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

2013-10-07 Thread John Leslie
case, we have an even deeper problem than misunderstandings >> of rough consensus. > > Right, I think what Ted is describing is a BCP, not an Informational RFC. Oh my! I just saw the IESG agenda, and this _is_ proposed for BCP. I retract anything I said which might criticize Ted and/or Dave Crocker for being too picky! -- John Leslie

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

2013-10-07 Thread John Leslie
Group output, it escapes me at the moment. :^( Thus perhaps Ted and Dave are right to hold this draft to a high "consensus of the IETF community" standard. I just wish that were not so... -- John Leslie

Re: Rude responses (sergeant-at-arms?)

2013-08-27 Thread John Leslie
I'm _very_ glad I don't have that obligation! -- John Leslie

Re: [spfbis] Last Call: (Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1) to Proposed Standard

2013-08-21 Thread John Leslie
Dave's opinion. (I happen to not share it.) Consensus process _also_ works better if we respect Dave's opinion here. I suggest we all remember that we don't have to change others' opinions here (were such a thing possible). We have only to bring them to the point where they agree they can live with the result. -- John Leslie

Re: Radical Solution for remote participants

2013-08-13 Thread John Leslie
to subsidize the tool for that session. Cisco seems to automatically approve using the fully-automated tool, while meetecho seems to need to allocate staff for setup. But of course these checkoffs happen long before the WGC knows of individuals desiring to participate remotely. :^( Conceivably what we need is an automated tool to receive offers to (partially) subsidize the cost of a tool for a particular session. -- John Leslie

Re: Data collection for remote participation

2013-08-12 Thread John Leslie
r. ... and Janet was merely the one who _did_ so. Others did their best to guess at the slide numbers. At least one-third of the sessions I listened to failed to provide all we are told to expect in the way of jabber support. :^( OTOH, we _do_ get what we pay for; so I don't mean to complain. -- John Leslie

Re: Language editing

2013-05-06 Thread John Leslie
laxed a previous "two or more" requirement, but there are folks who don't want to accept that relaxing. One can accept the idea that this relaxing has failed, yet still observe "liberal in what you accept" as trumping it. I truly wish the folks in the "two or more" camp would do so! -- John Leslie

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-03 Thread John Leslie
onfusing than helpful: you're never quite sure which issue number something belongs under. The lists I subscribe to have as work items drafts where nothing happens until IETF-week deadlines (and sometimes not even then!). It seems _very_ likely that some automated tools to point out the inactivity would help... -- John Leslie

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-02 Thread John Leslie
. The IESG will have to balance WG rough-consensus against architectural principles; and I see no resolution that won't invite appeals. :^( In a properly designed early-review situation, the issue would have surfaced early; and it's possible it could have been resolved before too many folks' positions had hardened... -- John Leslie

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread John Leslie
umor the IESG!" (Even so, I personally prefer to hear about such changes. ;^) -- John Leslie

Re: Purpose of IESG Review

2013-04-11 Thread John Leslie
have been scribing. I really don't know how to change the perception -- but I strongly recommend referring to the Narrative Minutes. Hopefully that history will be preserved "forever". -- John Leslie

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

2013-03-18 Thread John Leslie
Dave Crocker wrote: >... > On 3/13/2013 9:07 PM, John Leslie wrote: >> I see several problems with this text: >> >> 1) It wanders from the current clear distinction between "desired >> expertise", determined by the body where the nominee will serve, &

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

2013-03-13 Thread John Leslie
firming body should learn of any relaxing (least of all changes!) to the "desired expertise" early in the process, and IMHO, should comment on or accept these changes. >these requirements shall be made public after nominees are >confirmed. This seems too vague. I'd suggest we consider listing actual "requirements" in a formal report posted to . (YMMV...) -- John Leslie

Re: Last Call: (Byte and Packet Congestion Notification) to Best Current Practice

2013-03-06 Thread John Leslie
In no sense do I believe it worth holding up this document any longer to add "clear advice" -- I believe that would only add years to the delay. The document deserves to be published, but with Informational status so folks don't spend their time trying to interpret its "advice". -- John Leslie

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-04 Thread John Leslie
each other to put significant concerns in RFC Editor notes instead of continuing to block documents.) > If there is a controversy, the time for that involvement dwarfs the > time needed for the initial review. I don't believe that's entirely true. Perhaps some IESG members can offer more information here. > There is no easy fix. Well, maybe the WGs could stop wanting to > publish so many documents... ;^) -- John Leslie

Re: Appointment of a Transport Area Director

2013-03-03 Thread John Leslie
ETF week; and I do hope that will be helpful. But I suggest on-list discussion before then will be even more helpful -- especially if we can draw in some NomCom chairs to explain which parts of this have been hardest to satisfy. -- John Leslie

Re: Showing support during IETF LC...

2013-02-22 Thread John Leslie
raised by an individual responding to the LastCall. When this happens, it is a Good Thing (TM). (I think this covers your particular questions; but if you disagree, feel free to ask for clarification. Just please read the IESG statement I linked to first.) -- John Leslie

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-22 Thread John Leslie
l be true under this proposed experiment? ] A Proposed Standard should have no known technical omissions with ] respect to the requirements placed upon it. However, the IESG may ] waive this requirement in order to allow a specification to advance ] to the Proposed Standard state when it is cons

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread John Leslie
out some details). I remain unconvinced, however, that fast-tracking the cases that start from running code is a good use of WG efforts. Such cases seem better suited to Independent Submissions from a design team (which would _greatly_ speed the process). When a WG is formed, IMHO, they should be encouraged to look at the problem from some quite different angles, in search of a way to "Simplify!". -- John Leslie

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread John Leslie
e it would be desirable were it possible. Code needs to deal with complex cases that, for the most part, don't need to be standardized in the first place. But code which doesn't deal with these is useless in the marketplace. IMHO, we designed a separate "Proposed Standard" step to get a specification published quickly without delving into the many questions that arise when writing actual code. There are plenty of Standards-Development Organizations that start from "code". We don't need to become one of them. -- John Leslie

Re: "IETF work is done on the mailing lists"

2012-11-27 Thread John Leslie
s needed. Too often, the Document Editor is the author of the pre-adoption draft, and lacks any drive to make significant changes. (This is not an abuse if the WGC never calls consensus to change anything; but the Document Editors I consider good don't wait for a WGC declaration.) My point, essentially, is that some push-back is good, but it won't solve the problem: even WG LastCall is often too late to fix this. -- John Leslie

Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-07 Thread John Leslie
Stephan Wenger wrote: >... > > Clearer? Much clearer. Thank you! > On 11.7.2012 09:57 , "John Leslie" wrote: >>Stephan Wenger wrote: >>>... >>> It is, in most cases, not to the advantage of a rightholder to disclose >>> a patent unle

Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-07 Thread John Leslie
act to it). -- John Leslie

Re: Hasty procedural changes (was: Re: [RFC 3777 Update for Vacancies])

2012-10-25 Thread John Leslie
going forward, they can be incorporated before it's adopted. For myself, I'm willing to let this fester longer if it is indeed the consensus of the IETF to let it fester. But I find Barry's proposal entirely reasonable. (And I have to stop here, to be set up for scribing today's IESG telechat.) -- John Leslie

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-10-23 Thread John Leslie
ubject of recall to resign. In other organizations, I have lived through longish periods of uncertainty about the exact status of an individual, and I no longer find it scary. -- John Leslie

Re: In person vs remote participation to meetings

2012-09-28 Thread John Leslie
participating" remotely from my office. Jabber can be an effective interaction tool; I can keep multiple screens active; I'm not limited to cookies to keep my energy level up; et cetera. I suggest active participation in VMEET: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/vmeet for all the experienced folks who find themselves unable to attend IETF weeks in person. -- John Leslie

Re: Last Call: (BGP Support for Four-octet AS Number Space) to Proposed Standard

2012-06-13 Thread John Leslie
ced in AS4_PATH.) > Hi, Claudio: > > Not sure if you are aware of the large scale outage that occurred a few > years ago from the leak of the confed related segments by one > implementation. At the time quite a few implementations were resetting > the sessions when receiving such updates. > > While discarding the whole AS4_PATH would be simpler and less disruptive > (than session resetting), it would still lose the vital as-path info > contained in the AS4_PATH which can otherwise be recovered by > "repairing" the attribute. That is why the approach specified in the > rfc4893bis is adopted, and it has been implemented widely. > > -- Enke -- John Leslie

Re: Proposed IESG Statement on the Conclusion of Experiments

2012-04-20 Thread John Leslie
rification remedies that omission. I don't really have an opinion on how the IESG should manage IETF-stream experiments. Suggestions on how to manage IESG-stream experiments would be helpful here. I would hope that opinions on how IRTF-stream experiments should be managed will find a different thread, ideally in a different list. -- John Leslie

Re: Last Call: (Simple Mail Transfer Protocol extension for Message Transfer Priorities) to Proposed Standard

2012-03-01 Thread John Leslie
t, but IMHO should stop at the first weak link. (Sorry, Alexey...) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: DNS RRTYPEs, the difficulty with

2012-02-28 Thread John Leslie
bind and perl-script registrar interfaces. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: (The RPKI/Router Protocol) to Proposed Standard

2011-12-22 Thread John Leslie
g (55 pages). Brief skimming shows it to be much what I would expect from CFR (not worth my time to read carefully), and not attempting to change actual IETF process, though perhaps I missed something... -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list I

Re: Consensus Call (Update): draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-12-08 Thread John Leslie
#x27;t receive traffic to these IPs, but at least the outgoing ICMP errors wouldn't be blocked. > especially considering people are (re-)using 1918 space for that now. > Anyway, if that did work, it should kill a bunch of these problems. It certainl

Re: Consensus Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-11-30 Thread John Leslie
would strongly favor allocation of a /10 from 240/4. It's not obvious to me from reading draft-weil why this wouldn't work; and I believe that allocations from 240/4 are quite appropriate, given the imminent exaustion of ordinary IPv4 space. -- John Leslie

Re: The US Federal Communications Commission just sent the IETF RAI/SIPcommunity an early Christmas present...

2011-11-03 Thread John Leslie
" succeed. Speaking only for myself, I don't read it to impose anything except on regulated "carriers", and they're opening up themselves to forcing a particular mechanism and point of connection when negotiation fails. This, of course, creates an opportunity to educate FCC fol

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-26 Thread John Leslie
t.petch wrote: > From: "John Leslie" >> t.petch wrote: >>> From: "John Leslie" >>> >>>> But _why_ is that something "holding up a working group"? >>> >>> Because they are the one holding the token, usually

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-25 Thread John Leslie
t.petch wrote: > From: "John Leslie" >>> --On Sunday, October 23, 2011 07:05 -0700 "Murray S. Kucherawy" >>> wrote: >>> >>>> ... I also am very familiar with the fact that getting work done >>>> on lists can be a rea

Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input

2011-10-24 Thread John Leslie
Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Mon, 24 Oct 2011, John Leslie wrote: > >> 150 milliseconds is a real challenge to accomplish worldwide, though >> it's quite achievable within one continent. I expect IETF folks could >> learn to work with 250 milliseconds. > &g

Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input

2011-10-24 Thread John Leslie
a timely fashion. 150 milliseconds is a real challenge to accomplish worldwide, though it's quite achievable within one continent. I expect IETF folks could learn to work with 250 milliseconds. But terms like "real-time" and "perfect" don't help. Can we avoi

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-24 Thread John Leslie
Interims. There is a definite learning-curve working with conferencing software, but once you've climbed this it works well enough. And the additional cutoffs, IMHO, accomplish almost as much as the meetings themselves! ;^) My advice is to put more effort into formal scheduling of Int

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-06 Thread John Leslie
to update 2026; others want to do it and let the IESG decide whether to use it as input to deciding about advancing levels. Many distinctions; no real difference... -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Discuss criteria for documents that advance on the standards track

2011-08-31 Thread John Leslie
ed and we should see whether "rough consensus" emerges later. (All of which brings us to the actual question: when advancing a maturity-level, what constitutes sufficient "consensus"? Arguably, folks will expect a higher maturity level to indicate that the "standard" is ready to be handed to an implementor, and merely by following it, sufficient interoperability is ensured. Alas, we really don't have a process to address that expectation...) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-08-13 Thread John Leslie
confusing it is for IESG members to figure out what's expected of them when the question is advancement of maturity level.) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule

2011-08-01 Thread John Leslie
Keith Moore wrote: > On Aug 1, 2011, at 9:39 AM, John Leslie wrote: > > > For one, I suggest we take remote-participation _seriously_ for the > > Friday meetings. Many of us are waiting-for-Godot at airports on Friday, > > and could certainly wear a headphone/mike and

Re: A modest proposal for Friday meeting schedule

2011-08-01 Thread John Leslie
t we take remote-participation _seriously_ for the Friday meetings. Many of us are waiting-for-Godot at airports on Friday, and could certainly wear a headphone/mike and watch our laptop screens. Meetecho seemed ready to manage that sort of thing. :^) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread John Leslie
this list. BTW, while I do intend to be silent if the IESG adopts this I-D for publication, that does _not_ mean I will be silent when the next "adjust to current practice" I-D comes up. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Why the IESG needs to review everything...

2011-07-29 Thread John Leslie
t believe they should require extensive IESG scrutiny). (BTW, I wonder to what extent our current repetition of the argument about the IESG filing too many DISCUSSes is in reaction to their scrutiny of Informational track documents.) I don't have time today to research to what extent Informational track RFCs have actually received "an IETF consensus call per IETF process". Perhaps somebody else would like to respond on that... -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-ietf-v6ops-6to4-to-historic (yet again)

2011-07-25 Thread John Leslie
pier if re-classification were an IAB decision. Barring that, perhaps the RFC calling for re-classification could follow some path which doesn't require boilerplate which claims to represent "IETF Consensus" Or, the IESG could just let this document die. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: SORBS blacklist

2011-07-01 Thread John Leslie
David Morris wrote: >> On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:48 AM, John Leslie wrote: >> >>> mail.ietf.org[64.170.98.30] got listed on SORBS for spamming. >>> >>> It's not that hard to get off... Fix it! >>... > > And from my own experience, I know it

Re: SORBS blacklist

2011-07-01 Thread John Leslie
Paul Hoffman wrote: > On Jul 1, 2011, at 4:48 AM, John Leslie wrote: > >> mail.ietf.org[64.170.98.30] got listed on SORBS for spamming. >> >> It's not that hard to get off... Fix it! > > > It's also not that hard not to use poorly-managed blacklist

SORBS blacklist

2011-07-01 Thread John Leslie
Hey, folks! mail.ietf.org[64.170.98.30] got listed on SORBS for spamming. It's not that hard to get off... Fix it! -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-25 Thread John Leslie
consensus of the V6OPS WG... (Disclaimer: I date from when RFCs didn't claim any sort of consensus; and I'd be happier if we simply avoided such claims on Informational track RFCs.) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-24 Thread John Leslie
Paul Hoffman wrote: > On Jun 24, 2011, at 5:55 AM, John Leslie wrote: > >> First, note the Subject line: an IETF Last-Call on a Working Group >> document _isn't_ asking for IETF Consensus: it's simply a last-call for >> comments on an action proposed by a Work

Re: Why ask for IETF Consensus on a WG document?

2011-06-24 Thread John Leslie
sense. It is arguable that such an action _should_ require IETF-wide consensus; but at the moment there is no procedure requiring it. So, Keith, you must first convince us that an action like this _does_ require IETF-wide consensus. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread John Leslie
Dave Cridland wrote: > On Fri May 6 11:44:48 2011, John Leslie wrote: > >> If we want to change this, we need to start putting >> warning-labels in the _individual_ RFCs that don't meet >> a "ready for widespread deployment" criterion. > > I do no

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-06 Thread John Leslie
ity-levels here: warning-labels need to happen if we expect to change implementors' expectations of PS RFCs.) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread John Leslie
ould suggest a serious effort to list mission-creep that has found its way into "requirements" for Proposed Standard; and to work out what sort of warning labels we could use instead. Otherwise, I see escalating mission-creep, regardless of the number of "maturity levels".

Re: Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-02 Thread John Leslie
Livingood, Jason wrote: > To: John Leslie ... > > As I read it, this says that certain DNS servers will be configured > to _not_ return records to queries by default. > > This strikes me as a really-strange transition mechanism. > > Depends on a number

Re: Review of: draft-ietf-v6ops-v6-aaaa-whitelisting-implications-03

2011-05-02 Thread John Leslie
figured to _not_ return records to queries by default. This strikes me as a really-strange transition mechanism. Color me thoroghly confused. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IAOC: delegating ex-officio responsibility

2011-04-20 Thread John Leslie
their duties would be more appropriate. So I see the relevant > question as how to make a change, not whether. I agree. Hopefully most of us can agree. Charging them to find someone to do the work feels wrong to me. Moving them to non-voting status feels right. Enabling them to participate

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-28 Thread John Leslie
AD would volunteer to endure this _again_?) and we have the wrangling which should be contained in a WG arising during IETF LastCall: few document authors will persist long enough. I refuse to argue how many levels there should be -- though I'd be happy to work withi

Re: New Year's Exploration: Changing the Internet's Infrastructure

2010-12-31 Thread John Leslie
tion. I wonder to what extent this results from: - cycles being expended on cross-area reviews; - recommending IPsec whether or not it could be deployed for the use; - the inherent complexity of key infrastructure? -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: No single problem... (was Re: what is the problem bis)

2010-11-01 Thread John Leslie
; And, IMHO, the RFC 2026 specifications for Proposed Standard are pretty good. I'd ask for pretty strong justification for changing either the name or the RFC 2026 definition. As to what follows Ted's Step Two, I think that needs work; but the idea of formalizing something which doesn&#x

Re: No single problem...

2010-10-29 Thread John Leslie
But I _do_ commend Ted's outline of the base issue; and I sincerely hope that whatever becomes of Russ's proposal, we save some attention for the things Ted has outlined -- because those things are the ones we need to actually fix. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: two independent implementations

2010-10-27 Thread John Leslie
t Standard status. May I suggest that our problem may be the RFC2026 "time-in-grade" requirements? Perhaps the IESG should be trusted to publish an RFC as Draft Standard _without_ going through the whole process twice? -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread John Leslie
d start voluntarily following it in cases where the actual policy wouldn't apply. That is IMHO a measurable part of why the path to PS takes so long. :^( -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread John Leslie
s, where we'll "vote for anything so we can adjourn". If so, we could do worse than Russ's proposal. But "vote for anything" _very_ often leads to bad law. I fully agree with Scott Bradner that changing the number of levels isn't something we should do lightly. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Discussion of draft-hardie-advance-mechanics-00.txt

2010-09-20 Thread John Leslie
han Ted Hardie: Ted spends too much effort aiming for consensus in things which shouldn't matter, while John sets out to document things about which there's not a whole lot of room for disagreement. So, to recap, I give Ted Hardie high marks for identifying the problem, but John

Re: Fisking vs Top-Posting

2010-09-20 Thread John Leslie
minimum to set context, whether you top-post, bottom-post, or respond inline. (Myself, I find it much easier to follow in-line comments, so I take the effort to post that way. I'll be happy to pay attention to private emails cricicizing me for this, but I _

Re: Nomcom Enhancements: Improving the IETF leadership selection process

2010-07-24 Thread John Leslie
we impose additional experience requirements on some NomCom members without implying that we want their opinions to be considered "better"? -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-00

2010-06-21 Thread John Leslie
r "better consensus". I wish we could instead discuss how to improve the _process_ of advancing through the levels. It may be that some prior IESG was unwilling to let go of a death-grip on blocking advancement for any perceived imperfection. (I simply don't know...) I do NOT believe, however, that the current IESG has any such interest in keeping tight control of advancement. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-housley-iesg-rfc3932bis-10.txt

2009-10-16 Thread John Leslie
ESG and the RFC Editor -- there has been no "problem" there for several years at least. Problem Statements are something we ask of Working Groups when there is ambiguity in their charter. They take a long time to write, and they almost always turn up parts of "the problem" which the WG will end up unable to solve. I urge you to do as Jari asks: talk not just about why your proposal is good, but about how it addresses the diverging opinions expressed so far. If you're not willing to do that, please either file an appeal, or stop beating this "pining for the fjords" horse. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: draft-harkins-emu-eap-pwd (EAP Authentication UsingOnly A Password) to Informational RFC

2009-07-22 Thread John Leslie
fference may not be as great as you seem to think. Appeal if you must, but it's really not unusual to change "proposed status" as a result of LastCall comments. It might be more helpful to simply post (polite) LastCall comments of your own about why "Proposed Standard" wo

Re: [Trustees] Objection to reworked para 6.d (Re: Rationale for Proposed TLP Revisions)

2009-07-22 Thread John Leslie
ing to bed here so that RFC publication can stop stumbling over "license" questions. > That's why I yell so much on this matter. Your opinion is noted. You have our permission to say, "I told you so!" when/if we're proven wrong. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: RFC archival format, was: Re: More liberal draft formatting standards required

2009-07-03 Thread John Leslie
ic versions. For one simple example, I know of nothing preventing citations of self-published "guides" as Informative References in RFCs. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Second Last Call: rfc3852 (Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)) to Draft Standard

2009-04-27 Thread John Leslie
>> This abbreviated Last Call is focused solely on whether downrefs to >> these Proposed Standards are appropriate in the context of RFC 3852. So, I will comment on that: IMHO, any such downrefs are appropriate. The issue in advancing to Draft Standard is multiple implementations.

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread John Leslie
s this quick fix can be applied in 30 days. I strongly urge all of us to let the quick fix go through without holding it hostage to overturning the consensus of 5378. -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: meeting attendance & nomcom

2009-01-09 Thread John Leslie
May I recommend the Narrative Minutes at http://www.ietf.org/IESG/iesg-narrative.shtml (What an IETFnn attendee sees is much less than 10% of the job.) -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: The internet architecture

2009-01-01 Thread John Leslie
nd a working address. (This need not imply a delay, as I read it.) > In practice multihomed services (services with multiple redundant > links to the public Internet) do not use any of the techniques > described in RFCs as host multihoming, and often use techniques > that are contrary to the architecture or outright protocol > violations (e.g. Akamai's use of CNAME chains). Does Tony have an alternative to suggest? -- John Leslie ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-29 Thread John Leslie
John Day wrote: > At 11:34 -0500 2008/12/29, John Leslie wrote: >> >> I accept "reliability and flow control" as the transport layer's >> primary function, but denying it access to multiple interfaces cripples >> its ability to perform those functions

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-29 Thread John Leslie
;links". These "nodes" _are_ points of attachment, not computers (whatever those may be). Routing _must_ deal in topology, not physical proximity. > Portraying it as anything else is just deluding yourself. Again, hardly! We have been puntin

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-05 Thread John Leslie
t ssl and the PRKI ] is considered in such a way that it minimises the fact there is no ] such thing as trusted computing. How much of this is it reasonable to ask the DNS to do? -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing

Re: IP-based reputation services vs. DNSBL (long)

2008-11-10 Thread John Leslie
th developing a protocol > for communicating email sender reputation. The group can consider > DNSBL as a possible solution but should not be bound by a requirement to > be compatible with it, or to use DNS at all. Lisa and Chris have stated that they're open to consider char

draft-irtf-asrg-bcp-blacklists

2008-11-08 Thread John Leslie
its publication. But it seems to me to be a poor fit to the IRTF, and I'd be much happier to see this sort of work in an IETF WG. Writing such a document to avoid becoming quickly outdated strikes me as an impossible task; and the "right" approach would be to design services that could

Re: Call for review of proposed IESG Statement on Examples

2008-09-23 Thread John Leslie
; to read? Should the email Subject indicate this is an explanation, or is it sufficient to bury a sentence or two in what looks like a rant? (Again, I certainly don't volunteer to write it.) > This makes it worth considering how things could be changed to make > concerns, such as you had, easier and less painful to resolve. I totally agree! -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Proposals to improve the scribe situation

2008-08-04 Thread John Leslie
uating from WGC, you'll have a leg up on judging what deserves to be recorded in minutes, and you'll have a better chance of gleaning a name from the mumbled sylables before speakers actually get close enough to the mike.) -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Progressing I-Ds Immediately Before Meetings

2008-07-19 Thread John Leslie
r concerns to an IESG member. For myself, I won't devote a lot of mental effort to this issue until I see exceptions to the cutoff happening a lot more frequently. (Fine-tuning the length of the blackout period, OTOH, is probably appropriate without re-opening the question of whether the

Re: SHOULD vs MUST case sensitivity

2008-07-01 Thread John Leslie
hope nobody expects editors to end-run that! Likewise the boilerplate "may"s... We certainly shouldn't be asking the RFC Editor to "fix" over 100 lower-case "may"s. Should the Area Director send this back to the Working Group? Speak now (well, before Th

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-24 Thread John Leslie
utility of implicit MX records, even those > built on A RRs, to be at an end. I quite agree. (But I don't think 2821-bis can go there.) > ... I'd recommend the BCP path I comments on in an earlier note. To tell truth, I dislike writing I-Ds. But I'd be willing to help in the writing of such a document. Any other volunteers? -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-01-30 Thread John Leslie
IONs we already have.) I'd like to suggest that many of the RFC2026 diffs that Brian put in his Internet Draft might be put in IONs, to the extent they merely document current practice which already reflects IESG consensus. (Running those through a WG proce

Re: Call for Comment: RFC 4693 experiment

2008-01-21 Thread John Leslie
OK > with letting the IESG to choose the tools they use for maintaining > things on the web, and don't really mind whether they get called > "IONs", "wikis", or just "web pages". Sounds like we agree a lot more than we disagree... -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

ietf@ietf.org

2007-10-15 Thread John Leslie
ot provided the firewall has pinhole router configuration. These are all "security" issues, for which we could find end-runs. The problem I see is that we just don't care. :^( -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Use of LWSP in ABNF -- consensus call

2007-05-15 Thread John Leslie
Tags for Identifying Languages The use under RFC2530 is a bit vague ("with LWSP wrapping"); likewise under RFC3501 ("otherwise treat SP as being equivalent to LWSP"). The use under RFC4646 has caused known problems. This would seem to justify deprecation, IMHO. YMMV,

Re: identifying yourself at the mic

2007-03-26 Thread John Leslie
o _do_ state their name mumble it so thoroughly that I'm not sure even repeated passes at the audio record could decipher it. My prejudice is that I don't want to spend a lot of time listening to folks I can't figure out how to contact by email. YMMV. I don't know

Re: Tracking resolution of DISCUSSes

2007-01-17 Thread John Leslie
t an automated notification that a DISCUSS remains outstanding some number of days after the telechat could help bring immediacy to the process... -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Design Summaries (Re: Intermediate wg summaries)

2007-01-09 Thread John Leslie
ecisions, to date, but not as a list of individual decisions (or open > issues.) This sounds as if it would be extremely helpful to folks sitting in on WG meetings during IETF Weeks... Can Dave point out any examples? -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2007-01-04 Thread John Leslie
: ] ] The IETF as a whole does not have consensus on the technical approach ] or document. Keith Moore wrote: > [John Leslie wrote] >> It's high time we gave up any pretense that the "IETF-as-a-whole" >> should come to "consensus" about the technical details

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2007-01-02 Thread John Leslie
actually reading every document is downright silly. We are _decades_ past the time when everybody _could_ read all the documents proposed for publication -- and even when we could, we declined to try. It's high time we gave up any pretense that the "IETF-as-a-whole" should come to

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2006-12-30 Thread John Leslie
erate folk in the WG to simply disengage. It's hard to imaagine _any_ case where it will lead to a better document. Granted, it may lead to dropping a document which would actually have caused problems. But wouldn't it have been better for all involved to actually _state_ what those problems look to be? -- John Leslie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Differences between WG and non-WG mailing lists

2006-10-23 Thread John Leslie
David Kessens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 07:14:41PM -0400, John Leslie wrote: >> Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> [David's DICUSS stated:] >>> >>>> It is haphazardous at best to rescind one control mechanism

Re: [David Kessens] DISCUSS: draft-carpenter-rescind-3683

2006-10-22 Thread John Leslie
David Kessens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 07:14:41PM -0400, John Leslie wrote: >> >> If we ever do have ADs interested in restoring the rights, I quite >> specifically do _not_ want to repeat the denial-of-service attack on >> this list. &

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