Re: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz

2009-03-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Saturday, March 07, 2009 12:31 -0500 Richard M Stallman wrote: > So the answer to your question is that Experimental RFCs > are different from Standards Track ones because, among > other things, there is no implicit IETF recommendation of > implementation and deployment of

Re: Passing of Jim Bound

2009-03-07 Thread Jeffrey I. Schiller
- "Robert Moskowitz" wrote: Very much a loss. Quite a colorful personality. I will never forget his mike time at the Danver's IETF in his 'nam fatigues. And neither will I (as the person he was flaming!). That said, I am truly saddened by his passing. His wit was sharp and his heart was al

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-07 Thread Olafur Gudmundsson
At 14:02 07/03/2009, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: On 2009-03-04 16:33 Margaret Wasserman said the following: > I would like to propose that we re-format Internet-Drafts such that > the boilerplate (status and copyright) is moved to the back of the > draft, and the abstract moves up to page 1. > > I d

Re: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz

2009-03-07 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Sat, 7 Mar 2009 17:49:54 -1000 David Conrad wrote: > Hi, > > On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: > > I agree with Ned. The main purpose of the registry should be to > > document what is out there, not to act as a gatekeeper. Even when > > a protocol is not a full standard,

Re: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz

2009-03-07 Thread David Conrad
Hi, On Mar 7, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: I agree with Ned. The main purpose of the registry should be to document what is out there, not to act as a gatekeeper. Even when a protocol is not a full standard, having a public documentation is useful. Documentation enables filter

RE: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz

2009-03-07 Thread Christian Huitema
> > While I agree (and strongly so), there is lots of precedent for > > the IESG rejecting parameter registrations because of distaste > > for a particular extension, presumably in the hope that "no > > registered value" will imply "the unpopular extension idea goes > > away". > > There are indeed

Re: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz

2009-03-07 Thread ned+ietf
> --On Friday, March 06, 2009 14:08 -0800 Kurt Zeilenga > wrote: > >... > > Okay, so we're being overly anal here. Like we can control > > the world of protocol extensions. > Kurt, > While I agree (and strongly so), there is lots of precedent for > the IESG rejecting parameter registrations

Re: Passing of Jim Bound

2009-03-07 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Russ Housley wrote: This is very sad news. Jim was a very strong supporter of the IETF and IPv6. Very much a loss. Quite a colorful personality. I will never forget his mike time at the Danver's IETF in his 'nam fatigues. When he wanted to make a point, he did not pull any punches. And the f

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
Cullen Jennings wrote: > > On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > >> Giving to early implementers a guaranty that >> their contributions will not be forgotten is a way to counterbalance >> the time and effort spent in working on this contributions. > > Marc, I feel that it is

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
Ned Freed wrote: >> Scott Lawrence wrote: >>> On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:17 -0800, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a new Considerations Section in future Intern

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread ned+ietf
> Scott Lawrence wrote: > > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:17 -0800, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > >> I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back > >> running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a > >> new Considerations Section in future Internet-Drafts and RFCs

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Mar 3, 2009, at 3:43 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: Giving to early implementers a guaranty that their contributions will not be forgotten is a way to counterbalance the time and effort spent in working on this contributions. Marc, I feel that it is well worth thanking anyone in the ac

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-07 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Mar 7, 2009, at 12:21 PM, David Morris wrote: I can't recall any examples of any document or source file where the copyright was at the end. It certainly isn't common. agree it is unusual and weird but much of resiprocate has them at the end because some people had a hard time with the p

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-07 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Mar 7, 2009, at 1:45 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: So, I'm not against another re-organization, but, in this time, PLEASE: - plan it well (think of all consequences for both I-Ds and RFCs) - make the requirements precise and actually implementable (remember: "must be on page 1" :-) - giv

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-07 Thread David Morris
This seems like a really good idea from a usability perspective, but I've not noticed any feed back from our official or unofficial legal community. My concern would be whether there is a legal requirement that the copyright and other similar declarations be in the front of a document. I'd ce

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-07 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2009-03-04 16:33 Margaret Wasserman said the following: > I would like to propose that we re-format Internet-Drafts such that > the boilerplate (status and copyright) is moved to the back of the > draft, and the abstract moves up to page 1. > > I don't believe that there are any legal impl

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Doug Ewell
Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: What this draft ask for is to be mandatory to list in a specific section the names, authors and sponsors of early implementations available in source form. Everything that does not fall under the definition can still be acknowledged as it is now (or not) in the no

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
Scott Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:17 -0800, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >> I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back >> running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a >> new Considerations Section in future Internet-Drafts and RFCs: >> >> ht

Re: Running Code

2009-03-07 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
Scott Lawrence wrote: > On Tue, 2009-03-03 at 13:17 -0800, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: >> I would like to bring to your attention this proposal to put back >> running code at the center of Internet protocol design by adding a >> new Considerations Section in future Internet-Drafts and RFCs: >> >> ht

Re: jim bound

2009-03-07 Thread Michael Loftis
It's...sad that a lot of the men and women involved in making some of this countries greatest technological leaps are passing. Many of the men and women who put us on the moon are no longer alive. More and more of the men and women who helped build the bedrock of what became modern computing

Re: Abstract on Page 1?

2009-03-07 Thread Julian Reschke
Scott Lawrence wrote: ... This is a trivial change for the generation tools to make - at worst it will make one generation of diffs slightly more difficult (and I'd be happy to trade one generation of poor diffs for this, so for me just don't worry about fixing the diff tools). ... At this poin