Re: [Ietf] 240.0.0.0/4

2004-04-20 Thread Bob Hinden
Iljitsch, My comfort level would be much higher if by the time that we need the extra address space, we have a fighting chance of actually being able to use it. So I think it would be a good idea to make it very clear that implementations must, in the absence of more specific information, regar

RE: IETF60: time needed for check-in at San Diego?

2004-07-22 Thread Bob Hinden
Fred, At 11:22 AM 7/22/2004, Fred Baker wrote: At 08:55 AM 07/22/04 -0400, Soliman Hesham wrote: Try to get a direct flight or through San Francisco. I hear that. But (west coast perspective...) I avoid SFO like the plague. When fog sets in, they shut down one runway, and flights throughout the US

Re: Naming convention for a WG I-D that returns to

2004-07-30 Thread Bob Hinden
Bill, At 03:46 AM 7/30/2004, Bill Manning wrote: clearly different rules apply, depending on whom makes the submission. for example, several individual submissions were made before this IETF and we (the authors) were told that we -MUST- use the name of one of th eauthors in the draft name... howeve

Re: hop-by-hop and router alert options [Re: Question about use of RSVP in Production Networks]

2004-08-11 Thread Bob Hinden
Florian, At 11:51 AM 08/11/2004, Florian Weimer wrote: * Pekka Savola: > The justification is simple: any "magic" packets which all routers on > the path must somehow examine and process seems a very dubious concept > when we want to avoid DoS attacks etc. Any packet with IP options is more or less

Re: WG Review: Behavior Engineering for Hindrance Avoidance (behave) (fwd)

2004-09-20 Thread Bob Hinden
Harald, My take (which is obviously biased) is that the number of NAT devices 2 years from now is likely to be significantly larger than the number of NAT devices currently deployed. And - here I am making a real leap of faith - if the IETF recommendations for NAT devices make manufacturers who

My views on the Scenario O & C

2004-09-24 Thread Bob Hinden
My current view is that the housing the IETF administrative activity in ISOC (Scenario O) is the best of the two approaches. Note: I have no position in the ISOC nor am a current member (or maybe they do not have members these days). My employer is a corporate member. I was a member when the

Re: Call for Nominees

2004-11-05 Thread Bob Hinden
Thomas, At 06:52 PM 11/04/2004, Thomas Narten wrote: > IESG members whose terms are up are: > Thomas Narten -- Internet Area As I have been telling folk informally for a while now, I am stepping down as Internet AD with the ending of the current term. I want to publicly thank you for your many year

Re: draft-farrel-rtg-morality-requirements-00.txt

2004-11-16 Thread Bob Hinden
Ole, At 03:03 PM 11/16/2004, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Indeed. People polled after the election said they put Moral Values as the #1 priorty. I see no reason why the previous and next administration won't make a morality section a requirement in all published docs. We should be proactive and create a mo

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Bob Hinden
At this point, less than one week before the meeting, only 14 WGs (not counting BOFs) have agendas posted. I'm at a loss for a suitable adjective. You might start by asking the secretariat why all the agendas which have been submitted haven't been posted... I know of two working groups which h

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-13 Thread Bob Hinden
Dave, Here's my own take: It is empty bureaucracy. It is form, without content. It is additional effort, with no benefit. It is reasonable and necessary to require that documents contain important considerations. This is not accomplished by having pro forma sections lacking content. I am

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-25 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, Just ask the IPv6 working group if there's an option number available, and if there's any particular reason thatthis particular option would do harm to IPv6. Assuming they answer "yes, all the option numbers aren't currently allocated" and "no, we can just ignore this option if we see it,

Re: RFC 2434 term "IESG approval" (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-06-28 Thread Bob Hinden
Keith, At 05:40 AM 06/28/2005, Keith Moore wrote: My personal opinion is that it's quite reasonable to require IESG approval of an IP-level option. IMHO the IESG should solicit public input before making such a decision, probably in the form of a Last Call. But the potential for harm is such

Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-14 Thread Bob Hinden
Brian, We propose that, for an initial period of 6 months, a member of the community will be added to regular IESG meetings as a "recording secretary" who will write narrative minutes of the discussions, which will be posted publicly after IESG review for accuracy. (As always, personnel discussi

Re: Port numbers and IPv6 (was: I-D

2005-07-15 Thread Bob Hinden
David, I was looking more for an explanation of how and why it was decided to be out of scope. The arguments for considering it to be in scope would have been: - the TCP and UDP "pseudo-headers" needed to be changed anyway to accomodate IPv6 addresses (see section 8.1 of RFC 2460); - the

Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-26 Thread Bob Hinden
Spencer, At 03:18 PM 07/26/2005, Spencer Dawkins wrote: This draft (available at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt ) does a reasonable job of balancing between current-generation leadership continuity and next-generation leadership development. I have previo

Re: Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-blanchet-v6ops-routing-guidelines-00.txt

2005-09-16 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi Bill, At 02:55 PM 09/16/2005, Bill Manning wrote: sorry, the I-D has no information as to where this should be discussed... so: Umm, from the file name I would have thought V6OPS is the intended venue to discuss it. draft-blanchet-v6ops-routing-guidelines-00.txt Suggesting moving any

Re: jabber rooms

2005-11-09 Thread Bob Hinden
John, reminders may not have been noticed -- I've only occasionally found the network stable enough in the meeting sessions to make use of jabber rooms effective and useful in following what is going on. I agree. In the IPv6 w.g. session our jabber scribe couldn't do anything useful. B

Re: Vancouver schedule

2005-11-10 Thread Bob Hinden
I really like the current schedule. When it is over for the day it is over, as opposed to the old schedule where there were sessions after dinner. I hope we keep it. That said, having coffee/tea/sodas/etc. the whole day would be great. The cookies could still only be at the long afternoo

The Trust Agreement Proposal

2005-12-08 Thread Bob Hinden
Lucy and IAOC, As John Klenson, said we don't live in a perfect world. I think the trust agreement as written solves some very important problems we have now (e.g., getting rights to things like the IETF's domain name, past meeting proceedings, email archives, etc.). It is probably not

Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs

2008-04-17 Thread Bob Hinden
Russ and the IESG, I generally support this proposal. However, I think you have made it too complex. Specifically, you have three states, where I think only two are required. > o Approved - The errata is appropriate under the criteria below and > should be available to implementors

Re: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, Let me see if I understand this. - This is the specification for SMTP. It's was first used on the Arpanet. - It is probably as widely deployed as IP and TCP. Maybe more so. - It works (e.g., the email discussing this thread was sent via SMTP). - The IETF is now advancing it to Draft St

Re: IETF Meeting Network and Other Technical Requirements

2006-03-02 Thread Bob Hinden
Jason, On Mar 2, 2006, at 7:44 AM, ext Livingood, Jason wrote: Does this section mean that 802.11a is specifically not supported? Any idea if the wifi network at the Dallas meeting will be better than in Vancouver? The true test will be the meeting itself, but we are working hard to try

IETF65 Network Status

2006-03-19 Thread Bob Hinden
The IETF65 network is deployed and operational. We are supporting IPv4 and IPv6. There is wireless running throughout the hotel (ssid is ietf65). The wireless supports IEEE 802.11a and 802.11b. You can find detailed information about the network on the IETF 65 website: http://www.iet

IETF65 Network on Friday

2006-03-23 Thread Bob Hinden
Per standard operating procedure the IETF65 network will be coming down promptly at Noon on Friday. This includes the public areas, meeting rooms, terminal room, and servers. At that time the Hilton wireless service will switch back to the "HHonors". Attendies who are staying at the Hilto

Re: nomcom and confidentiality

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Lakshminath, By the way, last I checked "liaisons" are "not voting members." In one of the nomcoms I was in, the liaisons were allowed to vote in straw polls. It was a terrible idea. It negates the checks and balances we have put into the nomcom process, for instance no more than 2 peo

Re: nomcom and confidentiality

2006-11-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Danny, What The liaisons are there to provide additional information, not directly influence the outcome. Do you have more information on this? If this is true, I think the result from that Nomcom is questionable. I think this needs to be investigated and the result be made public.

Re: chicago IETF IPv6 connectivity

2007-06-30 Thread Bob Hinden
Jim, Have no fear, the Chicago network will have IPv6 connectivity (as we always have). It's likely to be natively routed out through I2, though the kind offer of a tunnel will be held in reserve, should we have a problem with that. :-) Good to hear! Many kudos to the folks putting toge

Re: DHCP failures (was RE: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?)

2007-07-31 Thread Bob Hinden
John, Almost independent of the IPv6 autoconfig issues, I find it deeply troubling that we seem to be unable to both * get the ducks lined up to run IPv6 fully and smoothly, with and without local/auto config. * get a DHCP arrangement (IPv4 and, for those who wa

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-24 Thread Bob Hinden
Thomas, A few additions to your description of how we got to where we are now email. RFC3177, where the /48 recommendation was made, used the H ratio analysis to explain why a /48 was acceptable. However the IETF did not make any recommendation to the RIRs that the H ratio (current ver

Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

2007-11-30 Thread Bob Hinden
In any case, I would much rather have seen that published and later declared Historic than hold up all other RFCs. It isn't as if the IETF can control what actually gets implemented and deployed in any case - so why on earth does it *matter*? Whereas getting the vast majority of RFCs published p

Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

2007-12-01 Thread Bob Hinden
Before we head further down this track, do we have any data as to how big a problem we are thinking of fixing? Since the IETF has been producing RFCs, how many have been appealed in the 2 months after IESG approval? I would like to see the actual numbers. Does this happen 10%, 1%, .1%, .0

Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

2007-12-02 Thread Bob Hinden
Harald, Based on the past record, we're talking about something that happens 0.58% of the time, or less. Of course, predicting the future from the past is iffy; there have been 10 appeals in 2006 and only one (not document related) in 2007, so "it varies". Thanks for looking at the data

My view of the IAOC Meeting Selection Guidelines

2008-02-08 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, I have been on the IAOC for about a year and wanted to explain my view how the IAOC decides to to have an IETF meeting in a specific location. I thought this might be useful given the discussion about IETF72 in Dublin. This is my personal view, not anything official from the IAOC. F

Re: A charter for the IESG

2003-03-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Harald, - Send out a revised version some time after San Francisco - Issue a four-week Last Call for BCP on the document once discussion has stabilized - Approve it for BCP before the Vienna IETF I don't think it is appropriate for the IESG to approve it's own charter. We don't let working gr

Re: Fwd: Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Harald, At 07:35 AM 3/18/2003, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Harald, At 09:10 PM 3/14/2003 +0100, you wrote: On Wednesday at the IESG plenary, I'm doing a presentation about IETF financials. I have a few questions and comments on this presentation. Do we have a real budget for 2003? Or are the

Re: Fwd: Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Randy, At 10:12 AM 3/18/2003, Randy Bush wrote: > I second Margaret Wasserman's suggestion that the 2003 budget information > should be made public. i doubt anyone disagrees. but i am not sure fortec has one. now that we actually have back numbers, forward management seems a good, though not nov

RE: spam

2003-05-27 Thread Bob Hinden
John, The evidence is that, if it became clear that a serious effort was developing to deploy such filters, the spammers would start sending conforming messages more rapidly than the filters could actually be spun up. Would this inconvenience them, or the authors of spam tools? Yes, but almo

IPv6 Support at IETF.ORG [was Moving the ipng mailing list]

2003-08-21 Thread Bob Hinden
Jordi, Yes, I agree this is long overdue. Bob At 04:05 AM 8/21/2003, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Completely agree, even is time (overdue) to get ALL the IETF/ISOC related sites with IPv6 support ! Regards, Jordi

Re: literature review [ was: blah blah blah ]

2003-09-09 Thread Bob Hinden
Randy, as bernard pointed out a while ago, the lack of a review of, and reference to, the [should be] known literature is notable in many classes of ietf work and an embarrassing number of internet drafts. I think the expression that applies to parts of the IETF community is something like, inste

Re: draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec-05.txt lacks IPR clause

2003-10-15 Thread Bob Hinden
Itojun, At 06:43 PM 10/14/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec-05.txt does not have IPR clause on it, even though cisco claims to have patent related to it. http://www.ietf.org/ietf/IPR/cisco-ipr-draft-ietf-vrrp-ipv6-spec.txt I wasn't aware of this claim

Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Keith, Maybe that's the real problem - people think they are paying for the wireless network as part of the conference fee, when the reality (as I understand it) is that a substantial part of the cost of the wireless network comes from sponsors, donors, and/or volunteers. The network (i.e., intern

Re: IPv6 addressing limitations (was "national security")

2003-12-03 Thread Bob Hinden
See, that's the classic mistake: Everyone wants to divide the entire address space RIGHT NOW, without any clue as to how the world will evolve in years to come. Nature may abhor a vacuum, but it certainly That not correct. See: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space Where it say

RE: The IETF Mission

2004-01-18 Thread Bob Hinden
At 11:50 AM 1/18/2004, Christian Huitema wrote: > Yes. So let's consciously endeavor to ensure that sigificant > non-standards documents -- responsible position papers, white papers, > new ideas, etc. -- become RFCs. (Making Internet Drafts into an > archival series seems like a terrible idea to

Re: IETF registration and privacy ...

2004-01-26 Thread Bob Hinden
Harald, Despite that it has been commented in this list some time ago, I still see that the list of attendees is open, and there is no option, when registering to indicate if you want to be there or not ? I don't really mind myself, but we should have this option, at least this is my understanding

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-03 Thread Bob Hinden
Dennis, >I run my business out of my home and my DSL link is an important part of >my business. About six months ago my ISP started charging me a $20/mo. fee >for my /27 because "ARIN is now charging us." I am unhappy about this fee >but I understand its motivation -- conversation of IP space, th

Re: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )

2000-08-23 Thread Bob Hinden
Tim, >If you can point me to a production-quality Windows 98 IPv6 stack, >I would be happy to try to install it on my laptop, and maybe even >run it at the next IETF meeting and help you with your migration >project. (Oh, and make sure wireless works.) What I did on my laptop was to upgrade to

Re: about IPV6

2000-10-18 Thread Bob Hinden
The following are the pages for the IPng working group. http://playground.sun.com/ipng Bob At 10:23 AM 10/18/2000 +0800, luoyan wrote: >Hello, > may I have your attention please? > I want to know the information about IPV6,can you help me ?

Re: Congestion control

2000-12-18 Thread Bob Hinden
I find it amusing that this debate on how to handle "congestion" at IETF meetings mirrors the technical debate on congestion in the Internet. The two sides still seem to be "more bandwidth" or "apply QOS". Bob

Re: Blast from the past

2001-01-25 Thread Bob Hinden
>However, I have to observe that this strange thing called ARPANET >appears to be using private addresses :-) I think it was Danny Cohen who said that in the US the private networks are public and the public networks are private. Bob

Re: trying to reconcile two threads

2001-11-29 Thread Bob Hinden
Anthony, >Why? Their costs are based on the amount of capacity used, not the number of >computers connected. A transfer volume of 1 GB per month costs the >company the >same whether it is carried out by one computer or ten computers. If they charge per computer they get more revenue without, a

Re: ipngwg, please stop the insanity

2001-11-30 Thread Bob Hinden
Richard, The ipng mailing list is working. It is used by the working group to develop the IPv6 protocol, but it is not used to debate the need for IPv6. To me the IETF list is an appropriate place for that debate. Bob At 12:30 PM 11/29/2001, Zoch, Richard (TIFS) wrote: >Is [EMAIL PROTECTED] b

Re: comments on Friday scheduling (was Plenaries at IETF 53)

2002-01-17 Thread Bob Hinden
> >I actually think our scheduling is within epsilon of optimal. Five days >(currently Sunday evening - Friday morning) seems to be about as much >as we can handle anyway. No matter which day of the week we end on, >many people are going to leave a bit early, and the last meeting slot >is going

Re: How many standards or protocols...

2002-04-16 Thread Bob Hinden
Ran, > Proprietary is a commonly used term to describe something that does >not have a full, complete, and open specification -- which is the >current state of IS-IS. Now folks (including me) are trying to fix >that issue by publishing sundry non-standard RFCs on how the as-deployed >IS-

Re: IETF#55-Atlanta - social event

2002-11-06 Thread Bob Hinden
Michael, Nokia is hosting the Atlanta IETF. While there is no social, we have ordered a number of t-shirts. Bob At 11:48 AM 11/6/2002, Michael Richardson wrote: Based upon the agenda, and lack of a button, it looks like there is no social event. I don't have a problem with this at all, actual

WLAN at IETF55

2002-11-18 Thread Bob Hinden
We are seeing some of the usual problems with the wireless support at IETF55 in Atlanta. To help mitigate the problems: 1) Make sure you laptop is configured with SSID of IETF55 2) Do not allow your laptop to run in peer-to-peer mode. Set it to Access Point only mode. We are seeing many no

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-10-24 Thread Bob Hinden
Since a few people are asking questions that were answered in the original email, here is a link to the mail that was sent to ietf-announce on October 22, 2012: https://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&gid=0&k1=934&k2=11277&tid=1351092666 I thought this would be helpful since it was only

[RFC 3777 Update for Vacancies]

2012-10-24 Thread Bob Hinden
The draft that proposes changes to the RFC3777/BCP10 to deal with vacancies is now available. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-ietf-genarea-bcp10upd-00 Bob From: internet-dra...@ietf.org To: i-d-annou...@ietf.org Reply-to: internet-dra...@ietf.org Subject: I-D ACTION:

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-11-01 Thread Bob Hinden
bership on subcommittees, and, of course, one less voice in discussions in the IAOC and IETF trust. Having fewer people increases the work load on everyone else and creates less diversity in views and expertise. Bob Hinden IAOC Chair > > Dale

Re: IAOC Request for community feedback

2012-11-01 Thread Bob Hinden
Géza, On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:58 AM, Turchanyi Geza wrote: > Olaf and all, > > > First: I cannot help to think there is a personal tragedy behind all this. I > hope Marshall makes it back to this community because I will miss him. > Same here. > > > Exactly. This is why I hope that some of

Re: Recall petition for Mr. Marshall Eubanks

2012-11-01 Thread Bob Hinden
Sam, On Nov 1, 2012, at 2:45 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > I offer my signature to the recall petition. I am nomcom eligible. > > At this point, I believe the recall process is the correct process to > follow unless there is an approved BCP update. > In a case where there's been no contact and there'

Re: I* Member Removal Process

2012-11-02 Thread Bob Hinden
these will be included in the minutes of the 25 October 2012 IAOC call. Bob > > From: Bob Hinden > Subject: Results of IAOC E-Vote to Approve sending an email about the IAOC > Vacancy to IETF Announce > Date: October 22, 2012 8:08:27 AM PDT > To: i...@ietf.org > Cc: Bo

Re: Recall petition for Mr. Marshall Eubanks

2012-11-03 Thread Bob Hinden
as given > Marshal > the full opportunity to start participating again or to resign and he has > done neither - > it is time to move +1 Bob > > Scott > > On Nov 1, 2012, at 10:22 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: > >> At 06:01 PM 11/1/2012, Bob Hinden wrote: >

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-10 Thread Bob Hinden
The IAOC site team is planning to visit several potential venues early next year in Latin America / South America. We are open to suggestions for potential venues to evaluate. Thanks, Bob On Nov 10, 2012, at 9:54 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> about your suggestion, it is my todo list. > > if i ca

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-10 Thread Bob Hinden
Arturo, On Nov 10, 2012, at 13:31, Arturo Servin wrote: > Bob, > >Nice to hear that. > >I will send off-list to the IAOC some venues, possible hosts and people > that could help in finding a good place. Thanks, Bob > > Regards > as > > On 1

Re: Barely literate minutes

2012-11-28 Thread Bob Hinden
On Nov 28, 2012, at 3:07 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> It is a fact of life that some WGs only make progress face-to-face. I >> think that's often a sign of a problem, but it's a fact. > > i am not so sure it's a problem. email is a great miscommunication > mechanism. so mailing lists go disfunctio

Re: Simplifying our processes: Conference Calls

2012-12-03 Thread Bob Hinden
Hannes, On Dec 3, 2012, at 11:37 AM, Hannes Tschofenig wrote: > > On Dec 3, 2012, at 8:01 PM, SM wrote: > >> There are people contributing to a working group who are not subscribed to >> the mailing list. There are probably people who are not actively following >> a working group who might a

Re: Remote Participation Services

2013-02-11 Thread Bob Hinden
Keith, On Feb 11, 2013, at 5:17 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > On 02/05/2013 11:04 AM, IETF Chair wrote: >> 3.4. Slide Sharing >> >>Slides are often sent by email in advance of the meeting. >>WebEx allows the slides and desktop applications to be viewed by the >>remote participants. T

Re: The RFC Acknowledgement

2013-02-11 Thread Bob Hinden
AB, On Feb 11, 2013, at 3:32 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: > On 2/12/13, joel jaeggli wrote: >>> Do you mean that IETF is producing what it does not own, or IETF has >>> no right to edit/amend a document that it is publishing? I >>> misunderstand your point, >>> >> Once an RFC number is issued

Re: Nomcom off in the wilderness: Transport AD

2013-03-06 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, > Just to be clear: I am not suggesting public discussion. I'm suggesting > that candidates make their responses available to the community, so the > community can have additional information for providing feedback to the > Nomcom. I agree with Dave on this. I try to give feedback on

Re: Nomcom off in the wilderness: Transport AD

2013-03-06 Thread Bob Hinden
Eric, On Mar 6, 2013, at 12:59 PM, Eric Gray wrote: > Bob, > > This confuses me. Are you saying that you would be more able to give > feedback on someone > you don't know if you knew what they might have to say about themselves? > > I would think that - if you don't know somebody

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Bob Hinden
To raise this discussion up a bit, I can think two other related reasons why there may be less corporate diversity in the IETF. The first is that it's possible to build applications and businesses that take advantage of the Internet without having to come to the IETF to standardize anything.

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-02 Thread Bob Hinden
AB, On Apr 1, 2013, at 5:45 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: > RFC6921>It is well known that as we approach the speed of light, time > slows down. > AB> I know that time slows for something when it is in speed of light, > but communication is not something moving. If the packet is in speed > of lig

Re: RFC 6921 on Design Considerations for Faster-Than-Light (FTL) Communication

2013-04-05 Thread Bob Hinden
Loa, On Apr 5, 2013, at 1:47 AM, Loa Andersson wrote: > Bob, > > thinking about this and assuming that the FTL Communication are deployed > in a not too far distant future, wouldn't we have started to receive > packets that was sent in the future already now? See Section 5. It may be already

Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2013-06-07 Thread Bob Hinden
Thomas, > From my perspective, the intention/usefulness of the weekly posting is > to give folk a high-level view of who is posting and how often. It is > not uncommon to see certain individuals stand out. In some cases, that > makes perfect sense -- and the signal level is high. In other cases, >

Re: Content-free Last Call comments

2013-06-12 Thread Bob Hinden
Pete, On Jun 10, 2013, at 1:37 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: > Russ, our IAB chair and former IETF chair, just sent a message to the IETF > list regarding a Last Call on draft-ietf-pkix-est. Here is the entire > contents of his message, save quoting the whole Last Call request: > > On 6/10/13 1:45

Re: documenting feedback of meeting venues

2013-06-23 Thread Bob Hinden
1:12 PM, Abdussalam Baryun wrote: > Hi Bob Hinden, and IETF management > > I attended a presentation of IAOC in IETF last-meeting. I have send > you the below message which you did not reply so far (was waiting for > three months). Please note that this is my last reminder (will

Re: Appeal Response to Abdussalam Baryun regarding draft-ietf-manet-nhdp-sec-threats

2013-07-02 Thread Bob Hinden
Lloyd, On Jul 2, 2013, at 4:37 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > Do we have any statistics on how many appeals to the IESG fail and how many > succeed? Appeals are listed at: https://www.ietf.org/iesg/appeal.html Bob > > If I knew that 97% of appeals get rejected, I wouldn't even bother

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-17 Thread Bob Hinden
On Mar 17, 2010, at 9:02 AM, Michael Edward McNeil wrote: > On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 08:28, Iljitsch van Beijnum > wrote: > > (Although the exposure to non-standard ways of doing things may make this > harder for Americans.) > > > Since Americans habitually use month-day order anyway, why wo

Re: Above market hotel room rates

2010-03-24 Thread Bob Hinden
could help the IETF. I hope this is helpful. Bob Hinden IAOC Chair ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-04-02 Thread Bob Hinden
Ralph, On Apr 2, 2010, at 1:56 PM, Ralph Droms wrote: > So, with all this discussion, I'm still not clear what to expect. When I > walk up to a train ticket kiosk in Schiphol, should I expect to be able to > use my US-issued, non-chip credit card (AMEX, VISA - I don't care as long as > *one*

Re: [IAOC] Proposed IAOC Administrative Procedures

2010-06-02 Thread Bob Hinden
ehind and will try hard to get caught up between now and Maastricht. Bob Hinden IAOC Chair On May 29, 2010, at 5:28 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Friday, May 28, 2010 10:15 -0700 IETF Administrative > Director wrote: > >> All; >> >> The IAOC is consider

Re: Admission Control to the IETF 78 and IETF 79 Networks

2010-07-02 Thread Bob Hinden
Mike, > Going back to the IAOC, I would ask whether this requirement was known at the > time of the previous Beijing discussion? If so, why wasn't it brought up at > that point in time and as part of the discussion on venue acceptability. If > it was added later, when was it added, and why wa

Re: IETF privacy policy - update

2010-07-06 Thread Bob Hinden
John, > It is hard, and maybe impossible, to argue against the IETF > having an established privacy policy, so I agree with Melinda's > "about time". > > However, while administering such a policy (to the degree to > which such a thing is needed) is a reasonable task for the IETF > community to a

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2010-07-08 Thread Bob Hinden
Alissa, No hats on, these are my personal views. I have now read the draft. My overall comment is that I am not convinced if this is needed and am sympathetic to the views expressed on the mailing list that this is solving a problem the IETF doesn't have. Comments below. Bob General commen

Re: The anonymity question

2010-07-25 Thread Bob Hinden
On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:47 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > John Levine asked: > >> Some people have argued that it should be possible to participate in some or >> all IETF processes while remaining partly or completely anonymous. Is this >> a reasonable expectation? > > No. Anonymous or pseudon

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-06 Thread Bob Hinden
meetings. WG chair and authors might have a longer history. I think an important part of the meeting rotation is to equalize the travel cost/pain for most attendees. This would point to actual current attendance more than say w.g. chairs. Bob Bob > > Thanks - Mike > &g

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-06 Thread Bob Hinden
Dave, > These numbers probably need to be correlated with the venue of each meeting. > One would expect higher Asian attendance at an Asian venue, and so forth. > Controlling for venue could produce a very different interpretation of the > numbers. I think that shows up clearly in the numbers.

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-07 Thread Bob Hinden
; Mike > > > > At 12:34 AM 8/7/2010, Fred Baker wrote: > >> On Aug 7, 2010, at 12:37 AM, Bob Hinden wrote: >> >>> I do note that it seems clear that registration is related to where we >>> meet. That show up pretty clearly the current data. So jud

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-10 Thread Bob Hinden
Australia 14 >>> S.America 8 >>> >>> Continentally Local Attendees >>> Asia 333 >>> Europe 173 >>> N.America 232 >>> >>> Thanks, >>> Donald >>> == >>> Donald E. Eastlake 3r

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Hinden
Mike, On Aug 11, 2010, at 8:36 AM, Michael StJohns wrote: > Marshall - > > I would suggest that given you've chosen the location based on the assumption > that Bob's 1/1/1 model is most correct and that its possible that a review of > the data relative to more persistent attendees or more act

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Hinden
Scott, On Aug 11, 2010, at 9:00 AM, Scott Brim wrote: > I also believe that the goal of moving the meeting around is to minimize > the cost of getting our work done, not to minimize the cost for walk-in > attendees. I agree. > However, to measure this, I suggest we count "contributions" > a

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Hinden
On Aug 11, 2010, at 10:15 AM, Peter Saint-Andre wrote: > On 8/11/10 11:05 AM, Bob Hinden wrote: > >> I would >> assume everyone attending an IETF meeting has said something at the >> meeting (in a session, or in the hall, etc.) that could be construed >> as a cont

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Hinden
Mike, > I will note that for any given person asking if a date 4-7 years out is "bad" > is probably going to get pretty much a "huh? why are you asking me now?" and > the silence you encountered. In this case, silence isn't so much consent as > "I have no useful data to convey". > > But given

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-11 Thread Bob Hinden
Mike, On Aug 11, 2010, at 11:30 AM, Michael StJohns wrote: >> While personally I agree (as in I have no idea what I will be doing in >> 2017), in order to schedule meetings and avoid conflicts with other >> organizations I don't see any alternative to set these dates into the >> future. Once

Re: Varying meeting venue -- why?

2010-08-12 Thread Bob Hinden
Scott, >> - For regular attendees, to avoid the boredom of always going to the >> same place and/or instill a bit of interest > > I think it's more to avoid the boredom of the meeting planners. :-) > I know you meant it in jest, but to be clear to everyone else, qualifying a new venue is a lot

Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

2010-09-08 Thread Bob Hinden
Eric, On Sep 8, 2010, at 8:03 AM, Eric Burger wrote: > Can we please, please, please kill Informational RFC's? Pre-WWW, having > publicly available documentation of hard-to-get proprietary protocols was > certainly useful. However, in today's environment of thousands of > Internet-connected

Re: The Evils of Informational RFC's

2010-09-08 Thread Bob Hinden
ago I might have agreed that publishing > as an RFC could be useful. However, with a huge plurality of respected, > non-protocol-publishing venues, all searchable on the web and archived > forever (thanks archive.org!), all a publication like this does is dilute the > IETF brand when we

Re: Revised IAOC Administrative Procedures draft

2010-09-10 Thread Bob Hinden
Hi, To date, I have not seen any comments. The IAOC is putting this on it's agenda for our call next week. Bob On Aug 12, 2010, at 5:56 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: > The IAOC solicits feedback on the revised Administrative Procedures draft > that is attached. > > An early draf

Re: Latest Development in DiffServ Wars

2010-09-10 Thread Bob Hinden
On Sep 9, 2010, at 4:46 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > There are two possibilities here: > > 1) The Press Release is accurate in its representation of the IETF > > No action is required > > 2) Someone on the Internet is wrong That never happens! Maybe the IETF should start a working group

Re: Revised IAOC Administrative Procedures draft

2010-09-12 Thread Bob Hinden
mple, to pay for travel expenses for an IAOC member who didn't have any other support to attend a meeting. Would it help if we said that? I am somewhat hesitant to create detailed rules for something that hasn't happened to date. Bob > > Cheers, > Adrian > > ---

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