Gen-art review of draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv4-vendor-message-01

2010-02-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
-dhc-dhcpv4-vendor-message-01.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 5 February 2010 IETF LC End Date: 17 February 2010 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Almost ready. I note that (AFAICS) the existing DHCPv4 standards do not specify the behaviour of clients and servers receiving message

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt

2010-03-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 March 2010 IETF LC End Date: 18 March 2010 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Not ready. The document contains a lot of minor niggles and nits plus a major item that I am not sure the IETF should support: this is the removal of all

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt

2010-03-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 2:37 PM + 3/19/10, Elwyn Davies wrote: > >> Not ready. The document contains a lot of minor niggles and nits plus a >> major item that I am not sure the IETF should support: this is the removal >> of all mention of mandatory to implem

[Gen-art] Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-08.txt

2010-05-04 Thread Elwyn Davies
: draft-ietf-ipsecme-ikev2bis-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 4 May 2010 IETF LC End Date: 18 March 2010 IESG Telechat date: 6 May 2010 Summary: When I reviewed this document at IETF Last call, I discovered that compared to previous documents, it contains no mention of mandatory to

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-csi-send-name-type-registry-03

2010-05-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
-send-name-type-registry-03.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 14 May 2010 IETF LC End Date: 14 May 2010 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Probably not ready. There seems to be a conflict or confusion between the prescriptive specification of a single algorithm for how the Subject Key

Re: Gen-art LC review of draft-cheshire-dnsext-nbp-09.txt

2010-12-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Tue, 2010-12-14 at 18:19 -0800, Stuart Cheshire wrote: > On 23 Nov 2010, at 7:15 AM, Elwyn Davies wrote: > > > Summary: > > This document has at least one open issue that I believe needs > > fixing, either by altering the scope of the applicability of the &g

Re: Question about Prague

2010-12-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Fri, 2010-12-31 at 12:52 -0500, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Dec 31, 2010, at 1:41 AM, Fred Baker wrote: > > > > > On Dec 30, 2010, at 1:09 PM, Robin Uyeshiro wrote: > >> The GPS in the rental car (rented in Munich) did not have the street > >> information for Prague. > > > > It's not unusual

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt

2008-11-24 Thread Elwyn Davies
-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 24 November 2008 IETF LC End Date: 17 November 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. It has a number of minor issues plus a fair number of editorial nits. I am sending the editirial

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt

2008-11-25 Thread Elwyn Davies
-monami6-multiplecoa-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 24 November 2008 IETF LC End Date: 17 November 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. It has a number of minor issues plus a fair number of editorial nits. I am sending the editirial

Re: Terminal room at IETF74

2009-03-04 Thread Elwyn Davies
hris Dearlove has this problem. For the rest of us, it remains a small risk along with the possibility of being mis-identified or triggering some stupid profiling filter. A general level of paranoia is probably justified, but I shan't be going over the top . Famous last words? Of course,

Re: Update to the IETF Web Site

2009-06-24 Thread Elwyn Davies
I agree with this point. It would also be good to have 'parent' links on these sub-pages. I note that the same problem occurs if you select the 'Brief' option on the menu. [Q: will the 'customize view' be something one can select on startup (e.g. by a ?string in the URL)? - I am not sure how us

Re: XML2RFC must die, was: Re: Two different threads - IETF Document Format

2009-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Carsten Bormann wrote: What we need is the ability to write drafts with a standard issue word processor. Why? I suppose if there were indeed a *standard* word processor, this might be feasible, but I think by "standard issue" you mean "commercially available". http://www.xmlmind.com/xmledi

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01

2007-09-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ipv6-deprecate-rh0-01.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 21/9/07 IETF LC End Date: 20/9/07 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. I have a couple of essentially editorial comments below. Comments: s3: "IPv6 nodes **MUST NOT process** R

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-rs-04.txt

2007-10-18 Thread Elwyn Davies
-bb-fec-rs-04.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 October 2007 IETF LC End Date: 25 October 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Almost ready for IESG. I found one very minor issue and a few editorial nits (see below). I think a reference to a theoretical and/or algorithmic

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-l2vpn-vpls-bridge-interop-02.txt

2007-11-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
-l2vpn-vpls-bridge-interop-02.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 19 November 2007 IETF LC End Date: 9 November 2007 Summary: If I understand correctly, this document 'standardizes' the RFC 4464 s2.2 bridge model selection (it chooses #2) and bridge module functionality that will ens

Re: Opportunity Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
I also think that we must think positive about this. We do need to try things out. I think we started our very first experiments with Wireless LAN at IETF 46 in Washington (I am just trying to find a museum to take the plug-in card Nortel sold(?) me that was never any use afterwards (the old

Gen-art review of draft-shimaoka-multidomain-pki-11.txt

2007-12-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
-multidomain-pki-11.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 28 December 2007 IETF LC End Date: 1 January 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: In general this is a well written and, as far as I can see, comprehensive document. I have one major problem with it: it far exceeds the scope

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-11.txt

2008-01-18 Thread Elwyn Davies
scheduled for next weeks telechat, you should liaise with your AD before making any changes. Document: draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-11.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 January 2008 IETF LC End Date: 16 January 2008 IESG Telechat date: 24 January 2008 Summary: This document is not ready for the

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
The information is available on the RFC Editor's web site at http://www.rfc-editor.org/ The RFC Database in various forms such as http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc-index2.html tells you the status of each RFC and the RFCs that are associated with it by obsoletes/obsoleted/updated relationships etc

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-10.txt

2008-02-19 Thread Elwyn Davies
-netlmm-proxymip6-10.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 Feb 2008 IETF LC End Date: 20 Feb 2008 IESG Telechat date: 21 Feb 2008 Summary: This document is well written and is in fairly good shape for submission to the IESG. There are a number of minor issues which ought to be fixed. I think

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-11.txt

2008-03-01 Thread Elwyn Davies
: draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-11.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 29 Feb 2008 IESG Telechat date: 06 March 2008 Summary: Version 11 resolves almost all of the issues and nits that I raised in the last call review of version 10. There is one editorial matter to complete the 'eas

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-smime-multisig-04.txt

2008-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
-smime-multisig-04.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 7 March 2008 IETF LC End Date: 7 March 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: Mostly fine except for a piece of unclear specification noted below and a few editorial nits. Caveat: I am not a security expert and this should not be taken

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rohc-rfc3095bis-rohcv2-profiles-05

2008-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rohc-rfc3095bis-rohcv2-profiles-05 Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 7 March 2008 IETF LC End Date: 20 March 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: The document is almost ready for the IESG. There are a couple of minor issues that ought to be resolved as detailed below (especially

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-netlmm-proxymip6-11.txt

2008-03-09 Thread Elwyn Davies
Sri Gundavelli wrote: > Hi Elwyn, > > Sorry for the late reply. Thanks for reviewing the updated > draft. We will address the two remaining issues. Please > see inline. > > > No problem.. I am stuck in a hotel in Toronto, nit getting to IETF. :-((( Snipped the first issue as that should be fi

gen-art review of draft-ietf-rserpool-policies-08.txt

2008-04-11 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rserpool-policies-08.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 11 April 2008 IETF LC End Date: 14 April 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Sorry, guys! This document is not in good shape. I know it is, in a sense, the bottom of the tree and somebody reading it would probably be expected

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-norm-revised-04.txt

2008-04-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rmt-bb-norm-revised-04.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 15 April 2008 IETF LC End Date: 17 April 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) Summary: A well-written document covering some pretty complex ideas. Technically ready for the IESG but a little up front explanation for the naive reader

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-05

2008-07-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-05.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 July 2008 IETF LC End Date: 29 July 2008 IESG Telechat date: n/a Summary: Nearly ready for IESG. A few minor issues mainly with failure to specify encodings and a couple of corner cases. A few editorial nits noted

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-forces-model-14.txt

2008-09-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
-forces-model-14.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 5 Setember 2008 IETF LC End Date: 8 September 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Nearly ready for IESG. Generally this is a very well constructed and written document dealing with a very complex problem. There are quite a number of

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-sip-media-security-requirements-07

2008-10-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
-sip-media-security-requirements-07.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 10 October 2008 IETF LC End Date: 13 October 2008 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: This document is almost ready for the IESG. I have a couple of comments and queries about the reasoning in a few of the requirements

Gen-art review of draft-stjohns-sipso-05.txt

2008-10-13 Thread Elwyn Davies
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: draft-stjohns

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art review of draft-ietf-rmt-bb-fec-basic-schemes-revised-05

2008-10-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
se in the -06 draft is below. Regards, Mark On 7/18/08 8:57 AM, "Elwyn Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: 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/

Re: IETF IPv6 platform configuration

2006-06-12 Thread Elwyn Davies
Kevin Loch wrote: Sam Hartman wrote: "secIETF" == IETF Secretariat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: secIETF> *Only HTTP, SMTP, FTP, and DNS traffic are permitted through an IPv6 secIETF> Native firewall (pings, traceroutes etc. are dropped) Please make sure that ICMP messag

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Allegedly, if you have a booking in the IETF block, the Internet connection is included for free. /Elwyn At the Delta Hotel there is no wireless in my room. There is a wired connection for CDN$9.95 per 24 hours which has a reasonable bandwidth at the current load. Jeffrey Altman _

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Airport shuttles: Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Queen Elizabeth (900 boulevard Rene-levesque Ouest) which is about 0.25 mile from the Delta.. Alternatives include riding to the central bus station and taking the metro (Orange Line

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Queen Elizabeth (900 boulevard Rene-levesque Ouest) which is about 0.25 mile from the Delta.. Alternatives include riding to the central bus station and taking the metro (Orange Line, direction Cot

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-06 Thread Elwyn Davies
Minor clarification in case your ethics are troubling you... Elwyn Davies wrote: Airport shuttles: Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Queen Elizabeth (900 boulevard Rene-levesque Ouest) which is about 0.25 mile from the Delta..

Re: L2VPNs must not be IP(v4)-only

2006-08-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Maybe I wasn't paying attention but I don't recall seeing messages about this on either the ipv6 or v6ops mailing list. I guess you may have asked around but I'm sure somebody in the wg's could have helped if a public request was made (especially the ndproxy authors). Be that as it may,

Last Call: 'Procedures for protocol extensions and, variations' to BCP

2006-08-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
A couple of nits: s3: It might be helpful to make the first three paras into a bulleted list and add an introductory sentence like: 'There are various ways in which an extension to an IETF can be introduced into the IETF:' s3, para 3: If my understanding is correct, a document from the normal

Prague (Praha) street maps and hotels (was Re: IETF 68 hotel full)

2006-12-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Search for Praha postcode 18600 or the Florenc metro station which is just nearby (slightly south of hotel). Link to maps centred on hotel: http://www.multimap.com/map/browse.cgi?lat=50.0922&lon=14.439&scale=5000&icon=x (links to some hotels relatively nearby) www.mappy.com finds about 30 hotel

Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-webdav-rfc2518bis-17.txt

2007-01-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
-webdav-rfc2518bis-17.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 30/01/2007 IETF LC End Date: 21/01/2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Apologies for the late review - I missed the aassignment somehow. This document is almost ready for the IESG. There are a couple of issues which need a

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-crisp-iris-dchk-06.txt

2007-02-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
-crisp-iris-dchk-06.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 10 February 2007 IETF LC End Date: 21 February 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: The document itself maybe nearly ready for IESG apart from a few editorial nits (see below). However there are a couple of issues with associated

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic (Reasons to Move NAT-PT to Historic Status) to Informational RFC

2007-02-28 Thread Elwyn Davies
Just to clarify the current situation... The statement below says that the recommendation is for RFC 2766 to be reclassified to experimental.. As is implied by the title of the draft, it actually recommends reclassification to Historic. This error results form a piece of history ;-) - The dr

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic (Reasons to Move NAT-PT to Historic Status) to Informational RFC

2007-02-28 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The core assumption here seems to be that NAT is a bad thing so lets get rid of NAT rather than trying to make NAT work. NAT-PT is not NAT. It does a whole lot more, but it *cannot* do what it claims to do completely, because the semantics on the two sides are

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
John C Klensin wrote: (off list) --On Tuesday, 06 March, 2007 15:46 -0800 Tony Hain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: While I agree with Brian that the enterprise draft will be difficult, I also believe the SOHO one will be virtually impossible to get agreement over. I agree, although I t

Re: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Fred Baker wrote: On Mar 7, 2007, at 11:38 AM, Elwyn Davies wrote: Also this appears to be tied to the US business model where the ISP supplies you with the box and you don't get to change it (or even own it). Do they do that in the US? I'm not aware of it... Maybe I am jus

Re: Prague

2007-03-08 Thread Elwyn Davies
Tim Chown wrote: On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 12:23:21PM -0500, Ralph Droms wrote: I visited Prague about two years ago and had the same experience as Ed. I traveled via the Metro and on foot, visited all the tourist traps; had no problems and never felt unsafe. I second that. The metro

Re: In support of symbolic references

2007-04-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2007-04-06 08:12, Jari Arkko wrote: Simon, Maybe we can lobby for it to become the default. +1 (I think it would be the right default, even if I agree with John Klensin's concern.) Putting symrefs into all the xml2rfc templates would not be a bad idea. The 'd

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-sip-e2m-sec-05.txt

2007-05-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
arrival of these comments. Document: draft-ietf-sip-e2m-sec-05.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 18 May 2005 IETF LC End Date: 14 May 2005 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: I think this document needs a fair bit of work before it is ready to go to the IESG. The request to publish as

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic-00.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Elwyn Davies
Christian Huitema wrote: From: Noel Chiappa, Monday, July 02, 2007 6:08 AM > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino) > if NAT-PT is to be made historic due to the claims presented in the > draft, all of the NAT related documents have to be made historic > ...

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ipfix-implementation-guidelines-06.txt

2007-08-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ipfix-implementation-guidelines-06 Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 20 July 2007 IETF LC End Date: 18 July 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known)- Summary: Generally in good shape except that the use of RFC 2119 language is generally inappropriate. In many cases the uses of MUST represent

Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ccamp-inter-domain-pd-path-comp-05.txt

2007-08-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
-ccamp-inter-domain-pd-path-comp-05.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 16 Aug 2007 IETF LC End Date: 16 Aug 2007 IESG Telechat date: (if known) 23 Aug 2007 Summary: I think this document needs significant work on the core description of the algorithm. I found s4 to be difficult to read and it

RE: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!

2005-01-02 Thread Elwyn Davies
This is indeed a bizarre thread.. As a near neighbour (UK), I can tell you that 2003 was indeed exceptional across most of Europe. My home area north east of London was reduced to a desert by the end of August, and there were some accelerated deaths due to heat exhaustion. Things reverted to t

gen-art: (Extra) Review of draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-04.txt

2005-01-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Scott Brim is doing the main (gen-art) review of this document but I started so here is my twopennorth... I have come to this with relatively fresh eyes since I have stayed out of the governance discussions since my work on the problem WG a while back and have only just started following th

Re: Edits - #819 - Elwyn's editorials

2005-01-25 Thread Elwyn Davies
At 17:42 24/01/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: There has apparently been no comments on these I thought I'd make a pass... Some thoughts: S1, para 3: s/Such support includes/The support for current work includes/ this works either way for me - "current" seems to say "the next sentences

New regulations for US Visa Waiver Programme (was RE: french crypto regulations relating to personal encryption usageby visitors? )

2005-04-02 Thread Elwyn davies
<> > Real serious issues seem to be waved away. To my opinion, one > threat to the international nature of the IETF are the continuous > increasing difficulties entering the US. This morning I read in the > local papers that starting the 25th of october the Visa-Waiver > program will grind to a

RE: New regulations for US Visa Waiver Programme (was RE: frenchcrypto regulations relating to personal encryption usagebyvisitors? )

2005-04-02 Thread Elwyn davies
A bit more input on this subject... It appears that (as one could have predicted) trying to get this piece of universal technology in place in < 10 years is going to be difficult. It appears that there is a limited agreement on content (actually a digitized mugshot) but very little on the nature

RE: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-08 Thread Elwyn davies
FYI I am an ex-Word user, now fully converted to xml2rfc. I thought Word was a convenient way to conform to Draft style and handle revision control but was frustrated by the toolchain. The main problem I found was the badly broken 'Generic Text Printer' driver which has not worked properly for a

RE: Intermediate Drafts of network layer protocols

2005-04-08 Thread Elwyn davies
As I had already written to the original enquirer privately, I agree that the research needs the 'design diary' aspects as well as the output snapshots. The lack of a permanent archive for some of the mailing lists will be a problem for historians and others looking back on the IETF process. Perso

RE: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-08 Thread Elwyn davies
indow closes! Regards, Elwyn > -Original Message- > From: Stewart Bryant [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 April 2005 14:11 > To: Elwyn davies > Cc: 'Brian E Carpenter'; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; 'Bruce Lilly'; 'Alex > Rousskov'; ietf@ietf.

RE: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' toInformational RFC

2005-04-08 Thread Elwyn davies
age- > From: Lars-Erik Jonsson (LU/EAB) [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: 08 April 2005 14:01 > To: Elwyn davies; Stewart Bryant; Brian E Carpenter > Cc: Alex Rousskov; Bruce Lilly; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org; IETF > TOOLS discussion > Subject: RE: Last Call: 'Requirements

RE: Important protocol development

2005-04-28 Thread Elwyn Davies
Of course with use of SNAP in the last yard, we needed a higher throughput solution for the backbone and as of yesterday we have it ... An Airbus 380 full of 4.7GB DVDs... only problem is limited number of available terminals ;-) 100 yard wingspan... watch where you are turning! I have started a

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
Thanks.. certainly seems to work with Mozilla Thunderbird. Regards, Elwyn Eliot Lear wrote: For the daring, there is http://www.ofcourseimright.com/~lear/ietf63.ics. I claim no competence in any of this. No responsibility if you miss your meetings. No promises to update it. But it works fo

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
Actually to be more precise it works with Mozilla Firefox 1.0.6 with the calendar plug-in. Regards, Elwyn Eliot Lear wrote: For the daring, there is http://www.ofcourseimright.com/~lear/ietf63.ics. I claim no competence in any of this. No responsibility if you miss your meetings. No promis

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-26 Thread Elwyn Davies
It reads in to Thunderbird OK, but the result is less pretty than Eliot's effort. Eliot's version appears to lay out the multiple events in a partcular timeslot evenly across the available space, whereas Bill's results in different sized blocks and in some cases some of the events appear to be

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-27 Thread Elwyn Davies
Absolutely... Be that as it may, I was intrigued as to why Thunderbird did such a different job on the two files. A quick look at the code did not help. Anyway thanks for the effort.. very useful! Regards, Elwyn Eliot Lear wrote: Bill, I couldn't agree with you more regarding multiple ov

Comments on draft-iab-link-indications-03.txt

2005-09-23 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. I did a quick read of this document and have a couple of general comments (plus I spotted a very few trival nits). It seems to be a very useful survey of what has been done in the area of Wireless LAN and the interactions of link indications for hosts connected directly to such links. Th

Re: p2p dns (was: Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
Johan: I imagine you have seen this paper on the subject of a p2p DNS substitute based on CHORD, but it is interesting reading for others. http://www.cs.rice.edu/Conferences/IPTPS02/178.pdf Regards, Elwyn Davies Johan Henriksson wrote: On Fri, Sep 30, 2005 at 08:45:29AM +0200, Johan

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
Ole Jacobsen wrote: On Thu, 13 Oct 2005, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: How about adding that the mean outdoor temperature at the time of the year the meeting is being held should be above 0 degrees Centigrade? Why? There is some logic in this.. Participants need to be able to get

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-14 Thread Elwyn Davies
Jari Arkko wrote: Elwyn Davies wrote: There is some logic in this.. Participants need to be able to get from airport to hotel to venue on foot/public transport without needing to bring excessive personal protection gear that they might not otherwise own, or experiencing heat stroke

Re: draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-17.txt

2005-10-27 Thread Elwyn Davies
Roland Looking at the RFC Editor queue, it looks as if this is the only document in the complex web of interdependencies between rfc2401bis and ikev2 and their related documents that is still in the EDIT state. All the others appear to be in REF state waiting for it to finish editing. Why t

IETF Trust last call

2005-12-08 Thread Elwyn Davies
but I thought I would ask. Appendix A: I was somewhat surprised that this section doesn't explicitly mention any software used as part of the operations and process. Maybe this is covered by some other part of the IASA agreements? Regards, Elwyn Davies

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell checker provided). And the standar

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Seconded. I *have* used it for a production run and whilst it is not perfect it makes document creation and editing significantly easier than typing 'raw' xml even into a syntax-aware text editor. It is also very helpful for proof reading and commenting (spell checker provided). And the st

Re: A plug for XXE (Re: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
Joe Touch wrote: Elwyn Davies wrote: I used to use the Word template but the freedom from hassle of generating the final documents I'm not sure what freedom this means; XML still needs to run through a script, just as Word does. you can't do it from inside Word

Re: Ietf Digest, Vol 21, Issue 63

2006-01-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
really a very wise way to go. Bob Braden ===== regards, Elwyn Davies Marshall Eubanks wrote: While we are on the subject, in the archives of the IETF there are proceedings of one Internet Architecture Task Force meeting, in May, 1986. Can anyone fill me in on this entity a

Re: how to declare consensus when someone ignores consensus

2006-01-23 Thread Elwyn Davies
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Can you imagine if during every murder trial they had a debate on the humanity of capitol punishment? As a non-US citizen, I am a little hazy about some details of the US legal system. Do I assume that this punishment requires the malefactor to sit through a set

Finding issue trackers for drafts

2006-01-30 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. One additional piece of information relating to drafts that ism't included in the drafts database is the location of the issue tracker (if any). They aren't all in one place at the moment which makes life more difficult than necessary for the casual inspector... for example... - I was j

Knowing what BOFs are being thought about [was: Re: IETF 65 BOF Announcement: Digital Identity Exchange (DIX)]

2006-02-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
Finding out what BOFs are being plotted is not very easy AFAIK. In the case below there doesn't appear to have been any widespread public announcement of the start of the mailing list and I suspect that is the case for many others. Obviously an announcement of intent to the IETF list or the A

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Tom.Petch wrote: The phrase 'monotonic increasing' seems to be a Humpty-Dumpty one, used with a different sense within RFC to that which I see defined elsewhere; and this could lead to a reduction in security. Elsewhere - dictionaries, encyclopaedia, text books - I see it defined so that w

Re: 'monotonic increasing'

2006-02-17 Thread Elwyn Davies
--- Original Message - From: "Elwyn Davies" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Tom.Petch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "ietf" Sent: Friday, February 17, 2006 8:19 PM Subject: Re: 'monotonic increasing' Hi. Tom.Petch wrote: The

Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-02-21 Thread Elwyn Davies
I was selected as General Area Review Team reviewer for this specification (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Document: draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt Intended Status: Experimental (RFC3933 Process Experiment) Shepherding A

Re: Last Call: 'Definitions of Managed Objects for Remote Ping, Traceroute, and Lookup Operations' to Proposed Standard

2006-02-26 Thread Elwyn Davies
Bill Strahm wrote: Robert Elz wrote: I cannot see why there's a debate going on here. If someone, anyone, can read a spec, and, in good faith, point out a possible ambiguity in the text, before the doc is finalised, and if fixing it to avoid the problem is easy, what possible justification ca

Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
alf of para 1 and para 2 of s4. == Thoughts? Regards, Elwyn Sam Hartman wrote: "Elwyn" == Elwyn Davies <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Elwyn> I was selected as General Area Review Team reviewer for Elwyn> this specification (f

Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Sam Hartman wrote: I am happy to make a change similar to the one you propose in section 1. I'm happy to split the parts of section 4 dealing with what the IESG might do into their own section as an example. That's fine by me.. it should make a self-consistent document. I do not want

Gen-art last call review of draft-ietf-opsawg-oam-overview-08.txt

2013-01-22 Thread Elwyn Davies
08.txt Reviewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 22 Jan 2013 IETF LC End Date:25 Jan 2013 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: In my opinion, this draft has serious issues as described below. Major issues: General 1: Title vs Abstract vs Section 1 vs actual content: Here in the UK a well-known br

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread Elwyn Davies
+1 to Mary's comments.. few words in line.. Elwyn Davies On Mon, 2013-03-04 at 09:11 -0600, Mary Barnes wrote: > On Mon, Mar 4, 2013 at 7:39 AM, Eric Burger > wrote: > > There is obviously no easy fix. If there was, we would have fixed it, > > obviously. > > &

More Plugins for Firefox to do draft searches and draft/RFC HTML downloads

2013-03-05 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi. Thanks to Dale for the new search plugins - useful. I made these other ones that get RFCs and use the tools.ietf.org HTML page to find sets of drafts from a few words. They were originally published on the tools discuss list about 19 months ago. Download the attachments into the searchplu

Re: IPR view (Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today )

2013-03-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
Submission allowed; publication postponed? /Elwyn On Thu, 2013-03-07 at 10:34 +0100, Carsten Bormann wrote: > Oh, and one more data point: > > The Internet-Draft archive also functions as a timestamped signed public > archival record of our "inventions". > (Which are often trivial, but triviali

Re: Please review draft-housley-rfc2050bis-00.txt

2013-03-20 Thread Elwyn Davies
Hi, Russ. Two points: On Tue, 2013-03-19 at 22:30 -0500, David Farmer wrote: > > Rereading things again, I have another suggestion; > > 4) Split the Goals of the Internet registry system out of the > Introduction. The Intro starts out talking about the document, its > goals, and what is in s

Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" sections

2013-03-25 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Sun, 2013-03-24 at 22:23 -0400, Joel M. Halpern wrote: > I think I at least partly disagree. The acknowledgements section of > RFCs was not, and to the best of my knowledge is not, concerned with > capturing the history of where specific changes or ideas came from. It > ought to be concerne

Re: Comments for Humorous RFCs or uncategorised RFCs or dated April the first

2013-04-06 Thread Elwyn Davies
Right.. they are mind expanding drugs. Essential for keeping us sane. /Elwyn Sent from my ASUS Pad "Stewart Bryant (stbryant)" wrote: > > >Sent from my iPad > >On 6 Apr 2013, at 14:04, "Abdussalam Baryun" >wrote: > >> >> If the date is >> special then thoes RFCs SHOULD be *historical*. >>

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 15/04/13 15:45, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 15/04/2013 15:23, Ted Lemon wrote: ... So in practice, although I feel great sympathy for this position, I think it's mistaken. I want the other ADs to comment on anything that they notice that looks like a problem. There's an important class

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 01/05/13 21:05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:59, Dave Crocker wrote: The blog nicely classes the problem as being too heavy-weight during final stages. The quick discussion thread seems focused on adding a moment at which the draft specification is considered 'baked'. I think t

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-01 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 01/05/13 21:05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 02/05/2013 05:59, Dave Crocker wrote: The blog nicely classes the problem as being too heavy-weight during final stages. The quick discussion thread seems focused on adding a moment at which the draft specification is considered 'baked'. I think t

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-03 Thread Elwyn Davies
On Fri, 2013-05-03 at 14:27 +0100, Stephen Farrell wrote: > On 05/03/2013 01:59 PM, Thomas Narten wrote: > > > > If you look at the delays documents encounter (both in WG and in IESG > > review), the killer is long times between document revisions. Focus on > > understanding the *why* behind that

Re: Accessing tools from IETF pages

2013-05-08 Thread Elwyn Davies
Both links work just fine from a selection of browsers/os/machines other than Msoft. (Firefox, Evolution, Chrome) It also works on an old version of IE8 but reports errors. Presumably turning off some strict error checking in IE allows it to display. Running the page through the W3C HTML validat

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-10 Thread Elwyn Davies
Similarly, AFAICS the 'IESG time' includes IETF last call and the inevitable delay caused by the quantized nature of IESG teleconferenes. On the average, this will be somewhere around 28-30 days (2 or 4 weeks in Last call according to document type plus an average of 1 week until the earliest poss

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Elwyn Davies
On 31/05/13 20:18, Scott Brim wrote: On Friday, May 31, 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: On 5/31/2013 8:12 PM, Scott Brim wrote: We'll have multiple airships, one for each set of related meeting rooms. is dirigible a new term of endearment for an AD? Obviously the ADs have

Gen-art additional LC review of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-34

2013-06-06 Thread Elwyn Davies
viewer: Elwyn Davies Review Date: 5 June 2013 IETF LC End Date: 5 JUne 2013 IESG Telechat date: (if known) - Summary: Almost ready. Generally this is an excellent and well written document, particularly given its size. There are a few minor issues to sort out mainly at the nit level and some consi

Re: [Gen-art] Gen-art additional LC review of draft-ietf-mmusic-rfc2326bis-34

2013-06-07 Thread Elwyn Davies
an end point and not been explictly paused and STARTING/PAUSING states in the client while the client waits for response to PLAY/PAUSE respectively. I think a little bit more explanation about the dual nature of the columns would solve the problem. Appendix C: Pending. Regards, Elwyn >

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