Re: IETF and APIs

2011-03-30 Thread Tom Yu
Personal observation: "API" is a subclass of "interface". "Network protocol" is a subclass of "interface". Interfaces (in the general case) are valuable things to standardize. An abstract interface ("abstract API"?) that gives guidance to implementors above and beyond the bare specification of t

IETF71 hotel noise warning on Marriott web pages

2007-12-18 Thread Tom Yu
The following information appeared on the pages I saw during the course of reserving a room at the Marriott for IETF71. At least they are admitting it plainly this time. Renovation Information Loud lobby and restaurant renovations will occur December 4, 2007-April 11, 2008 with work f

Re: About referenced documents...

2007-11-01 Thread Tom Yu
>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Yu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Tom> I might be able to locate a PDF copy of IEEE 1003.1 to verify Tom> this claim. (I doubt I would want to obtain the physical bulk of Tom> a dead-tree version of the document.) I have looked at a copy

Re: About referenced documents...

2007-11-01 Thread Tom Yu
> "Frank" == Frank Ellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Frank> IMO an author should reference what (s)he's actually read, Frank> guessing what an "official" (but commercial) document says Frank> is risky. What should be our standard of proof for determining whether a standards document th

Re: About referenced documents...

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Yu
> "Brian" == Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Brian> On 2007-11-01 12:08, lconroy wrote: >> Hi Tom, folks, >> Many thanks for that. This is exactly what I wanted to know. >> I understand that this is a distraction from the wider IPR crusade, >> but I wonder if people should consid

Re: About referenced documents...

2007-10-31 Thread Tom Yu
> "lconroy" == lconroy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: lconroy> Hi Folks, lconroy> in the process of re-writing the ENUM Experiences draft, I wanted to lconroy> check that its statement on the characters that can be found in POSIX lconroy> Extended Regular Expressions (as called up in RFC 3402

Re: secdir review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-mpls-02.txt

2007-10-22 Thread Tom Yu
> "Bob" == Bob Briscoe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Bob> Tom, Bob> You're analysis of the impact on the ECN nonce is accurate. Below is Bob> our reasoning for not including the ECN nonce capability in this Bob> proposal... [...] Thanks for the detailed rationale of your decision to not includ

secdir review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-mpls-02.txt

2007-10-18 Thread Tom Yu
This is a review of draft-ietf-tsvwg-ecn-mpls-02.txt. I have reviewed this document as part of the security directorate's ongoing effort to review all IETF documents being processed by the IESG. These comments were written primarily for the benefit of the security area directors. Document editor

Re: Document Action: 'Abstract Syntax Notation X (ASN.X)' to Experimental RFC

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Yu
> "Ned" == Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> --On Tuesday, 13 March, 2007 16:58 +0100 Simon Josefsson >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> And it was a suggestion/ request that, before >> this document was published in _any_ form, that it at least >> acquire a clear discussion as to when o

Re: Document Action: 'Abstract Syntax Notation X (ASN.X)' to Experimental RFC

2007-03-13 Thread Tom Yu
> "pbaker" == Hallam-Baker, Phillip <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: pbaker> I agree that there were no technical comments but the summary pbaker> states 'no comments'. Arguments on complexity are too easy to pbaker> make. Every time a proposal is made I hear the complexity pbaker> argument used a