standards

2002-07-10 Thread Pawlukiewicz Jane
Could someone point me in the direction of any standards being developed by the ietf regarding the interaction of the telecom SS7 network and RSVP or diffServ? Thanks for any help. Jane

Standards

2011-07-19 Thread Yoav Nir
Hi Very appropriate for XKCD to post this just a few days before an IETF meeting. http://www.xkcd.com/927/ (For those who are not familiar with XKCD, don't miss the alt-text on the picture) Yoav ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.or

TLS Authz - Encumbered Standards are Not Standards

2009-02-12 Thread P.A.Long
e made for breathing room for the implementer to be able to build a market (or market share), but assessing a toll at the end of the standard development process is parasitic. In the end, crippled standards like this will lead to the fragmentation of the Internet. Of course, this whole issue can b

Telecom standards

2004-05-25 Thread Ambika Prasad Das
Hi All,   I am working on a telecom project and am totally new to CDR file formats. CDR files are files where call detail records are kept. I want to know more about the following formats.   Variable lengthASN.1/TLVGPRS CDR Can anybody help ? Please also let me know the sources from which I

Re: Standards

2011-07-20 Thread Bert (IETF) Wijnen
I LOVE this one. Bert On 7/20/11 8:23 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: Hi Very appropriate for XKCD to post this just a few days before an IETF meeting. http://www.xkcd.com/927/ (For those who are not familiar with XKCD, don't miss the alt-text on the picture) Yoav ___

Re: Standards

2011-07-20 Thread Yoav Nir
[Helmet on] Maybe they should first move the 14 competing standards to Historic. On 7/20/11 10:17 AM, "Bert (IETF) Wijnen" wrote: >I LOVE this one. > >Bert > >On 7/20/11 8:23 AM, Yoav Nir wrote: >> Hi >> >> Very appropriate for XKCD to post thi

RE: Standards

2011-07-20 Thread Worley, Dale R (Dale)
> From: Yoav Nir [y...@checkpoint.com] > > Very appropriate for XKCD to post this just a few days before an IETF > meeting. > > http://www.xkcd.com/927/ And yet sometimes a standard will sweep away everything that was before it. One remarkably successful case is "ASCII" (containing the 26 lette

RE: Standards

2011-07-20 Thread John C Klensin
yet sometimes a standard will sweep away everything that > was before it. If "sweep away" is something that occurs after many years of competing standards and a long period of time in which the outcome was not clear, then sure. If you believe that either ASCII or TCP/IP quickly &qu

RE: Standards

2011-07-20 Thread Worley, Dale R (Dale)
> From: John C Klensin [john-i...@jck.com] > > If "sweep away" is something that occurs after many years of > competing standards and a long period of time in which the > outcome was not clear, then sure. Yes. In the sense that over the long run, the number of &quo

patented standards

2009-02-10 Thread Eric Johnson
Dear IETF, I'd like to express opposition to approval of the RedPhone patented "TLS authorization" standard application before you. Although the internet is obviously a tool for the creation of great wealth, it seems to me the 'net's regulatory bodies shouldn't allow themselves to be used to en

List of standards

2004-08-17 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it and see what I mean.) ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROT

IETF Standards Process

2003-06-04 Thread Dean Anderson
You indicated that my criticism was incorrect regarding Mr. Klensin's understanding of the standards process in regards to the description of the current SMTP Standard. So, now I am confused, and would like to learn how to correctly evalute the status of IETF Standards. The following que

Standards and patents

2000-04-03 Thread Ken Krechmer
All, Knowing my interest in this subject, Randy Bloomfield of the International Center for Standards Research (university of Colorado, Boulder International Telecommunications Program) has been kind enough to forward a number of e-mails on this issue. Enough, so that I thought I might try to

value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Peter Nõu
At 18:02 2000-05-04 Lillian Komlossy wrote: >The whole world will not switch over to Unix >- the average user will always be more confortable with Windows The whole world might not be comfortable with Windows but many, many of my collegues around the world work at companies where they have abso

SONET MIB Standards?

2000-06-27 Thread Shivendra Kumar
Hi friends, We are working on enabling SNMP provisioning of SONET features of a transport Node. We are currently referring to RFC 2558 . But, this is not able to serve our purpose. Please suggest us any other RFCs which may be relevant( We are paticularly not able to find the alarm(Tra

AOL and standards

2000-07-13 Thread Keith Moore
> > > if AOL subscribers cared about standards > > compliance they would have left AOL long ago. > > You're wrong about that. Remember when AOL didn't have anything to do > with the Internet? That the standards for some of the ser

RF Modulation Standards

2000-08-11 Thread Manohar Menon
Dear all Can anyone point me to a right site where consist of articles on RF modulation standards? Thanks mano Thanks and Best Regards Have a Good Day Manohar Menon Fixed Network Planning Products Plot 12155 ( Lot 13), Jalan Delima 1/1, Subang Hi-Tech Ind. Est Park 4 Shah

Revising Some Standards?

2011-01-24 Thread Mykyta Yevstifeyev
Hello all, There are a number of Full Standards (STD20-24), that, IMO, need revsising. Firstly, all of these documents define the protocols only for TCP and UDP, and that might be useful to define them for such protocols, as DCCP or SCTP. Moreover, in spite of being the Full Standards, it

Standards and patents

2011-07-26 Thread Samir Srivastava
Hi, Refer http://samirsrivastava.typepad.com for posting on Standards And Patents. Copyright of posting on Standards And Patents is free for personal usage. Arguments were presented in favour of that standards and their usage should be free from patents. If standards are patentable then

Keep Standards Open

2009-02-10 Thread McDowell, Perry (CIV)
n there is increasing awareness of the importance of supporting truly open standards that can be implemented by anybody without recourse to licensing, it would be a truly retrograde step to allow this patent-encumbered standard to be approved. I urge the IETF to send a strong signal in suppo

Revising full standards

2007-12-06 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. I had intended to bring this up at the plenary last night but, since I had not raised it on the list and was tired, decided not to. Our standards process (RFC2026 and updates) more or less assumes that documents progress from idea -> I-D -> Proposed -> Draft -> Full. Ignore,

Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Since the IETF list is obviously in rehash-of-WG-discussion mode today, I thought I'd contribute to the flamage, and rehash the logic behind the list of old standards that arrived in your inboxes a few days ago. Let's look back on what the IETF has decided previously. In 1994

Re: List of standards

2004-08-17 Thread Bob Braden
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Re: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Ian Cooper
--On 17 August 2004 09:20 -0700 Bob Braden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: *> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *> *> Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? *> *> It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at

Re: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Bob, I think the intent of Iljitsch's note was that the "list of IETF Standards" should appear in an obvious place (labeled "IETF Standards") on http://www.ietf.org/ - if the label points to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html, that's fine. ... leaving the qu

Re: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18-aug-04, at 13:15, Spencer Dawkins wrote: I think the intent of Iljitsch's note was that the "list of IETF Standards" should appear in an obvious place (labeled "IETF Standards") on http://www.ietf.org/ - if the label points to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html,

RE: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Glen Zorn
[EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --On 17 August 2004 09:20 -0700 Bob Braden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> *> From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> *> >> *> Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find?

RE: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Gal
to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Glen Zorn Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 9:31 AM To: 'Ian Cooper'; 'Bob Braden' Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: List of standards [EMAIL PROTECTED] <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > --On 17 August 2004 09:20 -0700 Bob Brad

RE: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread John C Klensin
ndard" > is NOT a "request for comments". Sigh. If this is the issue, could someone please initiate a request to the IESG or Secretariat to change that link to read "Internet Standards Index and RFC Materials" or something to that effect (please take the wordsmithing offl

Re: List of standards

2004-08-19 Thread Graham Klyne
At 16:29 17/08/04 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it and see what I mean.) See: http://www.rfc-edito

Re: List of standards

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Touch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it and see what I mean.) It deserves top ranking on search engines; knowing

Re: List of standards

2004-08-19 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19 aug 2004, at 23:23, Joe Touch wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at www.ietf.org It deserves top ranking on search engines; So are you saying that we should put our trust into the undisclosed

RE: List of standards

2004-08-19 Thread Christian Huitema
> >> Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? > >> It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at > >> www.ietf.org > > > It deserves top ranking on search engines; > > So are you saying that we should put our trust int

Re: List of standards

2004-08-20 Thread Fred Baker
At 04:29 PM 08/17/04 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? I dunno. I tend to look for the most recent one in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc-index.txt. The most recent one I find is http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3700.txt. Or, alternatively, I have a

RE: List of standards

2004-08-20 Thread Christian Huitema
provides more information than http://www.ietf.org/rfc.html I would actually like to point to the IETF site for Internet Standards. The IETF RFC page would be my first choice if it included a bit more text to explain what an RFC is, and a pointer to the list of standards maintains by the R

IEEE 802 Standards Online

2001-05-20 Thread RJ Atkinson
It appears that IEEE 802 is now making many of their standards available online at no cost in PDF format. Details and limitations of this are available online at: http://standards.ieee.org/getieee802/ Please don't ask me any further questions, because the above i

Re: IETF Standards Process

2003-06-06 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
ed "no", I don't see the point of going into details. The "Obsoletes:" header is a protocol that is too weak to carry the full semantics of the relationship between documents. Proposed Standards are being used in the real world, for reasons that the users of those stand

Re: IETF Standards Process

2003-06-04 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, juni 03, 2003 17:28:55 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: You indicated that my criticism was incorrect regarding Mr. Klensin's understanding of the standards process in regards to the description of the current SMTP Standard. So, now I am confused, and wo

Re: IETF Standards Process

2003-06-05 Thread Dean Anderson
IL PROTECTED]> > wrote: > > > > > You indicated that my criticism was incorrect regarding Mr. Klensin's > > understanding of the standards process in regards to the description of > > the current SMTP Standard. So, now I am confused, and would like to learn > &g

Re: IETF Standards Process

2003-06-05 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:54:03 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > Implementors are not the only users of standards. Businsess seek to > purchase and sell "Standard" Services, and may receive just and public > criticism for not providing the services they claim to provide. In some &g

Re: IETF Standards Process

2003-06-05 Thread Dean Anderson
ED] wrote: > On Wed, 04 Jun 2003 11:54:03 EDT, Dean Anderson said: > > > Implementors are not the only users of standards. Businsess seek to > > purchase and sell "Standard" Services, and may receive just and public > > criticism for not providing the services

Re: Standards and patents

2000-04-04 Thread Scott Bradner
you might study history - our process used to be that way & we changed it to avoid problems that we found 1/ refusal to negotiate 2/ false patent claims to delay the process 3/ patent claims from people who have nothing to do with the standards process and the claim could be years after

Re: Standards and patents

2000-04-04 Thread Keith Moore
> IPR is taken into account > when it is time to advance a standard on the standards track and in practice, IPR is also taken into account by individual participants (if they know about it) when they decide whether to contribute to a consensus for Proposed Standard. Keith

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Keith Moore
> Rather than making fun of or scream "stupid", why don't we keep > developing and arguing for standard based 'solutions': You mean like RFC 2046? The recommended action for an implementation that receives an "application/octet-stream" entity is to simply offer to put the data in a fil

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: > Perhaps unfortunately, RFC 2046 doesn't come right out and say > "DON'T EXECUTE CONTENT IN EMAIL MESSAGES". > > Then again, it doesn't say DON'T CUT YOUR CUSTOMER'S ARM OFF either. Don't be silly; a vendor would never cut a customer's arm off. How would they pull out their

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Vernon Schryver
] From: Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> ] ... ]You could have senders sign any executables. That might help a little, ] > as long as the sender's machine hasn't been compromised. ] ] this would also help, but we'd need a better way to verify the sender's ] signature than we have now.

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Austin Schutz
On Thu, May 04, 2000 at 05:24:35PM -0600, Vernon Schryver wrote: > ] From: Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > ] ... > ]You could have senders sign any executables. That might help a little, > ] > as long as the sender's machine hasn't been compromised. > ] > ] this would also help, but

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Keith Moore
> ] ... > ]You could have senders sign any executables. That might help a > ] little, as long as the sender's machine hasn't been compromised. > ] > ] this would also help, but we'd need a better way to verify the sender's > ] signature than we have now. > > It wouldn't help much, un

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Moore writes: > >note that it takes a nontrivial user interface to communicate this to >a recipient of email: e.g. > > NOTE: this message was signed by someone purporting to be > Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. The signature is validated > by a certifi

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 04 May 2000 17:24:35 MDT, Vernon Schryver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > It wouldn't help much, unless you are of the religion that believes > authentication implies authorization. Or don't you think that Unfortunately, some people are as neuron-paralized by this religion as by many others

Re: value of standards

2000-05-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 04 May 2000 15:25:37 EDT, Keith Moore said: > Perhaps unfortunately, RFC 2046 doesn't come right out and say > "DON'T EXECUTE CONTENT IN EMAIL MESSAGES". > > Then again, it doesn't say DON'T CUT YOUR CUSTOMER'S ARM OFF either. > > not that it would matter if it did... There's simple ina

Financial Standards Work group?

2000-05-14 Thread Musandu
It may just be time for the IETF to develop a financial standards work group seperate from the applications work group. I can even forsee a Simple Cash Transfer Protocol? any objections? Yours sincerely, Nyagudi Musandu

Re: Standards and patents

2011-07-27 Thread Alessandro Vesely
On 27/Jul/11 08:07, Samir Srivastava wrote: > Standards are developed by community & for community. There is no > role of patent hunters in that. I agree, with the exception of "defensive" patents, some of which are announced with very elegant disclosures. Let's draw a v

Patents and standards bodies

2012-07-09 Thread Noel Chiappa
ed by companies with the help of international standards bodies - such as those Motorola Mobility holds for Wi-Fi and online video - should be available for licensing on a fair and nondiscriminatory basis. ... 'Actions aimed at preventing the sale of products that rely on industry standards threaten to

Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-12 Thread jean-michel bernier de portzamparc
For your information the IUSG (interested in the Intelligent Use of the whole digital ecosystem) has just released the following statement which reflect a friendly but non-IETF evaluation of the "Modern Global Standards Paradigm" document proposed by the IETF and IAB Chairs to the endo

Re: Standards and patents

2011-07-28 Thread Samir Srivastava
s. IMHO we need to free human brain & cpu for more important issues. It is not fair for people who work on unpatented baselines specifications. What would have been situation if IP header was patented? Thx Samir On 7/27/11, Alessandro Vesely wrote: > On 27/Jul/11 08:07, Samir Srivastava wrote:

Re: Standards and patents

2011-07-28 Thread Eric Burger
tuation if > IP header was patented? Thx Samir > > > On 7/27/11, Alessandro Vesely wrote: >> On 27/Jul/11 08:07, Samir Srivastava wrote: >>> Standards are developed by community & for community. There is no >>> role of patent hunters in that. >> >

Please reject proprietary standards.

2007-10-26 Thread Ismael Jones
Best IETF, In response to the recent TLS submission, I would like to ask you sincerely to reject at all levels any standard which relies on proprietary or otherwise commercially-based technologies. Thank you very much for your consideration. Best regards, Ismael Fal [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://i

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-06 Thread Brian E Carpenter
John, On 2007-12-07 05:20, John C Klensin wrote: Hi. I had intended to bring this up at the plenary last night but, since I had not raised it on the list and was tired, decided not to. Our standards process (RFC2026 and updates) more or less assumes that documents progress from idea ->

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-06 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
hture, From: Brian E Carpenter [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thu 06/12/2007 3:18 PM To: John C Klensin Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Revising full standards John, On 2007-12-07 05:20, John C Klensin wrote: > Hi. I had intended to bring this up at the plenary la

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Burger
Hardly seems worth the effort. Of the 5092 RFCs published, just 67 are Full Standards. Of those, how many realistically need updates? Ad hoc may be a more efficient approach. Or, are you thinking about a "lessons learned from RFC 2821-bis"? On 12/6/07 8:20 AM, "John C K

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 06 December, 2007 16:55 -0800 Eric Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hardly seems worth the effort. > > Of the 5092 RFCs published, just 67 are Full Standards. > > Of those, how many realistically need updates? > > Ad hoc may be a more effic

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-06 Thread Eric Burger
etf/lemonade> for what lemonade is. - Original Message - From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Burger; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thu Dec 06 18:25:39 2007 Subject: Re: Revising full standards --On Thursday, 06 December, 2007 16:55 -0800 Eric Burger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-07 Thread Eric Burger
ardstrack.com/ietf/lemonade> for what lemonade is. - Original Message - From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Eric Burger; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Fri Dec 07 05:35:55 2007 Subject: Re: Revising full standards --On Thursday, 06 December, 2007 19:33 -0800 Eric Burger <[EMAIL

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-07 Thread John C Klensin
nowhere. Of course, as soon as one attaches a date, one has solved a problem different from "stable identifier for the current version of the standard". And, of course, unless these can identify other than Full Standards, they don't solve any of the STD problem that concerns me. An

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-07 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
t STD is unacceptable and the fact that there are multiple competing standards bodies out there and the IETF can benefit from the branding leverage. One of the experimental results we might deduce from the relative success of IETF application protocols over their OSI competitors is that text b

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Braden
At 04:55 PM 12/6/2007, Eric Burger wrote: Hardly seems worth the effort. Of the 5092 RFCs published, just 67 are Full Standards. The real issue is not "STANDARDs", but "standards". The great majority of today's operational Internet protocol standards have status (ca

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Braden
* The RFC Editor discovers that the community doesn't quite know what to do with the STD number: It can't be reassigned to the new document because it is at Proposed. I shouldn't be left on the original document because it really isn't our latest and bes

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Braden
At 12:34 PM 12/6/2007, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The numbering is problematic for many reasons, people have difficulty keeping two sets of numeric identifiers straight. If you want me to refer to something other than RFC-822 you have to give me something more memorable to both myself and the

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Braden
here to find the expected replacement for RFC 821 and friends, ie 2821, in the standards track. Bob Braden ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Bob Braden
I'd second the motion to whack STD designation. Nobody wants STD's, anyway ;-) I believe that many people want stable definitions of "well-known" Internet standards.\, like SMTP (or IP, for that matter). STDs were a relatively simple but inadequate solution for t

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Dave Crocker
Bob Braden wrote: I'd second the motion to whack STD designation. Nobody wants STD's, anyway ;-) I believe that many people want stable definitions of "well-known" Internet standards. like SMTP (or IP, for that matter). STDs were a relatively simple but inadequate solut

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread John C Klensin
from others) to go to IETF-foo-2010 types of names solves one problem, but does not solve the problem of needing a _stable_ reference to the current state of a standard, nor the problem of assignment of designators to Proposed and Draft Standards. It, too, almost certainly requires an updat

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Brian E Carpenter
number (still) accomplishes. It's a new way into the maze and I think it's worth doing quickly, since it doesn't misrepresent the formal standards process in any way. Ideally, www.rfc-editor.org/smtp and www.rfc-editor.org/STD10 would also take you straight there too. (Tools pro

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
standard). On a lexical level I would suggest that the default mnemonic be IETF-[-]- where the specifier is optional. This allows for the various PKIX standards to be grouped together: IETF-PKIX, IETF-PKIX-OCSP, IETF-PKIX-SCVP and so on. In the case of a WG that is chartered to revise an

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-10 Thread John C Klensin
n't misrepresent the formal standards process in any way. Ideally, www.rfc-editor.org/smtp and www.rfc-editor.org/STD10 would also take you straight there too. (Tools prototype?) Of course, if "STD10" is a separate document, we are on the path to ISDs. If it isn't, RFC 2026

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-11 Thread Iain Calder
STD series -- symbolic names are *already* used by people who aren't immersed in the standards process. Eg people refer to the email transport protocol as SMTP, not STD-10. I think that, for implementors and adopters alike, a single, absolute definition is too simplistic a view to be meaning

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-11 Thread Bob Braden
my final point. I am *> fully in favour of a symbolic naming convention for STDs. *> But that won't help rejuvenate the STD series -- symbolic *> names are *already* used by people who aren't immersed *> in the standards process. Eg people refer to the email *>

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 11. desember 2007 06:22 -0500 Iain Calder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think that, for implementors and adopters alike, a single, absolute definition is too simplistic a view to be meaningful in today's world. Merely renaming the STD series won't solve the problem of deciding when/if the

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-11 Thread Dave Crocker
Iain Calder wrote: their descendants. For example, suppose a completely different protocol called IEP (Internet Email Protocol) arises in the future and, due to its vastly superior characteristics, becomes the dominant mail transport system. SMTP would then become historic and IEP would need

Re: Revising full standards

2007-12-12 Thread Tony Finch
On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Iain Calder wrote: > > Protocols *can* get pushed aside by challengers that aren't their > descendants. For example, suppose a completely different protocol > called IEP (Internet Email Protocol) arises in the future and, due to > its vastly superior characteristics, becomes t

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-12 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I don't see the relevance of a service label such as 'email' in the context of standards identifier either. I do not think that there is any real likelihood that SMTP will be displaced by another email protocol ever. When SMTP is displaced it is going to be displaced by someth

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-12 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
7 10:43 AM To: Iain Calder Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: Revising full standards On Tue, 11 Dec 2007, Iain Calder wrote: > > Protocols *can* get pushed aside by challengers that aren't their > descendants. For example, suppose a completely different protocol > called IEP (Interne

RE: Revising full standards

2007-12-12 Thread Bob Braden
*> On a lexical level I would suggest that the default mnemonic be IETF-[-]- where the specifier is optional. *> s are often chosen to be cute amd are rather obscure to all but the most IETF-centric, so they are probably not a useful source for short names of specific standards. N

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 mea

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, it

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 o

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

2004-12-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
en the time the obsoleting document is approved and the publication of the RFC. 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". Good! Harald _

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 doc

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-17 Thread William Allen Simpson
Pv6 soon (for the past decade). So, the WG wasted its time on IPv6 So, here's my promise to you. I'll track down McGregor, and we'll write something up. I will work on moving my Proposed Standards, assuming that the IESG is actually _interested_ in doing its job. The proof will

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-17 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
thing else is not a good thing either for the Internet (what ever the "Internet" may then mean since IETF says it is the adherence to its Internet documents). Then may be someone will consider publishing the "Internet Book" were the consequences of the valid standards and R

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

2004-12-17 Thread John C Klensin
needed > > which usually means that the shepherding AD needs to fiddle > with the RFC Editor note in the announcement before sending it. > > It's one of the oddities of the way we process data that it's > quite hard to know that something's already obsoleted bet

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 procedu

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

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On fredag, desember 17, 2004 11:49:04 -0500 William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, here's my promise to you. I'll track down McGregor, and we'll write something up. I will work on moving my Proposed Standards, assuming that the IESG is actually _interes

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-18 Thread William Allen Simpson
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On fredag, desember 17, 2004 11:49:04 -0500 William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, here's my promise to you. I'll track down McGregor, and we'll write something up. I will work on moving my Proposed Standards, assuming that

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-19 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On lørdag, desember 18, 2004 13:04:52 -0500 William Allen Simpson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, here's my promise to you. I'll track down McGregor, and we'll write something up. I will work on moving my Proposed Standards, assuming that the IESG is actually _interes

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..." ma

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-20 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: Fri, 17 Dec 2004 13:16:25 +0100 > From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Subject: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired) > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > In 1994, the IETF community resolved to make the following procedure

Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired)

2004-12-20 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - > From: "Bruce Lilly" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, December 20, 2004 10:49 AM > Subject: Re: Why old-standards (Re: List of Old Standards to be retired) ... > 1. annual review of hundreds or thousands of standards in an

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