Vancouver meeting is coming up fast

2013-09-03 Thread IETF Chair
It seems like yesterday when we were in Berlin, but I wanted to highlight that our Vancouver meeting is coming up soon. Sooner than usual, in fact, given the dates of the meetings this year. I wanted to highlight an important deadline. If you are working on a new proposal for work at the IETF,

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread S Moonesamy
At 23:15 31-08-2013, Scott Kitterman wrote: That does seem better, but don't all parties have an obligation to attempt to communicate clearly? The new text is as follows: Participants, particularly those with English as a first language, attempt to accommodate the needs of other participan

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Brim
On Sep 3, 2013 5:47 AM, "S Moonesamy" wrote: At the other end someone who has a problem understanding what is being said can contact the WG Chair or Area Director privately so that they can step in and help. Because there are communication problems every few minutes, this seems like a large burde

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Olaf Kolkman
On 2 sep. 2013, at 22:14, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Monday, 02 September, 2013 14:09 -0400 Scott O Bradner > wrote: > >>> There is at least one ongoing effort right now that has the >>> potential to reclassify a large set of Proposed Standard RFCs >>> that form the basis of widely use

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Brim
+1. Well said.

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Jari Arkko
Olaf, John, Scott, > In fact, going back to the language of RFC2026 for Full (now Internet) > Standard. It confirms that popularity (significant implementation) is one > necessary but not sufficient criterium. Sorry. I was careless when I wrote about the effort. I didn't mean to suggest that w

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
S Moonesamy wrote: >At 23:15 31-08-2013, Scott Kitterman wrote: >>That does seem better, but don't all parties have an obligation to >attempt to >>communicate clearly? > >The new text is as follows: > >Participants, particularly those with English as a first language, >attempt >to accommodate th

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Bradner, Scott
the quoted text came from RFC 1602 and is descriptive not proscriptive removing a description of a process that is no longer followed makes sense to me but might not warrant a RFC to do but the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3 says: The RFC Editor shall publish periodically an "Internet Official

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
Spencer Dawkins wrote: >On 9/3/2013 9:26 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: >> >> S Moonesamy wrote: >>> The new text is as follows: Participants, particularly those with >>> English as a first language, attempt to accommodate the needs of >>> other participants by communicating clearly. Participants

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/3/2013 9:26 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: S Moonesamy wrote: The new text is as follows: Participants, particularly those with English as a first language, attempt to accommodate the needs of other participants by communicating clearly. Participants try to accommodate each other. Except

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/3/13 9:32 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote: the quoted text came from RFC 1602 and is descriptive not proscriptive removing a description of a process that is no longer followed makes sense to me but might not warrant a RFC to do but the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3 says: The RFC Editor shall

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Scott O Bradner
thank you - clarity does help but such an effort will not remove the need for this document imo Scott On Sep 3, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Olaf, John, Scott, > >> In fact, going back to the language of RFC2026 for Full (now Internet) >> Standard. It confirms that popularity (sign

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Eduardo A. Suárez
Hi, Quoting Abdussalam Baryun : I always think the problem of not understanding a message in IETF is not the fault of the transmitter, but it is the receiver's fault. The receiver SHOULD make more efforts to understand, or send a reply to request clarifications (specially in IETF WGs when discu

RE: Vancouver meeting is coming up fast

2013-09-03 Thread Fabian Jr
thank you Sir for the reminder, i applied for the scholarship for Vancouver meeting, i have not heard back yet! any advise ? thank you, Arbogast Fabian, cell:+255-78-447-8387 > Subject: Vancouver meeting is coming up fast > From: ch...@ietf.org > Date: Tue, 3 Sep 2013 12:32:10 +0300 >

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Eduardo A. Suárez
Hi, Quoting S Moonesamy : The original phrasing is as follows: "English is the de facto language of the IETF, but it is not the native language of many IETF participants. Native English speakers attempt to speak clearly and a bit slowly and to limit the use of slang in order to acc

Re: [apps-discuss] AppsDir review of draft-ietf-repute-model-08

2013-09-03 Thread Douglas Otis
On Aug 30, 2013, at 7:50 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > Colleagues, and Doug especially, > > The message I sent (below) wasn't intended as a "shut up and go away" > message, but a genuine query. I have grave doubts that TLS is the > right example (to begin with, I think fitting it into the REPUT

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 04/09/2013 04:16, Pete Resnick wrote: > On 9/3/13 9:32 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote: >> the quoted text came from RFC 1602 and is descriptive not proscriptive >> removing a description of a process that is no longer followed makes >> sense to me but might not warrant a RFC to do >> >> but the 3rd pa

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Barry Leiba
>> That does seem better, but don't all parties have an obligation to attempt >> to communicate clearly? > > The new text is as follows: > > Participants, particularly those with English as a first language, attempt > to accommodate the needs of other participants by communicating clearly. > >

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Ted Lemon
On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > The only concern I have is that once we do this -- declare that PS is > always more mature than that -- we can't go back. Do we *really* want > to say that we will never again approve a PS spec that's partially > baked? It seems as if we already

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Scott O. Bradner
fwiw - I would love for the IESG to exercise flexibility here but I have not seen that in many years - so I think we are already there without a discernible path back Scott On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > I mostly agree with this draft, but I have a concern. Let's anchor > t

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/3/2013 3:49 PM, Bradner, Scott wrote: in line On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: at it - maybe you should remove the 2nd paragraph in the same section An official summary of standards actions completed and pending shall appear in each issue of the Internet Soci

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/3/13 1:13 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 04/09/2013 04:16, Pete Resnick wrote: On 9/3/13 9:32 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote: ...the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3... Good catch. I'll switch the citation and the quote to the bit from 6.1.3, but I'll also note the removal of t

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Barry Leiba
I mostly agree with this draft, but I have a concern. Let's anchor that concern off of this bit that Jari said: > Secondly, the other obvious action we could take is to go back to the original > mode of operation, i.e., making PS RFCs truly early and somewhat untested > specifications. I am perso

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Bradner, Scott
in line On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: > On 9/3/13 1:13 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> On 04/09/2013 04:16, Pete Resnick wrote: >> >>> On 9/3/13 9:32 AM, Bradner, Scott wrote: >>> ...the 3rd paragraph in section 6.1.3... >>> Good catch. I'll switch the

Re: Last Call: (Sender Policy Framework (SPF) for Authorizing Use of Domains in Email, Version 1) to Proposed Standard

2013-09-03 Thread S Moonesamy
Hello, This is a rough summary of the comments which have been made on the Last Call for draft-ietf-spfbis-4408bis-19 since I emailed Pete Resnick [1]. There were comments about the RFC 5507 concerns from Patrik Fältström [2], Dave Crocker [3], Mark Andrews [4] and John Klensin [5]. There

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Comment at the end... On 04/09/2013 08:58, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > On 9/3/2013 3:49 PM, Bradner, Scott wrote: >> in line >> >> On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:45 PM, Pete Resnick >> wrote: >> >> >> at it - maybe you should remove the 2nd >> paragraph in the same section >> An official summary of s

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/3/13 3:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: So that the reader of RFC 2026 will need to read yet another document to get the full picture? There are currently 8 RFCs that update RFC 2026, some of which have been updated themselves. Quite seriously - I appreciate Pete's reluctance to overload the

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
Barry Leiba wrote: >>> That does seem better, but don't all parties have an obligation to >attempt >>> to communicate clearly? >> >> The new text is as follows: >> >> Participants, particularly those with English as a first language, >attempt >> to accommodate the needs of other participants

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
On 9/3/2013 6:02 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: On 9/3/13 3:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: So that the reader of RFC 2026 will need to read yet another document to get the full picture? There are currently 8 RFCs that update RFC 2026, some of which have been updated themselves. Quite seriously - I

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 04/09/2013 11:20, Spencer Dawkins wrote: > On 9/3/2013 6:02 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: >> On 9/3/13 3:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >>> So that the reader of RFC 2026 will need to read yet >>> another document to get the full picture? There are currently 8 RFCs >>> that >>> update RFC 2026, some

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread SM
Hi Pete, At 16:02 03-09-2013, Pete Resnick wrote: OK, does this do anything for anyone? Finally, RFC 2026 [RFC2026] section 6.1.3 also calls for the publication of an "official summary of standards actions completed and pending" in the Internet Society's newsletter. This has also not

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-03 Thread Pete Resnick
On 9/3/13 4:28 PM, SM wrote: Hi Pete, At 16:02 03-09-2013, Pete Resnick wrote: OK, does this do anything for anyone? Finally, RFC 2026 [RFC2026] section 6.1.3 also calls for the publication of an "official summary of standards actions completed and pending" in the Internet Society's ne

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/3/13 6:50 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I think that is a given without having pre-emptive blame assignment in the > text. *Blame*? I know that I've inadvertently used regional idioms that were hard for non-native speakers to understand and I've been grateful when it's been pointed out. Try

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Scott Kitterman
On Tuesday, September 03, 2013 17:07:02 Melinda Shore wrote: > On 9/3/13 6:50 AM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > > I think that is a given without having pre-emptive blame assignment in the > > text. > *Blame*? > > I know that I've inadvertently used regional idioms that were hard > for non-native speak

Re: draft-moonesamy-ietf-conduct-3184bis

2013-09-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/3/13 6:58 PM, Scott Kitterman wrote: > I agree that trying to figure things out is a net positive. What I want to > avoid is someone making excuses claiming that since they aren't a native > speaker it's somebody else's problem to understand them. I'd like to think that we're going to reta

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Olaf Kolkman
Barry, Question, in-line. On Sep 3, 2013, at 10:40 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > I mostly agree with this draft, but I have a concern. Let's anchor > that concern off of this bit that Jari said: > >> Secondly, the other obvious action we could take is to go back to the >> original >> mode of oper