Re: draft filenames (Was Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-09 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Reality check: there's a draft in last call about a proposed tool for submitting drafts. Specific comments on that draft would be very useful, possibly more so than tuning the ABNF for file names. Brian The IESG has received a request from the TOOLS team to consider the following document: - '

draft filenames (Was Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-07 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-02-25 22:14 > From: Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > in terms of naming, I think syntactically it reduces to: > > >  I-D-Name    = Â"draft-" owner "-" category "=" title "-" version >  >  owner     Â= Âauthor-name / "ietf" >          Â; who retains change con

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Bob Hinden
At this point, less than one week before the meeting, only 14 WGs (not counting BOFs) have agendas posted. I'm at a loss for a suitable adjective. You might start by asking the secretariat why all the agendas which have been submitted haven't been posted... I know of two working groups which h

Re: Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-02 Thread Dave Crocker
>  Working groups have a charter, which I think should be viewed as a contract >  for what the working group will work on / develop. yup. in fact, the language you use is commonly used to describe the charter and to justify being so forceful in making it clear and plausible. > When a working

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Colin Perkins
On 2 Mar 2005, at 12:39, Margaret Wasserman wrote: I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before discussing them at face-to-face meetings, and thought that considering drafts submitted this mo

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
My LORD, it's like I read Margaret's mind... I hadn't seen this post when I sent my own whine to the list! Spencer I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before discussing them at face-to-fa

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Margaret Wasserman
I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before discussing them at face-to-face meetings, and thought that considering drafts submitted this morning didn't give working groups enough time to do

What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
now that we know that the secretariat keeps track of drafts that claim to obsolete another draft, we could make this Real Simple: drafts that say they obsolete another draft get the later deadline. Harald (who won't have to decide that) That would only work if it was "s

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, mars 01, 2005 22:34:08 +0100 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: now that we know that the secretariat keeps track of drafts that claim to obsolete another draft, we could make this Real Simple: drafts that say they obsolete another draft get the later deadline.

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Singer
At 10:34 PM +0100 3/1/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On lørdag, februar 26, 2005 21:22:36 -0800 Christian Huitema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, we only have two points of contentions: old personal drafts submitted as version 00 of WG drafts; and old WG draft

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On lørdag, februar 26, 2005 21:22:36 -0800 Christian Huitema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, we only have two points of contentions: old personal drafts submitted as version 00 of WG drafts; and old WG drafts submitted as version 00 of new personal drafts. n

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Keith Moore
I think I overstated what I was looking for. I often see requests like "I saw -03, this is -05, what as -04 and what has changed?" on the mailing lists. I was just thinking that a section like this would help (names are just examples) Change history: draft-ietf-dxs-odorimeter-0525-jun-200

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-03-01 Thread Dave Singer
At 10:14 PM -0500 2/26/05, Keith Moore wrote: > Thanks. I forgot to say on (c) that there MUST be as many entries in the revision history as the revision number indicates (i.e. none for revision 00, and so on). don't do that. it will add an unnecessary and often useless barrier to publication

RE: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On lørdag, februar 26, 2005 21:22:36 -0800 Christian Huitema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In fact, we only have two points of contentions: old personal drafts submitted as version 00 of WG drafts; and old WG drafts submitted as version 00 of new personal drafts. now that we know that the secreta

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Keith Moore wrote: IMHO, charters should not be bound to specific documents. It's one thing to say "WG X will produce a document describing protocol Y", quite another to say "WG X shall publish draft-ietf-x-joe's-specification-for-y". It's up to the WG, not the ADs, to decide which specific

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Feb 27, 2005, at 1:23 AM, John Loughney wrote: Working groups have a charter, which I think should be viewed as a contract for what the working group will work on / develop. When a working group wants to adopt a new draft, they need to have permission from the AD and may even need to revise

Re: Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread John Loughney
te: 2005/02/27 Sun AM 05:18:57 EET > To: kw2578 <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED], moore@cs.utk.edu, ietf@ietf.org > Subject: Re: MARID back from the grave? > > > Graham, > > > > You are right. WG dtafts have a more official standing iin the IETF,

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Keith Moore
On Feb 27, 2005, at 12:22 AM, Christian Huitema wrote: In fact, we only have two points of contentions: old personal drafts submitted as version 00 of WG drafts; and old WG drafts submitted as version 00 of new personal drafts. The first scenario is easily taken care off by granting an exemption f

RE: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Christian Huitema
> > Thanks. I forgot to say on (c) that there MUST > > be as many entries in the revision history as the > > revision number indicates (i.e. none for revision > > 00, and so on). > > don't do that. it will add an unnecessary and often useless barrier to > publication of I-Ds > > I-Ds are suppos

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Keith Moore
> Graham, > > You are right. WG dtafts have a more official standing iin the IETF, > they will, most likely, become an RFC. I hope not. When a WG agrees to consider a draft it should not be taken as an assurance that the draft will be published as an RFC. Too many WGs work far beyond their cha

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Keith Moore
> Thanks. I forgot to say on (c) that there MUST > be as many entries in the revision history as the > revision number indicates (i.e. none for revision > 00, and so on). don't do that. it will add an unnecessary and often useless barrier to publication of I-Ds I-Ds are supposed to be a q

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-26 Thread Dave Singer
At 7:14 PM -0800 2/25/05, Dave Crocker wrote: On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:59:19 +, Dave Singer wrote: Ý a) renaming of the root portion of the file-name is permitted, nay Ý encouraged, to identify whether the draft is currently individual, or Ý owned by a group (or even to select a 'better' name fo

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-25 Thread kw2578
Graham, You are right. WG dtafts have a more official standing iin the IETF, they will, most likely, become an RFC. Individual drafts have no assurance, and most do not. John ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinf

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-25 Thread Marshall Eubanks
Should there be provision in this naming scheme for the merging of two individual drafts into one wg draft ? Regards Marshall Eubanks On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 19:14:51 -0800 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:59:19 +, Dave Singer wrote: > > a) renaming of the roo

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Crocker
On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 09:59:19 +, Dave Singer wrote: >  a) renaming of the root portion of the file-name is permitted, nay > >  encouraged, to identify whether the draft is currently individual, or >  owned by a group (or even to select a 'better' name for other >  reasons); >  b) the revision n

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-25 Thread Dave Singer
Um, I'm maybe an innocent bystander here, but perhaps the following works? a) renaming of the root portion of the file-name is permitted, nay encouraged, to identify whether the draft is currently individual, or owned by a group (or even to select a 'better' name for other reasons); b) the revi

RE: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-25 Thread graham . travers
EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spencer Dawkins Sent: 25 February 2005 07:38 To: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: MARID back from the grave? ... "it's just a name" - and it's not like working groups are (or that working groups should be) consistent in when they adopt a draft as a working

Renaming new WG drafts (was: RE: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-02-25 Thread Lars-Erik Jonsson (LU/EAB)
> ... "it's just a name" - and it's not like working groups are > (or that working groups should be) consistent in when they adopt > a draft as a working group draft. I actually believe it is useful to rename drafts when they are adopted as WG documents. An individual draft is indeed the authors

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
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Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Dave Crocker
On Thu, 24 Feb 2005 16:03:32 -0500, Tony Hansen wrote: >  Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to > >  be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft >  AND they've been previously published as an individual submission. from the line of comme

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: ; "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, February 24, 2005 7:57 AM Subject: Re: MARID back from the grave? Hi Spencer, On Thursday 24 February 2005 13:15, Spencer Dawkins wrote: Maybe we could improve the announcements to say what the

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Ken Raeburn
--On Thursday, 24 February, 2005 16:03 -0500 Tony Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft AND they've been previously published as an individual submission. But no

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:55:20 PM +0100 Henrik Levkowetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: on 2005-02-24 7:23 pm Jeffrey Hutzelman said the following: [...] Personally, I think it's more useful to keep the existing filename for the life of the document, and that is the practice we have been f

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
on 2005-02-24 7:23 pm Jeffrey Hutzelman said the following: [...] > Personally, I think it's more useful to keep the existing filename for the > life of the document, and that is the practice we have been following in > the Kerberos WG since its creation (well before I became chair). We have >

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 24 February, 2005 16:03 -0500 Tony Hansen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to > allow them to be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF > they are now a WG draft AND they've been previously published > as an individual submiss

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Tony Hansen
Of course, the rule about -00 drafts could be modified to allow them to be posted on the followup date IF and ONLY IF they are now a WG draft AND they've been previously published as an individual submission. Tony Hansen [EMAIL PROTECTED] John C Klensin wrote: The notion that new

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 24 February, 2005 13:23 -0500 Jeffrey Hutzelman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > I agree with Spencer - a filename is just a filename, and > shouldn't carry metadata. It should not be used as the way to > decide what WG a document belongs to, and it _also_ should not > be used t

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, February 24, 2005 11:04:26 AM -0500 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Spencer, It seems to me that there is another issue here, one that is quite real, happens fairly regularly, and that may call for some rethinking down the line. Suppose you post a draft, as draft-dawkins-f

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread John C Klensin
Spencer, It seems to me that there is another issue here, one that is quite real, happens fairly regularly, and that may call for some rethinking down the line. Suppose you post a draft, as draft-dawkins-foo-bar-00, as a means of documenting an idea to see if a currently-operating WG is intereste

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Julien Laganier
Hi Spencer, On Thursday 24 February 2005 13:15, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > > Maybe we could improve the announcements to say what the WG (WGs?) > are for a draft, and we could quit twisting in this self-inflicted > wind? But isn't it already the case? Quoting I-D announce: "A New Internet-Draft is

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
t Alvestrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Wednesday, February 23, 2005 11:13 PM Subject: RE: MARID back from the grave? What is particularly ironic is that these I-Ds began as individual submissions and we were asked to bring them in, under Marid, just in time for the working gro

RE: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-23 Thread Christian Huitema
> What is particularly ironic is that these I-Ds began as individual > submissions and we were asked to bring them in, under Marid, just in time > for the working group to be disbanded. We have seen that situation before, for example when the NGTRANS working group was disbanded. Some of the work

RE: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Crocker
On Wed, 23 Feb 2005 21:13:53 -0800, Christian Huitema wrote: >  At this point, we get the deadline effect: a > >  work that in reality is a revision has now to meet the "original >  submission" deadline. That's not very fair. In these conditions, there >  should be some kind of automatic exemption

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Crocker
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 14:17:46 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: >  This is an error. Harald, Please explain. I've looked over the documentation for I-D naming and do not see this case covered. What is particularly ironic is that these I-Ds began as individual submissions and we were asked

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-23 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Dave, the announcement of this as a WG item for AAA is an error. It should not have been announced that way - it should have been announced as an individual submission. In the past, we have been inconsistent in whether or not we recommended that updates done after the WG's closing should be rena

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-23 Thread Dave Crocker
On Mon, 21 Feb 2005 13:26:45 +0100, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > >  A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > >  directories. > > > >  This draft is a work item of the Authentication, Authorization and > >  Accounting Working Group of the IETF. > > > >  Title 

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
This is an error. --On mandag, februar 21, 2005 13:26:45 +0100 Stephane Bortzmeyer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:20:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 103 lines which said: A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Draf

MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-21 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Feb 18, 2005 at 03:20:40PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 103 lines which said: > A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts > directories. > This draft is a work item of the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting > Workin