Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Eric Burger
And for the most part, we have had decent success with self certification in SIP and VPIM, as two examples. On Nov 12, 2010, at 12:25 AM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: >>> I think it would be sufficient to say something like: The following >>> implementations represent a significant Internet deployment

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Ned, Russ, > Dave: > > This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a > mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy > weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, > allowing the community to support or challenge them. > >

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread ned+ietf
Russ, > Dave: > > This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a > mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy > weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, > allowing the community to support or challenge them. > > Russ Tha

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Rex
Dave CROCKER wrote: > > I -- since I'm the editor of the doc, I get wording blame -- took it as > a given that "widespread use" required interoperability. And I wish > I could say that you were the first to notice the potential hole is our > existing language. (In fact, it took some iterations b

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 11/12/2010 2:17 AM, Martin Rex wrote: The result of the mess is that most browsers these days have given up entirely the concept of SSL/TLS interoperability and use a heuristic of reconnect fallbacks_at_the_application_level_, i.e. try a protocol feature, run into one of those interop proble

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Martin Rex
Dave CROCKER wrote: > > A hallway conversation with Russ added an item that simply had not > occurred to me: > > There might be multiple implementations that rely on on undocumented > modifications of the spec. This means that an additional, interoperable > implementation cannot be made pu

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I think it would be sufficient to say something like: The following implementations represent a significant Internet deployment and they are based on the specification in RFC: - - - - ... wfm. and seems very reasonable to me as well... Spencer ___

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 11/11/2010 7:10 PM, Russ Housley wrote: I think it would be sufficient to say something like: The following implementations represent a significant Internet deployment and they are based on the specification in RFC: - - - - ... wfm. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg Inter

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Housley
>> This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a >> mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy >> weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, >> allowing the community to support or challenge them. > > > If I understand both you

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 11/11/2010 4:23 PM, Russ Housley wrote: This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, allowing the community to support or challenge th

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Russ, Dave: This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, allowing the community to support or challenge them. Russ Thank you for the h

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 11/11/10 2:47 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > Test language: (*) > > (Full) Internet Standard: > > The Internet community achieves rough consensus -- on using > the multiple, independent implementations of a specification > > and > > 3.3. [Full] Internet Standard (IS) > >

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-11 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: This is a significant improvement from my perspective. We need a mechanism to implement it. The mechanism does not need to be heavy weight, and it might be as simple as some statements in a Last Call, allowing the community to support or challenge them. Russ > Folks, > > On 11/11/2010 1

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
Folks, On 11/11/2010 12:25 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: To establish the base: It is not possible to achieve widespread use on the Internet without having multiple components interacting. That's called interoperability. However, the interoperability might be among components that are clones of a sin

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-10 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 11/11/2010 11:14 AM, Russ Housley wrote: (Full) Internet Standard: The Internet community achieves rough consensus -- on using the running code of a specification. This causes me pause, because it does not say that the RFC was sufficient to produce interoperable implement

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-10 Thread Russ Housley
Dave: The document says: (Full) Internet Standard: The Internet community achieves rough consensus -- on using the running code of a specification. This causes me pause, because it does not say that the RFC was sufficient to produce interoperable implementations. Perhaps this i

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-09 Thread Dave CROCKER
All I did was a forward of what was sent over ietf-announce. d/ On 11/10/2010 7:24 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: Dave, can you please fix/change/report to the vendor that your MUA as it is not producing valid mime. My MUA reported this as being broken. Content-Type: Message/External-body;

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, I could live with this. I could live with draft-housley-two-maturity-levels. I could also live with draft-dawkins-pstmt-twostage (2003), or draft-atkinson-newtrk-twostep (2006), or even draft-carpenter-newtrk-twostep (2005). For that matter I could live with draft-loughney-newtrk-one-size-fi

Re: Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-09 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4cd967ad.80...@dcrocker.net>, Dave CROCKER writes: > Folks, > > A few of us have formulated an alternative proposal for streamlining the IETF > standards process. We hope that it at least adds to the mix of discussion in > the community. > > d/ Dave, can you please fix/change/rep

Alternative Proposal for Two-Stage IETF Standardization

2010-11-09 Thread Dave CROCKER
Folks, A few of us have formulated an alternative proposal for streamlining the IETF standards process. We hope that it at least adds to the mix of discussion in the community. d/ Original Message Subject: I-D Action:draft-crocker-ietf-twostage-00.txt Date: Tue, 09 Nov 201