RE: Review of: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05

2013-10-08 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: Review of: draft-resnick-on-consensus-05

2013-10-07 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
dcroc...@bbiw.net a majority rule- a simple majority rule Majorities come in different forms or degrees and the fact that 'rough consensus' is often taken to mean 67% or 75%, as a rule of thumb can make this confusing. From what you've written, your basic point seems to be that 51% isn't

NIST documents

2013-10-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
One draft I'm working on references some standard NIST cryptographic documents. (RFCs don't include everything we need.) I need to check some details therein. Unfortunately the current US government shutdown has taken NIST's website, including those documents, offline. And (not considering

RE: NIST documents

2013-10-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: Deprecate

2013-08-29 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
It's definitely an ISO term, I see it used for features of C++. There's then discussion even there of what it means. It is, I think, meant to be used for we don't think you should use this, there's something better, and this is a warning that it may get removed in a future version. In the case

RE: Deprecate

2013-08-29 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
, Hants, GU14 6YU, UK Registered in England Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: Michelle Cotton [mailto:michelle.cot...@icann.org] Sent: 29 August 2013 15:53 To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK); t.p.; ietf Subject: Re: Deprecate We are working on 5226bis right now and have a plans

RE: RFC 6234 code

2013-07-01 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
That's 20 minutes per person of course. -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group Communications, Networks and Image Analysis Capability BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre West Hanningfield Road, Great Baddow, Chelmsford, CM2 8HN, UK Tel: +44 1245 242194 | Fax:

RE: RFC 6234 code

2013-06-28 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: RFC 6234 code

2013-06-28 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
in England Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: Joe Abley [mailto:jab...@hopcount.ca] Sent: 27 June 2013 18:22 To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: RFC 6234 code --! WARNING ! -- This message originates from outside

RFC 6234 code

2013-06-27 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
RFC 6234 contains, embedded in it, code to implement various functions, including SHA-2. Extracting that code from the RFC is not a clean process. In addition the code must have existed unembedded before being embedded. Is that code available from the IETF or elsewhere? (I have tried some

RE: RFC 6234 code

2013-06-27 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
in England Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: Hector Santos [mailto:hsan...@isdg.net] Sent: 27 June 2013 17:27 To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: RFC 6234 code --! WARNING ! -- This message originates from

RE: Gen-ART Review of draft-ietf-manet-rfc6622-bis-02

2013-06-18 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Comments below, marked . I think (though I need my co-authors to agree of course) that a draft with these revisions (and any others we need) will be appropriate following any other IETF LC comments. -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group Communications,

RE: Time in the Air

2013-06-04 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
If always meeting in one place, we should obviously consult the work on where is central, which shows London at the top of the list. Twice. (Yes, I do know where I've made a deliberate error in reaching that conclusion.) -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group

RE: Time in the Air

2013-06-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Lloyd Wood quiet time on a plane can be productive time. Economy class or something better? -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group Communications, Networks and Image Analysis Capability BAE Systems Advanced Technology Centre West Hanningfield Road, Great

RE: recognition

2013-03-18 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Perhaps there should be a gold dot for past service. Maybe a silver dot for ten years, a gold dot for twenty. (Slightly non-serious, but also slightly serious.) -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group Communications, Networks and Image Analysis Capability BAE

RE: The desires of the IETF community

2013-03-08 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
You need at least two more properties (iii) High technical standard products (iv) Efficient All the openness and fairness in the world is no use if it produces bad products, or if it produces little or no product, or product so late it's no use. (That wording is tailored to protocols etc.

RE: congestion control? - (was Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director)

2013-03-05 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I've no idea about the example quoted, but I can see some of their motivation. TCP's assumptions (really simplified) that loss of packet = congestion = backoff aren't necessarily so in a wireless network, where packets can be lost without congestion. This means that TCP into, out of, or across,

RE: WCIT outcome?

2013-01-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
, Christopher (UK) wrote: Given the ever increasing number of mobile devices, one could argue that the world has never been more dependent on radio spectrum allocation. If you don't insist on allocating fixed bandwidths, CSMA/CA takes care of most of issues

RE: WCIT outcome?

2013-01-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: WCIT outcome?

2013-01-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
, Hants, GU14 6YU, UK Registered in England Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: Carlos M. Martinez [mailto:carlosm3...@gmail.com] Sent: 03 January 2013 12:52 To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) Cc: Phillip Hallam-Baker; IETF Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: WCIT outcome

RE: WCIT outcome?

2013-01-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
in England Wales No: 1996687 -Original Message- From: Masataka Ohta [mailto:mo...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp] Sent: 03 January 2013 13:39 To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: WCIT outcome? --! WARNING ! -- This message

RE: WCIT outcome?

2013-01-02 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Carlos M. Martinez Radio spectrum allocation was a critical task at the time (it still is, although the world doesn't depend that much on it anymore), Given the ever increasing number of mobile devices, one could argue that the world has never been more dependent on radio spectrum allocation.

RE: IETF work is done on the mailing lists

2012-11-28 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I've certainly been to BOFs where I might think this is a new topic to discover that it's actually indistinguishable from a WG I just hadn't attended before - the documents already exist, and the inner circle of who knows who is already in place. (The inner circle effect can be seen by

RE: the usual mail stuff, was IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-10 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
If someone wants to provide guidance on how to do a least bad job with Outlook, that will be gratefully received. But advice that says don't use Outlook will be filed with the advice that says pick another employer to work for. -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications

Comments on draft-olsrv2-manet-olsrv2-15

2012-08-31 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
A number of comments on draft-olsrv2-manet-olsrv2-15 were provided by Mr. Abdussalam Baryun. The authors have reviewed these comments and do not feel that they warrant any changes. (The authors do however intend to make some other minor changes to produce a version -16 based on other comments

RE: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

2012-08-06 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Dublin's problem was that the venue was isolated from the city. This has also been the case with e.g. San Diego. (I'm assuming no personal car.) Contrast with Minneapolis (and several other places) where you were right in the city. Being in a city is better for lunch and dinner options, taking

RE: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

2012-08-06 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

2012-08-06 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
the 'Report Suspicious Emails' link on IT matters for instructions on reporting suspicious email messages. On Mon, Aug 06, 2012 at 01:55:59PM +, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) wrote: is noise) and the ability to plan ahead to only attend

RE: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

2012-08-06 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: So, where to repeat? (was:Re: management granularity)

2012-08-06 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-24 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I think the main (as in the one more people would care about) issue here (UK) isn't a religious clash, it's a public holiday clash (Friday and Monday). -- Christopher Dearlove Senior Principal Engineer, Communications Group Communications, Networks and Image Analysis Capability BAE Systems

RE: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input

2011-10-25 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Marshall Eubanks The closest to truly antipodal pair of places I know of in common use are Hawaii to South Africa. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipodes has lists of alternatives. (Verify before use.) -- Christopher Dearlove Technology Leader, Communications Group Communications and Networks

RE: Routing at the Edges of the Internet

2011-08-30 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
You could start by looking at MANET work, both in the WG of that name and work outside the IETF under that name and as ad hoc networks (the mobile in MANET can be misleading, D for dynamic might be mor to the point) and mesh networks. There are real networks (such as the Freifunk network in

RE: Last Call on draft-ietf-pim-registry-03.txt

2011-01-14 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
RFC 5226 (BCP 26) says IANA must be given a set of guidelines that allow it to make allocation decisions with minimal subjectivity and without requiring any technical expertise with respect to the protocols that make use of a registry. and goes on to discuss categories of unassigned

RE: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

2010-12-14 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I would not consider that a link to Wikipedia is ever appropriate in an IETF draft. If it were, then an exact date and time would need to be included in the reference, but I'd be unhappy even with that. (This is not for copyright reasons.) -- Christopher Dearlove Technology Leader,

RE: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

2010-12-14 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
: Julian Reschke [mailto:julian.resc...@gmx.de] Sent: 14 December 2010 10:28 To: Dearlove, Christopher (UK) Cc: Samir Srivastava; Ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft *** WARNING *** This message has originated outside your

RE: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

2010-12-14 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
There is a bunch of RFCs with references to Wikipedia: I can only disagree with the practice. This email and any attachments are confidential to the intended recipient and may also be privileged. If you are not the intended

RE: Clarification for Copyright to referred material in IETF draft

2010-12-14 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
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RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-roll-rpl-11.txt (RPL: IPv6 RoutingProtocol for Low power and Lossy Networks) to Proposed Standard

2010-09-09 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
That can still be corrected (revive draft-ietf-roll-protocols-survey-07). That was dropped because some people had various issues with it. That draft, very roughly speaking, said none of these existing protocols do what we want because they fail to meet the ideal we have set for these various

RE: IETF privacy policy - update

2010-07-20 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I think is very likely (if not certain) that right now the IETF is operating in violation of the European Union's Data Protection Directive, nope, never while they're in the U.S. National data protection laws do not apply for

RE: Last Call: draft-ogud-iana-protocol-maintenance-words (Definitionsfor expressing standards requirements in IANA registries.) to BCP

2010-03-18 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
1. 3.1. MANDATORY This is the strongest requirement and for an implementation to ignore it there MUST be a valid and serious reason. That is also neither my, not my dictionary's (compulsory, admitting no option) interpretation of the word in everyday use.

RE: Internet wins 2010 Nobel Peace Prize...

2010-03-15 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
So there was this article in the Mercury News this AM about the Internet winning the 2010 Nobel Peace Prize Just a nomination, one of 237. Though the one getting the most buzz it would appear. (The full list is apparently not published.) -- Christopher Dearlove Technology Leader,

RE: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-12 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Just for the record, because I think it's a data point that's relevant to this discussion: I have never been able to get text-format RFCs to print properly on either Windows or Mac. I have found that a painless way to do so is to open the .txt file with Word (Office 2003). Uses Courier and

RE: OpenDNS today announced it has adopted DNSCurve to secure DNS

2010-02-24 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
http://twitter.com/joebaptista/status/9555178362 I'm probably not alone in working for a company that blocks twitter.com, and as the very nature of tweets is that they are short, posting the tweet rather than the link on lists such as this might make more sense. Actually (since I have access

RE: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-06-30 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
The TXT versions do not print on my printer and have not printed reliably on any printer I have ever owned. I discovered by accident that, on my machine, simply opening a text version in Microsoft Word gives a document which prints properly, page breaks and all. (10 point Courier I think.)

RE: Update to the IETF Web Site

2009-06-24 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I asked a colleague who is not involved in the IETF for a comment, to see how it passed test 1 below. His first reaction was positive. But then we noticed a problem. He's running Firefox with noscript. He gets a simplified version of the left hand bar - no subentries. And there is no indication

RE: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-11 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Putting aside whether I could buy such a machine, and assuming taking it out of the US would be OK policy-wise (that I'd have to check, I suspect it's within the letter but not the spirit of the policy) as soon as it's outside the US it's a company machine I couldn't take back in. Puchasing

RE: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-04 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
From: John C Klensin [mailto:john-i...@jck.com] Machines in the netbook category have gotten very cheap (cheaper than IETF registration fees, for example). While I would not expect your company to change policy, obtaining a few of those machines and imaging them to contain nothing in local

RE: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-03 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
Alexa Morris Actually, the Terminal Room will have two laptops set up for attendee use; these are traditionally used primarily for printing (boarding passes, etc) but are available for other uses as well. That's useful to know. I did enquire of the Secretariat (reference rt.amsl.com

Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-02 Thread Dearlove, Christopher (UK)
I believe this to be on-topic for this list based on the summary of on-topic subjects. However I don't see any similar subjects recently, so apologies if there is a batter place, and a pointer to it would be appreciated. I have had it confirmed by the secretariat that the terminal room at IETF