Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 09:51 PM 07/21/04 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: New survey question: How many lunches and dinners did you have at the last IETF that were NOT meetings? For me, it is rare to have meals that are not meetings of some sort. And I often have face-to-face editing sessions on IETF busine

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

2004-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 09:28 PM 07/21/04 +0300, Pekka Savola wrote: Any experiences? Is 1.5 or 2 hours (for example) enough at SD? Any time *I* have been through either CLD or SAN, 90 minutes has been quite sufficient, and 60 minutes is usually enough for domestic travellers. If I were checking in at LAX for an int

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

2004-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
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 get delayed. And what is San Francisco famous

Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 10:55 AM 07/22/04 -0700, Aaron Falk wrote: Perhaps we should raise the bar on what it takes to get a slot at the IETF meeting. For example, try to come up with some objective criteria for what deserves a 1hr slot, 2hrs, multiple, etc. This might even nudge groups into making some additiona

Re: List of standards

2004-08-20 Thread Fred Baker
At 04:29 PM 08/17/04 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? I dunno. I tend to look for the most recent one in http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc-index.txt. The most recent one I find is http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc3700.txt. Or, alternatively, I have a

Re: What to incorporate (Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring)

2004-09-02 Thread Fred Baker
At 06:55 AM 09/02/04 -0700, Carl Malamud wrote: Perceptions are always important. Under Scenario's A and B, likewise, the Internet Society probably gets to be a target. The ISOC is a target anyway, as the RFCs have a copyright notice in them with ISOC's name in it. _

RE: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread Fred Baker
important additional layers. As you said, the IETF's appointees to the ISOC board function first and foremost as ISOC board members, not as IETF's representatives. This is the same for all the board members. The IETF appointees to the board have functioned extremely well on behalf of ISOC.

Re: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's report

2004-09-07 Thread Fred Baker
At 08:09 PM 09/07/04 -0400, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Scenario B includes the MOU mechanism as one of the choices for defining a relationship between ISOC and the IETF. for the record, I think the relationship between ISOC and IETF needs to be stated in any case. We have RFC 2031 now, but it is d

Re: Things that I think obvious....

2004-09-21 Thread Fred Baker
At 03:21 PM 09/09/04 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: 1 - The IETF exists, and it is the IETF community. Even though we have carefully avoided defining its boundaries, I believe that we all believe that the IETF exists. And it's obvious that if the people who do the technical work leave, the

Re: Stepping down as IETF chair in March

2004-11-05 Thread Fred Baker
At 10:19 AM 11/05/04 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: I'm stepping down as IETF chair in March, and I am not a candidate for reappointment. It's been a great four years, containing lots of learning experience, lots of hard work and lots of joy - but after four years as IETF chair, and ten

Re: Stepping down as IETF chair in March - & - RE: A personal take on WG's priorities..

2004-11-05 Thread Fred Baker
Guys - please... maybe it's just me, but it seems like this thread should be something about Harald. Coopting it to the continued wars between various competing technology religions seems just a tad disrespectful. Could you at least change the subject line if we're going to go into this rathole

Re: Yahoo is not using ESMTP

2004-11-14 Thread Fred Baker
P" means "Asia/Pacific") in addition to the IETF list, but Franck is in fact doing this. Franck, I'll see if I can talk with someone at Yahoo for you. This seems a reasonable request, especially given that Yahoo is a popular mail service among customers in digitally divided

Re: Yahoo is not using ESMTP

2004-11-15 Thread Fred Baker
At 09:36 AM 11/15/04 -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote: The protocol distribution is different now, though still not showing much SMTP compared to HTTP, etc. :^) Like any other internet link, it changes from millisecond to millisecond. large components tend to include "tcp-other", http, and so on. It w

Re: Yahoo is not using ESMTP

2004-11-15 Thread Fred Baker
At 01:33 PM 11/15/04 -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Umm.. what *exactly* is upstream of that interface? I strongly suspect that it's *heavily* influenced by *local* preferences/configuration. :^) Care to speculate on the existence of any measurement point in the internet that is not heavily infl

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

2004-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
At 03:57 PM 11/16/04 -0800, Bob Hinden wrote: We should be proactive and create a morality area in the IETF. The morality ADs can review and vote Discuss if the Morality Considerations section in drafts being reviewed by the IESG is not adequate. Do the Morality ADs get to wear funny clothes? In

AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-17 Thread Fred Baker
ave heretofore agreed. By treating them on a cash basis rather than an accrual basis, this section seems maximize the pain they cause. I wonder whether the IETF would consider talking with ISOC's accounting office to normalize these issues now, and whether the problem really needs to

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-17 Thread Fred Baker
At 10:15 PM 11/17/04 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: The effect of section 5, if I am reading it correctly, is to transfer these budgetary bumps and grinds to the IASA rather than allowing the ISOC to help out, making "oops, we're low on cash" something that has to be discussed as opposed

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Fred Baker
At 11:21 AM 11/18/04 +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If, in practice, some help from the IASA account is needed to smooth ISOC's cash flow temporarily, that is fine by me but I'd like it to be transparent and explicit. Actually, that's the opposite of what I was pointing out. I was pointing out th

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 09:44 AM 11/22/04 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Who needs market research? All you have to do is look at the cost-feature profile of the most popular NATs and notice who they were designed for. Those vendors have already done the market research and bet real money on the results. Yes, but be

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 08:33 AM 11/22/04 -0800, Fred Baker wrote: The one address you actually do care about is that of the server you mentioned. If the server is behind the NAT, you have a configuration on the Linksys that translates a certain set of TCP and UDP port numbers when addressed to the Linksys to the

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 12:35 PM 11/22/04 -0500, Eric A. Hall wrote: One potentially technical hurdle here is the way that the device discovers that a range/block of addresses is available to it. Some kind of DHCP sub-lease, or maybe a collection of options (is it a range of addresses or an actual subnet? how big is

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 01:05 PM 11/22/04 -0500, Richard Shockey wrote: Yes Fred I would _expect_ my ISP to sell me a /64 but at what price? It continues to amaze me that no one discussing the IP V6 adoption issues will focus attention on the obvious question ..what is it going to cost me? Is there any way the engin

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 01:13 PM 11/22/04 -0500, John C Klensin wrote: Fred, while I agree completely with this, we all need to understand that it has another implication. If the customer is offered a snazzy new IPv6 device, using public address space, that fails to offer "plug it in and it will work", then the cu

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-22 Thread Fred Baker
At 12:10 PM 11/22/04 -0800, Chris Palmer wrote: There's another feature of NAT that is desirable that has not yet been mentioned, and which at least some customers may be cognizant of: the fact that NAT is a pretty restrictive firewall. would that it were true. In fact, it is pretty easy to breech.

RE: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-27 Thread Fred Baker
The important point I was trying to make were that section 5 of the document seems to be ratholing on details of the accounting structure and timing of deposits while potentially missing important high-level concerns and failing to demonstrate an understanding of ISOC's current accounting struc

Re: Consensus? Separate bank account

2004-12-08 Thread Fred Baker
As near as I can tell, there is no argument that IETF money or assets should be kept for use by/on behalf of the IETF - should not be spent on other things, and should be accounted for appropriately. The language you reference seems to deal with various ways to phrase that. However it is phrase

Re: Consensus? Separate bank account

2004-12-09 Thread Fred Baker
At 07:53 AM 12/09/04 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Do we need to make a global pass of s/account/accounts/? I think so. ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2004-12-13 Thread Fred Baker
At 03:08 PM 12/12/04 -0600, Pete Resnick wrote: "This BCP will take effect upon adoption of the BCP by the IESG and the concurrent <>" The usual way this is done, by ISOC, is by resolution; note that the statement you proposed is in the form of a resolution. For examples, you might review 96-11

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2004-12-13 Thread Fred Baker
At 01:40 PM 12/12/04 -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: Is the IETF making itself a wholly-owned subsidiary of ISOC, or is the IETF contracting with ISOC to do some services for the IETF. I don't see either happening, and perhaps this is part of the disconnect. The latter is clearly what Carl's document

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2004-12-13 Thread Fred Baker
At 12:22 PM 12/14/04 +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: I would certainly add my voice in support of the Internet Society adopting a specific resolution of adoption of this document (the IASA BCP, referenced, as Scott mentions, by its RFC number). This is clear demonstration of a level of organizational

RE: Assuring ISOC commitment to AdminRest

2004-12-13 Thread Fred Baker
At 03:06 PM 12/14/04 +1100, Geoff Huston wrote: I believe we strongly agree here. Outstanding! ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Building a surplus

2004-12-22 Thread Fred Baker
ted donations could exceed the IASA costs that the ISOC will be responsible to cover. Regards, Fred Baker /=====/ | Fred Baker |1121 Via Del Rey | |

Re: Issue #755: Section 5.6 - Building a surplus [was RE: Building a surplus]

2004-12-23 Thread Fred Baker
At 04:56 PM 12/23/04 +0100, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: Maybe we should merge the 2 issues into one? sure ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-11 Thread Fred Baker
Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2005 15:36:10 -0500 Subject: I-D ACTION:draft-baker-alert-system-00.txt A New Internet-Draft is available from the on-line Internet-Drafts directories. Title : Structure of an International Emergency Alert System Author(s) : F. Baker, B. Carpent

Re: Authors soliciting comments

2005-01-11 Thread Fred Baker
At 04:54 PM 01/12/05 +1100, Greg Daley wrote: Unfortunately, I don't believe that there is an actively monitored tsunami service in the Indian ocean, which may have been able to transfer such warnings. The role of a generic, authenticated, internet-based warning system may be useful in future th

One last word on operational reserves

2005-01-19 Thread Fred Baker
The ISOC board has been following the development of the Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) Internet Draft and some of the board members have been participating in the discussion. The board feels that this draft is something that the board can readily agree to support

Re: One last word on operational reserves

2005-01-19 Thread Fred Baker
At 09:33 AM 01/19/05 -0800, Ted Hardie wrote: Again, I don't have any concerns about how these issues are met, but I want us to be very, very clear on what we are asking for from ISOC. I think also that we need to be very sure that we know what the BCP is. What your words above - and other commen

IETF surplus

2005-01-20 Thread Fred Baker
This is a follow up to Harald's message of Jan 10. (http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg33578.html) Section 7 of the -04 version of the Structure of the IETF Administrative Support Activity (IASA) Internet-Draft mentions that any (positive) balance in the IASA accounts (among

RIAA sues 83-year-old grandmother who never owned a computer.

2005-02-06 Thread Fred Baker
RIAA sues 83-year-old grandmother who never owned a computer. Case dismissed when daughter reveals she's been dead for over a month. http://www.boston.com/news/odd/articles/2005/02/04/music_industry_sues_83_year_old_dead_woman/ ___ Ietf mailing list Iet

Re: IAOC Responsibilities

2005-02-06 Thread Fred Baker
At 11:57 PM 02/06/05 -0500, Robert Kahn wrote: If you think there is a concern about liability for the IAOC, then you should have similar concerns about the IETF leaderhship, since they would also need coverage for their activities. Thanks for pointing that out, Bob. They have indeed had such cov

Re: ASCII diff of ISOC-proposed changes to BCP

2005-02-10 Thread Fred Baker
Ted: The suggestions ISOC made were pursuant to our lawyer's comments, so they tend to have something to do with legalese. We are asking Skadden&Arps to reply to your note. But let me interject... At 09:56 AM 02/09/05 -0800, Ted Hardie wrote: Some comments, using Harald's diff as a starting poin

Re: ASCII diff of ISOC-proposed changes to BCP

2005-02-10 Thread Fred Baker
At 05:12 PM 02/10/05 -0800, Ted Hardie wrote: I think the lawyer's desire for the word "managed" vs "controlled" is seeking legal clarity in the terminology here. "Managed" is the usual word for what the IAOC does in this context, and "controlled" isn't. I agree that "managed" is what the IAOC do

RE: IPR language in IASA BCP (fwd)

2005-02-12 Thread Fred Baker
At 11:11 PM 02/11/05 -0500, Contreras, Jorge wrote: Adding the language you suggested would mean that IASA could not buy royalty-bearing or installment-fee software. Adding the part about "irrevocability" would mean that the licensor could not terminate the license if IETF breached. While this w

Re: ASCII diff of ISOC-proposed changes to BCP

2005-02-11 Thread Fred Baker
So we checked with our lawyer. Unlike the IETF, which is always completely smooth in its consensus and never finds experts differing in opinion, it would appear that in the legal profession experts can differ in their opinions. That said, he classed the issue as, in IETF terms, the difference be

Re: Cerf and Kahn win the Turing Award

2005-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
Yes. Kudos to both of them. At 10:19 AM 02/16/05 -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: Katie Hafner has a pretty good story on it in today's NYT, too: http://www.nytimes.com/2005/02/16/technology/16internet.html Congratulations to Vint and Bob! I know they've both collected a lot of honours already, but I

Re: Voting (again)

2005-04-27 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 27, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Keith Moore wrote: 2. IESG's scaling problems are a direct result of low-quality output from working groups, and we can't do much to address that problem by changing how IESG works. I agree and disagree. We have rather a history of ADs sitting on documents and of A

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-28 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 28, 2005, at 3:28 PM, Keith Moore wrote: And, FWIW, when the AD suggests specific text changes, it's often enough the desire of that AD rather than based on feedback from some other WG. I don't see anything wrong with that. It's the ADs' job to push back on documents with technical flaws

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-04-30 Thread Fred Baker
A couple of thoughts... I'll buy #1. On #2, when an AD posts a DISCUSS, s/he is now required to post a comment to the id tracker. I don't think you want the AD to have to write it twice. Coming back to a comment that was made earlier (and has been made on [EMAIL PROTECTED], which IMHO is a bette

Re: Last Call: 'Process for the IAB and IESG selection of IAOC members' to BCP

2005-06-12 Thread Fred Baker
The IAB+IESG selection draft is a good start at a selection procedure and set of guidelines. It does not address (and I suspect is not intended to address) how ISOC and nomcom appointees to the IAOC relate to the process or what their qualifications might be. I wonder, however, if that is a

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-12 Thread Fred Baker
from my very humble perspective, it is actually useful to test a -00 draft. The more revisions a draft goes through, the more reticent and author becomes to change it. Getting the test done early makes that job easier. On Jun 10, 2005, at 7:25 AM, Bill Fenner wrote: On 6/9/05, Bruce Lilly <

Re: IETF 63, visa information

2005-06-24 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 24, 2005, at 7:10 PM, Liqiang((Larry)) Zhu wrote: I also assume it is especially difficult to get the visa for folks who are not US citizens. why would that be? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC Editor is required to retain them, as we discuss RFC2434bis. Which we need to do fairly soon. In my "

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Ned Freed wrote: This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA considerations section has now become part of the boilerplate in at least one I-D template. (Actually make that two - I put in in my own equivalent template some time back.) This opens the

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 6, 2005, at 2:19 PM, Bruce Lilly wrote: This memo adds no new IANA considerations. The presence of this template text indicates that the author/editor has not actually reviewed IANA considerations. I like it. Consider my template to have changed.

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-11 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 11, 2005, at 11:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I respectfully disagree. I think that someone implementing or deploying a given specification may well wonder whether any IANA-assigned values are relevant, and the absence of a null section in an RFC doesn't help with that. Personally, I

IEEE Internet Award

2005-10-07 Thread Fred Baker
A committee is accepting nominations for the IEEE Internet Award. It may be presented annually to an individual or team of up to three for exceptional contributions to the advancement of Internet technology for network architecture, mobility and/or end-use applications. In the evaluation proc

Re: Was it foreseen that the Internet might handle 242 Gbps of traffic for Oprah's Book Club webinars?

2008-03-08 Thread Fred Baker
yes. those that built the integrated services model felt that it was appropriate for internet telephony to have a way to test the capacity available for a real time data stream, and if capacity wasn't available, to say "no". Those who have worked in ieprep have pointed out that absent such

Re: IETF Last Call on Walled Garden Standard for the Internet

2008-03-13 Thread Fred Baker
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Mar 13, 2008, at 6:17 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote: > The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) has further compounded > the problem by creating interoperable standards for security, which > have enabled hosts on the Internet to protect traffic en

Re: experiments in the ietf week

2008-03-14 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 14, 2008, at 8:01 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Challenge for our IT folks: Internationalized Internet Drafts, > including file names. Doable? It's doable, no doubt. The next question is whether this is actually smart. The Finnish character set is something I can deal with, although my k

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2008, at 8:34 AM, SM wrote: > There is an expectation that the information provided to the > nominating committee is confidential. The confirming body needs some > information to determine whether the candidate fits the stated > requirements. There is a simple solution to that. The

Re: Confirming vs. second-guessing

2008-03-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2008, at 10:05 PM, Lixia Zhang wrote: > Call me an idealist:), I personally believe, generally speaking, it > is better to put everything on the table, rather than partial info, > between nomcom and confirming body. > > Step up a level: wonder where this discussion is leading to?

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 3, 2008, at 1:54 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > Probably the Trust and/or IAOC procedures or charter should be > modified so that, in the event of the demise of the IAOC, the Trust > falls firmly under direct IETF control (unless the IETF itself > ceases to exist). The concept makes sen

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-08 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 8, 2008, at 1:14 PM, Leslie Daigle wrote: > Giving the Trust a chair is at least a step towards acknowledging > it as a separate organization (beyond instrument), and one could > then examine whether the IAOC members are, in fact, the right > people to populate it (for example). It c

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-11 Thread Fred Baker
OC IAOC Appointee > 5. IAD http://iaoc.ietf.org/members_detail.html: Bob Hinden, appointed by the IAB - bob.hinden at nokia.com Ole Jacobsen, appointed by the IESG - ole at cisco.com * Fred Baker, appointed by the ISOC Board of Trustees - fred at cisco.com * Russ Housley, the IETF Cha

Re: I mentioned once that certain actions of the IETF may be criminally prosecutable in nature...

2008-06-04 Thread Fred Baker
So you're saying that the indictment (which as described does not constitute a conviction and therefore is not case law) is relevant if someone creates an identity for the purpose of deluding others, uses it to inflict emotional distress, and the result is the suicide of a member of the dis

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

2008-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 16, 2008, at 11:36 PM, Brian Dickson wrote: > List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples > used to indicate that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 examples. It seems that this gives 2606 more weight than it claims. What it claims is, quoting its abstract:

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

2008-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 17, 2008, at 6:02 AM, David Kessens wrote: > If my memory serves me correctly, we didn't have to do a formal > override vote in both cases as the request of an override vote was > enough to get the first case moving, while in the second case I > decided that an informal strawpoll was

Re: SHOULD vs MUST

2008-06-25 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: A SHOULD X unless Y essentially means "SHOULD (X or Y)" I'd read it as "do X, but if you have a very good excuse not doing X might do. One known very good excuse is Y." That is more or less my definition of "should". I say something "must

Re: SHOULD vs MUST

2008-06-25 Thread Fred Baker
ne, 2008 07:59 -0400 Scott Brim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 6/25/08 5:37 AM, Fred Baker allegedly wrote: On Jun 25, 2008, at 5:28 AM, Frank Ellermann wrote: A SHOULD X unless Y essentially means "SHOULD (X or Y)" I'd read it as "do X, but if you have a very goo

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Rather than expanding the number of slots why don't we look at using the time we have more efficiently. Let me throw in v6ops as an example. We are very efficient, I think - we have 10-15 minute discussions on each of a number of drafts in ou

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 18, 2008, at 1:55 PM, Eliot Lear wrote: Fred Baker wrote: On Jul 18, 2008, at 7:50 AM, Cyrus Daboo wrote: Rather than expanding the number of slots why don't we look at using the time we have more efficiently. Let me throw in v6ops as an example. We are very efficient, I

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 21, 2008, at 10:18 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: Anyone promoting a point of view is going to find an example to support it. What we need, instead, is a sense of "typical", to use as the base for our consideration. Yes, we also need to consider outliers, but we need to treat them as suc

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
IMHO, defining things to a gnat's eyelash is mostly employment for lawyer-wannabes, and doesn't necessarily help in reality. "Teleconferencing", in this context, includes any communications vehicle that enables participants to meet without having to travel, and which they all agree to. Coul

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-25 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 24, 2008, at 6:18 AM, Marc Manthey wrote: marratech was aquired by google in 2005 , so i guess its not available anymore ( was java by the way and a bit slow ) I keep hearing this, and I use it every week. Someday I'll figure out why people say this. ___

Re: About IETF communication skills

2008-08-01 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 31, 2008, at 5:52 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Some considered that part of the delay of the IPv6 deployment was due to the lack of communication effort from IETF. I'm not really sure about that, however I agree that everything helps, of course. To be honest, I think IPv6 has bee

Re: new text for ID_Checklist sect 3, item 6

2008-08-15 Thread Fred Baker
I seem to be in the minority, but I object. This results, if I understand correctly, from the dispute that JCK had with the IESG a little while ago. Basically, someone on the IESG felt that rules of this sort should apply, an update to an existing specification didn't conform, and they obje

Re: Who Wants an RFID Badge for the Upcoming IETF Conference?

2008-11-14 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 14, 2008, at 7:36 AM, Andrew G. Malis wrote: I just added my name to the database. What I would REALLY like is to just have my badge scanned when I enter a meeting room instead of signing a blue sheet. That would have required Henning and/or Athar to coordinate with the Secretariat b

Re: [Tsvwg] Last Call: draft-ietf-tsvwg-admitted-realtime-dscp (DSCP for Capacity-Admitted Traffic) to Proposed Standard

2008-11-17 Thread Fred Baker
I'm OK with these changes being done by the RFC Editor during the final processing, or I can pick them up in an update if someone prefers. On Nov 16, 2008, at 9:25 AM, Bob Briscoe wrote: Magnus, Fred, James, Martin, I'm happy now. I liked the bullets at the end of S.2.2 that define the mini

Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for 2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?

2008-11-19 Thread Fred Baker
The folks to contact are the IAOC. The IETF Chair is on the IAOC. As to visa issues, as Randy opines, the issue tends to be visa processing. Depending on country pair, there are interesting issues around the globe. The US Embassies in China and Russia seem to not have IETF attendance on the

Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualified for2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?

2008-11-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 18, 2008, at 2:27 PM, Soininen Jonne (NSN FI/Espoo) wrote: I think it would be good for people that were trying to come to the IETF and couldn't to tell the IAD or me what happened. Accurate data is very important. I spoke with colleagues at Tsinghua last night. Apparently some 30

Re: [73attendees] Is USA qualifiedfor2.3ofdraft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria?

2008-11-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 18, 2008, at 3:56 PM, Livingood, Jason wrote: Is the visa issue for visitors from all countries coming to the U.S., or is this specific to Chinese citizens coming to the U.S. My understanding, which others should corroborate, is that it relates to specific countries. China is the on

Re: Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to application developers

2008-11-24 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 21, 2008, at 9:39 PM, Tony Hain wrote: The discussion today in Behave shows there is very strong peer- pressure group-think with no serious analysis of the long term implications about what is being discussed. Yes, there is a very clear anti-NAT religion that drives a lot of though

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impact to applicationdevelopers

2008-12-01 Thread Fred Baker
Did you review the slides I discussed during the behave working group meeting as to what I view as the principal value of the technology? If not, may I suggest that you obtain them from ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/fred/gse/behave-nat66-gse.pdf At this point, given the amount of discussion that

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impactto applicationdevelopers

2008-12-01 Thread Fred Baker
I'll repeat what said in behave a few days ago. I think this capability actually gives the e2e guys (whom I count myself among) 99% of what they are looking for while giving rrg-etc, which is to say "the ISPs", 99% of what they're looking for. GSE/8+8 gives us the ability to manage the add

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impactto applicationdevelopers

2008-12-02 Thread Fred Baker
you might take a look at he nat66 document and the behave IPv4/IPv6 documents. they're pretty different. On Dec 1, 2008, at 7:07 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: Of course, Iljitsch points an interesting issue. If NAT66 behaves exactly like, say, NAT 64, then why would the organization bother to

Re: [BEHAVE] Lack of need for 66nat : Long term impactto applicationdevelopers

2008-12-02 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 1, 2008, at 10:41 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: Actually, rather than tunneling, have we seriously consider flat host based routing in a corporate network? A combination of DHT and caching technologies ought to make that quite scalable. We built a number of networks like those in the

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-18 Thread Fred Baker
Silly question. Is this discussion more appropriate to ietf-ipr? One could argue that ietf-ipr looked at this question for two years prior to submitting the new boilerplate, and by missing it made it clear that they weren't adequate to review. That said, there was also an IETF last call, an

Fwd: RFC 5378 representation

2008-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
For the record, I have sent the following email to the IAD, signed using my PGP key. I would encourage others to send similar notes. From: Fred Baker Date: December 18, 2008 2:56:20 PM PST To: i...@ietf.org Cc: Trustees Subject: RFC 5378 representation I, Fred Baker, am one of the

Re: RFC 5378 representation

2008-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
So, having just cleared this note with the Trustees, sending it in, and forwarding the note to the IETF list, I observe http://trustee.ietf.org/docs/Contributor_Non-Exclusive_License_RFC5378.pdf . By all means, folks, use the form. On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:58 PM, Fred Baker wrote: For the

Re: RFC 5378 representation

2008-12-22 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 19, 2008, at 6:02 PM, Christian Huitema wrote: Some of these RFC were written when you were working for ACC. This is a fairly common situation among us. I have written RFC as an employee of INRIA, Bellcore/Telcordia, and Microsoft. Just curious, did you check with whoever bought ACC

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-09 Thread Fred Baker
You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. In my opinion, we need a 5378-bis that keeps the good bits but corrects the issue that has been problematic. The question before the house is how best to achieve that. The proposal here is to provide a work-around that enables an in

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-12 Thread Fred Baker
So what I hear (and for the benefit of others, let me note that you and I have ha a fairly detailed discussion privately that I think I am summarizing the result of) is that you want a short term solution and a long term solution. The short term solution would be adequately solved by using

Re: 2005-2006 NomCom Announcement

2006-05-02 Thread Fred Baker
Thanks to the nominating committee for all its efforts! On May 1, 2006, at 6:59 PM, Ralph Droms wrote: I am pleased to announce that the 2005-2006 NomCom selection and confirmation process to fill the IAB vacated by Pekka Nikander's resignation is complete. At this time, on behalf of the Nom

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-31 Thread Fred Baker
On May 31, 2006, at 9:24 AM, Margaret Wasserman wrote: If an AD or the IESG makes a mistake, there is also an appeals mechanism available. There isn't any documented appeals mechanism for IAB decisions. Should there be? Actually, there is. See section 6.5.3 of RFC 2026. As with an appeal

Re: Comments on draft-iab-rfc-editor: IETF control

2006-05-31 Thread Fred Baker
On May 31, 2006, at 12:56 PM, Bill Fenner wrote: Do you read that as being able to say "the IAB made a mistake in their (RFC Editor selection|liaison management|other IAB-assigned task)"? I read it as being able to say "the IAB upheld my appeal to the IESG because RFC 2026 supports them, bu

Re: Acknowledgements section in a RFC (Was: Last Call: 'Matching of Language Tags' to BCP (draft-ietf-ltru-matching)

2006-06-07 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 7, 2006, at 12:03 PM, John C Klensin wrote: This is the negative side of the discussion going on. People are focusing on reasons why someone might want to be included in acknowledgements. I am merely pointing out that it is also possible that someone might not want this. Underst

Re: IETF66 - Recommendations for travel from airport to hotels?

2006-07-08 Thread Fred Baker
I took a cab. fixed price, $35 Canadian, gets you there no muss no fuss. On Jul 7, 2006, at 10:29 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 6-jul-2006, at 3:08, Elwyn Davies wrote: Airport shuttles: Unfortunately the Delta doesn't seem to qualify for a free shuttle. The nearest is probably the Q

Re: When did the ID drafts index disappear

2006-07-10 Thread Fred Baker
If you like, you may use ftp://ftpeng.cisco.com/drafts.html. It is created daily (well, nightly) from http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/1id-index.txt.On Jul 10, 2006, at 12:02 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The IETF Web site goes for terrible to worse.   It is bad enough that the site is design

Re: Comments on draft-carpenter-newtrk-questions-00.txt

2006-07-12 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:18 PM, Randall Gellens wrote: I'd also like to note that our specifications are not atomic; advancing from PS to DS means showing at least two interworking implementations of every feature and option. Yes. The questions, at least in my mind, are: (1) what does it tak

Re: netwrk stuff

2006-07-12 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 12, 2006, at 7:28 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: RFCs are published as Informational, Proposed Standard or Experimental. This represents the confidence level the IETF/IESG has at the moment of publication. Irrespective of I/PS/E, a document may move to Standard (which replaces Draf

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