Re: leader statements (was: Montevideo statement)

2013-10-10 Thread SM
At 12:27 09-10-2013, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Now, there is indeed a possible issue, and that is that these chairs were attending a chief officer-type meeting: there were CEOs and so on, and (presumably by analogy) the chairs got invited to represent the organizations of which they are chairs.

Re: leader statements (was: Montevideo statement)

2013-10-10 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
As a practical matter any organization that tries to do things with other organizations needs to have some party that can act on its behalf. That is why Ambassadors are necessary. The current constitution of the IETF means that the chairs of the IAB and the IETF have very limited authority to

Re: leader statements (was: Montevideo statement)

2013-10-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Phillip Hallam-Baker hal...@gmail.com I have argued for junking the DARPA constitution for years. It was designed to keep power in the hands of the few while the rest of the organization didn't worry their pretty heads about it. Factually incorrect in a number of ways.

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-dhc-option-guidelines-14.txt (Guidelines for Creating New DHCPv6 Options) to Best Current Practice

2013-10-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 9, 2013, at 11:49 PM, Cullen Jennings flu...@iii.ca wrote: If this argument were correct, we'd expect to see major O.S. vendors supporting the NTP option, but we don't—instead, it's something that can be configured in the UI for situations like the one you describe, and that

Re: leader statements (was: Montevideo statement)

2013-10-10 Thread Jari Arkko
First off, we like to be in a situation where past IETF discussion, consensus, RFCs, and current work program guide what the leaders say. I think this was largely the case with the Montevideo statement as well. Of course these are judgment calls. Please send us feedback - I for instance talk in

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Medel v6 Ramirez
Leaders were processed thoroughly prior to their appointment so I trust them. And that they hold through the spirit of being an IETF and shall be responsible under oath for any impact on the organization. BR, Medel GOOGLE IS IPv6 COMPLIANT ! On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 4:15 AM, Abdussalam Baryun

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Avri Doria
Hi, I think this is an excellent draft and have already sent a pointer of it to colleagues in other organizations as stuff to consider. And although it has been eons since I chaired anything in the IETF, it perfectly matches my recollection of what humming and rough consensus was all about.

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker
On 10/8/2013 11:34 AM, IETF Chair wrote: I wanted to send a link to a statement that Russ and I signed as a part of a meeting that we held last week with the leaders of other Internet organisations. http://www.internetsociety.org/news/montevideo-statement-future-internet-cooperation Folks,

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread manning bill
the leaders are there to inform and moderate the discussion and where possible, indicate that consensus has been reached (or not).when leaders speak out on behalf of organization -particularly- this organization and they are _NOT_ relaying the consensus of the group at large, they have

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Arturo Servin
Then we have a big problem as organization, we are then leaderless. That is not good for the IETF and it reflects that we are not ready for the dynamics of the Internet that we created. .as On 10/10/13 3:49 PM, manning bill wrote: the leaders are there to inform and moderate

Re: leader statements (was: Montevideo statement)

2013-10-10 Thread manning bill
On 10October2013Thursday, at 1:30, SM wrote: At 12:27 09-10-2013, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Now, there is indeed a possible issue, and that is that these chairs were attending a chief officer-type meeting: there were CEOs and so on, and (presumably by analogy) the chairs got invited to

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/10/13 9:49 AM, manning bill wrote: the leaders are there to inform and moderate the discussion and where possible, indicate that consensus has been reached (or not). when leaders speak out on behalf of organization -particularly- this organization and they are _NOT_ relaying the

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Jari Arkko
Dave: On IANA: Further, I believe there is no IETF context RFC 6020 and http://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2011/07/IANA-IAB-FNOI-2011.pdf Jari

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Ted Lemon
On Oct 9, 2013, at 10:11 PM, Medel v6 Ramirez mgrami...@globe.com.ph wrote: Leaders were processed thoroughly prior to their appointment so I trust them. And that they hold through the spirit of being an IETF and shall be responsible under oath for any impact on the organization. I don't

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
Hello, On 10/10/13 4:30 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: On 10/10/13 9:49 AM, manning bill wrote: the leaders are there to inform and moderate the discussion and where possible, indicate that consensus has been reached (or not). when leaders speak out on behalf of organization -particularly- this

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker
On 10/11/2013 7:31 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: Dave: On IANA: Further, I believe there is no IETF context RFC 6020 and http://www.iab.org/wp-content/IAB-uploads/2011/07/IANA-IAB-FNOI-2011.pdf Jari, The fact that you had to reach back 2.5 years, to a frankly rather obscure document that came

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Then we have a big problem as organization, we are then leaderless. I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era, when I am pretty sure Phill's model of his job was

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/10/13 10:52 AM, Noel Chiappa wrote: I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era, when I am pretty sure Phill's model of his job was indeed as a 'facilitator', not a 'leader' in the sense you seem to be

Improving the ISOC Fellowship programme to attract people from under-represented regions into the IETF

2013-10-10 Thread S Moonesamy
Hi Jari, Here's is a draft about improving the ISOC Fellowship programme to attract people from under-represented regions into the IETF. The draft builds upon the ISOC work, proposing adjustments and additional efforts, with the goal of enabling more sustained and active participation by

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Melinda Shore melinda.sh...@gmail.com The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era, when I am pretty sure Phill's model of his job was indeed as a 'facilitator', not a 'leader' in the sense you seem to be thinking

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
I like your approach and comments, and I think that our ietf leaders are not always leaders but in IESG they are the managers. Mostly ietf ruled by community consensus not presidents, so we have many leaders including you and some others may be additional leaders for the community. The ietf wants

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 11/10/2013 07:52, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Then we have a big problem as organization, we are then leaderless. I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of good stuff) back in, e.g. the Phill Gross era,

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
To have a leader there must be followers. Ergo there are no IETF leader statements.

Re: consensus, was leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread John Levine
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Because we've got more than 120 working groups, thousands of participants, and the internet is now part of the world's communications infrastructure. I don't like hierarchy but I don't know how to scale up the organization without it. There are

Re: Community Feedback: IETF Trust Agreement Issues

2013-10-10 Thread Chris Griffiths
On Oct 9, 2013, at 2:07 PM, Adrian Farrel adr...@olddog.co.uk wrote: Hi Chris, I have become confused between the permission necessary to republish the Tao, and the request to republish under a Creative Commons license. Can I try to clarify. Do we or do we not grant permission for

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Douglas Otis
On Oct 10, 2013, at 1:52 PM, j...@mercury.lcs.mit.edu (Noel Chiappa) wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Then we have a big problem as organization, we are then leaderless. I'm not sure this is true. The IETF worked quite well (and produced a lot of good stuff) back in,

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Dave Crocker
On 10/7/2013 10:03 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: The abstract says: The IETF has had a long tradition of doing its technical work through a consensus process, taking into account the different views among IETF participants and coming to (at least rough) consensus on technical matters. In particular,

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Jari Arkko
As I noted in my review of the draft, the document has a core flaw in its sense of history. It has invented an interpretation of rough consensus that was not part of its original formulation. I consider the current focus on reconciling minority views to be quite an excellent enhancement

Re: Last Call: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05.txt (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC

2013-10-10 Thread Jari Arkko
FWIW, on the issue of Informational RFCs seen as cast in stone: I think I've seen that problem occasionally. I.e. people assigning a far too high value to a document, just because it is an RFC. The world changes, our understanding changes, and as Dave pointed out processes evolve… RFCs need to

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread SM
Hi Medel, At 19:11 09-10-2013, Medel v6 Ramirez wrote: Leaders were processed thoroughly prior to their appointment so I trust them. And that they hold through the spirit of being an IETF and shall be responsible under oath for any impact on the organization. There was a Recall petition last

Re: Montevideo statement

2013-10-10 Thread Jari Arkko
Dave, The fact that you had to reach back 2.5 years, to a frankly rather obscure document that came from the IAB and not the broader IETF, demonstrates my point that we lacked meaningful context You asked for context and I provided a context. We can certainly debate how meaningful it is.

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Scott Brim
True, it was mostly a reaction to the IETF's tendency to over-proceduralize everything, and an inclination to voting. The main issue I have been concerned with since then, and something this draft helps with, is redefinition of rough consensus to manipulate WG outcomes. WGs need to get beyond the

Re: Review of: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05

2013-10-10 Thread Pete Resnick
Finally back to this original review. On 10/6/13 7:03 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: In terms of philosophy and desirable practice, the draft discusses an extremely appealing model and generally explains its nature and practice well. However the draft tends to confuse what is (or has been)

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Ted Hardie
A small comment in-line. On Thu, Oct 10, 2013 at 1:25 PM, Dave Crocker d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 10/7/2013 10:03 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: The abstract says: The IETF has had a long tradition of doing its technical work through a consensus process, taking into account the different views

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Arturo Servin
Just to clarify, I am no saying that today we are leaderless. In fact I think we have a very good leadership. What I am saying is that if we that we want our leaders to only moderate discussion we are in a big problem. Regards, as On 10/10/13 4:52 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote:

Re: leader statements

2013-10-10 Thread Randy Bush
What I am saying is that if we that we want our leaders to only moderate discussion we are in a big problem. we are in a big problem, and this is one major part. two decades of lack of coherent architectural oversight is another symptom of this. i'm surprised that we are not overwhelmed with

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Pete Resnick
On 10/8/13 8:56 AM, t.p. wrote: 1) It does not state its target audience until, perhaps, the reference in the Conclusions, to WG Chairs. [...] Are ADs assumed to be above and beyond the considerations in this I-D:-( An excellent point. No, *every* consensus caller in the IETF should in

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-10 Thread Pete Resnick
On 10/7/13 7:48 AM, Lou Berger wrote: I think it misses two important points that should be addressed prior to publication: 1) The role WG/IETF mailing lists play in building and gauging consensus Yeah, as I just replied to Tom, I think this is worth adding, probably in section 2

Last Call: Adding a fragment identifier to the text/csv media type (see draft-hausenblas-csv-fragment-06.txt)

2013-10-10 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request to update the IANA registration of the text/csv media type, adding an optional fragment identifier. The request comes from a document in the Independent stream, and the IESG is the change controller for the text/csv media type. The IESG plans to make a decision in

RFC 7034 on HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options

2013-10-10 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 7034 Title: HTTP Header Field X-Frame-Options Author: D. Ross, T. Gondrom Status: Informational Stream: IETF Date: October 2013

IETF 88 - Hotel Reservation Cutoff Date

2013-10-10 Thread IETF Secretariat
REMINDER - the reservation cutoff date at the Fairmont Hotel (overflow) is Monday, 14 October, it has been extended from 11 October! The cutoff date at the Hyatt is 20 October 2013. 88th IETF Meeting Vancouver, BC, Canada November 3-8, 2013 Host: Huawei Meeting venue: Hyatt Regency Vancouver:

WG Action: Conclusion of Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions (pppext)

2013-10-10 Thread IESG Secretary
The Point-to-Point Protocol Extensions (pppext) Working Group in the Internet Area has concluded. The IESG contact persons are Brian Haberman and Ted Lemon. The mailing list will remain open.

Last Call: draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast-05.txt (Multicast Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (MPL)) to Proposed Standard

2013-10-10 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Routing Over Low power and Lossy networks WG (roll) to consider the following document: - 'Multicast Protocol for Low power and Lossy Networks (MPL)' draft-ietf-roll-trickle-mcast-05.txt as Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next