Re: MBONE access?

2004-03-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On Wednesday, March 3, 2004, at 04:18 PM, Joe Abley wrote: In the past the answer has been "you don't", often coupled with enthusiastic statements about the mbone being in full production, and tunnels no longer being necessary. I contacted my ISP last week about getting multicast routing configur

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-shore-nat-reachability-00.txt

2004-03-29 Thread Melinda Shore
On Monday, March 29, 2004, at 12:20 AM, Pekka Savola wrote: This I-D does not even mention IPv6 -- any particular reason for not to? :-) Several, but I'm not sure any of them are any good. The first is ignorance on my part - I'm not sure I have a sufficient grasp on the scenarios in which it would

Re: Firewalling for the new millennium, was: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-05-09 Thread Melinda Shore
On Saturday, May 8, 2004, at 11:31 AM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Yes, this is good stuff. But I don't think distributed firewalling on its own is the full answer. I think it's pretty clear at this point that there is no full answer, or that if there is it's multi-component and situation- depende

Re: 60th IETF - Registration

2004-05-18 Thread Melinda Shore
On Tuesday, May 18, 2004, at 05:56 PM, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: We should also remember that the people don't comes just from US. When I called they (not very kindly) suggested me if I can call back in 6 hours (!) because registration services doesn't work so early. Incredible, this is ha

Re: YATS? Re: T-shirts, and some suggestions for future ietf meetings

2004-08-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On Wednesday, August 11, 2004, at 04:28 PM, Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote: Even mediumly-constructed canvas bags can be more useful than a t-shirt. That varies by human. One thing that I would love to bits would be a t-shirt made out of coolmax or some other high-techie fabric, instead of cotton. Fo

Re: hop-by-hop and router alert options [Re: Question about use of RSVP in Production Networks]

2004-08-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On Thursday, August 12, 2004, at 10:49 AM, David R Oran wrote: What about discovery of the furthest point. Do you not find that a persuasive use case? There are actually a number of instances in which some kind of topology exposure is necessary for some widely-used functions to work properly. Cert

Re: Friday @ IETF61?

2004-09-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, at 06:04 AM, George Michaelson wrote: I call again for meetings run over the weekend. midweek to midweek. While I'd certainly prefer to travel midweek, there are a couple of problems with running midweek to midweek. One is that some people can't work on Saturday for

Re: Friday @ IETF61?

2004-09-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On Thursday, September 2, 2004, at 09:48 AM, Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE NCC) wrote: The same applies to Sunday and Friday but this hasn't caused any problem so-far. Why would Saturday be different? "Fridays" is actually Friday night. The proscriptions against work on Saturday are for the entire day,

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

2004-09-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On Friday, September 10, 2004, at 09:30 AM, scott bradner wrote: but, to me, its quite silly to pretend that IDs actually disapear from the net just because teh IETF takes it off of our web site I don't think anybody's pretending that, but if there's an agreement between the IETF and people who sub

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

2004-09-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 04:02 PM, Joe Touch wrote: It's still unclear - the document contains required wording about its expiration, under the same document. The two statements are in conflict in that regard. I have some problems with retroactively changing agreements, but your concern

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

2004-09-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 06:03 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Even the IETF distinguishes between normative refs and non-normative (though it has a penchant for wanting to redefine those words too). Private correspondence is not citable as a normative ref, nor are (currently) IDs. IDs aren't cita

Re: IETF 62

2004-09-20 Thread Melinda Shore
On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 08:16 AM, jamal wrote: So Mineapolis (the mother of all IETF venues) is less bloodier to get to? I am shocked. I would claim Ottawa is more accessible, colder, cheaper and doesnt have wimpy tunnels - which makes it a perfect choice. I think Minneapolis is a terrif

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

2004-09-20 Thread Melinda Shore
On Monday, September 20, 2004, at 06:09 PM, Bob Hinden wrote: I think this ship has left port a long time ago and the likelihood that the IETF can now effect enough change to make it possible to write new applications that work consistently in the presence of NATs is very low. The installed ba

Re: Alternative hotels in DC

2004-10-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On Thursday, October 7, 2004, at 09:29 AM, Winkler, Arnold F wrote: Just a few more: Marriott at Metro Center, 775 12th St. NW, 202-737-2200 Grand Hyatt, 1000 H Street NW, 202-582-1234 The Jefferson, 1200 16th Street NW, 202-347-2200 Washington Renaissance, 999 9th Street NW, 202-898-9000 Those are

Re: Metro to the hotel, maybe not...

2004-11-06 Thread Melinda Shore
On Friday, November 5, 2004, at 09:43 PM, Paul Hoffman / VPNC wrote: Slightly related, be aware that the hotel is about four long blocks from the Metro, some up a hill. Not that difficult, but not "at" Dupont Circle. For those interested in a distance/effort tradeoff, if you go to the next stop b

Re: The gaps that NAT is filling

2004-11-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On Tuesday, November 23, 2004, at 08:11 AM, Jeroen Massar wrote: Did you ever think of the fact that many participants in the IETF earned a lot of money selling: - NAT "solutions" - VPN "solutions" to overcome the NAT problem - Consulting in many ways - Services to 'merge multiple enterprise n

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Melinda Shore
On Monday, March 14, 2005, at 08:34 AM, Carl Malamud wrote: Edward Tufte makes a very convincing case that in the case of powerpoint, the medium certainly influences the message: The NY Times ran an article on PowerPoint and the deterioration of public speaking a few years ago, before Tufte started

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-15 Thread Melinda Shore
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 09:44 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think this is why we chartered MIDCOM in the first place. Yes, and midcom as currently specified does support firewall attributes. To get back to the broader questions, when we set out to do midcom and to address the general proble

Re: Why?

2005-03-15 Thread Melinda Shore
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 10:51 AM, Keith Moore wrote: What we need is an architecture for multilayered defense that allows centralized policy specification (which is merged with host policy) and which is application-aware. You mean like midcom? Melinda __

Re: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again))

2005-05-09 Thread Melinda Shore
I'm actually not particularly convinced that publicizing the list of names would narrow the candidate pool particularly, but it does seem to me that by making electioneering a more pressing piece of the process (there's electioneering now, but it's not significant) and moving the process closer to

Re: Complaining about ADs to Nomcom (Re: Voting (again))

2005-05-09 Thread Melinda Shore
On May 9, 2005, at 1:42 PM, Scott W Brim wrote: I don't understand why making names public would increase electioneering over what we already have. "Electioneering" is perhaps the wrong word, since it implies behavior on the part of the candidates. What I'm thinking about is pressure from interest

Re: When to DISCUSS?

2005-07-11 Thread Melinda Shore
Scott W Brim wrote: There are occasions when limiting the number of deployed solutions is very good for the future of the Internet, and in those cases, pushing for Foo even when Bar is just as good is quite legitimate. Sure, but I think some of these things ("good", "legitimate") are unknowable

Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

2005-08-07 Thread Melinda Shore
Brian Rosen wrote: We still do operate with rough consensus. Probably only in the sense that some decisions are made by a consensus process, but I'd guess that there's more voting going on than not. The lack of both rough consensus and running code is something I've been wondering about, too.

Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

2005-08-07 Thread Melinda Shore
grenville armitage wrote: I wonder if absence of running code, and the apparently weakened impact of running code on WG debate when there is some, is contributing to drawn-out document development? That's an excellent point. To a great extent we suffer from what the FreeBSD community calls "b

Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

2005-08-07 Thread Melinda Shore
Scott W Brim wrote: Hi Melinda. Are you saying that people shouldn't comment on an idea unless they are implementing it? No, clearly (I hope) not. Just that it seems likely that maybe if we did more implementation it could help end some of those round-and-round we go discussions that can ofte

Re: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-07 Thread Melinda Shore
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: More of his measurements concluded that at least 56% of hosts are behind a firewall that blocks by default. It should be pointed out here that the problems introduced by NATs are not quite the same as problems introduced by firewalls. While they both impair reachabili

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI)Area

2005-09-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/19/05 4:23 PM, "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think all areas in the IETF are more-or-less defined as "core of the > area" + "what is closely linked to the core" + "what fits less badly there > than elsewhere" - ECRIT would come under "closely linked", since its > sub

Re: Cost vs. Benefit of Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture Area

2005-09-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/21/05 1:25 AM, "David Kessens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would have a lot less trouble with the proposal of adding an area if > we would be able to find another one that could be abolished, or > reorganize ourselves in some way or form that would result in no net > addition of Area Direct

Re: Cost vs. Benefit of Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture Area

2005-09-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/21/05 3:14 PM, "David Kessens" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I notice that nobody has really responded with suggestions on how this > could be achieved or with alternatives for my suggestion as there are > obviously many possible variants. That's not true - I raised the possibility of eliminat

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/22/05 1:14 AM, "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The term > "real-time" tends to mean sub-second, and often much faster than that. That seems to be the vernacular use, but strictly speaking "real-time" is about robust assurances of delivery within a constrained time period, whether

Re: Possible new Real-Time Applications and Infrastucture (RAI) Area

2005-09-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/23/05 5:38 PM, "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > For the proposed area, that does not seem to explain the inclusion of ENUM, > instant messaging or presence. (This area is going to take over xmpp, too?) ENUM is ancillary to telephony and not really to much else. But anyway, you'll

Re: Correct middlebox behavior

2005-09-29 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/28/05 6:50 PM, "Fleischman, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that Keith's first paragraph below is widely accepted by the > IETF. However, after re-reading RFC 3234, RFC 3303, and others I did not > find any text within any RFC to explain our consensus opinion concerning > correct

Re: Question about the normative nature of IETF RFCs

2005-09-29 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/29/05 1:24 PM, "Bill Sommerfeld" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > except that I don't believe there's a single type of middlebox ... There certainly isn't. RFC 3234 created a middlebox taxonomy based on what we knew at the time, and I think it's held up pretty well over the past three years. Pe

Re: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against Jefsey Morfin posted

2005-09-30 Thread Melinda Shore
On 9/30/05 3:07 PM, "Michael Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > what about: > > - killfile the person and encourage others to do the same? Unfortunately that no longer works all that well on Usenet, either. The participant pool grows to the point where there's always somebody new, or somebody

Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-06 Thread Melinda Shore
Messages like "I'm for this" or "I'm against this" seem to be taking the form of a vote, when it seems to me that what's probably more appropriate would be an attempt at persuasion. Melinda ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailm

Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/7/05 12:42 AM, "Anthony G. Atkielski" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless the allegedly abusive poster is engaging in a technical denial > of service or other action unrelated to the actual substance of what > he is posting, there is never any reason to exclude him. Censorship > is disguised

Re: IETF Meeting Venue Selection Criteria

2005-10-14 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/14/05 11:58 AM, "Avri Doria" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > - MUST NOT be held in a country whose visa requirements are so > stringent as to make it impossible or even extremely difficult for > some participant to attend. > > - MUST NOT be held in a country with restrictions on freedom of > ex

Re: Can the USA welcome IETF

2005-10-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/17/05 1:25 PM, "Scott W Brim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm done. Ever the optimist, I like to think that the fact that the leadership's energy is increasingly going into stuff like this indicates that the IETF has reached a new level of organizational maturity. Melinda

Notes from remote

2005-11-08 Thread Melinda Shore
Many, many thanks to the Jabber scribes - there've been some excellent note-takers and it's made it possible to follow along well from home. The audio has also been excellent, although it would be a help if more attention were paid to making sure that folks with mobile mikes (that is to say, the s

Re: participation sans meeting attendance (was RE: Alternative formats for IDs)

2006-01-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On 1/2/06 11:32 PM, "Jeffrey Hutzelman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think we're doing better on this front than we have in many > years. The technical support for remote participation really has become terrific. Some sessions are run with great sensitivity to remote participation, others are n

Re: objection to proposed change to "consensus"

2006-01-07 Thread Melinda Shore
On 1/6/06 11:11 PM, "Sandy Wills" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unfortunately, there seems to be a religious dogma among the > long-time IETF participants that they never take votes. All they > do is judge rough or smooth concensus, and that reduces our options > to simple binary choices. Thus

Re: Working Group chartering

2006-01-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 1/10/06 12:55 PM, "Burger, Eric" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Normally, I would agree, but in one area in particular where I'm active, > RAI, I've seen it all. There has been a ton of work that was > "interesting" and "nice to have." I'm going to hazard a guess here and suggest that that area

Re: On the confidentiality of the information and communication within the nomcom context

2008-03-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/16/08 3:56 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As I recall, this was discussed extensively before 3777 (and before > 2727) and opinions were so evenly split that the only possible > conclusion was "no consensus for change". So we'll need to see if > opinions have changed... R

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/25/08 11:57 AM, "Michael Thomas" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So I've never met you, Noel. And I certainly don't have any reason to > believe that this email I'm responding to wasn't forged. How do I know > that you're not a dog? Reputation system. Melinda __

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/25/08 12:12 PM, "Simon Josefsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think decisions should be based on technically sound arguments. > Whether someone wants to reveal their real identity is not necessarily > correlated to the same person providing useful contributions. In practice I don't think t

Re: Possible RFC 3683 PR-action

2008-03-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/25/08 12:56 PM, "Edward Lewis" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Where I lose interest in this conversation is when I ask "what does > it matter who made the point?" I suppose that's the ideal. We know some voices carry more weight and some carry less, but I think what's actually under discussion

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 2:06 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Great idea, and I don't see a downside. The only possible disadvantage I can see is if they're then cataloged as a serial rather than having individual call numbers and individual catalog entries, but since the Library of Congres

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 2:19 PM, "Randy Presuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What would it take to get them cataloged individually? Interest in having them cataloged individually. I believe LC catalogs everything it receives. I've been out of librarianship long enough not to know how they receive electronic

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 3:36 PM, "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The benefit of the new number requires that folk know about it, I actually don't think that's the case. I mean, I think it should be on the documents (otherwise there's some small point to having one, but not a lot) but I think it's

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 5:39 PM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Possibly not, but there is still a crusty old world of academic > publications with traditional reference styles out there, and an ISSN > will make it much more straightforward to cite RFCs in peer-reviewed > publications. +1 that

Re: Random Network Endpoint Technology (RNET)

2008-05-21 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/21/08 5:49 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So we have reinvented STUN? This is probably closer to Paul Francis's NUTSS stuff without the cool crankback and especially without resolving the location problem. Melinda ___ IETF ma

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/22/08 2:01 AM, "Ed Juskevicius" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that getting each RFC cataloged individually would not > be possible using an ISSN, so we would need to employ ISBNs. No, not necessarily. A serial published as a serial ("The Bulletin of the Singapore Guppy Society") is

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-22 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/22/08 8:51 AM, "John C Klensin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Indeed, another way of looking at this question is that deciding > to register an ISSN for the RFC series really does not preclude > anything else (including, were we so inclined, putting DOIs on > each RFC) and we should therefore b

Re: RNET: Random Network Endpoint Technology

2008-06-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/23/08 8:48 AM, "Hannes Tschofenig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The description is too short to judge your proposal in a reasonable way. > I would have todo a lot of guessing. > Additionally, I have doubts that there is a need for a new protocol > given that we are not short on solutions. I t

Re: RNET: Random Network Endpoint Technology

2008-06-23 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/23/08 12:58 PM, "Tschofenig, Hannes (NSN - FI/Espoo)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Do you think that there are more proposals compared to other areas? I think so, if you go back to RSIP, etc. I think that the issue here is that on the one hand it's really a very pressing problem, but on the

Re: Qualitative Analysis of IETF and IESG trends (Re: Measuring IETF and IESG trends)

2008-06-25 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/25/08 11:44 AM, "Lakshminath Dondeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I would like to hear others' opinions (I was going to put together a > draft with some ideas on how we might define these roles, but I want to > hear others' thoughts before I do that) on this topic. I think your points are va

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

2008-11-18 Thread Melinda Shore
On 11/18/08 2:16 PM, "Randy Bush" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How would you solve the problem? > hold the meetings in non-terrorist countries. i.e. not the united states. I don't know what that means. Canada, for example, is a peacekeeper nation that requires visas for entry from countries fro

Re: The internet architecture

2008-12-05 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/5/08 9:59 AM, "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are citing BSD because you think that they made a bad design decision, > then you are faulting them for something that was common in the networking > culture at the time. Not to go too far afield, but I think there's consensus

Re: sockets vs. fds

2008-12-05 Thread Melinda Shore
On 12/5/08 10:18 AM, "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's possible that this represents insight worth sharing broadly, I doubt that very much, since it's really about API design and ideological purity and I think has had only a negligible impact on deployability, but > It isn't immed

Re: [tae] The Great Naming Debate (was Re: The internet architecture)

2008-12-17 Thread Melinda Shore
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: 10.1.2.3 is simply a string litteral that may be used in place of a DNS name. In neither case should the application require knowledge of the IP address itself. In fact you don't want that as at some point in the distant future, 10.1.2.3 is actually going to map to

Re: how to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/10/09 7:20 AM, "Andrew Sullivan" wrote: > I'm not sure I agree with that claim. It's true that decisions are > not made by counting votes. Decisions _are_ supposed to be made, > during consensus call, by weighing the arguments and the apparent > support for the document. Under classical co

Re: how to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/10/09 9:27 AM, "Andrew Sullivan" wrote: > Sure. But under such classical consensus decision-making, one knows > who's in "the group" for the consensus. The IETF doesn't, because the > answer to "Who's in the group?" is supposed to be "Who replied on the > mailing list?" Well, no, I don't a

Re: how to contact the IETF

2009-02-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/10/09 11:34 AM, "Ed Juskevicius" wrote: > I am not trying to pour cold water on your idea here, but rather I am > wondering how something like this could be formalized, versus handled as an > exceptional case when and if it occurs. I don't really how understand "count against" would work in

Re: Ah, I see the cause of the situation now... (tls-authz situation)

2009-02-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/10/09 4:12 PM, "Alex Loret de Mola" wrote: > It assumes that I feel that the individuals posting here were > clueless. *I* feel that the individuals posting here were largely clueless. What, the "Reject TLS!" post didn't raise your eyebrows? I think the problem here is that the FSF issued

Re: Ah, I see the cause of the situation now... (tls-authz situation)

2009-02-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/10/09 4:48 PM, "Alex Loret de Mola" wrote: > What I don't want to see, however, is intelligent and reasonable > people turned away by the abruptness of the backlash here. I have no idea what you mean by "reasonable and intelligent." It seems to me that if they want to participate in the pro

Re: TLS WG Chair Comments on draft-ietf-tls-authz-07

2009-02-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/11/09 9:47 AM, "Powers Chuck-RXCP20" wrote: > I am curious - is this a commitment by the TLS chairs to actually work > on this document? Or simply an attempt to prevent the IESG from > advancing a document that the WG previously declined to work on, and > could easily do so again? I have no

Re: [TLS] TLS WG Chair Comments on draft-ietf-tls-authz-07

2009-02-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/12/09 1:16 PM, "Hannes Tschofenig" wrote: > The main issue I have been struggeling with these authorization extensions > inside TLS is that they happen at the wrong layer. I don't know about that - I think it really depends on how the TLS session is being used, etc. I think that the more ab

Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-26 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/25/06 7:47 PM, "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So my point was, I'd really like to take a chance on some IAB statements > about things that need to be stated about our architecture. They might be > ignored. Would the result be any worse? This is a somewhat bothersome case, beca

Re: the iab & net neutrality

2006-03-27 Thread Melinda Shore
On 3/27/06 6:45 AM, "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > My apologies for not being clearer - my intention was not to criticize WG or > IAB actions in the past, but to point out that we are now in an escalating > game of whack-a-mole with our applications as the moles that NATs and FWs >

Re: not listening

2006-06-26 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/26/06 1:18 PM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I know that there are plenty of people in the IETF woul wish to preserve the > current pervceived status of the Internet as a consequence free environment > and are absolutely opposed to my attempts to introduce the accountabi

No jabber rooms for BOFs?

2006-07-10 Thread Melinda Shore
No Jabber rooms for BOFs! Thanks, Melinda ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: No jabber rooms for BOFs?

2006-07-10 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/10/06 6:10 PM, "Kurt D. Zeilenga" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You can borrow a room from an old WG/BOF (e.g., > ldup) in a pinch. Right, but there's a rendezvous problem that particularly affects those of us who are off-site. However, midcom will not be meeting in Montreal, and if a BOF fin

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 10:11 AM, "Jeffrey Altman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Speaking as a working group chair, what is important to me is the > ability to make progress on the milestones the working group is > committed to achieve. Sure, but you don't want to risk insularity, which I think clearly has been

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 10:51 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Why do you need a jabber _scribe_ for input? To allow remote participants to provide input. > Although I did jabber scribing for a couple of sessions the past week > I don't see all that much value in doing that: the audio f

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 11:17 AM, "Dave Cridland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Mon Jul 17 16:10:49 2006, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: >> Did I say it should become less important? I don't see how the >> meetings are growing in significance, though. > I think Melinda's intention was to suggest that they ought

Re: Meetings in other regions

2006-07-17 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/17/06 11:26 AM, "Dave Cridland" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think Melinda's intention was to suggest that the meetings ought to > be growing in significance. > Is that better? The wording is better, but it's still the case that I'd rather that we made a better effort to conduct the bulk of

Re: San Diego (was RE: Meetings in other regions)

2006-07-19 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/19/06 1:47 PM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > All in all, San Diego seems like a pretty bad choice for a meeting > place: it's even hard to get to from inside the US, and it's as far > as you can get from Europe without leaving the continental US. I'm not crazy about it e

Re: consensus and anonymity

2007-05-31 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/31/07 2:49 PM, "John C Klensin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I think this is more evidence that we need more flexibility and > good sense, not more rigid rules. Well, what's under description really isn't consensus decision-making processes - what's being argued is a sort of voting. Rather t

Re: consensus and anonymity

2007-05-31 Thread Melinda Shore
On 5/31/07 3:21 PM, "todd glassey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > i.e. interferring with others initiatives... this is a serious issue since > this is Tortuous Interferrence per se. Actually, Todd, what was I thinking of was people who aren't capable of graciously moving out of the way after they've

Re: Should I* opinions be afforded a special status? (Re: [saag] Declining the ifare bof for Chicago)

2007-06-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 6/12/07 3:17 PM, "Lakshminath Dondeti" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > They are judges of consensus when > appropriate and the consensus better be independently verifiable. In > the end, the entire process works with the IETF Community's consensus > where the IAB and the IESG get to prioritize the

Re: Domain Centric Administration, RE: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic-00.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/2/07 11:14 AM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > There is no other device that can provide me with a lightweight firewall for > $50. Of course there is - the same device that's providing the NAT. NAT by itself is intrinsically policy-free, although it implements policy as

Re: Domain Centric Administration, RE: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic-00.txt

2007-07-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/2/07 12:40 PM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The $50 includes the cost of administration. I get the NAT effect for free > when I plug the box in. Turning it off on the other hand requires rather a lot > of thinking for the average user. There's no reason that a default

Re: Domain Centric Administration, RE: draft-ietf-v6ops-natpt-to-historic-00.txt

2007-07-03 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/2/07 9:14 PM, "David Morris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > As the administrator of several small networks, it is quite simple. By > re-writing the address, the NAT is a defacto default deny. A lot of administrators feel that way, and I undersatnd why (NAT is basically configuration-free, for t

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-13 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/13/07 5:43 PM, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I believe that we need a more general protocol for hosts inside a site > perimeter to communicate with the perimeter gateways and request > services from them. We've actually got several of them, starting with SOCKS (which could

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/16/07 4:13 AM, "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Maybe by a lack of simplicity? Midcom and SIMCO are very simple. I think that there are a few problems, which taken in aggregate make NAT "control" a hard sell. One is that in even modestly complex networks either the applicati

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/16/07 6:29 AM, "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The way I look at the problem we have a gateway issue similar to those that we > used to have with smtp in the days of decnet sna etc. Maybe, but there are differences that make it harder. Chief among these is that there wer

Re: The myth of NAT traversal, was: Re: IPv4 to IPv6 transition

2007-07-16 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/16/07 10:43 AM, "Joel Jaeggli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Widespread deployment of ALG's as mediators means you have to upgrade > the network to support new applications. or applications are built on > top of hostile tunnels over your alg infrastructure (sound familiar?). > While some enterp

Re: On firewall traversal vs. bypass

2007-07-31 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/31/07 4:09 AM, "Aki Niemi" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Continuing on something heard at the technical plenary last week. There > were people complaining that while protocols like STUN/TURN and ICE are > traversing NAT, they are in fact bypassing firewall policies, which they > should not be d

Re: Charging I-Ds

2007-07-31 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/31/07 10:51 AM, "Stephane Bortzmeyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If an I-D is reviewed by several persons in the WG, one AD, two > members of IESG, etc, then, yes, it costs money but such an in-depth > review does not happen for random student-published I-D. There is still no cost to the IE

Re: Charging I-Ds

2007-07-31 Thread Melinda Shore
On 7/31/07 1:01 PM, "Peter Saint-Andre" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Expected result of charging per I-D: bigger I-Ds. Library science research in the early 1980s found that the number of authors was highly correlated with title length, so one might reasonably expect that charging for internet dra

Re: Travel Considerations

2007-10-12 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/12/07 3:31 PM, "Eric Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Time out for station identification; this is the "Internet > Engineering Task Force." I tend to think of it as at least in part an engineering question. Obvious questions about tradeoffs and whatnot, and then the question of engineering

Re: Experimental makes sense for tls-authz

2007-10-26 Thread Melinda Shore
On 10/26/07 2:04 PM, "Randy Presuhn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Given the unfortunate > history of this work, publication of draft-housley-tls-authz-extns > as experimental seems to be the most sensible path out of this mess. Hear, hear. Melinda ___

Re: I-D Action:draft-rosenberg-internet-waist-hourglass-00.txt]

2008-02-14 Thread Melinda Shore
On 2/14/08 9:58 AM, "Iljitsch van Beijnum" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Disagree. There is no reason why a stateful firewall would have an > easier time tracking UDP state than any other non-TCP state when there > is no address translation. There's just a lot more experience with UDP than there is

Re: Fw: namedroppers, continued (flamed in less than an hour. figures)

2003-01-05 Thread Melinda Shore
I'm not sure which is more impressive - that you chose to forward private email to several mailing lists, or that you chose to insult someone by referring to him as a woman. Melinda

Re: namedroppers, continued

2003-01-07 Thread Melinda Shore
In that environment, anybody can get around what you're proposing by setting up their own first hop mail server. Or hop mail server, for that matter. Melinda

Re: beauty of freedom

2003-03-11 Thread Melinda Shore
> It's great to have guarenteed lifetime employment for > software developers, but are we sure spam plus spam > supression is making the world a better place? This is a tremendous problem in firewall-land, where there's a continuing arms race that's moving firewall functionality further and furthe

Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-15 Thread Melinda Shore
> My guess is that going to two would hurt income, unless we raise fees by > 50% - the same people would come, I think. > Going to four would be damaging to my sanity, at least - don't know about > others' we whould expect slightly lower per-meeting attendance, but > many would indeed feel o

Re: Impending Publication: draft-iab-service-id-considerations-01.txt

2003-06-16 Thread Melinda Shore
> I think this statement gives dangerously wide latitude for intermediate > systems to damage end-to-end-ness. It seems to me that a router should > only do something outside fundamental routing behaviour when this has > been explicitly approved, either through protocol negotiation or through > ma

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-18 Thread Melinda Shore
> We're doing it. That's an "uh-oh" comment. It's very common to hear people say that the IETF doesn't know how to say "no" to new work. I think the real problem is that many people bringing new work to the IETF don't know how to accept being told "no" and it leads to harass-a-thons of the IESG o

Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

2003-06-18 Thread Melinda Shore
> The difference between denial of service and policy enforcement > is primarily a question of authorization. Since the people who > install NAT generally own the networks in question, characterizing > NAT as a DoS attack doesn't really seem right. Well, yeah, but ... NAT is far too crude in its

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