Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 10:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > It's been pointed out before that in a group with very diverse languages, > written words are usually better understood than speech. It's a fact of life > that you can't have a full-speed cut-and-thrust discussion in a group > of 100 people

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-30 Thread Scott Brim
http://tools.ietf.org/wg/intarea/trac/wiki/MeetingTimePrioritization

Re: [payload] Last Call: (RTP Payload Format for VP8 Video) to Proposed Standard

2013-07-30 Thread Timothy B. Terriberry
Cullen Jennings (fluffy) wrote: I can't imagine how I could implement the frame buffers in VP8 in VLSI without having an upper limit on both the width and height of the image. How do you deal with that? The one hardware VP8 decoder I have any experience with so far is mostly throughput-limit

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter < brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 31/07/2013 05:21, Melinda Shore wrote: > > On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > >> I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most > >> users don't realize how much lack of transpar

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 08:38:26AM +1200, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > It's been pointed out before that in a group with very diverse languages, > written words are usually better understood than speech. It's a fact of life > that you can't have a full-speed cut-and-thrust discussion in a group >

Re: PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Richardson
Just to make sure we have good data, can we go back a few more years? Specifically, did we not previously have a restriction forbidding references FS->DS, and {FS,DS}->PS? RFC3967 was in Dec. 2004, but I thought that we had some other work more recently (2008?) that attempted to unjam things.

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Joe Touch > "what people want" (ISP operators, or at least some of them), was an > artificial way to differentiate home customers from commercial > providers. > I.e., they wanted to create a differentiation that wasn't part of the > Internet architecture, so they p

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/30/2013 6:23 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: The IETF doesn't have a police force, or any enforcement mechanism. If we're going to head off these boxes, the only tool we have to do that is to build better mousetraps - i.e. design stuff that does what people want, is more cost-effective, and is bet

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Joe Touch
On 7/30/2013 5:17 AM, Roland Bless wrote: Hi, my impression from several presentations seen this week at the IETF as well as at the ISOC Panel on "Improving Internet Experience" is that we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ middleboxes (or their implementations re

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Roland Bless
Hi Noel, On 30.07.2013 15:23, Noel Chiappa wrote: > I hear you, but... this is not a simple problem. Yes, and I wasn't expecting it to be simple... > I think we need to start by understanding what drives the creation and > deployment of these devices. I think the answer to that has to be that so

Re: PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Crocker
On 7/30/2013 11:00 PM, SM wrote: The hurdle in moving a specification (not a RFC) from PS to IS is that the draft goes through IESG Evaluation again. As for public review, it can be a hurdle too as the pervious discussions can be rehashed. And, of course, if it "can" be reshashed, in the IETF

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/30/13 12:29 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Users want applications to just work, but they (and many business > managers in our "industry") don't understand that when applications > fail unpredictably, it's often because of glitches in what we call > transparency. I suspect applications are no

Re: PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread SM
At 11:27 30-07-2013, John C Klensin wrote: Disclaimers and possible small classification errors aside and being careful to avoid making causal assumptions, I believe that the implication of the above is that there is no evidence that the 3 -> 2 transition has increased the number of documents bei

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 05:47, Bob Braden wrote: > On 7/30/2013 9:35 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> >> Easy fix: 'slide' (well, nobody uses real slides anymore :-) rationing. >> >> E.g. if a presenter has a 10 minute slot, maximum of 3 'slides' >> (approximately; maybe less). That will force the slides to be 'di

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 7:47 PM, Bob Braden wrote: > On 7/30/2013 9:35 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> >> Easy fix: 'slide' (well, nobody uses real slides anymore :-) rationing. >> >> E.g. if a presenter has a 10 minute slot, maximum of 3 'slides' >> (approximately; maybe less). That will force the slid

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 05:21, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: >> I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most >> users don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them. >> So "transparent Internet access" isn't a commodity.Transparency >> wo

Re: PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 31/07/2013 06:27, John C Klensin wrote: > > --On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 16:41 +0200 IETF Chair > wrote: > >> Last night there was a question in the plenary about how many >> PS->IS transitions have occurred since RFC 6410 was published >> in October 2011. That RFC changed the three-step stand

Re: PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, July 30, 2013 16:41 +0200 IETF Chair wrote: > Last night there was a question in the plenary about how many > PS->IS transitions have occurred since RFC 6410 was published > in October 2011. That RFC changed the three-step standards > process to two steps. There was also a questio

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Bob Braden
On 7/30/2013 9:35 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: Easy fix: 'slide' (well, nobody uses real slides anymore :-) rationing. E.g. if a presenter has a 10 minute slot, maximum of 3 'slides' (approximately; maybe less). That will force the slides to be 'discussion frameworks', rather than 'detailed overview

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/30/13 7:59 AM, Keith Moore wrote: > I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most > users don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them. > So "transparent Internet access" isn't a commodity.Transparency > would be cheaper if there were more demand for it,

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Ted Lemon
On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:33 PM, Dave Cridland wrote: > {{citation-needed}} - I've only ever seen specification conformance in > procurement documents for military systems, never for anything else. It's quite common to see a list of supported RFCs in the spec sheet for a piece of network hardware.

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Keith Moore Great message. One idea: > WG meeting sessions aren't scheduled to encourage discussion, but to > discourage it. At meeting after meeting, in several different areas, I > see the lion's share of the time devoted to presentations rather than > discussion.

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Dave Cridland
On Tue, Jul 30, 2013 at 4:25 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > > On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > The IETF doesn't have a police force, or any enforcement mechanism. > > That's true, but people do sometimes cite IETF specifications as > requirements for equipment procurement. And in m

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Yoav Nir
On Jul 30, 2013, at 6:10 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: > > Keith Moore wrote: > >> Rooms are set up not to facilitate discussion, but to discourage it. The >> lights are dim, the chairs are facing forward rather than other participants, >> the projector screen (not the person facilitating

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Josh Howlett
>> >> Personally I would characterise this as a demand-side problem, not >> supply-side: most users plainly aren't willing to pay for Internet >> transparency. > >I don't think that's the problem; I think the problem is that most users >don't realize how much lack of transparency is harming them.

Re: making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Michael Richardson
Keith Moore wrote: > But earlier today I realized that the problem isn't just the cost of attending > meetings - it's the value that we get in return for those meetings. I've been > taking notes about how ineffectively we use our meeting time. Most of what > I've observed w

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 5:55 PM, Josh Howlett wrote: >> >> Though of course an underlying problem is that no vendor wants to sell >> hardware that will obsolete itself, unless of course it obsoletes itself >> by requiring the customer to purchase even more expensive hardware than >> it replaces.

making our meetings more worth the time/expense (was: Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:53 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: > We have discussed diversity at the IETF at length. Yesterday, Pete Resnick > and I wrote an article about what we think the goal for the IETF should be, > as well as listing some of the early activities that we have taken at the > IETF. Our goal

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Josh Howlett
> >Though of course an underlying problem is that no vendor wants to sell >hardware that will obsolete itself, unless of course it obsoletes itself >by requiring the customer to purchase even more expensive hardware than >it replaces.It's hard to see how IETF could fight against vendors who >we

Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF

2013-07-30 Thread SM
Hi Jari, Pete, At 06:53 30-07-2013, Jari Arkko wrote: We have discussed diversity at the IETF at length. Yesterday, Pete Resnick and I wrote an article about what we think the goal for the IETF should be, as well as listing some of the early activities that we have taken at the IETF. Our goal i

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 30, 2013, at 3:23 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: >> From: Roland Bless > >> we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ >> middleboxes (or their implementations respectively) - I'm not focusing >> on NAT boxes here. >> ... >> I think it's clear that we will not get rid o

Re: IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/30/13 4:44 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > > On 7/30/13 4:42 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: >> On 7/30/13 4:40 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: >> >>> Captchas? Recaptchas? >> >>> Also, AFAIK WordPress has some good anti-spam add-ons. >> >> Yes, Akismet help

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2013-07-30 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 30/07/13 16:44, joel jaeggli wrote: On 7/30/13 4:40 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: Captchas? Recaptchas? Also, AFAIK WordPress has some good anti-spam add-ons. the obvious one is simply a requirement to use your ietf tools credientials to post. +1. the best current practice so far.

Re: IETF-Blog comments

2013-07-30 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 30/07/13 16:34, Jari Arkko wrote: Arturo: Now, something general related to the blog. Perhaps it would be good to enable comments, isn't it? understandable. based on the experience running one blog for a organization, if such posts are in English, easily ended up with loads of

Re: IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Arturo Servin
On 7/30/13 4:42 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 7/30/13 4:40 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > > > Captchas? Recaptchas? > > > Also, AFAIK WordPress has some good anti-spam add-ons. > > Yes, Akismet helps a lot. > > But this is probably a better topic for the tools-discuss list, eh? ;-) > > Peter > Pet

Re: IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread joel jaeggli
On 7/30/13 4:40 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > Captchas? Recaptchas? > > Also, AFAIK WordPress has some good anti-spam add-ons. the obvious one is simply a requirement to use your ietf tools credientials to post. > > Regards, > as > > > > > On 7/30/13 4:34 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: >> Arturo: >> >>

Re: IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 7/30/13 4:40 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > > Captchas? Recaptchas? > > Also, AFAIK WordPress has some good anti-spam add-ons. Yes, Akismet helps a lot. But this is probably a better topic for the tools-discuss list, eh? ;-) Peter - -- Peter Sain

PS to IS question from plenary

2013-07-30 Thread IETF Chair
Last night there was a question in the plenary about how many PS->IS transitions have occurred since RFC 6410 was published in October 2011. That RFC changed the three-step standards process to two steps. There was also a question of how this compared to previous times before that RFC got approv

Re: IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Arturo Servin
Captchas? Recaptchas? Also, AFAIK WordPress has some good anti-spam add-ons. Regards, as On 7/30/13 4:34 PM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Arturo: > >> Now, something general related to the blog. Perhaps it would be good to >> enable comments, isn't it? > > Yes, that has been issue that h

Re: IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Jari Arkko
Arturo: > Now, something general related to the blog. Perhaps it would be good to > enable comments, isn't it? Yes, that has been issue that has bugged me as well. The IT team tells me that it is problematic from a spam perspective, and they do not want me spending my time approving/remo

IETF-Blog comments (Was Re: setting a goal for an inclusive IETF)

2013-07-30 Thread Arturo Servin
Jari, Peter Thanks for the article. It is really welcomed to see that "diversity" is something that the IETF is taking really seriously. Now, something general related to the blog. Perhaps it would be good to enable comments, isn't it? I think that it would be good to int

setting a goal for an inclusive IETF

2013-07-30 Thread Jari Arkko
We have discussed diversity at the IETF at length. Yesterday, Pete Resnick and I wrote an article about what we think the goal for the IETF should be, as well as listing some of the early activities that we have taken at the IETF. Our goal is making the IETF more inclusive for everyone who needs

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Roland Bless > we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ > middleboxes (or their implementations respectively) - I'm not focusing > on NAT boxes here. > ... > I think it's clear that we will not get rid of them, but if I hear > about b

Re: Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Hannes Tschofenig
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I raised the need for this transparency in this writeup: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-tschofenig-hourglass-00 The document also points to some projects / paper I am aware of that are relevant. There may be more. Ciao Hannes On Jul 30, 2013,

Bringing back Internet transparency

2013-07-30 Thread Roland Bless
Hi, my impression from several presentations seen this week at the IETF as well as at the ISOC Panel on "Improving Internet Experience" is that we probably need to do something on reducing the number of _broken_ middleboxes (or their implementations respectively) - I'm not focusing on NAT boxes he

Re: Remote participants, newcomers, and tutorials

2013-07-30 Thread Jari Arkko
Dave, > I've been finding discussion and actions about newcomers far more interesting > this year, than most previous ones. So I think it's worth pressing on > several fronts, to see how we can both accommodate such folk better, as well > as be clear about when and where and how such accommoda