Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Fred Baker writes: I'm not sure I agree that Friday is a "problem"; the problem is that we have N working groups asking for M meetings and N*M needs to be <= that fixed number. Friday is a solution, one that has certain downsides. Stanislaus doesn't like the solution and IMHO has not propo

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Brim
Arnt Gulbrandsen allegedly wrote on 11/11/2009 6:08 PM: > Fred Baker writes: >> I'm not sure I agree that Friday is a "problem"; the problem is that >> we have N working groups asking for M meetings and N*M needs to be <= >> that fixed number. Friday is a solution, one that has certain >> downsi

Virtual Open Mike for NomCom :-)

2009-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Mary, I was really surprised this year when NomCom announced local interview slots wherever the NomCom members were, thought to myself that I should arrange for one of the interviews, and then got busy, left the country, etc. ... But I'd like to thank you guys for making this offer. You

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Scott Brim writes: Even a full Friday isn't enough to remove the conflicts. In fact I'm triple-booked on Friday itself. There is no chance the IETF will fit in 4 days. That hasn't been possible for years. Why do so many people in WG meetings read mail, look bored and hardly say a word, then

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I read mail and listen and look at the slides, when I'm in a session that is secondary to my main interests. That doesn't mean I'm bored (maybe I always look bored), but I don't see that it affects the question whether we can fit all the parallel sessions into 4.5 days. Brian On 2009-11-11 22

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Brim
Arnt Gulbrandsen allegedly wrote on 11/11/2009 6:23 PM: > Scott Brim writes: >> Even a full Friday isn't enough to remove the conflicts. In fact I'm >> triple-booked on Friday itself. There is no chance the IETF will fit in >> 4 days. That hasn't been possible for years. > > Why do so many peop

Re: Updated logistics and agenda for Smart Grid Bar BOF at IETF 76

2009-11-11 Thread Fred Baker
There was an error in the reservation announcement. When I first set it up, I managed to hit the wrong date, and so I set up a correct one. The error was sent to the list earlier; it's still an error. oops Here is the correct data. Begin forwarded message: From: Frederick Baker Date: Nov

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Scott Brim writes: Seriously, are you suggesting that it might be possible to cluster WGs together so that people can stay for parts of the week? I hadn't thought of that... No, I was suggesting that if registrants explicitly say which WGs are really interesting ("conflicts in that set spoil

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Nov 11, 2009, at 5:01 AM, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: Scott Brim writes: Seriously, are you suggesting that it might be possible to cluster WGs together so that people can stay for parts of the week? Of course it might be possible - in fact, I would assert that it is highly likely to be

If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Who would like to adopt this idea: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fits-all-01.txt Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Danny McPherson
Russ, Olaf, et al, I was serious in my recommendation to experiment with limiting question (comment) time at the microphone at plenaries. I believe it'll not only help mere mortals pay more attention, but will also encourage those folks that have questions or comments to be more concise, thereby

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Who would like to adopt this idea: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fits-all-01.txt Typically, it's better to gain some agreement about tradeoffs among some choices, prior to starting lobbying for a particular choice. This has the distinct

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Richard Barnes
From the perspective of the world outside the IETF, this is already the case. An RFC is an RFC is an RFC... --Richard On Nov 11, 2009, at 7:25 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Who would like to adopt this idea: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fits- all-01.txt Bria

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Stephan Wenger
+1 Stephan On 11/11/09 7:53 PM, "Danny McPherson" wrote: > Russ, Olaf, et al, > I was serious in my recommendation to experiment with limiting > question (comment) time at the microphone at plenaries. I believe > it'll not only help mere mortals pay more attention, but will also > encourage th

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Adrian Farrel
Hi, From the perspective of the world outside the IETF, this is already the case. An RFC is an RFC is an RFC... I don't think this is a truth universally acknowledged. I have heard the IETF disparaged a number of times on account of "hardly having any standards". For example, a full Standa

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Nov 11, 2009 at 05:08:44AM -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > I would personally be surprised if a cluster analysis or principal > component > analysis of the RFID data didn't reveal some means of separating the > meeting sessions like this. > > Whether this is a good idea is another matt

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Eliot Lear
Not THIS again. Let's look at a few of the standards that are commonly used today: HTTP: DS SNTP: PS SIP: PS IPv6 Addressing Architecture: DS SMTP: DS & Full standard MPLS-VPNs: PS BGPv4: DS MIME: DS XMPP: PS (although it seems the real work goes on elsewhere) OSPF: Full standard RIPv2: full st

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 > "Dave" == Dave CROCKER writes: >> I'm not sure I agree that Friday is a "problem"; the problem is >> that we have N working groups asking for M meetings and N*M needs >> to be <= that fixed number. Friday is a solution, one that has

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Pekka Savola
On Tue, 10 Nov 2009, Stanislav Shalunov wrote: "But nobody will come to the technical plenary Friday afternoon!" -- 1. We did come to the technical plenary when it was the last thing on Thursday, and it was in the evening. 2. If people won't come to the technical plenary, they won't come to WG

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread John
+1 you shouldn' need to be an IETF insider to actually understand IETF standards. John Sent from my Nokia N900. - Original message - > Not THIS again.  Let's look at a few of the standards that are commonly > used today: > > HTTP: DS > SNTP: PS > SIP: PS > IPv6 Addressing Architecture:

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
As I begged at the mike last night, let's make sure that this problem actually causes pain before spending one more second discussing it. Just for completeness :-| There is also the question of standards where we DO NOT WANT people to implement the full standard and say they are through - with

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Russ Housley
I did not take the comment as disrespectful. A timer might be a very good experiment. Russ At 05:53 AM 11/11/2009, Danny McPherson wrote: Russ, Olaf, et al, I was serious in my recommendation to experiment with limiting question (comment) time at the microphone at plenaries. I believe it'll

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Jari Arkko
Individuals taking a long time to talk either on the mike or responding on the stage :-) is one problem. At times I wonder if a bigger issue is how long certain topics are discussed. I'm sorry but I just can't get excited about labeling of standards track RFCs, or even about how to get early r

Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
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 resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document: draft-dusseault-ht

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Loa Andersson
Adrian, I think both statements are true. I've seen operators putting almost any RFC in RFPs, (actually done it myself) STD, DS, PS, Informational, Experimental, Historic and April 1st. An RFC is an RFC is an RFC! On the other hand talking to folks active in other SDOs you very often hear the "

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Hansen
Didn't Harald put up a timer sometimes during open mike? Tony Hansen Russ Housley wrote: I did not take the comment as disrespectful. A timer might be a very good experiment. Russ At 05:53 AM 11/11/2009, Danny McPherson wrote: Russ, Olaf, et al, I was serious in my recommendation

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
i am remembering that this is correct. i have a faint memory that the timer might have been per topic (so you cut off the followups and moved to the next question), at least once or twice. i have a faint memory of a lot of things. harald? :-) spencer - Original Message - From: "Tony

NroffEdit updated with new boilerplate

2009-11-11 Thread Stefan Santesson
Short informational notice. A new update of NroffEdit is available ( http://aaa-sec.com/nroffedit/index.html ), supporting the boilerplate from the new Trust Legal Provisions from September 2009. /Stefan ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.i

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Scott Brim
Tony Hansen allegedly wrote on 11/12/2009 11:11 AM: > Didn't Harald put up a timer sometimes during open mike? See attached ... Title: Discussion Timer TimeRemaining  0:00 ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/m

publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Hansen
One idea discussed over various beverages last night was based on an observation about the high bar that most Proposed Standards have had to pass over in order to become RFCs: many of them would not have gotten to publication without having already gone through interoperability testing. So the

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technicalplenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread George Michaelson
I wish to add a specific point to this. I also raised a proposal for over-weekend meetings a few years back. I feel that the attendees to US IETF, which have often predominated, but in the general sense the attendees to IETF who fly for more than 12h to get there, suffer a material disadvantag

Re: NAT Not Needed To Make Renumbering Easy

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Forgive me if I do not see botching the IPSEC spec so that it fails through NAT as an argument against NAT. Why don't we repair the damage instead? If we are serious about the IPv6 transition then we should be insisting that IPSEC work transparently over NAT46 and NAT64. Its easy enough to solve

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
The same is true of SMTP. RFC822 is the 'standard', We have a broken model. There are not enough hours in the day for the IESG to spend time deciding whether HTTP has reached a sufficient maturity level to be considered a full 'standard'. That may or may not be a problem. But the RFC 2822/822 issu

Re: OK, final NAT66 argument (Was: NAT Not Needed To Make Renumbering Easy

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
IPv6 is just fine. The problem is not the technology we would transition to, it is the lack of transition strategy and refusal to think about deployment strategy in some quarters. While they were building the big dig in Boston they actually built an entire interchange from scratch and then demolis

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
It is really hard to keep management backing for a standards process that does not deliver standards. I know that there are some people in the IETF who would very much like to see the commercial entities banished. And to some extent that has happened, there is a reason that IBM and Microsoft put m

Re: If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Hansen
Yup, and most of those proposed standards and draft standards should have been declared full standards *long* ago. What we *don't* do well is revising the levels of standards that got published, became fully interoperable and deployed without needing a rev of the document. Why is their status

Re: publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Hansen
Raise the bar more? Not at all -- that's not what I said. I said that the bar has *already been raised* so high that many of our I-Ds have already become fully interoperable before they get an RFC number assigned. What I said, is that if you *have* interoperability and deployment when you get

Re: publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread James M. Polk
At 09:44 PM 11/11/2009, Carsten Bormann wrote: On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:28, Tony Hansen wrote: published directly at Draft Standard status Raise the bar so they stay at I-D level for even longer? A sizable part of the Internet is run on I-Ds, not on PS. I think the right direction is to publi

Re: publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread Tony Hansen
RFC 2026 section 6.2: 6 months from PS => DS 4 months and 1 meeting for DS => FS. As John notes though, the clock currently begins after RFC publication time. There's no allowance granted for time already spent in jail. Tony Hansen t...@att.com James M. Polk wrote: At

Updated logistics and agenda for Smart Grid Bar BOF at IETF 76

2009-11-11 Thread Polk, William T.
[As before, my apologies for the shotgun nature of this email.] Folks, I would like to provide an update to the logistics and agenda for tonight's Smart Grid Bar BOF. The Bar BOF will begin at 8:30 so that folks attending the plenary have a chance to grab dinner. Note that the meeting room

Re: publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 12, 2009, at 12:28, Tony Hansen wrote: published directly at Draft Standard status Raise the bar so they stay at I-D level for even longer? A sizable part of the Internet is run on I-Ds, not on PS. I think the right direction is to publish PS earlier. If done right, it's only si

Re: [76attendees] Smart Grid "Bar BOF" Slides

2009-11-11 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
Tim had some troubles setting up the WebEx conference, so we are using audio streaming, along with a Jabber chatroom here: xmpp:smartg...@conference.jabber.org?join On 11/11/09 5:44 PM, Fred Baker wrote: > FYI - the slide decks in use for the Smart Grid "Bar BOF" are available at: > ftp://ftp

Re: publishing some standards immediately at Draft-Standard status?

2009-11-11 Thread Alexey Melnikov
Tony Hansen wrote: One idea discussed over various beverages last night was based on an observation about the high bar that most Proposed Standards have had to pass over in order to become RFCs: many of them would not have gotten to publication without having already gone through interoperabil

Re: IETF Plenary Discussions

2009-11-11 Thread Olaf Kolkman
During previous technical sessions I mailed an announcement about the technical plenary and in those announcements I've asked something along the lines of: > If you consider asking a question during the open-microphone session it > would be helpful to send that question to the IAB in advance. >