Two clarifications re

2004-06-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
1) A message that was in response to my "From Leslie Daigle:" message got sent to ietf-announce by mistake. This should not have happened - ietf-announce is not a discussion list. Bug reported. 2) However, responding to the point asked - what is being hired now is a consultant to help with the

Current status of IETF change efforts - updated

2004-06-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
"staging area" server: http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/chair/ This includes: - Mid-June version of "status of change efforts" - 2003 financials - 2004 budget Happy reading! Harald Alvestrand ___ Ietf mailing l

New versions of guidelines for Internet-Drafts

2004-06-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
The IESG has emitted new versions of the following guideline documents: "Guidelines to authors of Internet-Drafts" http://www.ietf.org/ietf/1id-guidelines.txt which has been updated to reflect the new IPR policy RFCs (3667 and 3668): Note that in this process, we discovered a bug in one of the RF

Call for Consensus: IETF Administrative Restructuring

2004-10-27 Thread Harald Alvestrand
The IAB and IESG have considered the input and feedback of the IETF community to date, including discussions on the IETF mailing and the results of the straw poll conducted in mid-October. Based on this input, the IAB and IESG have written a specific recommendation about how to go forward with thi

PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Mark Andrews skrev: >> > > You also don't want to do it as you would also need massive churn in > the DNS. > > Microsoft gets this wrong as they don't register the privacy addresses > in the DNS which in turn causes services to be blocked because there > is no address in the DNS. perhaps the advent

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Jeroen Massar wrote: > Harald Alvestrand wrote: >> Mark Andrews skrev: >>> You also don't want to do it as you would also need massive churn in >>> the DNS. >>> >>> Microsoft gets this wrong as they don't register the privacy addresses >

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Rémi Després wrote: > Harald Alvestrand a écrit : >> Mark Andrews skrev: >> >>> You also don't want to do it as you would also need massive churn in >>> the DNS. >>> >>> Microsoft gets this wrong as they don't register the privacy

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Rémi Després wrote: >> My desire to have privacy is, in itself, something I may want to keep >> private. > I am not sure I see the practical consequences. > If my source address says "I am someone but you will not know who I > am", isn't this sufficient? You're not thinking this through. Think

Re: PTR for IPv6 clients (Re: IPv6 NAT?)

2008-02-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 21 feb 2008, at 16:34, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > >> Think of the case where there are 1000 users on a LAN, and one of them >> desires to use the address privacy option for all the normal reasons. > >> Then think about the policem

Re: Hasty attempt to create an IDN WG (Was: WG Review: Internationalized Domain Name (idn)

2008-03-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > On Mon, Mar 03, 2008 at 04:32:08PM +0200, > Jari Arkko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote > a message of 21 lines which said: > > >> But it is quite common when we revise a specification that we have >> only an incomplete defect list. Or we may not have determined if a >>

Sharing information from questionnaires (Re: Nomcom 2007-8 Chair's Report)

2008-03-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: > On 3/6/2008 10:44 PM, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: >> Lakshminath Dondeti skrev: >>> Folks, >>> >>> A report on the nomcom's activities is available at >>> https://www.tools.ietf.org/group/nomcom/07/nomcom-report. Please >>> direct any comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ray Pelletier wrote: > All, > > We are considering changing the meeting Blue Sheet by eliminating the > need to enter an email address to avoid spam concerns. > > Is there any good reason to retain that info bit? I think you should ask Jorge whether the disambiguation factor matters - he's the la

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
After considering the comments so far, I think I disagree with having a separate Trust chair. The idea behind making the IAOC be the Trustees was, among other things, to make sure that we didn't create yet another nexus of control in the labyrinth of committees; I understood the legal existence

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-04 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ray Pelletier wrote: > > 12. The Trustees are the current members of the IAOC. When a member > leaves the IAOC for whatever reason, he or she ceases to be a Trustee. > When a new member joins the IAOC, he or she becomes a Trustee [ADD - > upon their acceptance in writing]. This is already covere

Re: Proposed Revisions to IETF Trust Administrative Procedures

2008-04-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I too like Ted's comments. If the job is really to preside over the Trust meetings, the title "convener" might be useful; if the job is to make sure Trust work gets followed up, call it an "executive director". But I can live with the current proposal (although dropping #12 entirely would make

Re: Weekly posting summary for ietf@ietf.org

2008-04-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew G. Malis wrote: > Thomas, > > I would personally find this more useful if it were measured by > subject line rather than by sender. > > At the time when these summaries started, it was obvious from some summaries that some participants seemed to be spending more time typing answers than

Re: WG Review: NETCONF Data Modeling Language (netmod)

2008-04-23 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Eric Rescorla wrote: > At Tue, 22 Apr 2008 19:17:47 -0600, > Randy Presuhn wrote: > >> Our ADs worked very hard to prevent us from talking about technology >> choices at the CANMOD BOF. Our original proposal for consensus >> hums included getting a of sense of preferences among the various >> p

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

2008-06-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: > Brian Dickson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > >> Here's my suggestion: >> >> List 2606 in the informative references, and footnote the examples used >> to indicate >> that they are "grandfathered" non-2606 examples. >> >> So, in text that previously read "not-example.co

Re: Missing Materials

2008-07-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Eric Rescorla wrote: As I have done for previous IETFs I just ran getdrafts (http://tools.ietf.org/tools/getdrafts/) on the entire agenda and what follows is the output. As you can see, a pretty substantial number of WGs are without agendas, about 10% of the drafts listed are wrong, and about ha

Re: IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream

2008-07-31 Thread Harald Alvestrand
The IESG (by way of Russ Housley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>) wrote: The attached describes the manner in which the IESG will be processing RFC Errata for the IETF Stream. The current tools on the RFC Editor site support "approved" and "rejected", but they need to be updated to also permit "hold for docu

Re: IESG Processing of RFC Errata for the IETF Stream

2008-07-31 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Russ Housley wrote: Harald: I'd like to see this discussed on the rfc-interest mail list. Previously, you suggested that all errata and their disposition be available for historical review, regardless of the state that the errata is put into. I think that this is the plan, but these details

New schemes vs recycling "http:" (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Julian Reschke wrote: Well. There's definitively a total disconnect between that IESG recommendation, and the W3C TAG's point of view (see ongoing discussion on the TAG mailing list about the "xri" scheme). It would be good when both organizations could come up with consistent answers. If

Re: New schemes vs recycling "http:" (Re: Past LC comments on draft-ietf-geopriv-http-location-delivery-08)

2008-08-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
it's surprising how much we agree on :-) Julian Reschke wrote: Certain usages of HTTP (in particular, the use of HTTP URLs for XML schemas) have tended to denigrate this implication, and say "you should regard this as an identifier". Still, the usage is prevalent enough that people have comp

Re: Failing of IPR Filing Page when makling updates in re LTANS and other filings.

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
You can't change your earlier public statement; that would be tampering with the historical record. You can, however, file a new statement that updates the old one, as you have already done by filing #954, listed as an update of #201, and #955, #956, #957, #958, #959, #960, #961, #962 and #963

Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
IETF Chair wrote: From the discussion just prior to the recent appeal by John Klensin, it was clear that the guidance regarding example domain names in IETF documents provided in the ID-Checklist needed to be updated. This point was emphasized further during the discussion of the Klensin appeal.

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: You can't change your earlier public statement; that would be tampering with the historical record. The IETF appears to permit patent disclosures to be removed at the request of submitters. Search for

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: At least one of the removed patent licenses promises to make available patent licenses on fair, reasonable, reciprocal and non-discriminatory terms. It seems unfortunate that IETF allows organizations to file such

Re: Second Last Call: draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms (Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)) to Proposed Standard

2008-10-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
SM wrote: At 05:37 20-10-2008, The IESG wrote: This is a second last call for consideration of the following document from the S/MIME Mail Security WG (smime): - 'Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS) ' a

Re: Publication track for IBE documents (Was Second Last Call...)

2008-10-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephen Farrell wrote: So while I don't strongly object to these as informational RFCs, I do wonder why, if only one implementation is ever likely, we need any RFC at all. Its not like these docs describe something one couldn't easily figure out were there a need, given that the (elegant but not

Re: Publication track for IBE documents (Was Second Last Call...)

2008-10-23 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 04:51:23PM +0200, Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 23 lines which said: (That said, the RFC Editor's work on these will cost the IETF a known amount of dollars. Known by who? How an or

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
David Kessens wrote: Joe, On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 08:20:11AM -0800, Joe St Sauver wrote: I'm not aware of DNS block lists which cover IPv6 address spaces at this time, probably in part because IPv6 traffic remains de minimis (see http://asert.arbornetworks.com/2008/8/the-end-is-near-but-is-

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
"start" for a real revolution. The question is: where is any similar movement to those pushed the web development in the early nineties? Best, Géza On Tue, Nov 11, 2008 at 9:38 PM, Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: David Kessens wrote: Joe, On Tue, No

Re: IPv6 traffic stats

2008-11-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Pekka Savola wrote: On Tue, 11 Nov 2008, Harald Alvestrand wrote: The correct number from the presentation is 0.238% - only Russia, Ukraine and France have more than 0.5% IPv6. Presentation available from http://rosie.ripe.net/presentations-detail/Thursday/Plenary%2014:00/index.html

Re: RFC5378 alternate procedure (was: Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary)

2008-12-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Material comments: - Section 3: RFC 5378 expected the date on which 5378 was effective to be set by the Trust (section 2.1), and explicitly did not want to cast into RFC stone the procedure by which the changeover date was determined. - I disagree with the decision to allow *all* of a submiss

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Contreras, Jorge wrote: Who owns the oft-repeated The key words "MUST", "MUST NOT", "REQUIRED", "SHALL", "SHALL NOT", "SHOULD", "SHOULD NOT", "RECOMMENDED", "MAY", and "OPTIONAL" in this document are to be interpreted as described in [RFC2119]. I'm referring to the bits

Re: where to send RFC 5378 license forms

2008-12-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Simon Josefsson wrote: Harald Tveit Alvestrand writes: Simon Josefsson skrev: Ray Pelletier writes: On Dec 18, 2008, at 2:14 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: Why do we need to send these license forms in at all? I thought the requirement was that the authors get th

Re: RFC 5378 "contributions"

2009-01-15 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 1:38 PM +1300 1/15/09, Brian E Carpenter wrote: IANAL, but it seems to me that we should proceed on the assumption that this would fall under fair use provisions. Anything else would seem unreasonable to me. IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this thread,

Re: Please Review Draft IESG Statement on Activities that are OBE

2009-02-03 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Two concerns. 1) As the chair of a WG that many will consider to be a prime example of OBE, I am a bit worried about the "MUST NOT publish" statements. A traditional antidote to long-running WGs has been to kill them and tell the editors "if you really want to finish up, you can always do in

Re: The Dean list

2009-02-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew Sullivan wrote: I also was resubscribed. I received the usual totally clarifying message one has come to expect from Mr Anderson. None of this suggests to me, however, that we ought to do something. My understanding (and I'd appreciate being disabused if I'm wrong) is that Mr Anderson

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility (Was: Re: yet another comment on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07.txt)

2009-02-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Tony Finch wrote: On Thu, 12 Feb 2009, Jari Arkko wrote: I agree that there are problematic case, but I believe I hope everyone realizes this is only the case if the RFC in question has code. Otherwise it really does not matter. Only some RFCs have code. Except that it prevents using t

Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter

2006-03-17 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ran, RJ Atkinson wrote: There was an understanding then that the RFC Editor's role extends far beyond just publishing IETF-sponsored documents. I am concerned that this is not being acknowledged now. I would feel a lot better if there were more public acknowledgement that the RFC Editor's rol

Transparency (Re: STRAW PROPOSAL RFC Editor charter)

2006-03-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Carl Malamud wrote: Hi Brian - I agree with the first part ("seek multiple proposals when possible and appropriate"). However, we may disagree on the last part ("transparent as possible"). My formulation would be "transparent" without the qualifier. Transparent with a qualifier == opaque. Th

Re: RFC Publication - Patent-Free Declarations ... -- Market of Protocols -- Free Protocols Foundation

2006-03-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Mohsen BANAN wrote: As an alternative to allowing IETF to decide and control the future of the RFC Publication Service, we propose a model of independent services (RFC Publication, IANA, patent-free declarations, ...) creating an environment for a market of protocols with inherent checks and ba

Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)

2006-03-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Mohsen BANAN wrote: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO) Mohsen Banan mohsen at neda.com November 5, 1998 I suppose I should make a note to t

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
This therefore leads to two questions for the community: 1. Are well known ports archaic? If so, can we request that the IANA do away with the distinction? 2. If they are not archaic, under what circumstances should they be allocated? My opinion: they are archaic and should

Re: Complaints Against The IESG and The RFC-Editor About Publication of RFC-2188 (ESRO)

2006-03-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Dave> RFC2068, HTTP/1.1, was published a little over half a year later, Dave> which would appear to be "relatively soon". The primary author of Informational RFC1945 with the negative IESG note is Tim Berners-Lee. He then pulled out of the IETF/IESG and formed W3C. Why do you think that

Re: veni vidi exi

2006-03-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Eduardo, I'll take the word of anyone Eduardo Mendez wrote: Dear Mr. Chair, I never hidden I am involved in cultural policy. Actually, I represent a group of specialised colleagues. >From EU Governments, EU Parliament, and International Organisations. Name them, if you can. If they exist, they

The original specs and notes on them.....

2006-03-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: It is true that the IESG Notes in RFC 1945 and RFC 1630 are quite embarassing for the IETF today but you are not Tim Berners-Lee. For one genius who had trouble being recognized at the beginning, there are thousands of monkeys-with-keyboards who are rightly ignored.

Re: Guidance needed on well known ports

2006-03-20 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ned Freed wrote: But does that student have access to the root account on servers which are part of the networking infrastructure? Who cares if Joe User blows up his own config. on a PC that nobody else depends on but Joe? But if nobody has local access to these servers, why is it is neces

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Guerilla Party Events for Wednesday

2006-03-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Stephen Casner wrote: On Wed, 22 Mar 2006, Susan Estrada wrote: [snip] **Tuesday's Trivia** 1. One IETF attendee appeared on more than a dozen IETF name badges at the Stanford IETF -- name him or her. Milo Medin. I have no idea why. This was a small revolt against pressure to wear a

Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-03-22 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Sam, in the gen-art meeting today, you asked me to read and reply to the long note you wrote to Elwyn. I'm assuming you mean this one. The discussion in the genarea meeting clarified quite a bit what you are trying to achieve with the draft, and was a very useful background to writing this n

An absolutely fantastic wireless IETF

2006-03-23 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Just wanted to state what's obvious to all of us by now: This time the wireless WORKED, and Just Went On Working. That hasn't happened for a while. THANK YOU! Harald ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailm

Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in different regions)

2006-03-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Tim Chown wrote: On Thu, Mar 23, 2006 at 11:48:19PM -0600, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: The results is also better for all (even participants), because the logistics and local-planning is done more coherently. I think there's some unfair handwaving in this thread. One option however wo

Meeting format (Re: Moving from "hosts" to "sponsors")

2006-03-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andy Bierman wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: Andy Bierman wrote: JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: I don't think the meeting fees could actually go down, may be more in the other way around if we are realistic with the cost figures. Actually the cost is already high for a sponsor, and I believe t

Re: Sponsors and influence (Re: Making IETF happening in differentregions)

2006-03-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The current funding model makes the IETF disproportionately reliant on one single company that currently employs far more ADs and working group chairs than any other. It also has a habit of recruiting through the IETF. If that company were to have an unexpected earni

Re: Copyright status of early RFCs

2006-04-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not being the RFC editor, the IAB (or member thereof), or even the (as yet undefinable) IETF, I am not sure I am qualified to render a value judgement here. That said, I am in posession of two bound volumes of the collected RFC series as of the date of publication of

Re: Copyright status of early RFCs

2006-04-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Jeroen Massar wrote: On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 07:28 -0700, Harald Alvestrand wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: not being the RFC editor, the IAB (or member thereof), or even the (as yet undefinable) IETF, I am not sure I am qualified to render a value judgement here. That said, I am in

Re: Copyright status of early RFCs

2006-04-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: However, it seems that rather than having each individual chase after authors, at least one of whom is unfortunately no longer with us, wouldn't it make sense to have the Trust sent a release form to the authors so that they can grant retroactive permission equivalen

Re: Unannounced list status changes considered harmful

2006-04-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I don't know of a status change to IMA in this time interval. Frank Ellermann wrote: Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Please provide more data (off-list) as this seems odd. Will do (ordinary moderation bounce), but on list I should fix the bogus URLs I've posted here (I forgot one "gmane", s

Re: Possible General Area MiniBOF 1: IESG structure and charter

2006-04-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Brian, before asking for volunteers, you should state clearly whether you want people who will: - DOCUMENT the EXISTING way the IESG works, and seek approval for that - PROPOSE a NEW way the IESG can work, that fits the needs of the community better The last one is what draft-davies-pesci-n

Re: Perils of Last Minute Change (Was: RE: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review ofdraft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt)

2006-05-09 Thread Harald Alvestrand
The tracker tracks the RFC Editor note was modified (by me) on July 24, 2004. The reason was a comment from Ted Hardie on July 21, augumenting a DISCUSS from Steve Bellovin: Steve (DISCUSS): >he last paragraph of Section 2 should explain the relationship of this document to RFC 3683.

Re: [Gen-art] Re: Gen-art review of draft-hartman-mailinglist-experiment-01.txt

2006-05-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Sam, we have some differences of opinion on how these things work, and how they are supposed to work. But I'll try to be constructive. I think that in any experiment that involves giving someone the power to set procedures, there MUST be some words on how those procedures are set (the metapr

Re: Last Call: Proposed 2008 - 2010 IETF Meeting Calendar

2006-05-18 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Since Joe has identified a calendar (even an ISOC-sponsored one!) that seems to be updated with less work from the secretariat than the current meeting-planning list/calendar, perhaps the IAD should evaluate whether the IETF should switch to using this calendar for coordination, and retire its

Re: Last Call: 'IETF Process and Operations Documentss' to Experimental RFC (draft-alvestrand-ipod)

2006-05-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Good to see some debate on this! As author, I should try to indicate where I come from in my thinking but it's up to the IESG to judge whether this could be an useful experiment to run, and up to those who run the experiment to determine the details as they go along. That's by design. Jo

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-ipod-01.txt

2006-05-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John C Klensin wrote: Dave, I think one can like, or dislike, this proposal. My first objective was to make sure we were complaining about what was there/ intended, rather than what wasn't. It is not the best document I've ever seen wrt specifics and explanation (including, I imagine, some of

Tracking IPR (Re: RFC Author Count and IPR)

2006-05-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Just one note on this long thread: At present, the IETF secretariat does *not* attempt to track who has copyright rights on what parts of the text. Neither, as far as I know, does anyone else (WG chair or editors), apart from following the RFC 2026 rule that "significant contributions should b

Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR

2006-05-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Bob Braden wrote: *> *> I am concerned that the current RFC Editor practice that limits the *> number of authors is in conflict with the IETF IPR policies. The RFC *> Editor currently limits the author count to five people. Recent IPR *> WG discussions make it clear to me that auth

Re: [Techspec] RFC Author Count and IPR

2006-05-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lucy E. Lynch wrote: Let me try re-stating my question. Is there a one-to-one relationship between the listed authors on an IETF document and ownership of the given document's Intellectual Property? I can answer that one... No. ___ Ietf mailing lis

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-ipod-01.txt

2006-05-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Note: The IPOD draft says that these notes can be approved by multiple entities - I did not see any reason to insist that the mechanism impose a further burden on the IESG for *every* document that needs to be issued in the course of IETF operations. So the reason for the "IETF" in "IETF Ope

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-alvestrand-ipod-01.txt

2006-05-29 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Note - I did not intend to advocate starting off by moving all BCPs into IONs. Some pieces of some BCPs may be better off as IONs. But I think that having the "basic rules" as BCPs that are published as RFCs is something that we shouldn't be too quick to change. Harald

Re: Best practice for data encoding?

2006-06-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ted Faber wrote: On Mon, Jun 12, 2006 at 02:11:19PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: The problem with text is that you have to walk through memory and compare characters. A LOT. That's not where your code spends its time. Run gprof(1). The majority of time your code spends is spe

Objection to publishing draft-ash-alt-formats-02.pdf as a 3933 Experiment

2006-06-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I hereby formally add my voice to the list of people who think that draft-ash-alt-formats should not be published in its present form as the basis for an RFC 3933 experiment. I would change this opinion if: - The description of the evaluation of the experiment was extended to include: - Abi

Re: IDs first? RE: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Format in AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-21 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The format is straight mime with one added feature, a content header to specify the url of the segment so that links in the document can be disambiguated. It should be an rfc, just need someone to get round to writing it up. I may do that soon because I am looki

Re: IANA SLA Input Sought

2006-06-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Ray Pelletier wrote: Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: Who does or will pay for the IANA function? Does funding come from IASA, ICANN, or some other source? To my knowledge, it's ICANN, not the IETF. Ray Yes, this has been an ICANN contribution to the community since th

Re: The Accountable Web RE: not listening

2006-06-28 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: If we are going to do anything about the pedophile predators lurking in Internet chat rooms we have to create the understanding that there is accountability. The perverts would not approach a minor in a public area with the type of advance they use in a chat room,

Re: The IETF 66 Attendees Alias

2006-07-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ken Raeburn wrote: On Jul 12, 2006, at 06:03, Dave Crocker wrote: 4. Having a per-meeting special list has an obvious and reasonable basis. However it makes each meeting's list a special case for IETF administration and for attendees. Possible variations to consider: a. Have the list name

Re: RFC 4612 - historic status

2006-08-09 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Yaakov Stein wrote: According to RFC 2026 historic RFCs are those whose specification has been superceded by a more recent specification. RFC 4612 is labeled historic, and defines a MIME type for T.38 over RTP, a practice that is just now being adopted and to be encouraged. Indeed, the RFC d

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I regard a 6-month ritual of: 1) Unsuspending Jefsey from ietf-languages 2) Waiting until Jefsey discovers his unsuspension 3) Wading through Jefsey posts until everyone's sure he's still as incomprehensible as before 4) Convincing my then-current AD that it's time for another 6-month suspensio

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-10 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Frank Ellermann wrote: Harald Alvestrand wrote: Don't throw away the umbrella because you're buying a raincoat next week. It's still raining. If the "umbrella" is Sam's experiment, and the "raincoat" Brian's draft, then the latter didn&

Re: [Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-carpenter-rescind-3683-00.txt]

2006-08-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Sam Hartman wrote: "Harald" == Harald Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Harald> I regard a 6-month ritual of: 1) Unsuspending Jefsey from Harald> ietf-languages 2) Waiting until Jefsey discovers his Harald> unsuspension 3) Wading t

Re: RFC 4612 - historic status

2006-08-14 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Paul E. Jones wrote: Brian, The problem with using "image" is that it would mean that a gateway would have to do one of: 1) Close the audio session and open an image session 2) Open a second "image" session during mid-call 3) Open both an audio session and image session at the outset The real un

Re: Last Call: 'A Lightweight UDP Transfer Protocol for the the Internet Registry Information Service' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz)

2006-08-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Andrew Newton wrote: 3 - Why is LWZ limited to UDP, desperately trying to solve various size issues with delated XML and other tricks ? TCP is handled by XPC and BEEP. But for very short and quick answers (and lots of them, such as domain availability checks) UDP is better. Don't know w

Re: Last Call: 'A Lightweight UDP Transfer Protocol for the the Internet Registry Information Service' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-crisp-iris-lwz)

2006-08-16 Thread Harald Alvestrand
william(at)elan.net wrote: my congestion control alarm went off. after reviewing the document, it's still ringing. There's nothing in the document that says "if you want to send 4000 requests, and 70 out of the first 100 get lost, you should slow down your sending rate to that server". The

Re: [Ltru] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Language Tag Registry Update (ltru)

2006-08-25 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Doug Ewell wrote: On Tue, 22 Aug 2006 10:23:54 -0400, IESG Secretary secretary at ietf dot org> wrote: A modified charter has been submitted for the Language Tag Registry Update (ltru) working group in the Applications Area of the IETF. The IESG has not made any determination as yet. The modi

Re: NomCom 2006/07: Selection Process Reset

2006-09-01 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Just to say "me too"... I think that Andrew as Nomcom chair needs to have the authority to make the decision in this case and make it stick, no matter how many people think that he could have done better. I've got no problem with the community having opinions about his decisions, and even so

security features.... (Re: Facts, please)

2006-09-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Robert Sayre wrote: On 9/19/06, Russ Allbery <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Robert Sayre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Thankfully, the complete failure known as HTTP 1.1 would never make it > to Proposed Standard under the unwritten process we have now. For > example, it doesn't contain a mandato

Re: security features.... (Re: Facts, please)

2006-09-19 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I think the question starts with a false premise, that the security layer should be in HTTP. Since HTTP is the new IP this makes no more sense than having authentication at the IPSEC layer. I think the concept of "THE security layer" is a false premise. There's

Re: Last Call: 'Progressive Posting Rights Supsensions' to BCP (draft-carpenter-rescind-3683)

2006-09-24 Thread Harald Alvestrand
John C Klensin wrote: >From my place in the galleries, it appears to me that there have been a very small number of attempts to assert the 3683 mechanism. Each has resulted in a firestorm of debate that has arguably caused far more traffic, noise, and disruption to the relevant mailing lists

Re: Comments on draft-dusseault-caldav-15 and draft-newman-i18n-comparator-14

2006-09-26 Thread Harald Alvestrand
I've got a "very liberal" comparator in production at the Linux Counter project. It mostly works, because the people who assign names tend to not assign names that collide under the comparator. But the strings that result from the comparator are quite distant from "expected" strings in many c

Re: Last Call: 'Domain Suffix Option for DHCPv6' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv6-opt-dnsdomain)

2006-09-27 Thread Harald Alvestrand
FWIW, "domain suffix" is used in RFC 3263, 3588, 4183 and 4620. In none of these documents does it seem that the author has seen a requirement for a definition; "a domain name that is intended to be used as a suffix of a complete domain name" seems to be the implied definition. A pity that Ver

Re: MLTF meeting before IGF

2006-10-03 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Ted Hardie wrote: Note that the information below pertains to a meeting which is not sponsored by or endorsed by the IETF. Participants should understand that the discussion of an Internet-Draft or a potential proposal for a later IETF working group does not imply that the IETF IPR policies, No

Re: [Nea] WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea)

2006-10-07 Thread Harald Alvestrand
The reason we left it open is to allow the working group to spend more > time exploring the range of use cases in this area to better determine > requirements and applicability. For example, it may be useful to > classify endpoints as network-managed versus user-managed versus > 3rd-party managed

Re: [Nea] WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea)

2006-10-08 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Lakshminath Dondeti wrote: At 01:42 AM 10/7/2006, Harald Alvestrand wrote: Many universities require their students to buy their own laptops, but prohibit certain types of activity from those laptops (like spamming, DDOS-attacks and the like). They would love to have the ability to run some

Complaints and complainers (Re: [Nea] WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea))

2006-10-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Just FTR (and changing the subject, since this is not about NEA at all): I agree with the principle that the sergeants-at-arms are obliged to make up their own minds about whether or not a posting is inappropriate, and that they are responsible for their own decisions. Complaints are a means

Re: DNS pollution

2006-10-11 Thread Harald Alvestrand
dust off the IAB wildcard statement, and say "it's not any better when YOU do it"? http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-09-20-dns-wildcards.html While we're at it, let's say "blocking SRV records in your DNS proxy is harmful too". Keith Moore wrote: In the past month or so I've run across

Re: DNS pollution

2006-10-12 Thread Harald Alvestrand
One thought: every time we encounter one of those problems, we should report an issue to the ISP's helpdesk. If the opex of the "feature" is high enough, even accountants may get the point Stephen Casner wrote: On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Keith Moore wrote: In the past month or so I've r

Re: I understand that there is an ISO MOU with the IETF - I want to see it...

2006-10-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
todd glassey wrote: Thats what I thought John but when Verisign's Corporate-Government Liaison, who is a very reputable attorney, pops up and says there is one I have to ask. Google searching seems to indicate that this role belongs to Michael Aisenberg. I suggest that anyone who cares to pur

Re: [Nea] Re: WG Review: Network Endpoint Assessment (nea)

2006-10-13 Thread Harald Alvestrand
A typical NEA case (taken out of what Cisco's NAC is supposed to be good for): - Worker goes on holiday, takes laptop - New attack is discovered that exploits a newly discovered Windows vulnerability - Patch is created, distributed and installed - NEA posture requirement is increased to "must

Re: draft-kolkman-appeal-support

2006-10-14 Thread Harald Alvestrand
Frank Ellermann wrote: Perhaps he could be also convinced to trash his draft. I've trashed an "3710-obsolete" draft (before publication - luck). 9/10 of all drafts are trashed by the quite effective mechanism of waiting 6 months... no need for dramatic action. that said, I'd be happy

Re: draft-kolkman-appeal-support

2006-10-14 Thread Harald Alvestrand
> - supporters are willing to offer proof of identity to a > secretariat function of the IETF ...difficult, it reminds me of Usenet CSVs. What do you have in mind, a phone number offered for a verification call ? They would need to support different plausibility checks wrt WP:SOCK

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