Re: I-D affects another or work in ietf groups

2013-02-08 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
Speaking for myself, I would say that an internet draft is relevant to work in a working group if and only if it is covered by the charter of the working group. Anyone can claim anything to dodge the requirement that they ask relevant groups to review it. That doesn't make the claim true. In th

Re: The RFC Acknowledgement

2013-02-08 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 8, 2013, at 7:55 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > My personal instincts as an author run somewhat closer to > Melinda's criterion than to Don's but my bigger concern is that > trying to make specific rules about this will result in an > extended rat hole tour that ends up with rules that don't

Re: IETF chair's blog

2013-02-24 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
>> Twitter, Google+, Facebook, etc. could be the next steps. Let's embrace new >> tools to collaborate. > > Let's not. Collaboration based on software running on servers run by the IETF > or a contractor payed by the IETF is fine. Using collaboration tools owned by > the entities you listed, or

Re: Showing support during IETF LC...

2013-02-25 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Feb 23, 2013, at 6:41 AM, John C Klensin wrote: > First, "no objection" and silence by IESG members are roughly > equivalent, but approval of a document with complete community > silence (either outside the relevant WG or on an individual > submission) makes some ADs nervous (and, IMO, should

IETF Challenges - DTN and the Internet of Stuff

2013-03-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
>From my perspective, an important technical challenge in coming years might be >a variation on delay-tolerant networking. We have done a fair bit of work in >this area, for some definition of "we" - SOAP, Saratoga, and the NASA/JPL >DTNrg work. As Dave Crocker likes to point out, we actually ha

Re: IETF Challenges

2013-03-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Mar 2, 2013, at 12:35 PM, SM wrote: > If the IETF has become very international it would be apparent from the > mailing list archives. A quick look would show that there weren't any > messages from people from China or Japan [1]. I'd suggest you redo your analysis. It doesn't have a lot t

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-11 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Mar 10, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > On 3/10/2013 5:22 AM, IETF Diversity wrote: > > I'm listed as a signatory and agree that this is important. > >> There are several steps that could be taken, in the short-term within >> our existing BCPs, to address this problem: >> >>

Re: Diversity of IETF Leadership

2013-03-11 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Mar 10, 2013, at 1:57 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > On 3/10/2013 5:22 AM, IETF Diversity wrote: > > I'm listed as a signatory and agree that this is important. > >> There are several steps that could be taken, in the short-term within >> our existing BCPs, to address this problem: >> >>

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-14 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Mar 14, 2013, at 8:49 AM, Scott Brim wrote: > On 03/14/13 08:23, Mary Barnes allegedly wrote: >> One question I have is whether there isn't a list for newcomers to ask >> questions that some of us can be on to help them before they get to >> the meeting? > > Yes, One thing that I suspe

Re: Consensus on the responsibility for qualifications? (Was: Re: Nomcom is responsible for IESG qualifications)

2013-03-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Mar 13, 2013, at 11:49 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Dave, all, > > We talked about this in the Monday plenary. Obviously people have read or > understood the situation in different ways. But that should not stop us from > reaching a common understanding of the situation now that we realised we

Re: Mentoring

2013-03-19 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Mar 14, 2013, at 7:03 AM, Ted Lemon wrote: > I think it might also be worth encouraging working group chairs to have > working group breakfast or lunch meetings (RSVP required) where newcomers are > invited to come meet the chairs and chairs can strategically invite a few > return attendee

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
In my opinion, some individual ADs seem to, from their behavior, feel that they have not done their jobs unless they have raised a "discuss". The one that took the cake for me personally was a "discuss" raised by a particular AD (who shall remain nameless) that in essence wondered what he should

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-12 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Apr 12, 2013, at 12:13 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Seeing randomly selected drafts as a Gen-ART reviewer, I can > say that serious defects quite often survive WG review and > sometimes survive IETF Last Call review, so the final review > by the IESG does serve a purpose. I'm not saying i

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-15 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Apr 15, 2013, at 7:45 AM, 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. >

Re: [Tools-discuss] Last Call: (Improving Awareness of Running Code: the Implementation Status Section) to Experimental RFC

2013-04-26 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Apr 26, 2013, at 2:12 AM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > - There should be long-term commitment to maintain the data. I think we > simply don't have such processes in place, and personally I don't want to > even try to deal with this problem. I suspect that we'd have to eventually > use paid help

Long review tail

2013-05-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
I your blog, you wrote: > Having been involved in the process for many years, often the bigger changes > at this stage relate to cross-area issues, or the fact that the careful > reviews from the IETF last call, directorates, and 15 ADs often represents a > significant increase in the number of

Re: Long review tail

2013-05-02 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 2, 2013, at 8:12 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: > When asked if more could be done, (without any specific proposal > for what to do) the response was that increasing the workload > would maybe lead to a significant drop in that 80% figure since > secdir folks are also busy with their day-job

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 16, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: > On the whole, I am told that if an AD weighs in with her comments during > working > group last call, her fearsome personality may overwhelm some of the WG > participants and she may dominate the WG consensus. There may be places where that h

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 16, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > There is a problem, though, that this will increase the load on ADs. Other > concerns raised during IETF LC may lead to revised I-Ds, which the ADs will > need to re-read (or at least look at the diff). I don't know how significant > this extra w

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-23 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 23, 2013, at 3:14 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > I am not expecting to agree with me as I do not agree that we only contribute > to standards development. I agree with the substance of Donald's comment. Let me talk for a moment about Adelaide. In March 2000, the IETF met in Adelaide. I w

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-23 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 23, 2013, at 4:27 PM, Mark Nottingham wrote: > > On 24/05/2013, at 9:06 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > >> I took the perspective that on our 40th meeting, we could have 1/40 in a >> place that we had a few faithful participants that was well out of the way. >

Re: IETF Meeting in South America

2013-05-23 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 23, 2013, at 10:04 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Thu, 23 May 2013, Jorge Amodio wrote: > >> One thing that could help is if some companies like Cisco, Google, Juniper, >> etc, with presence in the region start sponsoring some individuals that have >> been participating or are int

Re: Time in the Air

2013-05-31 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 31, 2013, at 7:03 AM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > clearly, all IETF meetings should be in Cape Town, Wellington, or Perth, > because more time in the air means more time without interruption where > drafts can be read before the meeting. Heavens no. All meetings should be in Santa Barb

Re: IETF Diversity vs. White Male ??

2013-06-19 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jun 19, 2013, at 3:57 PM, Aaron Yi DING wrote: > Well, if the dominant ones later being replaced by other groups, do we need > to revamp again? What will be the end? I'm told that white babies are now a minority of the population in the US. http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2341066/W

Re: Is the IETF is an international organization? (was: IETF Diversity)

2013-06-20 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jun 20, 2013, at 11:26 AM, SM wrote: > At 08:02 20-06-2013, Mark Nottingham wrote: >> Keep in mind that you're talking to an organisation that believes that >> Vancouver qualifies as "Asia." > > That should be added to the Tao. :-) > > At 08:24 20-06-2013, John C Klensin wrote: >> Politica

Re: IETF, ICANN and Whois (Was Re: Last Call: (The Internet Numbers Registry System) to Informational RFC)

2013-06-21 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jun 18, 2013, at 11:25 PM, Patrik Fältström wrote: > I think this is the correct strategy, BUT, I see as a very active participant > in ICANN (chair of SSAC) that work in ICANN could be easier if some "more" > technical standards where developed in IETF, and moved forward along > standards

Re: RSOC Appointments

2013-06-24 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
Congratulations, gentlemen. On Jun 24, 2013, at 5:35 PM, IAB Chair wrote: > Nevil Brownlee, > Tony Hansen, > Joe Hildebrandt, > Bob Hinden, > Alexey Melnikov, > Bernard Aboba (an IAB member), and > Joel Halpern (an IAB member).

Re: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-20 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jul 20, 2012, at 9:36 AM, Joel jaeggli wrote: > On 7/20/12 09:06 , IETF Administrative Director wrote: >> The IAOC is seeking community feedback on a proposed date change for IETF 95 >> scheduled for March 2016. >> >> Currently IETF 95 is scheduled for 27 March to 1 April 2016. 27 March is

Re: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-20 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jul 20, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Behcet Sarikaya wrote: > I don't understand why this issue is coming up. > Maybe you don't know, IETF 84 falls in the month of Ramadan for > Muslims and nobody asked to change it? Two comments, a question, and a suggestion. One, the muslims in the crowd had the op

Re: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-20 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jul 20, 2012, at 6:08 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > As for the Ramadan issue: we've had IETF meetings during Jewish holidays a > few times, and folks dealt with it as best they can. If there are some > accommodations that can be made at any IETF meeting for different holidays of > major religio

Re: IETF 92 in Dallas!

2012-08-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Aug 15, 2012, at 8:37 PM, Arturo Servin wrote: > So "Americas" was actually "North America". > > Well, it went the possibility to have one in central or south america, > what at shame. At least until IETF 98 in March 2017 no IETF down the south of > Rio Grande. > > May I a

Re: I-D Action: draft-jaeggli-interim-observations-00.txt

2012-10-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Oct 17, 2012, at 4:19 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> o Co-location with RIPE appeared useful. I agree with you Joel that >> tighter packing would have made a difference. I met some people who >> noted they will not attend, but probably would have attended if it >> was during the week. Co-locating

Re: Recall petition for Mr. Marshall Eubanks

2012-11-01 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Nov 1, 2012, at 9:32 AM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: I also offer my signature under the recall procedure, in case pragmatism doesn't prevail (see my other note). My offer of signature should in no way be interpreted as reflecting an opinion about Marshall's character. Ditto, and Ditto.

Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-06 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
This note is rather lighter in weight and tone than its predecessor, and seems like a good direction. One suggestion: it would be good for the reference to BCP 79 be accompanied, at least in the web page in question, with a link to the BCP (http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3979.txt). I could imagine

Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-06 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:42 AM, Paul Wouters wrote: > On Tue, 6 Nov 2012, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > >> This note is rather lighter in weight and tone than its predecessor, and >> seems like a good direction. > > Can you explain your reasoning why this seems like "a

Re: Useful slide tex (was - Re: English spoken here)

2012-12-03 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Dec 2, 2012, at 10:46 AM, joel jaeggli wrote: > We have non-native english speakers and remote participants both working at a > disadvantage to follow the discussion in the room. We should make it harder > for them by removing the pretext that the discussion is structured around > material

Re: When to adopt a draft as a WG doc (was RE: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists")

2012-12-03 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Nov 29, 2012, at 12:03 PM, SM wrote: > According to some RFC: > > "All relevant documents to be discussed at a session should be published > and available as Internet-Drafts at least two weeks before > a session starts." > > If the above was followed there shouldn't be any draft submiss

Re: WCIT outcome?

2013-01-01 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Jan 1, 2013, at 10:36 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > Was D.1 to ease wire tapping? By example, I, as a mail server operator > who is not a telecom, am not required by my country's laws to provide an > instrumentation whereby authorized investigators can obtain a list of a > user's correspond

Re: Last Call: (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC

2013-10-08 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Oct 7, 2013, at 12:03 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > Lastly, I think Pete has failed to capture that one reason for using humming > or hands is that it is easy for very active participants to dominate a > conversation > but much less easy for them to pretend to be a large group. Particularly in

Re: Last Call: (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC

2013-10-08 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Oct 8, 2013, at 1:56 PM, S Moonesamy wrote: > I am not sure whether hums are for a starting point or not. It can be argued > in different ways, for example, see Section 4. Humming helps to get a sense > of the room without people making a decision under duress. Personally, I think focus

Re: Last Call: (On Consensus and Humming in the IETF) to Informational RFC

2013-10-08 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On Oct 8, 2013, at 8:23 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > I've done a lot of work on consensus over the years and I think > this is fundamentally correct, although I'd amend the last sentence > to something along the lines of "While we may not all agree, those > who disagree can live with it." That is