Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-05-02 Thread Thomas Narten
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Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-05-02 Thread Randy Bush
seems to me that o spf is still used, whether we think it is a good idea or not o spf is using the spf rrtype o we don't shoot an rrtype which is still being used o overloading txt with a whole lot of things we don't like is stupid++ for s many reasons if you don't like spf, then *

Re: Balancing the Process (Was: Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE)

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <8d23d4052abe7a4490e77b1a012b63077516d...@mbx-01.win.nominum.com>, Ted Lemon writes: > On May 2, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > > How do we deal with sites? > > How do we deal with vendors that ship such product? > > I say we punch 'em. > > Seriously, the IETF doesn't have an

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Jari Arkko
Ted, > Bear in mind that one of the delays that can occur and is credited to the RFC > editor is author delays in AUTH48; I think another is document dependencies: > a document that has passed IESG review may wait indefinitely in the RFC > editor queue until the documents it depends on are pub

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/02/2013 06:41 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > On May 3, 2013, at 01:13, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > >> source control > > I don't think it has been emphasized enough how important that is from a > document quality perspective. > > More importan

Re: Balancing the Process (Was: Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE)

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 9:56 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: > How do we deal with sites? > How do we deal with vendors that ship such product? I say we punch 'em. Seriously, the IETF doesn't have an enforcement arm. It's up to buyers to check to see that what they are buying is protocol compliant, and of

Re: Balancing the Process (Was: Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE)

2013-05-02 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <5182828c.3040...@isdg.net>, Hector Santos writes: > Mr. Resnick, for the record, I wasn't upset. Believe it or not, I was > actually applying an suggestion posted last month or so here with the > IETF diversity talks to help get a major WG issue resolved, one with a > near surety o

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 9:47 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > If the community does not have enough interest in the work to write it well, > it has bigger problems that won't be remedied by more RFC Editor effort... Also worth considering is that if a document is hard to read, it is hard to review, and hen

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 9:41 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > People who aren't aware of it should look at the httpbis github experiment. > The pull request is a powerful model of WG collaboration. Several authors in the dhc working group have been doing the same thing, to good effect.

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/2/2013 4:13 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: Instead of imposing even more work on the RFC Editor team, I suggest that you find someone in the WG, in your company, in the IETF community (etc.) to help with the language issues. I did this recently with a document in one of the WGs where I'm activ

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 2, 2013, at 6:58 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > The RFC then and now takes around 100 days (with lots of variation > between the then and the now, of course.) Bear in mind that one of the delays that can occur and is credited to the RFC editor is author delays in AUTH48; I think another i

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 3, 2013, at 01:13, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > source control I don't think it has been emphasized enough how important that is from a document quality perspective. More importantly for this discussion, it also somewhat mitigates the document editor as a choking point. People who aren'

Re: A note about draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis

2013-05-02 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Doug, At 12:22 02-05-2013, Doug Barton wrote: Given that you can be 100% confident that the issue will be raised during IETF LC, wouldn't it be better to hash it out in the WG (as we have attempted to do)? Or is the WG's position, "we have no intention of dealing with this unless we're force

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Randy Bush
> Working groups were taking around 500 days and now take around 600. > > The IESG was taking around 200 days and now takes around 110. > > The RFC then and now takes around 100 days (with lots of variation > between the then and the now, of course.) > > Considering the

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 5/2/13 4:03 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > On 05/02/2013 02:40 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: >> As a non-native English speaker, but a language pedant >> nonetheless, I can empathize with people who put Discusses on >> badly written documents. > >> I

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/2/2013 3:25 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: But the delay was really not my main concern. Primarily because I think other issues such as transparency to the working group or late surprises are more fundamental issues than mere timing. But also because I actually*do* have some statistics that seem t

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Jari Arkko
Hannes, Regarding your point about process changes I agree that we've struggled there. But for some reason I'm quite optimistic that we can do the right changes. Regarding your point on deployment time being even longer, my observation has been that most changes have the "right" time, and that

Re: Language editing

2013-05-02 Thread Marc Petit-Huguenin
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 05/02/2013 02:40 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > As a non-native English speaker, but a language pedant nonetheless, I can > empathize with people who put Discusses on badly written documents. > > I suggest that we budget for a number of WG drafts pe

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread joel jaeggli
On 5/2/13 11:14 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: b) There is no interest to research where delay really happen. Your statistics just tell that there is delay but not why (of course). From my own experience I noticed that there are many reasons for delay and I am not sure I can blame it to the IES

Re: Language editing (was: tails and such)

2013-05-02 Thread Yaron Sheffer
As a non-native English speaker, but a language pedant nonetheless, I can empathize with people who put Discusses on badly written documents. I suggest that we budget for a number of WG drafts per year (say, 20 IETF-wide) to go through professional, paid-for heavy-duty editing, with these goal

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > We want the highest quality documents possible for developers to > translate into implementations. => I am afraid this statement is not fully consistent. Regards francis.dup...@fdupont.fr PS: note it is not an attack against you: in fact you gave a good su

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Would people like to see a new version of the SIRS draft? In addition to the questions John raised below, Francis and others mentioned: lack of reviewers. Also there is the question of overlap with Area review teams such as secdir, and there is accumulated experience from Gen-ART (RFC 6385). Rega

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread John Leslie
Pete Resnick wrote: > > Note that although we did ask the bigger question, the more central > question relates to what we on the IESG can do all by ourselves (without > making changes to the formal processes) that we can discuss during our > IESG meeting next week. So don't limit your thinking

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Martin Thomson
Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > There is no interest to research where delay really happen. This is an important point. We might want to measure before we cut. > [...] From my > own experience I noticed that there are many reasons for delay and I am not > sure I can blame it to the IESG reviews for

Re: A note about draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis

2013-05-02 Thread Andrew Sullivan
Doug, No hat. On Thu, May 02, 2013 at 12:22:03PM -0700, Doug Barton wrote: > Given that you can be 100% confident that the issue will be raised > during IETF LC, wouldn't it be better to hash it out in the WG (as > we have attempted to do)? Or is the WG's position, "we have no > intention of deal

Re: A note about draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis

2013-05-02 Thread Doug Barton
On 5/2/2013 9:02 AM, S Moonesamy wrote: If anyone has any objection I suggest raising it during the Last Call. Given that you can be 100% confident that the issue will be raised during IETF LC, wouldn't it be better to hash it out in the WG (as we have attempted to do)? Or is the WG's positio

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Pete Resnick
One quick thing: On 5/2/13 1:14 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: From several past discussions it is clear that we are not really able (maybe not willing) to change our processes. Note that although we did ask the bigger question, the more central question relates to what we on the IESG can do al

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-05-02 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 2, 2013, at 4:32 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > >> "SM" == SM writes: >SM> There is an open position which has not been filled. Is NomCom >SM> 2012 still continuing its work? > >SM> The IETF usually has a NomCom Chair. Who is the current NomCom >SM> Chair [2]?

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
Hi Jari, Hi Pete, three issues come to my mind: a) From several past discussions it is clear that we are not really able (maybe not willing) to change our processes. Even the smallest change faces a lot of resistance. Due to the resistance our response is to back-off and we solve a different

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Carsten Bormann
On May 2, 2013, at 07:21, "Eggert, Lars" wrote: > Yeah, all kinds of issues, but if we created a new thing here in between WGLC > and PS, the broader industry would never understand. That is a matter of naming and marketing ("candidate RFC"?). The "this is baked, go and implement it" signal to

A note about draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis (was: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE)

2013-05-02 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Alessandro, Doug, My task is to keep draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis moving forward and to maintains a critical and technical perspective of the draft. The two weeks Working Group Last Call for draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-14 was announced on April 9, 2013 [1]. The document shepherd review was po

Re: Long review tail

2013-05-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 05/02/2013 04:19 PM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > > On May 2, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Stephen Farrell > wrote: > >> When asked if more could be done, (without any specific proposal >> for what to do) the response was that increasing the workload >> would maybe lead to a significant drop in that 80

RE: Gen-art telechat review: draft-ietf-6renum-gap-analysis-06.txt

2013-05-02 Thread Liubing (Leo)
Hi, Robert Thanks a lot for your continuous careful review. Please see replies inline. > -Original Message- > From: Robert Sparks [mailto:rjspa...@nostrum.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 12:33 AM > To: re...@ietf.org; draft-ietf-6renum-gap-analy...@tools.ietf.org > Cc: gen-...@ietf.o

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Andy Bierman
On Wed, May 1, 2013 at 9:33 AM, Michael Richardson wrote: > <#part sign=pgpmime> > > > "Jari" == Jari Arkko writes: > Jari> I wrote a blog article about how we do a fairly significant > Jari> amount of reviews and changes in the late stages of the IETF > Jari> process. Next week t

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-05-02 Thread Mankin, Allison
Hi, I contacted Jari about this the other day and he has advised me to get started on the 2013 nomcom volunteer recruiting now, even though we have a period of overlap with the 2012 nomcom. This happened at least once before; we have an overriding concern not to cause the 2013 schedule to slip

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-05-02 Thread Allison Mankin
I'm glad folks have brought this up. I contacted Jari about this the other day and he has advised me to get started on the 2013 nomcom volunteer recruiting now, even though we have a period of overlap with the 2012 nomcom. This happened at least once before; we have an overriding concern not to ca

Re: Long review tail

2013-05-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 2, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: > When asked if more could be done, (without any specific proposal > for what to do) the response was that increasing the workload > would maybe lead to a significant drop in that 80% figure since > secdir folks are also busy with their day-job

Balancing the Process (Was: Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE)

2013-05-02 Thread Hector Santos
Mr. Resnick, for the record, I wasn't upset. Believe it or not, I was actually applying an suggestion posted last month or so here with the IETF diversity talks to help get a major WG issue resolved, one with a near surety of an appeal, resolved and addressed much faster and hence avoid a wast

Re: Long review tail

2013-05-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 05/02/2013 03:54 PM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > I your blog, you wrote: > >> Having been involved in the process for many years, often the bigger changes >> at this stage relate to cross-area issues, or the fact that the careful >> reviews from the IETF last call, directorates, and 15 ADs o

Long review tail

2013-05-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
I your blog, you wrote: > Having been involved in the process for many years, often the bigger changes > at this stage relate to cross-area issues, or the fact that the careful > reviews from the IETF last call, directorates, and 15 ADs often represents a > significant increase in the number of

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-05-02 Thread Eliot Lear
And here we come to a conflict between what we as a community would like, versus what the market decides. This leads to a few questions: 1. Do we have to make a decision at any point from a protocol standpoint that the market has in fact made a decision? I ask this question because I performed

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: > If we are unwilling to bring "RFC" back to a place were it does not > equal STD, then we need to create a new category of document which > amounts to "fully baked ID". Things like IANA allocations could occur > at that point. => IMHO the last point (IANA a

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-05-02 Thread Michael Richardson
> "SM" == SM writes: SM> There is an open position which has not been filled. Is NomCom SM> 2012 still continuing its work? SM> The IETF usually has a NomCom Chair. Who is the current NomCom SM> Chair [2]? The nomcom chair continues to do the work. The nomcom is in fact

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-05-02 Thread Måns Nilsson
Subject: Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE Date: Thu, May 02, 2013 at 11:20:22AM +0200 Quoting Alessandro Vesely (ves...@tana.it): > What percentage of NS servers use dynamic updates primarily? (I only > happened to use nsupdate occasionally, e.g. to fix dhcp hiccups.) Every Active Di

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread t . p .
- Original Message - From: "Jari Arkko" To: "IETF list" Cc: "Pete Resnick" Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2013 4:33 PM Subject: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process I wrote a blog article about how we do a fairly significant amount of reviews and changes in the late stages of the IETF pro

Re: What's a reasonable and non-discriminatory patent license?

2013-05-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Mon 29/Apr/2013 05:14:50 +0200 John Levine wrote: > The Patently-O blog has a new guest post by Jorge Contreras, who among > other things is the IETF's lawyer, on a recent court decision about > how to determine what's an appropriate RAND royalty rate for > standard-essential patents. The paten

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-05-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Wed 01/May/2013 03:04:52 +0200 Mark Andrews wrote: > In message <517ff144.5040...@tana.it>, Alessandro Vesely writes: >> On Tue 30/Apr/2013 01:07:42 +0200 Mark Andrews wrote: >>> >>> SPF is techically superior to TXT is lots of ways. >>> >>> [...] >>> >>> For TXT you need to lookup the existi

Re: [spfbis] [dnsext] Obsoleting SPF RRTYPE

2013-05-02 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On Tue 30/Apr/2013 20:02:11 +0200 Edward Lewis wrote: > On Apr 30, 2013, at 12:28, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> ...The basic fact that killed the SPF type is the ability to use >> TXT as a replacement. There must be an analogous of Gresham's >> law: "Bad types drive out good ones." > > I disagree

Re: Do we have an estimated date for completing the IESG selection process for this year?

2013-05-02 Thread SM
Hi Matt, Allison, At 23:32 01-05-2013, Martin Stiemerling wrote: However, I do not have the answers to your questions, i.e., I am the wrong person to ask or answer. :-) The NomCom Chair posted a statement on March 9 [1] where it is mentioned that: "The Nomcom will continue its work until al