philadelphia was worse than most meetings, but it may have been from your perspective. Iljitsch is far from alone, just the earliest and most vocal of us. :-) This sort of scheduling problem is very well known

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Clint Chaplin
On 3/24/08, Brian Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Gray wrote: This sort of scheduling problem is very well known to be NP hard and trying to meet the scheduling conflict matrix for 1500 to 2500 people would make the N large. Universities have been doing this

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread Keith Moore
FWIW, my opinion is that if you want to accept incoming mail via IPv6, you need to advertise one or more MX records that point to ipv6-capable hosts. Treating A records (in the absence of MX records) as implicit MX records was a hack needed to avoid forcing everyone to advertise an MX record

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
Ned Freed wrote: If the consensus is that better interoperability can be had by banning bare records that's perfectly fine with me. FWIW, I'd like that... Clarity can be established and interoperability _improved_ by limiting discovery to just A and MX records. Perhaps a note might

RE: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Eric Gray
Brian, See below... :-) -- Eric Gray Principal Engineer Ericsson -Original Message- From: Brian Dickson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 24, 2008 6:16 PM To: Eric Gray Cc: Iljitsch van Beijnum; IETF Discussion Subject: Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

RE: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread Tamir Melamed
On Sun, Mar 23, 2008 at 08:45:19AM -0700, Christian Huitema wrote a message which included: using pseudonyms is a form of free speech I am not familiar with the specifics of this case but in the internet world pseudonyms is very common. I agree that in a standard setting body hiding

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Mark Andrews
On 3/24/08, Brian Dickson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Eric Gray wrote: This sort of scheduling problem is very well known to be NP hard and trying to meet the scheduling conflict matrix for 1500 to 2500 people would make the N large. Universities have been doing this

RE: Write an RFC Was: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Well I would submit that there is a major problem there on the security usability front. Don't make me think. My tolerance for network configuration is vastly greater than the typical user. This has to all just work, just like my Apple Mac did on the home network the day I bought it. Not

RE: Write an RFC Was: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I am willing to have a go at it next time round but only if I have some idea what I am expected to have on my machine and what authentication indicata I am to expect. As it stands there is no way for me to evaluate an authentic or inauthentic experience. I don't know what authentic looks like.

Re: Objection to Last Call - draft-ietf-eai-utf8headers-09.txt

2008-03-24 Thread Frank Ellermann
Charles Lindsey wrote: none of the MUAs available to me allow manual tinkering with References (and, worse, the ietf archives don't show Message-ID headers at all) From my POV news://news.gmane.org/[EMAIL PROTECTED] was still okay apart from my unnecessary (1) and (2) confusion, same as

Re: amusing text from recently-published US Military standards

2008-03-24 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Charles Clancy wrote: Text from MIL-STD-188-220D, published March 2008: Something tells me they haven't updated this boilerplate since the 1980s. I'm surprised there weren't any references to GOPHER. The use of WAIS dates it's origin to the 1991-1993 era...

Re: Write an RFC Was: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-24 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 25 mar 2008, at 02.18, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I am willing to have a go at it next time round but only if I have some idea what I am expected to have on my machine and what authentication indicata I am to expect. As it stands there is no way for me to evaluate an authentic or

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Diving into solutions space The WG scheduling tool has 3 lists of groups to avoid conflicts with, 1st, 2nd and 3rd priority. I don't know if these are visible to anyone but the requesting WG Chair, but they're listed on the confirmation notice from the tool; I've made it a practice to

Re: [Ltru] Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-24 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Russ Housley skrev: I cannot find one. It seem to be a hole than needs filled. Solution space: At the time when I was assistant chair of the ICANN DNSO General Assembly, we had this exact problem with the many identities of Jeff Williams; he had enough pseudo-personalities on the list that he

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread John Loughney
Harald, Even a simpler solution. If you (meaning Iljitsch) had serious conflicts, then let the WG chairs know about these conficts. They may may not on the WG Chairs' radars. That has happened to me, where WG members were overlapping with groups that I was unaware of. John On Mon, Mar 24,

Last Call: draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming (Rights Contributors provide to the IETF Trust) to BCP

2008-03-24 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Intellectual Property Rights WG (ipr) to consider the following document: - 'Rights Contributors provide to the IETF Trust ' draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming-08.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final