Re: Last Call: draft-haberman-rpsl-reachable-test (An RPSL Interface Id for Operational Testing) to Proposed Standard

2010-03-18 Thread Vesna Manojlovic
Dear Brian, list, On 3/6/10 12:28 AM, The IESG wrote: The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2010-04-02. I support the introduction of the new attribute. At

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

2010-03-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Dear colleagues, On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 04:10:58PM -0700, Paul Hoffman wrote: It is *fine* to have an RFC specify which algorithms must be implemented / supported / whatever for compliance to the RFC; we do that now just fine. When the community agrees on changes to what is needed to

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Alfredo Dal´Ava Júnior
I'm American from Brazil we always use dd/mm/ :-) Anyway, in a computer context I think that -mm-dd is a good design, because I'ts easier to sort and organize by a script in a cronological order. As it may cause a lot of confusion, I assume that one way is to use a tag to identify date

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

2010-03-18 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
1. 3.1. MANDATORY This is the strongest requirement and for an implementation to ignore it there MUST be a valid and serious reason. That is also neither my, not my dictionary's (compulsory, admitting no option) interpretation of the word in everyday use.

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

2010-03-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, March 18, 2010 09:25 -0400 Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com wrote: ... Moreover, it would be awfully nice if we captured somewhere, This algorithm is still required, but it's on its way out, and, That algorithm isn't required yet, but real soon now it will be. That way,

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

2010-03-18 Thread Andrew Sullivan
John, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:01:26AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: Interestingly, a few mechanisms for handling that sort of narrative and organizing information were extensively discussed several years ago. Thanks for this. Do you know whether any of this got as far as being written in

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

2010-03-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, March 18, 2010 10:15 -0400 Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com wrote: John, On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 10:01:26AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: Interestingly, a few mechanisms for handling that sort of narrative and organizing information were extensively discussed several

Re: Last Call: draft-haberman-rpsl-reachable-test (An RPSL Interface Id for Operational Testing) to Proposed Standard

2010-03-18 Thread Larry Blunk
Vesna Manojlovic wrote: Dear Brian, list, On 3/6/10 12:28 AM, The IESG wrote: The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action. Please send substantive comments to the ietf@ietf.org mailing lists by 2010-04-02. I support the introduction

Comments on draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words-03

2010-03-18 Thread Edward Lewis
# General Area O. Gudmundsson # Internet-Draft Shinkuro Inc. # Updates: 5226 (if approved) S. Rose # Intended status: Standards Track

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
But the order on the stack is year, month, day! On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Robert Kisteleki rob...@ripe.net wrote: 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

RE: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread HUANG, JERRY (ATTLABS)
I agree with Iljitsch's earlier point: In this day and age, if one is not sure how to interpret 2010-01-02 at first glance, he should have no trouble figuring it out right away. We would expect people who are interested in IETF material to have the curiosity to find out, wouldn't we? What I am

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread YAO Jiankang
- Original Message - From: HUANG, JERRY (ATTLABS) zh1...@att.com To: Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com; memcn...@gmail.com Cc: Yao Jiankang ya...@cnnic.cn; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, March 18, 2010 12:51 AM Subject: RE: What day is 2010-01-02 What I am not so sure about is

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
That would meet most of my issues, provided of course that the XML2RFC format was published. Zero time spent going to an editable format is better than any amount of 'easy conversion'. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 9:03 PM, Tony Hansen t...@att.com wrote: +1 On 3/17/2010 12:18 PM, John R. Levine

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Well the US pint is 16 fluid oz which is 1 lb of water. The UK pint is 20 so a pint of water is a pound and a quarter. Go figure. But since we are on the subject of time, why accept UTC as the basis for Internet time? Leap seconds are unpredictable and lead to system errors. The only group with a

Re: [NSIS] Last Call: draft-ietf-nsis-rmd (RMD-QOSM - The Resource Management in Diffserv QOS Model) to Experimental RFC

2010-03-18 Thread Georgios Karagiannis
Hi all Based on the suggestion of Jerry we have written an example on matching the initiator QSPEC to a local RMD-QSPEC, see below! We would like to include this section in Appendix A.6 of the new version of the RMD-QOSM draft. - A.6. Example on matching the initiator

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Mar 18 03:27:30 2010, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: That would meet most of my issues, provided of course that the XML2RFC format was published. There's a rfc2629bis at/as http://xml.resource.org/authoring/draft-mrose-writing-rfcs.html Is there anything you feel that's not covering?

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

2010-03-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 9:25 AM -0400 3/18/10, Andrew Sullivan wrote: The DNSSEC algorithm registry has no slot in it to indicate the support level appropriate to each algorithm. True. What does support level apply to? RFC 4034? RFCs {4034 | others}? DNSSEC-the-protocol? The IANA registry itself? Without a precise

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

2010-03-18 Thread Christian Huitema
If the real reason for this draft is to set conformance levels for DNSSEC (something that I strongly support), then it should be a one-page RFC that says This document defines DNSSEC as these RFCs, and implementations MUST support these elements of that IANA registry. Then, someone can

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:00 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Well the US pint is 16 fluid oz which is 1 lb of water. The UK pint is 20 so a pint of water is a pound and a quarter. Go figure. But since we are on the subject of time, why accept UTC as the basis for Internet time? Leap seconds are

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Ofer Inbar
YAO Jiankang ya...@cnnic.cn wrote: HUANG, JERRY (ATTLABS) zh1...@att.com wrote: What I am not so sure about is the sweeping statement that Americans would likely have difficulties with the '-mm-dd' format. I walked around the office and polled seven of my co-workers who happen to be

Re: What day is 2010-01-02 (and what time is it)

2010-03-18 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 18 mar 2010, at 17.38, Marshall Eubanks wrote: This is backwards. Most astronomers I know regard UTC as a nuisance. In their calculations, astronomers use TAI (or, if they need to know the rotation of the Earth, UT1). Solar system ephemeris work uses ephemeris time, for historical

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Bob Braden
John R. Levine wrote: between the XML and the final output. If we could agree that the final XML was authoritative, John, What, precisely, do you mean here? Do you mean that there would be NO text form of an RFC that was authoritative, or do you mean that BOTH the xml2rfc form and some

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Michael Edward McNeil
2010/3/18 Alfredo Dal´Ava Júnior alfredo.dal...@gmail.com I'm American from Brazil we always use dd/mm/ :-) So, that's how Brazilians refer to themselves and each other: I'm an American? And even if so (which I very much doubt), spelled that way as in American [sic] English? Yeah, sure.

Re: On the IAB technical advice on the RPKI

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Kent
At 9:15 PM -0500 3/13/10, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: So what has me annoyed about the IAB advice is that they gave advice about a particular means where they should have instead specified a requirement. Phil, I am not commenting on your proposal, but I do want to make a few observations

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

2010-03-18 Thread SM
At 06:25 18-03-10, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I understand this objection, and I have some sympathy with it. At the same time, there is a serious problem with at least one registry that the draft aims to fix. I think that problem is worth taking on. According to the draft, the problem is about

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread John R. Levine
between the XML and the final output. If we could agree that the final XML was authoritative, What, precisely, do you mean here? Do you mean that there would be NO text form of an RFC that was authoritative, or do you mean that BOTH the xml2rfc form and some text-equivalent form (say, .txt

Re: [Sip] Last Call: draft-ietf-sip-ipv6-abnf-fix (Essential correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI comparison in RFC3261) to Proposed Standard

2010-03-18 Thread Cullen Jennings
I'm very support of this draft and think it should move forward but I have a NIT to pick with it. It says the ABNF in 3261 is incorrect and this one corrects it. I don't believe that is correct. I believe the ABNF in this draft is more specific than the one in 3261 but they are both correct.

Re: On the IAB technical advice on the RPKI

2010-03-18 Thread Stephen Kent
At 2:17 PM -0400 3/18/10, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Before declaring victory, lets see if anyone actually uses it to validate any data. fair enough. anything else is speculation by both of us, so lets table the discussion for a year or so. Steve

Re: On the IAB technical advice on the RPKI

2010-03-18 Thread Danny McPherson
Given these observations, the public declaration last year by the NRO that all 5 RIRs will offer RPKI service as of 1/1/11, and the ongoing SIDR WG efforts, most of this discussion seems OBE at this stage. Steve, Thanks for your comments here, not surprisingly, they're spot on...

Re: What day is 2010-01-02 (and what time is it)

2010-03-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 18, 2010, at 12:47 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: On 18 mar 2010, at 17.38, Marshall Eubanks wrote: This is backwards. Most astronomers I know regard UTC as a nuisance. In their calculations, astronomers use TAI (or, if they need to know the rotation of the Earth, UT1). Solar system

Re: What day is 2010-01-02 (and what time is it)

2010-03-18 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 18 mar 2010, at 20.04, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Hmm...the signal for the GPS include the difference nowadays, right? This is the internal time standard. GPS receivers report UTC. That was exactly my point. The device get the internal time, and then correct it according to the difference

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Well the US pint is 16 fluid oz which is 1 lb of water. Not quite, it's about 4% out. Tony. -- f.anthony.n.finch d...@dotat.at http://dotat.at/ GERMAN BIGHT HUMBER: SOUTHWEST 5 TO 7. MODERATE OR ROUGH. SQUALLY SHOWERS. MODERATE OR GOOD.

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Marshall Eubanks wrote: Now, it is true that Ken Seidelmann is an astronomer, and he is against the change, but that is mostly in a if is isn't broke, don't fix it mode, and also because he is thinking of the long term (in 500 to 600 years the UT1-TAI offset should be

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 mrt 2010, at 2:43, Richard Barnes wrote: +1 Making the XML normative would be an abomination. The XML in itself can't be interpreted by a human to the level needed to create a compliant implementation, although it deceptively looks like maybe it could. Of course human readability also

Re: What day is 2010-01-02 (and what time is it)

2010-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
On Thu, 18 Mar 2010, Patrik Fältström wrote: We should from IETF point of view review the ical spec, and try to push timezone information away from the objects, and to a central repository. The timezone offset should be calculated based on the geographical location of the event. Yes.

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Julian Reschke
On 18.03.2010 20:24, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 18 mrt 2010, at 2:43, Richard Barnes wrote: +1 Making the XML normative would be an abomination. The XML in itself can't be interpreted by a human to the level needed to create a compliant implementation, although it deceptively looks

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Alfredo Dal´Ava Júnior
I was just referring about one of last posts were someone had a mistake about American definition and South America is America too, not only United States. :) We call ourself as Brazillian, ou melhor, Brasileiros! :) In portuguese, the best definition for United States people is Estadosunidenses,

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18 mrt 2010, at 20:59, Julian Reschke wrote: The XML in itself can't be interpreted by a human to the level needed to create a compliant implementation, although it deceptively looks like maybe it could. Of course human readability also doesn't exist for pretty much anything other than

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Julian Reschke
On 18.03.2010 21:25, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: ... That is simply incorrect, which can easily be checked by looking at the XML source of a spec. People make mistakes implementing today's text. If they have to implement from XML source where they have to interpret things like escape codes

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
On 03/18/2010 09:37 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: And how are numbered lists a problem? I thought it was a pain because I got comments referring to x and the file I edited contained no x. xml2rfc generated numbers, people used them to me, I didn't see them in the source. In general I think the

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mar 18, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: Well quite, I said that it illustrated the mode of argument, not that the arguments were valid. The arguments made on behalf of 'astronomers' are of course made by assertion without bothering to ask what astronomers might think. Every

Re: [Sip] Last Call: draft-ietf-sip-ipv6-abnf-fix (Essential correction for IPv6 ABNF and URI comparison in RFC3261) to Proposed Standard

2010-03-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Cullen, I believe that the RFC 3261 ABNF *is* plain incorrect. It allows the generation of text representations including ::: and that is clearly not intended to be allowed by the description in RFC 4291. (Being precise, it says The :: can only appear once in an address. whereas I can find it

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Julian Reschke
On 18.03.2010 21:41, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:37 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: And how are numbered lists a problem? I thought it was a pain because I got comments referring to x and the file I edited contained no x. xml2rfc generated numbers, people used them to me, I didn't see

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

2010-03-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Christian, On 2010-03-19 05:31, Christian Huitema wrote: If the real reason for this draft is to set conformance levels for DNSSEC (something that I strongly support), then it should be a one-page RFC that says This document defines DNSSEC as these RFCs, and implementations MUST support

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
On 03/18/2010 01:52 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: On 18.03.2010 21:41, Arnt Gulbrandsen wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:37 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: And how are numbered lists a problem? I thought it was a pain because I got comments referring to x and the file I edited contained no x. xml2rfc generated

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Mark Andrews
In message a123a5d61003170838s440bacddudb791a909cd5e...@mail.gmail.com, Phill ip Hallam-Baker writes: But the order on the stack is year, month, day! And the month is *between* the day and the year. Nothing illogical with this order. On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 11:23 AM, Robert Kisteleki

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

2010-03-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, March 19, 2010 09:55 +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: ... Third that. In fact, this exactly the purpose of applicability statement standards track documents, as defined in RFC 2026 for many years. I have lingering sympathy for the ISD idea that John

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Tony Finch
On 18 Mar 2010, at 20:41, Arnt Gulbrandsen a...@gulbrandsen.priv.no wrote: On 03/18/2010 09:37 PM, Julian Reschke wrote: And how are numbered lists a problem? I thought it was a pain because I got comments referring to x and the file I edited contained no x. xml2rfc generated numbers,

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread Tim Bray
On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum iljit...@muada.com wrote: If we really want to do something in this space first of all we need to agree on the problem, then on the requirements and THEN we can have a useful discussion. So far the only thing I hear is assertions offered

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread John Levine
I don't have any problem editing the source in one window while viewing the presentation document in another. Window? My ASR-33 doesn't have any windows. R's, John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-18 Thread John Levine
If we really want to do something in this space first of all we need to agree on the problem, then on the requirements and THEN we can have a useful discussion. I thought the waterfall model of software design was discredited in about 1975. Rough consensus and running code, throwing darts at

Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

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RFC Editor Office Hours at IETF 77

2010-03-18 Thread RFC Editor
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IETF 77 - Pre-Registration Pre-Payment Cutoff

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RFC 5810 on Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Protocol Specification

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5810 Title: Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Protocol Specification Author: A. Doria, Ed., J. Hadi Salim, Ed.,

RFC 5812 on Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Forwarding Element Model

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5812 Title: Forwarding and Control Element Separation (ForCES) Forwarding Element Model Author: J. Halpern, J. Hadi Salim Status: Standards Track

RFC 5789 on PATCH Method for HTTP

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5789 Title: PATCH Method for HTTP Author: L. Dusseault, J. Snell Status: Standards Track Date: March 2010 Mailbox:lisa.dussea...@gmail.com,

RFC 5795 on The RObust Header Compression (ROHC) Framework

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5795 Title: The RObust Header Compression (ROHC) Framework Author: K. Sandlund, G. Pelletier, L-E. Jonsson Status: Standards

RFC 5796 on Authentication and Confidentiality in Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Link-Local Messages

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5796 Title: Authentication and Confidentiality in Protocol Independent Multicast Sparse Mode (PIM-SM) Link-Local Messages Author: W.

RFC 5814 on Label Switched Path (LSP) Dynamic Provisioning Performance Metrics in Generalized MPLS Networks

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5814 Title: Label Switched Path (LSP) Dynamic Provisioning Performance Metrics in Generalized MPLS Networks Author: W. Sun, Ed.,

RFC 5820 on Extensions to OSPF to Support Mobile Ad Hoc Networking

2010-03-18 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 5820 Title: Extensions to OSPF to Support Mobile Ad Hoc Networking Author: A. Roy, Ed., M. Chandra, Ed. Status: Experimental