URGENT: W3C web form standards for device input and upload

2000-02-26 Thread James P. Salsman
PLEASE DISTRIBUTE WIDELY -- especially in Mac and Linux communities Thursday evening I spoke with a member of the W3C HTML Working Group who removed all my remaining doubt that the HTML WG has any serious support for open, non-proprietary web form upload standards for non-wintel platforms. The

Re: Device upload for all platforms -- the official HTML WG position

2000-02-28 Thread James P. Salsman
Dear Dr. Pemberton, Thank you for your message. I hope this one gets through. Some of my email to W3C lists (e.g., www-forms) has not appeared in the archives. You state that there are comments regarding how the device upload proposal can be improved. Please publish them, with my replies t

thanks and IMS Question & Test Interop. announcement

2000-02-28 Thread James P. Salsman
My heartfelt thanks go out to the great number of IETF participants who have endorsed the device upload proposal. Sadly, my W3C sources tell me that there is still insufficient support for the device upload proposal within the W3C HTML Working Group. The most substantial objection to device uplo

Re: Device upload for all platforms -- the official HTML WG position

2000-02-29 Thread James P. Salsman
> From: "Steven Pemberton" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > You state that there are comments regarding how the device upload > > proposal can be improved. Please publish them, with my replies to > > them. My understanding is that there are no unresolved issues. > > They are already published, and th

Re: Device upload for all platforms -- the official HTML WG position

2000-03-01 Thread James P. Salsman
Dear Dr. Pemberton, Thanks for your message: > There is nothing in HTML 4 that excludes any platform. > Just look at Opera, which is being implemented on BeOs, Epoc, Linux, > Mac Os, OS/2 and Windows. Device upload -- of any kind -- has not yet been implemented in Opera. You know that the CT

Re: Device upload for all platforms (why on IETF list?)

2000-03-01 Thread James P. Salsman
Paul, Thanks for your message: > Why is this thread being run on the IETF mailing list? Some messages to the W3C lists described as "public" did not appear until my request for endorsements of the device upload draft appeared here. The W3C filters out messages from non-subscribers, but as t

Re: Device upload for all platforms -- the official HTML WG position

2000-03-02 Thread James P. Salsman
Dear Dr. Pemberton, Thank you for your reply: >> I am sure we both want to resolve this. Would you please list all >> the flaws of which you are aware -- with as little or as much detail >> as you have time for -- along with, when available, how they could >> be fixed? I promise you I will dev

flying pigs considered harmful

2000-03-03 Thread James P. Salsman
> The only > way to obtain device upload does not even involve the INPUT tag > (on Windows' MSIE, the OBJECT tag is used with an insecure > "ActiveX" binary; on Netscape Navigator under Windows, the EMBED > tag is used with a similarly insecure arrangement where the user > must "Grant All" s

Re: flying pigs considered harmful

2000-03-03 Thread James P. Salsman
Line noise transmitted the message below unattributed; my apologies to Braden McDaniel. >> [JPS:] The only >> way to obtain device upload does not even involve the INPUT tag >> (on Windows' MSIE, the OBJECT tag is used with an insecure >> "ActiveX" binary; on Netscape Navigator under Windows,

Re: device upload update

2000-03-15 Thread James P. Salsman
> The addendum claims that input devices "shouldn't be visible in > the markup" -- a position that would require the user of a web-based > OCR application to select a scanner over a camera for each page of > text, while a user of a teleconferencing application would need to > select a camera o

HTML forms

2000-03-29 Thread James P. Salsman
Some educational software advocates and I are considering asking the IETF to suspend control of certain aspects of HTML forms from the W3C until microphone upload issues are addressed. I am very interested in any public comments and private opinions on this matter. Please follow up or reply

Re: HTML forms

2000-03-30 Thread James P. Salsman
Harald, Thanks for your message: > There is no procedure to "suspend control of aspects" of a specification, The proposal would involve ammending the registration of the text/html media type, incorporating the W3C standards extended with two attributes of the INPUT element, DEVICE and MAXTIME.

Re: HTML forms

2000-03-30 Thread James P. Salsman
David, Thanks for your message: > Given a microphone capturing application that can > capture a spoken phrase to a named file, the current > HTML file upload form element is sufficient to upload > that voice clip. That is absolutly right, and it captures the essense of why the W3C should take

Re: HTML forms

2000-03-30 Thread James P. Salsman
Valdis, Thank you for your reply to my message: >>... The W3C... constrains meaningful debate to those willing and able >> to pay US$50,000 per year. I agree that there was a point in >> the early development of web standards when that constraint was >> beneficial > > Why was it beneficia

Re: HTML forms

2000-03-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Valdis, Thank you for your reply: > When was the last time you bought a microphone/audio card for > a system that didn't include at least basic software to do > [recording to files]? Not too many months. Try any Linux on any of IBM's PCs with one of their soundcard/modem combinations; you'll

RE: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Jony, Thanks for your message: > In my experience, the proper way to develop standards is to > begin with a private implementation. Private? Anyone is welcome to my Mozilla mods if they will try to port them to Gecko. Most browsers already implement file upload. The only difficulty is in i

Re: Standards development (was HTML forms)

2000-03-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Dan, Thanks for your questions: > Why are you so intent on getting this put into W3C specs, > and into implementation on user agents? My goal has never been to get published in any particular organizations' specs; only to get the major browsers to implement microphone upload suitable for la

Re: HTML forms

2000-03-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Janet, Thank you for your reply correcting my error: >>... The W3C... constrains meaningful debate to those >> willing and able to pay US$50,000 per year. > > That is not true, on a variety of counts. I'll name two. > First, membership has two levels: full and affiliate. For > more details, pl

Re: HTML forms

2000-04-01 Thread James P. Salsman
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 1 15:25:32 2000 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 02:25:06 +0300 (EEST) From: Stephanos Piperoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James P. Salsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: R

ACCEPT and DEVICE (was Re: HTML forms)

2000-04-01 Thread James P. Salsman
Stephanos, Thanks for your message: >... You need detailed definitions, changes to DTDs, and more. > If you have these details, it would be nice to point us all to a > proposal so we know how "DEVICE" and "MAXTIME" would work. Sorry about not pointing to this document: http://www.bovik.org/d

Re: support for Salsman proposal for form-based device input

2000-04-01 Thread James P. Salsman
Dear Dr. Berners-Lee, Thanks for your message: > Rather than trying to change The HTML specification, one needs to > encourage this feature to be implemented, and implemented well. I completely agree with that end goal, whether the means involve extending HTML or not. > Ways to do this inclu

device upload update

2000-05-05 Thread James P. Salsman
The device upload petition at: http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition Has been updated with a message from Tim Berners-Lee: http://www.bovik.org/devup-petition/tbl-devup.txt For the record, I fully support device upload without the DEVICE attribute. It is so much better than nothing that th

cure: queue as draft when "Send" called (was Re: ILOVEYOU)

2000-05-07 Thread James P. Salsman
"spyder" wrote: >... > set regedit=CreateObject("WScript.Shell") > set out=WScript.CreateObject("Outlook.Application") > set mapi=out.GetNameSpace("MAPI") >... > set male=out.CreateItem(0) > male.Recipients.Add(malead) > male.Subject = "ILOVEYOU" > male.Body = vbcrlf&"kindly check the attached LOV

contest: win valuable Microsoft stock!

2000-05-07 Thread James P. Salsman
Keith Moore wrote: >... I do think there is some culpability on the part of the > software vendor. and from a purely pragmatic perspective, it's a > lot easier for the vendor to make software that is less susceptible > to such things, than it is to get rid of the virus writers. > > and if the f

mail sandbox wall authority, inward and outbound

2000-05-11 Thread James P. Salsman
A MUA might ask the console operator for permission to proceed when: 1. A mail message wants to run a program. (e.g., ECMAscripts.) 2. An attachment is executable. (Nearly universal practice.) 3. A program wants to write to a file. (Usually not trapped more than once per execution if at all.

Re: mail sandbox wall authority, inward and outbound

2000-05-11 Thread James P. Salsman
Leonid, Thanks for your addition: > 6. A program wants to send a file to somewhere. Or any permanently stored >information (like cookie but not limited). Yes: Browser operators may not want to send their files, recordings, pictures, video, or other device inputs to arbitrary sites without

RE: mail sandbox wall authority, inward and outbound

2000-05-12 Thread James P. Salsman
> From: Jim Busse <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: Fri, 12 May 2000 10:11:36 -0700 > > I get 240 emails/day. > > about 15% have executable attachments, because that's the way developers use > mail, we attach self-expanding zip files. > > My organization has about 100 people that fall into this catego

Re: mail sandbox wall authority, inward and outbound

2000-05-12 Thread James P. Salsman
Harald, Thank you for your reply to my message: >> These sorts of things are less common on the more heterogeneous >> Unix world, but Unix mailers are just as culpable. If I wanted to >> be consistent, I would demand that anything I run on Unix (without >> a special permitted shell) which conne

RE: mail sandbox wall authority, inward and outbound

2000-05-12 Thread James P. Salsman
Jim, Thanks for your question: > How can [EMAIL PROTECTED] know if the attached executible > file is safe or not? If I knew that, I wouldn't be trying to stop complacency about the promiscous exchange of self-extracting archives. The best attempts to address the issues so far involve "certi

Outlook finally patched!

2000-05-16 Thread James P. Salsman
> MS Makes E-mail Virus Patch > > By MICHAEL J MARTINEZ > AP Business Writer > 05/15/00 > > SEATTLE (AP) -- Charged with enabling easy access for computer > viruses like the Love Bug, Microsoft is altering its popular > Outlook e-mail software to prevent users from running any > "executable'

Microsoft's Outlook patch

2000-05-19 Thread James P. Salsman
This page describes the Outlook patch in development: http://officeupdate.microsoft.com/2000/articles/out2ksecarticle.htm The access timer ("Provide access for {1,2,5,10...} minutes") is a great idea. I wonder where they came up with that one. :) However, their restriction on the Send metho

Re: asynchronous audio conferencing at www.wimba.com

2000-05-22 Thread James P. Salsman
Matt, Thanks for your message: > As a linguistic exercise, you might reconcile this message, which you > get when you refuse to grant their applets read/write/delete/execute > access to all your files: > > In order to run the Wimba forums application, you will need to > grant our applet a c

Wimba uses ports 4382 and 5644

2000-05-25 Thread James P. Salsman
The asynchronous audio conferencing applet at www.wimba.com uses TCP ports 4382 and 5644. Sites wishing to explore Wimba will need to allow access for TCP transmissions on those ports. Those concerned regarding security issues should note that the signed applet has been ranked in the top 1%

still no Outlook patch

2000-05-27 Thread James P. Salsman
What happens when common-sense security measures come up against large software company development efforts? Have a look: http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q262/7/00.asp Under "Features and Products That Are Affected by the Update": ] There is no work around for the following

idea for Free Protocols Foundation

2000-06-21 Thread James P. Salsman
The Free Protocols Foundation is correct in their position. The amount of misrepresentation in the industry is becoming absurd. Most of it is bait-and-switch, but beyond the consumers hurt by it, shareholders are sure to be, too. I suggest that organizations keep a public registry of compani

Re: wireless services

2000-07-07 Thread James P. Salsman
Aditya, Thank you for your Internet message: >... why are you segregating these voice features with web/email/WAP? I do not understand that question. My problem stems from the use of the verb "segregating" modified by "with" -- those two do not work well together. >... using WAP, we can eas

wireless services

2000-07-06 Thread James P. Salsman
Where, and by whom, is wireless service with the following features offered? 1. An option for incoming telephone calls to go directly to voicemail, transmitting spoken messages asynchronously to a buffer inside the telephone transceiver, using a reliable transport of high quality audio. Mess

RE: HTML forms

2000-07-13 Thread James P. Salsman
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > Subject: Re: HTML forms > > Need info. on programming voice over ip If you mean with HTML forms, try: http://www.bovik.org/devup Imagine my shock when I learned microphone upload wasn't in MSIE 5.5. Mozilla already has it, if you're willing to apply the pat

RE: HTML forms

2000-07-23 Thread James P. Salsman
>> Anyone know whether Opera has microphone upload yet? > > More to the point, does anyone care? Well, sure, Opera probably cares whether they have a feature that Tim Berners-Lee claims is an integral part of the HTML standard, but hasn't yet been implemented by any of their competitors: ht

Re: Question about the character set in HTTP-URLs

2000-08-01 Thread James P. Salsman
>... Does anybody know the default codepage in URIs of HTTP? US-ASCII. Don't count on high-bit-set bytes resembling Latin-1 or even working at all on some platforms. However, there is a proposal to incorporate non-ASCII UTF-8 as (multi-)bytes as %xx : http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draf

imode far superior to wap

2000-08-09 Thread James P. Salsman
Apparently WAP is collapsing, both in terms of the general opinion of engineers and pundits, and now customer revenues. The Invisible Hand needs to slap some sense into the overly-greedy WAP Forum and their all-too-pervasive accomplices. Imode is far more widely used in Japan, as it is a very

end-to-end w/i-Mode? (was Re: imode far superior to wap)

2000-08-09 Thread James P. Salsman
>... breaks the end-to-end model of IP (as Imode and WAP do as they are > implemented today). WAP does, but apparently i-Mode does not. The i-Mode vendors claim that you can plug your laptop into your i-Mode phone in Japan (and get speeds far faster than 9600 bps on newer phones), and someone

Re: imode far superior to wap

2000-08-10 Thread James P. Salsman
> From: Masataka Ohta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >... > > If you want phone with real Internet style, see our INET paper: > > http://www.isoc.org/inet2000/cdproceedings/4a/4a_3.htm Excellent! That is far better than any IP telephony proposal I've ever seen. > Run this kind of protocol over Ri

Re: imode far superior to wap

2000-08-11 Thread James P. Salsman
Masataka, Seriously, I would like to get a pair of Simple Internet Phone prototype terminal adapters. You said they can be purchased. I have not been able to find any other references to them. Please explain how they can be obtained. Brijesh, In answer to your questions: > What makes you

Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service

2000-09-14 Thread James P. Salsman
At the November meeting, about 90 people attended the Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service BOF: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/99nov/46th-99nov-ietf-42.html But the mailing list has been dead: http://www.imc.org/ietf-mmms/mail-archive/threads.html MMMS-related topics seem to be fairly pre

Re: Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service

2000-09-15 Thread James P. Salsman
If there has been no charter proposed for a MMMS working group, I intend to propose one as follows. I would like to know how the Area Directors feel about the following ideas, many of which are informed by the comments of Patrik, Ned, and others in the Apps Discussion archives -- http://wilma

Re: Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service

2000-09-16 Thread James P. Salsman
Patrik, Thanks for your message: >... I want a more specific list of documents that you are to create, Two documents would probably make sense: (1) End-to-End Internet Services for Mobile Devices Scope: Specifications and interoperability guidelines for end-to-end mobile IP connection and t

Re: Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service

2000-09-18 Thread James P. Salsman
Patrik, Thank you for your reply: >>... guidelines for TCP operation during >> indefinite wireless link downtime > > I think this must be syncronized with the work of the PILC wg. See > http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/pilc-charter.html Yes, the next document milestone from PLIC seems to

Multimedia EMSD? (was Re: Mobile Multimedia Messaging Service)

2000-09-18 Thread James P. Salsman
Mohsen, Thank you for your message: > A large body of work exists which addresses the Mobile Messaging > area > > LEAP: Lightweight and Efficient Application Protocol. >... > Those who want to build good things and move forward fast, can evaluate > the merits of LEAP and participa

Re: pilc minutes for IETF 48

2000-09-18 Thread James P. Salsman
Here are some questions about the plic minutes: http://pilc.grc.nasa.gov/pilc/list/archive/0967.html > TCP over Wireless draft. The working group charter specifies that > PILC will produce a 'TCP over Wireless' RFC that is a meta list of > the existing PILC recommendations. This was re

Re: pilc minutes for IETF 48

2000-09-18 Thread James P. Salsman
Reiner, Thanks for your reply: >>... There seems to be a lack of understanding about the >> parameters involved, and most if not all of the important ones are >> at least touched on in the DoCoMo I-D and the documents it cites. > > You need to be more precise. Which parameters are you talking a

TCP timeout parameters and wireless (was Re: pilc minutes for IETF 48)

2000-09-19 Thread James P. Salsman
Mark, Thank you for your message: >... how does the end host figure out which situation (congestion > or outage) it is in? There are two end hosts. Only one of them has a good chance of knowing, and the other doesn't usually care these days. I agree that a well-designed signaling method (w

Re: TCP timeout parameters and wireless (was Re: pilc minutes for IETF 48)

2000-09-20 Thread James P. Salsman
Mark, Thanks for your message: >... It is my opinion that it is a mistake to reduce the maximum > RTO too low Absolutly; I'm worried that even mentioning the RTO maximum will detract attention from the maximum retransmition timeout which is the REAL problem with TCP over wireless, more th

Re: can vpn's extended to mobility

2000-09-26 Thread James P. Salsman
> The most popular IETF standard for VPNs is IPsec using ESP. IPsec could be improved for wireless: http://pilc.grc.nasa.gov/pilc/list/archive/1012.html http://pilc.grc.nasa.gov/pilc/list/archive/1022.html Now PPP-over-SSH isn't any better, just a lot easier and much less expensive for most

Re: can vpn's extended to mobility

2000-09-27 Thread James P. Salsman
> If IPSec adds any latency beyond startup negotiation The encryption takes some time. Some $olutions will have hardware for it, but straightforward implementations mean lots of bit-field operations, which most C compilers don't optimize very well, and some compilers on certain platforms

cell phone audio email

2000-10-09 Thread James P. Salsman
There has been a flurry of new product annoucements and rumors of new NTT DoCoMo products and partnerships. Does anyone have a cell phone that can send and receive MIME emails with audio attachments yet? How about cell phones with PPP-capable serial ports? Have any such phones been announced?

Re: cell phone audio email

2000-10-09 Thread James P. Salsman
> For such information, ask Docomo, not IETF. There is no Docomo service in my area. > Or, are you spamming IETF acting as a sales agent of Docomo? No, I'm not affiliated with any part of the cellphone business. I ask because my employer and I have multiple, specific applications for cellphon

Re: cell phone audio email

2000-10-10 Thread James P. Salsman
In the U.S., the revenues of the telephone industries are about 25 times the size of those of the television and movie industries combined. In addition, when people are asked to rank the importance of their internet applications, e-mail almost always tops all the others, and syncronous "chat"

RE: cell phone audio email

2000-10-10 Thread James P. Salsman
>> In the U.S., the revenues of the telephone industries are about 25 >> times the size of those of the television and movie >> industries combined. > > Uh? According to the (US) Bureau of Economic Analysis figures for 1998, the > "Telephone and telegraph" revenues represented about 2.3% of GD

wireless Internet in the U.S.

2000-10-13 Thread James P. Salsman
This is interesting: http://www.whitehouse.gov/library/hot_releases/October_13_2000_2.html Cheers, James

Re: Standartization of User Input for find/search engines

2000-10-14 Thread James P. Salsman
>... There should also be a standard mechanism for multiple searches and > complex searches "ANSI/NISO Z39.58-1992 Common Command Language for On-Line Interactive Information Retrieval." ANSI documents are generally not available for free; major university libraries often have trouble mai

"mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread James P. Salsman
The prevailing view seems to be that wide-area wireless devices need to be "mobile" in the sense that they are able to move from one network to another. This is not the case, and maybe not even desirable. I believe that this view has led to easily avoidable delays in wireless internet servi

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-18 Thread James P. Salsman
Klass, Thanks for your reply: >> Is there any compelling reason why wireless IP needs to >> be "mobile" in the sense of traversing networks? > > yes, I don't want to pay my expensive cellular operator when near a > wireless LAN access point. That's a good reason, but it doesn't require such a

remote participation

2000-10-19 Thread James P. Salsman
Is there anything in the IESG governing rules that requires any physical presence at a particular location in order to accomplish any IESG tasks? I think the IETF took a wrong turn when the first PostScript RFC was published, because that is sort of hard on those blind persons who might want

Re: "mobile" orthogonal to wide-area wireless

2000-10-19 Thread James P. Salsman
Mohsen, Thanks for your pointer: > All of this and a great deal more is discussed in various old books, > such as: > > - Internetwork Mobility - The CDPD Approach > Taylor, Waung and Banan > Prentice Hall > 1996 > ISBN: 0-13-209693-5 I can't find any store that seems to stock your book

Re: remote participation

2000-10-19 Thread James P. Salsman
Ned, Thanks for your message. One part is very interesting: > there's no substitute for F2F meetings in order to accomplish some tasks. I agree, but I would like to know which of the IESG tasks most require face-to-face meetings. If they were listed, maybe some solutions would be engineered

Re: remote participation

2000-10-20 Thread James P. Salsman
Ned, Thanks for your reply: > The IESG of managing and assisting Working Groups > is one of the most important tasks IESG members perform, > and it cannot be done effectively from a remote location. I'm interested in the specific reasons why this is the case. You listed one: > additional a

Verizon Wireless IP?

2000-10-26 Thread James P. Salsman
Does anyone know what data dransfer rates (in both directions) are typical with the Verizon/Airtouch CDPD wireless IP service? http://www.app.airtouch.com/mobile_ip/index.html Cheers, James

answer RE: Verizon Wireless IP?

2000-10-27 Thread James P. Salsman
The consensus so far is that the maximum CDPD half-duplex data transfer rate is maximum 19.2 kbps. Cheers, James

Sun's wireless (lack of) initiative

2000-10-31 Thread James P. Salsman
"With respect to Media APIs, these are expected to be pursued as devices become more capable" -- http://developer.java.sun.com/developer/community/chat/JavaLive/2000/jl1024.html I wonder how long Sun thinks it will be before handheld wireless devices "become more capable" with speakers and

Active Voice's products: VPIM or something similar?

2000-11-10 Thread James P. Salsman
Does anyone know if Active Voice supports Internet standards? This quote is interesting: "... future versions of Unity will support Audio Messaging Interchange Specification (AMIS) as well as Voice Profile for Internet Mail (VPIM)" -- http://www.activevoice.com/custom/press/pk/pdfs/narep

GSM 6.10 is public domain; audio/wav needs registered

2000-11-14 Thread James P. Salsman
Contrary to what people at VPIM meetings, lists, and on web pages have suggested, nobody owns any IPR on the GSM 06.10 vocodec format, or on any routines for encoding or decoding it. It was developed from published code by people who took care to publish it before it could be monopolized. Ph

Re: [VPIM] GSM 6.10 is public domain; audio/wav needs registered

2000-11-15 Thread James P. Salsman
Jutta, Thanks for the information: > The patent I've seen investigated in connection with GSM 06.10 > and Philips is the older 4,932,061 (1990) Interesting. The priority date of that one is 22 March 1985. The practice of quantizing residual exitation in LPC vocoders was not novel in 1985.

audio makes more sense than video

2000-11-28 Thread James P. Salsman
Given that audio recording and production is less expensive than video production, and audio takes less bandwidth, how about audio recordings as an alternative? Whether we use GSM 06.10 or MP3 format, it makes economic sense. Lincoln D. Stein suggests MP3: http://www.itknowledge.com/tpj/fea

async voice wireless messaging update

2000-12-03 Thread James P. Salsman
For the first time, there is now an internet-enabled phone with email and voice recording capability approved for use in the US and Canadian markets: http://www.kyocera.com/News/displaypress.cfm?PressID=95 http://www.kyocera-wireless.com/showroom/showcase/coming_soon_6000.htm http://gull

Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web? & P.S. Eudora/PalmOS

2000-12-06 Thread James P. Salsman
Masataka Ohta and Vernon Schryver make excellent points in favor of the domain name status quo. I agree that IDN should be frozen for at least a few years to see what local domain admins and application vendors tend to do, especially since the pieces of the likely solutions (such as the compe

Postel's razor applied to ACE

2000-12-08 Thread James P. Salsman
If ACE wanted to be liberal with what it accepts, it would not insist that applications "MUST" stop with an error when it finds that the encoded string has an ASCII representation. Political decisions about uniqueness should not require everyone to have to upgrade their servers to software tha

Re: Postel's razor applied to ACE

2000-12-08 Thread James P. Salsman
Paul, Thank you for your replies: > One more time with feeling: please take this discussion to the IDN > WG's mailing list. It has no place on the main IETF mailing list I understand your perspective as the authority on ACE, but UTF-5 and competing representations are not limited to domain na

internet voting -- ICANN, SmartInitiatives, etc.

2001-01-12 Thread James P. Salsman
Was the ICANN election by Instant Runoff Voting or Condorcet? The terms are defined at: http://www.fairvote.org/irv/ and: http://www.vision25.demon.co.uk/pol/votefaq.txt It is great it was by were choice ballots. As there seems to be a renewed commercial interest in election equipment, would

preventing black markets in signature ability?

2001-01-17 Thread James P. Salsman
There seems to be a lot of evidence that voting anonymously (the privacy constraint) and free from fraud or accidental errors (the authenticity constraint) might not be possible to do online any better than can be done with paper ballots or specialized, auditable electronic voting machines.

RE: solution to NAT and multihoming

2001-01-29 Thread James P. Salsman
If you want to be part of the global address space and you are behind a NAT box, get a PPP account outside your NAT box and connect to it with TCP or SSH or SSL or UDP or HTTP or whatever (see for example the use of PPP over telnet, in the www.ora.com Turtle PPP book.) What IPv4 NAT issue doesn

economies of scale (was Re: solution to NAT...)

2001-01-31 Thread James P. Salsman
> [PPP over TCP through NATs] doesn't provide any more global address space Why create more supply when it can be so easy to reduce demand? This reminds me of California's electricity crisis. It seems the internet administration community can easily do their part for this very fundamental asp

Re: economies of scale (was Re: solution to NAT...)

2001-01-31 Thread James P. Salsman
Keith, You are certainly correct: > We are accustomed to thinking of conservation as a Good Thing, > but an effective conservation plan can actually make a system > less able to cope with fluctuations in load. That reminds me of another economic analogy to a contempoary internet engineering p

NATs and peer-to-peer (was Re: [midcom]...)

2001-02-01 Thread James P. Salsman
> It was ... peer-to-peer things that made the Internet popular. Yes. Before there was the web (back in the days of HOSTS.TXT and ftp clients on so few platforms that one's best efforts to convert carriage returns were often foiled), email-based file servers were popular, and they still are.

Re: Mail sent to midcom (fwd)

2001-02-02 Thread James P. Salsman
Lloyd, I second your request: >>... unless you have a specific request for a ... IESG statement, > > I'd like a statement that RFC2418 will be adhered to by mailing lists. So would I. I use multiple email addresses: [local-subaddr]@bovik.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED], etc. -- like thousands of oth

rule-based moderation (was Re: Mail sent to midcom (fwd))

2001-02-02 Thread James P. Salsman
Jim, Thanks for your comments: > Your suggestion to automate the detection of "persistent and excessive" > could work for people and would help "throttle down" those discussions > that need it from time to time, but it would not protect an elist from > spam. Neither does non-subscriber moderati

Re: NECP

2001-02-09 Thread James P. Salsman
>... curious as to what happened to NECP. http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wrec-charter.html http://www.netapp.com/necp http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/writings/draft-cerpa-necp-03.txt http://www.circlemud.org/~jelson/writings/necp-ietf Found in two minutes with Google. Cheers, Jame

ECC limits? (was RE: An alternative to TCP ...)

2001-02-09 Thread James P. Salsman
>... To reach 10 Gbps, you will need a BER of 1.E-14 > There are very many ways to not achieve that Are there any limits to what error correcting codes can provide? If you have 15 Gbps with a natural error rate of 1 in 100, I think you can still get better than 1 in 1e14 bit errors at

Ricochet/Metricom

2001-02-09 Thread James P. Salsman
Slashdot has an interesting thread on the 128 kbps wide-area wireless internet service offered by Ricochet/Metricom: http://slashdot.org/articles/01/02/09/1559221.shtml Since I last reported on this list, they have apparently reduced their round-trip times from 1/2 s to about 1/5 s. So, tha

http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/maillist.html

2001-02-11 Thread James P. Salsman
What happened to the mailing list archive at:? http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/ietf/Current/maillist.html It has been stuck for the better part of a week. Is someone actually implementing a rule-based auto-moderator to replace all of the long, HTML-only, and redundant IETF Discussion messa

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-14 Thread James P. Salsman
>> So transport layer should somehow enhance >>the error check and/or correction mechanism. > > actually, I would put it in the application layer. I would have the > application include some form of checksum (PGP signature, file CRC, > whatever) to ensure for itself that what was sent was wh

Re: Writing Internet Drafts on a Macintosh

2001-02-22 Thread James P. Salsman
Patrick, Thank you for your most helpful pointer: > I recently had my first experience using the setup described by > Marshall Rose in rfc2629 (Writing I-Ds and RFCs using XML) and was > very pleased. You should be able to create the XML base in Word (or > whatever) and use the referenced tools

the advocates for non-ASCII RFC's

2001-02-28 Thread James P. Salsman
> Who are these people? Perhaps they are from the majority of humans who use languages written with glyphs absent from ASCII (and I don't mean Smalltalk-79.) Or maybe they have a pressing need to use the International Phonetic Alphabet entities because the "new economy" synchronous telephony

cell phone question, again

2001-03-04 Thread James P. Salsman
Which U.S. data-enabled cellular telephones have a voice recorder with memory capable of being read by the data transceiver's CPU, if any? Also again, where is the appropriate forum for this question? (Not including industry consortia Yesterday an electronics sales, um, individual contributor

capitulation to closed organizaions (was Re: rfc publication suggestions)

2001-03-12 Thread James P. Salsman
> perhaps a more useful mode of discussion would be to determine what criteria > should be used for the rfc publication process and whether incremental > improvements are possible, independent of encoding changes. When someone submits a new Content-disposition value or parameter registration --

Re: capitulation to closed organizaions (was Re: rfc publication suggestions)

2001-03-12 Thread James P. Salsman
Ned, Thanks for your message in reply: >> When someone submits a new Content-disposition value or parameter >> registration -- http://xml.resource.org/public/rfc/html/rfc2183.html -- >> the Area Directors and IESG would be best served to refrain from deferring >> the registration decision to sec

Re: capitulation to closed organizaions (was Re: rfc publication suggestions)

2001-03-12 Thread James P. Salsman
Valdis, Thanks for your reply: > First off, "directly from my microphone" is *highly* unlikely to be > incredibly factual. No more or less so than the creation timestamp, which is almost always the first time a file was saved, sometime after it was created. > It's *conceivable* that your MUA

Re: capitulation to closed organizaions (was Re: rfc publication suggestions)

2001-03-13 Thread James P. Salsman
Scott, Thanks for your message: >From slawrence virata.com Tue Mar 13 07:38:11 2001 > > If you think that there is a reason to tell the MUA about the source > (personally, I don't see what I would do with such a thing), then > argue for a new header that does that (and get mired in the > secu

why cellphones and VOIP telephony are equivalently evil

2001-03-22 Thread James P. Salsman
> so, my conclusion? ... problems ... can be ... traced to the ... > cell phone Those studying the use of cell phones for education have come to similar yet entirely sincere conclusions: http://sll.stanford.edu/projects/mobilelearning Live UDP audio has the same kinds of problems as di

Re: IESG Response to Copyright appeal

2001-04-05 Thread James P. Salsman
Valdis, There is an easy way around your problem. >... even though I made *no* source changes, I asked (and was told) > that just pointing at ftp.gnu.org for the source wasn't acceptable) Here is what the GPL says: | ... Accompany it with a written offer, valid for at least three | yea

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