Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection

2004-03-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Sam, As the person who most recently complained, let me elaborate on my comments. The problem I believe we all are facing is that the distinction between Proposed, Draft, and Internet Standard has been lost. I agree with you 100% that... The point of proposed standard is to throw things out t

Re: DARPA get's it right this time, takes aim at IT sacred cows

2004-03-14 Thread Eliot Lear
While in general I agree with what Scott Michel there is one point of controversy no-so-hidden in his message: Scott Michel wrote: The article also mentioned something along the lines of "Redesign The Seven Layer Model!" Frankly, I've always preferred the four layer IETF model because it didn'

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Keith, Okay, I read draft-iesg-rfced-documents-00.txt regarding a proposed change in IESG policy regarding RFC-Ed documents. I'm opposed to the change, because I believe it would make it too easy for harmful documents to be published as RFCs. As I'm sure you well know, the RFC Editor takes very

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Personally, I'm more concerned by WGs demanding their right to have their half-baked specifications published as RFCs, and the for IESG to approve them without any IETF review or other community review, or (as has happened in the past) even when substantial oversights or design flaws in those spec

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-27 Thread Eliot Lear
Keith, These days, for a protocol specification to be of "reasonable use" on a wide scale it needs to avoid causing harm. First, something can be of reasonable use while still causing harm. Fossil based fuels prove that. And while I agree that there are certain areas where causing harm to ot

Re: RFC 3164 i.e. BSD Syslog Protocol

2004-07-02 Thread Eliot Lear
In theory there's no reason multicast SYSLOG shouldn't work. The packet format doesn't need to change and you just need to bind to a multicast socket. I haven't any idea how implementations will currently behave. But you're addressing two separate problems- distribution and reliability. Reli

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: All, My two cents worth... 5. Section 3.1 of Carl's Report ( Page 20 ) states "Evaluation of applicants might consist of a search committee appointed by the IETF Chair." Isn't the appointment of committee members what the IETF empowers the Nomcom for ? Not any committe

Re: isoc's skills

2004-10-13 Thread Eliot Lear
Dave Crocker wrote: The IETF is choosing ISOC to do a job. The IETF is specifying the job. If the IETF does not like the job that ISOC is doing, the IETF will get someone else to do it. And you think that isn't called "contractor"? See below. What label would you use? And how does it describ

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-09-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: John, what I expected when I caused this poll to be created was that there would be a significant number of people choosing "No, I do not wish to state an opinion". For multiple reasons - "I trust the leadership to decide better than I can" was one that people tal

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-09-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Margaret, My reading of the situation is that the differences between scenarios 0 & M revolve around contract and corporate law, potentially in multiple jurisdictions. I'm not a subject matter expert in this area. If you're asking that I run this by lawyers, I'd reluctantly do so. But I wo

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-01 Thread Eliot Lear
Kai Henningsen wrote: Only Harald disagrees with that, because that is certainly not the question his poll asked - there was no "neither" option. Nor need there be. If the leadership is down to these two choices and one of them is going to be The One, then you might as well run with those two

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-03 Thread Eliot Lear
ute around the damage. It's happened before. That's how W3C came to be. Eliot John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, 01 October, 2004 20:09 +0200 Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Kai Henningsen wrote: Only Harald disagrees with that, because that is certainly not the question

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Spencer Dawkins wrote: Erk! I haven't been involved with W3C since 2000, but I WAS involved in W3C during the late 1990s. It's worth pointing out that the "alternate routing" mechanism _did_ include a king - at that time, Tim was doing final endorsement for all "recommendations", and it looks l

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-04 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Dave, I am trying to imagine any sort of serious protocol development process that used that sort of logic and then had acceptance and/or success. Here-in lies the rub. If you try to use our rules of protocol development to develop an organization we'll never get there. And you and I agree

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-05 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric, We're not out to rid the world of patent-laden work, nor are we out to make patent owners rich. The IETF exists to promulgate relevant and correct standards to the Internet Community, and educate people on their intended safe use. There is a fine balance to be had between the two extrem

Re: Copying conditions

2004-10-07 Thread Eliot Lear
Simon, What is your goal, here? What is it you want to do that you can't do because of either RFC 3667 or RFC 2026? Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-23 Thread Eliot Lear
On my way to the dust bin of history, I happened to notice this posting from Eric S. Raymond: In what way? Microsoft now knows that with the mere threat of a patent it either can shut down IETF standards work it dislikes or seize control of the results through the patent system. The IETF has d

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Eliot Lear
Right. While I didn't want to continue this discussion on the IETF list, as I understand it this is precisely what prefix delegation was meant to be able to handle. Eliot Fred Baker wrote: At 12:35 PM 11/22/04 -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: One potentially technical hurdle here is the way that the

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric S. Raymond wrote: Indeed. I think this is true. Several people on this list have tried to tell me that I don't really want the IP address space on my local net to be decoupled from the server address. They are wrong. I want to be able to change ISPs by fixing *one* IP address in *one* p

Re: Another document series?

2004-11-30 Thread Eliot Lear
Mike, As the other co-author to http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, [...]Its unclear that either the work in progress or the cited drafts will ever be published as RFCs. Its also unclear that this (restructuring etc) will be resolved within the 6 month lifetime

List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Hello, This is an update from the Old Standards experiment. Below are a list of proposed standards that are candidates to be obsoleted. The old standards mailing list has vetted out a good number, but still a good number remains. We are looking for experts who can say affirmatively whether a

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, Thanks for your note. Please see below for responses: Margaret Wasserman wrote: RFC0885 Telnet end of record option This option was, at least at one time, used for telnet clients that connected to IBM mainframes... It was used to indicate the end of a 3270 datastream. I don't

Re: RFC1269 - [was: RE: [newtrk] List of Old Standards to be retired]

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Bert, I'll remove it from the list with the expectation that the new MIB will obsolete the old one. However, I note that is currently not stated in the header of the draft. Eliot Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: W.r.t. RFC1269 Definitions of Managed Objects for the Border Gateway P

Re: List of Old Standards to be retired

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
at if you did the update and in the process then obsoleted RFC 1618. Eliot Carsten Bormann wrote: On Dec 16 2004, at 12:46 Uhr, Eliot Lear wrote: RFC1618 PPP over ISDN We had a short discussion about this in pppext. The gist was: The document is pretty bad (partly because things were mur

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric Rosen wrote: Let me echo Bob Braden's "if it's not broken, why break it?" query. Because maybe it is broke. Even if someone *has* implemented the telnet TACACS user option, would a user really want to use it? The process is broke. We say in 2026 that proposed standards should hang aroun

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

2004-12-16 Thread Eliot Lear
Eric Rosen wrote: Even if someone *has* implemented the telnet TACACS user option, would a user really want to use it? I don't know. Do you? Yes, I do. Many of us do. And that's the point. How do we go about answering a question like that? We will spend less time discussing that option

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

2004-12-18 Thread Eliot Lear
John, Harald, while I agree in principle, I would suggest that some of the comments Eric, Bill, and others have pointed out call for the beginnings of an evaluation of your experiment. I further suggest that evaluation is appropriate at almost any time, once data start to come in. First a remin

Re: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!

2005-01-03 Thread Eliot Lear
Elwyn Davies wrote: Oh, and BTW I can go there on an (air-conditioned) train in only 3 hours. The USA should invest in a few high speed trains.. they are the world's best way to travel. There's a slightly bigger pond between the U.S. and France... Eliot ___

looking for archives

2005-01-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Hello, Does anyone have an archive of the IETF list prior to 1991? I am specifically looking for 88-90 incl. Thanks, Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: individual submission Last Call -- default yes/no.

2005-01-09 Thread Eliot Lear
Dave, You make an assumption here that there is some relationship between the usefulness of a standard done from a working group and those individual submissions. Is that assumption borne out in truth? Just asking. I haven't checked too much. Eliot Dave Crocker wrote: On Fri, 07 Jan 2005 10:46

Re: Appeals text in IASA BCP -06

2005-02-02 Thread Eliot Lear
On administrative decision the board of directors of non-profit ought to have final say and we should trust that they're not going to overturn a decision that causes us to break a contract or otherwise subject us to liability without VERY good cause. In short we can't do this stuff without some

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Keith Moore wrote: IMHO, charters should not be bound to specific documents. It's one thing to say "WG X will produce a document describing protocol Y", quite another to say "WG X shall publish draft-ietf-x-joe's-specification-for-y". It's up to the WG, not the ADs, to decide which specific

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Bruce Lilly wrote: Such as line breaks in the middle of words, followed by loss of indentation? N.B. no smiley. So what? The nice thing about an XML format is that if you don't like the representation you can change it without changing the source. Isn't that nice?! Eliot _

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Bruce Lilly wrote: Not if the primary output is unusable. But maybe I missed your point... Yes. Don't like the software? Write your own... Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-08 Thread Eliot Lear
Scott W Brim wrote: I wonder how many of those have actually written a draft using both? Isn't it sufficient for one to have to have suffered *roff in other contexts? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-19 Thread Eliot Lear
Yakov, Perhaps the IETF traditional motto, "rough consensus and working code" should be revised to make it clear that the "rough consensus" goes only up to a certain point, but after that point the IETF operates solely by a decree from the IESG. You and I were both in the room when the Ethernet-MIB

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-19 Thread Eliot Lear
other words, at least this part "ain't broke". Eliot william(at)elan.net wrote: On Tue, 19 Apr 2005, Eliot Lear wrote: Yakov, Perhaps the IETF traditional motto, "rough consensus and working code" should be revised to make it clear that the "rough consensus" g

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Eliot Lear
Dave Crocker wrote: the current ietf's track is quite poor, both with respect to timeliness and quality. quite simply we are taking a long time to turn out lots of specifications that tend not to get used very much. I think we can each find examples on either side of this assertion. MIME took

Re: improving WG operation

2005-05-02 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, The words I hate most when I am in a WG meeting are these: "take it to the mailing list" That is usually short for "we can't agree in person so we'll now continue to disagree by email". Debate has been shut off, and usually prematurely because there is something else on the agenda.

Re: Uneccesary slowness.

2005-05-23 Thread Eliot Lear
Working groups are expensive. Very expensive. To me this discussion shows that documents are as expensive as working groups, and maybe more so. Unless the document is relatively straight forward, it's easier for someone doing an individual draft to be funneled to a working group so that t

Re: Uneccesary slowness.

2005-05-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Dave, You described the charter as a contract between the WG and the rest of the IETF. I'll argue an alternative below, but let's stick with contracts for the moment. My basic understanding of contract law tells me that there are certain real world and legal limitations on contracts that mu

Re: Uneccesary slowness.

2005-05-30 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Dave, Dave Crocker wrote: interesting note. it is always provocative to challenge long-standing precepts, in this case as per section 2.2 of RFC 2418, Working Group Guidelines, first published as RFC 1603, in 1994. That does not guarantee that your challenge is mis-placed but rather that

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

2005-06-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Rob, | is whether the proposed mechanism will interfere | with existing or other proposed mechanisms. This is totally irrelevant. We're talking about an option. Options, by their very nature are optional. If use of an option interferes with some other processing that you require, then

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

2005-06-28 Thread Eliot Lear
John, This message is a point of information. I'll continue the discussion in the other thread. John C Klensin wrote: Eliot, There are at least two things that are wrong with the model you describe below,... (1) The assignment of address space, and the whole notion of private net

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

2005-06-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Please see below: > Whether that discussion amounted to consensus or not I wouldn't like to say after all of this time, but it certainly occurred. Not publicly. Certainly there was a problem. Indeed someone (I forget who) had made a request for a /8, which forced the issue. | What hap

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Joe, > > It seems like such [IANA] considerations are, by definition, relevant only for > standards-track RFCs. It is not useful to require it for other documents. I think you're correct in general but this is not always the case. Consider URI schemes. I think they're often informational, and in

Re: Question about Obsoleted vs. Historic

2005-07-11 Thread Eliot Lear
I would point out that it is historically useful to be able to track changes between draft and full or proposed and draft and we don't list status information in the RFCs... Eliot [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, > > I was wondering if someone could help me out on this one. I was doing a bit > of

calendar file for IETF

2005-07-21 Thread Eliot Lear
For the daring, there is http://www.ofcourseimright.com/~lear/ietf63.ics. I claim no competence in any of this. No responsibility if you miss your meetings. No promises to update it. But it works for me. Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org htt

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-22 Thread Eliot Lear
> > Thanks for the file. Unfortunately it is not a valid iCalendar file > To fix this, just add the following line below the 'BEGIN:VCALENDAR' line: > > VERSION:2.0 Done! > > In addition, each VEVENT component needs to have a UID property with a > unique identifier in each one. Done! > Als

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-23 Thread Eliot Lear
An additional update reflecting yesterdays changes is now available at http://www.ofcourseimright.com/~lear/ietf63.ics. Additional stuff: - UIDs *should* be stable across changes. - An attempt has been made to make proper use of SEQUENCE - An attempt has been made to parse out LOCATION informa

Re: calendar file for IETF

2005-07-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Bill, I couldn't agree with you more regarding multiple overlapping events. They're all designed for the case where one might double-book, and even on occasion triple book, but 8 or 9 events? None of them deal with that correctly. I could go on and on about what these Calendar programs don't do

updated calendar file for IETF

2005-07-26 Thread Eliot Lear
Same location: http://www.ofcourseimright.com/~lear/ietf63.ics This one has the following changes: - proper quoting (RFC 2445). - published agendas are now included - URLs to WG Charters are now included - several schedule changes - room numbers are now included Again, use at own risk. Th

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

2005-07-27 Thread Eliot Lear
Spencer, I agree that it takes time to learn the job. That is one reason to have staggered terms with two ADs per area. But I have major problems with other portions of the draft. For one, a major reason the NOMCOM sees a dirth of candidates is the major commitment required to do the job (be t

Quality/Quantity of NOMCOM candidates

2005-07-28 Thread Eliot Lear
Danny, I asserted at one point that we have a problem getting good people to do the jobs the IETF needs getting done (e.g., IESG, IAB). I only have anecdotal experience of people I know who have in the past turned down consideration. Fundamentally the NOMCOM process can only work if you have a s

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

2005-07-29 Thread Eliot Lear
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > No matter how good an incumbent they are much less likely to ask > questions of the form 'why has this WG existed for over a decade?', 'why > isn't it finished?', 'why is nobody using it?' If an AD isn't asking those questions it's probably because it's not taking

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

2005-07-29 Thread Eliot Lear
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > What if you were planning to use the output of the Working Group? Sorry, I thought you were aiming toward the age old "this working group has existed too long" debate. On the usefulness question, I actually think an experienced AD is going to know what works and w

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

2005-08-01 Thread Eliot Lear
Pete Resnick wrote: > I personally would like to see more people get experience on the > IESG and get some IESG brain cells back into the community before > they're completely burned out, so I kind of like the proposal. Why discourage the NOMCOM from picking the best person for the job? It's easy

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR)' toProposed Standard

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > It would be an interesting experiment to make an easy-to-use DNS > implementation for local use that runs on a residential gateway. But to > be part of the global DNS requires delegation pointers from elsewhere, > and most residential/SOHO users don't have address

ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Dear Communities, I need your help to correct for an impending mistake by the ISMS working group in the IETF. Short Version The ISMS working group is chartered to find a way for SNMP to make use of existing authentication mechanisms. The current proposed approaches will make use of TCP. I seek

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Daniel, All solutions will use a different SSH port as part of the standard just so that firewall administrators have the ability to block. Eliot Daniel Senie wrote: > At 02:00 PM 9/6/2005, Dave Crocker wrote: > > >> Eliot, >> >>> I need your help to correct for an impending mistake by the IS

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Iljitsch, > On 6-sep-2005, at 19:37, Eliot Lear wrote: > >> I seek a change to the proposed ISMS charter that requests the working >> group pay attention to firewall and NAT concerns. The current >> envisioned approach will not work through firewalls > > >

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Pekka, Pekka Savola wrote: > Are you saying some of the following: > > 1) ISMS specs should specify that the monitored hosts can/should > certainly keep open a TCP session so the network management (in both > ways) can happen over that session. (This seems pretty trivial..) > > 2) We shoul

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi Steve, > I agree that the functionality you suggest is useful. The trick is to > permit that without permitting misbehavior. (I'll note here that the > interests of vendors and the interests of users are not identical. > More and more, vendors like subscription-based models, where users k

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Eliot Lear
Randy, > Regardless of whether "call home functionality" as you defined it is > desirable, I disagree with the claim that it wouldn't represent a > major architectural change to SNMP. For notification originators, it > is a quite natural extension, and I have no problem with it. For command > r

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-11 Thread Eliot Lear
Tom, > I think that there is subtext that is missing here. > > Call Home was declared out of scope, more or less, for isms before the > decision > to use SSH was taken (the suggestion was made on the isms list to set up a BOF > in the Operations Area to explore Call Home).\ CH was declared out

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, My apologies for my delayed response. I've been away. The timing of this charter review was unfortunate. > (1) I don't think that call home fits within the scope of the ISMS > group. I am not necessarily saying that we shouldn't do this somewhere > in the IETF, just not in this WG.

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Juergen, > 1) I see lots of people using tools like MIB browsers, snmp command line >tools called from fancy scripts, monitoring packages such as cacti >and nagios (these were even used on the IETF network in Paris if I >recall correctly) and all these packages share the feature that t

Re: ISMS working group

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, > The call home solution doesn't help with the problem of the _manager_ > being behind a NAT. It only applies to situations where the manager is > at a fixed location on a globally-addressable network and the managed > device is behind a NAT or firewall. Actually, depending on how the s

Re: ISMS working group and a clarification about Call Home

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Hi David, Nelson, David wrote: > Let's assume, for the sake of discussion, that SNMP must always work > across Firewalls and NATs. The original objection to the proposed > charter was that it did not include support for "Call Home" > functionality. First, let's be clear that nobody is suggesting

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Just to clarify: > The option > of SSH is mentioned in the architectural document, even though we did > not went to the glory details of all the options that were on the > table back then (TLS, SASL, DTLS, SSH). In fact, I fail to see how you > get the conclusion that we went down to zero drafts by

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian, > "Call home" is IMHO a fairly radical departure for SNMP and > raises trust model questions that I don't find easy to get > hold of. It seems quite distinct from both firewall traversal > and NAT traversal, conceptually, even if they might be > a side-effect of calling home. I do not beli

Re: ISMS working group

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret Wasserman wrote: > If you really believe that this solution is needed, I think you would do > best to write a draft and _then_ try to get it adopted by an appropriate > WG. I (amongst others) *did*. draft-kaushik-isms-btsm-01.txt. What had been missing up until this point was an SSH d

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Juergen Schoenwaelder wrote: >>The four I had in mind were TLSM, EUSM, SBSM, and SNMP/BEEP. Prior to >>the meeting the WG had ruled out the first three and during the meeting >>the fourth was also shelved, leaving none. > > > This does not match my recollection. My understanding was that the

Re: ISMS working group

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Margaret, I find myself repeating statements I've made recently, and so I'd propose that you catch up on my other messages. But for the record... > > Hi Eliot, > > I have, of course, read the draft that you cited below, but the term > "call home" is not defined or used in that draft... Becaus

Re: ISMS working group

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
Uch... I wrote: Eliot Lear wrote: > And I've repeatedly responded with > two reasons why this work should continue in a single working group: > > 1. [security considerations] > > 2. [security considerations]. > The second reason is the reason mentioned elsewhere in

ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it

2005-09-12 Thread Eliot Lear
to your imagination for long. I will attempt this week to post a derivative of the draft that Dave is working on to give people an idea of what the changes would be. Again it's difficult to diff an incomplete specification. Eliot >>>>>>>>>>> "Eliot&qu

Re: ISMS working group

2005-09-13 Thread Eliot Lear
Brian, > Let me be clear about what you mean here. You mean that getting through > firewalls and NATs is equally possible with SSH or BEEP (or TLS or HTTP > for that matter)? Yes, pretty much. The key useful function is an substrate that allows for multiple channels. > > I'd also observe in ter

Re: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it

2005-09-13 Thread Eliot Lear
relevance of the problem and discuss > requirements for potential solutions. Also there we can identify > which working group would be the right one to deal with the issue. > > But until then, I propose that we let the ISMS group work on solving > its original problem. > > Th

new mailing list on call home

2005-09-20 Thread Eliot Lear
Hello everyone, I'd like to announce the creation of a new mailing list, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The purpose of this list is to discuss firewall "call home" functionality and firewall traversal issues. When I say "call home" I mean the case where connections/communications are initiated by application

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-10-02 Thread Eliot Lear
Bob Braden wrote: *> *> X.400 tried that. So did X.25. *> *> I think one of the less-appreciated reasons the Internet succeedd was that *> its unique identifiers were *memorable*. *> *> *> Harald *> *> And unlike X.500, the DNS was *conceptual

Ode to the Old Days

2005-10-07 Thread Eliot Lear
Randy.Dunlap wrote: I don't know if they are related, but your point seems very valid to me. IOW, from watching and reading over many years, the recent (2?) years seems like a "crying" wish to get back to a successful IETF, back to its hayday (or glory days), instead of what it has become lately

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-17 Thread Eliot Lear
Avri Doria wrote: Hi, I can agree with SHOULD and SHOULD NOT, the only problem i had in writing it that way is i could not meet the specification requirement for specifying the conditions under which the requirement would not apply. I did not want to careless create loopholes. My main conc

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-17 Thread Eliot Lear
John, I've talked to quite a few folks that have been unable to attend meetings in the US because of visa issues. Is it your or other people's position that we should no longer have meetings in the U.S.? If not, what's the practical benefit of the guidance? If so, we should go back to the

how about talking about the Content *inside* the venue?

2005-10-18 Thread Eliot Lear
We have in my opinion had a consistently low operator turnout. I wonder if it would be possible for us to align our conference dates in such a way as to overlap with NANOG, RIPE, USENIX, LISA, and other appropriate conferences so that we can get some crossover? Eliot __

iCal versions of the IETF64 agenda now available

2005-10-24 Thread Eliot Lear
There are two choices: With breaks: http://www.ofcourseimright.com/ietf64-breaks.ics or Without breaks: http://www.ofcourseimright.com/ietf64.ics Each is current as of this evening, CEDT, based on the October 21st version of the IETF 64 agenda. The astute will notice that rooms are not yet

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria - accessibility

2005-10-24 Thread Eliot Lear
Would it not be sufficient for the venue to comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act (regardless of whether it's in the U.S.)? Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

updated IETF-64 iCal files

2005-10-27 Thread Eliot Lear
These contain the schedule changes as well as room information based on information released by the secretariat yesterday. Again, there are two versions: Without refreshment breaks and breakfast: http://www.ofcourseimright.com/ietf64.ics With refreshment breaks and breakfast:

Re: draft-ietf-ipsec-ikev2-17.txt

2005-10-27 Thread Eliot Lear
Roland, Looking at the snippet of the RFC queue you provided, the draft blocked on a normative reference to draft-ietf-ipsec-rfc2401bis, which entered the queue in April. It references a bunch of other stuff, but they're all earlier in the queue, and I don't think they're blocked. I think

Call Home BoF @ IETF

2005-11-01 Thread Eliot Lear
purpose, or nothing. Agenda bashing - 1 minute Applicability, solution methods, examples (Eliot Lear) 15 minutes Generic Architectural Approaches, ICE, STUN, MIDCOM (Jonathan Rosenberg) 10 min General Architectural Approaches to tunneling (Pekka Nikander) 10 min Application to SNMP and open areas

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-11-01 Thread Eliot Lear
David, as usual your message is thought provoking and skirts the limit of our understanding. Here, however, I am concerned about knowing what we don't know, to coin a phrase ;-) I agree, and I see others who seem to concur, that human behavior is of legitimate concern in systems design, and

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-11-01 Thread Eliot Lear
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: The problem is when these views conflict with the motivation behind the technical proposition. Who is to arbiter the conflict since by definition of the case there is no human factor IETF expert in the area? It would seem to me that the market as always will be the u

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-11-02 Thread Eliot Lear
Eliot Lear wrote: Sometimes written opinions from CHI experts might also help to prevent networking Edsels, if you would. It has been pointed out that my reference above to the Edsel may not be well understood by some. The Edsel was a car made by Ford that was generally found to be

Re: On revising 3777 as in draft-klensin-recall-rev-00

2005-11-15 Thread Eliot Lear
I actually think the bar is too high for other reasons. Those same 20 people are not allowed to serve as jury, and that makes sense. but we're not a large community, and while I understand the need to prevent DOS attacks on the IESG, I would still halve the number. As it is now it's just abo

Re: On revising 3777 as in draft-klensin-recall-rev-00

2005-11-15 Thread Eliot Lear
Dondeti, Lakshminath wrote: Hi Eliot, The most recent number of nomcom eligible folks is 849, please see https://datatracker.ietf.org/public/show_nomcom_message.cgi?id=446. 20 people out of that isn't all that high. I think I might easily find 10 like-minded people. Prove it. If you can'

Re: On revising 3777 as in draft-klensin-recall-rev-00

2005-11-15 Thread Eliot Lear
Dondeti, Lakshminath wrote: Perhaps that's one way to prove that the bar is high/low. Another way is to ask around with this in mind and see if we all run into old rumors of what has been tried and with what results :-). My other point is that we are trying to fix the wrong problem. I think

Re: Last time we went to Dallas

2005-11-19 Thread Eliot Lear
Yep. No good dead ever goes unpunished. Eliot ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: ASCII art

2005-11-23 Thread Eliot Lear
In the cart before the horse department Phillip wrote: > But there is a teensy inconsistency in an argument that goes 'we must > have plaintext for accessibility' then ignores the language and > character set issues as unimportant. > > The real reason to change the RFC format is that the IETF nee

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-23 Thread Eliot Lear
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: > I personally would welcome any pragmatic approach that maximizes the > long-term usefulness of our output. I hope we have general agreement > that a structured document format is better long-term than any > unstructured, presentation-oriented format, be it ASCII, Word o

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-25 Thread Eliot Lear
Dave, > It is pretty much never a good idea to have the mechanics of a process > contain artificial constraints, as a means of implementing higher-level > policies. > > If a working group is worried about documents getting read, they will > impose their own deadlines or they will constrain their

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-25 Thread Eliot Lear
But the problem, Dave, is that everyone already churns their drafts right before the deadline. It's not like SOME groups would go till the last possible minute- nearly everybody would, and the plane ride's not THAT long... ;-) ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf

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