Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Do you raise a discussion saying the below? I believe you should be expected to more clearly differentiate your *Review* (based on the such procedure criteria) - and its accompanying Position ballot, with your personal review. (Modified from the first message of thread) Refering to first message:

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Arturo, and all, (sorry that this message is long but I want to make this my last post on the subject) The reason of this message/subject is that I want to avoid some group working together to achieve their purpose (while they may be fogetting the IETF purpose) within a WG. If I am a company an

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Scott Kitterman
Andrew Sullivan wrote: >On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 06:22:17PM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > >> to be the best. Pretty much every organization that applauds >> itself for its meritocratic reward structure (to the extent >> that an I* gig is a "reward") and yet only advances white >> guys says the

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 06:22:17PM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > to be the best. Pretty much every organization that applauds > itself for its meritocratic reward structure (to the extent > that an I* gig is a "reward") and yet only advances white > guys says the same thing. Speaking only perso

Re: [OPSEC] Last Call: (Security Implications of IPv6 on IPv4 Networks) to Informational RFC

2013-04-12 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Brian, On 04/10/2013 01:06 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> For simplicity sake (and because I'm not sure how one would tone that >> one down), my suggestion would be to apply you proposed text, modulo >> that sentence. >> >> Would that be okay with you? -- If not, please do let me know, so tha

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/12/2013 8:51 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:32 PM, SM wrote: Thomas Narten mentioned that: "we have the tendency to pick the people we know and trust, which is understandable". How many IAB members feel strongly about open standards, rough consensus and running code? To kno

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread l.wood
If you think security and congestion are arcane, you have... problems. This was an actual ietf working geoup, and not some e.g. W3c thing? Lloyd Wood http://sat-net.com/L.Wood/ From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of t.p. [daed

Re: [pkix] Last Call: (X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP) to Proposed Standard

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Rex
Henry B. Hotz wrote: > > Stefan Santesson wrote: > > > > Nothing has changed in this regard. > > > > The good response is pretty clear that it by default provides information > > that the cert is not on a black-list (is not know to be revoked). > > However, it is also made clear that extensions

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/13 1:26 PM, Lou Berger wrote: > No argument from me, I'm just asking that a comment/position/question > that I don't understand be substantiated. And I'm telling you that I think the numbers are highly suggestive of bias. We can take a swing at getting a very rough handle on that but I'm

Re: Last Call: (Improving Awareness of Running Code: the Implementation Status Section) to Experimental RFC

2013-04-12 Thread Barry Leiba
This dude's ready to ship. Thanks for addressing my earlier comments. Barry On Friday, April 12, 2013, The IESG wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > - 'Improving Awareness of Running Code: the Implementation Status > Sec

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 7:32 PM, SM wrote: > Thomas Narten mentioned that: "we have the tendency to pick the people we > know and trust, which is understandable". How many IAB members feel strongly > about open standards, rough consensus and running code? To know the answer I > would have to actu

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Rex
SM wrote: > > Ted Lemon wrote: > > > >So in fact you don't need to put some percentage of white males on > >the IESG, the IAB or the IAOC to make me happy. I want people on > >these bodies who feel strongly about open standards, rough consensus > >and running code. That's the kool-aid I ha

RE: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Pat Thaler
+1 on for John's response. I will argue with my manager if I think they are wrong and I've gotten positive results from giving managers feedback on their performance. Of course, disagreeing with management won't always get the decision changed, but I've never felt I lost anything by raising th

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread SM
Hi Ted, At 14:06 12-04-2013, Ted Lemon wrote: I'd like to take slight exception to one thing that this paragraph implies: that only a person who looks like me and comes from the same region can represent my interests. I Let's see how many IETF participants (I'll exclude voting members of I*

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Michael Richardson
> "James" == James Polk writes: James> The nomcom isn't randomly picking hats in a crowd. They are James> picking talent of those that have volunteered to serve. At Volunteered, and who have employer/funding support. The apparent bias that we are experiencing is the result of 30+ ye

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, April 12, 2013 20:24 +0100 Abdussalam Baryun wrote: > How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager > about the manager's decisions or performance? In most successful companies, yes. > Only > Owners/shareholders can question managers and staff. And companies th

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/12/13 5:52 PM, t.p. wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Arturo Servin" > To: > Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:28 PM >> >> Not answering any particular post. Just a comment. >> >> The IESG should be there to attest that the IETF procedure was > followed >> and the document reache

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Lou Berger
Melinda, On 4/12/2013 3:11 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 4/12/2013 11:04 AM, Lou Berger wrote: >> While I've been very reluctant to jump on this topic, I have to ask >> what's the basis for this assertion? > > I think the numbers are pretty compelling, which is why > I think they would deserve s

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 4:01 PM, SM wrote: > Let's take IAOC members as an example. NomCom chose two men from the United > States. The IAB chose a man from the United States. The IESG chose a man > from the United States. The ISOC Board of Trustees chose a man from the > United States. There i

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: "Arturo Servin" To: Sent: Friday, April 12, 2013 8:28 PM > > Not answering any particular post. Just a comment. > > The IESG should be there to attest that the IETF procedure was followed > and the document reached consensus in the WG and in the IETF LC and it >

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread James Polk
At 02:11 PM 4/12/2013, Melinda Shore wrote: And I don't know if you intended to or not, but what you communicated is "The best candidates are nearly always western white guys," since that's who's being selected. That's a problematic suggestion. I respect you, Melinda. I think you are smarter an

Re: The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/12/13 4:58 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: > I just change the subject because I still beleive the problem with > review is in the WG not IESG. Some WGs have few reviews on each WG > document, that may not be bad, but I think having only one review or > comment (excluding authors) within a WGLC

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
On 4/12/13 4:32 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 4/12/2013 11:28 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: >> But if a single individual of the IESG can technically challenge and >> change the work of a whole WG and the IETF, then we have something wrong >> in our process because that means that the document ha

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, Apr 12, 2013 at 10:33:13AM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > address. As I said I think that looking at the pool of > nominees who've accepted their nominations and comparing > it to the pool of people selected would provide one > very rough measure of bias (explicit or otherwise) in > one st

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread SM
Hi Spencer, At 07:38 12-04-2013, Spencer Dawkins wrote: I was just checking the math. I understand. :-) I couldn't possibly say what "good" means, and I'm interested in better understanding what "diverse" means, to this, ummm, at least somewhat diverse community ... There is an underlying

The Purpose of WG participants Review (was Re: Purpose of IESG Review)

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
I just change the subject because I still beleive the problem with review is in the WG not IESG. Some WGs have few reviews on each WG document, that may not be bad, but I think having only one review or comment (excluding authors) within a WGLC is wrong in a WG review process. I think WG chair can

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 11:28 AM, Arturo Servin wrote: > But if a single individual of the IESG can technically challenge and > change the work of a whole WG and the IETF, then we have something wrong > in our process because that means that the document had a serious > problem and we didn't spot it in

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Arturo Servin
Not answering any particular post. Just a comment. The IESG should be there to attest that the IETF procedure was followed and the document reached consensus in the WG and in the IETF LC and it was successfully reviewed by the Gen-ART. If it wasn't then this particular process sho

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
How can a memebr of staff in a company argue with the manager about the manager's decisions or performance? Only Owners/shareholders can question managers and staff. IMO, the meeting/list discussions on any issue without an I-D written is the staff talking/working. If you write an I-D and to updat

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 11:04 AM, Lou Berger wrote: > While I've been very reluctant to jump on this topic, I have to ask > what's the basis for this assertion? I think the numbers are pretty compelling, which is why I think they would deserve scrutiny if there's the possibility of remediation if a problem

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Lou Berger
On April 12, 2013 2:33:13 PM Melinda Shore wrote: On 4/12/2013 10:12 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote: > I still think that the IETF community at large has no intentional > diversity bias, so the process of discussing and analyzing > diversity in the context of leadership is to help better describe di

Re: [pkix] Last Call: (X.509 Internet Public Key Infrastructure Online Certificate Status Protocol - OCSP) to Proposed Standard

2013-04-12 Thread Henry B. Hotz
On Apr 10, 2013, at 3:02 AM, Stefan Santesson wrote: > Nothing has changed in this regard. > > The good response is pretty clear that it by default provides information > that the cert is not on a black-list (is not know to be revoked). > However, it is also made clear that extensions may be us

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 4/12/2013 10:12 AM, Toerless Eckert wrote: > I still think that the IETF community at large has no intentional > diversity bias, so the process of discussing and analyzing > diversity in the context of leadership is to help better describe > diversity induced job qualifications as well as uncov

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Toerless Eckert
On Thu, Apr 11, 2013 at 04:40:57PM -0800, Melinda Shore wrote: > My own feeling is that if we were to find that the > numbers supported the notion that there's bias > present in the system we probably couldn't do anything > about it without tearing the organization apart, so, > we live with bias, a

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > I have no interest in or knowledge of the technical details, > but there is a pretty complicated DISCUSS against this draft, > which doesn't look like rubber-stamping to me: > https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2560bis/ballot/ > > I assume you've alrea

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Ted Lemon
On Apr 12, 2013, at 11:26 AM, Martin Rex wrote: > I'm currently seeing a document with some serious defects in > IETF Last Call (rfc2560bis) and an apparent desire to have > it Rubberstamped by the IESG (recycling at Proposed Standard). FWIW, I raised the same question during IESG review. It di

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I have no interest in or knowledge of the technical details, but there is a pretty complicated DISCUSS against this draft, which doesn't look like rubber-stamping to me: https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/draft-ietf-pkix-rfc2560bis/ballot/ I assume you've already let the IESG know about the defects

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Douglas Otis
Dear Ray, Outcomes, good or bad, are often influenced by groups sharing a common interest. Important questions should attempt to measure whether these interests reflect those of the larger Internet communities. No gender, sexual orientation, ethic, religious, or political background should b

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can > say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and > sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review > by the IESG does serve a purpose. I'm currently seeing a document with some seriou

Re: draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01

2013-04-12 Thread David Farmer
On 4/8/13 13:45 , John Curran wrote: On Apr 8, 2013, at 9:06 AM, David Farmer wrote: 3. Regarding Public WHOIS in section 4; The constituencies and stakeholders for Public WHOIS are much broader than just the technical community, a number of constituencies in civil society have legitimate

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 4/12/2013 12:49 AM, SM wrote: At 13:46 11-04-2013, Spencer Dawkins wrote: If the IAB means "members", the number for females, as far as I know(*), is 2/15, or 13 percent. If it means voting members, the number for females is 1/13, or just under 8 percent. If I use the 13% I can say that the

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 12/04/2013 14:17, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter > wrote: > >> Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can >> say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and >> sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can > say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and > sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review > by the IESG does serve a purpose. I'm not saying i

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Dave Crocker
On 4/12/2013 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review by the IESG does serve a purpose. Brian, Of course it "serves"

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Reply to below message The subject SHOULD be: Evaluating Review Process Performance I prefer the Subject is: Evaluating WG input, the WG review process, and the WG output, NOT IESG review. Hi Joe, My

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-12 Thread t . p .
Ray Expert as the IETF (and its allied organisations) is in Internet Engineering, I doubt if many of those skills transfer into Social Engineering, which is the field in which I think this question lies. Lacking such expertise, into how to frame a question in order to get the answer which is wante

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review by the IESG does serve a purpose. IMHO, if the IESG members sticks to their own criteria at http://www.ietf.org/iesg/