Re: I-D ACTION:draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria-04.txt

2006-01-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Joe Abley wrote: On 20-Jan-2006, at 11:55, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: Well said Barry! From: Barry Leiba My biggest concern is in sections 2.3. Freedom of Participation and 2.5. Attendance Limitation and Visas, in that I'm not sure how realistic they are. Without getting overly into

Re: Does the IESG have the authority to do less than 3683?

2006-01-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
fwiw, my feeling is that if we did bend the rules that way, we'd be at strong risk of an appeal. I think the rules are in a bit of a mess. Brian Sam Hartman wrote: John == John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John For whatever it is worth, I want to remind the IESG that,

Re: hotels for Dallas?

2006-01-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Lars, Sorry but the dates for 2008-10 are NOT blocked - those are strawman dates that should not have been shown in the calendar yet. Registration for Dallas is in the final test stage, with a new system for credit card processing, and we want it to be rock solid. Should be open *really* soon

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria-04.txt

2006-01-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Jordi developed this document largely at my request and with frequent interaction with the IAD. Clearly, it's intended to be of use to IASA in the selection of future meeting sites, and equally of use to potential hosts in understanding the requirements. Self-evidently, it is not intended to

Re: IETFs... the final Friday?

2006-01-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tim, The web site says: We start Monday morning and run through Friday lunchtime, with late scheduling changes. Newcomer's training and technical tutorials takes place the previous Sunday afternoon. Participants should plan their travel accordingly. Friday morning is part of the IETF. It's

Re: hotels for Dallas?

2006-01-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tim Chown wrote: On Fri, Jan 20, 2006 at 12:27:59PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Registration for Dallas is in the final test stage, with a new system for credit card processing, and we want it to be rock solid. Should be open *really* soon now. And the hotel info? The hotel blocks

An important day for the IETF

2006-01-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Greetings, The first IETF meeting took place 20 years ago today, on January 16th, 1986, in San Diego, California. There were 21 attendees and Mike Corrigan was in the chair. The IETF has come a long way since then. We'll celebrate this in fine style during the 65th IETF meeting in Dallas, Texas

Re: Venue for Dallas IETF ?

2006-01-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John L wrote: Do we know where the meeting will be yet? I see that registration was supposed to start today. I believe it will start in another couple of days. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Normative figures

2006-01-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eric, ... Moreover, I believe there is evidence to this effect, as pointed out previously, in the fact that at least one RFC is essentially only available in PS and PDF format. That is an RFC that predates not only RFC 2026 but also its predecessors, RFC 1602 and 1310. So it doesn't

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Randy.Dunlap wrote: On Tue, 10 Jan 2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... What we are seeing is increasing use of fully automated tools that don't have humans identifying which octets are MIB and which are code. You can't do that with plain ASCII. You can do that with meta-data encoded

Re: Normative figures

2006-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bob Braden wrote: * * Normative figures perhaps. Normative equations definitely. Scott, How about Sections 4.2.3.3 and 4.2.3.4 of RFC 1122 (1889), for examples of readable equations in ASCII? I my experience, normative protocol technical specifications rarely need equations much more

Re: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... What we are seeing is increasing use of fully automated tools that don't have humans identifying which octets are MIB and which are code. You can't do that with plain ASCII. You can do that with meta-data encoded in plain ASCII. In fact, that would work better for automated extraction

Re: Trying to invent a way of determining consensus

2006-01-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... Anyone who agrees with the CfC statement, and doesn't say anything, is fine, because the CfC doesn't need or want their support. The CfC will stand or fall based upon the size of the disagree and replied group. That's pretty much how I've seen IETF consensus work over the years. As

Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Gray, Eric wrote: Stewart, You bring up a good point. I have been assuming that - since IDs can be submitted in multiple formats - that the additional formats would also become part of the RFC library on publication. I just took a quick peek at the RFCs and there does not appear

Re: Baby Steps (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ash, Gerald R (Jerry) wrote: Unless the IESG has changed the rules while I was not looking, it has been permitted to post I-Ds in PDF in addition to ASCII for some years. BUT the pdf is not allowed to be normative. Right. The ASCII version is the only normative format. Furthermore, all

Re: participation sans meeting attendance (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Melinda Shore wrote: On 1/2/06 11:32 PM, Jeffrey Hutzelman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think we're doing better on this front than we have in many years. The technical support for remote participation really has become terrific. Some sessions are run with great sensitivity to remote

Engineering our way out of a brown paper bag [Re: Consensus based on reading tea leaves]

2006-01-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On mandag, januar 02, 2006 18:10:15 +0200 Yaakov Stein [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The only thing I am sure about is that consensus on this list is for keeping everything exactly as it is. I'm pretty sure there's no such consensus. I do, however, see a

Re: bozoproofing the net, was The Value of Reputation

2006-01-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael Thomas wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: [] Sigh. Can I suggest that a little exponential backoff on all parts may be appropriate? As one of the authors of the dkim draft, this has been an extremely painful thread to watch. Correct. This is way beyond the point of being

Re: More on the Secretariat Statement of Work (SOW)

2006-01-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Firstly, I'll observe that this is outside the strict scope of the Secretariat SOW, since it covers the process cradle-to-grave, including WG, IESG, IANA and RFC Editor actions. Secondly, yes, dashboard metrics are a good idea, and are on the Tools team agenda, but often the devil is in the

Re: objection to proposed change to consensus

2006-01-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Monday, January 02, 2006 09:56:15 PM -0800 Randy Presuhn [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - In http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ash-alt-formats-00.txt section 3 says: | Furthermore, the authors propose that the IESG carefully consider | declaring

Re: Question about the Neustar logo on www.ietf.org

2006-01-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On mandag, januar 02, 2006 16:25:59 +0200 John Loughney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, Just out of curiosity, when browsing www.ietf.org, I noticed that the Neustar logo on www.ietf.org is larger than the ISOC logo. Any particular reason why? It just

Re: Enough RE: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02)

2005-12-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... I think it would be a good idea for the IETF to either pick an IPR standard or to require WGs to specify what their IPR standard will be when they begin a WG. I would be quite happy for the IETF to adopt the same IPR policy as W3C and require all standards to meet that standard of being open

Re: [IAOC] I know I am dumb stupid but I am also dumb stubborn [was IETF Trust license is too restricted]

2005-12-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
JFC, I have checked and from a legal point of view, the closing signatures last week appear to make no difference to anybody's legal liability. All recent RFCs carry a rather strong disclaimer starting 'This document and the information contained herein are provided on an AS IS basis...' and I

Re: Last call IETF experiments

2005-12-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Scott Bradner wrote: Sam sez: It's certainly current IESG procedure that we can last call informationals and experimentals. I don't know that 2026 does or needs to say anything about it. Unless it is forbidden it seems like a reasonable decision making tool for the IESG to apply in some

Re: Re declare SPF and Sender-ID to be Informational

2005-12-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I remind people that the IESG has completed its appeal handling for these documents. People are certainly entitled to their opinions, of course, but the IESG appeal process has ended. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: [IAOC] Re: The IETF Trust License is too restricted

2005-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Lucy E. Lynch wrote: On Thu, 8 Dec 2005, Simon Josefsson wrote: Sam Hartman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon == Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Simon Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: --On tirsdag, desember 06, 2005 13:07:50 +0100 Simon Josefsson

Re: Definition of SFTP ...

2005-12-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On onsdag, desember 07, 2005 09:57:04 -0500 Noël, Richard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There seems to be a conflict in the definition of SFTP; the IANA site indicates that it's Simple FTP while the IETF side indicates it's Secure FTP in conjunction with SSH ...

Re: The IETF Trust License is too restricted

2005-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Its purpose is to give the IETF control of its own IPR, which has previously been held by 3rd parties. (That's not the legal statement of purpose in the formal Trust Agreement.) What we then do once we have

Re: The IETF Trust License is too restricted

2005-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Francis Dupont wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: The text in section 9.5 appear to me to make it permanently impossible to incorporate portions of RFC in both free or proprietary products. I believe that is unacceptable, and that it is counter to the needs of many in the

Re: I know I am dumb stupid but I am also dumb stubborn [was IETF Trust license is too restricted]

2005-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 15:50 05/12/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Simon, You are bit behind real time. We already updated this text. http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01837.html Dear Brian, Great! the three stupid points I am stubbornly interested

Re: The IETF Trust License is too restricted

2005-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Simon Josefsson wrote: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Its purpose is to give the IETF control of its own IPR, which has previously been held by 3rd parties. (That's not the legal statement of purpose in the formal Trust

Re: EARLY submission deadline (Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art))

2005-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Doug Royer wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Doug Royer wrote: ... It does no good to discuss text that almost everyone already knows has problems. ...it was created to ensure that everyone in the room is actually discussing the same thing. Yes. Perhaps something like SVN could

Re: EARLY submission deadline - Fact or Fiction?

2005-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Stepping back a few days... Scott W Brim wrote: The reason we have the deadline is to protect the Secretariat from having to be heroes. However, best would be if the need for such protection didn't arise. Instead of assuming that things to be discussed in the meetings will be written just

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The fact that Brian is English and lives in Zurich is irrelevant. As a matter of fact I don't live in Zürich; I live near Genève. Of course this matters. The problem is that it's not quite as straightforward as people think. I'm attempting to send this in UTF-8;

Re: The IETF Trust License is too restricted

2005-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Simon, You are bit behind real time. We already updated this text. http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf-announce/current/msg01837.html Brian Simon Josefsson wrote: The text in section 9.5 appear to me to make it permanently impossible to incorporate portions of RFC in both free or

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
type was still tagged as UTF-8. OTOH your response is tagged Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 and indeed did get converted somewhere, at your end I suspect. It's not so easy to assert that UTF-8 just works. Brian Regards Marshall On Dec 5, 2005, at 9:00 AM, Brian E Carpenter

Re: The IETF Trust License is too restricted

2005-12-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: ... What is the purpose of the trust if not to attempt to prevent unauthorized derrivative works? Its purpose is to give the IETF control of its own IPR, which has previously been held by 3rd parties. (That's not the legal statement of purpose in the formal Trust

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... Were there still regular use of nroff in the broad community, there might be an argument in favor of continuing to have it as the internal representation of authoritative rfc text. But there isn't. Whereas xml2rfc has been gaining broad (and enthusiastic) adoption. The anonymous

Re: Reviewing the IPR Trust aggreement

2005-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bernard, I'm sure we can get a more formal answer about this from our lwayer, but my understanding is that this is a non-issue as far as any IETF contributions (drafts, minutes, emails) are concerned. The underlying copyright in those texts belongs to the original contributors; so the copyright

Re: EARLY submission deadline (Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art))

2005-11-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Doug Royer wrote: Dave Crocker wrote: ... To elaborate: Is is ever valid for a working group to want to post a new draft late in the game, very near -- or even during -- and IETF meeting? The answer is clearly yes, which is why working groups route around the IETF's arbitrary deadline

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: ... The last requirement (boilerplate) was done on legal advice, and after discussions in the IPR WG that are much too voluminous for me to even remember it may be an unwise decision, but it was a very public one. Judging by the occasional arrival of legal

Re: Audio streaming and slides suggestion

2005-11-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Alexandru Petrescu wrote: Good idea, if the network works ... - Original message - From: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ [EMAIL PROTECTED] I understand that is difficult to get the slides of everyone before the meeting itself, but it should be very easy to centralize the slides in an IETF server

Re: On revising 3777 as in draft-klensin-recall-rev-00

2005-11-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: Hi John, Your notes are convincing to me. In effect, you are saying that if the IESG and IAB members cannot function well together, let's hear about it before the nomcom cycle. I missed the sentence The petition and its signatories must be announced to the IETF

Re: Vancouver schedule

2005-11-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Pete Resnick wrote: On 11/9/05 at 11:40 PM -0800, Aaron Falk wrote: Am I the only one dissatisfied with the meeting schedule? I find that the run of meetings from 1300 to 1930 is just too long, especially the four hour period from 1300 - 1710. I would strongly prefer our 'traditional'

jabber rooms

2005-11-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I don't think I've seen a reminder this week that jabber room for the XXX WG or BOF is [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Error in pocket agenda

2005-11-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, The list of Areas and Area Directors in the pocket agenda is wrong! Please consult the list in the full-size version. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Taxi, nearby restaurants

2005-11-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
A couple of local data points from Vancouver - a taxi from the airport to downtown should cost CAD 30 plus tip. - there are multiple small restaurants on Denman Street, a few minutes walk from the Westin Bayshore. Turn right on Bayshore Drive out of the hotel, turn left on Denman and walk to

UTF-8, I hope [Re: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org]

2005-11-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Here's the text. You can pick up a map at the concierge desk in the Westin. I ate at Wild Garlic last night and it was excellent. Brian West Coast Cuisine Cardero's (1) – 1583 Coal Harbour Quay – 604-669-7666 Wild Garlic Restaurant (2) – 792 Denman – 604-667-1663 Tapastree(3) – 1829 Robson

Re: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

2005-11-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Mohsen BANAN wrote: ... - Immediately addressed the problem and republished in an Open/Libre/Free format. Do you seriously imagine that this is a high priority during the final preparations for a meeting? As a matter of fact I agree with you that it's desirable to avoid proprietary

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Alper Yegin wrote: - is the IETF community interested in discussions about the social implications of the technology we develop I think this is very interesting. - is the IETF general list the right place for those discussions. Is it too late to arrange a BoF meeting at IETF 64? Yes,

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Steve (and Ned), Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian E Carpenter writes: Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian E Carpenter writes: Eduardo Mendez wrote: What IETF discuss may hurt thir people, peace, culture. But I am sure IETF Member

Re: WG Action: Conclusion of Credential and Provisioning (enroll)

2005-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: ... A ticket requesting closure of a working group includes a few things: 1) the working group being closed. High dissatisfaction has resulted in the past when the wrong working group is closed. 2) Additional comments to be included in the WG closure message. 3)

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[typo corrected to restore meaning] Steve (and Ned), Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian E Carpenter writes: Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian E Carpenter writes: Eduardo Mendez wrote: What IETF discuss may hurt thir people

Oops Re: WG Action: Conclusion of Credential and Provisioning (enroll)

2005-10-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: ... A ticket requesting closure of a working group includes a few things: 1) the working group being closed. High dissatisfaction has resulted in the past when the wrong working group is closed. 2) Additional comments to be included in the WG

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eduardo Mendez wrote: ... I understand why IETF fears local governments for their meetings. I simply do not understand this statement. The IETF has no concerns about governments, and we often have people in government service who attend our meetings. They are as welcome as any other engineer.

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Brian E Carpenter writes: Eduardo Mendez wrote: What IETF discuss may hurt thir people, peace, culture. But I am sure IETF Member do not realize this? If they were told they would understand. What people do with technology may have

Re: [Pesci-discuss] Growing concerns about PESCI

2005-10-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John C Klensin wrote: Brian, Let me make this short enough to encourage easy reading when you wake up... --On Wednesday, 26 October, 2005 15:06 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: And I really don't see the value of cross-posting when the pesci-discuss list exists for exactly

Re: [Pesci-discuss] Growing concerns about PESCI

2005-10-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'm not even going to attempt to read this thread today (evening in Beijing after a long flight and a long day). But don't imagine that I and the PESCI team aren't aware of the meta problem and believe that we have a shot at fixing it this time. I will read the thread as soon as I can but may I

Re: Spam in the IETF's name?

2005-10-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, 21 October, 2005 16:16 +0200 Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: As a hopefully constructive suggestion, perhaps people can look at draft-hoffman-taobis-03.txt and see whether it says enough in this whole area. Covering this in the Tao seems right

Re: When to announce a new mailing list on ietf-announce?

2005-10-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave Crocker wrote: I'm not convinced that non-WG lists should be announced in a formal way, but it would certainly be dumb to create a list and tell nobody. If it is ok to create a list under ietf.org, it ought to be ok to announce it on ietf-announce. If it is ok to announce such lists,

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ed Juskevicius wrote: ... I don't know about July 2006 or November 2006, but I would be surprised to learn they have room for us. If we seriously want to have IETF meetings in Montreal or Toronto, we might have to wait until 2007 - if we start planning now :-( I'd just like to comment that we

Re: Spam in the IETF's name?

2005-10-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... Thus: please announce new lists when they are created. Only if you want people to know about them :-) I'm not convinced that non-WG lists should be announced in a formal way, but it would certainly be dumb to create a list and tell nobody. Brian

Re: 2606bis

2005-10-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
We *could* open that can of worms, but a downref really sends the same message with less work. Brian John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, 19 October, 2005 14:40 -0700 Bill Fenner [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 10/19/05, Frank Ellermann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... to see a big red

Re: Spam in the IETF's name?

2005-10-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Found this one in my spam folder, and it made me wonder. 1) On first read (use of term IETF mailing list, use of term we without qualification), this sounds like an IETF-sanctioned activity. Is it? You'll find the dix list at

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eric Rosen wrote: ... I don't think there should be any political preconditions on the IETF venue. The issue is whether the IETF can hold an effective meeting in a given location. We need to refine the guidelines on that basis. Further, if we're going to select host countries based on how

Please be relevant and professional [Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF]

2005-10-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yet again people are sending messages to the list which deviate from their claimed subject line and involve statements about individuals which seem to have little relevance. I request everybody to stop sending such messages, and to stop replying to them since that only amplifies the disruptions.

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
is that these issues be a formal requirement of the community's decision in where we meet. And that they be taken seriously. a. On 17 okt 2005, at 21.50, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: Avri == Avri Doria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Avri - MUST NOT be held in a country whose

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Joe Abley wrote: On 13-Oct-2005, at 20:35, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: How about adding that the mean outdoor temperature at the time of the year the meeting is being held should be above 0 degrees Centigrade? References to climate conditions outside the meeting venue have no place in

Correcting error about RFC 3683 [Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF]

2005-10-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eduardo, As you have already been told, this is not a prosecution. It is an internal procedure of the IETF, intended to protect our work against alleged disruption. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter IETF Chair Eduardo Mendez wrote: I

Correcting errors about IETF [Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF]

2005-10-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
The IETF is not a subsidiary of the Internet Society and is not incorporated. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter IETF Chair Eduardo Mendez wrote: 2005/10/17, Noel Chiappa [EMAIL PROTECTED]: From: Eduardo Mendez [EMAIL PROTECTED

Re: how about talking about the Content *inside* the venue?

2005-10-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: We have in my opinion had a consistently low operator turnout. I wonder if it would be possible for us to align our conference dates in such a way as to overlap with NANOG, RIPE, USENIX, LISA, and other appropriate conferences so that we can get some crossover? That

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: Avri == Avri Doria [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Avri - MUST NOT be held in a country whose visa requirements are Avri so stringent as to make it impossible or even extremely Avri difficult for some participant to attend. I think this is too strict. I think visa

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Excuse me Stéphane, but I do not find these comments constructive. Anyone planning an international meeting for 1000+ people has to take a great many things seriously that you seem to think are amusing. We had some serious security problems in Paris, for example. Brian Stephane Bortzmeyer

Re: Beyond conflict

2005-10-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] rconi.com, Gray, Eric writes: Voice conference calls - however done - are bound to be better than E-Mail, just as face to face is better than voice. However, I haven't been heard phenomena are far from unique to E-Mail and other text

Re: Beyond conflict

2005-10-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I think we should look at new collaboration tools, for example has anyone tried using a wiki to maintain an issues list? Quite a few WGs use issue trackers of various kinds. The Global Grid Forum uses a web tool based on sourceforge for Last Call comments (which they call Public Comment).

Re: PR action against anyone [Re: Anyone not in favour of a PR-Ac tion against Jefsey Morfin]

2005-10-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
. Brian - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter IETF Chair Skinner, Stephen wrote: hello , I am a first time poster , I have been on the lists for only a couple of months .and I have to agree with this line of thought . I believed I would be witnessing

Correction Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
There was an error in this. The second sentence should be: If the IESG receives a formal request under RFC 3683, we are obliged to consider issuing an IETF Last Call and, if one is issued, listen to the responses. Brian Brian E Carpenter wrote: Folks, let's be clear about procedure here

Re: IETF Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning Dean Anderson

2005-10-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eduardo Mendez wrote: Can someone explain what is this? I assume you have read RFC 3683. That should explain what this is. Is it issued by the IESG? Yes. Is this a procecussion? Do you mean prosecution? No. It's a proposed action under RFC 3683. Where is the defense of Dean? That

Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Folks, let's be clear about procedure here. If the IESG receives a formal request under RFC 3683, we are obliged to make an IETF Last Call and listen to the responses. But as of now, we have not received such a request in the case of JFC Morfin. In terms of RFC 3683, nothing has happened yet

PR action against anyone [Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin]

2005-10-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hold on. To put it bluntly, you and some others have changed the topic to: we don't like RFC 3683. Now, that RFC is a BCP that was duly approved after IETF last call etc. But the code has never been tested until the IESG recently received a request to take a PR action against somebody - and we

Re: a new DNS root for the world?

2005-10-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam Hartman wrote: JFC == JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: JFC On 09:53 03/10/2005, Brian E Carpenter said: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf Comments welcome. Is it to be understood as an alt

new RFC (3934bis) [Re: New lists (was: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against [. ..])]

2005-10-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Gray, Eric wrote: I agree fully with Margaret except that I would suggest that people might feel that a properly augmented version of 3934 would make it possible to make 3683 obsolete. The augmentation Margaret suggests are probably needed, but would be just a start, given how little the RFC

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-10-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'd like to suggest that people who think they know how to design an alternative to the DNS should go away and do so, and come back when they have a proof of concept to show us. It'll need to be scaleable, secure, robust, internationalized, and deployable as a retro-fit, as well as guaranteeing

Re: a new DNS root for the world?

2005-10-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: http://www.neustar.com/pressroom/files/announcements/ns_pr_09282005.pdf Comments welcome. Is it to be understood as an alt-root? or is it a legitimate hower single operator? Neither. .gprs appears to be a private pseudo-TLD inside a walled garden for GPRS operators.

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-10-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law wrote: /legal lurk No first amendment issues are implicated here. The first amendment only protects US persons (citizens residents) against actions by the US government. Both sides of that equation are absent here. This is private action against a

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-10-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dean Anderson wrote: ... It may also be time to make a formal complaint to the ISOC about the pattern of misbehavior by the IETF leadership in several related areas including abuse of Dean Anderson, Dan Bernstein, Nick Staff, Jefsey Morfin, and others. I reckon it's because we so much

RFC 3683 process [Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted]

2005-10-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... I'm worried about the process, and about the number of times it seems to be invoked. Banning should be exceptional. It is. RFC 3683 has been on the books since March 2004 and has been used exactly zero times until now. Now we are presented with two dubious (read

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-10-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: If the IESG has the time to compile blacklists and go on witch hunts, perhaps it doesn't have enough work to justify its existence. Randy Preshun has already responded, but let me observe that the IESG did not initiate this proposed action, does not have a

Re: UN

2005-09-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Although what WSIS may or may not decide is undoubtedly of interest to the Internet community, I really think it is a distraction here and now until there are concrete questions for us to discuss. Our community's route to the WSIS discussions is through the ISOC - where basic membership is

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-09-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
William, It's hard to make that a rule. Unfortunately, this is the catch-all list for the IETF. Note, Harald is not inviting discussion - only a URL to click on. Brian william(at)elan.net wrote: Would it be too much to ask for new rules so that in the future these petitions be discussed

Minority opinions [Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]]

2005-09-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 19:17 27/09/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: ... My proposition would be to create a minority position system. Where such groups could be accepted as opposing without having to be fighting. There is a perfectly civilised way of handling minority opinions

Re: UN plans to take over our job!

2005-09-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Will, don't believe everything you read on the Web. ISOC is heavily involved on our behalf in the WSIS meetings and despite all the noise I am hopeful that rational results will occur. Brian Will McAfee wrote: http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/09/28/wsis_geneva/ This is not their place to

Re: GREAT BOF (Was Possible new Real-Time etc. etc.)

2005-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yaakov, if you can gather some people and write a draft and a concrete BOF agenda, the existing ADs will look at it seriously - but new work needs new hands and brains. Brian Yaakov Stein wrote: Secondly, I don't think this area is an attempt to take the IETF where no IETF has gone

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... My proposition would be to create a minority position system. Where such groups could be accepted as opposing without having to be fighting. There is a perfectly civilised way of handling minority opinions already. Please see RFC 3246 and RFC 3248 for an example I was personally involved

Re: IPR Trust - draft-carpenter-bcp101-update-02 and the IASA

2005-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John C Klensin wrote: ... Again, that justifies keeping the agreement private while you are negotiating. I don't question that. As I understand BCP 101, you are even entitled to keep such agreements private from the IESG and IAB while you are negotiating them, informing those bodies and the

Re: delegating (portions of) ietf list disciplinary process

2005-09-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dean, You are already the subject of a request to initiate action under RFC 3683 and this message will be added to the dossier. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Brian E Carpenter IETF Chair Dean Anderson wrote: This isn't going to work, with ordinary

Re: delegating (portions of) ietf list disciplinary process

2005-09-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'm interested to know whether people would see arguments for either or both of 1. An IETF Ombudsman (or Ombudscommittee), to act as a dispute mediator. 2. An IETF netiquette committee, to offload list banning procedures from the IESG. Brian Dave Crocker wrote: That's the reason the

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Nicholas Staff wrote: - Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005

Re: Adding parallelism? (was Re: Cost vs. Benefit of Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture Area)

2005-09-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Actually that has been discussed, as have the scope boundaries at the top (apps) and bottom (sub-IP). And the diffculty always is the need for cross-fertilization and cross-area review. Do you think that applications protocols can be designed with only a liaison relationship

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yaakov Stein wrote: (Back to the original subject line) I must admit that I am still unclear as to the true purpose of this new area. At first I understood that the IETF was finally to address real-time and/or delay-sensitive applications, and Brian's list of WGs was just a proposed

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