Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Peny Yang
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 12:29 AM, Randall Gellens ra...@qualcomm.com wrote: At 5:45 PM +0800 9/21/09, Peny Yang wrote:  However, IMHO, your  experience may be the story 10 years ago. I am a smoker. When I would  like to smoke, I always go find the smoking corner.  Now, in Beijing, smoking is

RE: Visas and Costs

2009-09-22 Thread Glen Zorn
John C Klensin [mailto://john-i...@jck.com] writes: ... Two additional observations may be useful. In the US, someone must appear in person at the embassy or consulate -- there is no mail-in service, at least for US citizens. In practice, that means that if one is in a city with a

RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread Pasi.Eronen
John C Klensin wrote: The difference between (1) and (2) is less significant in practice because, while there are many important exceptions (with those East Asian width variants probably heading the list), the vast majority of compatibility characters are very hard to type in most

Re: Visas and Costs

2009-09-22 Thread Stefan Winter
Hi, Okay, so one advantage of having a meeting in the PRC is that the majority of participants (including US and Canadian ones) who can normally travel almost anywhere without VISAs will have to experience some of the pain of getting a VISA. You may have meant this in a sarcastic way, but it

RE: Last call comments for ROHCoIPsec: draft-ietf-rohc-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ikev2-extensions-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ipsec-extensions-hcoipsec

2009-09-22 Thread Pasi.Eronen
Emre Ertekin wrote:[mailto:emreertekin.i...@gmail.com] 1) None of the drafts really describe the reason why the ROHC ICV is included. It was not present in the early drafts, and was added after long and complex discussions. I would strongly encourage summarizing those discussions in one

Re: Last call comments for ROHCoIPsec: draft-ietf-rohc-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ikev2-extensions-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ipsec-extensions-hcoipsec

2009-09-22 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Sep 22, 2009, at 12:35, pasi.ero...@nokia.com wrote: 3) According to RFC 4224, ROHC segmentation does not work over reordering channels. Thus, it seems suggesting that ROHC segmentation could be used instead of pre-encryption fragmentation (e.g. ipsec-extensions, Section 3.3) -- and in

RE: Last call comments for ROHCoIPsec: draft-ietf-rohc-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ikev2-extensions-hcoipsec, draft-ietf-rohc-ipsec-extensions-hcoipsec

2009-09-22 Thread Pasi.Eronen
Carsten Bormann wrote: OK, let me phrase my question in another way: why does the spec contain a feature that does not really work? (Even as optional feature?) Well, it actually does work. RFC 4224, section 5.2.1 tells us that when a channel is reordering and you don't notice,

RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 11:43 +0200 pasi.ero...@nokia.com wrote: John C Klensin wrote: The difference between (1) and (2) is less significant in practice because, while there are many important exceptions (with those East Asian width variants probably heading the list), the vast

Re: [IPsec] Fwd: Last Call: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-resumption (IKEv2 Session Resumption) to Proposed Standard

2009-09-22 Thread Hui Deng
Comments inline, thanks 2009/9/3 Tero Kivinen kivi...@iki.fi: Yaron Sheffer writes: [YS] I see the merits of extending IKE_SA_INIT to support resumption, and in fact an early version of our work did exactly that. But the working group gave us a clear direction to use a separate exchange, and

RE: [IPsec] Fwd: Last Call: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-resumption (IKEv2 Session Resumption) to Proposed Standard

2009-09-22 Thread Yaron Sheffer
Hi Hui, Thank you for your comments. Regarding your second comment, please see http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2-resumption-08#section-9.4 Regards, Yaron -Original Message- From: Hui Deng [mailto:denghu...@gmail.com] Sent: Tuesday, September 22, 2009 17:40

Re: Visas and Costs

2009-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. After a brief offlist conversation with Zhujui, I think I may have added to the confusion, rather than clarifying.So let me see if I can summarize my remarks and maybe his. * There are, or have been, some countries that view visa application requirements purely as revenue

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread Simon Josefsson
John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com writes: Vulgar Fraction One Half (U+00BD) Acute Accent (U+00B4) Diaeresis (U+00A8) That is important data. It seems to me that it implies: * if entropy in passwords and/or properly reflecting keyboards is more important than password

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 17:17 +0200 Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com writes: Vulgar Fraction One Half (U+00BD) Acute Accent (U+00B4) Diaeresis (U+00A8) That is important data. It seems to me that it implies: * if entropy in

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread Simon Josefsson
John C Klensin john-i...@jck.com writes: For SCRAM I believe we are stuck with SASLprep because there are no drafts to provide a replacement that are close to being mature. Here we disagree _very_ slightly. Following part of the theme of draft-iab-idn-encoding, I have become convinced that

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 17:58 +0200 Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: ... Personally (speaking as one of few SASLprep implementers) I believe using NFC alone would be better from many perspectives than SASLprep for passwords. But I can't point to any substantial document

Re: [rfc-i] path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Aaron Falk wrote: Jari- The draft says: The RFC Editor reviews Independent Submission Stream submissions for suitability for publication as RFCs. As described in RFC 4846 [I3], the RFC Editor asks the IESG to review the documents for conflicts with the IETF standards process or

Re: [sasl] Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
IMO, this is a close relative of a different problem, one that's old and well-understood: Characters that shift to different keys when you cross a boundary. I (now) live in Germany and come from Norway. Germany has Y and Z swapped. Shortly after I started travelling to Germany, I stopped

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Cullen Jennings
Given that the the current Location for IETF 79 is listed as Canada/ China, the correct questions to ask is would people prefer IETF 79 be in Vancouver of Beijing. On Sep 19, 2009, at 9:52 AM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: Hi Ole, The IETF is highly ideological. Probably more so than most other

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Cullen, Well, nobody has officially announced that the proposed venue is Beijing, although a lot of people seem to have assumed so and yet more people copied the assumption. The announcent of the venue is expected soon, within say 30 days. But to the core of your question: The rotation would

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On Sep 22, 2009, at 9:47 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Well, nobody has officially announced that the proposed venue is Beijing, Or Vancouver either, right? I assumed that Cullen threw the city names out as straw proposals and that the broader question is still valid - IETF 79 is only a year off.

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Yes, sorry I wasn't paying attention to that part. Canada --- there are several options. Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: o...@cisco.com URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Tue, 22 Sep

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Levity alert! On 9/22/09 12:00 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Canada --- there are several options. Indeed, Canada is a big country. How about Yellowknife? The famous ice road would be open in November for IETF 79:

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul Wouters wrote: Pre-emptively excluding countries based on culture, (perceived) bias, or other non-technical and non-organisation arguments is wrong. So if the visa issues are not much worse then for other countries, and an internet connection not hampered by a

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
I think we should meet in Tromsoe, Norway in January or February some year. The lack of sunlight would make us more productive, the weather would prevent people from wandering off and missing sessions. (I think I will get a high Narten score this week :-) Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/18/09 14:33, Sep 18, John G. Scudder wrote: [T]here would also seem to be a risk of loss of productivity due to self-censorship by people who do choose to attend. +1 /a ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

RE: [mpls] Last Call: draft-ietf-mpls-tp-nm-req (MPLS TP Network Management Requirements) to Proposed Standard

2009-09-22 Thread benjamin.niven-jenkins
Sharam, The draft describes network management requirements and at most states that OAM must be configurable by network management. It presupposes nothing about the OAM mechanism used or now the individual network elements (LSRs) recognise the OAM packets themselves. So I don't understand your

RE: [mpls] Last Call: draft-ietf-mpls-tp-nm-req (MPLS TP Network Management Requirements) to Proposed Standard

2009-09-22 Thread Shahram Davari
Hi, Just for clarification, does this draft require using a PID for BFD and LSP-ping? If not how are the various OAM types identified? Thanks, Shahram -Original Message- From: mpls-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:mpls-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of The IESG Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009

RE: [mpls] Last Call: draft-ietf-mpls-tp-nm-req (MPLS TP Network Management Requirements) to Proposed Standard

2009-09-22 Thread Shahram Davari
Hi Ben, Basically I want to understand whether PID is required for OAM or not? Also is OAM a type of MCC traffic? Thanks, Shahram -Original Message- From: benjamin.niven-jenk...@bt.com [mailto:benjamin.niven-jenk...@bt.com] Sent: Monday, September 21, 2009 4:32 PM To: Shahram Davari;

RE: [rfc-i] path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-22 Thread Jim Schaad
Ok - the problem I have, and the reason that I asked, is that it is not clear to me that the Independent Series Editor (ISE) is part of the RFC Editor any more than the ISRG is going to be. Thus it is the ISE not the RFC Editor that will be asking for the IESG to review documents in the future.

Re: [IAB] [rfc-i] path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, September 22, 2009 18:37 +0200 Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: ... I'd like to see the phrase in question removed or perhaps clarified (say to include planned standards work or some such). That phrase was also present in RFC 3932, and, as you note, in RFC 2026.

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread L. Giuliano
Applying the usual disclaimer- this is my personal opinion, and doesn't reflect the views of any organization with which I may be affiliated: I do believe this provision is counter to the values and spirit of contribution toward the evolution of the Internet as a tool for open

Re: [sasl] Last Call: draft-ietf-sasl-scram

2009-09-22 Thread Nicolas Williams
On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 10:34:22AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: I have no idea what this would mean for keyboards that don't contain any Latin-based characters at all, which are the cases I'm mostly been using when I try to think through these issues. My keyboard is a U.S.-type keyboard. I

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/21/09 09:01, Sep 21, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm not really following you here. I've read the stated contract terms and I'm concerned that they prohibit activities which may reasonably occur during IETF. Are you saying: (a) No, they don't

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 22 Sep 2009, at 19:10, Adam Roach a...@nostrum.com wrote: On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul The conversation would be equally valid (and probably contain many of the same arguments) if we were being asked to make a substantially similar agreement to meet in, say, Ireland. Should the

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Ray Pelletier
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:45 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 9/21/09 09:01, Sep 21, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Mon, 21 Sep 2009, Eric Rescorla wrote: I'm not really following you here. I've read the stated contract terms and I'm concerned that they prohibit activities which may reasonably occur during

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/09 12:10 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul Wouters wrote: Pre-emptively excluding countries based on culture, (perceived) bias, or other non-technical and non-organisation arguments is wrong. So if the visa issues are

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
I'm sure that's great advise from the lawyers, but you don't typically get to negotiate clauses that are required by national law. We'd obviously love to have it removed or reworded since this would remove any (some?) concern, but as Ray says, it's the law. Ole On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Adam Roach

GenArt Telechat Review of draft-ietf-pkix-other-certs-05

2009-09-22 Thread Ben Campbell
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 wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft. Document:

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Sep 22 19:52:34 2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: (I suppose that other SDOs and conference organizers have tried to work around this restriction in various ways, but it seems irresponsible to do so by ignoring the restriction altogether and letting presenters say anything they want,

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Well, that's part of the problem in answering the survey ... Doing half a question is not a good question ! If you ask me, you want to got to Vancouver or Quebec, but you don't inform about the possible venues, it is USELESS, because I may have preferences depending on the venue itself (for

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Sep 22, 2009, at 2:12 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: I think we should meet in Tromsoe, Norway in January or February some year. The lack of sunlight would make us more productive, the weather would prevent people from wandering off and missing sessions. Dear Ole; Why stay so far South ? I

RE: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread James M. Polk
At 11:23 AM 9/19/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Yaron Sheffer wrote: Hi Ole, The IETF is highly ideological. Probably more so than most other SDOs. We care deeply about the end to end principle, about net neutrality, and (at least in the community I'm a member of) about

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread James M. Polk
At 12:47 PM 9/22/2009, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Cullen, Well, nobody has officially announced that the proposed venue is Beijing, although a lot of people seem to have assumed so and yet more people copied the assumption. The announcent of the venue is expected soon, within say 30 days. But to the

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/19/09 10:23 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Sat, 19 Sep 2009, Yaron Sheffer wrote: Hi Ole, The IETF is highly ideological. Probably more so than most other SDOs. We care deeply about the end to end principle, about net neutrality, and (at

RE: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread HUANG, ZHIHUI (JERRY), ATTLABS
I wonder if the situation deserves a look from another angle. I'm certainly _not_ arguing that the restriction should be there. My contention is that the restriction of don't criticize the Chinese government and/or the Chinese culture (however that's defined) is not such a high threshold.

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:52 PM, HUANG, ZHIHUI (JERRY), ATTLABS wrote: The answer is probably 'No'. And that would be a correct answer because IETF meeting and podium are not the proper platform for such discussions. Actually, the correct answer is no because those are all historical actions.

RE: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Jerry, I agree with you, and just to inject a little humor, I also agree with the e-Trade baby when he says it's not the venue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhfl4mFH1No Ole Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Cisco Systems Tel: +1 408-527-8972 Mobile: +1

RE: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009 15:00:26 -0700 (PDT) Ole Jacobsen o...@cisco.com wrote: Jerry, I agree with you, and just to inject a little humor, I also agree with the e-Trade baby when he says it's not the venue: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yhfl4mFH1No It seems to me that there have been multiple

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue Sep 22 22:02:05 2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: I think we draw the line at restrictions on our freedom of speech. There are a huge number of locations where freedom of speech is restricted. Arguably, depending on how precisely one defines it, the UK and much of the EU falls into

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread James M. Polk
At 05:44 PM 9/22/2009, Dave Cridland wrote: On the other hand, I can accept as valid the suggestion that some people have made that the particular restrictions of speech that the PRC impose may restrict the scope of discussion that the IETF typically engages in. I suspect that it may not be so,

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Dean Willis
On Sep 22, 2009, at 1:10 PM, Adam Roach wrote: On 9/18/09 14:02, Sep 18, Paul Wouters wrote: Pre-emptively excluding countries based on culture, (perceived) bias, or other non-technical and non-organisation arguments is wrong. So if the visa issues are not much worse then for other

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
You said: Because in the free world, defaming the government, disrespecting a culture, discussing human rights, and discussing religion might be rude, or they might be the subjects of perfectly appropriate academic discussions, but they are not illegal. I agree, but I think you are arguing

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Dean Willis
On Sep 22, 2009, at 7:03 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: You said: Because in the free world, defaming the government, disrespecting a culture, discussing human rights, and discussing religion might be rude, or they might be the subjects of perfectly appropriate academic discussions, but they are not

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/09 6:03 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: You said: Because in the free world, defaming the government, disrespecting a culture, discussing human rights, and discussing religion might be rude, or they might be the subjects of perfectly

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Pete Resnick
A couple of things so as not to lose sight of what's actually being discussed: On 9/20/09 at 5:13 PM +0200, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: Pete Resnick wrote: Personally, I'm of the opinion that the Host (and the IAOC if faced with similar text in a contract they need to sign) should simply cross

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Tue, 22 Sep 2009, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: As an example, does your definition of business as usual include the topics, presentations, and discussions that occurred in the net neutrality session during the technical plenary at IETF 75? That kind of session is business as usual for the

Re: [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 9/22/09 9:42 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Once again, I see nothing in the offending language that prohibits us from either discussing or using encryption in any way we see fit. If you want to host a BOF on how to circumvent certain rules and you

Re: China venue survey

2009-09-22 Thread Dean Willis
On Sep 22, 2009, at 10:14 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Disruptive as defined by whom? It seems to me that the contract we might sign cedes the definition of disruptive to a government about whose laws we know very little. Do correct me if I'm wrong, but as far as I know the IETF has never

Re: [rfc-i] path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-22 Thread Jari Arkko
Aaron, This morning I reviewed the IETF web pages, the Tao, the IRTF web pages, and Wikipedia entries on these two organizations. The way this material portrays the IETF and the IRTF, I'm having little trouble seeing a problem with the phrase ... with the IETF standards process or work done

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-22 Thread Adam Roach
On 9/18/09 14:33, Sep 18, John G. Scudder wrote: [T]here would also seem to be a risk of loss of productivity due to self-censorship by people who do choose to attend. +1 /a ___ IETF-Announce mailing list IETF-Announce@ietf.org