Re: Last Call: Adding a fragment identifier to the text/csv media type (see draft-hausenblas-csv-fragment-06.txt)

2013-10-11 Thread Simon Perreault
This draft's premise is interesting, but the implementation leaves to be desired. That is, I like the idea of fragment identifiers for CSV, but row/column/cell-based selection doesn't address my need. My need is based on the CSV files generated from IANA registries. Here's one:

Re: Last Call: Adding a fragment identifier to the text/csv media type (see draft-hausenblas-csv-fragment-06.txt)

2013-10-11 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-10-11 17:52, Barry Leiba a écrit : This is an Independent stream document, and the IETF doesn't have change control of the document. The authors can certainly accept your comments at their discretion. But this last call isn't for comments on the *document*. It's only to assess

Re: Gen-ART LC/Telechat Review of draft-ietf-jcardcal-jcard-04

2013-07-22 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-07-22 13:55, Philipp Kewisch a écrit : -- 3.2.1.1: What happens for future versions of vCard? Do you simply use the new version number, or would we need a new version of this spec? I suspect the latter. If true, it might be worth mentioning that, or somewhere early in the draft

Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-11 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-07-11 02:04, Hui Deng a écrit : We submitted two drafts to help people here to correctly call chinese people names: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-deng-call-chinese-names-00 http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-zcao-chinese-pronounce-00 Very cool! Thanks for writing this! I have

Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-11 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-07-11 16:22, Cyrus Daboo a écrit : So, from a technical standpoint, it seems better to always represent user names using components (last, first, middle)? vCard does have an N property where individual components of a name can be broken out. I'm nowhere near an expert on this topic,

Re: Regarding call Chinese names

2013-07-11 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2013-07-11 17:44, John C KLENSIN a écrit : Hence the common practise in some academic circles of giving the family name in all capitals, to show which it is. So whether you see Junichiro KOIZUMI or KOIZUMI Junichiro, you know what you're seeing. Not just in academic circles but in some

Re: Is there ongoing work on SNMP IPv6 mibs ?

2012-11-05 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-11-05 19:10, Carlos M. martinez a écrit : Other than the CGN-mib we discussed today in sunset4, I wondered whether is there ongoing work on this topic. What do you mean exactly? Because there is nothing IPv6-specific in the CGN MIB (or NAT MIB), it's all address-family agnostic...

Re: Failing to convince an IETF WG

2012-09-26 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-26 05:31, Stephen Farrell a écrit : stuff that's utterly incompressible Oops - let's see if the phone spell checker gets incomprehensible right this time:-) I understood incompressible as equivalent to pure random noise, and it made sense! :) Simon -- DTN made easy, lean, and

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

2012-09-10 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-10 06:46, Dearlove, Christopher (UK) a écrit : If someone wants to provide guidance on how to do a least bad job with Outlook, that will be gratefully received. Found this using the Google: http://home.in.tum.de/~jain/software/outlook-quotefix/ No idea if it's any good as I don't

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-05 09:12, Michael Richardson {quigon} a écrit : Let me suggest that at the IETF, where the mailing list is king, you can't join the Elite if you can't quote email properly. Maybe we should *state* this. Maybe I'm also concerned because many in the former elite have moved to Apple

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-07 14:36, Scott Brim a écrit : Maybe I'm also concerned because many in the former elite have moved to Apple Mail, and it seems that it is bug compatible with Outlook in it's assumption that format=flowed is the default, an act which destroys email quoting, and therefore discussion.

Re: IETF...the unconference of SDOs

2012-09-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-09-07 15:15, Melinda Shore a écrit : On 9/7/12 10:53 AM, Simon Perreault wrote: Thunderbird is correct by default AFAIK. Unfortunately not on Mac OS. It's become automatic for me to hit command-R when replying, but that doesn't solve the basic problem. That's what we've been saying

Re: So, where to repeat?

2012-08-08 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-08-08 12:34, Geoff Mulligan a écrit : I also would vote to return to Minneapolis again and again even permanently. Does nobody care about going to new places so that new people are exposed to the IETF and may start getting involved? We've seen this positive effect many times when we

Re: IAB IPv6 privacy survey posted, response requested

2012-07-24 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-07-24 03:06, Stephane Bortzmeyer a écrit : And since when Microsoft software is required for IETF work? Even though I replied to the survey, this also irritated me. And I sense a trend here. It seems that the number of non-plain-text files coming from IAB has been increasing.

Re: [BEHAVE] [pcp] Fwd: Re: Martin Stiemerling's Discuss on draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-08: (with DISCUSS and COMMENT)

2012-07-19 Thread Simon Perreault
Le 2012-07-19 14:20, David Harrington a écrit : The IETF could mandate a specific protocol to try to ensure interoperability, but doing this takes the decision out of the responsibility of the deployer to choose the best solution for the deployment environment, and out of the responsibility of

Re: [sunset4] Last Call: draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-07.txt (Common requirements for Carrier Grade NATs (CGNs)) to Best Current Practice

2012-07-11 Thread Simon Perreault
On 07/10/2012 10:43 PM, Tina TSOU wrote: First, the port numbers to be allocated to CPE. Excluding Well known port numbers should be mentioned. As draft editor, I would ask for a justification. I can't add a requirement without a justification. Moreover if port numbers are allocated to

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-07

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Perreault
On 07/03/2012 08:24 AM, Alexey Melnikov wrote: I found the justification for REQ-6 hard to read/understand. Why does access to servers being on the internal network need to go through CGN at all? Here's the thing: the server is not on the internal network. It's on the external network, but it

Re: secdir review of draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Perreault
(adding p...@ietf.org to the recipients list...) Sam, Thanks for the review, comments inline... On 07/10/2012 02:16 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Requirement 9 requires a Port Control Protocol (PCP) server. I think we need to say somewhat more about that in order for PCP to be secure on a CGN. In

Re: [pcp] secdir review of draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements

2012-07-10 Thread Simon Perreault
On 07/10/2012 04:03 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: and MUST NOT support the third-party option. Simon I think pcp-base-26 added restrictions to THIRD_PARTY so that it could Simon be used in CGN scenarios. If that is right, wouldn't it then make Simon sense to allow THIRD_PARTY on

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-07.txt (Common requirements for Carrier Grade NATs (CGNs)) to Best Current Practice

2012-07-09 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-07-09 11:03, George, Wes wrote: While the NAT specified by this document itself may only act on IPv4 traffic, as you note above it's not limited to just NAT444 or even an IPv4-only *network*. The recommendations in this doc will work for an IPv4 NAT associated with DSLite just as easily

Re: Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-07

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Perreault
On 07/03/12 05:51, Eggert, Lars wrote: On Jul 3, 2012, at 14:24, Alexey Melnikov wrote: I found it is to be odd to have a requirements document as a BCP, but I am sure you can sort the right status out with IESG. +1 I fail to see why Informational wouldn't be the better status. I don't

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-behave-lsn-requirements-07.txt (Common requirements for Carrier Grade NATs (CGNs)) to Best Current Practice

2012-07-07 Thread Simon Perreault
Wes, Here's my take on this... CGN as defined in this document does not only include NAT444. It is more generic than that: it really means multi-user NAT. Dave Thaler came up with the example use case of the NAT in a wifi hotspot. It's just NAT44, but it still fits with the draft's

Re: Colloquial language [Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-tao4677bis-15.txt (The Tao of IETF: A Novice's Guide to the Internet Engineering Task Force) to Informational RFC]

2012-05-31 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-05-31 04:58, Stephen Farrell wrote: I'm with Brian and Yoav on this. I don't see a need to change here. And I do think we might lose something if we become too PC. If a bunch of non-native speakers did say yes, I found that made the document less useful then I'd be more convinced that

Re: [BEHAVE] WG Review: Recharter of Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance (behave)

2012-05-28 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-05-25 18:30, Cullen Jennings wrote: WIll the IPFIX and MIB work also be usable by v4 to v4 NATs? Speaking as an author of draft-ietf-behave-nat-mib, our intent is to support all kinds of NAT, but it isn't clear yet whether it will be done in multiple drafts or a single one. There is

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-16 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-05-16 10:56, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Because, after all, technical specification language is already such elegant prose, maintaining that elegance is more important than robustly encoding the semantic of being normative in a way that avoids ambiguity? One dreams of a period in which

Re: Add a link to the HTML version in i-d-announce mails ?

2012-03-06 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2012-03-06 08:51, Julian Reschke wrote: On 2012-03-06 14:41, Xavier Marjou wrote: As a subscriber of the i-d-annou...@ietf.org list, I generally prefer reading the HTML version of the draft rather than the TXT version. I thus often need to manually rewrite the TXT link to fetch the HTML

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

2011-12-07 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-12-06 22:06, Benson Schliesser wrote: ISPs need to use addressing within this scope that does not cause (additional) problems for their existing customers (and their customers' equipment). And in the event of an addressing conflict, operators (on both sides) need a common reference to

Re: Anotherj RFP without IETF community input

2011-10-20 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-10-20 08:41, George, Wes wrote: I'm also completely mystified as to why IPv6 support for all proposed/requested features is not an explicitly stated requirement, even at this phase. And more generally, this should be considered an opportunity for dogfooding the protocols we create.

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-vcarddav-birth-death-extensions-00.txt (vCard Format Extensions : place of birth, place and date of death) to Proposed Standard

2011-09-14 Thread Simon Perreault
Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote, on 09/14/2011 01:10 PM: Of course, you should have changed all references to vCard 4 to vCard 5, and reference to VCARDDAV WG draft to RFC 6350. vCard 4 is the latest version, specified in RFC 6350. We'll make a note to the RFC Editor to update the references. Simon

Re: whine, whine, whine

2011-06-21 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-06-20 23:52, John Levine wrote: * There is no usable bus from the airport (it runs only at commuter hours) and a taxi costs C$32.50 You're absolutely right about this. The people of Québec are not happy about this situation and often complain in the media. It makes for a bad first

Re: whine, whine, whine

2011-06-21 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-06-21 01:06, Randall Gellens wrote: San Diego is much easier to get to than Quebec City, since multiple air carriers serve it. Not going to argue about San Diego vs Québec, but just going to point out that multiple carriers do serve Québec. Among them are Air Canada, United,

Re: Getting to Quebec City

2011-06-20 Thread Simon Perreault
We wrote these instructions for those who want to fly to Montréal instead of Québec: http://ietf81.ca/?page_id=423 Simon -- DTN made easy, lean, and smart -- http://postellation.viagenie.ca NAT64/DNS64 open-source-- http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca STUN/TURN server --

Re: Has anyone found a hotel for Quebec City that isn't exorbitant?

2011-06-20 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-06-20 13:32, Michael Richardson wrote: I'm staying at Laval University resident for $61/night. Hotwire did find a few places equal in distance for ~$108, but the trip was harder in my opinion. I might bring my folding bike, or not (I'm coming by train). There are apparently dozens

Re: The XML page cannot be displayed

2011-05-24 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-05-24 04:56, Julian Reschke wrote: - to IANA: please fix the pages; XML parsers are not required to understand that encoding name IANA fixed it yesterday. Simon -- NAT64/DNS64 open-source -- http://ecdysis.viagenie.ca STUN/TURN server-- http://numb.viagenie.ca vCard 4.0

Re: The XML page cannot be displayed

2011-05-20 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2011-05-20 09:37, Julian Reschke wrote: Fun aside, ASCII is the wrong encoding to declare, either use US-ASCII, or just drop the declaration (the default being the right thing anyway). The intent is to use UTF-8. We'll fix that. Thanks, Simon -- DTN made easy, lean, and smart --

Re: The IPv6 Transitional Preference Problem

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Perreault
Please also refer to the results of the DNS64/NAT64 experiment that we ran at IETF 77. Users of the service encountered a bug due to parallel resolving in one particular operating system. We believe the bug is due to that particular implementation. Parallel resolving is still a Good Idea(TM), but

Re: The IPv6 Transitional Preference Problem

2010-06-17 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2010-06-17 12:55, David Conrad wrote: Well, yes. However, applications already have to be modified to deal with IPv6. I'd agree that modifying applications from a simple synchronous path to dealing with parallel asynchronous connections would not be a good idea. Personally, I'm of the

Re: Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employment status

2010-04-06 Thread Simon Perreault
On 2010-04-06 13:56, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I thought we didn't have members? I've always liked to refer to people doing work here as participants for exactly that reason. There are exactly 2003 members of the IETF! ;) http://www.linkedin.com/groups?viewMembers=gid=83669 Simon --

Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-19 Thread Simon Perreault
On Saturday 19 September 2009 15:55:55 Steve Crocker wrote: The choice is between engaging and not engaging. Engaging is better. Not engaging isn't constructive. Thank you. I wanted to say this, but could not find the right words. I fully agree with Steve Crocker. In the long run, exposure