RE: Please make sure that you do not run your WLAN in ad hoc mode

2005-11-11 Thread Dave Singer
At 11:44 -0500 11/11/05, Nelson, David wrote: Phillip Hallam-Baker writes... I think that what we should do is to send the IEEE 801.b/g group a polite letter pointing out that if our people here at the IETF cannot figure this stuff out then their less technically astute customers might

Re: Fwd: Can the USA welcome IETF (was: Last Call under RFC 3683 concerning Dean Anderson (reissued))

2005-10-17 Thread Dave Singer
Eduardo, I think I may be misunderstanding you, and if so I apologize. As I understand it, the original announcement of the 'last call' was not sent in strict accord with the agreed procedures, in that it used the wrong mailing list. As a result it has now been sent to the correct mailing

Re: delegating (portions of) ietf list disciplinary process (fwd)

2005-09-28 Thread Dave Singer
At 20:04 -0400 28/09/05, Dean Anderson wrote: This was offlist, but I think it is relevant, now to similar questions raised by others. My apologies to the list. I emailed Dean off-list, and was not asked for, and hence did not give, permission to reproduce my email on-list. I'm sorry if

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-07 Thread Dave Singer
At 0:30 +0200 7/09/05, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 7-sep-2005, at 0:16, Daniel Senie wrote: Actually, a Firewall Considerations section would make sense. What would be in such a section? There are only three possibilities: 1. There is no firewall: no need for text. 2. There is a

RE: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Dave Singer
I'm a by-stander on this discussion, maybe off-base or out of it -- but something other than the undesirable traffic struck me. Isn't it also true that I might *deliberately break* all sorts of things by introducing 'blocking' names into DNS responses, so that an LLMNR request is never

Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Singer
I hear the opposite complaint enough to believe that the truth lies somewhere in between (the ietf is dominated by academics who have no idea what it takes to design, deploy, and maintain large complex networks). I only see a tiny portion of the ietf myself, agreed (I doubt many people see

Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Singer
Don't forget the organizations that adopt IETF specs. ISMA has a regular interop and conformance program for RTSP + RTP + the codecs used, both 'virtual' over the internet and face to face at most meetings. Likewise IMTC does testing of 3GPP SA4 multimedia specs, again using RTSP, RTP,

Re: Cautionary tale: Paris pickpockets

2005-08-10 Thread Dave Singer
At 12:55 -0700 10/08/05, Dave Crocker wrote: he said I'd be crazy to have my wallet in the backpocket and urged me to put it somewhere inside my jacket because that would be much more difficult to get. when my wallet was lifted, 2 months ago in the Paris metro, it was in my front left

Re: reflections from the trenches of ietf62 wireless

2005-03-16 Thread Dave Singer
At 11:12 AM -0500 3/16/05, Marshall Eubanks wrote: how much would it cost us to have our own equipment? Shouldn't the question of _which_ equipment to buy come first ? That will pretty much determine the price. I know that the volunteer teams have some strong opinions on this, as I have heard

Re: idea for spam protection

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Singer
At 9:22 AM -0500 3/13/05, Bruce Lilly wrote: Date: 2005-03-12 11:18 From: Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] where's that Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem scorecard? You're probably thinking of http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html great list. but just because there

IEEE 802.11 and large meetings

2005-03-11 Thread Dave Singer
Forgive me, I wasn't at the meeting, but I suspect that you had the usual slew of problems with 802.11 networks at large meetings, such as: a) Users confusing other users by going into ad-hoc mode with the same network name; b) some base stations seem to get royally confused when this happens,

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Singer
At 10:14 PM -0500 2/26/05, Keith Moore wrote: Thanks. I forgot to say on (c) that there MUST be as many entries in the revision history as the revision number indicates (i.e. none for revision 00, and so on). don't do that. it will add an unnecessary and often useless barrier to publication

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Singer
At 10:34 PM +0100 3/1/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On lørdag, februar 26, 2005 21:22:36 -0800 Christian Huitema [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In fact, we only have two points of contentions: old personal drafts submitted as version 00 of WG drafts; and old WG drafts

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Dave Singer
At 7:14 PM -0800 2/25/05, Dave Crocker wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:59:19 +, Dave Singer wrote: Ý a) renaming of the root portion of the file-name is permitted, nay Ý encouraged, to identify whether the draft is currently individual, or Ý owned by a group (or even to select a 'better' name

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Singer
Um, I'm maybe an innocent bystander here, but perhaps the following works? a) renaming of the root portion of the file-name is permitted, nay encouraged, to identify whether the draft is currently individual, or owned by a group (or even to select a 'better' name for other reasons); b) the

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Singer
This is similar to the reason why the language code comes before the country code. If we had the order CH-fr, then we could end up mixing French and German in the same page, because we would fall back (for one of the data sources) from CH-fr to CH, which could be German. It has to be

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Singer
At 11:34 AM -0800 1/6/05, Peter Constable wrote: From: Dave Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] This is similar to the reason why the language code comes before the country code. If we had the order CH-fr, then we could end up mixing French and German in the same page, because we would fall back

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Singer
At 12:14 PM -0800 1/6/05, Peter Constable wrote: From: Dave Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, I should have gone on to conclude: the important aspect of sub-tags is that their nature and purpose be identifiable and explained (e.g. that this is a country code), and that we retain

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread Dave Singer
Singer wrote: At 12:14 PM -0800 1/6/05, Peter Constable wrote: From: Dave Singer [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sorry, I should have gone on to conclude: the important aspect of sub-tags is that their nature and purpose be identifiable and explained (e.g. that this is a country code), and that we

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread Dave Singer
At 9:14 AM -0800 1/4/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This whole question of what 'matches' is subtle. Consider the case when I have a document that has variant content by language (e.g. different sound tracks), and the user indicates a set of preferred languages. If the content has de-CH and fr-CH

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, stability, and extensions

2005-01-03 Thread Dave Singer
The *meaning* of any given language tag would be no more or less a problem under the proposed revision than it was for RFC 3066 or RFC 1766. For instance, there is a concurrent thread that has been discussing when country distinctions are appropriate or recommended (ca or ca-ES?); this

The Font top-level MIME type registration I-D

2004-12-23 Thread Dave Singer
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-singer-font-mime-00.txt This was posted a while back and hasn't received much comment. I suspect that it is not so much the quality of the writing as the fact that many haven't noticed it... It proposes registering a top-level font/ MIME type for font