Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft (off-topic)

2012-12-02 Thread SM
Hi Arturo, At 15:56 02-12-2012, Arturo Servin wrote: described/proposed in the document. Accepting the document assuming that chairs are going to turn bad ideas to good in my opinio is not good. My guess is that you will be approached to chair a WG at some point. Regards, -sm

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Martin J. Dürst
One of the advantages of a standards organization such as the IETF is cross-concern review. For the IETF, one very strong cross-concern is security. Another one (also for my personally) is internationalization. Another, more vague one, is general architecture. Early running code is very often (

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 7:54 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > Microphones introduce a consideration to the process, but then so does > the 'presence' of remote participants. It's not that difficult to > manage the room productively given these realities. Chairs do it all > the time. This is off the topic at hand bu

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Crocker
On 12/2/2012 8:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor management discipline. ... people are adults ... ...there is a high road, let's take it. A series of glib catch-phrases are certain not to facilitate meaningful discussion, any more than

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 12/2/12 8:08 PM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor management discipline. i know it's a leap, but maybe presume people are adults and that everyone of them has a microphone so we build our meetings around the fears, will someone speak unacceptab

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
>>> I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor >>> management discipline. >> i know it's a leap, but maybe presume people are adults > and that everyone of them has a microphone so we build our meetings around the fears, will someone speak unacceptably, will someone appeal, will

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 12/2/12 19:52 , Randy Bush wrote: >> I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor management >> discipline. > > i know it's a leap, but maybe presume people are adults and that everyone of them has a microphone

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 10:49 PM, Joel jaeggli wrote: On 12/2/12 19:02 , Keith Moore wrote:\ I saw very little productive discussion happening in Atlanta in the vast majority of working group meetings which I attended. True, there were times when people queued up at the microphones. (though that's actua

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
> I'm unclear on how we'd carry on a discussion without a floor management > discipline. i know it's a leap, but maybe presume people are adults

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Joel jaeggli
On 12/2/12 19:02 , Keith Moore wrote:\ >> > I saw very little productive discussion happening in Atlanta in the vast > majority of working group meetings which I attended. True, there were > times when people queued up at the microphones. (though that's actually > a pretty inefficient way to have

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 03:57 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: On 12/2/12 11:15 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/02/2012 01:46 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: We have non-native english speakers and remote participants both working at a disadvantage to follow the discussion in the room. We should make it harder for them by

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 12/2/12 11:15 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/02/2012 01:46 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: We have non-native english speakers and remote participants both working at a disadvantage to follow the discussion in the room. We should make it harder for them by removing the pretext that the discussion is

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 3:24 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > Perhaps I did, but I am talking about Working Group Drafts So am I. I have no problem with a working group adopting a document as a tool in the development of their deliverables, either as a place to keep notes or as a document with a separate edit

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Arturo Servin
Perhaps I did, but I am talking about Working Group Drafts "1.1. What is a Working Group Draft? Documents under development in the IETF community are distributed as Internet Drafts (I-D). Working groups use this mechanism for producing their official output, per Section 7.2 of

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 2:56 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > That's is true. But I would prefer to accept a I+D as WG item until > we are sure that we are somehow committed to follow the path > described/proposed in the document. Accepting the document assuming that > chairs are going to turn bad ideas to good i

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
> What I meant is that accepting the I+D as WG document clears the path > of the bad idea to become RFC somehow or at least to waste a lot of > time fighting against it. we used to call that 'discussion' as opposed to ppt presentation. and discussion is what wgs were for, see other thread. randy

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Arturo Servin
On 02/12/2012 21:52, Randy Bush wrote: >> I would prefer to have the I+D as non-wg item until we are sure that we >> are willing to support it as RFC. > i thought that was wglc. but i am a dinosaur. > > randy What I meant is that accepting the I+D as WG document clears the path of the bad idea

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Arturo Servin
On 02/12/2012 21:50, Randy Bush wrote: >> So it is ok to have bad ideas as I+D, possibly harmful for the Internet >> just to have a structured discussion? > and so that the chairs have the option of changing editorship to turn > them into good ideas. > > randy That's is true. But I would prefer

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
> I would prefer to have the I+D as non-wg item until we are sure that we > are willing to support it as RFC. i thought that was wglc. but i am a dinosaur. randy

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Randy Bush
> So it is ok to have bad ideas as I+D, possibly harmful for the Internet > just to have a structured discussion? and so that the chairs have the option of changing editorship to turn them into good ideas. randy

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Arturo Servin
Well, I think we shouldn't. I would prefer to have the I+D as non-wg item until we are sure that we are willing to support it as RFC. /as On 02/12/2012 20:36, SM wrote: > At 12:25 02-12-2012, Arturo Servin wrote: >> So it is ok to have bad ideas as I+D, possibly harmfu

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread SM
At 12:25 02-12-2012, Arturo Servin wrote: So it is ok to have bad ideas as I+D, possibly harmful for the Internet just to have a structured discussion? Yes. I'll comment on draft-crocker-id-adoption-01. Section 1 is fine. I'll suggest not amending the BCP (see the last round of RFC

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Crocker
On 12/2/2012 10:47 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: There is now an Internet Draft, based on Adrian's's slides, intended to document common practice in the adoption of working group drafts: Title: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft Status: http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-crocker-id-adoption

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Arturo Servin
So it is ok to have bad ideas as I+D, possibly harmful for the Internet just to have a structured discussion? Regards, as On 02/12/2012 18:21, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 12/2/12 11:18 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: >> >> In Section 2.1, I would add in specifically-inappropriate cr

Re: English spoken here (was: PowerPoint considered harmful)

2012-12-02 Thread SM
Hi John, At 09:21 02-12-2012, John C Klensin wrote: (d) Their reading-English is much better than their spoken English and they have trouble keeping up even if (b) is quite moderate. Yes. But can be considerably aided in many cases by written material (slides, summaries, or both) well in adva

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 11:18 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: > > In Section 2.1, I would add in specifically-inappropriate criteria: > > - Accept an I+D for the merely fact to have a more structured > discussion in the WG. I'm actually not sure about that. It seems to me that in the past we've had wor

Re: Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Arturo Servin
In Section 2.1, I would add in specifically-inappropriate criteria: - Accept an I+D for the merely fact to have a more structured discussion in the WG. Regards ::as On 02/12/2012 16:47, Dave Crocker wrote: > > > On 11/28/2012 8:00 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: >> I led the discussi

Acculturation [was Re: PowerPoint considered harmful]

2012-12-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/12/2012 18:06, Melinda Shore wrote: ... > I know the EDU team is working hard and has a tough task, but > I also wonder if improving however it is that we acculturate > newer participants might not help, as well. I would guess that > if you polled meeting participants you'd get a majority of

Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 02:21 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 12/2/12 10:18 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/02/2012 01:41 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: I think you'd end up with 2 days of presentation sessions and the remainder of the meeting given over to presentation sessions. In which case the ADs should fire th

Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 10:18 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > On 12/02/2012 01:41 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: >> I think you'd end up with 2 days of presentation sessions and the >> remainder of the meeting given over to presentation sessions. > In which case the ADs should fire the chairs on the spot. If that's the sol

Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 01:41 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 12/2/12 9:37 AM, Keith Moore wrote: Perhaps roughly the first 2(?) days of an IETF meeting could be largely devoted to presentation sessions, and the remainder of the time to discussion sessions. I think you'd end up with 2 days of presentation se

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 01:46 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: We have non-native english speakers and remote participants both working at a disadvantage to follow the discussion in the room. We should make it harder for them by removing the pretext that the discussion is structured around material that they can

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 12/2/12 10:06 AM, Keith Moore wrote: On 12/02/2012 12:57 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 12/2/2012 9:51 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I think you're missing the point. The core problem is the overuse of presentations, and presentation tools, for working group face to face meeting time which is bette

Creating an IETF Working Group Draft

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Crocker
On 11/28/2012 8:00 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: I led the discussion in the WG Chairs lunch at IETF 78 on this topic. Slides at http://wiki.tools.ietf.org/group/edu/wiki/IETF78# Folks, There is now an Internet Draft, based on Adrian's's slides, intended to document common practice in the adopt

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Randall Gellens
At 9:45 AM -0500 12/2/12, John C Klensin wrote: But rigs for cameras that are set up to be pointed down onto sheets of paper on which drawings and notes are being made are a lot more compact, compatible with the projectors we are using already, and, like overhead transparencies and PowerPoi

Re: Presentation vs. Discussion sessions

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 9:37 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > Perhaps roughly the first 2(?) days of an IETF meeting could be largely > devoted to presentation sessions, and the remainder of the time to > discussion sessions. I think you'd end up with 2 days of presentation sessions and the remainder of the meeting

Presentation vs. Discussion sessions (was: PowerPoint considered harmful)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 01:06 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: There's a whole nexus of connected issues here, I think, and what a given person complains about depends on that person's pet peeves. It seems to me that if we were better about moving work forward between meetings (<- peeve!) meeting time wouldn't be

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/2/12 8:58 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > I'd add working group chairs (though I'm sure there are a few > exceptions) to the list of those with an apparent inability to > prioritize and structure work. Or perhaps WGs should have to get > approval from their supervising AD before they can take o

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 12:57 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 12/2/2012 9:51 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I think you're missing the point. The core problem is the overuse of presentations, and presentation tools, for working group face to face meeting time which is better suited for discussion. stop blaming

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 12:50 PM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:19 -0500 "Joel M. Halpern" wrote: There is another unfortunate community habit that I have noticed. It is, I believe, a consequence o their being simply too much stuff to look at. Of course, having too much stuff

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Crocker
On 12/2/2012 9:51 AM, Keith Moore wrote: I think you're missing the point. The core problem is the overuse of presentations, and presentation tools, for working group face to face meeting time which is better suited for discussion. stop blaming the tool. focus on the folks doing the speak

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 12:42 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: But can be considerably aided in many cases by written material (slides, summaries, or both) well in advance especially if those material are also used at the meeting, thereby aiding synchronization. This is a very specific matter of technique. As I

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, December 02, 2012 12:19 -0500 "Joel M. Halpern" wrote: > There is another unfortunate community habit that I have > noticed. > It is, I believe, a consequence o their being simply too much > stuff to look at. Of course, having too much stuff to look at is ultimately a consequence

Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-02 Thread Dave Crocker
But can be considerably aided in many cases by written material (slides, summaries, or both) well in advance especially if those material are also used at the meeting, thereby aiding synchronization. This is a very specific matter of technique. As I started doing more presentations outside the

Re: English spoken here (was: PowerPoint considered harmful)

2012-12-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, December 02, 2012 08:35 -0800 SM wrote: > > It is not about different dialects of English. There are > people in one part of the world who speak English. There are > people from other parts of the world which do not understand > that English because of: > > (a) The way Englis

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There is another unfortunate community habit that I have noticed. It is, I believe, a consequence o their being simply too much stuff to look at. If you have a working group that is considering new ideas (looking to recharter), you are more likely to get folks to read the draft, either before

English spoken here (was: PowerPoint considered harmful)

2012-12-02 Thread SM
At 05:40 02-12-2012, Keith Moore wrote: p.s. I certainly acknowledge the difficulty in understanding different dialects of English. But it strikes me that part of the problem is the high level of ambient noise It is not about different dialects of English. There are people in one part of th

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread John Levine
>Anyone for incorporating a slide (!) into the Newcomer's >Presentation (!!) that says "a presentation in a f2f meeting >that makes extensive use of PowerPoint decks with many and/or >dense slides brands the presenter as either a newcomer, someone >who is trying to avoid an actual discussion, or a

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 10:03 AM, John C Klensin wrote: --On Sunday, December 02, 2012 09:53 -0500 Keith Moore wrote: ... (Another way to put is that even if we provide such cameras in meetings along with colored pens and paper, we will continue to see PowerPoint being used as it is today unless there'

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, December 02, 2012 09:53 -0500 Keith Moore wrote: >... > (Another way to put is that even if we provide such cameras in > meetings along with colored pens and paper, we will continue > to see PowerPoint being used as it is today unless there's a > community-wide effort to change our

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/01/2012 11:51 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 12/1/12 2:21 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> My reluctance to get into this is based on an opinion that process >> change proposals with more words attached tend to just not happen, >> so fewer words is better. > > I think that's actually a pretty

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 09:45 AM, John C Klensin wrote: But rigs for cameras that are set up to be pointed down onto sheets of paper on which drawings and notes are being made are a lot more compact, compatible with the projectors we are using already, and, like overhead transparencies and PowerPoint-like

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 12/02/2012 12:21 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: >> > I, and I believe lots of us, do want to encourage running code >> > more than now. This is one attempt to help with that. Why not >> > try it and see? > Because as a "reward" for claiming to have running code, I think it's > a terrible idea.

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, December 02, 2012 08:40 -0500 Keith Moore wrote: > I have no objection to using PPT to display diagrams or lists > of open issues. And I understand that PPT can be of aid to > those (including me) who have trouble with understanding the > diverse ways that English is spoken. > >

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Brian, On 12/02/2012 08:41 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Another condition for a fast track must be the absence of > unresolved IPR disclosures. I can see a big risk here - that > someone will use the fast track procedure to game the IPR > disclosure rule. First, release your open source code

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Hector, On 12/02/2012 12:47 AM, Hector Santos wrote: > This proposal sounds interesting but couldn't it run into conflicts when > there are competition in running code? Who's running code do you fast > track? How does it apply in the protocol updates area, i.e. BIS work? Good point. I clar

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 12/01/2012 09:06 PM, SM wrote: > > Could you ask an AD to sponsor this draft and generate the Last Call? Bit early yet. I'd like to know what folks think and hopefully improve the thing via others' good ideas. > > Regards, > -sm > > P.S. Make the draft experimental. Add a one-year

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 03:27 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Yes. It escapes me why we would hamper ourselves by *not* using diagrams to explain complicated new ideas. The first time. Not the second and subsequent times; that's why we have proceedings. It also escapes me why we would hamper ourselves by not

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread SM
Hi Melinda, At 22:29 01-12-2012, Melinda Shore wrote: Not really sure what can be done about this - you can say "discussion, not presentation" until you're blue in the face and the outcome of all that will be a blue face but presentations during the meetings anyway. Ultimately I expect it comes d

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Another condition for a fast track must be the absence of unresolved IPR disclosures. I can see a big risk here - that someone will use the fast track procedure to game the IPR disclosure rule. First, release your open source code, using an open source licence that doesn't assert the absence of IPR

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 02/12/2012 07:32, Randall Gellens wrote: > At 3:19 PM +0900 12/2/12, Randy Bush wrote: > >>o if someone wants to float a new idea worth describing, then give >> them five or ten minutes on the agenda to ask others for input, >> no preso/ppt. > > Seeing something visual can help p

Re: PowerPoint considered harmful (was Re: Barely literate minutes)

2012-12-02 Thread Keith Moore
On 12/02/2012 01:29 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 12/1/12 9:19 PM, Randy Bush wrote: sadly, too many of us remember writing on scrolls of acetate. i imagine that some remember stone and chisels. At the last meeting, for my own stuff I went with the old one-slide approach. However, it did occur