Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: There was very little support outside of those involved in the ieprep working group for the ieprep work. I'd have to say that there wasn't really a clear consensus in either direction about much of anything. I guess I'm

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian, 1. There's a presumption that precedence and preemption are the mechanisms - but those aren't requirements, they are solutions, and it isn't clear to me that they can ever be appropriate solutions in the upper layers of the Internet. The requirement is presumably that important

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Eliot Lear wrote: Brian, 1. There's a presumption that precedence and preemption are the mechanisms - but those aren't requirements, they are solutions, and it isn't clear to me that they can ever be appropriate solutions in the upper layers of the Internet. The requirement is presumably that

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Pekka Savola
On Fri, 1 Dec 2006, Brian E Carpenter wrote: 2. There's clearly a need, if the work is to be expanded into new applications areas, for the experts in those applications to be deeply involved. That is in fact the main argument why the work should be done in the IETF if it's done at all. I

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Janet P Gunn
Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/01/2006 05:20:31 AM: Speaking only for myself: I'm now reasonably satisfied that if this work is to be done, it will be done better in the IETF than in the ITU. However, looking at the last draft of the charter that I've seen, I am

RE: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Dolly, Martin C, ALABS
Janet, See inline, Cheers, Martin Janet wrote: The mis-perception that the WG is focused on precedence and preemption is, unfortunately, reinforced by the list of milestones, which focus on the military environment. I would also, as an individual, favor modification to the list of milestones

RE: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-12-01 Thread Janet P Gunn
Martin, yes, I agree. Janet Dolly, Martin C, ALABS [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 12/01/2006 02:05:54 PM: Janet, See inline, Cheers, Martin Janet wrote: The mis-perception that the WG is focused on precedence and preemption is, unfortunately, reinforced by the list of milestones, which

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-30 Thread ken carlberg
Sam, Back on Nov 1'st, you started this thread with the following: I'm speaking here as an individual. I'd like to build consensus for my position both within the IESG and within the community, but I realize that if I fail to build that consensus, I cannot make this objection as a single

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-30 Thread Sam Hartman
ken == ken carlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ken Sam, Back on Nov 1'st, you started this thread with the ken following: I'm speaking here as an individual. I'd like to build consensus for my position both within the IESG and within the community, but I realize that if I

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-30 Thread ken carlberg
I'm speaking here as an individual. I'd like to build consensus for my position both within the IESG and within the community, but I realize that if I fail to build that consensus, I cannot make this objection as a single IESG member. ken Its now been about 2 weeks since the last comment

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-30 Thread Sam Hartman
ken == ken carlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm speaking here as an individual. I'd like to build consensus for my position both within the IESG and within the community, but I realize that if I fail to build that consensus, I cannot make this objection as a single IESG

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 30, 2006, at 2:29 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: There was very little support outside of those involved in the ieprep working group for the ieprep work. I'd have to say that there wasn't really a clear consensus in either direction about much of anything. I guess I'm confused. Generally,

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-30 Thread ken carlberg
I'll echo Fred's comments, and just add this... I'd have to say that there wasn't really a clear consensus in either direction about much of anything. your original note asked about consensus of closing the group -- that's the focus of the discussion point you brought to our attention on

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred, Fred Baker wrote: On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: 2. The notion that solutions such as precedence and preemption are (a) requirements and (b) applicable to all applications just doesn't compute for me. They don't especially compute for me in the sense that

RE: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Dolly, Martin C, ALABS
@ietf.org; Scott Bradner Subject: Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep) On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Fred Baker wrote: We also specifically addressed their requirements (in tsvwg) operationally: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4594.txt 4594 Configuration Guidelines

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Janet P Gunn
Brian E Carpenter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote on 11/14/2006 11:36:40 AM: ... This illustrates some of my concerns about this requirements work being done outside the IETF. ... 2. The notion that solutions such as precedence and preemption are (a) requirements and (b) applicable to

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
But in the IP world, there is a full continuum of states in between. Some of these are candidates for a useful service, and some of which aren't. - Allowing a higher packet drop rate across all the lower priority calls. Note that this scenario gives so-called *IMPORTANT* traffic the

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 14, 2006, at 8:36 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: 2. The notion that solutions such as precedence and preemption are (a) requirements and (b) applicable to all applications just doesn't compute for me. They don't especially compute for me in the sense that the terms are used in the

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 16, 2006, at 4:02 PM, Curtis Villamizar wrote: Preemption in MPLS can be soft preemption (setting aside differences of opinion about how signaling of soft preempt should be done for the moment)... Even for hard preemption, there is at worst a fall back to IP and reroute... Those

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
What you're describing, in general terms, is MPLS TE. Yes, MPLS TE will allow you to use your capacity a little more efficiently. As I said, not all networks are MPLS, and not all MPLS networks do traffic engineering. The scenario in question is *after* those things have been done. On Nov

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-15 Thread Fred Baker
I don't believe the new charter of ieprep working group belongs in the IETF... the work that remains belongs somewhere else--probably the ITU-T. Let's address this directly. ITU-T gave us a set of requirements in [3] Description of an International Emergency Preference Scheme

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-15 Thread Sam Hartman
Fred == Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fred The remaining requirements, as I understand them, relate to Fred more traditional internet applications: the delivery of Fred email within a stated interval, reliable file transfer at a Fred stated rate in the presence of

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-15 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 15 Nov 2006, Fred Baker wrote: We also specifically addressed their requirements (in tsvwg) operationally: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc4594.txt 4594 Configuration Guidelines for DiffServ Service Classes. J. Babiarz, K. Chan, F. Baker. August 2006. (Format: TXT=144044 bytes)

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Robert G. Cole wrote: I whole-heartedly agree. I believe the DoD must extend its notions of Precedence and Preemption to all applications, voice, video, web, ftp, mail, etc. ... This illustrates some of my concerns about this requirements work being done outside the IETF. 1. The DoD

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
(Catching up...) James M. Polk wrote: ... didn't the IESG, about 18 months ago (it may be longer) write a letter to either ITU-T or ETSI to stop attempting to extend RSVP, that it was supposed to be done in the IETF? I seem to remember that event occuring, though I admit I don't remember

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-10 Thread Michael . Dillon
We need to resend in 30 seconds, perhaps, and if mumble time units elapse without successful delivery we need to initiate a response to the sender indicating that s/he should try another communication channel while we continue to retry this one. Waiting 30 seconds would be unwise in the

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Robert G. Cole
I whole-heartedly agree. I believe the DoD must extend its notions of Precedence and Preemption to all applications, voice, video, web, ftp, mail, etc. Mechanisms/protocols must be defined and consistent across applications and their interactions with services, e.g., DNS, SIP, etc., and with

Apology Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Janet P Gunn
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Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Scott W Brim
Excerpts from Sam Hartman on Thu, Nov 02, 2006 02:30:43PM -0500: To propose concrete action, I think the IETF should draft a liaison statement for action to the ITU asking for them to comment on whether they see any current conflicts and on whether there are parts of this work they would be

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Fred Baker
I didn't write the proposed charter, and I don't intend to manage the next instance of the working group either. I will collaborate with the chairs on a charter if you like. The key thing, though, is actually not this charter, as important as it is. It is the IETF leadership taking it upon

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Fred Baker
no,it's quite a bit more than that. So let's take the canonical hypothetical case. Nuclear-tipped pointy- end-of-the-spear things are coming over the horizon and one of a very small number of people (the president, a theatre commander, etc) needs to send a message to a

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-09 Thread Sam Hartman
Fred == Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fred The key thing, though, is actually not this charter, as Fred important as it is. It is the IETF leadership taking it upon Fred itself to enable the work to progress in a timely fashion Fred rather than having an infinite series of

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-06 Thread ken carlberg
Pete Resnick wrote: Questions abound around the mechanisms for sending an email and  ensuring that it is delivered in a stated time interval on the  order of minutes or that an indication of failure is returned to  the sender... That, in particular, seems like a relatively easy extension to  RFC

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-06 Thread Pekka Savola
On Sat, 4 Nov 2006, Fred Baker wrote: I have to say that my discussions with US DoD and DHS/NCS, and with their counterparts in other countries, doesn't suggest that the set of technical mechanisms is all specified. If we're looking only at voice, it is maybe so, but they're not looking only

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-06 Thread ken carlberg
It's not clear whether going on this way will achieve useful results in a useful amount of time. the first part of the above is a matter of opinion, which I'll respect but disagree with. the second is a red herring. if you wish a more detailed explanation of the timeline of milestones in

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-06 Thread Janet P Gunn
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Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-06 Thread Janet P Gunn
There has also been a change in the external factors affecting the urgency of this work. At one time the perspective (from at least some of us) has been We know we are going to need this stuff sometime in the future. That perspective has changed to There are deadlines in place. If we don't

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-05 Thread Sam Hartman
Fred == Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Fred I have to say that my discussions with US DoD and DHS/NCS, Fred and with their counterparts in other countries, doesn't Fred suggest that the set of technical mechanisms is all Fred specified. If we're looking only at voice, it is

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-05 Thread Pete Resnick
On 11/4/06 at 4:04 PM -0800, Fred Baker wrote: Questions abound around the mechanisms for sending an email and ensuring that it is delivered in a stated time interval on the order of minutes or that an indication of failure is returned to the sender... That, in particular, seems like a

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-05 Thread Pete Resnick
On 11/5/06 at 2:38 PM -0800, Pete Resnick wrote: On 11/4/06 at 4:04 PM -0800, Fred Baker wrote: Questions abound around the mechanisms for sending an email and ensuring that it is delivered in a stated time interval on the order of minutes or that an indication of failure is returned to the

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-04 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Hi, We now have a fair amount of guidance on how to work with other SDO's in general, which would certainly include ITU-T. Just to summarise: IAB Processes for Management of IETF Liaison Relationships, BCP 102, RFC 4052, April 2005. Procedures for Handling Liaison Statements to and from the

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-04 Thread Fred Baker
I have to say that my discussions with US DoD and DHS/NCS, and with their counterparts in other countries, doesn't suggest that the set of technical mechanisms is all specified. If we're looking only at voice, it is maybe so, but they're not looking only at voice. Questions abound around

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread Pekka Savola
On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Sam Hartman wrote: I don't believe the new charter of ieprep working group belongs in the IETF. I understand why we chartered it here, and I believe that by doing as much work as we have done so far in the IETF, we have done something useful. We've described the broad

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread Scott W Brim
Excerpts from Sam Hartman on Wed, Nov 01, 2006 04:34:20PM -0500: [I could not find the ITU's liaison to the IETF. Scott, if such exists, I'd appreciate you forwarding this to them.] The ITU-T's liaison from SG13 to the IETF is Hui-Lan Lu. CCed. FYI SG13 is about to send something to the IETF

re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread ken carlberg
Sam,One of the objectives of the work produced by IEPREP was to lay down the ground work and put together a baseline set of requirements to start with when considering solutions.  Our intention was that the baseline then becomes a starting point where more specific requirements can be put forth. 

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread James M. Polk
At 12:41 PM 11/2/2006 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Sam Hartman wrote: I don't believe the new charter of ieprep working group belongs in the IETF. I understand why we chartered it here, and I believe that by doing as much work as we have done so far in the IETF, we have

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread Sam Hartman
James == James M Polk [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: James At 12:41 PM 11/2/2006 +0200, Pekka Savola wrote: On Wed, 1 Nov 2006, Sam Hartman wrote: I don't believe the new charter of ieprep working group belongs in the IETF. I understand why we chartered it here, and I believe

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread Sam Hartman
ken == ken carlberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: ken Sam, One of the objectives of the work produced by IEPREP was ken to lay down the ground work and put together a baseline set ken of requirements to start with when considering solutions.  ken Our intention was that the baseline

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread ken carlberg
ken Interestingly enough, the work that you mention below in your ken original posting... ken ... rfc-4542, rfc-4411, and draft ken -ietf-tsvwg-vpn-signal-preemption (along with some other ken related work) has actually not been done in IEPREP because ken the group was

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-02 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 2 Nov 2006, James M. Polk wrote: Having looked at the output of the WG, it already seems to include a couple of useful framework documents and about 4 requirements documents. the framework RFCs are for within a single public domain. The other RFCs are requirements based. There

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-01 Thread Sam Hartman
[I could not find the ITU's liaison to the IETF. Scott, if such exists, I'd appreciate you forwarding this to them.] Hi. I'm speaking here as an individual. I'd like to build consensus for my position both within the IESG and within the community, but I realize that if I fail to build that