Re: RFC levels and I-D levels

2009-11-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Yaron, - Only non-expired drafts should be directly accessible from the tools area, or in fact have a stable IETF URL. Everything at tools.ietf.org is volunteer-maintained and unofficial. That's why the I-D announcements contain the URL that they do, which only allows you to recover

Re: Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Roy, Just a couple more comments below, and then I will have said all I can usefully say. On 2009-11-14 12:57, Roy T. Fielding wrote: On Nov 13, 2009, at 2:26 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2009-11-13 23:35, Julian Reschke wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2009-11-13 20:19, Julian Reschke

Re: Fix the Friday attendance bug: make the technical plenary the last IETF session, like it was before

2009-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I read mail and listen and look at the slides, when I'm in a session that is secondary to my main interests. That doesn't mean I'm bored (maybe I always look bored), but I don't see that it affects the question whether we can fit all the parallel sessions into 4.5 days. Brian On 2009-11-11

If you found today's plenary debate on standards track tedious...

2009-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Who would like to adopt this idea: http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fits-all-01.txt Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Gen-ART LC review of draft-dusseault-http-patch-15.txt

2009-11-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Document:

Re: NAT Not Needed To Make Renumbering Easy

2009-10-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Greg, On 2009-10-28 05:42, Greg Daley wrote: Hi Dean, I appreciate that this is a realistic challenge for one of the key users of the technology. As a key user of the technology. Why didn't we learn about this earlier in the process? Well, the military interest in damage-proof

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work (Renumbering still needs work) to Informational RFC

2009-10-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot, Now that Last Call is over, some considered replies to your thoughtful comments. On 2009-09-10 23:19, Eliot Lear wrote: Dear Authors IESG, Congratulations for providing us a comprehensive and interesting piece of work that describes an abundance of issues that face administrators

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-10.txt

2009-10-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Russ, On 2009-10-10 07:16, Russ Housley wrote: Dave: You have the motivations for rfc3932bis completely confused. The IESG is not the source for the proposed changes to RFC 3932. RFC 3932 as it stands works fine for the IESG, and the IESG continues to operate under it. The Independent

Re: The IETF and the SmartGrid

2009-10-05 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-10-06 10:20, Richard Shockey wrote: ... The Utility Industry does not understand the current IPv4 number exhaust problem and the consequences of that if they want to put a IP address on every Utility Meter in North America. Ironic, really, since IP addresses for every streetlight was

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-10.txt

2009-09-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
FWIW, this version resolves my remaining objection. Thanks Brian On 2009-10-01 11:45, internet-dra...@ietf.org wrote: A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-09-23 21:05, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote: ... Is a dual stack IPv4-IPv6 likely to be more unstable than pure IPv4 or pure IPv6? Apart from the software engineering principle that more of almost anything is less reliable, there is a specific problem that if your computer believes

Re: Visas and Costs

2009-09-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I am assuming that VISA information will be provided on the IETF web site, and that we will need a letter of invitation which the IETF will provide. You really have to check with a local expert. For my last visit, I needed not a letter of invitation from my host, but an official invitation

Re: path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-09-21 20:56, Jari Arkko wrote: Brian, I think my comment still applies - it should be the IESG that appeals against the Editor's final decision, not the other way round. Ok. I have no problem placing the burden on initiating the formal dispute resolution from the IESG side

Re: path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Jari, On 2009-09-19 20:34, Jari Arkko wrote: Here's the problem I see with draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-09. You responded before I had a chance to explain what the rationale and options are. Sorry, but I was asleep at the time the draft came out :-) I knew that this timezone must have

Re: [IAOC] [IAB] Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-09-19 08:08, Fred Baker wrote: On Sep 18, 2009, at 12:29 PM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: I think it is safe to assume that the government did run some checks on what the IETF is doing The government has been negotiating to bring an IETF meeting to China since 1997, and has been very

Re: path forward with RFC 3932bis

2009-09-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Jari, Here's the problem I see with draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-09. Suggesting a dialogue when there is disagreement is fine. Allowing the IESG to consult the IETF as a whole is fine. But then the final part of the dispute resolution procedure attempts to undercut the editorial independence

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work (Renumbering still needs work) to Informational RFC

2009-09-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot, We'll respond in detail to your helpful comments in due course. However, Still, I would argue strongly for inclusion of a fuller discussion about technologies that obviate the need to renumber. The hypothesis of the document is there will always be circumstances in which partial or

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work (Renumbering still needs work) to Informational RFC

2009-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Masataka, You say: scope of the document is seemingly wrong. Well, the scope of the document is to discuss how actual networks running IPv4 and IPv6 can deal with renumbering. That can't be wrong; it is simply what we chose to write about. If you'd like to start a thread about IPng, can you use

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-09-10 03:53, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Donald Eastlake d3e...@gmail.com The burden of proof rests on those ... who wish to change the independent stream from a respected independent publishing channel to something subservient to the Area Directors, a change which

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-09-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam, On 2009-09-03 05:53, Sam Hartman wrote: ... 1) Open up the rfc-editorial board so that it was selected by some sort of nomcom/community process. That nomcom could of course draw from a broader community than the IETF as a whole I'm certainly in favour of transparency in the process

Re: Concerns about individual submissions process (c.f. RFC5647 AES-GCM for Secure Shell)

2009-09-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Nico, On 2009-09-03 07:54, Nicolas Williams wrote: ... I do not subscribe to the IETF list (ietf@ietf.org), for the very obvious reason that its signal-to-noise ratio is too poor, thus completely missed the IETF LC of draft-igoe- secsh-aes-gcm Last Calls are announced on the

[Fwd: Re: I-D Action:draft-klensin-iasa-policy-00.txt]

2009-09-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Forwarded here at the request of one of the authors: Original Message Subject: Re: I-D Action:draft-klensin-iasa-policy-00.txt Date: Wed, 02 Sep 2009 17:10:32 +1200 From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com Organization: University of Auckland To: John Klensin klen

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-09-01 05:56, Ben Campbell wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Brian Rosen wrote: Yes, I understand, this only applies to the Independent Submission stream. We ask the IESG to review these documents, and that review is technical. I don't think it is appropriate for an editor to

Re: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis and the optional/mandatory nature of IESG notes

2009-08-31 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-09-01 13:14, Ben Campbell wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 6:14 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2009-09-01 05:56, Ben Campbell wrote: On Aug 31, 2009, at 11:39 AM, Brian Rosen wrote: Yes, I understand, this only applies to the Independent Submission stream. We ask the IESG to review

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis (IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions) to BCP

2009-08-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-08-28 03:56, Russ Housley wrote: RFC4846 section 5 uses the word recommend If the IESG, after completing its review, identifies issues, it may recommend explanatory or qualifying text for the RFC Editor to include in the document if it is published. Olaf, I believe this means

Re: I-D Action:draft-klensin-iaoc-member-00.txt

2009-08-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, Is this the correct list for discussing draft-klensin-iaoc-member? o workload and full-time positions Even without IAOC and Trustee roles, the IETF Chair and IAB Chair roles require considerable time and effort. This has been true for many years of the IETF Chair role.

Re: Proposed Policy for Modifications to Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-08-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I agree with the proposed policy, except that I propose calling it just Procedure. It isn't policy, it's just common sense about how to implement policy. On 2009-08-18 07:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: ... This is another reason why the current approach of getting IETF consensus on an RFC and

Re: Retention of blue sheets

2009-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-07-31 02:25, Pete Resnick wrote: On 7/30/09 at 3:03 PM +0100, Samuel Weiler wrote: What harms would come from destroying those old records and/or not collecting such details in the future? And how widespread is the support for destroying them? Repeating something I just mentioned

Re: Retention of blue sheets

2009-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-07-31 11:23, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: Stephan Wenger wrote: Hi Brian, One can sit in a WG meeting for years, and never incur a disclosure obligation under BCP78, correct? Just sitting there and not saying/writing/contributing a thing does not trigger a disclosure obligation.

Comment on TLP revisions re non-IETF documents

2009-07-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
This may seem like a small comment but I believe it is important. We know that we have an issue to resolve collectively, namely the IPR regimes for non-IETF stream documents. We probably agree that (as the revised TLP says or implies) it is for each stream individually to decide whether it accepts

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I am baffled why this announcement, of fundamental importance, was not sent to the correct list for IETF announcements. The same applies to the original announcement, sent as I understand it on 23 June, at a time when I wasn't reading the discussion list for personal reasons. I will comment

[Fwd: I-D Action:draft-carpenter-5378-old-text-02.txt]

2009-05-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
This version of the draft describes a completely modified procedure compared to the one presented at IETF74, which did not obtain consensus. It contains small and large changes throughout. Discussion is invited on the ipr...@ietf.org list. Brian Original Message Subject:

Re: Extending the Dean Anderson PR-action to lists on tools.ietf.org

2009-04-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-04-21 02:44, Dave CROCKER wrote: Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, Apr 17, 2009 at 04:18:06PM -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: My question is whether treating tools.ietf.org aliases as IETF lists is reasonable policy. In my opinion, it is. +1 But the question is not whether they are

Re: Extending the Dean Anderson PR-action to lists on tools.ietf.org

2009-04-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-04-18 05:57, Russ Housley wrote: ... If these mail lists were the only convenient way to reach these individuals, I might agree with your [Sam Hartman's] reasoning. That is not the case. These actions do not prevent Dean from communicating with Document Authors, WG Chairs or ADs.

Re: [tcpm] Last Call: draft-ietf-tcpm-tcpsecure (Improving TCP's Robustness to Blind In-Window Attacks) to Proposed Standard

2009-04-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-04-17 17:14, Fernando Gont wrote: On Mon, Apr 13, 2009 at 10:23 PM, Anantha Ramaiah (ananth) ana...@cisco.com wrote: * The document never mentions the fact that this document is IPR-encumbered. ... I personally believe this should be noted in all RFCs on which there's a known

Re: [Fwd: How the Internet Got Its Rules ]

2009-04-07 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Steve, Thanks for writing such a nice piece. I especially liked As we rebuild our economy, I do hope we keep in mind the value of openness, especially in industries that have rarely had it. Did you ever actually get any comments on RFC1? Brian ___

Re: NAT66 multihoming red herring, was: Re: Comment on draft-iab-ipv6-nat-00

2009-03-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-03-23 08:26, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 20 mrt 2009, at 14:40, Brian E Carpenter wrote: NAT does not offer ANY multihoming benefits whatsoever, in fact, NAT breaks multihoming because after a rehoming event, the addresses are translated differently. It's correct that NAT

Re: Comment on draft-iab-ipv6-nat-00

2009-03-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-03-22 06:11, Rémi Després wrote: Brian E Carpenter - le (m/j/a) 3/20/09 2:40 PM: ... Also, NAT-based multihoming has value for large international corporate networks with dozens or hundreds of interconnection points to the public network. It basically solves their address management

Re: Comment on draft-iab-ipv6-nat-00

2009-03-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Iljitsch, On 2009-03-21 05:18, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: ... NAT does not offer ANY multihoming benefits whatsoever, in fact, NAT breaks multihoming because after a rehoming event, the addresses are translated differently. It's correct that NAT changeovers break existing sessions. But your

Re: Comment on draft-iab-ipv6-nat-00

2009-03-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I recently had this exchange with Dan Wing on the BEHAVE list: ... it seems to me that we might consider defining a generic 'referral object', containing more information than just an address, that could be passed among application entities. It could contain TLVs that would provide the

Unresolved patent issues [Re: Consensus Call for draft-housley-tls-authz]

2009-03-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Larry, On 2009-03-11 08:28, Lawrence Rosen wrote: ... I don't think we should publish under the IETF imprimatur if there are *unresolved* known patent issues about which ignorant and cautious people continue to speculate blindly. Why should any of us waste time and money on IETF and

Re: Running Code

2009-03-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Marc, and Henry, I think adding any new mandatory section to all I-Ds is a bad idea. It will quickly become bureaucratic. We've had proposals for mandatory Management Considerations, IPv6 Considerations, and no doubt others that I've forgotten, and they all have the same problem. However, I

Re: ESTA (Electronic System for Travel Authorization)

2009-03-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-03-01 15:39, George Michaelson wrote: write your auth number down. Or print the Authorization Approved page, since the auth number is 16 alphanumerics and a mistake would be easy. Brian once you complete an app, the number is valid for 2+ years with modifications to travel plans

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 2009-03-02 07:17, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... What is particularly interesting to me, about this line of comment, is not whether the relevant IETF-based technologies are superior or whether Can you point me to the IETF WG(s) that are considering identity management as a whole? I know

Re: Internet Society joins Liberty Alliance Management Board: Why?

2009-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-03-02 10:21, Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dave, On 2009-03-02 07:17, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... What is particularly interesting to me, about this line of comment, is not whether the relevant IETF-based technologies are superior or whether Can you point me

Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate

2009-02-24 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-25 14:05, David Morris wrote: On Tue, 24 Feb 2009, Cullen Jennings wrote: On Feb 13, 2009, at 11:15 AM, David Morris wrote: while providing the operational efficiency of collecting all discussion in one place for actual analysis of last call While there may be better ways

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-15 03:44, Theodore Tso wrote: On Sat, Feb 14, 2009 at 09:12:16AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Or afterwards, since the license a contributor grants to the IETF Trust is non-exclusive. So contributing these words to the IETF does not affect in any way my ability to do as I wish

Re: [Fwd: Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate]

2009-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-13 21:15, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: Noel Chiappa wrote: (Discussion deleted) I think these (and the per-draft mailboxes others have mentioned) are probably all steps in a long-term plan, with the eventual optimum system being the web-based thing you mention. What is exactly

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-13 16:47, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009 21:38:44 +0100 Simon Josefsson si...@josefsson.org wrote: The discussion started by Stephan suggesting that free software authors publish their work as free standards in the IETF. My point was that since the IETF disallow

Re: How we got here, RE: References to Redphone's patent

2009-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Phill, On 2009-02-14 10:41, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: ... The proposal that I made then was that when a working group is started, it specify the IPR criteria under which it is chartered. In some cases it makes perfect sense to charter a group that will be using encumbered technology. In

Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate

2009-02-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-13 13:15, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Clint Chaplin clint.chap...@gmail.com I wouldn't create two places to send comments and attempt to segregate who can post to which group. However, creating an ietf-comm...@ietf.org email list and asking all last call comments

Writeup (not) [Re: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard]

2009-02-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-12 08:09, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: ... P.S. I've read the IPR dlsclosure and the patents claims, but what would be useful to see is the document shepard writeup. Are those available somewhere online? If they are I don't know where to find them and I was unable to coerce

Re: FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tim, On 2009-02-10 18:32, Tim Bray wrote: On Mon, Feb 9, 2009 at 5:50 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: FWIW (and it would be good if other actual IETF participants care to indicate +1 if they agree): The actual words in RedPhone's current disclosure: RedPhone

Re: why to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Steve, On 2009-02-11 08:19, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Tue, 10 Feb 2009 10:59:52 -0800 Lawrence Rosen lro...@rosenlaw.com wrote: Why don't we organize to answer the patent claim infringement issues like professionals do? Ask technical experts. Consult a patent attorney. Render

Re: Please Review Draft IESG Statement on Activities that are OBE

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eric, On 2009-02-11 03:35, Eric Burger wrote: ... If anything, I would offer the excellent prescriptions described below should either be part of an update to 2026 or a BCP for how AD's should monitor and work with Work Groups, in general. It seems to me that everything involved is well

Re: Ah, I see the cause of the situation now... (tls-authz situation)

2009-02-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-11 11:44, Robinson Tryon wrote: ... I read parts of the document. Then I went to RedPhone's license page (http://redphonesecurity.com/license.htm) and tried to read their license -- it's pretty complicated, including language such as RedPhone Security will grant royalty-free

FWIW: draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt to Proposed Standard

2009-02-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
FWIW (and it would be good if other actual IETF participants care to indicate +1 if they agree): The actual words in RedPhone's current disclosure: RedPhone Security hereby asserts that the techniques for sending and receiving authorizations defined in TLS Authorizations Extensions (version

List membership [Re: how to contact the IETF]

2009-02-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-02-10 15:12, David Morris wrote: On Mon, 10 Feb 2009, John Levine wrote: Any chance we could require that one subscribes to the list before posting to it? I realize that sufficiently motivated drive-bys could subscribe, send, and leave, but it might reinforce the idea that IETF

Re: Please Review Draft IESG Statement on Activities that are OBE

2009-02-02 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I think that all the proposed actions and decisions in the draft statement are reasonable, and well within the IESG's scope under RFC2026 and RFC2418. So almost no problems there. Almost, because I'm not sure that the MUST NOT publish should apply to Experimental. I think SHOULD NOT is

Re: Editors vs Authors vs Contributors, was: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-23 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Simon, My recollection, without doing an archive search, is that our counsel took the opposite view, i.e. that the parenthesis expanded the scope beyond ISOC and the IETF. IANAL and YMMV. Brian On 2009-01-23 23:20, Simon Josefsson wrote: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com writes

Re: Editors vs Authors vs Contributors, was: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-22 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Julian, On 2009-01-23 05:40, Julian Reschke wrote: ... That leaves us with the question whether any contributor (IPR-wise) needs to be called author. Not sure about that. But if we don't call them authors, they should be listed in a agreed-upon place in the spec. For minor contributors, the

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-behave-turn (Traversal Using Relays around NAT (TURN): Relay Extensions to Session Traversal Utilities for NAT (STUN)) to Proposed Standard

2009-01-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Original Message Subject: Gen-ART LC review of draft-ietf-behave-turn-12.txt Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 12:44:36 +1300 From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com Organization: University of Auckland To: General Area Review Team gen-...@ietf.org CC: behave-cha

Re: RFC 5378 contributions

2009-01-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-15 13:32, Randy Presuhn wrote: Hi - I originally asked this question on the WG chairs' list, and was asked to ask again here... The discussion about RFC 5378 (what little I've been able to understand of it, anyway) has focussed on I-Ds and RFCs. However, the definition of

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ted, On 2009-01-11 08:10, Theodore Tso wrote: ... If the goal is to allow code to be allowed in Open Source Software, then requiring a maximally compatible OSS license for code makes sense. But requiring for random protocol text, especially if this is going to make reuse of older RFC's

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
10, 2009 11:07 +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Thanks John, I believe that is an excellent summary of the viable options. My draft implicitly adds (2.5) Post-5378 documents that incorporate pre-5378 materials whose original contributors have duly agreed

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
+1. Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to mend, but let's get that off the critical path. Brian On 2009-01-11 09:12, John C Klensin wrote:

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-11 09:52, Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Which is why I suggest that we should support the Trustees' proposed short term fix, to allow normal work to continue +/- cutting and pasting some boilerplate. We do have a glitch in 5378 to mend, but let's get that off

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-11 10:55, Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: Er, is that a Last Call comment on draft-ietf-ipr-outbound-rights and draft-ietf-ipr-3978-incoming? A bit late, if so. Brian, too late makes sense for stray comments. It doesn't make sense when we discover that a spec

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2009-01-10 07:15, John Leslie wrote: ... In other words, remove the new requirement and we no longer have a crisis. We have an issue to pursue -- the same one that prompted the new requirement -- but no crisis. Alas, I must disagree. We have an IETF Consensus document (5378),

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2009-01-10 10:32, John C Klensin wrote: ... And note that makes a clear and plausible transition model: (1) Pre-5378 documents exist under pre-5378 rules, so any potential user for non-traditional purposes needs to either figure out who the relevant authors are

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Ed, Thanks for this. As I understand it, the proposal boils down to adding a disclaimer to affected documents that reads: This document contains material from IETF Documents or IETF Contributions published before November 10, 2008 and, to the Contributor’s knowledge, the person(s) controlling

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-01-09 13:59, Stephen Farrell wrote: +1 to fred's proposal, let the exceptions be just that and don't bother most I-D authors, Stephen. On 8 Jan 2009, at 22:49, Fred Baker f...@cisco.com wrote: You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. In my opinion, we need a

Renumbering needs work

2009-01-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
A draft on this topic has been updated: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-carpenter-renum-needs-work-01.txt Comments and discussion are invited on the OPS Area list, ops-a...@ietf.org Brian Carpenter Ran Atkinson Hannu Flinck P.S. Apologies if you receive multiple copies, but that

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Noel, On 2008-12-30 05:28, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: John Day jeanj...@comcast.net Multihoming is fundamentally a routing problem. (snip) It is a problem of routing not be able to recognize that two points of attachment go to the same place. Portraying it as anything

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Christian, On 2008-12-30 11:55, Christian Huitema wrote: I would agree with this, except I defer to the 'get down off an elephant' principle. If both points of attachment are bound to a single transport level entity, then it ought to be relatively easy, and not involve the routing at

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Jorge, I'm working on the assumption that once a contributor or a contributor's assign has signed the license form in its RFC5378 version, we can all submit drafts including that contributor's earlier text without further ado. Is that correct? Brian On 2008-12-19 11:37, Contreras, Jorge

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-17 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 2008-12-18 11:32, Dave CROCKER wrote: ... My assumption was not that the work was available for IETF use. Correct. My assumption was that the IETF owned the work. Pure and simple. False. You never implicitly transferred ownership. The IETF was free to do whatever the hell if

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-12-14 05:12, Scott Kitterman wrote: On Sat, 13 Dec 2008 08:12:17 -0800 Eric Rescorla e...@networkresonance.com wrote: At Sat, 13 Dec 2008 09:49:09 +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2008-12-13 08:20, Russ Housley wrote: ... Process are clearly already available, but the contributor

Time for a sign-up campaign [Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary]

2008-12-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I hereby extend the rights in my contributions that I have personally granted in the past to the IETF and to the IETF Trust to include the additional rights required by RFC5378. Obviously by doing so, I cannot extend the rights granted by my various employers. I'm going to print the updated

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-12-12 12:40, John C Klensin wrote: ... So, given that, the Trustees now believe that it is reasonable to [re] impose a deadline that gives the community two working days (it is already well into December 12 in much of the world) to modify and update tools to incorporate the new

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-12-13 08:20, Russ Housley wrote: At 01:28 PM 12/12/2008, Simon Josefsson wrote: As far as I understand, I can no longer take RFC 4398, fix some minor problem, and re-submit it as a RFC 4398bis. Even though I was editor of RFC 4398. The reason is that some material in that document

Handwaving? [Re: [BEHAVE] where to have the NAT66 discussion (was Re: Please move this thread to BEHAVE mailing list ... )]

2008-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith, With some reluctance, I have't changed your cc list. But my conclusion is that this particular discussion belongs on the RRG list as much as anywhere. On 2008-12-02 09:52, Keith Moore wrote: ... (Because at present the we need NATs for routing argument looks, to my intuition, a bit like

Re: Advice on publishing open standards

2008-11-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Steve, Can you clarify whether this work applies to one particular sign language or to many? I am completely illiterate in these languages, but I understand that there are many of them. Regards Brian Carpenter On 2008-11-29 08:28, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi - There are several issues

Re: secdir review of draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-06

2008-11-26 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Sam, I agree with Russ. I think the clearest possible result is the one we achieved in the case appended below, but that required quite some work in the absence of a well-defined procedure, even without there being an independent submission to synchronize. I think the draft makes such cases

Re: Plenary Online Experiment

2008-11-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Guess i will use the jabber / streaming stuff anyway to get informed As long as people upload their slides to the meeting materials page, I find this works very well. But I think the idea of experimenting with a variety of more recent tools is a good one. Brian

Re: Last Call: draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis (IESG Procedures for Handling of Independent and IRTF Stream Submissions) to BCP

2008-10-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I'm happy with this version. I think it updates the procedures in accordance with what we've learned since RFC3932. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Call for Comments: On RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates

2008-10-21 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-10-21 23:00, IAB Chair wrote: Dear Colleagues, The IAB intends to publish the following document and invites any comments you might have: On RFC Streams, Headers, and Boilerplates draft-iab-streams-headers-boilerplates-03 [1] I think this is ready to publish, except for

Re: NTIA request for feedback on DNSSEC deployment at the root zone

2008-10-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-10-10 18:39, Thierry Moreau wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote, to multiple mailing lists of which ietf@ietf.org is the only relevant as far as I am individually concerned: On 2008-10-10 03:50, Olaf Kolkman wrote: There are links to a number of process flow diagrams that may

Re: NTIA request for feedback on DNSSEC deployment at the root zone

2008-10-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-10-10 03:50, Olaf Kolkman wrote: There are links to a number of process flow diagrams that may interest you. For easy accessibility of those links see: http://www.ntia.doc.gov/DNS/DNSSEC.html I don't think we should endorse in any way the implication that the NTIA or any other part

Re: Archives for closed WGs

2008-08-20 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-21 12:45, Scott O. Bradner wrote: Oh gosh, I hope we're not archiving all those WG millstones... in the fiction department :-) In the non-fiction department, there's also http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/OLD/index.html (which is the Concluded link at the top of the basic IETF

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-16 10:48, Ted Hardie wrote: ... Reading through this, I see that the recommendation that an IPR discloser withdraw a previous disclosure if a revised Contribution negates the previous IPR disclosure made it into the BCP. Someone else will have to decide if this is already

Re: authorizing subsequent use of contributions

2008-08-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-16 05:44, Powers Chuck-RXCP20 wrote: I agree with John, and expect that if the IETF Trust will now be allowed to take an expired ID, and do with it want it wants outside of the standards process, I read the text of RFC 2026 as Simon does, but RFC 3667 and 3978 added the phrase

Re: authorizing subsequent use of contributions

2008-08-19 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-20 12:03, Simon Josefsson wrote: Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: the result will (appropriately) be to have more finely tuned IPR declarations, which make it clear that the declaration is targeted at the specific standard in question, and is not applicable beyond

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-16 06:23, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 1:37 PM -0400 8/15/08, Powers Chuck-RXCP20 wrote: In general, not a bad approach. However, does a valid amendment include the statement this IPR declaration is now null and void, since the technology did not make it into the targeted standard? This

Removal of nonsensical IETF patent disclosures

2008-08-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-16 02:57, Simon Josefsson wrote: ... I'd like to suggest that the IETF patent disclosure mechanism be changed to postings to a mailing list. All patent disclosures can be sent to it, archived as any other IETF work. The postings would then also be subject to the dispute handling

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-14 19:25, Simon Josefsson wrote: ... If removals should be permitted, the reasons for accepting a removal request should be well established. I can think of at least two reasons that are valid: * Exact duplicates * Spam Beyond this I'm less sure we can get away the liability

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-15 01:48, SM wrote: At 03:59 14-08-2008, Marshall Eubanks wrote: One solution would be to require a TDMA like confirmation of the existence of posters (do they exist, and are they with the company they claim to be speaking for) _before_ the posting is accepted. The submission

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-14 05:10, John C Klensin wrote: --On Wednesday, August 13, 2008 2:21 PM +0200 Simon Josefsson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If the IETF removes patent disclosures, I believe the IETF will find itself in the position of evaluating the _correctness_ of patent related claims. This

Re: Last Call for Comments on Legal Provisions Related to IETF Documents

2008-08-12 Thread Brian E Carpenter
How about adding some weasel words, or even simply making the attribution requirement a should? I think it's perfectly reasonable to ask for attribution when possible, so any form of words that doesn't break the BSD license in a narrow legalistic sense would do fine for me. It's not like we're

Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

2008-08-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2008-08-10 07:58, John C Klensin wrote: --On Saturday, 09 August, 2008 20:52 +0200 Bert Wijnen \\(IETF\\) [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John and Dave, I think that both of you (and some others) arwe looking at the ID_Checklist too much as if it is part of our (rigid) process. Our

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