Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 14 mrt 2010, at 1:09, Phillips, Addison wrote: There is also a difference between regularized usage and formats derived by well-meaning people based on their own experience (i.e. a European might very well think first of ydm, being used to seeing the day preceding the month). No way.

Change in ISOC Panel Topic for Tuesday at IETF 77

2010-03-17 Thread IETF Chair
As previousley announced, following the successful Internet Society (ISOC) lunch-time panels at IETF Meetings in 2009, ISOC is organizing a briefing panel in conjunction with IETF 77 on Tuesday, 23 March. However, I want to let everyone know that the panel topic has changed. To explore and

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 12 mrt 2010, at 6:58, John Levine wrote: Indeed, I know plenty of people these days who have no idea today how to produce an ASCII file with only tab, CR, and LF formatting characters. Type. Save as text. How hard is that? I have actually written a few drafts that way. The text part isn't

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-17 Thread Lars Eggert
On 2010-3-17, at 8:48, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: I have actually written a few drafts that way. The text part isn't hard, but the hard breaks at every line are, and the hard breaks at every page even more so. Tools do create those don't exist in today's world. they do, e.g., something

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Edward McNeil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:28, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.comwrote: (Although the exposure to non-standard ways of doing things may make this harder for Americans.) Since Americans habitually use month-day order anyway, why would -MM-DD be especially difficult for them? It's

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-17 Thread John R. Levine
Indeed, I know plenty of people these days who have no idea today how to produce an ASCII file with only tab, CR, and LF formatting characters. Type. Save as text. How hard is that? Good guess, but wrong. If you do that, you will still generally get various non-ASCII quotes and punctuation

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 mrt 2010, at 17:02, Michael Edward McNeil wrote: (Although the exposure to non-standard ways of doing things may make this harder for Americans.) Since Americans habitually use month-day order anyway, why would -MM-DD be especially difficult for them? It's Europeans and others

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 17 mrt 2010, at 14:59, Yao Jiankang wrote: But if someone can't figure yout 2010-01-02 then maybe they're not our audience. there are two kinds of audience: those who understand 2010-01-02 by usual way and those who understand 2010-01-02 by unusual way. your logic reasoning seems to

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Robert Kisteleki
On 2010.03.13. 19:23, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Sat, Mar 13, 2010 at 05:13:41PM +0100, Arnt Gulbrandsena...@gulbrandsen.priv.no wrote a message of 17 lines which said: Those are RFC 3339 dates. It took thirteen messages for someone to notice that there is an IETF standard for dates

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Yao Jiankang
- Original Message - From: Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com To: Phillips, Addison addi...@amazon.com Cc: John C Klensin j...@jck.com; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Wednesday, March 17, 2010 9:11 PM Subject: Re: What day is 2010-01-02 On 14 mrt 2010, at 1:09, Phillips, Addison wrote:

Re: Review of draft-ietf-isms-dtls-tm-09.txt

2010-03-17 Thread Wes Hardaker
BA I reviewed the document draft-ietf-isms-dtls-tm-09.txt in general BA and for its operational impact. Bernard, Thanks for your review and comments on the draft! -- Wes Hardaker Cobham Analytic Solutions ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-17 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Actually, if you knew Morse code you would know that it is SOS, an in-band signal consisting of ...---... not the letters S-O-S. As far as being trapped in a building, any regular pattern of bangs is going to be picked up and acted on. On Tue, Mar 16, 2010 at 5:59 PM, Jorge Amodio

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Michael Edward McNeil wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:28, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com wrote: (Although the exposure to non-standard ways of doing things may make this harder for Americans.) Since Americans habitually use month-day order

RE: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-17 Thread Michel Py
Jorge Amodio wrote: Hard to believe but Morse is still in use and required for certain classes of radio operators. For good reasons; in difficult conditions, Morse still delivers the message when the voice has long stopped being recognizable. Morse would be like ASCII: definitely not the

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Michael Edward McNeil
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:29, Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Michael Edward McNeil wrote: Since Americans habitually use month-day order anyway, why would -MM-DD be especially difficult for them? It's Europeans and others who typically use

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
In my opinion this is not ready for prime time. Basically: it's inconsistent with the requirements part of RFC 2026 and inconsistent with RFC 2119. I don't think we should create confusion by such inconsistency. There are three main aspects of this inconsistency: 1. 3.1. MANDATORY This is

Re: On the IAB technical advice on the RPKI

2010-03-17 Thread Masataka Ohta
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: There is a big difference in real engineering (i.e. outside a university) between a solution that only addresses part of a problem and one that is 'useless'. Perhaps, you don't recognize the fact that BGP routing is global. In observed attacks and in simulations,

Bar BoF on Location Coherence Wednesday at 11:30 AM

2010-03-17 Thread Richard Barnes
Hey all, This message is announcing a bar BoF (lunch BoF) on Location Coherence -- interoperability between different location protocols and APIs -- for the lunch break on Wednesday of the IETF week. Location is still TBD (ironically). Full announcement here:

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:43 AM +1300 3/18/10, Brian E Carpenter wrote: In my opinion this is not ready for prime time. I agree with all of Brian's issues, and add another one that is equally, if not more, significant. This document talks about an IANA registry having entries for compliance, but does not describe

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread SM
At 10:45 17-03-10, The IESG wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.' draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words-03.txt as a BCP The IESG plans to make a

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ah, yes, Paul is quite correct. My implicit assumption was that such keywords would be added to an IANA registry only in as far as they echo IETF standards track documents (including the deprecation or obsolescence of such documents). Of course, IANA itself cannot add normative requirements - only

Re: Bar BoF on Location Coherence Wednesday at 11:30 AM

2010-03-17 Thread James M. Polk
Richard This conflicts with the WG chairs lunch. Is there another time that's not inconflict with a meeting you're likely attending for this? James At 06:11 PM 3/17/2010, Richard Barnes wrote: Hey all, This message is announcing a bar BoF (lunch BoF) on Location Coherence --

Re: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitions for expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:10 PM +1300 3/18/10, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ah, yes, Paul is quite correct. My implicit assumption was that such keywords would be added to an IANA registry only in as far as they echo IETF standards track documents (including the deprecation or obsolescence of such documents). Of course,

Re: I-Ds are not RFCs, was Why the normative form of IETF Standards

2010-03-17 Thread John Levine
Which it is not. xml2rfc is very hard to use for anyone who has otherwise no experience with XML just because it's XML (the proper nesting and terminating are hell) and also because at least 50% of the xml2rfc commands aren't documented. I guess people's experience differs. Between the online

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-17 Thread Tony Hansen
+1 On 3/17/2010 12:18 PM, John R. Levine wrote: If we could agree that the final XML was authoritative, and if necessary let them hire someone to fix xmlrfc so it can produce the text version without hand editing or postprocessing, that would be a big step forward.

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Cullen Jennings
On Mar 17, 2010, at 2:01 PM, Michael Edward McNeil wrote: On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 12:29, Bob Hinden bob.hin...@gmail.com wrote: On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Michael Edward McNeil wrote: Since Americans habitually use month-day order anyway, why would -MM-DD be especially difficult

Re: Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-17 Thread Stewart Bryant
Michel Py wrote: Jorge Amodio wrote: Hard to believe but Morse is still in use and required for certain classes of radio operators. For good reasons; in difficult conditions, Morse still delivers the message when the voice has long stopped being recognizable. Morse would be like ASCII:

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Loa Andersson
would Thursday be an acceptable answer? /Loa -- Loa Andersson email: loa.anders...@ericsson.com Sr Strategy and Standards Managerl...@pi.nu Ericsson Inc phone: +46 10 717 52 13 +46 767 72

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-17 Thread Richard Barnes
+1 On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:03 PM, Tony Hansen wrote: +1 On 3/17/2010 12:18 PM, John R. Levine wrote: If we could agree that the final XML was authoritative, and if necessary let them hire someone to fix xmlrfc so it can produce the text version without hand editing or postprocessing, that

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 03/17/2010 09:18 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Absolutely. But Americans don't expect this kind of stuff to make sense, because they're used to having a different way of measuring everything, while in the rest of the world we're used to the metric system so we assume things make sense. So

[IETF] If document formats were radios was:Towards consensus on document format

2010-03-17 Thread Michel Py
Jorge Amodio wrote: Hard to believe but Morse is still in use and required for certain classes of radio operators. Michel Py wrote: For good reasons; in difficult conditions, Morse still delivers the message when the voice has long stopped being recognizable. Morse would be like ASCII:

Protocol Action: 'Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Extensions for Admission Priority' to Proposed Standard

2010-03-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Resource ReSerVation Protocol (RSVP) Extensions for Admission Priority ' draft-ietf-tsvwg-emergency-rsvp-15.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Transport Area Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Magnus

Change in ISOC Panel Topic for Tuesday at IETF 77

2010-03-17 Thread IETF Chair
As previousley announced, following the successful Internet Society (ISOC) lunch-time panels at IETF Meetings in 2009, ISOC is organizing a briefing panel in conjunction with IETF 77 on Tuesday, 23 March. However, I want to let everyone know that the panel topic has changed. To explore and

Last Call: draft-zimmermann-avt-zrtp (ZRTP: Media Path Key Agreement for Secure RTP) to Informational RFC

2010-03-17 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'ZRTP: Media Path Key Agreement for Secure RTP ' draft-zimmermann-avt-zrtp-17.txt as an Informational RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on

WG Action: RECHARTER: Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp)

2010-03-17 Thread IESG Secretary
The Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp) working group in the Routing Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. Common Control and Measurement Plane (ccamp)