Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
to play politics with those who are professionals at it rather than solving the problems with technology which is what you'd think we're good at -MM /me goes back to building rockets which is much more fun... -- Michael Mealling Masten Space Systems, Inc. VP Busines

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
both to use something that doesn't satisfy either system? No Reexamine the premises -MM -- Michael Mealling Masten Space Systems, Inc. VP Business Development 473 Sapena Ct. Office: +1-678-581-9656Suite 23 Cell: +1-678-6

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
Steven M. Bellovin wrote: In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Michael Mealling writes: Steven M. Bellovin wrote: Reexamine the premises I am -- these are my premises. I lived far too long in the uucp world to enjoy non-unique names; they led to nothing but trouble.

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
tead we're going to do something at the web layer that's more in tune with how people are actually using the Internet, not how mail gets routed And maybe that work doesn't belong here -MM -- Michael Mealling Masten Space Systems, Inc. VP Business Developme

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Michael Mealling writes: Again, you're conflating two different services that should be... Which is my point. Look at the problem from a purely requirements point of view and ignore what's been done to date. Look at the problem from an impl

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Michael Mealling writes: The system that faced the users would be inherently trademark friendly and wouln't be hierarchical. There are lots of users of the Internet besides trademark holders. I don't see why this latter group deserv

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Michael Mealling writes: To get specific for a moment, my suggestion here is that the IETF take a look at what the W3C and the general web community is doing around navigation, tagging (see Technorati, del.icio.us, flickr), advances in NLP that Google is

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Michael Mealling writes: Well, I didn't want to get into specifics but from what I've seen a URI with a service identifier tag seems to be fine for everyone that has looked a the problem So you shouldn't be nervous, the web seems to be wo

Re: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Michael Mealling
Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Michael Mealling writes: As the result of a service lookup they only need something that identifies the class and subclass of the service the URI is an identifier for... What's wrong with "http" at the front, and/or a port number at the b

Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-10-04 Thread Michael Mealling
eems to be to attempt to play politics with those who are professionals at it rather than solving the problems with technology which is what you'd think we're good at -MM /me goes back to building rockets which is much more fun... -- Michael Mealling Masten S

Re: Diagrams (Was RFCs should be distributed in XML)

2005-11-14 Thread Michael Mealling
spect. -- Michael Mealling Masten Space Systems, Inc. VP Business Development 473 Sapena Ct. Office: +1-678-581-9656Suite 23 Cell: +1-678-640-6884 Santa Clara, CA 95054 http://masten-spac

RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-26 Thread Michael Mealling
On Wed, 2003-03-26 at 16:38, Tony Hain wrote: > Ted Hardie wrote: > > I think you may underestimate how much trouble this might cause in > > applications. > > As Dave Crocker noted in response to Margaret Wasserman's > > presentation to the APPs Open Area meeting, applications have > > been des

Re: RFID and EPCglobal

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Mealling
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:52, Richard Shockey wrote: > EPCglobal is focusing on the standards though I suspect there are aspects > of the protocols being discussed that should come to the IETF or IEEE for > proper peer review and/or standardization. There is an extensive discussion > of the use o

[Fwd: TAG announces Last Call review of Architecture Document]

2003-12-09 Thread Michael Mealling
-Forwarded Message- From: Ian B. Jacobs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: TAG announces Last Call review of Architecture Document Date: 09 Dec 2003 18:14:09 -0500 Dear www-tag, Below is a copy of the email I just sent to the W3C Chairs announcing the Last Call of the Arc

Re: New mailing list for Common Indexing Protocol discussions

1999-10-21 Thread Michael Mealling
Just as an FYI, I have the FIND list archive and I'm in the process of putting it up on an ftp server. I'll let the new list know about the archive when its up... -- -------- Michael Mealling

Where is the OID "dot convention" spelled out?

2000-06-22 Thread Michael Mealling
would be great. -MM -- -------- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: 49th-IETF conf room planning

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Mealling
eryone in my part of the doorway was someone who should have been there and who had read the documents. Maybe the solution isn't Vegas but instead focusing on conference centers in the city in question instead of strictly hotel only facilities. -MM -- -

Re: 49th-IETF conf room planning

2000-12-18 Thread Michael Mealling
now so I'm not going to belabor the point -MM -- -------- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: Writing Internet Drafts on a Macintosh

2001-02-22 Thread Michael Mealling
oth text and HTML (I hear nroff is coming soon). IMHO, the one great advantage to using ASCII documents is that it greatly cuts down on artwork in documents. If it really needs a picture then the author has to pass a pretty high bar to get it in the document. I don't want to read RFCs that act

Re: HTML better for small PDAs

2001-02-26 Thread Michael Mealling
or help him maintain it. The other thing that would be nice is a way of getting all of the authors current contact info in one place and up to date. -MM -- ---- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | w

Re: XML, etc

2001-02-27 Thread Michael Mealling
tend to do at least a little bit better job of maintaining their contact information when they know its going to be used -MM -- -------- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.n

Re: the advocates for non-ASCII RFC's

2001-02-28 Thread Michael Mealling
correctly handle the entire Unicode standard (BIDI), IMHO, 'UNICODE art' is up there with transporters and Faster Than Light warp engines -- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian!

Re: rfc-index.txt in xml ?

2001-03-01 Thread Michael Mealling
ce.RFC.2629; ... -MM -- -------- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | www.rwhois.net/michael Sr. Research Engineer | www.ga.lp.org/gwinnett | ICQ#: 14198821 Network Solutions | www.lp.org | [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: persistent domain names

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Mealling
.arpa domain. But it should be done _EXTREMELY_ carefully. Persistence in the DNS is just the wrong way of going about it. Make your URIs persistently bound to the logical Resource and then use some dynamic resolution mechanism to make sure you can keep that resolution step in line with the logic

Re: persistent domain names

2001-10-31 Thread Michael Mealling
eration at all... -MM -- -------- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.neonym.net

Re: persistent domain names

2001-11-02 Thread Michael Mealling
On Thu, Nov 01, 2001 at 10:54:15AM +0100, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > --On onsdag, oktober 31, 2001 09:17:34 -0500 Michael Mealling > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >On Tue, Oct 30, 2001 at 09:15:35PM +, Zefram wrote: > >>I'm looking for discussion of the proble

Re: comments on Friday scheduling (was Plenaries at IETF 53)

2002-01-17 Thread Michael Mealling
ins. I would personally prefer extending into Friday... -MM -- ---- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.neonym.net

Re: Last Call: An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters to BCP

2002-07-02 Thread Michael Mealling
people who want to use >those URNs in XML or whatever would need to look them up at IANA's >web site. > >actually if IANA assigned each parameter an OID then the oid URN >type could be used. _I_ wouldn't have a problem with that but the IANA and thos

Re: Last Call: An IETF URN Sub-namespace for Registered Protocol Parameters to BCP

2002-07-08 Thread Michael Mealling
ose of it? -MM -- ---- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.neonym.net

Re: DNS based URI without any set access semantics?

2002-07-25 Thread Michael Mealling
/www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-masinter-dated-uri-03.txt The URN is of the form: urn:duri:: Examples: urn:duri:2001:http://www.ietf.org urn:tdb:20010814142327:file://this.example.com/c|/temp/test.txt urn:tdb:2001:data:,The%2520US%2520president etc... -MM --

Re: DNS based URI without any set access semantics?

2002-07-25 Thread Michael Mealling
easignable. So if the part between the second and third colons is based off of a domain-name then you will have to timestamp it somehow. -MM -- -------- Michael Mealling| Vote Libertarian! | urn:pin:1 [EMAIL PROTECTED] | | http://www.neonym.net

Re: DNS based URI without any set access semantics?

2002-07-25 Thread Michael Mealling
On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 04:36:22PM -0400, Clark C . Evans wrote: > On Thu, Jul 25, 2002 at 03:48:29PM -0400, Michael Mealling wrote: > | > > | >urn:dns:com.clarkevans:MyPackage > | > > | > Where the first three components are always small caps. > | > | The

Re: taking MARTA from airport to IETF55 hotel

2002-11-13 Thread Michael Mealling
routes: North/South and East/West. And the busses are just there to annoy the rest of the people on the road. So be warned Plus, I-75/I-85 (or the Connector as its called) should be low traffic on the weekend unless someone's jack-knifed a 18-wheeler... -MM -- Michael Mealling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> HHI, Inc.

the 'hallway' jabber group chat

2002-11-20 Thread Michael Mealling
Just on a lark I tried creating a new chatgroup on conference.ietf.jabber.com called 'hallway' and apparently it worked. It seems that if we're going to create an chat equivalent of the working group meetings that we should extend the metaphor to include the other aspects of the week that facilitat