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2011-08-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
My usual experience at such places is that there is enough -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: [iucg] IDNA and Multilingual Internet issues and vocabulary afterIDNA2008

2011-08-19 Thread Dave Crocker
+10 /d -- Dave Crocker bbiw.net via mobile _ From: Michel Py Sent: Fri Aug 19 19:54:48 PDT 2011 To: IETF , John C Klensin Subject: RE: [iucg] IDNA and Multilingual Internet issues and vocabulary afterIDNA2008 [trimmed the cross-post To

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread Dave Crocker
+1 d/ -- Dave Crocker bbiw.net via mobile -Original Message- > I pretty much agree, although one form of discuss might be > reasonable: "This document needs to be recycled at Proposed > Standard because of the following *observed* interoperability > problem:

Re: subject_prefix on IETF Discuss?

2011-08-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
scenarios, DKIM was not intended to survive re-posting. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: I-D Working groups and mailing list

2011-08-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
reasonable to build it into the model explicitly so that it (or its absence) can be detected structurally. That said, the construct works quite well, for those who remember to use it... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: I-D Working groups and mailing list

2011-08-04 Thread Dave CROCKER
mailing list address from a cryptic working group reference or go through the work to find it. One might argue that this is a test of their resolve and that we want to filter against overly casual participation, but that seems an odd bit of logic. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking

Re: I-D Working groups and mailing list

2011-08-04 Thread Dave CROCKER
a few years ago and arguments similar to John's were invoked to kill it. Based on how rare discussion venue citation remain, it's time to make the matter more explicit and formal. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net _

Re: subject_prefix on IETF Discuss?

2011-08-03 Thread Dave CROCKER
o have redundant indication of list handling, the different conventions serve different purposes. -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: subject_prefix on IETF Discuss?

2011-08-03 Thread Dave CROCKER
helpful and it's an extremely widespread convention. [Discussion] could apply to any group, anywhere, whereas [IETF] nicely identifies exactly this list. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-08-03 Thread Dave CROCKER
lve. And, as I said before, my criticism is of those who have imposed this technology on the IETF lists, not of the technology itself. Indeed. It really is irresponsible of them to improve the accountability of email going out through the IETF. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWork

Re: A modest proposal...

2011-08-02 Thread Dave CROCKER
cated I am, since I hadn't heard of Swift's essay... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-08-02 Thread Dave CROCKER
that claims it should be there. In other words, the current complaint is about something missing. Please quote the specification of that and then the part of the original charter that said we would do it. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
llingness to engage in that discussion and to pursue it seriously. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-07-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
are such a terrible burden for you, strip the field off. It does seem odd to complain about a mechanism that (finally) provides a certifiably valid identifier on messages, in an environment where 90% of the traffic across the Internet exploits the fact that there hasn't been one...

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-07-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
f which is cleaner and safer than is possible today, except with constrained uses of previous-hop IP(v4) addresses. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-07-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
rk. I do not think we should add speculation about the potential problems to this document. +1 d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: On attending BoFs

2011-07-29 Thread Dave Crocker
I seem to recall having sometimes seen the chair reserve the front of the seating for people who claim to have read the drafts. d/ On 7/29/2011 12:12 AM, Eric Burger wrote: Just for the record: we want big rooms! On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:01 PM, Scott Brim wrote: And do you really only want pe

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
ensus used to approve standards/bcp, * IETF consensus used to approve other documents through the IETF * Independent Informational and Experimental submissions that are published /without/ IETF approval. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-07-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
se. DKIM is a different semantic, not just a different implementation. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-07-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
t you take a look at: The Truth About DKIM <http://bbiw.net/presentations/DKIM%20Truth.pdf> specifically slide 4. The left hand side includes a short list of common mis-assumptions about DKIM's meaning, along with the one correct one. See whether you know which is the righ

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-28 Thread Dave CROCKER
they haven't read. Nobody would, I hope. Therein lies a core problem with the model: It hinges on personal investment by the AD, and a lack of trust in the community process, using the excuse that the process is not perfect, as if the AD's own evaluation process is... d/ -- Dave C

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-28 Thread Dave CROCKER
reviews and the community support-vs-objection. Imagine that the job of the ADs is to assess these and to block proposals that have had major, unresolved problems uncovered or that lack support, and to approve ones that have support and lack known, major deficiencies as documented

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
produces documents with many errors, already. The world survives, as does the Internet. It well might be true that omitting the AD reviews would increase the number. By how much? To what effect? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-07-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
signer's domain name. It really is tailored to use by highly phished sites acting as fully-integrated bulk senders. It cannot work with more diverse environments. The IETF email environment qualifies as extremely diverse. Our mailing list operation breaks ADSP. d/ -- Dave Cr

Re: DKIM Signatures now being applied to IETF Email

2011-07-25 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/25/2011 1:17 PM, Glen wrote: I am very pleased to report that the IETF is now applying DKIM signatures to all outgoing list email from mailman. I'll be presumptuous and speak on behalf of the DKIM operations community, rather than just myself: Cool! Thanks. d/ -- Dave Cr

Review of: draft-ietf-iab-draft-iab-dns-applications-02

2011-07-21 Thread Dave CROCKER
. From all of this, I suspect that the only way to make useful progress is to start over, and to begin with a much, much more clear and concrete statement of the goal for the draft and then a very diligent effort to organize the paper's sequence and carefully document its assertions. d/

Re: Confidentiality notices on email messages

2011-07-14 Thread Dave CROCKER
al precedent for the RFC to win? Thanks. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: reading drafts on an ipad

2011-07-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
and haven't noticed problems reading or marking drafts on it, so it really isn't obvious to me what you want to optimize.) d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.o

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
h The DNS (i.e., with the existing well-know roots) from A DNS -- the latter using the same protocols and records, but not sharing the same initial roots. +1 d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 7/5/2011 10:59 AM, Tony Finch wrote: Dave CROCKER wrote: For an application that is likely to encounter a different IP address for essentially every query, across a very large number of queries, the only solution I see available is to use a different cache. This has been operational

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
k for the constantly-changing IP Address behavior cited in this thread. I believe that the solution is to have the applications, themselves, distinguish the cache they are using (or the containing library). A blocklist app needs to use a different library/cache than a web browser. d/ -- Dave C

Re: Comments surrounding draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-07-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
ss a very large number of queries, the only solution I see available is to use a different cache. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: (DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures) to Draft Standard

2011-06-24 Thread Dave CROCKER
ponding to the substance of his postings is merely because there is no new substance. Absent any indication of his view gaining support, there's very obviously no benefit to be had in responding further. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWor

Re: My Internet experience in the West at times is comparable to female foeticide

2011-06-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
do! The most common rule being that postings are *ON TOPIC* But the most important rule is to refrain from feeding obviously useless threads. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https

Re: Last Call: (DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures) to Draft Standard

2011-06-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
ove highly deceptive. Excellent. Now it is also DKIM's job to fix problems with Unicode... Details of this concern were stated in the tracker at: http://trac.tools.ietf.org/wg/dkim/trac/ticket/24 wrong citation. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net __

Re: location preferences

2011-06-21 Thread Dave CROCKER
r easy and inexpensive travel and convenient IETF work environments, versus the desire for "interesting" venues. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: location preferences

2011-06-20 Thread Dave CROCKER
s that the venue hotel isn't allowed to rip us off by charging $35 for a hamburger... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: location preferences

2011-06-20 Thread Dave CROCKER
places. In any event, if crime statistics are to become a factor in choosing IETF venues, the IETF community needs to develop some consensus about this, including what the acceptable parameters are. As of now, I believe that's not generally part of the discussion in choosing a venue

Re: Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03 *(formal for apps area)*

2011-05-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
mably by consulting with their ISPs / network operators). This may be simpler and it's the way solutions to non-IPv6 problems tend to work today. On the average, demanding that an end-user make an explicit decision about an operational tuning issue does not work very well. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [ietf-dkim] Last Call: (DKIM And Mailing Lists) to BCP

2011-05-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
empt to impose a more stringent requirement on qualifying for BCP status than exists in IETF formal documentation. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [v6ops] Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-16 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/16/2011 8:34 PM, SM wrote: Maybe this could be called "DNS Seal Team 6". Well, apparently that would be /actual/ trademark infringement, with Disney. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing

Re: [v6ops] Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-16 Thread Dave CROCKER
relevant? Perhaps that also means that all RFC references to cron are required to define the term? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [v6ops] Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-16 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/16/2011 6:28 PM, Joe Abley wrote: Hi Dave, I take no position on whether it's in good taste to use the word "whitelist" in this particular instance or in general, but On 2011-05-16, at 18:21, Dave CROCKER wrote: 1. It is not previously standardized and I believe it is

Re: [v6ops] Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-16 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/16/2011 6:08 PM, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On May 16, 2011, at 2:37 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: 1. Changing times often call for changed vocabulary. which is fine, the rational stated is false to fact. But you do not seem to be refuting the point /I/ am making, which that the fact that the

Re: [v6ops] Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-16 Thread Dave CROCKER
bably close enough to qualify as trademark infringement if this were a trademark case) How much longer does this list need to be to justify choosing better labels for this v6 dual-stack transition hack? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: How to pay $47 for a copy of RFC 793

2011-05-09 Thread Dave Crocker
+1 The elegance and simplicity of this is quite nice. d/ -- Dave Crocker bbiw.net Steve Crocker wrote: A simpler and more pragmatic approach is to include a statement in the boilerplate of every RFC that says, "RFCs are available free of charge online from ..." The copyright r

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
uot;Not a Standard But Might Be One Later" really are requesting comments. seems like that is rather cumbersome phrasing for a label. perhaps we can come up with a term that is shorter but implies a similar status with regard to now and later. hmmm. what about the word 'pro

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
that the /current/ draft lowers quality but that the existing process has exhibited the lower. In that case, it seems like the concrete way to resolve such concerns is to propose specific text to add to the current draft? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbi

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
. It is, indeed, a problem... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 1:31 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What, specifically, are the parts of the proposal that you believe will lower the quality of a Proposed Standard? The parts

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
probably have a better Internet. But the fact that there is a majority practice of staying at Proposed renders the minority practice of diligently qualifying for Draft irrelevant, IMO. -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ie

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
will lower the quality of a Proposed Standard? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-02 Thread Dave CROCKER
anti-abuse-related addresses was merely an exception. d/ On 5/2/2011 8:46 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote: Search on "whitelist ipv6". Results are topical. What's the conflict here? On May 2, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/2/2011 7:32 AM, Richard L. Barnes wro

Re: Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-02 Thread Dave CROCKER
term for A records there as no doubt it would be -- and indeed is -- need to use it for records. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-04-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
It also explores the outlined concerns regarding this practice. Readers will hopefully better understand what DNS whitelisting is, why some parties are implementing it, and what criticisms of the practice exist. -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-21 Thread Dave CROCKER
cally "accountable"? And by the way, what does it mean to be accountable in the way that you consider so important? What actions flow from that accountability? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf ma

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-20 Thread Dave CROCKER
ticipation in the IAOC/Trust as changing this issue.) -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Review of: draft-iab-dns-applications-01

2011-04-20 Thread Dave CROCKER
DNS is affected. If its primary purpose is to provide guidance for enhancement, then it needs architectural rigor and, again, substantive analysis, including comparison of tradeoffs. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-19 Thread Dave CROCKER
or be explicitly invited to all IAOC/Trust activities. This produces the continuity that is needed for the admin work, but also retains access to the expertise of the I* chairs. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-17 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 4/16/2011 7:51 AM, Lucy Lynch wrote: On Fri, 15 Apr 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: That is a concrete and basic assertion. Please put some flesh on its bones so that the basis for your view can be understood better. Let me take a run at this. Back in the pre-history of BCP 101 we had very

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
for their working independently and with continuity. Can you clarify the reasons for the choices you made in the proposal? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailma

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
ined the IAOC/Trust, which means I've attended a few meetings and seen some operation. As always, my comments have nothing to do with the individuals; this is about organizational design. -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___

Re: Buckets of spam coming through IETF lists

2011-04-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
a fundamentally different task from detected invalid From: field contents. ADSP, and add-on to DKIM, is felt by its promoters to be useful for detecting invalid From: fields, but it does not work through mailing lists. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWor

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-03-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
delegated or not, but they also should appoint a person who is /not/ from their body as a voting person. And that's my thought at this moment... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [IAB] IETF and APIs

2011-03-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
between what is "internal" to the protocol, versus what is payload that is delivered to the consumer (next layer up or receiving application.) Sometimes, the way a protocol is specified does not make this distinction completely clear. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg Inter

Re: Internet pioneer Paul Baran passes away

2011-03-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 3/29/2011 3:52 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Sad news: Indeed. Katie Hafner ("Where Wizards Stay Up Late") did a very nice obituary, also: <http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/28/technology/28baran.html?src=busln> d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWo

Re: For Monday's technical plenary - Review of draft-tschofenig-post-standardization-00

2011-03-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
ferent task and different part of the architecture. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: For Monday's technical plenary - Review of draft-tschofenig-post-standardization-00

2011-03-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
standards too, albeit ones developed privately, with private review: Within a company it is typical to have the mobile code and the server be implemented by different teams and they need to code against a common spec, hence a protocol stanards... -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking

Re: IETF and APIs

2011-03-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
Other Dave C's highlighting the possibility of an "abstract" API is also worth considering. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF and APIs

2011-03-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
his is that it moves the problem to the folks with the knowledge and incentives to work on it and it takes this very expensive specification task out of the IETF's critical path. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ I

Re: For Monday's technical plenary - Review of draft-tschofenig-post-standardization-00

2011-03-28 Thread Dave CROCKER
for games). The draft gave no indication of which model it wants to pursue. >> 8. Extraneous >> >> The draft has an extended discussion about a number of important hardware and software limitations that appear to be independent of the language and platform, as we

For Monday's technical plenary - Review of draft-tschofenig-post-standardization-00

2011-03-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
curity challenges: An application class might permit pre-installing certified class-specific "sandboxes" to safely contain the mobile agent, while permitting carefully-disciplined access to local resources. Discussions should explore these and related tasks. As for the view that it is ti

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Dave CROCKER
no changes proposed for moving to Historic. (The question of Historic has not been part of the many discussions about streamlining the standards labeling.) Hence that issue is out of scope for the document. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.

Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-16 Thread Dave CROCKER
n flourished. So that doesn't make a very useful criterion. A more useful criterion would be demonstrating that the confusion causes significant problems. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing l

Re: I-D Action:draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04.txt

2011-03-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
ve a constructive, alternative suggestion. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Request for review of draft-yevstifeyev-genarea-historic-03

2011-03-03 Thread Dave CROCKER
historic needs to be based on affirmative data. The declaration is actually only important to make for protocols that are known to be problematic. Issuing a declaration for mere non-use is a matter of convenience, not need, IMO. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net

Re: Where to find IETF recommendations?

2011-03-02 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 3/2/2011 6:03 AM, Shane Kerr wrote: Tony, Dave, On Tue, 2011-03-01 at 19:59 +, Tony Finch wrote: On 1 Mar 2011, at 18:56, Dave CROCKER wrote: If you all promise to keep in mind that it is only a /very/ rough and formative effort, please take a look at: <http://bbiw.net/t

Re: Where to find IETF recommendations?

2011-03-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 3/1/2011 11:59 AM, Tony Finch wrote: On 1 Mar 2011, at 18:56, Dave CROCKER wrote: If you all promise to keep in mind that it is only a /very/ rough and formative effort, please take a look at: <http://bbiw.net/trac/suites/> There are also some groups of RFCs listed at

Re: Where to find IETF recommendations?

2011-03-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
what changes would you like to see? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: RFC production center XML format usage, was: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-23 Thread Dave CROCKER
%, now. Pretty serious 'market' domination... d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
nd 50-60%? d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-31 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/30/2011 8:06 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:49:44AM -0800, Dave CROCKER wrote: The current proposal specifies a second maturity level that does not permit changing the technical specification. Yes, I know. I fail completely to see why anyone would ever do the

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
or fail has nothing to do with the criterion you are citing. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
nt, testing and deployment is essential, of course. But there is nothing essential in having the IETF mark completion of any of those intermediate phases. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.or

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
one added sentence to cover "interoperability" about IPR: +1 It's terse, relevant and seems pragmatic. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: New Year's Exploration: Changing the Internet's Infrastructure

2011-01-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 12/31/2010 6:56 AM, Dave CROCKER wrote: So I would like to ask for folks to help the community develop some concrete information about this, by adding entries and comments to the IETF's Outcomes Wiki: <http://trac.tools.ietf.org/misc/outcomes/>[2] ... Some infrastructure

Re: Contacts to Czech Technical University in Prague?

2011-01-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/10/2011 12:01 PM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: Yes, we know about this other workshop. We also checked how likely the participants overlap. ack. tnx. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf

Re: Contacts to Czech Technical University in Prague?

2011-01-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
in Prague. Just to check: I assume you folk know about a somewhat related event that overlaps with this, on Friday, in nearby Leipzig: The Governance Dimension of the Internet of Things <http://www.medienstadt-leipzig.org/euronf/programme.html> d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg

Re: Old transport-layer protocols to Historic?

2011-01-07 Thread Dave CROCKER
neatness or a community OCD neurosis. It needs to be about pragmatic guidance to the community. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

New Year's Exploration: Changing the Internet's Infrastructure

2010-12-31 Thread Dave CROCKER
ges, use the Comments column in the wiki, for recording information that might warrant a new column in the table. -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

BCP request: WiFi at High-Tech Meetings

2010-12-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
a document on this and the IETF track record has been quite good. We should share the joy. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Wikipedia

2010-12-15 Thread Dave CROCKER
r this issue, should "downref" constraints pertain only to standards track or should it apply to all RFCs? If the latter, what does it mean to have a downref for a document that is not on standards track? -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net __

Re: Last Call: (Authentication-Results Registration For Vouch By Reference Results) to Proposed Standard

2010-12-01 Thread Dave CROCKER
seems well enough formed and detailed. Please approve it. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

AP article: US Embassy: Beijing Air Quality Is 'Crazy Bad'

2010-11-22 Thread Dave CROCKER
I left last Wednesday and the, visibility seemed to be about 200 yards. I was told that it was worse on Thursday. I guess it was... <http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=131440157> d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bb

Re: Two step, three step, one step, and alternatives

2010-11-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 11/13/2010 7:49 AM, John C Klensin wrote: At the end of an IETF week, I guess we are all tired. Please note the comma and parse that as Actually I think this was karmic retribution. I should have taken my own advice and waited to get my coffee... d/ -- Dave Crocker

Re: Two step, three step, one step, and alternatives

2010-11-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
two step: <http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-crocker-ietf-twostage-00> It even makes that clear in the I-D filename. It's primary distinction is different criteria for the second step. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___

Re: [79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
familiarity, in reality most of the 1200, or so, attendees are strangers to each other. In most of the world, trusting 1200 strangers to keep one's property safe is not especially rational. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
interoperability testing that is limited to the specification. The only role of the IETF in such a process is to aid in getting agreement on any specification changes that might be needed, when the divergence is due to /enhancements/ that are non-standard. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg

Re: [79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 11/11/2010 10:17 PM, Henk Uijterwaal wrote: On 11/11/2010 12:01, Dave CROCKER wrote: It is a change in practice. It is not a change in formal requirement. This has (always?) been an unenforced requirement.(*) No, I've been refused entry to the terminal room at least once because

Re: [79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
ge at the microphone included the observation that this was done without notice, for example. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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