Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

2011-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
On 07/20/11 01:24, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: On 20 Jul 2011, at 00:34, Doug Barton wrote: On 07/19/2011 14:01, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: Clearly, the view that making something historic when it's in active use is offensive. No standards body could seek to stand behind their

Review of draft-doria-gen-art-08

2011-07-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I support the publication of this document. In general, the document is clearly written, explains the processes followed for gen-Art review, and forms a valuable snapshot of the procedures followed at this time. It makes it very clear that the document does not, in any way, shape or form,

Review of: draft-ietf-iab-draft-iab-dns-applications-02

2011-07-21 Thread Dave CROCKER
This is a summary of a followup review of the draft, after the one noted in Ticket #35 of the trac wiki for this draft: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/iab/trac/ticket/35 The complete version of this second review is at: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/group/iab/trac/ticket/35#comment:2

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jul 21 17:06:59 2011, David Endicott wrote: DNS resolution is not a function of a transport protocol. I entirely agree, but the specification already includes DNS resolution as part of URI resolution and URI scheme definition, and as such, if you want all these things - which are, I

Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

2011-07-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:40 +0200 Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: ... Actively being used. In production. So that taking it away would hurt the entity using it, threaten the entity's comfort and convenience, or just generally go against the stated goals of making the

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jul 21 18:18:31 2011, David Endicott wrote: It is my opinion that name resolution (however done) is outside the purview of WS. It may be handled in any number of ways by the client, and must happen *before* WS establishes it's TCP connection and begins handshaking. The URI scheme

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jul 21 19:43:07 2011, David Endicott wrote: I do not know SIP or XMPP well enough to comment on why they mandated the name resolution mechanisms they did.However, XMPP is used in a highly dynamic host environment, so having flexible extensible name resolution is likely an

RE: tsv-dir review of draft-ietf-mptcp-congestion-05

2011-07-21 Thread david.black
Costin, The proposed -06 version sufficiently clarifies my one open issue. I agree that the NSDI paper is an important citation and did not intend to suggest that it be removed. In addition, your decision to not cite RFC 3124 is ok with me. Thank you for responding to the review. Thanks,

Preliminary Agenda: IRTF Open Meeting at IETF-81

2011-07-21 Thread Lars Eggert
*PRELIMINARY* Agenda IRTF Open Meeting Quebec City, Canada July 11, 2011, 9:00 - 11:30 (tentative) Will be uploaded to the datatracker as soon as I have access rights. Slot lengths below indicate presentation+discussion time. State of the IRTF Lars Eggert 10+5 min Applied

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Iñaki Baz Castillo
2011/7/19 Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net: Hi, I assume there is no interest in making DNS SRV mechanism exposed in http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ibc-websocket-dns-srv-02 part of the WebSocket core specification, neither referencing it (in the same way RFC 3261 SIP protocol mandates the

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread David Endicott
I am opposed to inclusion in core specification. I would accept it as optional extension. DNS resolution is not a function of a transport protocol. DNS SRV has no special association with WS.It is my opinion that this would be additional cruft that is only marginally related to the purpose

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Iñaki Baz Castillo
2011/7/21 David Endicott dendic...@gmail.com: DNS resolution is not a function of a transport protocol.  DNS SRV has no special association with WS.    It is my opinion that this would be additional cruft that is only marginally related to the purpose and function of websockets.    It does not

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 06:27:49PM +0200, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote: 2011/7/21 David Endicott dendic...@gmail.com: DNS resolution is not a function of a transport protocol.  DNS SRV has no special association with WS.    It is my opinion that this would be additional cruft that is only

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Iñaki Baz Castillo
2011/7/21 Willy Tarreau w...@1wt.eu: I understand the point David is making. DNS is something independant of WS and conversely. It is one way of resolving addresses, just like there will be people using hosts files. At no place the protocol specification dictates how a client should resolve a

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread David Endicott
Thanks Willy, you made my point better than I did. It is my opinion that name resolution (however done) is outside the purview of WS. It may be handled in any number of ways by the client, and must happen *before* WS establishes it's TCP connection and begins handshaking. DNS, DNS SRV, etc.

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Iñaki Baz Castillo
2011/7/21 David Endicott dendic...@gmail.com: It is my opinion that name resolution (however done) is outside the purview of WS.   It may be handled in any number of ways by the client, and must happen *before* WS establishes it's TCP connection and begins handshaking. DNS, DNS SRV, etc. are

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Willy Tarreau
On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 07:15:13PM +0200, Iñaki Baz Castillo wrote: If WS spec does not mandate DNS SRV resolution in WS clients (so webbrowsers mainly) then let's forget SRV balancing/failover capabilities. If the WS core draft does not want to handle this topic, then refer to another

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Iñaki Baz Castillo
2011/7/21 Dave Cridland d...@cridland.net: It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; there is no way it'll be possible to retrofit onto WS. Right. If WS borns with no SRV (as a MUST for WS clients) then just forget it and let inherit all the ugly limitations from HTTP

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread David Endicott
I am strongly opposed to any MUST definition for any type of URL resolution. I'm ok with inheriting / mimicking HTTP.Since it is intended to live in the same universe as HTTP, I'm ok with it sharing mechanisms / limitations. On Thu, Jul 21, 2011 at 1:52 PM, Iñaki Baz Castillo

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Iñaki Baz Castillo
2011/7/21 David Endicott dendic...@gmail.com: I am strongly opposed to any MUST definition for any type of URL resolution. SIP and XMPP mandate (MUST) a resolution mechanism based on NAPTR, SRV and A/ records. Are they also wrong? do you also oppose to the DNS MX resolution (as mandatory)

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread David Endicott
I do not know SIP or XMPP well enough to comment on why they mandated the name resolution mechanisms they did.However, XMPP is used in a highly dynamic host environment, so having flexible extensible name resolution is likely an excellent choice. I do not oppose DNS's MX records for SMTP as

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread David Endicott
I have no idea what you might mean by highly dynamic host environment in this context, but XMPP servers are normally found at the same location consistently. However, it is *not* always (or typically) the same location as a simple A record lookup: That's what I meant. XMPP systems have

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jul 21 21:57:23 2011, David Endicott wrote: I have no idea what you might mean by highly dynamic host environment in this context, but XMPP servers are normally found at the same location consistently. However, it is *not* always (or typically) the same location as a simple A

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jul 21 18:33:38 2011, Willy Tarreau wrote: If someone were to develop a backup/restore solution based on WS, it would be funny to discover that it cannot be used to restore the DNS server when this one fails... If SRV (with a fallback) is defined as part of the core spec, this

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Jul 21 23:15:59 2011, Bruce Atherton wrote: So if you have no control over the DNS, it is not a problem. The host will be resolved exactly the same way as it is now, using a hosts file or A record or whatever. The only change is that the client is required to try to use the more

RE: Preliminary Agenda: IRTF Open Meeting at IETF-81

2011-07-21 Thread Worley, Dale R (Dale)
From: Lars Eggert [lars.egg...@nokia.com] *PRELIMINARY* Agenda IRTF Open Meeting Quebec City, Canada July 11, 2011, 9:00 - 11:30 (tentative) You say the meeting was 10 days ago and only the preliminary agenda is available? Dale ___ Ietf mailing

Re: Another look at 6to4 (and other IPv6 transition issues)

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message c125cd63e1264e518a4c7...@pst.jck.com, John C Klensin writes: --On Thursday, July 21, 2011 11:40 +0200 Harald Alvestrand har...@alvestrand.no wrote: ... Actively being used. In production. So that taking it away would hurt the entity using it, threaten the entity's

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dave Cridland wrote: It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; Where is a proof? Masataka Ohta ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4e28c035.6020...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, Masataka Ohta writes: Dave Cridland wrote: It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; Where is a proof? Masataka Ohta Transitioning HTTP to use SRV is trivial

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: In message 4e28c035.6020...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, Masataka Ohta writes: Dave Cridland wrote: It's proven impossible, despite effort, to retrofit SRV onto HTTP; Where is a proof?

Additional registries converted to XML and announcement of new registry for Service Names and Port Numbers

2011-07-21 Thread Michelle Cotton
IETF Community: This is a message for your information. Last year we archived some legacy text files and notified the IETF community which ones those were. This is follow-up message with a new set of registries that have been both converted and archived. A total of 78% of the registries we

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 0dd53760-9b8a-4569-8c67-81421a8a2...@network-heretics.com, Keith M oore writes: On Jul 21, 2011, at 10:16 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: =20 In message 4e28c035.6020...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, Masataka = Ohta writes: Dave Cridland wrote: =20 It's proven impossible, despite

Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-07-21 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 21, 2011, at 11:43 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: I'm fairly convinced that in the vast majority of cases, SRV is a bad = idea. DNS is already too out of sync from hosts in many situations; SRV = just makes the situation worse. Or to put it another way, if you want = to give every DNS admin

Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2011-07-21 Thread Thomas Narten
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SRV and http(s) (was Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard)

2011-07-21 Thread Masataka Ohta
Mark Andrews wrote: Transitioning HTTP to use SRV is trivial even with proxies. Transitioning HTTPS to use SRV is complicated because of proxies. There needs to be changes to how clients talk to proxies for HTTPS + SRV to work through proxies. What's wrong with: https://www.example.com

Re: SRV and http(s) (was Re: [hybi] Last Call: draft-ietf-hybi-thewebsocketprotocol-10.txt (The WebSocket protocol) to Proposed Standard)

2011-07-21 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 4e290442.3010...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp, Masataka Ohta writes: Mark Andrews wrote: Transitioning HTTP to use SRV is trivial even with proxies. Transitioning HTTPS to use SRV is complicated because of proxies. There needs to be changes to how clients talk to proxies for

IETF 81 - Pre-Registration and Pre-Payment Cutoff

2011-07-21 Thread IETF Secretariat
81st IETF Meeting Quebec City, Canada July 24 - 29, 2011 Host: Research In Motion (RIM) Register online at: http://www.ietf.org/meetings/81/ 1. Registration - Pre-Registration and Pre-Payment Cutoff is Friday, 22 July 2011 2. Companion Program and Events 1. Registration - Pre-Registration and

WG Action: RECHARTER: Network Configuration (netconf)

2011-07-21 Thread IESG Secretary
The Network Configuration (netconf) working group in the Operations and Management Area Area of the IETF has been rechartered. For additional information, please contact the Area Directors or the working group Chairs. Network Configuration (netconf) --