Re: Fostering reviews (was Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?)

2006-06-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
isn't there already some general area reviewers that perform this type of function? I thought there were http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/review-guidelines.html Invoked at IETF Last Call and/or IESG Evaluation. For the IESG's latest discussion on early review, see section 8 of

Re: draft-IAB-rfc-editor-00: IAB Charter and IAB

2006-06-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
BTW, the IASA has formulated its approach to this balance: http://koi.uoregon.edu/~iaoc/docs/IASA-Tao.pdf and it certainly doesn't include micro-managing the budget. Brian Sam Hartman wrote: Bob == Bob Braden [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Bob I must confess that I did not quite

[Fwd: Montreal agenda still in flux]

2006-06-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Original Message Subject: Montreal agenda still in flux Date: Thu, 22 Jun 2006 13:26:51 -0400 From: IETF Chair [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: IETF Announcement list ietf-announce@ietf.org Please be aware that there are still a few unresolved clashes, and the Secretariat is working on

Re: IETF Chair tasks

2006-06-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, 19 June, 2006 10:49 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'd be interested to know if anyone has comments on draft-carpenter-ietf-chair-tasks-00.txt: This document describes tasks performed by the IETF Chair, the IESG Chair

IETF Chair tasks

2006-06-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I'd be interested to know if anyone has comments on draft-carpenter-ietf-chair-tasks-00.txt: This document describes tasks performed by the IETF Chair, the IESG Chair, and the Area Director of the General Area of the IETF. Its purpose is to inform the community of what these tasks

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in Addition to ASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bob, First, I must request that the Internet Draft be retracted in its present form. Section 4 contains a direct quote from one of my messages. However, the quoted sentence was taken brazenly out of context; its sense is quite the opposite of the sense of my original message. This is

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-ipod-01.txt

2006-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: For #1, it removes the requirements for Last Call and demonstration of community consensus that apply to BCPs. In other words, these are IESG Operational Notes, not IETF Operational Notes. Not really; some of them would be issued not on IESG authority but on

Re: Last Call: 'IETF Process and Operations Documentss' to Experimental RFC (draft-alvestrand-ipod)

2006-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, 18 May, 2006 17:16 -0400 The IESG [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the following document: - 'IETF Process and Operations Documentss ' draft-alvestrand-ipod-01.txt as an

Re: Last Call: 'A Process Experiment in Normative Reference Handling' to Experimental RFC (draft-klensin-norm-ref)

2006-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
C. M. Heard wrote: On Thu, 1 Jun 2006, Eric Rosen wrote: There are also other reasons why I find this proposed experiment disheartening. For one thing, it really misses the point. We need to simplify our processes, not make them more complicated. Either we need the

Re: Last Call Comments: 'A Process Experiment in Normative Reference Handling' to Experimental RFC (draft-klensin-norm-ref)

2006-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... I believe the RFC 3978 practice and the RFC 2026 variance process provides adequate means publishing documents with such references. Kurt, what's the relevance of RFC 3978? The current procedure for downrefs is RFC 3967, as mentioned in the draft. The RFC 2026 variance process is

Clarification Re: I-D ACTION:draft-ash-alt-formats-02.txt

2006-06-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... The IESG (shepherded by Bill Fenner, Routing AD) has agreed to proceed with the experiment. Bill may have agreed to shepherd it, but the IESG has not reviewed this document yet, so has not agreed to anything. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list

[Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-newtrk-questions-00.txt]

2006-06-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I invite the IETF community to read this draft and discuss the choices it suggests, between now and the Montreal IETF. Brian Original Message Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-newtrk-questions-00.txt Date: Fri, 09 Jun 2006 15:50:01 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Reply-To:

Re: Acknowledgements section in a RFC (Was: Last Call: 'Matching of Language Tags' to BCP (draft-ietf-ltru-matching)

2006-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Disclaimer: IANAL, and this message is not intended as legal advice. Please, read RFC3979 for yourself, and if you have concerns as to what your obligations are or what you can get away with, consult a lawyer. On Wednesday, June 07, 2006 02:22:06 PM -0400 Gray, Eric

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-iab-rfc-editor-00.txt

2006-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Although I'm an IAB member, I'd rather make my one comment on this draft in public. I think it misses one point that should be mentioned. The easiest way to explain it is to suggest new text: 4.4. Avoiding interference between publication streams

Re: Best practice for data encoding?

2006-06-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
So how about concluding that there is no single right answer to Iljitsch's question, but there may be scope for defining considerations for the choice of data encoding? Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-iab-rfc-editor-00.txt

2006-06-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
that's effectively achievable or even maintainable in this document. Leslie. Brian E Carpenter wrote: Although I'm an IAB member, I'd rather make my one comment on this draft in public. I think it misses one point that should be mentioned. The easiest way to explain it is to suggest new text

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-iab-rfc-editor-00.txt

2006-06-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Although I'm an IAB member, I'd rather make my one comment on this draft in public. I think it misses one point that should be mentioned. The easiest way to explain it is to suggest new text: 4.4. Avoiding interference between publication streams Although diversity of views and alternative

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-06-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael StJohns wrote: ... In the doc It is the responsibility of the IAB to approve the appointment of an organization to act as RFC Editor and the general policy followed by the RFC Editor. This is incorrect. Mike, in absolute seriousness, the time to make that comment was in

Re: IETF, IAB, RFC-Editor

2006-06-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ran, RJ Atkinson wrote: On 5 Jun 2006, at 02:54, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Earlier, Ran Atkinson wrote: It has NOT been the case in the past that IETF was the community in control of RFC-Editor. In fact, that would represent a major, and in many people's view highly undesirable, change

Re: IETF, IAB, RFC-Editor

2006-06-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ran, RJ Atkinson wrote: Previously, someone wrote: I finished reading the RFC editor document and have one major concern. Ultimately, the rfc-editor function needs to be accountable to the IETF community because we're the ones paying for it. Incorrect. As I pointed out some weeks ago,

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yoshihiro Ohba wrote: Hi Joel, Reading the entire thread, I think we should seriously consider your detailed suggestions to improve the PANA framework draft for broader acceptance in the community. Which is strong hint that this discussion now belongs on the PANA mailing list. Brian

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Look at draft-ietf-newtrk-docid-00.txt This isn't really a chartering issue, IMHO. Brian Stewart Bryant wrote: Robert Sayre wrote: On 5/26/06, Geoff Huston [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Delving down a bit here, I suspect that, as always, the longstanding issue here is the actual level

Re: IETF-SDO liaison

2006-05-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I suggest that people interested in this topic have a look at draft-iab-liaison-guidelines-03.txt and send comments to its author. Brian Thomas Narten wrote: I think it is our collective responsiblity not to make false claims when moving our agenda forward. This is true with any group.

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Avi, I'd appreciate it if you could refrain from mentioning how representatives from specific companies spoke in another SDO. In the IETF, we trust each other to leave our company affiliations at the door. The fact that statements about the IETF were made elsewhere may be relevant, but who

Re: FW: Last Call: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting Calendar

2006-05-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jordi, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Hi Ray, I think it is very unfair, especially after previous comments done on this topic some weeks ago, to keep ignoring in our calendar the already fixed events of AfriNIC/AfNOG, APNIC and LACNIC. I'm not saying they are not actually being considered, but

Re: Possible new work items in the General Area

2006-05-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Procedures. (convened by Margaret Wasserman) 4. Mailing list management procedures. (convened by Jim Galvin) The appeals procedure topic didn't attract much interest. More news as we get closer to Montreal. Brian Brian E Carpenter wrote: As General Area Director, I am aware of several

Re: IETF Meeting Survey - Last Call

2006-04-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Is it because only two hundred people read the IETF discussion list? No, because it was also announced on the ietf-announce list which has many more subscribers than this one. (Something to do with signal to noies ratios.) And btw we deliberately target everybody, and not just meeeting

Possible General Area MiniBOF 1: IESG structure and charter

2006-04-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
People willing to work actively (i.e draft or and edit) a document on this topic are invited to contact me immediately. The objective is to plan a mini-BOF during the General Area open meeting at IETF 66. Without committed volunteers in the community, this work will not happen. The IESG charter

Possible new work items in the General Area

2006-04-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
As General Area Director, I am aware of several topics outside the scope of existing WGs (ipr, newtrk) that appear ready for attention in the General Area. This message is a summary; I will follow up with separate messages for each of the following topics. 1. IESG structure and charter. 2. WG

Possible General Area MiniBOF 4: Mailing lists management procedures

2006-04-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
People willing to work actively (i.e draft or and edit) a document on this topic are invited to contact me immediately. The objective is to plan a mini-BOF during the General Area open meeting at IETF 66. Without committed volunteers in the community, this work will not happen. BCP 94 (RFC 3934)

Possible General Area MiniBOF 3: Appeals procedures

2006-04-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
People willing to work actively (i.e draft or and edit) a document on this topic are invited to contact me immediately. The objective is to plan a mini-BOF during the General Area open meeting at IETF 66. Without committed volunteers in the community, this work will not happen. BCP 9 (RFC 2026)

Re: Possible General Area MiniBOF 1: IESG structure and charter

2006-04-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
suggest a far more timid approach. Harald Brian E Carpenter wrote: People willing to work actively (i.e draft or and edit) a document on this topic are invited to contact me immediately. The objective is to plan a mini-BOF during the General Area open meeting at IETF 66. Without

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

2006-04-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tony Hain wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... Scott Leibrand wrote: .. I agree, especially in the near term. Aggregation is not required right now, but having the *ability* to aggregate later on is a prudent risk reduction strategy if today's cost to do so is minimal (as I think

Re: 66th IETF - Registration and Hotel Accommodations

2006-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tim Chown wrote: On Wed, Apr 19, 2006 at 06:07:50PM -0500, Spencer Dawkins wrote: Thanks to IAD for opening registration (helps with visa requests, although this is less of a problem in Canada than elsewhere in North America). Yes, very nice to have the hotel and registration open 3 month

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: PI addressing in IPv6 advances in ARIN]

2006-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Kevin Loch wrote: ... In case you (IETF) diddn't get the memo, the operational community has flat out rejected shim6 in it's current form as a replacement for PI. Kevin, I realise you may have felt provoked by the tone of some earlier messages, but I must point out that (a) the shim6 work is

Re: IPv6 Subsets?

2006-04-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
You might also want to look at RFC 4294 (IPv6 Node Requirements). Brian Juha Wiljakka wrote: Hi, My apologies, the previous message was sent all too early by mistake... What I ment to say, you might want to have a look at RFC3316. 3GPP is using it as a reference for Release 5 (and

Re: Unannounced list status changes considered harmful

2006-04-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: Frank == Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Frank Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Please provide more data (off-list) as this seems odd. Frank Will do (ordinary moderation bounce), but on list I should Frank fix the bogus URLs I've posted here (I forgot one

Re: RFC Editor and 2006 timeline

2006-04-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: John C Klensin wrote: How does one fix later a contract, presumably a multi-year one, if we get what we ask for and then discover that we don't like it? By specifying flexible terms in the initial contract. Initial contract with who? The only fair bidding process I

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
v | /\ +-+ / \ ++ | Upgrade |__/ ? \__| Give money | | To IPv6 | \/ | to Michel | +-+ \ / ++ \/ M. Tough call. Yes, it is. It's called long term strategic investment

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 11-apr-2006, at 15:58, Brian E Carpenter wrote: However, geographic addressing could give us aggregation with provider independece. You'll have to produce the BGP4 table for a pretty compelling simulation model of a worldwide Internet with a hundred

Re: Reality (was RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-04-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... However, geographic addressing could give us aggregation with provider independece. If you examine European routes in the routing table of a router on the American west coast, you'll see that the vast majority of those routes point towards the same next hop. So if you could express an

Re: Copyright status of early RFCs

2006-04-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, At the moment there has been no transfer of rights in the early RFCs to the IETF Trust, so I think you need to ask the RFC Editor, or simply look at http://www.rfc-editor.org/copyright.23Jan01.html IANAL, but I have been told that in any case it is necessary to check with the original

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-04-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Also note that local holidays may be city specific not country specific. It's quite impractical to consider city holidays three years out. Not if the city is chosen 2-3 years out. That really isn't likely for a meeting of our size; you need to be in the 5000+ range for

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Joel, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On Tue, 28 Mar 2006, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I think is clear that we need to fix the meeting dates, and that should be done in advance so we avoid clashes with other events and we can negotiate with hotels and sponsors ahead of time enough to make it cheaper.

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
If you can't provide the functionality that the customers want your protocol purity comes down to 'you have to do it our way, oh and by the way we have no interest in listening to you'. which is why some of us wrote draft-ietf-v6ops-nap Brian

Re: Meeting format (Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors)

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Andy, As I hope everybody knows, about 60% of the IASA budget comes from meeting fees, and we must make enough surplus on the meetings to fund the secretariat. So, if we did decide to change the nature of any of our meetings, we'd really have to understand the budget implications. That being

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, Mar 25, 2006 at 04:21:31PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray, I think our goal is to not lose essential participants from the IETF due to clashes. In fact that's why we want to schedule several years out, so as to make it easier for many other organizations

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. Brian, this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying in the overpriced Hilton hotel rooms, my IETF65 meeting

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... I guess I was just wishing out loud when I said maybe the meeting fee could trend down instead of up. I would be happy if the IETF had more control over the meetings We have complete control since December 15, 2005. so the fees were stable, The fees have to cover our costs. It would

Re: technical tutorials

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Excuse front-posting but this will be short. The EDU team discussed this very issue with the IAOC in Dallas. There will be a draft revised charter for EDU out for comment soon, but the short version is that (for the reasons John gives) EDU will stick to classes aimed at the IETF's own

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Indeed. Not only is it small, it isn't where corporate bean counters put their attention, which is air fare, hotel, and per diem. this is not universally true. With cheaper air fares and not staying

Re: 2 hour meetings

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Thanks to Keith for changing the Subject when changing the subject. I know you've heard this all before, but it's been getting increasingly difficult for us WG Chairs to get all the key people working on a protocol to fly across the planet for a 2 hour meeting. These are busy people who can't

Re: About cookies and refreshments cost and abuse

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The IAOC will have a look at this issue. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Terry Gray wrote: Perhaps someone could document what was done differently this time, so that all may learn the secret? A lot of it is obsessive attention to detail, but the other part is choosing equipment that is known to work at IETF scale. Writing it up is a good idea, if our good friends

Re: Clarification of my comment on giving up on process issues

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: Ed == Ed Juskevicius [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Ed I wonder if part of the reason is we often resort to a modus Ed operandi of let a thousand flowers bloom and let the market Ed decide for contentious issues. While that *might* work for a Ed technology spec,

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ray, I think our goal is to not lose essential participants from the IETF due to clashes. In fact that's why we want to schedule several years out, so as to make it easier for many other organizations to do their scheduling. If we do that, it's each organization's choice whether or not they

Re: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting dates

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ray Plzak (private), Can you give the email addresses of the AfriNIC, AfNOG and SANOG leaders? I'd like to write to them explicitly about this. It would be good to get them more involved in the IETF. Thanks Brian Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray, I think our goal is to not lose essential

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
when you are heading in off in the weeds. Try http://www.potaroo.net/ispcol/2005-01/interconn.html as an alternative view of the ISP settlement world. regards, Geoff At 12:12 PM 25/03/2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I know I'm going to regret saying this, but we haven't made much progress

Re: Jabber chats (was: 2 hour meetings)

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Just a general comment: I think that as far as decision-taking is concerned, we need to treat WG jabber sessions (and teleconferences) exctly like face to face meetings - any decisions taken must in fact be referred to the WG mailing list for rough consensus. Otherwise, the people who happen to

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith Moore wrote: It will also be a more open process. Today, in my opinion, having to negotiate with each possible sponsor in secret, is a broken concept, and against our openness. I'm a lot more concerned about openness in IETF protocol development. some kinds of negotiations really do

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
If the meeting fees could be lowered over time because smaller venues are needed 2 out of 3 IETFs, then more people will be able to participate. My head hurts. If more people can participate how come we would need *smaller* venues? And by what miracle does lowering the fee allow us to reduce

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
one thing, the first thing we would have to do in the IETF - if we adopted a model like this - is to establish a marketing over-sight function to ensure fair and equitable disposition of sponsorship funds. Eric, I am not sure why this would be required. In so far as it's required, it's

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-25 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Here is a guess at the rule we should impose: A sponsor donating a sufficiently large amount may have a small booth for the sale of a single product that is a) unannounced or has been announced within the last [6] months, and b) appropriate for purchase and use by individuals. I really

Draft notes from Wednesday plenary

2006-03-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The draft notes from the Wednesday plenary are posted at http://www3.ietf.org/proceedings/06mar/minutes/plenaryw.txt Please let me know of any errors. No need to copy the list unless it's a discussion point. Thanks to Mirjam Kuehne for scribing. Brian

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I know I'm going to regret saying this, but we haven't made much progress in ten years. http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-carpenter-metrics-00.txt I got a lot of interest in that draft, none of which came from ISPs... Brian Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I think that people need to consider that

HTTP archaeology [Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)]

2006-03-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The comments on http are rather amusing when you consider we spent the next five years trying to act on them. At the time the CERN connection to the internet was a T1. Er, the CERN connection to the NSFnet was a T1, or possibly an E1 by then. CERN had much

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ran, I could argue with quite a lot of what you say, but I won't. Cutting to the chase: RJ Atkinson wrote: ... The IAB (or possibly ISoc BoT, but more obviously IAB and not the IESG) ought to be running and driving any process to create or modify a formal RFC Editor charter, at least as

Re: Transparency (Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter)

2006-03-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Alvestrand wrote: Carl Malamud wrote: Hi Brian - I agree with the first part (seek multiple proposals when possible and appropriate). However, we may disagree on the last part (transparent as possible). My formulation would be transparent without the qualifier. Transparent with a

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It's been suggested to me that RFC 3639 might be relevant to this thread. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)

2006-03-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: This was eight years ago. The IESG that the complaint was made against was: Seems like there ought to be a statute of limitations. In the IETF process, that's two months. I presume that anybody who found the RFC 3932 (BCP 92) procedures unsatisfactory would have

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Regardless of what the community consensus is on: 1. Are well known ports archaic? I want to comment that on this: If so, can we request that the IANA do away with the distinction? The IETF decides, and the IANA will then be responsible for implementing the decision. Brian

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Spencer Dawkins wrote: From: Leslie Daigle [EMAIL PROTECTED] Following the note just sent about the proposed timeline for reviewing the RFC Editor contract this year, here is the STRAW proposal RFC Editor charter proposed by the IAB. It is a modest extension of the RFC Editor paragraph as

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Carl, my impression as a bystander is that the IETF has decided that sole source contracts (where only one contractor is permitted to bid) are, in general, a Bad Idea. The Secretariat contract had very special circumstances, which caused it to be sole

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott Bradner wrote: The other publication tracks in the above is meant to be for -- IAB, IRTF, independent submissions, whatever comes next. and 1 april RFCs? I suggest we discuss that 15 days from now... ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Leslie Daigle wrote: I want to speak to one facet of comment that I believe is going to be a common thread: [Ran Atkinson wrote:] Similarly, it is a bug that the IETF process would govern the publication of non-IETF documents. The IETF process properly should govern how IETF generated

Re: FYI -- IAB statement on IANA RFI

2006-03-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It's been pointed out that the note to DoC was actually sent by the IAB and the IETF *Chair* not the IETF as whole. Obviously, the timescale of this RFI was too short for the IETF as a whole to debate a response. In fact, it was even too short for us to spot this nit. Brian Leslie Daigle

Draft agenda for General Area open meeting

2006-03-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
General Area open meeting (AD and session chair: Brian Carpenter) Wednesday morning 09:00 Welcome, and introduction (Brian Carpenter) 09:10 RFC 2434bis (Thomas Narten) draft-narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434bis-04.txt (coming soon) 09:25 PESCI wrap-up (Scott Brim)

Re: Multinational Internet or Balkanization?

2006-03-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... Ignore China? No, that would be foolish. We automatically ignore any pseudo-TLD that only exists within a walled garden, because it is simply invisible outside. It isn't part of the global Internet. If it appears in any way outside the walled garden, it is meaningless. I think there are

Re: [Gen-art] GenArt LC review of DHCP Server Identifier Override Suboption

2006-02-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, Both valid comments, which are in the tracker, but #1 is explicitly not a DISCUSS (see the 5th bullet of section 3.2 of http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/discuss-criteria.html). Thanks Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I was selected as General Area Review Team reviewer for this

Re: USG Request for Information on the IANA

2006-02-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The IAB and IAOC are aware of this and are discussing it. Brian Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: [The protocol and port assignment is mentioned, too, so I believe it is of general interest here.] http://www.fbo.gov/spg/DOC/OS/OAM/Reference%2DNumber%2DDOCNTIARFI0001/SynopsisR.html

Visa waivers, or not

2006-02-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I just wanted to remind people again that if you come from a visa waiver country, you will need a machine readable passport or an actual visa for the Dallas IETF. Please check carefully to avoid being blocked at the airport. The details are complicated:

Re: What's an experiment?

2006-02-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I did ask for this thread to be general. No problem if you want to discuss your (least) favourite protocols here, but please change the subject line... Thanks Brian Andrew Newton wrote: On Feb 18, 2006, at 11:39 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Given the

Re: IESG Statement on disruptive posting

2006-02-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Somebody said: ... You cannot fight disruption without formality. An IESG statement issued under the authority granted to the IESG by RFC 2026 is formal. Brian Carpenter IETF Chair ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Document Action: 'US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)' to Informational RFC

2006-02-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: Brian == Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian My point is only that while we have an active WG looking at Brian the question of license terms for the use of text from Brian RFCs, it wouldn't be right for the IESG to unilaterally Brian approve

What's an experiment?

2006-02-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
When considering some recent appeals, the IESG discovered that we have very little guidance about the meaning of experiments in relation to Experimental RFCs. RFC 2026 refers to work which is part of some research or development effort and the IESG has adopted some guidelines to discriminate

Re: Document Action: 'US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)' to Informational RFC

2006-02-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
PROTECTED] Sam Hartman wrote: Brian == Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Brian Tony, That would have amounted to the author and IESG Brian deciding to change the IETF's policy on derivative works, Brian which would have been way out of line, especially in view Brian

Re: Document Action: 'US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)' to Informational RFC

2006-02-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tony, That would have amounted to the author and IESG deciding to change the IETF's policy on derivative works, which would have been way out of line, especially in view of the ongoing debate about this point in the ipr WG. Although I agree with Steve Bellovin that RFC 1321 isn't automatically

Re: IETF65 hotel location

2006-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... so is there a problem in walking about in this area of Dallas at this time of year? Possibly being arrested for not burning enough petroleum? Seriously, taxis may be necessary once in a while. Also, will the Agenda give longer breaks for Lunch? - it would seem that it will take

Re: IETF65 hotel location

2006-01-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pekka, Maybe folks more experienced in the area can shed some light on this. Is it expected that folks rent a car in order not to starve, or..? Drive 500 taxis back and forth? There is food on site of course, but taxis (shared!) seem to be needed for wider choice of restaurants. This

Re: Proposal for keeping free speech but limitting the nuisance to the working group (Was: John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin)

2006-01-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jeroen, A practice I used when I was diffserv chair and we had quite a lot of off-topic postings was to create a second list, diffserv-interest (which still exists BTW). The rule for [EMAIL PROTECTED] was must be relevant to a chartered work item and the rule for diffserv-interest was must be

Re: too many notes -- a modest proposal

2006-01-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: Douglas Otis wrote: I suspect that at the moment, I am the guilty party in consuming bandwidth on the DKIM list. With the aggressive schedule, the immediate desire was to get issues listed, corrected, and in a form found acceptable. Without going into all the reasons

Re: Proposal for keeping free speech but limitting the nuisance to the working group (Was: John Cowan supports 3683 PR-action against Jefsey Morfin)

2006-01-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Masataka Ohta wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: A practice I used when I was diffserv chair and we had quite a lot of off-topic postings was to create a second list, diffserv-interest (which still exists BTW). The rule for [EMAIL PROTECTED] was must be relevant to a chartered work item

Re: getting the IETF rate at the Hilton

2006-01-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I would suggest that instead of sending such issues to a very large list addressed to somebody, people should send them where they may reach the right people: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if that doesn't solve it, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Brian Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, the Hilton reservation system

Secretariat and IASA contacts [Re: getting the IETF rate at the Hilton]

2006-01-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
. Brian Lars Eggert wrote: Hi, On Jan 26, 2006, at 14:00, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I would suggest that instead of sending such issues to a very large list addressed to somebody, people should send them where they may reach the right people: [EMAIL PROTECTED] and if that doesn't solve

Re: Softwires Interim Meeting

2006-01-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
And BTW it isn't a rule, it's strongly worded guideline. Brian Mark Townsley wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: March 19 - 30 days = Feb 17th. This date was chosen, understanding that it bends the rules a bit, to increase the greater goal of global participation by coinciding with the

Questionnaire [Re: IETFs... the final Friday?]

2006-01-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ken Raeburn wrote: ... Finally, I noticed the IAD included a question about Friday meeting or not in the survey we were invited to on 9 January. Getting a sense of peoples' views quantitatively is good, though that was a self-selected group, rather than a random sample that could be assigned a

Re: posting privileges vs receiver-side filtering

2006-01-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: grenville armitage writes: - protects agains dilution of a WG's historical record (archives that soak up all posts to the WG's mailing list) Stop blindly archiving every message, and this ceases to be a problem. The IETF standards process requires us to

Re: IETFs... the final Friday?

2006-01-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Let's not sweat the details on this list. We've got two points from this conversation: 1. it is good to have BOFs earlier in the week if possible, subject to scheduling constraints. 2. it would be much appreciated, subject to financial limits, to have some wireless connectivity through Friday

Re: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning JFC (Jefsey) Morfin

2006-01-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I mean really, has anyone ever had their opinion changed because of something someone said during these PR-Actions? This is in fact only the second last call ever on a PR-action. I can assure you that the IESG reads the opinions expressed carefully and does not

Re: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning JFC (Jefsey) Morfin

2006-01-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I mean really, has anyone ever had their opinion changed because of something someone said during these PR-Actions? This is in fact only the second last call ever on a PR-action. I can assure you that the IESG reads the opinions expressed carefully and does not

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