Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-03 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, August 02, 2011 20:23 -0400 Joel M. Halpern j...@joelhalpern.com wrote: With mild apologies, I have retained John's text below because, even though I come to a different conclusion, I thought it important to retain for now. If folks choose to follow up on this, significant

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-02 Thread John C Klensin
On 7/30/11 11:05 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me that this does two things, both small but useful. 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement procedures so that they are more reasonable. They may still not be sufficiently reasonable to be used, but it improves them, and thereby

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-02 Thread Joel M. Halpern
With mild apologies, I have retained John's text below because, even though I come to a different conclusion, I thought it important to retain for now. If folks choose to follow up on this, significant trimming is recommended. John, as far as I can tell there are three problems which various

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-08-01 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/30/11 11:05 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me that this does two things, both small but useful. 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement procedures so that they are more reasonable. They may still not be sufficiently reasonable to be used, but it improves them, and thereby

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread RJ Atkinson
On 31st July 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote, in part: I believe that the present situation is confusing both to IETF newcomers (who may falsely believe that the IETF actually follows the 3 stage process) and, worse, confusing to users of IETF standards (who may falsely believe that a document

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread Eric Burger
On Jul 31, 2011, at 11:55 AM, RJ Atkinson wrote: On 31st July 2011, Brian Carpenter wrote, in part: [snip] It might cause a change, simply because the effort of making the single move PS-IS will get you to the end state, whereas previously you had to make two efforts, PS-DS-STD. But only

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread Scott O Bradner
it looks so - maybe it would be good to have a pointer in this doc Scott On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Robert Sparks wrote: Scott - Didn't RFC 5657 address your point 2? The current proposal no longer requires this report during advancement, but it does not disallow it. I hope it's

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Pete Resnick
On 7/28/11 9:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 1/ I still see no reason to think that this change will cause any significant change in the percent of Proposed Standards that move up the (shorter) standards track since the proposal does nothing to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that this does two things, both small but useful. 1) It makes a minor change in the advancement procedures so that they are more reasonable. They may still not be sufficiently reasonable to be used, but it improves them, and thereby improves the odds. 2) It is coupled to an

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread John Leslie
Pete Resnick presn...@qualcomm.com wrote: I *really* want an answer to the issue that Scott raises. Eric and Brian each refer to a baby step. A baby step toward what exactly? If the answer is simply, to align documentation with current procedure, that's fine, but then I want to know: a)

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Pete, On 2011-07-31 04:55, Pete Resnick wrote: ... I *really* want an answer to the issue that Scott raises. Eric and Brian each refer to a baby step. A baby step toward what exactly? If the answer is simply, to align documentation with current procedure, that's fine, but then I want to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-29 Thread Chris Newman
I have read version 08 and support this proposal. - Chris --On July 27, 2011 17:46:22 -0400 Jari Arkko jari.ar...@piuha.net wrote: Here's the link: http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-housley-two-maturity-levels ___ Ietf mailing

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Scott O. Bradner
this is better than the last version but 1/ I still see no reason to think that this change will cause any significant change in the percent of Proposed Standards that move up the (shorter) standards track since the proposal does nothing to change the underlying reasons that people do not expend

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Robert Sparks
Scott - Didn't RFC 5657 address your point 2? The current proposal no longer requires this report during advancement, but it does not disallow it. I hope it's obvious that I believe these reports are valuable, but I am willing to accept the proposed structure, with the hope and expectation

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Eric Burger
And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are moving a baby step forward, and as such is worthwhile doing. On Jul 28, 2011, at 9:19 AM, Robert Sparks wrote: Scott - Didn't RFC 5657 address your point

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are moving a baby step forward, and as such is worthwhile doing. We are more closely aligning our documentation with our

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Keith Moore
On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are moving a baby step forward, and as such is worthwhile doing.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 7/28/11 10:20 AM, Keith Moore wrote: In other words, I'm not convinced that this change will do much harm, but I'm also not convinced that it will help much. I don't disagree. And yet we keep flogging this idea... But we always flog the easy issues, rather than facing the tough ones.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith, On 2011-07-29 02:20, Keith Moore wrote: On Jul 28, 2011, at 10:06 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: On 7/28/11 10:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: And the real question is, are we moving forward? I think that we are not moving as far as we originally wanted. However, I offer we are moving a

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-27 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-07-28 09:46, Jari Arkko wrote: After extensive discussion on this list and in the IESG Russ has decided to make a reduced proposal. I am now initiating a new Last Call to gauge consensus on the new version. Thankyou. I fully support this version. Brian Carpenter

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/5/2011 10:22 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On balance, whilst I appreciate the aims of this document, I think the proposals are not suitable for adoption. 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What,

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 1:31 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER wrote: 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What, specifically, are the parts of the proposal that you believe will lower the quality of a Proposed Standard? The parts

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 08:08:54AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: The parts unmentioned in the document, in effect. ^^^ You appear to be saying that the new document lowers quality by continuing to use the same basic criteria and qualifiers for Proposed that we've used for

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Scott Brim
Dave: the issue is that PS was previously not seen as a finished product, now it has much more exalted status, but the criteria have not changed. On May 6, 2011 11:09 AM, Dave CROCKER d...@dcrocker.net wrote: On 5/6/2011 1:31 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu May 5 18:31:33 2011, Dave CROCKER

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Martin Rex
I am strongly opposed to this 2 document maturity level proposal. The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are constituencies that will fight hard against specifications getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been published as RFC. Dave Cridland wrote: Dave CROCKER

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 9:15 AM, Martin Rex wrote: The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are constituencies that will fight hard against specifications getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been published as RFC. That seems particularly true about possible changes to RFC 2026.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those criteria are the running code, so the documentation ought to be made to match. Oh. But then that doesn't mean that

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:27:16AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/6/2011 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those criteria are the running code, so the documentation

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, May 06, 2011 18:15 +0200 Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: The real problem tha the IETF is regularly facing are constituencies that will fight hard against specifications getting updated, improved or fixed, once they have been published as RFC. Martin, That is an interesting

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri May 6 17:50:07 2011, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Fri, May 06, 2011 at 09:27:16AM -0700, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 5/6/2011 9:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Martin, I think you may actually be arguing for a 1 step process. Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John Levine
I think he is saying that there is are _de facto_ criteria that are neither called out in 2026 nor in this draft, and that those criteria are the running code, so the documentation ought to be made to match. This suggests that perhaps we should rename Proposed Standard to Not a Standard But Might

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Barry Leiba
This suggests that perhaps we should rename Proposed Standard to Not a Standard But Might Be One Later, promote the PS published under the overstrict rules to DS, and we're done. I'm not sure whether I'm serious or not. Whether you are or not.., the only way to do this is to stop calling

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread John R. Levine
This suggests that perhaps we should rename Proposed Standard to Not a Standard But Might Be One Later, promote the PS published under the overstrict rules to DS, and we're done. I'm not sure whether I'm serious or not. Whether you are or not.., the only way to do this is to stop calling them

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri May 6 22:12:35 2011, Barry Leiba wrote: This suggests that perhaps we should rename Proposed Standard to Not a Standard But Might Be One Later, promote the PS published under the overstrict rules to DS, and we're done. I'm not sure whether I'm serious or not. Whether you are or

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Barry Leiba
John said... Well, you know, the Not a Standard But Might Be One Later really are requesting comments. Yes, well, we all know that RFC has lost any real sense of its expansion long ago. It certainly has done so in the eyes of most of the world, for whom RFC means Internet standard. Dave

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/6/2011 2:29 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Whether you are or not.., the only way to do this is to stop calling them RFCs. Maybe we should have a PROP series for PS docs, and only give them RFC numbers later, when they progress. Well, you know, the Not a Standard But Might Be One Later

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Dave Cridland
On Fri May 6 22:37:20 2011, Barry Leiba wrote: John said... Well, you know, the Not a Standard But Might Be One Later really are requesting comments. Yes, well, we all know that RFC has lost any real sense of its expansion long ago. It certainly has done so in the eyes of most of the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Martin Rex
Barry Leiba wrote: John said... Well, you know, the Not a Standard But Might Be One Later really are requesting comments. Yes, well, we all know that RFC has lost any real sense of its expansion long ago. It certainly has done so in the eyes of most of the world, for whom RFC means

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-06 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
07.05.2011 0:29, John R. Levine wrote: This suggests that perhaps we should rename Proposed Standard to Not a Standard But Might Be One Later, promote the PS published under the overstrict rules to DS, and we're done. I'm not sure whether I'm serious or not. Whether you are or not.., the only

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-06

2011-05-05 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 5/5/2011 10:22 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: On balance, whilst I appreciate the aims of this document, I think the proposals are not suitable for adoption. 1) This document radically lowers the quality of Proposed Standards. What, specifically, are the parts of the proposal that you believe

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-19 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
19.04.2011 1:21, Russ Housley wrote: Mykyta: 4. Downward References Permitted This section says nothing about references to documents with no status (pre-IETF RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be allowed. And what about normative ones? Whether the RFC 3967 procedure

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-19 Thread Russ Housley
Mykyta: 4. Downward References Permitted This section says nothing about references to documents with no status (pre-IETF RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be allowed. And what about normative ones? Whether the RFC 3967 procedure will be used in such cases, or

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-19 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 4/19/11 9:57 AM, Russ Housley wrote: Mykyta: 4. Downward References Permitted This section says nothing about references to documents with no status (pre-IETF RFCs). Maybe informative references to such RFCs should be allowed. And what about normative ones? Whether the RFC 3967

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-17 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
06.04.2011 18:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-08 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
2011/4/7, Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com: Mykyta: If this approach is acceptable to the community, implementation reports will no longer be needed at all. In this case your document should obsolete RFC 5657 and mention this. Mykyta Russ On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-07 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
06.04.2011 18:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-07 Thread Russ Housley
Mykyta: If this approach is acceptable to the community, implementation reports will no longer be needed at all. Russ On Apr 7, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: 06.04.2011 18:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread RJ Atkinson
The last *several* revisions have been perfectly fine. The most recent edits are also fine. We're micro-editing this document at this point, meaning that perfect is impeding our ability to deploy more than good enough to replace 3-tier system that most IETF folks agree is broken, and has

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Julian Reschke
On 06.04.2011 17:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 4/6/11 10:45 AM, Julian Reschke wrote: On 06.04.2011 17:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Russ Housley
Julian: A question...: A specification shall remain at the Proposed Standard maturity level for at least six (6) months before consideration for advancement to the Internet Standard maturity level. It would probably good to clarify when the six month period starts (IESG approval?

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Sam Hartman
Russ == Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com writes: Russ The 6 months starts with RFC publication. Please say that in the draft then. I had a different take away from the last version of this discussion I participated in. I don't care much what the answer is, but it seems clear that it

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Russ Housley
Sam and Julian: Russ == Russ Housley hous...@vigilsec.com writes: Russ The 6 months starts with RFC publication. Please say that in the draft then. I had a different take away from the last version of this discussion I participated in. I don't care much what the answer is, but it

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-05

2011-04-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-04-07 03:27, Russ Housley wrote: This revision proposes a solution to the issue raised by Brian Carpenter about documents lingering at Draft Standard. Some people thought it was a problem. Others thought it did not matter. The proposed solution leaves the matter in the hands of

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
Russ, all, Another proposal as for your document. So, it fails to mention what are the procedures for reclassification of Standards Track RFCs to Historic. Therefore, I propose the following text: 6. Procedures for Reclassification of Standards Track RFCs as Historic Documents Under

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
As far as I can tell, your proposal does not match the meaning we use for Historic. More importantly, there does not seem to be a problem that needs to be addressed in this area. Most importantly, if there is a problem, it should in my opinion be addressed separately from the topic of this

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
24.03.2011 17:42, Joel M. Halpern wrote: As far as I can tell, your proposal does not match the meaning we use for Historic. More importantly, there does not seem to be a problem that needs to be addressed in this area. Most importantly, if there is a problem, it should in my opinion be

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 3/24/2011 4:49 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Another proposal as for your document. So, it fails to mention what are the procedures for reclassification of Standards Track RFCs to Historic. Generally, the document tries to limit itself to discussion of what it changes. There are no

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Bob Hinden
On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 3/24/2011 4:49 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Another proposal as for your document. So, it fails to mention what are the procedures for reclassification of Standards Track RFCs to Historic. Generally, the document tries to limit

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-24 Thread Eric Burger
Agreed. On Mar 24, 2011, at 12:13 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: On Mar 24, 2011, at 5:01 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 3/24/2011 4:49 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrote: Another proposal as for your document. So, it fails to mention what are the procedures for reclassification of Standards Track RFCs

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-14 Thread Joel M. Halpern
There seems to be a minor but important inconsistency which leaves us still not clearly addressing the interoperability issues. The commentary text on the second standards level includes, when commenting on the removal of the requirement for interoperability testing reports: subsumed by

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-03-13 Thread Russ Housley
There have been conflicting suggestions about the best way forward. We have constructed an updated proposal. It has been posted as draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-04. Russ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-31 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/30/2011 8:06 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:49:44AM -0800, Dave CROCKER wrote: The current proposal specifies a second maturity level that does not permit changing the technical specification. Yes, I know. I fail completely to see why anyone would ever do the

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
I believe this proposal to be dangerous and undesirable. The fact is that the three stage process has never worked. As in not ever. If you take a look at the current Internet standards over half of the total are grandfathered from before the IETF was started. You cannot return to a state that

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The raising of the bar for proposed standard has a very simple reason: it is now almost impossible to change specifications once deployed. That's an argument for _no_ maturity levels, then, not for two. A -- Andrew

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jan 30, 2011, at 9:58 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The raising of the bar for proposed standard has a very simple reason: it is now almost impossible to change specifications once deployed. That's an argument for _no_

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:15:01AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: That's an argument for _no_ maturity levels, then, not for two. Is there an implicit assumption here that more standards (presumably of poorer quality) is a good thing? Not on my part. I'm merely observing that, if the

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Keith Moore
On Jan 30, 2011, at 10:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 10:15:01AM -0500, Keith Moore wrote: That's an argument for _no_ maturity levels, then, not for two. Is there an implicit assumption here that more standards (presumably of poorer quality) is a good thing?

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/30/2011 7:35 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Is there an implicit assumption here that more standards (presumably of poorer quality) is a good thing? Not on my part. I'm merely observing that, if the claim is that you can't alter deployed protocols, then there's no reason to say that we

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 07:49:44AM -0800, Dave CROCKER wrote: Not on my part. I'm merely observing that, if the claim is that you can't alter deployed protocols, then there's no reason to say that we need two maturity levels, because in fact nothing will advance past the first stage anyway.

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-30 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:58 AM, Andrew Sullivan a...@shinkuro.com wrote: On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 09:27:17AM -0500, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The raising of the bar for proposed standard has a very simple reason: it is now almost impossible to change specifications once deployed.

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-01-27 16:29, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any real impact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that move to a (in this proposal, the) higher level since I do not see how this makes any significant changes to the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-29 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/29/2011 12:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-01-27 16:29, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 4/ as part of #3 - the rules should also specifically deal with the following pp from 2026 The requirement for at least two independent and interoperable implementations applies to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2011-01-30 09:52, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 1/29/2011 12:10 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2011-01-27 16:29, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 4/ as part of #3 - the rules should also specifically deal with the following pp from 2026 The requirement for at least two independent and

prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I've previously expressed my opinion that proposals to muck with the number of steps in teh IETF standards process will no do anything useful (i.e., will not be effective) - JOhn and I have just posted what, to us, would be a prerequisite for amy process mucking proposal to succeed Scott -

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-29 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi Scott and John, I don't see this as inconsistent with the current 2-stage proposal, if the latter's omission of a requirement for independent interoperable implementations for stage 2 is corrected. I don't, however, believe that the problems are separable. The bar for PS has crept up, IMHO,

Re: prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, January 30, 2011 1:01 PM +1300 Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: Hi Scott and John, I don't see this as inconsistent with the current 2-stage proposal, if the latter's omission of a requirement for independent interoperable implementations for stage 2 is

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-28 Thread John Leslie
Mark Atwood m...@pobox.com wrote: This post would be much less confusing if you would name names, cite examples, and point fingers. No, it wouldn't. We don't need a flame-war over which features of which protocols would have to go away under a strict reading of RFC 2026 in order to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, January 27, 2011 09:41 +0200 Gonzalo Camarillo gonzalo.camari...@ericsson.com wrote: Hi, yes, I also agree the first one is the most important point and has not been addressed so far. If we want a system that works (and is used), it needs to include incentives to move from

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/26/2011 7:29 PM, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 2/ I think the proposal must specifically deal with the 2026 IPR licence requirement in section 4.1.2 If patented or otherwise controlled technology is required for implementation, the separate implementations must also

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread Doug Barton
On 01/27/2011 01:10, John C Klensin wrote: --On Thursday, January 27, 2011 09:41 +0200 Gonzalo Camarillo gonzalo.camari...@ericsson.com wrote: Hi, yes, I also agree the first one is the most important point and has not been addressed so far. If we want a system that works (and is used), it

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread SM
At 19:29 26-01-11, Scott O. Bradner wrote: 1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any real impact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that move to a (in this proposal, the) higher level since I do not see how this makes any significant changes to the

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread Martin Rex
Scott O. Bradner wrote: 1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any real impact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that move to a (in this proposal, the) higher level since I do not see how this makes any significant changes to the underlying reasons

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Atwood
This post would be much less confusing if you would name names, cite examples, and point fingers. The reason why so many documents are at proposed is that they're often collections of bloat (limited-use features with an aggresive requirements level) from various interest groups that is not

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-26 Thread ned+ietf
+1 to the proposed rules for reclassifying DS to IS. I think they offer a reasonable balance between expediency and quality. Ned On 1/24/2011 12:37 PM, Russ Housley wrote: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-03 was just posted. ... Overall I find this spec to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any real impact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that move to a (in this proposal, the) higher level since I do not see how this makes any significant changes to the underlying reasons that documents have not

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-26 Thread John C Klensin
+1 on all points, especially the first one. john --On Wednesday, January 26, 2011 22:29 -0500 Scott O. Bradner s...@harvard.edu wrote: 1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any realimpact on the number of Proposed Standard documents that moveto a (in this

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-26 Thread Gonzalo Camarillo
Hi, yes, I also agree the first one is the most important point and has not been addressed so far. If we want a system that works (and is used), it needs to include incentives to move from one level to the next one. I have discussed this issue with quite a few people. Some people claim that those

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Russ Housley
draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-03 was just posted. It reflects much of the discussion on this thread over the last few months. In particular, it embraces the changes put forward in the recent proposal by Dave Crocker, Eric Burger, Peter Saint-Andre, and Spencer Dawkins. Please take a look

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 1/24/11 10:37 AM, Russ Housley wrote: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-03 was just posted. It reflects much of the discussion on this thread over the last few months. In particular, it embraces the changes put forward in the recent proposal by Dave Crocker, Eric Burger, Peter

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Joel M. Halpern
It seems to me that this proposal strikes a good balance in making an effort to improve the situation regarding our document track. Regarding the particular clause: On 1/24/2011 1:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: ... 2. I found this statement to be strange: The intention of the two-tier

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 1/24/11 11:39 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote: It seems to me that this proposal strikes a good balance in making an effort to improve the situation regarding our document track. Regarding the particular clause: On 1/24/2011 1:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: ... 2. I found this statement to

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Mon, Jan 24, 2011 at 1:39 PM, Joel M. Halpern j...@joelhalpern.comwrote: It seems to me that this proposal strikes a good balance in making an effort to improve the situation regarding our document track. Regarding the particular clause: On 1/24/2011 1:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote:

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread RJ Atkinson
Earlier, Joel Halpern wrote: It seems to me that this proposal strikes a good balance in making an effort to improve the situation regarding our document track. Regarding the particular clause: On 1/24/2011 1:30 PM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: ... 2. I found this statement to be strange:

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Tony Hansen
On 1/24/2011 12:37 PM, Russ Housley wrote: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-03 was just posted. ... Overall I find this spec to be an improvement over the previous version. Here are a few areas where improvements can be made. This phrase in Section 1: In addition, IETF

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-24 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
25.01.2011 6:13, Tony Hansen wrote: On 1/24/2011 12:37 PM, Russ Housley wrote: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-03 was just posted. ... Overall I find this spec to be an improvement over the previous version. Here are a few areas where improvements can be made. [. . . . .] One

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-11-03 Thread SM
At 13:39 29-10-10, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Supppse we actually have the following problems: 1. People think that it's too hard to get to PS. (Never mind the competing anecdotes. Let's just suppose this is true.) 2. People think that PS actually ought to mean Proposed and not

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-10-30 Thread John C Klensin
A few quick observations... --On Friday, October 29, 2010 13:20 -0700 SM s...@resistor.net wrote: ... While my instinct is that RFC publication would be desirable, if that didn't seem workable we could move the idea a bit closer to the Snapshot idea by posting the document in the I-D series

Re: Alternate entry document model (was: Re: IETF processes (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels))

2010-10-30 Thread Yoav Nir
On Oct 29, 2010, at 10:39 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: If all of those things are right and we're actually trying to solve them all, then it seems to me that the answer is indeed to move to _n_ maturity levels of RFC, where _n_ 3 (I propose 1), but that we introduce some new document series

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