Re: article on innovation and open standards

2013-05-16 Thread Randy Bush
> Without wishing to be nasty, I will point out that we have way more > vendors than operators participating in our standards development. Into the Future with the Internet Vendor Task Force A very Curmudgeonly View or

Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process

2013-05-16 Thread Ted Lemon
I must say that I have enjoyed reading the discussion between the three of you, and think it is immensely valuable in explaining what the IESG ought to be doing. You three should write it up.

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On May 15, 2013, at 4:30 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: > The claim (or one of the claims) is that some ADs may place Discusses that > are > intended to raise a discussion with the authors/WG that could equally have > been > raised with a Comment or through direct email. This, it is claimed, may > unnec

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Loa Andersson
On 2013-05-16 14:38, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: Discussions should have a time limit (can be one week), I totally disagree, DISCUSSES are our friends, they need to be discussed until we have rough consensus; it seems to be a manifestly bad idea to draw a deadline after seven days, if someone c

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Scott Brim
Please distinguish between (1) making the system efficient and (2) making individual documents go through it quickly. If you put time limits on parts of the process, you're not allowing them to function correctly. Putting arbitrary time limits on will hurry things up but it will not produce highe

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
Hi Loa, I agree with you discussions are our friend. I was focusing on processing time, not document quality. No dought if you stay longer time you will get better quality, but what about progress. So I mean call for discussions is for a time limit, as if no discussion happends then the call matur

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Abdussalam Baryun
On 5/16/13, Scott Brim wrote: > Please distinguish between (1) making the system efficient and (2) making > individual documents go through it quickly. If you put time limits on > parts of the process, you're not allowing them to function correctly. > Putting arbitrary time limits on will hurry

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Barry Leiba
>> Putting arbitrary time limits on will hurry things up but it will not >> produce higher quality results. > > Ok, so do you agree, that if who holds the work, at least should tell > us HOW long he is holding or what is the time PLAN. Do you think > working without plan is efficient and gives good

Re: Gather Profiles/Resumes [was Re: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Dale R. Worley
> From: Thomas Narten > > What I do think the IETF should do is *require* that participants > identify themselves. That means knowing who they are (a name and email > contact) and an affiliation. For 80% of the participants, this info is > not very hard to figure out (see below). But we also have

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/15/2013 1:30 PM, Adrian Farrel wrote: Suppose the AD raised her concern by writing a Comment or sending an email and balloting "No Objection." That would mean that the I-D would be approved for publication. At this point either: - the discussion goes on, but the document becomes an RFC anyw

RE: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Adrian Farrel
That's a good question Dave. The community might like to comment. On the whole, I am told that if an AD weighs in with her comments during working group last call, her fearsome personality may overwhelm some of the WG participants and she may dominate the WG consensus. Is it possible that the s

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Dave Crocker
On 5/16/2013 9:40 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: That's a good question Dave. The community might like to comment. On the whole, I am told that if an AD weighs in with her comments during working group last call, her fearsome personality may overwhelm some of the WG participants and she may dominate

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Ted Lemon
On May 16, 2013, at 1:01 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > http://dcrocker.net/#gender That's what I do. It gets a bit awkward with verb agreement and constructs like "themself," which elicits the dreaded red snake underline of doom. But I find it more comfortable than just subverting the sexist p

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Martin Rex
Dave Crocker wrote: > > And of course, the reality is that we allow bad specs out the door all > the time; we just allow fewer of them than many/most other standards > bodies... But different to (at least some) other standards bodies, we lack an official means to publish defect reports (aka err

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Scott Brim
On Thursday, May 16, 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: > By the time the IESG schedules the vote, ADs need to already have educated > themselves about the document. > Oh, so you're suggesting adding another phase to the process: IESG education. OK. > > So here's a simple proposal that pays attention t

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread joel jaeggli
On 5/16/13 10:01 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: On 5/16/2013 9:40 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: That's a good question Dave. The community might like to comment. On the whole, I am told that if an AD weighs in with her comments during working group last call, her fearsome personality may overwhelm some

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Yoav Nir
On May 16, 2013, at 9:08 PM, Scott Brim mailto:scott.b...@gmail.com>> wrote: On Thursday, May 16, 2013, Dave Crocker wrote: By the time the IESG schedules the vote, ADs need to already have educated themselves about the document. Oh, so you're suggesting adding another phase to the process: IE

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Stephen Farrell
I think Dave's idea is worth looking at, but have one comment: On 05/16/2013 09:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > There is a problem, though, that this will increase the load on ADs. There is that. But don't forget that ADs mostly read everything in IESG review and often comment. Even leaving aside DISCU

APPSDIR review of draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01

2013-05-16 Thread Tobias Gondrom
Hi, I have been selected as the Applications Area Directorate reviewer for this draft (for background on appsdir, please see ​ http://trac.tools.ietf.org/area/app/trac/wiki/ApplicationsAreaDirectorate ). Please resolve these comments along with any other Last Call comments you may receive. Please

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 16, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: > On the whole, I am told that if an AD weighs in with her comments during > working > group last call, her fearsome personality may overwhelm some of the WG > participants and she may dominate the WG consensus. There may be places where that h

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Dave, On 17/05/2013 04:23, Dave Crocker wrote: ... > The problem here is that basic reviewing is being done by the ADs too > late in the process. You are making a lot of assumptions in that sentence. At least these: 1. "Basic" reviewing means 2. At some stage before approval, ADs should

Re: APPSDIR review of draft-housley-rfc2050bis-01

2013-05-16 Thread Russ Housley
Tobias: Thanks for the review. Really, the delegation id to the RIRs. which in turn use the ICANN ASO to establish global policy. Thanks again, Russ On May 16, 2013, at 4:56 PM, Tobias Gondrom wrote: > Hi, > > I have been selected as the Applications Area Directorate reviewer for this >

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Ralph Droms
On May 16, 2013, at 5:00 PM 5/16/13, "Fred Baker (fred)" wrote: > > On May 16, 2013, at 9:40 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: > >> On the whole, I am told that if an AD weighs in with her comments during >> working >> group last call, her fearsome personality may overwhelm some of the WG >> particip

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Keith Moore
On 05/16/2013 04:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: The time for asking whether the group has considered making this field fixed length instead of variable, or whether RFC 2119 language is used in an appropriate way, or whether the protocol is extensible enough is at IETF last call. Actually the time fo

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Ralph Droms
Dave - I hope you'll indulge my selective quoting as I have a couple of specific points to address. My apologies if I end up quoting you out of context... On May 16, 2013, at 12:23 PM 5/16/13, Dave Crocker wrote: > [...] > > So here's a simple proposal that pays attention to AD workload and

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Ralph Droms
On May 16, 2013, at 5:58 PM 5/16/13, Keith Moore wrote: > On 05/16/2013 04:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: >> The time for asking whether the group has considered making this field fixed >> length instead of variable, or whether RFC 2119 language is used in an >> appropriate way, or whether the protoc

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread joel jaeggli
On 5/16/13 2:58 PM, Keith Moore wrote: On 05/16/2013 04:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: The time for asking whether the group has considered making this field fixed length instead of variable, or whether RFC 2119 language is used in an appropriate way, or whether the protocol is extensible enough is at

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Peter Saint-Andre
On 5/16/13 4:07 PM, Ralph Droms wrote: > > On May 16, 2013, at 5:58 PM 5/16/13, Keith Moore > wrote: > >> On 05/16/2013 04:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: >>> The time for asking whether the group has considered making this field >>> fixed length instead of variable, or whether RFC 2119 language is use

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Fred Baker (fred)
On May 16, 2013, at 1:46 PM, Yoav Nir wrote: > There is a problem, though, that this will increase the load on ADs. Other > concerns raised during IETF LC may lead to revised I-Ds, which the ADs will > need to re-read (or at least look at the diff). I don't know how significant > this extra w

Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-forces-interop-07

2013-05-16 Thread Wang,Weiming
Hi Ben, Thank you very much for the review comments. Please see inline responses from authors of the document on the comments. Hi Sherpherd and AD, we will update a version very soon. thanks a lot. Weiming - Original Message - From: "Ben Campbell" I am the assigned Gen-ART revi

Re: Is this an elephant? [Was: call for ideas: tail-heavy IETF process]

2013-05-16 Thread Keith Moore
On 05/16/2013 06:09 PM, joel jaeggli wrote: Fix that problem, and most of the conflicts between IESG and WGs that surround DISCUSS votes will go away. Maybe but I wouldn't take that as an article of faith. You're going to get pressure for more changes when fresh eyes review something. Yeah,

Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-05-16 Thread Thomas Narten
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