Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On 3 Aug 2013 11:14, "Ole Jacobsen (ole)" wrote: > > It was never a distraction until AB started complaining about it. Been serving a useful purpose for many, many years. Procmail is your friend. > +1 for that --- Roger --- > Ole J. Jacobsen > Editor & Publisher > http://cisco.com/ipj > > Sent f

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Loa Andersson
All, If there is a serious drive to discontinue the weekly posting summary - I strongly object. I don't think its main benefit is be to stop excessive or of topic posting. I'm not saying that list managers and list owners should look at that aspect. At least for me it serves as a safety net whe

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Michael Richardson
I attended meetings 36 through 62 in-person, missing about 1 in 4. I've never attended a meeting in asia-pacific, as about half were paid out of my own pocket, That was in the days of multicast, and I never got an mbone tunnel working, although Joe Abley and I once *saw* them in tcpdump go past

The Friday Report

2013-08-04 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Abdussalam, The IETF Chair used "AB" as your name in his report during the plenary. I assume that it is okay for me to call you "Abdussalam". I should have used "Mr Baryun" as that is how it is done in some cultures. Somebody (outside the IETF) wrote that, in general, those living in r

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-04 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's > license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is > indeed Yoav Nir. But I have never been asked to present any of them at the > IETF. I claim to work

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, August 04, 2013 07:27 -0400 Michael Richardson wrote: >... > > * On several occasions this week, slides were uploaded > > on a just-in-time basis (or an hour or so after that). > > Agreed. I'd like to have this as a very clear IETF-wide > policy. No slides 1 week before h

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Ted Lemon
While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that remote people see the slides at the same time as local people. For that, it seems to me that Meetecho support does exactly what is needed. You jus

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-04 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 4, 2013, at 9:09 PM, Ted Lemon wrote: > On Aug 3, 2013, at 10:23 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: >> The participation in the IETF is already pseudonymous. I have a driver's >> license, a passport, and a national ID card, all proving that my name is >> indeed Yoav Nir. But I have never been asked t

Re: Anonymity versus Pseudonymity (was Re: [87attendees] procedural question with remote participation)

2013-08-04 Thread Ted Lemon
On Aug 4, 2013, at 3:06 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > No, I use a credit card in the name of my company's "head of purchasing", so > not in my name. Why wouldn't that be sufficient to identify you? Is the head of purchasing going to protect your anonymity? > I would never lie at trial. But the name

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread John Levine
>If there is a serious drive to discontinue the weekly posting >summary - I strongly object. As far as I can tell, one person objects, everyone else thinks it's fine. Seems like rough consensus to me. R's, John

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Melinda Shore
On 8/4/13 11:53 AM, John Levine wrote: > As far as I can tell, one person objects, everyone else thinks it's fine. More to the point, the objections that are being raised appear to be bogus and based in a misunderstanding of how the IETF operates. Melinda

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 04/08/13 20:53, John Levine wrote: If there is a serious drive to discontinue the weekly posting summary - I strongly object. As far as I can tell, one person objects, everyone else thinks it's fine. Seems like rough consensus to me. +1 Aaron R's, John

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Tim Chown
On 4 Aug 2013, at 20:53, "John Levine" wrote: >> If there is a serious drive to discontinue the weekly posting >> summary - I strongly object. > > As far as I can tell, one person objects, everyone else thinks it's fine. > > Seems like rough consensus to me. And the code is running… Tim

Speaking of VAT

2013-08-04 Thread John Levine
At last week's very successful Berlin meeting, the finances were thrown of whack by the late discovery that the IETF had to pay 19% German VAT on the registration fee. At the IAOC session they said that about half of that is likely to be reclaimed from VAT paid, but the net amount is still a large

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
OK, I'll bite. Why do you and Michael believe you need to have the slides 1 week in advance? You have the agenda and drafts 2 weeks in advance. The slides aren't normative. Even when they're not about a draft in particular, the slides are not self-standing documents. They're merely to help

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 05/08/2013 06:54, Ted Lemon wrote: > While I think getting slides in on time is great for a lot of reasons, > reading the slides early isn't that important. What is important is that > remote people see the slides at the same time as local people. For that, it > seems to me that Meetecho

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Scott Brim
I'm less concerned about having slides than having the issues that need discussion clear. An agenda of documents and issues tells potential participants what they need. Slides are needed if and only if there is no document.

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, August 04, 2013 19:53 + John Levine wrote: >> If there is a serious drive to discontinue the weekly posting >> summary - I strongly object. > > As far as I can tell, one person objects, everyone else thinks > it's fine. I do not want to be recorded as thinking it is fine. If

Re: Speaking of VAT

2013-08-04 Thread Yoav Nir
On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:11 PM, John Levine wrote: > At last week's very successful Berlin meeting, the finances were > thrown of whack by the late discovery that the IETF had to pay 19% > German VAT on the registration fee. At the IAOC session they said > that about half of that is likely to be r

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 4, 2013, at 4:20 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > There is another equally important reason for having them well in advance, > for both on-site and remote attendees: so that participants can review > them in advance, decide which of several clashing sessions to attend, and > even prepare q

Re: The Friday Report (was Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org)

2013-08-04 Thread Jari Arkko
First, I'd like to highlight something that is important. There is no inherent preference to posting a lot, a moderate amount, or none at all. Everything depends on context. If you are providing useful input and furthering the discussion, a lot of mails is ok. And no mails can be a problem, too,

Re: Speaking of VAT

2013-08-04 Thread John R Levine
At last week's very successful Berlin meeting, the finances were thrown of whack by the late discovery that the IETF had to pay 19% German VAT on the registration fee. At the IAOC session they said that about half of that is likely to be reclaimed from VAT paid, but the net amount is still a larg

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 08/04/2013 09:20 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Finally: a deadline one week before the meeting is no harder to meet > than one minute before the meeting. Disagree. I often end up updating stuff late in the day and that should continue to be fine. Secondarily, its my impression that people a

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Melinda Shore
We're all different, and for my purposes, in all honesty, having slides unavailable until 45 seconds before a session start hasn't been an issue as a remote participant. It's definitely aggravating as a chair, though, since we need to get those uploaded via the meeting materials manager. Overall,

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
On Aug 3, 2013, at 7:25 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > First, probably to the "when meetings begin" part, but noting > that someone who gets onto the audio a few minutes late is in > exactly the same situation as someone who walks into the meeting > room a few minutes late -- announcements at the b

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Aaron Yi DING
On 04/08/13 23:37, Melinda Shore wrote: We're all different, and for my purposes, in all honesty, having slides unavailable until 45 seconds before a session start hasn't been an issue as a remote participant. It's definitely aggravating as a chair, though, since we need to get those uploaded vi

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 8/4/2013 3:10 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: OK, I'll bite. Why do you and Michael believe you need to have the slides 1 week in advance? You have the agenda and drafts 2 weeks in advance. The slides aren't normative. Even when they're not about a draft in particular, the slides are not self

Re: Speaking of VAT

2013-08-04 Thread Ray Pelletier
On Aug 4, 2013, at 11:47 PM, John R Levine wrote: >>> At last week's very successful Berlin meeting, the finances were >>> thrown of whack by the late discovery that the IETF had to pay 19% >>> German VAT on the registration fee. At the IAOC session they said >>> that about half of that is likel

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Hadriel Kaplan
Regarding the need for presentations early to get them translated, and the "non-Procrustean"[1] improvement of having cutoffs for presentations of new drafts: new drafts are still submitted 2 weeks in advance, and ISTM that a real non-Procrustean tactic would be to let the WG chairs do their jo

Re: procedural question with remote participation

2013-08-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 8/4/2013 8:36 PM, Hadriel Kaplan wrote: Regarding the need for presentations early to get them translated, and the "non-Procrustean"[1] improvement of having cutoffs for presentations of new drafts: new drafts are still submitted 2 weeks in advance, and ISTM that a real non-Procrustean tact