Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, September 16, 2011 01:08 -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: ... Part of the problem is the expectation that some single label should entirely define the status of a specification. There are several almost-orthogonal variables that the community cares about

RE: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Ronald Bonica
Scott, On one hand, most of these RFCs do not harm the Internet. However, if we don't clean house periodically, we are left with the following questions: 1) In the future, does the IETF have the latitude to do things that might break these old protocols? 2) If not, must the IETF maintain a

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
My impression is that the IETF quite regularly does new things that break current, actively used, maintained, and even standards-track protocols. Maybe we should worry about those before worry about breaking older protocols. Keith On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:30 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote: Scott,

Re: Last Call: draft-melnikov-mmhs-header-fields-04.txt (Registration of Military Message Handling System (MMHS) header fields for use in Internet Mail) to Informational RFC

2011-09-16 Thread ned+ietf
On 2011-09-15 18:46, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: ... 9) I'd like you hereby disallowed further registration of header fields beginning with MMHS, likewise RFC 5504 Downgraded prefix (http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5504#page-18). ... No. It's a bad idea in RFC 5504, and it would be a bad idea

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
I hit send too quickly after answering the first question, neglecting to answer the latter two. 2. In general, IETF has a difficult time maintaining a cadre of people with expertise in any particular area. There's very little representation by applications developers; there's also

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Cyrus Daboo
Hi Keith, --On September 16, 2011 10:10:06 AM -0400 Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: I think we need a low-overhead and relatively informal mechanism of reporting errata and requesting clarifications, and maybe that it should be expanded a bit to serve as an implementation and

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: Cyrus Daboo cy...@daboo.name To: Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com; Ronald Bonica rbon...@juniper.net Cc: Scott O Bradner s...@harvard.edu; IETF Discussion ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, September 16, 2011 4:52 PM Hi Keith, --On September 16, 2011 10:10:06

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors to add comments, annotations, clarifications, corrections etc to augment the RFCs. Whilst such

Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors to add comments, annotations, clarifications,

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-krb-wg-otp-preauth-19

2011-09-16 Thread david.black
The -19 version of this draft resolves the issues raised by the Gen-ART review of the -18 version, although issue [2] on registering the URIs has a couple of nits: - IANA also found issue [2] and IANA will need to acknowledge that the -19 version of this draft resolves this registration

RE: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Ronald Bonica
Folks, After reading responses from Scott, John and Keith, I think that I get it. No matter how low hanging I believe the fruit to be, this isn't going to be cheap or easy. So, I withdraw the proposal and apologize to Mykyta for having wasted his time.

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Paul Hoffman
On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:24 AM, Ronald Bonica wrote: After reading responses from Scott, John and Keith, I think that I get it. No matter how low hanging I believe the fruit to be, this isn't going to be cheap or easy. So, I withdraw the proposal and apologize to Mykyta for having wasted his

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 1:06 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 9:39 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 10:52 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors to

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Yaron Sheffer
Hi Paul, I strongly support the idea of wikis interlinked with RFCs. I'd like to offer two very successful examples, both much more relevant than Wikipedia: the PHP Manual (see for examplehttp://www.php.net/manual/en/function.date-parse.php), and the jQuery manual

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread hector
I don't see these ass Wikis but basically blog style flat display of user comments, which I often do find useful, especially for the user (this way) upon user (not always) follow ups. A Wiki is more where you can change the main content and perhaps even the context. I don't think that is a

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-16 Thread Bjoern Hoehrmann
* Cyrus Daboo wrote: Again I would like to bring up the idea of every RFC having an associated wiki page(s). The goal here is to provide a way for implementors to add comments, annotations, clarifications, corrections etc to augment the RFCs. Whilst such commentary can often be found on IETF

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:07 PM, hector wrote: I don't see these ass Wikis but basically blog style flat display of user comments, which I often do find useful, especially for the user (this way) upon user (not always) follow ups. A Wiki is more where you can change the main content and

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Andrew Feren
On Fri 16 Sep 2011 03:22:08 PM EDT, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:07 PM, hector wrote: I don't see these ass Wikis but basically blog style flat display of user comments, which I often do find useful, especially for the user (this way) upon user (not always) follow ups. A Wiki is

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Keith Moore
On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:26 PM, Andrew Feren wrote: On Fri 16 Sep 2011 03:22:08 PM EDT, Keith Moore wrote: On Sep 16, 2011, at 3:07 PM, hector wrote: I don't see these ass Wikis but basically blog style flat display of user comments, which I often do find useful, especially for the user (this

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-kompella-l2vpn-l2vpn-07

2011-09-16 Thread Kireeti Kompella
Hi Roni, On Sep 7, 2011, at 4:37 , Roni Even wrote: I am the assigned Gen-ART reviewer for this draft. For background on Gen-ART, please see the FAQ at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/area/gen/trac/wiki/GenArtfaq. Thanks! Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread hector
My view since we do these user collaboration, group ware online hosting software for a Living and deal with this evolutionary ideas that always seem to be better but not always applicable. Realistically, it has to be single source and as a migration, I think it should be explored where

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
+4 and rotfl Brian On 2011-09-16 17:17, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: I thought the counting of votes was finished on this topic but people seem to keep emailing their support/lack-of, so naturally I will be a good lemming and do the same. 1) I am in favor of the two-maturity-levels draft and

Re: Wikis for RFCs

2011-09-16 Thread Hector
Keith, I think we already have the basis for this with the tools already there when viewing an I-D, RFC via the tools.ietf.org url. For example, in the last I-D submission I got, the email message did not have this link (but it should):

Document Action: 'TCP sender clarification for Persist Condition.' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-tcpm-persist-07.txt)

2011-09-16 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'TCP sender clarification for Persist Condition.' (draft-ietf-tcpm-persist-07.txt) as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Wesley Eddy and David

Document Action: 'LISP Internet Groper (LIG)' to Informational RFC (draft-ietf-lisp-lig-06.txt)

2011-09-16 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'LISP Internet Groper (LIG)' (draft-ietf-lisp-lig-06.txt) as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Locator/ID Separation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms. A URL of this Internet