Re: [OPSAWG] Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-08 Thread Juergen Schoenwaelder
On Thu, Jun 04, 2009 at 10:17:17PM +0200, Eric Rosen wrote: Generally, the community (i.e., the folks doing the work in the various areas) has never even heard about these proposed requirements until after a BCP appears, at which time they are told that the BCP has community

RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
Sam, Thank you for your review and opinions. I would like to remind you and let many people that are not aware about the history of the document know one fact that may be important. This document is an outcome of the discussions hold at the IESG retreat in May 2006. I was then the 'fresh' AD

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Sam Hartman
Dan == Romascanu, Dan (Dan) droma...@avaya.com writes: Dan Sam, Thank you for your review and opinions. Dan I would like to remind you and let many people that are not Dan aware about the history of the document know one fact that Dan may be important. This document is an

RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Romascanu, Dan (Dan)
Hi Sam, A clarification and a clarification question in-line. Dan -Original Message- From: Sam Hartman [mailto:hartmans-i...@mit.edu] Sent: Thursday, June 04, 2009 2:23 PM To: Romascanu, Dan (Dan) Cc: Sam Hartman; ietf@ietf.org; ops...@ietf.org Subject: Re: Last Call:

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Eliot Lear
[this one more publicly] Dan, Based on the goals you set out below, I would argue that the document is too long. I would recommend sticking with principles and calling out a few examples. I think this is done reasonably well in Section 2, and less so elsewhere. I would also suggest that

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Eric Rosen
Adopting this document as a BCP would be a serious mistake, and I hope it will be strongly opposed. There is absolutely no evidence that following the dictates of this document will improve the quality of the IETF's work, and we certainly know it won't improve the timeliness. There is no

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Andy Bierman
Joel M. Halpern wrote: To put it differently, the OPS area has as much right to propose their requirements as any other area (Transport Congestion, Security, ...) has. And generally, the community has listened to such requests and gone along with them. Yes, we have produced a bit of a

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Eric Rosen
This does not mean we have to simply accept what they (OPS) say. But it does mean we should give it a fair review, looking at the details, rather than objecting on principle. This is absolute nonsense. Most of the people actually doing work in the various areas do not have the time,

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Sam Hartman
Eric == Eric Rosen ero...@cisco.com writes: Eric If we are going to talk about adding new hoops for folks to Eric jump through, we should first discuss whether any such hoops Eric are necessary. We should not start the discussion by Eric looking at the details of the particular

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Sam Hartman
Eric == Eric Rosen ero...@cisco.com writes: Eric I don't see that OPSAWG has any business imposing Eric requirements on work done by other WGs in other Areas. Obviously I agree with this statement. However I do believe that the ops area can propose and build consensus on requirements

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-opsawg-operations-and-management(Guidelines for Considering Operations and Management of NewProtocols and Protocol Extensions) to BCP

2009-06-04 Thread Joel M. Halpern
To put it differently, the OPS area has as much right to propose their requirements as any other area (Transport Congestion, Security, ...) has. And generally, the community has listened to such requests and gone along with them. Yes, we have produced a bit of a problem that our initial