A/V services for the IETF (was: Re: MBONE access?)

2004-03-03 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Ole, the multicast services are provided by the UOregon team supported by a grant from Cisco (+ some support from ISOC via the IETF Chair's fund). This grant is in its final year, and the end of the grant is a convenient time to stop and reconsider exactly what services we (the IETF community)

Re: Community Collaboration, versus Central Management

2004-03-03 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Dave, could you please quote people by name? I certainly believe that I haven't said what you say below. I'd appreciate it if you give the person who said it the chance to explain him/herself, since this is just about 180 degrees different from my perception of the IESG's perception of reality

Re: Community Collaboration, versus Central Management

2004-03-04 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Dave, I'm trying to give a constructive response near the end - and it turns out that a lot of the things you wish for match up with the things I have tried to start us executing. those who wish to skip the name game can search for #POSITIVE --On 4. mars 2004 16:39 +0900 Dave Crocker <

Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
it's me again. --On 4. mars 2004 10:59 -0800 Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: We come to different conclusions here. My conclusion is that no standard should remain at proposed for more than 2 years unless it's revised. Either it goes up, it goes away, or it gets revised and goes around

Re: Proposal For Token-Based Authentication In Mail Submission As Anti-Forgery Effort

2004-03-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
attempt at positive contribution check out draft-ietf-msgtrk-mtqp and draft-ietf-msgtrk-smtpext for a worked example of "send a verifiable token out with the email without giving away the password". there are some interesting corner cases in doing this sort of thing, and msgtrk ran across

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 7. mars 2004 17:07 -0800 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harald, HTA> In the steady state (30 docs/month, currently), perhaps 30 man-hours/month 30 documents go to Proposed each month? The steady-state rate of review is the average number of documents that go to Proposed. (well,

Re: paralysis

2004-03-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 7. mars 2004 15:03 -0800 Michael Thomas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Fine. Truth in advertising is wonderful. Then what? From what I can tell, anything that falls short of perfection then gets summarily executed. What metrics do you suggest when the answer is less than perfect that doesn't r

Re: Continuing the story - another stab at an IETF mission statement

2004-03-09 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 18. februar 2004 18:06 + Tom Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I find your definition of the Internet delightfully ambiguous. I was taught that the Internet (as opposed to an internet or the internet) was the public network accessible through public IPv4 addresses (this predates IPv6)

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-09 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 8. mars 2004 12:38 -0700 Rick Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Standard. In my experience the hardest part of getting a document advanced is to collect the implementation report. Hence this modest proposal: [clip] I rather like the proposal. What's been lacking is any forum for further

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 9. mars 2004 22:46 -0600 Spencer Dawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't KNOW that what I'm thinking is true, but I'm wondering to myself if the target audience for protocol specification maintenance is all in the IETF... not all the audience for protocol specification is in the IETF, so

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 9. mars 2004 19:54 -0800 Randy Presuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I made the comment that I thought we should apply RFC 2026 and force things to either advance or go historic. Our AD advised us in one case that if our WG wanted one of its RFCs to go historic, we had to write another RFC e

Re: Who can do me a faver to send me the latest version of RFC2916bis?

2004-03-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-enum-rfc2916bis-07.txt All currently discussed drafts of the IETF are stored in the "internet-drafts" directory. Harald --On 12. mars 2004 10:14 +0800 "Felix, Zhang" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I have tried to search in the IETF w

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
John, I think the things you describe have very many of the same ideals and targets as draft-loghney-what-standards, currently being discussed in newtrk, which still needs work and significant input to be converted from an idea to a workable process - we may have a rare case of singing in harm

Re: IETF List broken

2004-03-13 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
A little more patience might actually be a Good Thing. I have 3 copies of your mail now, the two first-sent ones have the following relevant trace entries: Received: from majordomo by asgard.ietf.org with local (Exim 4.14) id 1B2LNj-000618-Jl for [EMAIL PROTECTED]; Sat, 13 Mar 200

Re: Multiple I-Ds (Was: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-uruena-xsdf-overview-00.txt)

2004-03-22 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Dan, the internet-drafts submission address is one logical place to contact... it's possible that they came in as one long text file, and the I-D editor simply didn't read past page 20. All the stuff they're supposed to check is on the front page, so that wouldn't surprise me - we've mostly bee

Re: callplot tool for generating call flows

2004-03-24 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Thank you, Jonathan! I think this is a good example of "community problem solving" - solve it once, share, and it's solved for all of us! Harald --On 18. mars 2004 12:45 -0500 Jonathan Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: One of the challenges in producing an Internet Draft is th

IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The IESG has proposed a change in its present review procedures for IESG review of documents submitted directly to the RFC Editor for publication. The IESG will be discussing this in detail, and with the RFC Editor, next week - the input document for that discussion is published as an I-D below

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 26. mars 2004 10:26 -0500 Susan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Copy of the announcement below. One quick question Harald - am I right that the new procedure applies only to RFCs, not I-Ds? Any plans in the works for changing the way I-Ds are reviewed? Susan, not sure I understand you.

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Thanks John - I will incorporate words based on your concerns in the next revision! Harald --On 26. mars 2004 10:46 -0500 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harald, As you know, I favor moving in this general direction. Three comments on specifics:

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-27 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 26. mars 2004 21:59 -0500 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do worry about the "harm to the Internet" case (e.g., a protocol which will be used to transport large amounts of data but does not have any congestion control ability) but I'm satisfied with the process described in this

Naming crap (Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents)

2004-03-27 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Kurt, --On 26. mars 2004 18:14 -0800 "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 05:35 PM 3/26/2004, Eliot Lear wrote: 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 revi

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 28. mars 2004 01:35 +0800 James Seng <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Few questions: Thanks, James! 1. Section 4 say that "For documents that are independent of the IETF process: This document is not a candidate for any level of Internet Standard." Does this means that an individual submission ca

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 27. mars 2004 13:12 -0500 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Note: The changed IESG review of RFC Editor documents does NOT change the IESG review for individual submissions to the standards track or individual submission sponsored by an AD. These get full IESG technical review, as

Re: Naming crap (Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents)

2004-03-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 28. mars 2004 05:03 + Paul Vixie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: and at least some opinion that publishing it was better for the Internet than not publishing it - certainly, for every standards-track RFC, there was at one time a majority view in the IESG that such was the case. well, no. the

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 27. mars 2004 15:53 -0800 "Paul Hoffman / VPNC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The material in draft-iesg-rfced-documents-00.txt can be greatly improved with a few changes: - Require that all documents published without IESG technical review say so explicitly in a standardized boilerplate: "Th

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 30. mars 2004 09:51 -0800 "Paul Hoffman / VPNC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Requirement on the RFC Editor - doesn't sound unreasonable, but out of scope for this document. Not really. Currently, when the IESG reviews non-standards-track documents, it makes a decision (or approves a request)

Re: Creation of an I-D-Announce Mailing List

2004-04-02 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Pekka, I-D announcements for WG documents are SUPPOSED to be CCed to the WGs. Please report this as a bug (after checking that the announcement is not caught in an antispam filter) Harald --On 2. april 2004 17:06 +0300 Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 25

IESG review of RFC Editor documents - take 2

2004-04-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The following draft is in large measure based on reading the discussions on the IESG list. Two important notes: 1) It is not *possible* to write a document that everyone agrees with. This draft is based on a considered judgment of what's best for the IETF, after reading and thinking about all

Re: [dnsop] Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 11. mai 2004 17:10 -0400 Joe Abley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: For the benefit of less-operational people here who don't see humour in this, 198.32.176.0/24 is the PAIX IPv4 peering fabric in the Bay Area. Some of Dean's mail servers are listed on SORBS. ISC's MXes use SORBS. Perhaps we shou

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Dean, third time same complaint, third time same answer. No. A WG chair is expected to read mail coming from the working group list. What he does with copies that go directly to him is his own business. And as I have told you on the previous two instances of this complaint: Personal mail to y

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 10. mai 2004 09:33 -0400 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: this misses one of the outcomes listed in RFC 2026 - specifically (quoting from 2026): "the IESG recommends that the document be brought within the IETF and progressed within the IETF context" this path has be

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 11. mai 2004 08:46 -0400 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: - The work can be done in the IETF, and the author agrees. The author should (IMHO) be the one to inform the RFC Editor that he/she is dropping the request to publish outside IETF review. but that seems to drop a ball - the

Please note this update: IETF mission statement

2004-05-03 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
I have tried to incorporate the extremely useful feedback I got on this list and from the Korea plenary. I hope this is ready to send to IETF-wide Last Call. This is your chance to get at it early :-) Take care, Harald -- Forwarded Message -- Date: 30. april 2004

Re: Please note this update: IETF mission statement

2004-05-03 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 3. mai 2004 12:13 -0400 Susan Harris <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Nothing like jumping in late and editing the first sentence, but here goes: The goal of the IETF is to make the Internet work better. This is phrased a bit awkwardly, and implies that the Internet isn't working all that well no

Re: [dnsop] Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Mr. Anderson, I note that your use of the terms "infantile", "irresponsible" and "immature" are personal attacks. These are inappropriate for the IETF list. If you have serious complaints to make that you feel require you to use these terms, send them to me privately. If you want to send mail t

Response to complaint from Dean Anderson

2004-05-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
After re-checking with legal counsel, I repeat what I said before, trying to be as clear as possible: Bouncing a message to the sender is NOT public defamation. Therefore, your complaint about "defamation" has no merit. Dean, I believe that: - your complaint about the apparently incorrect owner

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-19 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
thanks for your comments, Pekka! wrt review subjects - we went a few rounds on this, and the current list is probably a reasonable compromise between "no list" and "exhaustive list" - it's short enough to make people notice that "such as" probably covers a lot of stuff not mentioned. Good that y

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-20 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 20. mai 2004 17:35 -0700 Fred Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Disclaimer of Validity This document and the information contained herein are provided on an "AS IS" basis and THE CONTRIBUTOR, THE ORGANIZATION HE/SHE REPRESENTS OR IS SPONSORED BY (IF ANY), THE INTERNET SOCIETY AND THE I

Re: 60th IETF - Registration

2004-05-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 21. mai 2004 10:31 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: But I have seen worse. The LA IETF was >200$ per night. The 'throw-a-fit' bit probably limits the choices a bit too. I remember working on the Stockholm IETF. We (the local staff) were politely asked but the staff of t

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 21. mai 2004 13:24 +0200 JORDI PALET MARTINEZ <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I've already raised this some time ago, same as other people did, but I still see my name being published, w/o my consent, in the list of attendees. This is not acceptable, we should have the option to choose if we

Privacy notice on IETF meeting registration form (fwd)

2004-05-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
This is what I asked to have done at the conclusion of our last debate on the issue. It seems to not have been carried forward into the IETF 60 webform. Harald -- Forwarded Message -- Date: 28. januar 2004 17:30 -0800 From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EM

Re: Last Call: 'The IESG and RFC Editor documents: Procedures' to BCP

2004-05-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 21. mai 2004 11:30 -0700 Fred Templin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I'm still a bit puzzled by what "Disclaimer of Validity" could mean, .e.g., could it mean that everything that appears in the document before it is "invalid"? Would appreciate clarification on this. I think it means that "ISOC a

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-22 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 22. mai 2004 10:31 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Spencer, I may be just misunderstanding your sense of humor, but it seems to me that any sort of formal experimental process is too heavyweight for this, or at least the core issue. It seems to me that what we have is...

Re: Summary of the ad-hoc WiFi problems at IETF meetings?

2004-05-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Paul, I'll ask - but Brett Thorson was the person that was gathering the info, and he has just left CNRI. So I don't know whether the information has been preserved. Harald --On 28. mai 2004 09:00 -0700 "Paul Hoffman / VPNC" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings again. I

Reminder of this mailing list's charter

2004-06-03 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
A reminder to the people actively posting on the "spoofing email addresses" thread: RFC 3005 says the following (emphasis mine): This list is meant for INITIAL discussion only. Discussions that fall within the area of any working group or well established list should be moved to such more

Re: "setting up the administrative structures we need"

2004-06-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 5. juni 2004 16:13 -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: This means that you are proceeding with the changes. No. It means that we need to make a plan for those changes. You can't review what isn't there. My bad wording. Forgive my inattention, but where is a copy of the specific plan

Planning (Re: "setting up the administrative structures we need")

2004-06-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 9. juni 2004 10:00 -0400 David Lloyd-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On this planet things are almost always set up without plans, and plans are almost always constructed ex post facto to justify whatever happened. not my experience. my favourite quote on planning is "the purpose of plannin

RE: E911 location services (CAS system too)

2004-06-11 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Sal, the idea of setting up a server that everyone in the world would trust was suggested in RFC 1422 (IPRA), in 1993. It did not succeed terribly well then, and people have tended to look very skeptically upon ideas that require some sort of "single root" since then. What's your reason to belie

Re: from Iranian IPv6 Task Force (guide)

2004-06-14 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Seyed, the next meeting of the IETF will be held in San Diego in the beginning of August 2004. It is open to all who wish to attend and are able to make the trip. You are very welcome to attend; we do not call these meetings "summits" - there are other meetings that call themselves "summits", b

RE: Planning (Re: "setting up the administrative structures we need")

2004-06-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 15. juni 2004 09:28 -0400 David Lloyd-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> --On 9. juni 2004 10:00 -0400 David Lloyd-Jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On this planet things are almost always set up without plans, and plans

Re: Response to complaint from Dean Anderson (fwd)

2004-06-17 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 16. juni 2004 18:03 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I've noticed that Rob Austein continues to use [EMAIL PROTECTED] for his work as WG co-chair. I think I've been very patient, and have held off on legal recourse so far. Dean, we have been very patient with you, but you are m

Quote from me that isn't (Re: Email account utilization warning.)

2004-07-13 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 12. juli 2004 12:55 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: it has been pointed out to you that you have the ability to communicate with Rob Austein using the mail address that is posted on the ietf dnsop charter web page: As Chairman Alvestrand has clearly stated, IETF email lis

Re: Mailing list identification, e.g., [IETF], in subject lines (was: RE: Names of standards-track RFCs )

2004-07-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Short answer: No. Long answer: This item has been discussed to death once every 3 months on this very list. We have never found a consensus to add these tags. Harald --On 15. juli 2004 10:35 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi. Since I'm the apparent offender... Th

Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-07-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 21. juli 2004 21:13 +0200 Iljitsch van Beijnum <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 21-jul-04, at 6:20, Aaron Falk wrote: In the interest of creating a more informed discussion, we've put together a short questionnaire to gather some data on attending meetings from IETF participants. Ok, that's gr

Re: Report on Nanog

2004-07-23 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Michel Py suggested it on June 14. I have not acted on the request. --On 22. juli 2004 23:45 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Have I been ejected from the IETF list? Or is this just one of many false reports posted to Nanog? ___ Ietf maili

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

2004-07-28 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Florent, as in many other things, the IETF doesn't have a history of complete consistency. in the case of an existing WG abandoning an I-D, I'm sure that the next version of the I-D should be named draft-myfavouriteauthor-something (where "something" can easily contain the WG name if so des

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

2004-07-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
hm do you think Olaf Kolkman has misspelled his name, or what? and draft-ietf-sip-manyfolks is *formally* correct. draft-ymbk has tradition, but it's likely to be crushed under the wheel of procedural correctness once the present batch is gone. I don't know whether stopping "manyfolks" is rig

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

2004-07-31 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 31. juli 2004 11:19 +0200 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: What about an information draft reporting on the results of the work of an existing organization or project? Can it use the name of the organization and only quote as authors the actual writers? that would require gi

Multiple meeting slots (Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions)

2004-08-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 22. juli 2004 10:55 -0700 Aaron Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: Regarding IP address allocation

2004-08-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
try the Perl package "Net::Country" (if installing it works for you). --On 9. august 2004 21:48 -0700 Rajat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Dear All, Actually I am intrested in finding the region of given IP address. For This I need to determine the IP ranges allotted to country as well as the domain ex

Administrative restructuring slides from the plenary available

2004-08-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
The slides used in the plenary to present the administrative restructuring at IETF 60 are available on http://www.iab.org/. Harald ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Request for volunteers: IETF list sergeant-at-arms

2004-08-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Hi folks, as we are nearing the time when we have a completed Administrative Restructuring considerations document available to put before the IETF, we have to make ready to manage the discussion to consensus. We (IESG/IAB) have recommended using the IETF list ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) as the veichle

I-D ACTION:draft-malamud-consultant-report-00.txt (fwd)

2004-08-26 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
It seems that the I-D publication process is faster than the process of sending large messages to the IETF list. Have a good read! Harald -- Forwarded Message -- Date: 26. august 2004 15:34 -0400 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: I-D ACTI

Venue selection (Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring)

2004-08-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Thanks for your comments, Jordi! I'm replying to part of your note, and changing the subject line to get different topics on different threads. I do think we need some kind of IETF consensus on the criteria for venue selection - and once we have that documented consensus, we need to evaluate

Re: Friday @ IETF61?

2004-09-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, august 31, 2004 12:09:59 +0100 Tim Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So, Are there any real Friday sessions at IETF 61, or not? Someone tried to put v6ops on Friday am at IETF 60, before shifting it out... it would be nice to either have IETF run out to 2-3pm and have some real sess

RE: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Christian, apologies for the slow response - my mailbox has been out of commission since Monday (crashed disk and informal recovery procedures). --On 30. august 2004 12:26 +0100 Christian de Larrinaga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Firstly congratulations to all those involved in compiling this wor

Re: How IETF treats contributors

2004-09-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Hadmut, you made a complaint about the SPF draft to the IESG just prior to the March IETF meting in Korea. I'd like to reproduce the answer I sent you at that time here: Dear Hadmut: Thank you for your inquiry. Obviously, there is nothing that the IETF can do regarding the many activities that

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

2004-09-02 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On torsdag, september 02, 2004 12:01:35 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Christian also implies the converse question: would scenarios C & D reduce a hypothetical existing conflict of interest for the ISOC trusteees? Again, I don't see why. Firstly, I don't think there is an

Re: Friday @ IETF61?

2004-09-02 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On torsdag, september 02, 2004 09:18:13 +0100 Tim Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Pretty full? There were two WG meetings and two BoFs... although (for the first time?) there was an afternoon session (with 1 WG!). hm. You're right (with corrections as noted). btw - the afternoon session was

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

2004-09-02 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On torsdag, september 02, 2004 13:41:52 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: scenarios C and D envision incorporating the *support function* for the IETF. The IETF would remain an undefined entity under these scenarios. I&

Budget numbers (Re: What to incorporate)

2004-09-04 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Thanks for asking questions that I can answer, Dean! --On lørdag, september 04, 2004 04:16:11 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Thu, 2 Sep 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > I think the IETF also has paid employees. Aren't these people paid by > the ISOC

Legal umbrella etc (Re: What to incorporate)

2004-09-04 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On lørdag, september 04, 2004 04:16:11 -0400 Dean Anderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So it would appear that the ISOC supervises what goes on. ISOC does have a role in the process. "Supervise" is not a word I would use to describe it. I note that both RFC 2031 and Vint Cerf's History indica

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

2004-09-06 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Following up on Leslie's mail of Friday, and a number of posters (Brian, Scott, Margaret) who have said something on the order of "I think I prefer A or B, but I don't understand the difference". my particular perspective. in order to avoid misunderstandings, I'll define a few terms fir

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

2004-09-06 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Thanks, John! --On 6. september 2004 12:08 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So I am left close to the question that prompted your response, with little additional information from that response. I can't parse the difference between "scenario A with MOU and maybe some other things to

Sergeants-at-arms for the IETF list

2004-09-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Greetings, on August 16, I sent out a call for volunteers for sergeants-at-arms for the IETF mailing list. I got a number of qualified volunteers (thank you all!), and from the volunteers I have picked two: - Theodore Ts'o <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - Jordi Palet Martinez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> (The fact

RE: Please help us revise of Tao of the IETF

2004-09-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, september 07, 2004 14:31:50 -0700 Thomas Gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think a doc like this should certainly be prominently featured somewhere, maybe even under the title, on our webpage. Whatever way anyone could come up with to get someone to read background on the org before

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

2004-09-07 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, september 07, 2004 20:10:54 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: leslie sez: In my reading of Scenarios A & B, the suggestion is that ISOC takes on the administrative work more-or-less directly. takes on" the admin work or "contracts vendors" to do the admin work takes o

Re: Functional differentiation and administrative restructuring

2004-09-08 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On onsdag, september 08, 2004 07:23:10 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John sez: But, as far as I can tell, the "separate organization" model bets the entire survival of the IETF against a "nothing will go wrong" assumption. so far the people who are pushing for the "separate or

Re: Explosive bolts [Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring]

2004-09-08 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On onsdag, september 08, 2004 08:55:26 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: And that's exactly why the liability insurance policy held by ISOC covers IETF "officials" today. Would someone who actually knows or can find out care to comment on whether the insurance would cover such "o

Things that I think obvious....

2004-09-09 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
I thought it would make sense for me to mention a few things I have regarded as "obvious" in this discussion - just to make sure nobody comes along later and says "you can't draw a conclusion based on that - while I agree with you, there might be others who don't" or something like that. Clarity

Re: Where to discuss a draft?

2004-09-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Luis, the IRC protocol is not an IETF effort - it has been published as RFC, but is being maintained by the IRC community, not by the IETF. I would recommend contacting Christophe Kalt, author of RFC 2810 and friends (the latest IRC specification), and ask for an appropriate venue.

The other parts of the report....

2004-09-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Now that we have had a long and informed debate about the question of organizational form of the IETF administrative support structure, I feel that I know a lot more about what can achieve IETF consensus on the subject However, that's not the only thing in the consultant report. I wonder if

An oversight function - composition thereof?

2004-09-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
In the report, Scenario C has clearly identified the need for a "board of directors" as oversight function for the administrative entity. Margaret has also pointed out the need for such a function in scenarios A and B - and multiple people have made the point that this is NOT a job that the sel

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
This has been a rathole every time we've tried to discuss the issues on the IETF list among other things because nobody's written a draft that tries to cover the issues... at least we need to cover: - whether all people at all times have committed to letting the IETF publish their drafts in

Looping address on the IETF list

2004-09-10 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Since this address is sending multiple autoresponses to the list itself (rather than to the sender), please remove it. Harald A -- Forwarded Message -- Date: 10. september 2004 16:04 +0100 From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Autoreply:

Re: first steps (was The other parts of the report...)

2004-09-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On lørdag, september 11, 2004 17:06:53 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: imo it would least disruptive to follow option #3 (combo path) and try to negotiate a sole source contract with Foretec/CNRI for what Carl called the clerk function and maybe some other functions (imo it woul

What we need done (Re: first steps (was The other parts of the report...))

2004-09-12 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 12. september 2004 12:19 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To further complicate things, I personally don't think the IETF has yet figured out enough about what it really wants from the secretariat part of the function and reached enough consensus on that to justify any RFP-wr

Re: first steps (was The other parts of the report...)

2004-09-13 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 12. september 2004 12:19 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: To further complicate things, I personally don't think the IETF has yet figured out enough about what it really wants from the secretariat part of the function and reached enough consensus on that to justify any RFP-wr

Re: first steps (was The other parts of the report...)

2004-09-13 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On søndag, september 12, 2004 21:36:42 -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: HTA> I suspect that the only way we can figure out if anyone can figure out what HTA> we want done from the descriptions we give is to ask them - we don't have HTA> any experience figuring out what the process

Technical work and the definition of the IETF (Re: Things that I think obvious....)

2004-09-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, september 14, 2004 22:39:25 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: In more practical terms, while I agree that the people who do the technical work are a necessary condition for the IETF being meaningful, we certainly have people around who participate in the IETF, are eli

Re: admin director (was The other parts of the report..)

2004-09-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Brian, your timeline looks very deliberate and formally correct. However, I worry about the ability of the IETF to work constructively while knowing that its future is still in flux for that long. So I put some dates in. --On onsdag, september 15, 2004 11:18:00 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PR

Re: admin director (was The other parts of the report..)

2004-09-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, september 14, 2004 16:14:42 +0300 "Soininen Jonne (Nokia-NET/Helsinki)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hello everybody, I think before proceeding with hiring a person we should have a bit more discussion on the responsibilities and tasks for the admin director. I think Carl's proposal

Re: Things that I think obvious....

2004-09-15 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
cific proposal for further community review/advice, and that the final proposal should be subject to community consent through the usual IETF Last Call and IESG review/approval mechanism. Am I understanding your question correctly? If so, then yes, I do agree with it. ...but I don't consid

Re: An oversight function - composition thereof?

2004-09-16 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 16. september 2004 14:32 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... The IAB (and its Chair) are in considerably better shape on this than the IESG (and the IETF Chair), since the IAB has not direct standards-setting responsibility. But the turf is pretty dangerous and, ultimat

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

2004-09-20 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 20. september 2004 14:03 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I think the real point is that it's quite unrealistic at this stage in the history of NAT to imagine that we can make the mess (which was inevitable anyway) any better by codifying the least-bad form of NAT behaviou

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

2004-09-20 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On mandag, september 20, 2004 14:38:51 -0400 Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Harald> And - here I am making a real leap of faith - if the IETF Harald> recommendations for NAT devices make manufacturers who Harald> listen to them create NAT devices that make their cust

Re: Upcoming: further thoughts on where from here

2004-09-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Brian, I've seen some argument that Scenario C, being more well-defined, is actually less complex than Scenario O. Also, I was surprised to find that of the two timelines in the writeups, the one for Scenario C was the shorter one. (That may reflect the writers' degree of optimism, however!) S

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

2004-09-21 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, september 21, 2004 13:55:10 +0300 Pekka Savola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (Removed Cc: iesg) On Mon, 20 Sep 2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On mandag, september 20, 2004 14:38:51 -0400 Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Harald> And - here

Scenario C prerequisites (Re: Upcoming: further thoughts on where from here)

2004-09-22 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Scott, some meta-thoughts. --On 21. september 2004 20:33 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: The Scenario C document says that there are 3 prerequisites required before the option of a corporation can be "considered viable at all" 1/ IETF consensus on the plan 2/ ISOC

RE: Things that I think obvious....

2004-09-22 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On 21. september 2004 08:32 -0700 Tony Hain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. Well at the functional level I agree, but at the legal/poli

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