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

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Hartman
John == John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: John Harald, John Sorry, but I've got a procedural problem with this. I-Ds John can't obsolete anything, even I-Ds approved by the IESG. John While fiddle with the RFC Editor note in the John announcement... may be the usual

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

2004-12-19 Thread Sam Hartman
William == William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: William John C Klensin wrote: Then these need the bad designation, not just the not really interesting any more one. And that, presumably, requires a 1828/1829 considered harmful document, or at least a paragraph

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

2004-12-17 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 16 Dec 2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: Folks, I took a look at the first posting, and was surprised at those where I'm personally knowledgable. RFC1378 The PPP AppleTalk Control Protocol (ATCP) It was widely implemented. I still use this. My $1000 HP LaserJet 4ML works fine,

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

2004-12-17 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Dec 16 2004, at 18:13 Uhr, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2, Ah good, I did. o Usage. A standard that is widely used should probably be left alone (better it should be advanced, but that is beyond the scope

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

2004-12-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On torsdag, desember 16, 2004 16:37:09 +0100 Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol: Version 3 Why would this be cruft? The BGP4 MIB was just recently approved... Good thing too. Take a good look at

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

2004-12-17 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Thu, Dec 16, 2004 at 10:50:41AM -0500, George Swallow [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote a message of 17 lines which said: Maybe we need a new category STABLE? I don't think that would be a good name since it might imply that others are INSTABLE ;-). Perhaps FROZEN, STATIC, MATURE? BORING?

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

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
Pekka Savola wrote: There's certainly no illusion that these protocols are not being used in some part(s) of the universe. The question is really whether the IETF is interested in maintaining them any longer, and whether we expect significant new deployments of these protocols. Marking the

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

2004-12-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 17 December, 2004 12:39 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On torsdag, desember 16, 2004 16:37:09 +0100 Eliot Lear [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol: Version 3 Why would this be

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

2004-12-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 16 December, 2004 22:30 -0500 Robert Moskowitz [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 05:53 PM 12/16/2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: RFC1828 IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 RFC1829 The ESP DES-CBC Transform Now *THESE* were historic when written! Due to US

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

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
John C Klensin wrote: Then these need the bad designation, not just the not really interesting any more one. And that, presumably, requires a 1828/1829 considered harmful document, or at least a paragraph and a place to put it. Well, gosh and golly gee, I wrote an ISAKMP considered harmful

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

2004-12-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On fredag, desember 17, 2004 11:56:43 -0500 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think the old-standards team can take RFC 1269 off the list with a note saying obsoleted by draft-ietf-idr-bgp4-mib, no action necessary. Harald, Sorry, but I've got a procedural problem with this.

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

2004-12-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 17 December, 2004 22:31 +0100 Harald Tveit Alvestrand [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: --On fredag, desember 17, 2004 11:56:43 -0500 John C Klensin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: But I think the old-standards team can take RFC 1269 off the list with a note saying obsoleted by

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

2004-12-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Dec 16 2004, at 14:02 Uhr, Margaret Wasserman wrote: RFC0885 Telnet end of record option This option was, at least at one time, used for telnet clients that connected to IBM mainframes... It was used to indicate the end of a 3270 datastream. ... and 5250 (RFC2877). Note that there was

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

2004-12-16 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 16-dec-04, at 14:55, Carsten Bormann wrote: It's probably necessary to do a full dependency analysis to do this right. OMG, what a visit to the technology attic. Why do we care if there are still implementations that are based on these documents in use? The important question is whether

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

2004-12-16 Thread Carsten Bormann
Why do we care if there are still implementations that are based on these documents in use? The important question is whether there are going to be new or revised implementations based on these documents. A new implementation for tn5250 is about as likely as a new implementation for NTP.

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, Thanks for your note. Please see below for responses: Margaret Wasserman wrote: RFC0885 Telnet end of record option This option was, at least at one time, used for telnet clients that connected to IBM mainframes... It was used to indicate the end of a 3270 datastream. I

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

2004-12-16 Thread George Swallow
Maybe we need a new category STABLE? I don't think that would be a good name since it might imply that others are INSTABLE ;-). Perhaps FROZEN, STATIC, MATURE? ...George George Swallow Cisco Systems

Re: RFC1269 - [was: RE: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired]

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Bert, I'll remove it from the list with the expectation that the new MIB will obsolete the old one. However, I note that is currently not stated in the header of the draft. Eliot Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: W.r.t. RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway

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

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Braden
* * It's probably necessary to do a full dependency analysis to do this * right. * If it's not broken, why break it? Bob Braden ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Braden
* Standards have been invented for creating markets. That's strange, all these years I thought standards were for interoperability. Bob Braden * Gruesse, Carsten * * * ___ * Ietf mailing list * [EMAIL PROTECTED] *

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

2004-12-16 Thread William Allen Simpson
Bob Braden wrote: If it's not broken, why break it? * Standards have been invented for creating markets. That's strange, all these years I thought standards were for interoperability. Hear, Hear! Folks, I took a look at the first posting, and was surprised at those where I'm personally

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

2004-12-16 Thread Robert Moskowitz
At 05:53 PM 12/16/2004, William Allen Simpson wrote: RFC1828 IP Authentication using Keyed MD5 RFC1829 The ESP DES-CBC Transform Now *THESE* were historic when written! Due to US government pressure, it took years (and big plenary protests) for them to be published! Especially

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

2004-12-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Carsten, please read draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, in particular section 3.2, and see if it answers your question this has been a major discussion source Harald --On 16. desember 2004 15:40 +0100 Carsten Bormann [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: So what does HISTORIC

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

2004-12-16 Thread Margaret Wasserman
RFC0885 Telnet end of record option This option was, at least at one time, used for telnet clients that connected to IBM mainframes... It was used to indicate the end of a 3270 datastream. I don't know if it is still used in that fashion, but Bob Moskowitz might know. RFC1041

RFC1269 - [was: RE: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired]

2004-12-16 Thread Wijnen, Bert (Bert)
W.r.t. RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway Protocol: Version 3 Why would this be cruft? The BGP4 MIB was just recently approved... Good thing too. Take a good look at 1269. I don't think it would pass a MIB compiler test today.

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

2004-12-16 Thread Bob Braden
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Re: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread stanislav shalunov
William Allen Simpson [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: RFC1598 PPP in X.25 RFC1618 PPP over ISDN At one time, these were incredibly important in the 3rd world, and some parts of Europe and Japan. Is X.25 completely non-existant today? Heck, folks were running X.25 over ISDN