Re: UA 893 compensation

2004-03-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, March 05, 2004 11:26 -0500 Stephen Kent <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Thius is a note for all of the folks who flew on UA 893 on > Friday, 2/27, with the unexpected 24 hour delay via Seattle. > > I just got off the phone with UA Customer Service (not Mileage > Plus). They offered a

Re: Principles of Spam-abatement

2004-03-12 Thread John C Klensin
Vernon, Much as I am reluctant to get into this debate, let me try to make some distinctions that might be at the root of where you and Nathaniel are not communicating... * Your analogy to the phone system is exact as long as the system is end-to-end (see below). You have no

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

2004-03-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 08 March, 2004 13:26 -0500 Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's all well and good to try to retire Proposed Standard documents that don't get implemented. But I think it's even more important to make it easier for documents that do meet the criteria to advance to Draft Stan

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

2004-03-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 12 March, 2004 20:19 -0500 Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (2) When a document comes up for review for Proposed->Draft, we look for implementations, etc., perhaps following Keith's proposal outline. If the implementations are there, we issue a

Categorization of TCP/IP service provision types (was: Re: The right to refuse, was: Re: Principles of Spam-abatement) (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt)

2004-03-18 Thread John C Klensin
Last week's version of the spam discussions, led to an interesting (to me) side-discussion about what was, and was not, an "Internet connection" service. There have been discussions on and off for years (since before the User Services area was inactivated) about doing such a set of definitions

Re: Categorization of TCP/IP service provision types (was: Re: The right to refuse, was: Re: Principles of Spam-abatement) (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt)

2004-03-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 19 March, 2004 18:34 -0700 Vernon Schryver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: From: John C Klensin Last week's version of the spam discussions, led to an interesting (to me) side-discussion about what was, and was not, an "Internet connection" service. ... dra

Re: Categorization of TCP/IP service provision types

2004-03-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 23 March, 2004 08:48 -0700 Vernon Schryver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Perhaps it would be enough to say just that, along the lines of ... mail directly from the IP addresses of customers of X instead of via MTAs run by service providers is rejected by much of the rest of th

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, As you know, I favor moving in this general direction. Three comments on specifics: (1) The "standard IESG note" discussed in section 4 seems tailored to documents that specify protocols or operational procedures and, for that purpose, the notes suggested seem plausible. However, a

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-26 Thread John C Klensin
Keith, Pete has covered most of what I would have said, but I want to address one other issue with your comments/ suggestions. It seems to me that at least latent in your suggestions is the assumption that the RFC Editor should publish only IETF consensus documents or documents that are in gen

Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

2004-04-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 21 April, 2004 15:46 +0100 Tim Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Is the IETF or ISOC going to take any stance against this slippery slope? http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/03/20/new.domains.ap/ Comment period closes April 30th. Tim, Addressing the IETF part of your qu

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

2004-05-12 Thread John C Klensin
to refuse to say that (and counter to the intent of 2026) Scott ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Tue May 11 12:18:30 2004 X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-

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

2004-05-11 Thread John C Klensin
-0500 Pete Resnick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 5/10/04 at 10:54 AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, May 10, 2004 9:33 AM -0400 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for whi

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

2004-05-11 Thread John C Klensin
Scott, Harald, It seems to me that this problem/ disagreement could be easily solved while preserving the (IMO, valid) points both of you are making, by including a sentence somewhere to the effect of... Of course, the IESG or individual ADs may have discussions with the author

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

2004-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 10, 2004 9:33 AM -0400 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: looks good to me - one suggestion of clearer language and a potential addition o Documents for which special rules exist, including IAB documents and April 1st RFCs, and republication of documents from othe

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

2004-05-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, May 10, 2004 10:57 AM -0400 Scott Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: note that I just used the words that were there - do you suggest leaving teh words as they are? if not, maybe you can suggest something better I guess that, before, the text was sufficiently muddy that I didn't

Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

2004-04-29 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. While this discussion on the IETF list has been very interesting, it is probably worth noting that the odds of ICANN staff following the IETF list to the extent needed to pull out this thread and make use of it are not high. Instructions for making comments that they, and presumably the e

Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

2004-04-30 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. While this discussion on the IETF list has been very interesting, it is probably worth noting that the odds of ICANN staff following the IETF list to the extent needed to pull out this thread and make use of it are not high. Instructions for making comments that they, and presumably the e

Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

2004-04-30 Thread John C Klensin
Friday, 30 April, 2004 18:36 +0200 jfcm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 03:42 30/04/04, John C Klensin wrote: http://www.icann.org/tlds/stld-apps-19mar04/stld-public-comme nts.htm Dear John, it seems that (one of the) most important entry (the letter from ITU regarding the .tel

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-21 Thread John C Klensin
Jordi, This has been discussed several times before. While I share your discomfort, IETF is not some "conference" you might be attending. It is very difficult to claim that one has an open standards process when some participants are permitted attend meetings and, potentially, influence decis

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 21 May, 2004 15:55 +0100 Tim Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:05:00AM +1000, grenville armitage wrote: This could be solved by the IETF insisting that consent is required before attendance. I, like John, do not believe it is acceptable for the IETF meeting

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 21 May, 2004 15:55 +0100 Tim Chown <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Sat, May 22, 2004 at 12:05:00AM +1000, grenville armitage wrote: This could be solved by the IETF insisting that consent is required before attendance. I, like John, do not believe it is acceptable for the IETF meeting

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-22 Thread John C Klensin
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... * Jordi noticed a problem and pointed it out. *

Re: "setting up the administrative structures we need"

2004-06-06 Thread John C Klensin
Dave, Let me respond to this, not from Harald's perspective, but from that as a semi-outside observer who is, I think, as concerned as you are, about wasting time and resources on non-critical-path efforts and about the IESG, IAB, or their respective Chairs going off half-cocked. First, while I

Re: "setting up the administrative structures we need"

2004-06-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 06 June, 2004 16:43 -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > > JCK> the outlines of this were > JCK> presented in plenary in Seoul and the general consensus > was that JCK> people should move ahead with this process, > > 1. Attendance by the on-going IETF pool of

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-07 Thread John C Klensin
Folks, This confusion about what STDs mean and what they might do for us finally convinced me to turn an idea that has been kicked around a few times into an I-D. It is in the hands of the posting queue and should, I assume, be announced today or tomorrow. Watch for an announcement for draft-kl

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-07 Thread John C Klensin
Folks, This confusion about what STDs mean and what they might do for us finally convinced me to turn an idea that has been kicked around a few times into an I-D. It is in the hands of the posting queue and should, I assume, be announced today or tomorrow. Watch for an announcement for draft-kl

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-14 Thread John C Klensin
r Street > +1-508-634-2066(h) +1-508-786-7554(w) Milford, MA 01757 USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, John C Klensin wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:15:53 -0400 >> From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >&

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-14 Thread John C Klensin
r Street > +1-508-634-2066(h) +1-508-786-7554(w) Milford, MA 01757 USA > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > On Mon, 7 Jun 2004, John C Klensin wrote: > >> Date: Mon, 07 Jun 2004 10:15:53 -0400 >> From: John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] >&

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-19 Thread John C Klensin
Ohta-san, I do not expect that we will agree on this, and may need to simply agree to disagree, but, having just reviewed the draft you included in your slightly earlier not, let me try to explain the other point of view, and why the I-D to which Vernon refers is written the way it is and, in the

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 20 June, 2004 12:45 +0200 Hadmut Danisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:40:03PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > >> First, Hadmut, and others with his concerns in other >> countries, probably need to approach the local regulator

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 20 June, 2004 12:45 +0200 Hadmut Danisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Jun 19, 2004 at 11:40:03PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > >> First, Hadmut, and others with his concerns in other >> countries, probably need to approach the local regulator

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 20 June, 2004 19:37 +0200 Hadmut Danisch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 09:52:51AM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote: >> Much as I understand the moral outrage that NATs cause in >> some people's mind, NATs are still a reality AND they >> (usually anyway) provide conne

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider?

2004-06-21 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 22 June, 2004 07:15 +0900 Masataka Ohta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jeroen Massar > >> You are forgetting something very big here: >> Only the smart internet users will find a way out. > > The argument that the smart users can use IP over HTTP makes > John's classifications suc

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider? (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-03.txt)

2004-07-06 Thread John C Klensin
For those who have been interested in this discussion, a new version of the draft has been posted. It incorporates, to the extent to which I could figure out how to do so, comments on the list and some very specific suggestions from a few people (see acknowledgements). As the document indicates,

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider? (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-03.txt)

2004-07-06 Thread John C Klensin
ednesday, 07 July, 2004 06:15 +0900 Masataka Ohta <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John C Klensin; > > You made, at least, two mistakes, minor and major ones. > > A minor mistake is that you think you can let people outside > of IETF use your terminology, if you give loose e

Re: What exactly is an internet (service) provider? (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-03.txt)

2004-07-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 07 July, 2004 21:47 +0200 "JFC (Jefsey) Morfin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > At 23:22 06/07/04, John C Klensin wrote: >> Vendors who are going to do these things will -- based on the >> fact that they are being done already -- do them, with or >

Names of standards-track RFCs

2004-07-14 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. A question as to whether I'm the only one who is bothered by a trend and, if not, if it is time for the community to give the IESG and the RFC Editor some advice. I note that my concern is _only_ about standards-track documents: they are widely referenced and cited by title as well as number,

Re: Names of standards-track RFCs

2004-07-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 14 July, 2004 12:13 -0700 Randy Presuhn <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi - > >> From: "Daniel Senie" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> Sent: Wednesday, July 14, 2004 11:30 AM >> Subject: Re: Names of standards-track RFCs > ... >> Now a different viewpoint. When lo

RE: Names of standards-track RFCs

2004-07-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 14 July, 2004 18:06 -0700 Christian Huitema <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Or consider the RFC that describes Classical IP and ARP over > Automatic Teller Machines... What did you say an ARP was? Some sort of fuzzy alien, perhaps? A digestive sound made after excessive SIPPI

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

2004-07-15 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. Since I'm the apparent offender... Those little inserts are a function of list management software (which software is chosen and how it is configured), and not the actions of individual authors (despite the indication I manually included in this posting). If a change in how the IETF list wor

Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-07-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, July 22, 2004 10:55 AM -0700 Aaron Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: BTW, regarding the survey: there's only been 80 responses so far. My take is that people don't care about the issue enough to voice their opinion. I can't guess at the percentages, but at least a few people (who

Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-08-09 Thread John C Klensin
IMPORTANT! This message has been blind-carbon-copied to you. Do not reply-to-all or forward it without the author's permission. An additional thought about Friday meetings that the survey doesn't capture... Whether the problem is "Friday" or "after four days", our meetings are intense enough t

RE: survey on Friday IETF sessions

2004-08-09 Thread John C Klensin
t my thoughts -- and I am still not recovered enough that I am sure I'll believe them at the end of the week. john -Original Message- From: John C Klensin [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 06, 2004 9:31 PM Subject: Re: survey on Friday IETF sessions ... An additiona

Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

2004-08-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 13 August, 2004 11:33 -0400 "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Suggestions about parameters has come up before (John Klensin > suggested it to me a couple of months ago). Unfortunately, > these kind of helper tags attempt to define content rules > rather than transfer

Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

2004-08-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 17 August, 2004 13:05 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >... > So - where is the *one true canonical* definition of an mbox > that actually answers all these basic questions that an > implementer *needs* to know the answer to? Or, as an alternative, where is the set of required param

Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

2004-08-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 17 August, 2004 15:09 -0400 "Eric A. Hall" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> To be clear about this, I think there are three choices which >> we might prefer in descending order: >> >> (1) There is a single canonical "wire" format in which >> these things are transmitted. > >

Re: Last Call: 'The APPLICATION/MBOX Media-Type' to Proposed Standard

2004-08-17 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 17 August, 2004 17:38 -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > >>> Global parameters are useless if the parser is intelligent >>> enough to figure out the message structure independently. >>> Given that such intelligence is a prerequisite to having a >>> half-baked

RE: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 18 August, 2004 10:03 -0700 Thomas Gal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Actually if you knew what it meant but weren't that familiar > with the place of an RFC(someone who's read 2 specs or > something) you would assume IMHO that an "Internet Standard" > is NOT a "request for comment

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-08-26 Thread John C Klensin
Leslie and Harald, I would like to make one suggestion about this process. For suggestions about substance, I will, of course, wait for the final -00 version of the draft. This note is deliberately being sent before I have done so because I don't want my remarks to be biased by how I feel ab

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

2004-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, While I think this analysis and the distinctions you draw are reasonable, I think the presentation in the document about the difference between "A" and "B" is deeply flawed in that it seems to present two options, neither of which is acceptable. Your note hints about intermediate options

RE: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
Graham, One comment... more, perhaps to come, or already covered by others. --On Monday, 06 September, 2004 12:31 +0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > All, > > My two cents worth... > > 1. I'm inclined to prefer option A or B, on the grounds of > keeping things simple ( BUT see point 4, below )

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

2004-09-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 06 September, 2004 19:57 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 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 &g

Re: Functional differentiation and administrative restructuring

2004-09-07 Thread John C Klensin
Ted, Let me try to briefly start from your assumptions and explain why one might reach the opposite conclusion. Before I go on, I'm assuming that your conclusion really implies "organization separate from ISOC" rather than "separate organization within some ISOC framework". There are scenarios

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

2004-09-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 08 September, 2004 09:21 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Carl Malamud wrote: >>> like many things outside the core technical field, these >>> things are hard, and harder than they look, and hard enough >>> that you need a better lawyer. as long as IETF remain

Re: Functional differentiation and administrative restructuring

2004-09-08 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 08 September, 2004 08:53 -0400 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi John, > > Thanks for you analysis. It was something I felt lacking and > has helping me in my wavering between the absorption into ISOC > model and the independent corporate model. > > I look forward to your analysis

Re: Functional differentiation and administrative restructuring

2004-09-08 Thread John C Klensin
conditions, as in > by-law changes and perhaps MOUs, that determine whether this > is beneficial or destructive. Indeed. But even "merger" can be pretty distracting and isn't what I'm picturing either. So I should stop responding to this thread and go back to constructing t

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

2004-09-10 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 10 September, 2004 08:49 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > imo we should start a search for a Administrative Director now Good idea, except... * We have only the vaguest of job descriptions * We don't know who the individual would actuall

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

2004-09-11 Thread John C Klensin
Folks, I'm not sure whether this puts me in agreement with Paul Hoffman's "re-flogging" comment or not, but The Report was presented to the community as not interacting with the Standards Process at all. Well, the issues about how to handle expired I-Ds, whether or not they expire, etc., etc., ar

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

2004-09-12 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, Let me try a different answer from Scott's, with just about the same conclusion. At the risk of being too specific about this, the "meeting planning" function(s) and the "[standards] secretariat" one(s) have almost nothing to do with each other --other than, in our case, some rather im

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

2004-09-12 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 12 September, 2004 11:59 -0700 Carl Malamud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi John - > >> At the risk of being too specific about this, the "meeting >> planning" function(s) and the "[standards] secretariat" one(s) >> have almost nothing to do with each other --other than, in our >>

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

2004-09-13 Thread John C Klensin
> course, > the team that searches for and interviews the candidates has to > start by writing a job description. > > Brian > > John C Klensin wrote: >> >> --On Friday, 10 September, 2004 08:49 -0400 scott bradner >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Re: Functional differentiation

2004-09-14 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 13 September, 2004 16:50 -0700 April Marine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The person "we" hire will report to their boss at whatever > company they work for. The company and "the ietf" will have > some agreement regarding duties and what constitutes > acceptable performance. I'm sur

IETF Administrative Reorganization: What was that problem anyway?

2004-09-14 Thread John C Klensin
In trying to parse both Carl's document and the general situation in the last few weeks, I've found myself getting increasingly dissatisfied with the document and the discussion, mostly with regard to ways in which the document has constrained the discussion and was, itself, constrained by RFC 3716

Re: Things that I think obvious....

2004-09-14 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, Since I finally got around to posting my "what was that problem anyway" note, it is probably time for me to come back and try to question some of your assumptions, since I'm not sure I agree completely with all of them. More important, the logic on which your definitions are constructed a

Re: Options for IETF administrative restructuring

2004-09-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 07 September, 2004 11:35 -0700 Aaron Falk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sep 5, 2004, at 4:15 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: > >> I do not think that recommendation 7 in scenario B is a good >> idea. I believe that plenary time is full enough without >> crowding it more. > > What about

Re: IETF Administrative Reorganization: What was that problem anyway?

2004-09-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 15 September, 2004 06:59 -0700 Carl Malamud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John - > > Would it be fair to summarize your note by saying it is a > lightweight scenario A? E.g., simply take one action: hire > an administrative director for the IETF and have that person > live at IS

Re: An oversight function - composition thereof?

2004-09-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 15 September, 2004 11:10 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> 3) What's an appropriate selection mechanism for that group? > > Firstly, I'd say that the IETF and IAB Chairs, and one other > IESG > and IAB member, should be included automatically. I also thi

Re: IETF Administrative Reorganization: What was that problem anyway?

2004-09-15 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 15 September, 2004 12:04 -0700 Carl Malamud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John - > > Let me try again. I wasn't trying for debating points. > > It seems to me that you said that my report covered a lot > of ground that doesn't need to be covered. And, that the > overall focus

Re: IETF 62

2004-09-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 20 September, 2004 08:54 +0200 Lars Eggert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Secondly, I'm concerned that people are proposing optimizing >> for pleasant climate and good vacation spots. I come to the >> IETF to get work done; I'd rather be at meetings where the >> other participants h

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

2004-09-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 20 September, 2004 21:38 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Do we really want customers of NAT devices to be happy? > > Given that I'm one of them, and will continue to be one until > the IPv4 Internet fades to where I can ignore it yes. Harald, let

Re: Upcoming: further thoughts on where from here

2004-09-21 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, FWIW, with one qualification, I tend to agree with Brian. While Scenario C seems to contain more detail and definition, a great deal of it appears to be handwaving that tends to conceal more complexity and more risk. I suspect that both schedules are too optimistic (which one is "more" t

Scenario O (was: Re: Upcoming: further thoughts on where from here)

2004-09-21 Thread John C Klensin
(time to change the subject line enough to do some differentiation) --On Tuesday, 21 September, 2004 20:33 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > re: 3/ Of course, there can be no assurance that a corporation > will be tax exempt unless 1/ it already is, or 2/ the IRS > rules that it is

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

2004-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 22 September, 2004 05:59 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> re: 3/ Of course, there can be no assurance that a >> corporation will be tax exempt unless 1/ it already is, or 2/ >> the IRS rules that it is. Scenario O covers the 1st case >> since the I

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

2004-09-22 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 22 September, 2004 05:59 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> re: 3/ Of course, there can be no assurance that a >> corporation will be tax exempt unless 1/ it already is, or 2/ >> the IRS rules that it is. Scenario O covers the 1st case >> since the I

RE: Scenario O Re: Upcoming: further thoughts on where from here

2004-09-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 23 September, 2004 11:09 -0400 Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Given that the schedule has the interim IAOC formed in > November and the IAD hired in January, I think that this may > be reasonable. The interim IAOC would be hard put to organize > themselves a

RE: Scenario O Re: Upcoming: further thoughts on where from here

2004-09-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 23 September, 2004 11:09 -0400 Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Given that the schedule has the interim IAOC formed in > November and the IAD hired in January, I think that this may > be reasonable. The interim IAOC would be hard put to organize > themselves a

Re: Layer Violation (on the reorganization process)

2004-09-23 Thread John C Klensin
Olaf, I skimmed through your note and found myself nodding in agreement, then reached one of your conclusions and discovered that we didn't agree, after all, on one critical point. Certainly we agree on the ability of the typical member of the IETF community to contribute actively and usefully to

Re: Poll: Restructuring questions

2004-09-24 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, When I try to invoke this URL, I get a very impressive display that says "Python 2.3.4: /usr/bin/python Fri Sep 24 21:32:36 2004 A problem occurred in a Python script. Here is the sequence of function calls leading up to the error, in the o

Re: a note about the scenarios

2004-09-24 Thread John C Klensin
John, and others, First, let me plead with all of you who would prefer to ignore this --and I certainly understand the feeling-- do technical work, and let others decide to _not_ do that. If implementation of these changes begins, and then fails, it is, IMO, unlikely that we will have a sufficien

RE: isoc's skills

2004-10-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 12 October, 2004 18:37 -0700 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > My focus is on knowing what the details of the jobs are that we > want done. Referring to the interface(s) is a convenient > technique for trying to surface those details. > > Currently we do not have the

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-09-28 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 28 September, 2004 09:07 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > --On 27. september 2004 15:39 -0700 Dave Crocker > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> On Mon, 27 Sep 2004 19:30:50 +0200, Harald Tveit Alvestrand >> wrote: >>> The poll about restructuring opti

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-02 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 01 October, 2004 20:09 +0200 Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Kai Henningsen wrote: >> Only Harald disagrees with that, because that is certainly >> not the question his poll asked - there was no "neither" >> option. > > Nor need there be. If the leadership is down to the

The "Clerk" function and Standards throughput and quality

2004-10-03 Thread John C Klensin
Since the discussion about scenarios for structuring the administrative arrangements seem to be settling down, it is probably time to try raising some questions that might really impact the problems that get solved. The issues raised below interact directly with the problems of getting better-qual

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-03 Thread John C Klensin
Eliot, I'm obviously not being successful at explaining what I'm concerned about it and my getting this deeply drawn into this whole discussion violates a promise I made to myself some time ago, which was to concentrate my IETF time on only those things in which I had a strong technical interest a

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-04 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 04 October, 2004 18:33 +0200 Eliot Lear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You know, Spencer. We *had* a king for a VERY long time, and > it was Jon Postel as RFC Editor and IANA. And somehow we > survived. While Jon was around somehow a vast plethora of > standards got vetted, not the

Re: The "Clerk" function and Standards throughput and quality

2004-10-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 05 October, 2004 13:59 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > John, > > I would like to question some of your assumptions below. > > --On 3. oktober 2004 14:46 -0400 John C Klensin > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> S

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-06 Thread John C Klensin
Dave, We have a long history of looking at the same data and analysis and reaching different conclusions and of looking at different data and analysis and reaching similar conclusions. Since we have both been critical of aspects of this process, let me agree with you about part of it but suppl

Re: The "Clerk" function and Standards throughput and quality

2004-10-06 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:07 PM +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do think our thoughts run very much in parallel - I'll be interested to hear more of why you think the "scenario O" organizational format will make it hard to make those support functions work. Ag

Re: The "Clerk" function and Standards throughput and quality

2004-10-07 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, October 07, 2004 7:53 AM +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On onsdag, oktober 06, 2004 17:50:04 -0400 John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: --On Wednesday, October 06, 2004 1:07 PM +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: The "Clerk" function and Standards throughput and quality

2004-10-07 Thread John C Klensin
Carl, You know that this is going to take more than one employee (or individual contractor) and that the difference is hair-splitting for most reasons. I know that. The document if read carefully is pretty clear about that. But I keep seeing "one employee only" comments which lead me to bel

Internet-Draft cutoffs and getting work done

2004-10-18 Thread John C Klensin
Hi. Summary: Four weeks? When we sometimes run only three months between meetings? Some years ago, the secretariat and IESG agreed on an I-D posting deadline about a week before IETF began, in the hope of getting all submitted drafts posted before WGs needed them for review and discussion. Prio

Re: Internet-Draft cutoffs and getting work done

2004-10-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 18 October, 2004 12:43 -0400 Michael Richardson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>>>>> "John" == John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > John> "As always, all initial submissions (-00) with a > John> filen

Re: Internet-Draft cutoffs and getting work done

2004-10-18 Thread John C Klensin
Henrik, I'm aware of the tools team proposal. But I claim it illustrates the problem. See below. --On Tuesday, 19 October, 2004 01:03 +0200 Henrik Levkowetz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... >> It seems to me that this is one of the reasons why discussion >> of these proposals/plans with the co

Re: Internet-Draft cutoffs and getting work done

2004-10-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 18 October, 2004 20:20 -0400 scott bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> If your "reduce the load enough that things can be >> gotten out faster will result in deadlines closer to the >> meetings" hypothesis is correct, then I'd expect that we would >> already have had a review --in

Re: Internet-Draft cutoffs and getting work done

2004-10-21 Thread John C Klensin
l and proactive tracking of this sort of thing to the IESG's workload, but it seems obvious (at least in retrospect) that it would be useful if it were done by someone. best, john --On Wednesday, 20 October, 2004 08:23 +0200 Harald Tveit Alvestrand <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >

Re: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-23 Thread John C Klensin
--On Thursday, 21 October, 2004 22:16 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I'm with ESR on this one. The W3C bit the bullet and built a >> patent/IPR policy that has integrity and is based on the >> notion that the Net works properly when important components >> can be built

Re: Sunshine Law

2004-10-23 Thread John C Klensin
Margaret, A comment on part of your note to Brian... --On Saturday, 23 October, 2004 11:46 -0400 Margaret Wasserman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >... > Brian, I believe that you and John Klensin were both members > of one such group -- the IAB Advisory Committee that did the > initial AdminRest wo

Re: Sunshine Law

2004-10-25 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 25 October, 2004 15:12 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Vernon Schryver wrote: >>> From: John C Klensin > ... >>> Private discussions >>>> are sometimes a necessity, as is the ability

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-05 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, 05 November, 2004 18:15 -0500 Noel Chiappa <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I too would like to congratulate you on your successes, and > suggest you have the opportunity to be the last chair to > preside over active work related to version 6 of the IP > protocol suite. With the passage

Re: A modest proposal for Harald

2004-11-06 Thread John C Klensin
Harald, While I agree with most of your analysis, I think there is a different view of address space exhaustion that might be more helpful and that there are several things the IETF can do to impede the spread of IPv6. The other side of the "why bother deploying it" argument is "ok, we've decide

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