Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread ned+ietf
> > There are some false equivalences floating around here. I don't > > think anyone is suggesting that having provisioning systems or even > > DNS servers themselves check for syntax errors in the contents of > > complex records like DKIM, SPF, DMARC, or whatever is necessarily a > > bad idea. (Wh

Re: Last Call: (DeprecatingUse of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols) to BestCurrent Practice

2012-03-07 Thread t.petch
- Original Message - From: "Paul E. Jones" To: "'Mark Nottingham'" Cc: "'Randall Gellens'" ; Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 7:19 AM Subject: RE: Last Call: (DeprecatingUse of the "X-" Prefix in Application Protocols) to BestCurrent Practice > I suppose one could argue that X- should

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 07/Mar/12 09:42, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: > >> It would still be possible to work around the need for a plugin, e.g. >> by depending on some wizard web site, as in John's thought experiment. > >> For the rest of us, the possibility to install a plugin that takes >> care of all the nit

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread John R. Levine
Gee, by sheer random walk this has wandered back to the original topic, that provisioning software is the major bar to deploying new RRs. Most provisioning systems really don't care about most of the data they are throwing about. It may as well be a opaque blob. I couldn't disagree more. Ot

Fwd: Last Call: (LDP Typed Wildcard FEC for PWid and Generalized PWid FEC Elements) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Stewart Bryant
FYI MPLS and L2VPN WGs. Stewart Original Message Subject: Last Call: (LDP Typed Wildcard FEC for PWid and Generalized PWid FEC Elements) to Proposed Standard Date: Wed, 07 Mar 2012 08:33:04 -0800 From: The IESG Reply-To: ietf@ietf.org To: IETF-Announce CC:

Re: Last Call: (Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Stewart Bryant
Authors There was on point that I notice that you did not address from the AD review and so I am picking it up as a LC comment: In section 10 you say: "This document makes the following update to the PwOperStatusTC textual convention in RFC5542 [8]: " This update should be recorded in t

Re: [PWE3] Last Call: (Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Thomas Nadeau
After looking over this just now - and forgive me as I didn't realize it contained a reference to 5542 until now - it seems to me that rather that including this in the RFC as "an update to RFC5542", this be added as an errata entry to 5542. It seems odd to me to note that the single s

Re: [PWE3] Last Call: (Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Stewart Bryant
It cannot be an erratum. An erratum indicated an error a the time of writing and that is clearly not the case. Is the text " For example, the PW Preferential Forwarding status state machine as defined in [RFC (this document)] is in state "STANDBY". " actually in the MIB definition itself

RE: tsv-dir review of draft-garcia-shim6-applicability-03

2012-03-07 Thread Alberto GarcĂ­a
Hi Dan, | > | Section 7.7, "Shim6 and IPv6 NAT", the problem could be overcome by | > the | > | Shim6 node knowing its IPv6 address after NPTv6 translation. | > Probably | > not | > | worth adjusting the document, though, as NPTv6 is experimental. | > | > Well, this would not work for H

RE: Last Call: (Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Aissaoui, Mustapha (Mustapha)
Ooops. Thank you for pointing this out Stewart. I will make the update and publish a new revision. Mustapha. -Original Message- From: Stewart Bryant [mailto:stbry...@cisco.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:48 PM To: draft-ietf-pwe3-redundancy-...@tools.ietf.org Cc: ietf@ietf.org;

Re: [PWE3] Last Call: (Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew G. Malis
Mustapha, You might want to wait for any other LC comments before updating. Thanks, Andy On Wed, Mar 7, 2012 at 9:49 AM, Aissaoui, Mustapha (Mustapha) < mustapha.aissa...@alcatel-lucent.com> wrote: > Ooops. Thank you for pointing this out Stewart. I will make the update and > publish a new revi

RE: [PWE3] Last Call: (Pseudowire Preferential Forwarding Status Bit) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-07 Thread Aissaoui, Mustapha (Mustapha)
makes sense Andy. Thanks, Mustapha. From: Andrew G. Malis [mailto:ama...@gmail.com] Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 12:53 PM To: Aissaoui, Mustapha (Mustapha) Cc: stbry...@cisco.com; draft-ietf-pwe3-redundancy-...@tools.ietf.org; p...@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Subj

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread ned+ietf
> On 07/Mar/12 09:42, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: > > > >> It would still be possible to work around the need for a plugin, e.g. > >> by depending on some wizard web site, as in John's thought experiment. > > > >> For the rest of us, the possibility to install a plugin that takes > >> care of

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , "John R. Levine" wr ites: > Gee, by sheer random walk this has wandered back to the original topic, > that provisioning software is the major bar to deploying new RRs. > > > Most provisioning systems really don't care about most of the data > > they are throwing about. It may as we

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread John R. Levine
Most provisioning systems really don't care about most of the data they are throwing about. It may as well be a opaque blob. ... Assuming you're not talking about editing zone files with vi, can you give some specific examples of what you're talking about? Most provisioning systems ... Hi

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:49:22AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > Take SPF as a example. If providers had supported UNKNOWN format > then the SPF generation tools would have done UNKNOWN + SPF type > specific rather than TXT + SPF. My father used to have a saying: "If Johnny hadn't died, they woul

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Andrews
In message , "John R. Levine" wr ites: > >>> Most provisioning systems really don't care about most of the data > >>> they are throwing about. It may as well be a opaque blob. ... > > >> Assuming you're not talking about editing zone files with vi, can you give > >> some specific examples of wh

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread John R. Levine
Most provisioning systems ... I well know they don't because they are still stuck in 1980's think mode. ... Hi. Could you give some concrete examples of DNS provisioning systems that let you enter arbitrary RRs? I've never seen one in the wild, other than the one I wrote for myself. Regar

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Hector
Mark Andrews wrote: Stop asking for type support and ask for UNKNOWN record support from your provider. UNKNOWN record support will handle type and anything new that will come along. +1 By supporting UNKNOWN record format, providers get to know which types are actually being used

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Martin Rex
Mark Andrews wrote: > > Martin Rex writes: > > Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > > "John Levine" writes: > > > > > > > > In case it wasn't clear, this is an authoritative server. > > > > If this is about permitted RCODEs here > > > > http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc1035#section-4.1.1 > > > > then

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <20120307223904.gw79...@mail.yitter.info>, Andrew Sullivan writes: > On Thu, Mar 08, 2012 at 08:49:22AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > Take SPF as a example. If providers had supported UNKNOWN format > > then the SPF generation tools would have done UNKNOWN + SPF type > > specific r

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <201203072304.q27n4gdx000...@fs4113.wdf.sap.corp>, Martin Rex writes : > Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > Martin Rex writes: > > > Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > > > > "John Levine" writes: > > > > > > > > > > In case it wasn't clear, this is an authoritative server. > > > > > > If this is

RE: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Murray S. Kucherawy
> -Original Message- > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mark > Andrews > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:28 PM > To: m...@sap.com > Cc: jo...@iecc.com; ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with > > > M

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <9452079d1a51524aa5749ad23e00392807e...@exch-mbx901.corp.cloudmark.c om>, "Murray S. Kucherawy" writes: > > -Original Message- > > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Mar > k Andrews > > Sent: Wednesday, March 07, 2012 3:28 PM > > To: m...@sap

Re: provisioning software, was DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-03-07 Thread Martin Rex
Mark Andrews wrote: > > Randy claimed that presentation formats were not standardised. They > are. Randy and others claimed that the presentation formats were > owned by BIND and they are not. > > I never claimed that STD 13 was the be all and end all w.r.t. DNS. > > STD 13 didn't follow the n