draft-mayrhofer-geopriv-geo-uri-00

2008-05-21 Thread Bill McQuillan
While reading through this ID: A Uniform Resource Identifier for Geographic Locations ('geo' URI), I found several minor issues. Section 2. Introduction [use of WGS84 reference system] I wonder if it might be more forward thinking to allow for the optional specification of the reference

ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Ray Pelletier
The IETF Trust is considering applying to the U.S. Library of Congress to obtain an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the RFC Series and would like community input to inform its decision. The Trust may take up this matter on June 11th. An ISSN is applied to serials - print or

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread eburger
Great idea, and I don't see a downside. Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Ray Pelletier [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 13:52:09 To:IETF Discussion ietf@ietf.org, IAOC [EMAIL PROTECTED], The IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED],RFC Editor [EMAIL PROTECTED],

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 2:06 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Great idea, and I don't see a downside. The only possible disadvantage I can see is if they're then cataloged as a serial rather than having individual call numbers and individual catalog entries, but since the Library of Congress

RE: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread David Harrington
Hi, The Trust has analyzed the advantages, and you included the advantages in your post. Has the Trust also analyzed any potential disadvantages? Can you tell us those as well? David Harrington [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - From: Melinda Shore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IETF Discussion ietf@ietf.org Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 11:16 AM Subject: Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration ... The only possible disadvantage I can see is if they're then cataloged as a serial rather than having individual call

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/21/08 at 1:52 PM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote: The Trust believes there are advantages to indentifying the RFC Series with an ISSN. OK, maybe I'm getting suspicious in my (still slowly) advancing years: Nowhere in the message did I see words like, The Trust has consulted with

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Re: [IAOC] ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Ray Pelletier
Pete Resnick wrote: On 5/21/08 at 1:52 PM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote: The Trust believes there are advantages to indentifying the RFC Series with an ISSN. OK, maybe I'm getting suspicious in my (still slowly) advancing years: Nowhere in the message did I see words like, The

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 2:19 PM, Randy Presuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What would it take to get them cataloged individually? Interest in having them cataloged individually. I believe LC catalogs everything it receives. I've been out of librarianship long enough not to know how they receive

Re: [IAOC] ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Pete Resnick
On 5/21/08 at 2:36 PM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote: The Trust did consult with lawyers, old-crusty-IETFers, RFC Editor, and found no disadvantages to indentifying the RFC Series with an ISSN. [...] We've done our due diligence, but we respect the community and the process, and seek its guidance.

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
Mostly sounds fine, with one small glitch. At 1:52 PM -0400 5/21/08, Ray Pelletier wrote: According to the Library of Congress, www.loc.gov/issn/, for serials available only in online versions, the ISSN should appear on the title screen or home page and/or in the masthead or other areas where

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Steve Crocker
Naw. The ISSN has to be on the document itself. As you point out, this isn't something to be done with Internet Drafts, so it falls naturally to the RFC Editor, not to the individual authors. Steve On May 22, 2008, at 3:14 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: Mostly sounds fine, with one small

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 12:14:35PM -0700, Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 23 lines which said: The value of adding ISSN: 12345678 ISSN: 12345678? I hope we will eat our own dog food and use RFC 3044. ___ IETF mailing list

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Dave Crocker
Steve Crocker wrote: Naw. The ISSN has to be on the document itself. As you point out, this isn't something to be done with Internet Drafts, so it falls naturally to the RFC Editor, not to the individual authors. The benefit of the new number requires that folk know about it, which

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread TS Glassey
I think there is a bigger issue with encumbering the people of the US for paying for creating an indexing system for the IETF to prevent the Chair/Trust from doing its job. I suggest that this is another stupid idea from the Trust to keep them from actually answering the question as to what

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 3:36 PM, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The benefit of the new number requires that folk know about it, I actually don't think that's the case. I mean, I think it should be on the documents (otherwise there's some small point to having one, but not a lot) but I think it's real

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Julian Reschke
Ray Pelletier wrote: ... The Trust believes there are advantages to indentifying the RFC Series with an ISSN. Among them, 1. Make reference to the series compact and globally unique; ... More compact than urn:ietf:rfc:? BR, Julian ___ IETF

RE: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Eastlake III Donald-LDE008
Yes, this seems like a good idea and I don't see why anyone would have to do any work other than the RFC Editor. Are the tools we use really so brittle that adding a line with ISSN - or urn:ISSN:- or whatever somewhere in the upper left corner of the first page of an RFC will break

RE: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed May 21 20:49:19 2008, Eastlake III Donald-LDE008 wrote: Yes, this seems like a good idea and I don't see why anyone would have to do any work other than the RFC Editor. Are the tools we use really so brittle that adding a line with ISSN - or urn:ISSN:- or

Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET)

2008-05-21 Thread Chad Giffin
The following is an explanation of how to accomplish setting up a path of communication between two RNET Hosts. Some of you may have already figured this out... now you have the definitive answer.Consider this; You have two RNET Hosts, host A and host B. Both hosts wish to communicate with

RE: [IAOC] ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Richard Shockey
+1 no brainer -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Pete Resnick Sent: Wednesday, May 21, 2008 3:06 PM To: Ray Pelletier Cc: Working Group Chairs; IAB; IETF Discussion; IAOC; The IESG; RFC Editor Subject: Re: [IAOC] ISSN for RFC

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-05-22 07:20, Julian Reschke wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: ... The Trust believes there are advantages to indentifying the RFC Series with an ISSN. Among them, 1. Make reference to the series compact and globally unique; ... More compact than urn:ietf:rfc:? Possibly not, but

Re: Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET)

2008-05-21 Thread eburger
So we have reinvented STUN? Sent from my Verizon Wireless BlackBerry -Original Message- From: Chad Giffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Wed, 21 May 2008 17:09:54 To:ietf@ietf.org Cc:[EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET) The following is an

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 5:39 PM, Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly not, but there is still a crusty old world of academic publications with traditional reference styles out there, and an ISSN will make it much more straightforward to cite RFCs in peer-reviewed publications. +1 that it's a

Re: Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET)

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 5:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we have reinvented STUN? This is probably closer to Paul Francis's NUTSS stuff without the cool crankback and especially without resolving the location problem. Melinda ___ IETF

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread John Levine
The practical benefit I see here is getting the Library of Congress (and who knows? maybe the British Library, etc.) to catalog the series as a series, but again I'm unclear on the practical benefit, since RFCs are incredibly easy to find *as* RFCs; that is to say, by the information by which the

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Wed, 21 May 2008 17:52:55 -0400, Melinda Shore wrote: On 5/21/08 5:39 PM, Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Possibly not, but there is still a crusty old world of academic publications with traditional reference styles out there, and an ISSN will make it much more

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
So? The rules of academic citation are broken. Take a look at their idiotic criteria for citing web pages. Unfortunately the folk who designed the reference manager for office 2008 made the mistake of taking them seriously. It is not possible to cite urls for articles as a result. Sent

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I agree with Melinda here. I can't remember ever seeing anything like an ISBN or an ISSN used as a citation in an academic paper. Correct, but I have seen a wide variety of ways to cite RFCs and tying them all back to an ISSN number would be a step forward IMHO. In any case: at worst,

Re: Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET)

2008-05-21 Thread Dean Willis
On May 21, 2008, at 4:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we have reinvented STUN? No, we've moved the state of STUN into each of the routers between the two hosts, and have to hope we don't have a route flap somewhere. It's sort of like RSVP. -- Dean

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sipping-overload-reqs (Requirements for Management of Overload in the Session Initiation Protocol) to Informational RFC

2008-05-21 Thread Jonathan Rosenberg
thanks for the comments, Matt. Responses below: Matt Mathis wrote: I reviewed draft-ietf-sipping-overload-reqs-02 at the request of the transport area directors. Note that my area of expertise is TCP, congestion control and bulk data transport. I am not a SIP expert, and have not been

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-2822upd (Internet Message Format) toDraft Standard

2008-05-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Lisa, Could you let us see your summary of the discussion about (not) documenting the X-headers? I haven't seen any further comments since Dave's message below, and it appears that the IESG is ballotting on the document now. Regards Brian On 2008-04-08 06:34, Dave Crocker wrote: Pete

Re: Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET)

2008-05-21 Thread Scott Brim
Excerpts from Melinda Shore at 17:55:57 -0400 on Wed 21 May 2008: On 5/21/08 5:49 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So we have reinvented STUN? This is probably closer to Paul Francis's NUTSS stuff without the cool crankback and especially without resolving the location

Re: draft-mayrhofer-geopriv-geo-uri-00

2008-05-21 Thread Mr Kim Sanders
While I cannot comment specifically about RFC style, I can say (from my study of the use of language globally) that there are several conventions in use for numerical notation using the numerals 0-9, depending on usage. - The point/period/full stop may be used to separate whole numbers from

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