Re: ietf 1id_guidelines tool broken

2010-03-02 Thread William Allen Simpson
Many thanks to Stephanie for manually overriding the broken tool(s), and processing the draft this morning. After 3 dozen RFCs over 22+ years, that was my first attempt to use the automated submission tool -- a mistake I'm unlikely to make again William Allen Simpson wrote: The URL

ietf 1id_guidelines tool broken

2010-03-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
As of Feb 9th, the IESG posted a second status boilerplate. But the tool doesn't yet recognize it Be warned. ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: ietf 1id_guidelines tool broken

2010-03-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
Henrik Levkowetz wrote: On 2010-02-26 20:42 William Allen Simpson said the following: As of Feb 9th, the IESG posted a second status boilerplate. But the tool doesn't yet recognize it Be warned. Specifics, please? * Is this the idnits tool or some other tool? * Which version did you

Re: ietf 1id_guidelines tool broken

2010-03-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
to the newest version. --- The longer response is that diagnosing this required much more time than would have been required if all the requested and available information had been supplied below (instead of flippancy); further comments inline: On 2010-02-27 00:03 William Allen Simpson said

Re: ietf 1id_guidelines tool broken

2010-03-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Your initial 'bugreport' contained no specifics whatsoever. You inappropriately sent the 'tool is broken' message to the whole IETF general discussion list, in addition to addressing me directly (so it's not as if you didn't know where to direct a bug report). All IETF

Re: ietf 1id_guidelines tool broken

2010-03-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
Henrik Levkowetz wrote: So you're still maintaining that it's good and right to send out a notice of a problem widely and provide no information which makes it possible to resolve it? Bah! Please stop before you embarrass yourself further. The original report was very clear: As of Feb

Review of draft-ietf-ipv6-2461bis-10.txt

2007-01-15 Thread William Allen Simpson
Thank you for informing me of the re-write. A few obvious editorial corrections: EMail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] The former machine hasn't existed since circa 1994, and the latter since circa 1998. Easy Googling has given reviewers one of my half dozen active emails

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

2004-12-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On fredag, desember 17, 2004 11:49:04 -0500 William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So, here's my promise to you. I'll track down McGregor, and we'll write something up. I will work on moving my Proposed Standards, assuming that the IESG is actually

Re: [Old-standards] Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
at the time of publication, but couldn't get the IESG to publish 3DES or SHA1 or any other more robust algorithm as a Proposed Standard. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL

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

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
in 2 IETF meetings, and to Full Standard in under 1 year on average, 2 years for extremely controversial items. You see, I disagree with one of your earlier statements. The IESG really DOESN'T have anything more important to do -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31

Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
something in days! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Historic (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
, although for some odd reason I thought you were disagreeing with me. That no confused me. ;-) -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32 ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
describe what currently shipping, actively marketed products do (and should do) in this domain. And that needs to be documented on the PPP list. I found the nroff, and would be happy to document interoperability, should there be any. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31

Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
protests) for them to be published! Especially without the 40-bit export restrictions! At the time, I advocated Triple-DES to be the Proposed Standard, since we already knew 56-bit DES was broken. I requested Historic status for these many years ago -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint

Re: S. 2048, CBDTPA (was: It's war, folks --- SSSCA formally introduced)

2002-03-26 Thread William Allen Simpson
by lobbyists for lobbyists. Let's not find out. It exists: remember that protocol suite: ISO OSI? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
RJ Atkinson wrote: On Saturday, March 16, 2002, at 08:01 , William Allen Simpson wrote: ... I didn't happen to be at that ad-hoc meeting in San Diego, so I wasn't influenced by it No, but you were at the meetings where swIPe was demonstrated -- ACTUALLY DEMONSTRATED -- and where

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], William Allen Simpson writes: Right. The only copy I could find was from 1996, but I don't think that that difference is important. (http://www.watersprings.org/pub/id/draft-simpson-ipsec-enhancement-00.txt) Remember, the WG chair

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
RJ Atkinson wrote: On Wednesday, March 13, 2002, at 06:49 , William Allen Simpson wrote: 10 years ago on Tuesday, Phil Karn sprawled out across my hotel room bed and drew the packet header that became ESP. Actually, that packet header wasn't directly related to ESP, though there aren't

Re: 10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
Protection sequence number in 1995: Internet Security Transform Enhancements This was in the old IETF tradition of posting minority positions when the main WG disagrees. Perhaps you missed reading it? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

10 years and no ubiquitous security

2002-03-14 Thread William Allen Simpson
. ... Should I remind folks that at that same San Diego IETF, JI and Phil and Steve Deering and others of us had a lunch BOF on Mobile-IP? -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

PATRIOT/USA followup: we lost in US Senate

2001-10-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
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PATRIOT/USA followup: ongoing House debate

2001-10-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
will now debate and vote on this report, even though few members of the House have actually seen the report. Even minority members of the Rules committee haven't seen the report. This may rank as one of the biggest raw power grabs in US history. -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40

Re: PATRIOT/USA followup: ongoing House debate

2001-10-12 Thread William Allen Simpson
of out of the office autoreplies... Amazingly enough, I haven't had any on my posts! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

CDT Calls on Internet Activists to Urge Support for Feingold Amendmentsto Anti-Terrorism Bills Date: 10 Oct 2001 19:22:27 -0400

2001-10-11 Thread William Allen Simpson
More I haven't seen the proposed amendments yet. But this is a broader call than just our Internet Engineering groups. Original Message Date: Wed, 10 Oct 2001 17:31:05 -0400 From: Ari Schwartz [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: CDT Calls on Internet

PATRIOT/USA technical problems, call to action

2001-10-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
://www.aclu.org -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: PATRIOT/USA technical problems, call to action

2001-10-10 Thread William Allen Simpson
Fred Baker wrote: At 12:13 PM 10/10/2001, William Allen Simpson wrote: Unlike CALEA, there are no provisions for reimbursing ISPs for these expenses -- tens of thousands of dollars could bankrupt many ISPs. This is an attack on both civil liberties and small business. I agree that our

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
, Einar Stefferud wrote: Aye, Verily! Here! Here! Let's Hear it For MicroSoft! -- William Allen Simpson Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32

Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-22 Thread William Allen Simpson
This is a rare case where I disagree with Phil. This is a good location. Unfortunately, it wasn't cold enough to discourage the usual gaggle of folks that haven't read the charter or the drafts It seems pretty warm to me, and I'm walking down 6 blocks to the cheaper hotel. The real

Re: Usable Video from Meetings (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-20 Thread William Allen Simpson
Harald Alvestrand wrote: what would happen if there was an open server that would allow (filtered) MBONE tunnels to connect, and a widely available (Linux?) client that would connect to that server, and behave like a multicast router? It's been done. I've implemented such in various real

ICANN election.com not working reliably

2000-10-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- I've tried the election mechanism this morning at nearly the earliest possible time, and after proceeding through all the pages, and verifying my choices, suddenly the page indicated that I could not proceed at this time. First of all, that's a terrible

ICANN vote advocacy

2000-10-01 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- While I'm thinking about it, here's a bit of advocacy on ICANN board membership. Of course, this may just cause folks to vote contrarily, but participating is important, so get out the vote! I'm putting Karl Auerbach at the top. He's the only one with

ferul/farrell postings

2000-08-07 Thread William Allen Simpson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Casey Farrell, Domain Name Broker cannot post on nanog, none of them show up, as he is not registered. yet, in all these years, IETF hasn't managed to add a posting restriction the technology exists, maybe our esteemed staff could ask merit how they

Re: Complaint to Dept of Commerce on abuse of users by ICANN

2000-07-30 Thread William Allen Simpson
I have no idea why so many different lists have been spammed. (Spam is a technical term for massive cross-posting. Spam is bad.) The US congresscritters listed won't even see the message, as their mail server searches (or some poor aide searches by hand) for the correct legislative office

Re: Privacy and IETF Document Access (again)

2000-03-29 Thread William Allen Simpson
Normally, I'd view this as rather cranky, since many implementations have asked for this information for rather a long time. I usually access them with the generic user "ftp", not "anonymous". I long ago gave up an expectation of anonymity. I believe that the proper security technique is

Re: Last Call: Telnet Authentication Option to ProposedStandard

1999-11-24 Thread William Allen Simpson
- Original Message Subject: Re: Last Call: Telnet Authentication Option to ProposedStandard Date: 24 Nov 1999 10:21:09 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Johan Danielsson) To: William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: We al

Re: Last Call: Telnet Authentication Option to ProposedStandard

1999-11-23 Thread William Allen Simpson
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Protocols that offer increased complexity but no gain in security or efficiency over other standards-track efforts, but are in use today, are IMHO excellent candidates for Informational publication. Not for the standards track. I'll go further. THIS