Re: spoofing email addresses

2004-06-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Bravo! At last. Spam is a clutter of our way to use TCP/IP and SMTP in which criminal and cyberwarfare actions develop. I was interested talking about vulnerability to internet with the Chair of a Banking Association Committee on Security to hear him calling spam "saturation bombing". Solution

Re: The IETF Mission

2004-06-10 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 16:52 06/02/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: To create open technical standards and identify best practices that are useful to and adopted by the world internet communtity and the public at large Along your lines, what about: "To propose open technical standard and identify best practices striving

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-14 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
John, Donald, might the common sense experience from a non-internut bring some external suggestion? I accept it is not welcome in special environements: IETF is a special environment, in particular with its proven records in consensus building - let not harm something which works. Anyway I will

Is the IANA a function performed by ICANN ?

2004-06-25 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
My understanding was that IANA is a neutral, independent, technical authority, everyone using the TCP/IP technology could trust, independently from any operational, political, national, commercial consideration which are the areas of ICANN, and of other bodies (such as GAC, MINC, ITU, ISOC, UN,

Re: Is the IANA a function performed by ICANN ?

2004-06-25 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 22:39 25/06/04, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: IANA and the ccNSO/ccTLD are two different beasts. hmmm. They seem now to be both ICANN stuff. This is the point. ccNSO and company keep track of what NS records are authoritative for what zones. Happily not (most of the ccTLD would not like it !!!). Thi

Re: Is the IANA a function performed by ICANN ?

2004-06-26 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 01:49 26/06/04, Scott Bradner wrote: see RFC 2860 Dear Scott and Karl, thank you for your comments. I explain. I consider the interest of a draft on the digital intergovernance I do not know yet if I want to undertake such a task, how, with who, and where. I established a site (http://intergo

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider? (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-03.txt)

2004-07-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:22 06/07/04, John C Klensin wrote: Vendors who are going to do these things will -- based on the fact that they are being done already -- do them, with or without this document. And that includes providers who are doing very little that we would recognize as "internet service" characterizing

Re: Chinese IPv9

2004-07-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 17:48 06/07/04, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Tony Hain" writes: >Sitting here in Seoul, Janet Sun (BII) said this is self-promotion of a >single researcher looking to improve his funding. There is technical >content, but no business content and the service providers

[IETF] Mailing list identification, e.g., [IETF], in subject lines (was: RE: Names of standards-track RFCs )

2004-07-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 17:24 15/07/04, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: This item has been discussed to death once every 3 months on this very list. We have never found a consensus to add these tags. It would be illusory to have everyone (consensus) accepting to be nice/polite to a few/many others and to conform to a

Re: Chinese IPv9

2004-07-19 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:52 16/07/04, Paul Vixie wrote: One way of reading these tea leaves is to say that ICANN hasn't been seen as truly open, truly inclusive, or truly independent. "Lapdog of the US-DoC" was one critic's description. Speaking as an early adopter of Vint's and Jon's philosophy of openness/inclusi

Re: Naming convention for a WG I-D that returns to

2004-07-31 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
What about an information draft reporting on the results of the work of an existing organization or project? Can it use the name of the organization and only quote as authors the actual writers? where/holw should the organization be introduced? Is there any difference if the draft is not for in

Re: Naming convention for a WG I-D that returns to

2004-07-31 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 13:03 31/07/2004, Sal Mangiapane wrote: PS. Can someone tell me which RFC says that a draft must include a security part?. thank you; RFC2223 section 9 Sal Thank you. I was also looking for an RFC - if any -which documents why. To know what would be the proper process to introduce a comparable

Re: Patents (Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!)

2004-10-11 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:50 11/10/2004, Dean Anderson wrote: Rather, its the truly novel patents that cause the most damage. They have the potential to cripple entire subject areas. Being truly novel, they won't be reversed, and will stand. And being novel, they may be hard or impossible to overlap and cross-lic

RE: isoc's skills

2004-10-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Margaret and Pete, I understand your position. It would be OK if status quo was the target. Who hires the contractors would then be neutral. But the situation calls for improvements. The first improvement is financial stability. This means to make the IETF deliverable pay better and to crea

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Please remember that IETF adheres to a consensus process, which is not a democratic process. There is no representation by delegation but representation by competence. Because at the end of the day one does not count votes but serious opponents. The target is to present a solution non one will

Re: Level of consultation (Re: a note about the scenarios)

2004-10-01 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 11:17 30/09/2004, Dave Crocker wrote: On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 18:42:18 +0300, John Loughney wrote: > I have heard that there have been some problems with the > Secretariat, I have not been privy to the fact that the IETF > is going to hell in a handbasket. Are things so dire? I have > been much

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear John, your last two mails do not point out all the problems (I am quite interested in Dave's remark on IANA), but they give a good account of a pure technical (management) problem. Internet is defined as the adherence of its users to the documents resulting from the Internet standard proces

Re: Documenting the problems (Re: Level of consultation (Re: a note about the scenarios))

2004-10-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 12:59 04/10/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand said: --On 1. oktober 2004 13:48 +0200 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I apologize for not having followed the debate over the IETF administrative structure as I should have probable done it . Dave's response se

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:59 06/10/2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: As Ted says, the IETF should stay out of passing judgment on the validity of claims and/or fighting patents. It's really way outside of our charter. I gather that the US patent office pretty much rubber stamps patent applications in the IETF's area

Re: Copying conditions

2004-10-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 13:59 07/10/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: a. "IETF": In the context of this document, the IETF includes all individuals who participate in meetings, working groups, mailing lists, functions and other activities which are organized or initiated by ISOC, the IESG or the IA

Re: Copy of Call for Consensus: IETF Administrative Restructuring (fwd)

2004-10-28 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:57 28/10/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Someone made the comment that there may be people who (like me) read the IETF list more often than they read the IETF-announce list - here's a copy of the call for consensus, just to make sure you've all seen it... Dear Harald, the work you have

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Harald, This the first time I agree with everything in an IETF mail. Thank you to be candid enough to have writen this. May I just suggest one tunning: "Investigate" rather than "Create the mobile Internet"? To preserve the possibility that there is not such a thing as a "mobile", or a "mu

Re: Stepping down as IETF chair in March - & - RE: A personal take on WG's priorities..

2004-11-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
The need you describe is the true need of the users. What they discuss is IPv6 as an IPv4 patch better than NATs. You discuss tier to tier exchanges. This is almost a different vision of the network. A vision IPv6 is properly design to support. The problem acknowledged by Michel Py and Steve Cr

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-09 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
at 17:17 08/11/2004, Aaron Falk wrote: I'd like to suggest that this thread move to the internet-history list. (For those unfamiliar with this list, information is available at http://www.postel.org/internet-history.htm) Dear Aaron, The work you do at www.postel.org is not only great to pay a tribu

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 18:17 16/11/2004, Noel Chiappa wrote: The IETF needs to seriously face the reality of the network that's really out there, not the network some of us wish were there. To put it another way (and mangle a well-known phrase in the process), if life gives you lemons, you can either sit around with a

Re: AdminRest: New version of IASA BCP document available

2004-11-17 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Harald, the first look of it seems to be comprehensive and balanced enough. But there is a problem you will have to address sooner or later which is the "usage" (whatever you name the technically competent users) representation. ISOC is supposed to include it. You can claim that them being invol

Re: AdminRest: New version of IASA BCP document available

2004-11-17 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 14:14 17/11/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand said: The IETF standards process is not supposed to be affected by this reorganization (except, hopefully, by having better support). I agree that the IETF standards process needs to have participation from users, but doing so through management of th

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Good analysis (however there are probably 9 possibilities if a "newbox" was to be proposed by some smart person). This scenario is technically logic. But OSI, ATM, ISDN, etc shown us the market is not always logic. At 03:02 18/11/2004, Paul Vixie wrote: > >> Let's assume ... that a large par

Re: Why the IPnG effort failed.

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 17:52 18/11/2004, Scott W Brim wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 04:38:37PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: > It didn't. For an effort always expected to take at least 15 years, > we are doing OK. > > It is always good to learn from history, of course. That's funny. I recall that when we st

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 19:08 18/11/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On torsdag, november 18, 2004 10:26:07 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The least they want to hear is "relative ease of acquiring v6 address space" even least than "relative ease to delpo

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Sorry. I made a mistake, it was 313 months ago that I started using names made of a root, customer and host part. Robert Tréhin would know better (he was the one with Joe Rinde to introduce root names - or TLDs). Again if that is what you refer to. So old. 249 months ago is roughly when I starte

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-19 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Robert, if only Cugnot's team had promoted cars As Harald put it wisely first, the organization and promotion is not upto IETF but to sales, Govs, operators, users, etc... IETF and ICANN are actually blocking IPv6 as it is widely perceived for what it still is: a non-operational (if y

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-19 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 19:10 19/11/2004, Kurt Erik Lindqvist said: I have long thought that the knowledge of having long (life-long) persistent, well-spread unique personal identifiers are bad was general knowledge. Then again, I guess the US biometric stuff has proven me wrong on that already. I am not sure I underst

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-20 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
--- Subject: Re: How the IPnG effort was started From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Time: 11/20/2004 5:13 am On 19:10 19/11/2004, Kurt Erik Lindqvist said: >I have long thought that the knowledge of having long (life-long) >persistent, well-spread unique personal i

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-20 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Stephen, there are two things necessary first to accept: - that what we name "names" and "addresses" are two of the three main ways to identify objects. The way linked to the object, the way attached to the system, the way related to the users. And because this analysis is not worded clearl

RE: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-20 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 23:19 20/11/2004, Michel Py said: What's ridiculous is you. Tell me, mister I-know-it-all-for-the-entire world, how does it cost to get 3mbit always-on service with a static IP over ISDN lines? Oh, I see. It's not available and you have to bond _two_ E1s to get this much bandwidth. Right on. You

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-21 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 21:31 21/11/2004, Eric A. Hall wrote: My feeling is that there has to be a group effort to change this, and it needs across-the-board cooperation. VCs need to be shown that bidirectional reachability is in their ultimate interest, in that it opens the door for new technologies and products. Smal

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Eric, this is a sine qua non requirement. With plug, play, testing and document of every appliance but also of every competing network connection I can grab (wi-fi, ISPs, cable, ISDN, satellite, etc. ). So when I a move around nothing is changed, and I know to use the my environment in hotels wi

alternative to the spam filtering of the IETF's users

2004-11-23 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 07:32 23/11/2004, some undisclosed @yahoo.com said: your last email kinda reminded me of a bunch ofpoliticians arguing. You managed to write hundreds of words and say nothing. You should have just wrote (what he said) and saved us all a bunch of time. ... I'm sure that there's a lot of other

Re: alternative to the spam filtering of the IETF's users

2004-11-23 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
buting than that you will get the IETF to change its ways by long-winded messages on the IETF list. Harald --On 23. november 2004 15:16 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: IPv6 is a good example: the IETF deliverable is OK (again Harald is right). B

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-26 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 00:47 27/11/2004, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 17:08 26/11/2004, Jeroen Massar wrote: On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 10:11 +0100, Leif Johansson wrote: > > For somebody administering a network of 100 machines, the hassle cost of > > IP renumbering would be twenty times larger. Given thi

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-27 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 03:53 27/11/2004, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 27 Nov 2004 02:33:54 +0100, "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" said: > But why to spend time and money and to take risks to change something which > is not broken. IPv6 has no problem in keeping the same host numbers if the > used add

As an ISP did you always get the IP chunk you wanted? (was Re: The gaps that NAT is filling)

2004-11-28 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
The IETF is supposed to gather everyone concerned and there is here a controversy on this real life and key/vital point. So the best is to ask in here. If no one says yes, it will mean either there is no felt shortage yes, or that those suffering from shortage do not share in the IETF (why woul

Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: do we need dedicated IASA (bank) accounts

2004-11-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Sorry, in this I must disagree. We are in an international situation and we want simple to read for everyone, crystal clear statements in due time by third party. The only certified situation reports we have in case of conflict is a neat banking monthly statement. Another complex issue where an

Re: Adminrest: IASA BCP: Separability

2004-12-02 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:11 02/12/2004, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Yes. I have a feeling that even with the BCP approved by the IESG and by an ISOC Board motion, we would still need a piece of paper with ink signatures - it might only say that the IETF and ISOC agree to the terms of the BCP - it might also contain term

Re: iasa-bcp-01 - Open Issues - Separate bank accounts

2004-12-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
I am afraid this is meaningless unless this is insurred and warranted by a third party and the money in escrow, what a Bank is for. I am even afraid this is illegal wording in the way you intend it. Whatever the irrevocability ISOC may sign, ISOC is bound by legal and tax priority obligations.

Re: Consensus? IPR rights and all that

2004-12-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 03:41 07/12/2004, Bob Kahn wrote: Harald, I am enroute back to Washington at the moment, but did want to comment on IP matters. I think it fair to state in the document what the IETF thinks appropriate for it to manage its own affairs going forward, but one of the matters we will have to work

Re: As an ISP did you always get the IP chunk you wanted? (was Re: The gaps that NAT is filling)

2004-12-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 13:38 07/12/2004, Francis Dupont wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: Has anyone present on this list ever experienced a problem in getting a new chunk of IP addresses from a RIR or from an ISP? => the administrative procedures used by RENATER, the French NREN, are so heavy than nobo

Re: As an ISP did you always get the IP chunk you wanted? (was Re: The gaps that NAT is filling)

2004-12-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 17:29 07/12/2004, Joe Abley wrote: On 7 Dec 2004, at 10:33, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: At 13:38 07/12/2004, Francis Dupont wrote: In your previous mail you wrote: Has anyone present on this list ever experienced a problem in getting a new chunk of IP addresses from a RIR or from an ISP

Re: As an ISP did you always get the IP chunk you wanted? (was Re: The gaps that NAT is filling)

2004-12-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 18:27 07/12/2004, Joe Abley wrote: On 7 Dec 2004, at 12:18, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: What is the particular thing that you find so useful, here? That some LIRs are not as easy to deal with as others? That the affirmation that no RIR has ever refused an IPv4 chunk is wrong, and that its

Re: As an ISP did you always get the IP chunk you wanted? (was Re: The gaps that NAT is filling)

2004-12-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 04:46 08/12/2004, shogunx wrote: both count. if they do not understand it to the level of acceptance at least, then how its built does not matter. if its not built correctly, large percentages of migrators will drop anchor and turn around to v4 NAT again. True. Obviously the techology is of th

Re: iasa-bcp-01 - Internet standard governance description

2004-12-08 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
If we want to get WSIS support and subsequent R&D public fundings as RFC 3869 calls for, we need a short and clear description, in the draft, of what is discussed today. A statement that everyone can understand, quote and consider as acceptable whatever the changes the Internet Governance may m

Re: iasa-bcp-01 - Internet standard governance description

2004-12-08 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:01 08/12/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On onsdag, desember 08, 2004 13:26:50 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: If we want to get WSIS support and subsequent R&D public fundings as RFC 3869 calls for... RFC 3869 does not talk about

Re: IASA BCP -02 Designated Donations - section 5.3

2004-12-13 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 16:38 13/12/2004, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>> "JFC" == JFC (Jefsey) Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JFC> Tax aspects on donations will, most probaly in many JFC> countries, call for donations to a legally incorporated JFC> entity. What is th

Re: Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-16 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Could this not be used for an enhancement? The IETF needs to globalize, to motivate and reward its members (see current analysis), to motivate (cf. RFC 3869) local Govs (meeting, debates, PR announces) and industries (PR on products) and to get "independent" and stable money for its budget. Why

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-17 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 13:16 17/12/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: HAVING THE IETF CONTINUE TO SAY ONE THING AND DO ANOTHER IS NOT A GOOD THING FOR THE INTERNET. OK, finished shouting. Eric and Bob: the NEWTRK list is waiting for your contribution on the principle involved, and your internet-draft suggesting

Re: Ietf-languages Digest, Vol 24, Issue 5

2004-12-11 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Gentlemen, I see several points discussed here which are/are not of the same order and seem confusing the issue. 1. the discussion creeps from Harald's RFC 3066 to Multilingual Internet. It seems strange to discuss byte oriented details without having first a Multilingual framework telling what

Re: IASA BCP -02 Designated Donations - section 5.3

2004-12-13 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Tax aspects on donations will, most probaly in many countries, call for donations to a legally incorporated entity. What is the IETF legal entity I am to write on the check and then claim for resulting tax benefits for supporting research. No tax controller will buy that ISOC is an R&D lab. jfc

mobi : a scheme or a TLD?

2004-12-22 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
I am confused by the announce of ICANN to consider ".mobi" as a TLD. Should not "mobi:" be declared as a scheme comparable to "tel:"; to make sure the registrants of this possible TLD do not mistakenly understand they should use ".mobi" for their mobile? jfcm ___

Re: Issue #727: Section 2.2, 4, & 7 - Miscellaneous & editorial [was : Last Call Comments on draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-02.txt]

2004-12-26 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At last ... This is why the ISOC scheme cannot work. One cannot serve two masters. This rises the question of who has the lead over the Internet R&D (a part from the users). 1. may be it is the time to remember the IRTF and its Chair: this would transform a praxis into a triumvirate. 2. rather t

Re: Issue #727: Section 2.2, 4, & 7 - Miscellaneous & editorial [was : Last Call Comments on draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-02.txt]

2004-12-26 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 05:36 27/12/2004, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, 27 December, 2004 03:00 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At last ... This is why the ISOC scheme cannot work. One > cannot serve two masters. This rises the question of who has > the lead over

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions (Was Language Identifier List Comments, updated)

2004-12-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
n Phillips [wM]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "John Cowan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > The draft isn't a process draft. Take your process problems to the IETF or IESG (or W3C or appropriate

ietf@ietf.org

2004-12-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Peter, please let focus on the discussion of draft to be approved by the IESG and on its role. This document intends to replace RFC 3066 but does not want to take into account RFC published since the RFC 3006, the current IANA procedures, the work chartered in some WG, the internet architec

Re: Language tags and IETF/W3C liaison

2004-12-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Chief Architecture Office Reuters -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JFC (Jefsey) Morfin Sent: 30 December 2004 15:46 To: Peter Constable; [EMAIL PROTECTED]; ietf@ietf.org Subject: RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "

RE: Language tags and IETF/W3C liaison

2004-12-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
e way in which language tags are used in HTTP, HTML and XML, before writing another word on this subject. Misha Wolf Standards Manager Chief Architecture Office Reuters -Original Message----- From: JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 30 December 2004 17:52 To: Misha Wolf Cc: [EMA

ietf@ietf.org

2004-12-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Full agreement. Thank you Tex. This discussion now lead to nowhere and may delay the draft. 1. I have documented the needs and listed the discrepancies (only one asked a question on that, all the rest is noise over my comments on others positions - what is normal since the target was to comment a

RE: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!

2005-01-01 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 03:20 02/01/2005, Glen Zorn \(gwz\) wrote: 2003 was, indeed, exceptional. OTOH, it is hardly exceptional that everyone who can leave the city in August, does. This is no doubt because it is just so damn pleasant they can't stand it, right? They now build a true beach on the Seine river - right

Re: Last Call on Language Tags (RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08)

2005-01-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 13:56 03/01/2005, John C Klensin wrote: I hope these are mutually exclusive. Yes, if this means that the three of them should be aggregated into the final strategy. (i) Since we have no "Next-Best Current Practices" category, publish this as an Informational Document, m

Re: Last Call on Language Tags (RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08)

2005-01-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 18:04 03/01/2005, John C Klensin said: No, I really meant "pick one", since doing any combination I of the three that I have been able to think about would just produce more confusion. John, please review your propositions. They are not fully satisfactory because each address (correctly) only o

RE: Last Call on Language Tags (RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08)

2005-01-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 20:37 03/01/2005, Peter Constable said: I note with interest that ccTLDs make use of ISO 3166 in spite of its potential for instability. In the case of ccTLDs, however, there is a considerable infrastructure for dealing with this: the DN system and strict procedures for deploying changes in ccTL

RE: Last Call on Language Tags (RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08)

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Peter, I am sorry to comment this again. But this is a Last Call over a private proposition. There is no other forum to comment this key document for the future of the Internet. There is also no other forum to correct what you say on me. I whish to recall that the main issues are the prete

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 18:06 04/01/2005, John C Klensin wrote: Returning to the DNS/IDN situation, ICANN has created a recommendation for all TLDs, and a requirement on at least some gTLDs, that languages not be mixed within a label and for registration and use of tables similar to those recommended by RFC 3743. Thos

Re: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 05:39 04/01/2005, Franck Martin wrote: Don't forget also: It is FULL of French! And very upset Frenchies if the IESG accepts the Draft-Phillips-language-08/9.txt as a standard to be. I suppose there could be a premiere: street riots opposing an IETF meetings :-) This would warm-up the atmosph

Re: IDN and language

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 23:37 04/01/2005, John Cowan wrote: John C Klensin scripsit: I know that -- I did read 3743 first. But in that case, whatever did you mean by "ICANN has created a recommendation [...] that languages not be mixed within a label"? The first question (see may yesterday mail) is to define what we

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 00:55 05/01/2005, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: The characterization of this draft as "controversial" because two or three people object to *any* change of RFC 3066, regardless of any evidence presented of evolving needs and careful consideration thereof, is incorrect. Dear Addison, your draft

Re: Language Tags: Response to a part of Jefsey's comments concerning the W3C

2005-01-04 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 03:11 04/01/2005, Addison Phillips [wM] wrote: I'm not going to respond to most of Jefsey's comments. However, wearing my W3C hat for a moment* Thank you for that. To the extent that W3C specifications are important consumers of language tags, there is interest at W3C and I'm sure the W3C'

Re: Language Tags: Response to a part of Jefsey's comments concerning the W3C

2005-01-05 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 16:29 05/01/2005, Peter Constable wrote: > From: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > why not to follow under IAB guidance (or to review) the charter I proposed > yesterday, in an IETF way everyone could participate, and to have all these > applications suppor

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

2005-01-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear John, thank you to acknowledge that the proposed draft "_impose_" something ! It therefore do not report on an existing practice. thank you to acknowledge that the proposed draft even "_limits_" the current practice ! thank you to explain that the decision of the user is replaced by an a-pr

Re: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Harald, This does not discuss the language tags comment. This case however provides some experience. The real problem I see is the increased need of Practice Documentation. RFC 3066 is a BCP yet it introduces issues (and the proposed RFC 3066bis does more) which are not established but proposed

Re: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-07 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Ted, the experience of this Last Call shown the problem comes from the diversity of the internet. You may feel that a proposed solution is minor in your area and not realize that it has a big impact in others areas. This is why WGs are important: their Charters are the only place for some k

Re: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-10 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 19:06 10/01/2005, Ted Hardie wrote: At 9:00 AM -0800 1/10/05, Dave Crocker wrote: The way to make it obvious that there is serious community support for adopting an individual submission is to require that the support be demonstrated ON THE RECORD. And the point I'm trying to make is that ther

addressing WG/BCP/tags issue [was: The process/WG/BCP/langtags mess...]

2005-01-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Bruce, I changed the subject as the referred case only shown different network architecture confusions. Positively addressing this confusions will help more the solution of the case at hand than anything else. On 01:42 12/01/2005, Bruce Lilly said: The language-tag reviewer has also recentl

Re: Definitions, names, and confusion

2005-01-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:10 12/01/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: actually the BCP label has multiple, largely disjunct areas of coverage. I once (many years back) suggested splitting the categories into Recommended Internet Practices and Directives for Oversight and Administration, but the acronyms didn't sur

RE: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-12 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 14:37 12/01/2005, Misha Wolf wrote: A first step could be to compare the two standards bodies' requirements for language tagging, to establish whether they are compatible.  Further steps could follow, depending on the outcome. Note that while HTTP, for example, is an IETF standard, the Web

Re: Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-13 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Fred and Brian, Your draft is about the way to warn people of a local danger (like the Tsunami). The AFRAC project may bring some elements in addition to the examples you quote in appendix. We will document them in a later Draft once we have morre practical experience. I copy Area Directors

Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5

2005-01-19 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 00:21 20/01/2005, Leslie Daigle wrote: Interesting... To the extent that the IAD and IAOC are dealing with decisions about implementing requirements, I agree. To the extent that the IAD and IAOC are applying judgement to interpret the "best needs of the IETF" (i.e., determining those requiremen

Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5

2005-01-23 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Michael, I see you come - in still a too detailed manner - the real life way I suggested. That IAOC and IAD are under the obligation to ask the IETF approval for their decisions. But that they may decide there is a consensus (there might be a formula coined to that end, they should use when sign

some pending IASA issues

2005-01-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
I would like to rise a few points IRT the IASA effort. Keeping in mind that Members will have to adopt it and the world to trust it. 1. Transparence is of the essence: I would advise the Transition Team http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/adminrest/transteam page to be linked on the http://ietf.org m

Re: some pending IASA issues

2005-01-31 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
than I thought. That said. --On 29. januar 2005 12:43 +0100 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I would like to rise a few points IRT the IASA effort. Keeping in mind that Members will have to adopt it and the world to trust it. 1. Transparence is of t

Re: some pending IASA issues

2005-01-31 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 21:40 30/01/2005, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>> "JFC" == JFC (Jefsey) Morfin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:     JFC> 2. ISOC is an international organization, yet there is no     JFC> indication about relations with ISOC local chapters. For     JFC> organizi

IASA and International issues

2005-02-01 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Sam, after reviewing it today on a mailing list, here is the part I propose to insert in Part 7, after the "Independence" part: International: ISOC shall work with its national Chapters, the IAD and IAOC to document how the IETF meetings and the Internet standard process could benefit from the

Re: some pending IASA issues

2005-02-02 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Harald, I have serious moral concerns accepting your response below. At 10:10 31/01/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: 3. Regional representation. Most of the Internet organizations make sure their BoD is regionally distributed. This is not appropriate for a technical entity, however IAOC is an a

Re: Version -06 of the IASA BCP - is this a workable version?

2005-02-02 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 09:57 02/02/2005, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Version -06 of draft-ietf-iasa-bcp is now available in the archives. At this time, I'd like to ask: Does this document, taken as a whole, and seen from the IETF community, represent an acceptable basis for starting the IASA? For those who want to

Re: some pending IASA issues

2005-02-02 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 02:38 03/02/2005, Eric Rescorla wrote: "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > The concern is that you do not want to use the ISOC capacity to better > legally and financially manage/advise the IASA, also that you favor > the possibility to influence

Re: IAOC Responsibilities

2005-02-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
This also calls for a serious review of the related liabilities. If these rights are challenged who is going to pay to sustain the action and the possible damages? Since IASA is not incorporated will the IAOC Members, the ISOC be liable? The ISOC internal relations with their national Chapters

WSIS working view on the Internet Technical standard

2005-02-03 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
http://wgig.org/docs/WP-techstand.pdf This document is interesting and documents well my positions. Except the need for the user of an organized comprehensive reference center. You will note the mention of possible national influences. This is what the IASA internationalization related few words

Re: some pending IASA issues

2005-02-06 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 20:25 06/02/2005, Sam Hartman said: Jefsey, you are proposing involving the regional and local chapters in the standards process. Dear Sam, thank you responding seriously on this point. I value very much this, because the reel problem is, IMHO, to discuss it. And you point out the very concern

IDN security violation? Please comment

2005-02-08 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
May be IDN specialists will want to comment this. http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Is this exact? This is urgent as the IRI is based upon IDN and support of multilingualism is a WSIS priority and comments for the WGIG are to close the day after tomorrow. Thank you. jfc ___

Re: IDN security violation? Please comment

2005-02-08 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear John, you are right the lack of the really requested IRI in the bar is a true problem. But this would we appealing for babel-names (the IDNs which transcode in xn--squatting names such as "http://xn--cocacola.com";). Could not a correct solution be to have an option warning the user/preven

Re: IDN security violation? Please comment

2005-02-08 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
? jfc At 16:21 08/02/2005, James Seng wrote: For the 5th time today, it is already documented in RFC 3490. http://james.seng.cc/archives/2005/02/08/idn_and_homographs_spoofing.html JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: May be IDN specialists will want to comment this. http://www.shmoo.com/idn/homograph.txt Is

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