Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Christian Vogt
Folks - It seems that folks are considering two related, yet still orthogonal topics for inclusion in the MIF charter: - Conflicts between configuration parameters. - Issues with address selection. (These two topics also span "issues with multiple network connections", which has been brought u

RE: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Tony Hain
At the end of the day it doesn't matter what you call it, the fundamental problem is that the widespread assumptions about a single-interface / single-address are not realistic in today's Internet, and there are independent policy realms influencing each end system. The available tool set is built

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Melinda Shore
Dean Willis wrote: Consider that peering policy is often driven by things that are well beyond the scope of protocol. Its potential range of expression is unlimited; in fact driven by a natural-language contract and heuristic operations on underspecified constraints derived from that natural-

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Dean Willis
On Apr 21, 2009, at 2:04 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: You can call it "foo" for all I care, but much of what's been discussed so far is policy. From the proposed charter: "A host connected to multiple networks has to make decisions about default router selection, address selection, DNS server sel

[Gen-art] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-rmt-pi-norm-revised-10

2009-04-21 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Just to let people know, version 10 of this specification addressed my questions from version 09, and I didn't see any new issues in text that was added in this version. Thanks, Spencer I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Hartman
Keith, Melinda, I believe you are talking about an issue that is distinct from what was discussed in the BOF. My personal preference is to see work on what was discussed in the BOF. However to respond to Jari, I do not have have concerns with the charter as written. _

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
Melinda Shore wrote: > Keith Moore wrote: >> And I don't know why you think that the discussion is "already headed" >> toward policy when the group isn't even chartered yet. Certainly the >> discussion on the IETF list isn't "already headed" that way. > > You can call it "foo" for all I care, but

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
I'm saying there is a set of problems that exist if there are multiple addresses associated with a host for any reason. This could be multiple addresses on a single interface (including aliases and multiple v6 prefixes advertised on the network segment), multiple addresses because there are multip

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Melinda Shore
Keith Moore wrote: And I don't know why you think that the discussion is "already headed" toward policy when the group isn't even chartered yet. Certainly the discussion on the IETF list isn't "already headed" that way. You can call it "foo" for all I care, but much of what's been discussed so

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
Melinda Shore wrote: > Keith Moore wrote: >> I think it's interesting that you appear to consider "multiple addresses >> per host" a narrower problem than "multiple network connections per >> host", whereas I consider the latter to be a subset of the former. > > Yeah - I do, too. > > To expand on

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-21 Thread Joe Touch
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Tom.Petch wrote: ... >>> If you're here for a rubber stamp, you came to the wrong WG ;-) >> Rubber-stamp? No, Joe. The UK CPNI rubberstamp is more than enough, and >> when it comes to advice on this issues, I believe it's even more >> credible. Ask t

Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security

2009-04-21 Thread Tom.Petch
- Original Message - From: "Fernando Gont" To: "Joe Touch" Cc: ; ; "'Joe Abley'" ; ; "'Lars Eggert'" ; "'Eddy,Wesley M. (GRC-RCN0)[Verizon]'" Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2009 7:44 AM Subject: Re: [OPSEC] [tcpm] draft-gont-tcp-security > > Joe Touch wrote: > > >> FWIW, vendors are followin

Re: [Gen-art] [mif] [dhcwg] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-dhc-container-00

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Brim
Excerpts from Giyeong Son on Mon, Apr 20, 2009 11:35:14AM -0400: > For instance, for a dual-mode device at home with WiFi and IP over > cellular available (e.g. CDMA, GPRS/EDGE, etc), combination of > various network characteristics in it would be the major factors to > determine either WiFi or cel

RE: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Giyeong Son
No, I am also interested in "multiple network connections per host", but my main interesting topic is *simultaneous* if multiple networks (or multiple interfaces) are available. Sorry for this confusion. Giyeong -Original Message- From: Keith Moore [mailto:mo...@network-heretics.com] Se

RE: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Giyeong Son
I think that there are many working groups, standard bodies and technologies who focuses on multiple addresses per host. So, I'd also like MIF to concentrate on simultaneous connections to multiple networks (or simultaneous use of multiple connections with multiple networks). I believe that most o

RE: [Isms] Last Call: draft-ietf-isms-radius-usage (Remote Authentication Dial-In User Service (RADIUS) Usage for Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) Transport Models) to Proposed Standard

2009-04-21 Thread David B. Nelson
On March 9, 2009 Alan DeKok wrote... >Security Section: > >There are good reasons to provision USM access so supplement with >AAA-based access, however. > > > NIT: This doesn't appear to be a sentence. Yeah. Let's see what that was supposed to say... I think it's: There are

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Hui Deng
Are you saying multiple addresses on one interface of the host? thanks -Hui 2009/4/21 Keith Moore : > Jari Arkko wrote: >> There has been some discussion on whether the key issue is merging >> configuration from multiple sources (the "DHCP view"), multiple >> interfaces (the "original view"), m

Re: resignation business

2009-04-21 Thread Marie-France Berny
2009/4/19 Fred Baker > I assume that the relevant procedures were applied, etc. Is there any > action that is warranted in other domains, or should this be left to brew in > your particular teakettle? Dear Mr. Baker, If you mean that usual ad-hominems applied against posters without a warning

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Thomas Narten
Overall, I think the charter is good enough and we should ship it. A few minor comments. > Many hosts have the ability to attach to multiple networks > simultaneously. This can happen over multiple physical network > interfaces, a combination of physical and virtual interfaces (VPNs or > tunne

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Melinda Shore
Keith Moore wrote: I think it's interesting that you appear to consider "multiple addresses per host" a narrower problem than "multiple network connections per host", whereas I consider the latter to be a subset of the former. Yeah - I do, too. To expand on this a little, I think it's useful t

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
Giyeong Son wrote: > I think that there are many working groups, standard bodies and > technologies who focuses on multiple addresses per host. So, I'd also > like MIF to concentrate on simultaneous connections to multiple networks > (or simultaneous use of multiple connections with multiple netwo

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
Jari Arkko wrote: > There has been some discussion on whether the key issue is merging > configuration from multiple sources (the "DHCP view"), multiple > interfaces (the "original view"), multiple default routers (the "routing > view"), multiple addresses (the "IP layer view"), multiple > administ

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Jari Arkko
Sam, We may get an answer of "here are the issues to consider, here are points on a spectrum and the problems we introduce," but I think we can only do that if we limit the scope somewhat Point taken. But can you bring that to a concrete level by stating if something needs to change or be rem

Re: Extending the Dean Anderson PR-action to lists on tools.ietf.org

2009-04-21 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
On 2009-04-21 00:00 Sam Hartman said the following: ... > In conclusion, I do agree that abuse management for tools.ietf.org is > necessary. I simply don't believe that assuming all our list/spam > policies apply makes sense. I think that considering those policies > and especially the princi

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
Sam Hartman wrote: > Keith, I've considered your points and continue to disagree. I'm > mostly replying in the interest of judging consensus. > > I believe that the primary use cases identified in the MIF BOF are use > cases that are not going to go away. I think that saying "avoid > multiple ad

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Keith Moore
David W. Hankins wrote: > On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:08:40PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> I'd actually appreciate focus on the multiple interfaces (or multiple >> network providers) problem. I think that attacking this in full >> generality is well beyond what we can manage. I think even a focuse

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "David" == David W Hankins writes: David> On Mon, Apr 20, 2009 at 06:08:40PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: >> I'd actually appreciate focus on the multiple interfaces (or >> multiple network providers) problem. I think that attacking >> this in full generality is well beyond wh

Re: Extending the Dean Anderson PR-action to lists on tools.ietf.org

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Hartman
> "Fred" == Fred Baker writes: Fred> On Apr 17, 2009, at 1:18 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > My question is whether treating tools.ietf.org aliases as IETF lists >> is reasonable policy. Fred> And I would say that yes, they are IETF lists. For example, Fred> the tracker sends emai

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Sam Hartman
Keith, I've considered your points and continue to disagree. I'm mostly replying in the interest of judging consensus. I believe that the primary use cases identified in the MIF BOF are use cases that are not going to go away. I think that saying "avoid multiple addresses" is likely to be the sa

Re: [mif] WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Scott Brim
Excerpts from Jari Arkko on Tue, Apr 21, 2009 02:40:54PM +0300: > There has been some discussion on whether the key issue is merging > configuration from multiple sources (the "DHCP view"), multiple > interfaces (the "original view"), multiple default routers (the "routing > view"), multiple

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Jari Arkko
There has been some discussion on whether the key issue is merging configuration from multiple sources (the "DHCP view"), multiple interfaces (the "original view"), multiple default routers (the "routing view"), multiple addresses (the "IP layer view"), multiple administrative domains (the "ope

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Hui Deng
Margaret created the name of "MIF" orginally, maybe she has some other thoughts? like "MAIN" "MAD" -Hui 2009/4/21 Jari Arkko : > Ted, > >> Huh?  Why on earth is it hard?  Strings are cheap. >> > > On some previous WG creation exercise I was told that once the WG creation > process is in the IETF'

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Jari Arkko
Keith, I certainly agree that it's challenging to attack the generalized version. However, if you try to solve each version of this problem separately, the result will be even more complex, less workable, and less realistic than if you try to look at it from a broader view. There's a strong pot

Re: WG Review: Multiple InterFaces (mif)

2009-04-21 Thread Hui Deng
Hi, Jari, What I suggest is like the below: > Connections to Multiple Networks (mif) > > Last Modified: 2009-04-20 > > Current Status: Proposed Working Group > > Chair(s): > TBD thanks -Hui 2009/4/21 Jari Arkko : > Hui, > > I'm not sure if I und

Re: [mif] [dhcwg] Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-dhc-container-00

2009-04-21 Thread Hui Deng
> You are right "money" is more operation related not technical side. However, > I believe that this is also one of the most important factors and popularly > has been used for determining an interface with an (access) network among > multiple active interfaces automatically and dynamically. And