Re: MBONE access?

2004-03-03 Thread ned . freed
> On Wed, Mar 03, 2004 at 04:18:42PM -0500, Joe Abley wrote: > > > > If you find an answer, telling this list would be good. > > > > 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

Re: MBONE access?

2004-03-04 Thread ned . freed
On the economic front, there have been offers, at least from me, to PAY for remote attendance. Let's face it, I'd have been happy to pay $500 to have access to all WG sessions and plenaries via Real Player or other Unicast mechanism in Seoul. There's just no way my company can afford the travel exp

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-11 Thread ned . freed
> On 5/10/2004 3:02 AM, RL 'Bob' Morgan wrote: > > So a "secure ports only" policy has very little to do with security and > > very much to do with organizational power relationships, and making > > your computing environment dysfunctional. > Somebody check my math on this please, but it seems t

Re: Not sure if this is the right place for this

2004-05-11 Thread ned . freed
> On the other hand, STARTTLS *requires* a clear channel that the client > MUST *already* be using. So whereas the attack on SSL *might* succeed in > putting the client in touch with an unencrypted service, TLS is > *guaranteed* to be using such a service already anyway. The only question > is whet

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

2004-08-13 Thread ned . freed
> > A definitive authoritative specification for all variations of the > > mbox database format is explicitly not the objective, for several > > reasons. > that's fine. I fully support registering application/mbox as a media > type. > > For > > one thing, such a definition is outside the IETF's

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

2004-08-19 Thread ned . freed
Keith, very nicely put. I am in complete agreement with everything you say here. Ned On Aug 17, 2004, at 8:38 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > If someone can summarize where > this thread is going and/or should go, I'd appreciate it. my recommendation to the author - -

RE: How IETF treats contributors

2004-08-31 Thread ned . freed
> > 9. Acknowledgements > > > >Variations on the idea of using a DNS record to check the > > legitimacy > >of an email address have occurred multiple times. The earliest > > known > >work is [Vixie]; others include [RMX], [SPF] and [CallerID]. > > > >The current

Re: How IETF treats contributors

2004-09-03 Thread ned . freed
On Aug 30, 2004, at 7:05 PM, John Day wrote: > The best solution is to remove all authorship from all Internet > standards, then there will be no problems. This isn't suppose to be > an ego trip. If people really think the documents are important, they > don't need their names on them. If they n

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-09-28 Thread ned . freed
At 2:30 PM +0200 9/28/04, Eliot Lear wrote: > Just to be clear, I trust the leadership to decide better than I > can. I don't know about the rest of you, but I have a day job that > has absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with IETF governance. I'd > like to have the time to go over all this fun s

RE: Yahoo is not using ESMTP

2004-11-13 Thread ned . freed
> In many situations around the world in developing countries, it is > totally impossible to send a 10MB e-mail because the link will be at > least break once in the time it takes to send 10MB. As e-mail does not > resume... FWIW, RFC 1845 specifies such a mechanism for SMTP. There have been few i

Re: New Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

2004-12-18 Thread ned . freed
> > I am somewhat sympathetic to the idea of having some > > total limit (except for the late date for the proposed change). > Earlier feedback would have been had if there had been > some announcement of the proposed considerable changes > on the ietf-822 mailing list, or via an IETF WG > charter

Re: Last Call on Language Tags (RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08)

2005-01-03 Thread ned . freed
> I have been following the extensive discussions of this subject > on the IETF and Language-Tags lists (somewhat over 100 relevant > messages by my rough count, although with the vast major of them > from around five participants). I note that much of it has not > been explicitly copied to the IE

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread ned . freed
This whole question of what 'matches' is subtle. Consider the case when I have a document that has variant content by language (e.g. different sound tracks), and the user indicates a set of preferred languages. If the content has "de-CH" and "fr-CH" (swiss german and french), and a default "en" (

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread ned . freed
Small typo: In my previous response I referred to RFC 1766 when I meant RFC 3066. Too many documents open at once, sorry. Ned ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-04 Thread ned . freed
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > > I know of two other wrinkles in the RFC 1766 world: > Are you aware that RFC 1766 has been obsolete for four years now? Of course I am. > > (2) SGN- requires special handling, in that SGN-FR and SGN-EN are in fact > >sufficiently different languages that a

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-05 Thread ned . freed
> > > Finding country codes is straightforward: any non-initial subtag of > > > two letters (not appearing to the right of "x-" or "-x-") is a country > > > code. This is true in RFC 1766, RFC 3066, and the current draft. > > On the contrary, in RFC 3066 the rule is "any 2 letter value that > > a

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> > Date: 2005-01-05 10:33 > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Section 2.5 (2.4.1 in the draft) states the matching rule in a succinct > > > fashion. ÂEverything in 2.4.2 is a non-normative elaboration of this. > > > > ??? Which in no way refutes my assertion that no matching rule algorithm > > wa

Re: RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> > For the triple of > > language/country/script to match usefully in the general case by > > RFC 3066 parsers (which are unaware of script in general), the first > > and second subtags would have to remain language code and country > > code respectively. > If you consider realistic scenarios, th

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> [EMAIL PROTECTED] scripsit: > > Now, it may be the case that all _registered_ tags have avoided the use of > > non-country code two letter codes in the third and later position. But this > > is > > 100% irrelevant. > If you say so. > > The point is that conformant code implementing RFC 3066 i

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> > Rather, the rule is simply that a country code, if present, > > always appears as a two letter second subtag. The new draft changes this > rule, > > so applications that pay attention to coutnry codes in language tags have > to > > change and the new algorithm for finding the country code is tr

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, specifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:ietf-languages- > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > My reading of that text is that it goes out of its way to try and > avoid > > direct > > discussion of a matching algorithm, talking instead about "rules" and > > "constructs". I no longer

Re: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> And I will assume that it was that perceived insult that caused you to be > dismissive, I was dismissive because your correction, while accurate, was irrelevant to the current discussion of the change to country code semantics. > with your statement below about "Fine, whatever." I assume that >

RE: draft-phillips-langtags-08, process, sp ecifications, "stability", and extensions

2005-01-06 Thread ned . freed
> In a nutshell, Ned was elaborating on a comment from Dave Singer that, > once we have parsed a pair of tags and identified all the pieces, it's > not a trivial matter to decide in every case how the two tags compare, > and that there are factors that would exist if the draft were approved > that

Re: email document delivery service

2005-02-04 Thread ned . freed
> Hi, > Our anti-virus system tags all IETF draft announcements as being potentially > dangerous. I suspect because of the unusual options to fetch the data that > are encoded in the MIME header. > We would certainly like to see that feature removed from IETF announcements, > as it seems archaic

Re: IDN security violation? Please comment

2005-02-11 Thread ned . freed
--On torsdag, februar 10, 2005 10:49:50 -0500 Bruce Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 1. I have in mind a keyboard on a certain device which has >support for protocols which use domain names (HTTP, SMTP/ >Internet Message Format, VPIM). It has a keyboard which >is at best inconvenie

Re: Last Call: 'Message Submission' to Draft Standard

2005-03-04 Thread ned . freed
> Bruce, fwiw, this general approach was discussed when this > protocol was first being designed. Not only was it discussed, the draft actually specified this scheme at one point. It was overwhelmingly rejected by the participants at the time and removed. > I can't remember all of the > reasons

Re: Last Call: 'Message Submission' to Draft Standard

2005-03-04 Thread ned . freed
> On Fri March 4 2005 22:43, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Not only was it discussed, the draft actually specified this scheme at one > > point. > > The problem in a nutshell was that it required client modifications. > Ned, if I understand your remarks correctly, you are claiming that > the sche

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

2005-03-14 Thread ned . freed
>> if we could get rid of wireless and powerpoint, we'd be much better >> off. > > Personal opinion: disagree. Wireless is immensely useful to grab a > document, check something on another SDO's web site, and - yes - for > instant messaging (e.g. "we need you in here right now"). And some > people

Re: Last Call: 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures' to BCP

2005-03-29 Thread ned . freed
> On Tue March 15 2005 16:25, The IESG wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the > > following document: > > > > - 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures ' > > as a BCP > > > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks,

Re: Last Call: 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures' to BCP

2005-03-31 Thread ned . freed
> On Tue March 29 2005 14:03, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > [I wrote] > > > Section 4.2.1 might benefit from a clarification of "text" as > > > communication in a natural language intended primarily for human > > > consumption (perhaps something like the description in BCP 18). > > > > Perhaps, but t

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-05 Thread ned . freed
> On Tue April 5 2005 15:30, Alex Rousskov wrote: > > On Wed, 2005/03/02 (MST), <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > I've suggested (via Reply-To) discussion on the IETF list. > > > > Bruce, > > > > Thanks a lot for reviewing and commenting on the draft! > > > > I am preparing a revision to add

Re: Last Call: 'Requirements for IETF Draft Submission Toolset' to Informational RFC

2005-04-09 Thread ned . freed
> On 4/7/2005 10:36, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: > > Regardless of the interesting side-discussion about 'voting', > > what the toy shows after about a day is: > > > > prefer nroff: 8 > > prefer xml: 37 > > neither: 9 > I wonder how many of those have actually written a draft using bo

Re: Last Call: 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures' to BCP

2005-04-12 Thread ned . freed
On 15 Mar 2005, at 21:25, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to > consider the following document: > > - 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures ' > as a BCP > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits > fi

RE: Last Call: 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures' to BCP

2005-04-12 Thread ned . freed
> > -Original Message- > > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On > > Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 12, 2005 12:57 PM > > To: Colin Perkins > > Cc: iesg@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org > > Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Media Type Specifications and > > Registration P

Re: Last Call: 'Media Type Specifications and Registration Procedures' to BCP

2005-04-12 Thread ned . freed
> Date:Tue, 12 Apr 2005 21:20:28 +0100 > From:Colin Perkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > | RFC 3555 allows media types to be defined for transport only via RTP. > | The majority of these registrations are under the audio and video > | t

Re: Moving forward on IETF problems

2005-05-04 Thread ned . freed
Bruce Lilly wrote: (Interesting thoughts read and deleted) ... > One problem is that the IESG routinely sabotages development along That is, I think, an inappropriate choice of word. > the Standards Track by disbanding WGs as soon as a PS is produced, > leaving nobody to do the work necessary fo

Re: Moving forward on IETF problems

2005-05-09 Thread ned . freed
> Brian, and others, > I do have experience of WGs that care about DS. So do I. But this has not been the norm in my experience. Ned ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Uneccesary slowness.

2005-05-18 Thread ned . freed
> This is a very good example of the approach that many folks have taken, in > thinking about these problems. It is really pretty amazing, given the nature > and history of this community. It is not immodest to assert that we are a > community of relatively self-actualized participants, with a co

Re: New root cause problems?

2005-05-25 Thread Ned Freed
In addition to choosing the right way to look at the distribution of total action times, I strongly recommend breaking down the transactions into component parts and looking at the details. The exchange I had with Sam Hartman was a good example. On 5/23. Sam wrote: > I'd think two months woul

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-08 Thread Ned Freed
On Fri, 3 Jun 2005, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider the > following document: > > - 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks ' >as a BCP This seems a good document, but could probably still use a bit of polishing. I think yo

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-08 Thread Ned Freed
> > Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP > > Date: 2005-06-08 10:50 > > From: Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > .. RFC2119, when used, must be a normative reference.  Likewise, > > > you'll need to ad

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-08 Thread Ned Freed
On Wed, 8 Jun 2005, Ned Freed wrote: >> A practical issue I have with this doc is that the recommendations are >> relatively few, and most of them are rather generic or vague. >> Haven't we learned more on email BCPs by now? > > What we have learned and what we are a

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-09 Thread Ned Freed
> From where I sat, the problem was trying to ensure that a WG thought > about an issue. Neither mandatory material nor checkoff boxes > accomplish that, but I think the former is often more useful because > material in an I-D is visible to the entire WG. I disagree completely and think you have

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-10 Thread Ned Freed
> Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Like it or not, careful reviews and review checklists, while quited > > flawed in their own right, are the best tool we have. When I was on > > the IESG I had my own private review checklist; it was the only > > thin

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-10 Thread Ned Freed
On Fri, 10 Jun 2005, Ned Freed wrote: >> What exactly is it that you >> think should be done (in addition to careful reviews) that would help >> reduce the odds that the careful review find issues with the IANA >> instructions (or lack thereof)? > > Simple:

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-13 Thread Ned Freed
> It is the requirement that Internet Drafts always contain IANA > considerations sections that has to go. Ned, you have not produced any argument for this position, and since the absence of such a section does not imply the absence of IANA considerations, your logic continues to escape me. R

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-13 Thread Ned Freed
Dave, >Here's my own take: > >It is empty bureaucracy. It is form, without content. It is additional >effort, with no benefit. > >It is reasonable and necessary to require that documents contain >important considerations. This is not accomplished by having pro forma >sections lacking content

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-15 Thread Ned Freed
> I don't see that sort of probing on our MXs, except on rare occasions, and > we haven't seen it recently. FWIW, my logs on mrochek.com (my home domain) show around 35,000 relay attempts during the past 6 months. This number is almost certainly much too low, in that I have various other blocks in

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP

2005-06-16 Thread Ned Freed
> Keith, > > it's possible to have open relays that don't contribute to spam. but > > those relays need to employ some other means, e.g. rate limiting, to > Rate limiting is a relatively recent technique. Though very useful it has... > ummm, limited applicability. Actually, in my neck of the

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-23 Thread Ned Freed
> Ned> Unfortunately so is the presence of an empty IANA > Ned> considerations section - you cannot tell the difference > Ned> between such a section that was arrived as as a result of > Ned> careful review of the draft and one that was simply created > Ned> as a form of boilerp

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-23 Thread Ned Freed
> > And this requirement is quite new. It would be unprecedented if it hadn't > > triggered some level of initial review in these very early days. But wait > > a couple of years for the new to wear off and people being people will > > start to handle it as more boilerplate. > For anyone who w

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-06-23 Thread Ned Freed
> > Date: 2005-06-23 12:45 > > From: Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Which in turn works because there are always security considerations - the > > closest thing to valid empty security considerations section  we have is one > > that says "this enti

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-27 Thread Ned Freed
> To state that somewhat differently, since we cannot effectively > prohibit the deployment of an extension or option of which the > IETF disapproves, the best things we can do for the Internet are > make it as easy as possible to identify the use of the extension > so it can be effectively quarant

Re: draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy (Re: S stands for Steering)

2005-07-02 Thread Ned Freed
Perhaps things have settled down sufficiently for me to express an opinion... I am not an IANA weenie. But I think registries should register things. We have a decent amount of running code (for example, http://www1.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg35953.html) that says our attempts

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-05 Thread Ned Freed
> Can anyone suggest where I could find the requirement for IANA > Considerations? There is no requirement that such sections appear in published RFCs. This debate has never been about what's required in RFCs, but rather what's required in drafts submitted to the IESG. > I found it on the website

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
On Jul 6, 2005, at 8:15 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > RFC 2434 doesn't discuss null IANA sections at all. RFC2434bis does > discuss them, and we will need to form consensus about whether the RFC > Editor is required to retain them, as we discuss RFC2434bis. Which we > need to do fairly soon. I

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:20 AM, Ned Freed wrote: > This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA > considerations section has now become part of the boilerplate in at > least one I-D template. (Actually make that two - I put in in my own > equivalent template some time bac

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
> > This opens the door to the author forgetting to check and the various > > reviewers assuming the prsence of the sections means a check was done. > The goal of putting it in the template is to encourage it be addressed, > rather than forgotten altogether. I am well aware of what the goal is, a

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
> *> harmful, and that the best way to insure coverage of IANA issues is to > have an > *> explicit check for such things as part of our review process. > *> > As I expect you know, the IANA checks all documents at Last Call time, > and the RFC Editor checks them before publication, for mis

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
> > Date: 2005-07-06 16:16 > > From: Joe Touch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > Ned Freed wrote: > > > This is exactly what I predicted would happen - the IANA considerations > > > section > > > has now become part of the boilerplate in at least on

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Ned Freed
> That said, I think we should be paying careful attention to > Bruce's implied suggestion about how template > boilerplate-generators should be constructed. In terms of the > checking process Ned asks for (and which I still believe is the > right solution) there is a world of difference between

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-07 Thread Ned Freed
> > > I suppose. That said, if IANA considerations was *not* built into the > > > boilerplate, it would have a high likelihood of being omitted. > > > > Which would then be noted on checklist review, causing a fairly careful > > check > > to be made to see if there really aren't any considerations

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-07 Thread Ned Freed
> On Thu July 7 2005 15:32, Ned Freed wrote: > > I have never suggested that the requirment for an IANA considerations > > section > > in documents that contain IANA considerations be dropped. > The specific requirement is for the presence of a section in an I-D > p

Re: Port numbers and IPv6 (was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy-00.txt)

2005-07-14 Thread Ned Freed
> > I was surprised that TCP-over-IPv6 and UDP-over-IPv6 didn't increase > > the port number space. I know it's off-topic here, but anyone know why > > they didn't? It surely must have been considered. > It would not make much sense, between 2 hosts you can already have > 65536*65536 possible conn

Re: Port numbers and IPv6 (was: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy-00.txt)

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
On 15-jul-2005, at 3:25, Ned Freed wrote: >> It would not make much sense, between 2 hosts you can already have >> 65536*65536 possible connections*, which should be more than >> enough(tm) ;) I wonder if there are any hosts actually using more >> than >> 6553

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
Ned Freed wrote: Mind you, I'm not saying that TCP needs to be redesigned ASAP to allow > for a > larger number of source ports. IMO the pain would probably outweigh the > gain. > But that doesn't mean nobody is hitting the 65536 limit imposed by > source port >

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
On 15-jul-2005, at 18:11, Ned Freed wrote: > The specific case I've seen is with IMAP4. IMAP4 has the > characteristic that you often have a huge number of incoming > connections, only > a few of which are active at any given time. I know what you mean, I've seen my Ma

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
On 15-jul-2005, at 19:14, Ned Freed wrote: >> If they are, they're probably using some kind of proxy or NAT setup, >> for instance, having SSL sessions decrypted and then forwarded to the >> actual server port, making all the sessions seem to come from the >> sa

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
> > From: Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Let me make sure I understand you here: > > IMAP4 has the characteristic that you often have a huge number of > > incoming connections, only a few of which are active at any given time. > > Designing serv

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
> > From: Ned Freed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> You're saying that there are servers which have close to (or more) > >> than 65K connections to a *single client IP address* (i.e. it may be a > >> NAT, with a number of hosts behind it)? &

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Ned Freed
> On Fri, Jul 15, 2005 at 09:58:29AM -0700, Ned Freed wrote: > > >Out of curiosity, doesn't SCTP have a bigger port space (or its > > >moral equivalent)? If so, would that be a better option? > > > > I have in fact on several occasions proposed using SCT

Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-18 Thread Ned Freed
--On torsdag, juli 14, 2005 21:33:05 -0400 Sandy Wills <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Directed towards the IESG: > Recording meetings, and publishing those recordings, may be a hassle, > but it answers all questions about the integrity of the decision-making > process. There may still be

Re: what is a threat analysis?

2005-08-11 Thread Ned Freed
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Michael, you've had some quite concrete responses which I hope > have clarified things, but I really want to say that making > Internet protocols secure isn't a hoop jumping exercise; it's > more like a survival requirement, and has been for ten years > at least. Wher

Re: what is a threat analysis?

2005-08-11 Thread Ned Freed
Your view of requirements for IETF process do not match mine and your assessment of the current situation with the DKIM effort does not match mine. They match mine pretty well, however. In fact I do not know what specific behaviors, and by whom, you are complaining about. Actually, I think M

Re: what is a threat analysis?

2005-08-11 Thread Ned Freed
I thought that what Russ asked for was not a threat analysis for DKIM, but a threat analysis for Internet e-mail, the system that DKIM proposes to protect. The idea is that only if we start with a characterization of how and why we believe adversaries attack e-mail, can we evaluate whether any pro

Re: Why have we gotten away from running code?

2005-08-11 Thread Ned Freed
I think that's right. However, what may well be missing in the mix is input from people who actually deploy and operate our stuff, and live with its limitations and quirks every day. We need to understand the indirect consequences of our choices: not "can it be coded and will it interoperate?" but

Re: what is a threat analysis?

2005-08-16 Thread Ned Freed
Ned Freed wrote: >> Brian E Carpenter wrote: >> > Michael, you've had some quite concrete responses which I hope >> > have clarified things, but I really want to say that making >> > Internet protocols secure isn't a hoop jumping exercise; it's >

Re: what is a threat analysis?

2005-08-16 Thread Ned Freed
> All the more reason for those in charge to be quite specific about what > it is they're after, which still hasn't happened. All we get is more fixation > on the words Mike happened to use in one message rather than responding to his > issue with the lack of clarity in what's being asked for.

Re: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflict with referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-08-25 Thread Ned Freed
> On Thu, 2005-08-25 at 13:14, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > > are you of the opinion that the IESG should try to police which experiments > > get run on the Internet by refusing to publish RFCs documenting > > possibly-conflicting experments? > It depends on the form of the conflict. > I beli

Re: Last Call: 'Tags for Identifying Languages' to BCP

2005-08-29 Thread Ned Freed
> > From: Bruce Lilly <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > This > > > is all what this proposition is about. This proposition is to give > > > _one_shot_ in a _standardised_ way the language, the script and the > > > country. > > > > This was discussed during Last Call of the previous non-IETF > (individual

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) ' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-30 Thread Ned Freed
On 10-aug-2005, at 20:47, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from the DNS Extensions WG to > consider the > following document: > - 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) ' > as a Proposed Standard > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and sol

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) ' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Ned Freed
> On 8/30/2005 2:18 PM, Stuart Cheshire wrote: > > Well, in case 1 (mDNS), no, because it won't return a useful result, so > > why keep doing it? > > > > In case 3 (conventional DNS), no, because it won't return a useful > > result, so why keep doing it? > > > > In case 2 (LLMNR) the answer is ye

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) ' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Ned Freed
At 2:47 PM +0200 8/31/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >That is about 1/3 of the total. It doesn't surprise me at all that >so many bogus queries arrive - everybody who mistypes a TLD or >misconfigures a default domain generates bogus queries, and this isn't >going to change. The question is whether .

Re: Last Call: 'Linklocal Multicast Name Resolution (LLMNR) ' to Proposed Standard

2005-08-31 Thread Ned Freed
> On 8/31/2005 12:36 PM, Ned Freed wrote: > > Section 2 states: > that's unfortunate > LLMNR clients need to make a distinction between the different kinds of > networks and then process the names accordingly. Agreed. And there are various ways to accomplish this. >

Re: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it

2005-09-13 Thread Ned Freed
On Tuesday, September 13, 2005 05:06:40 PM -0400 Sam Hartman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> "Juergen" == Juergen Schoenwaelder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> writes: > > Juergen> Sam, > > Juergen> this is not about blocking port 22 as far as I understand > Juergen> things. I think

Re: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it

2005-09-14 Thread Ned Freed
Ned Freed wrote: > If I were to object to Eliot's proposal (I don't - in fact I strongly > support > it), it would be on the grounds that the IETF should be taking a long > hard look > at the issues surrounding call home in general, not just in the special > case o

Re: Summary of the LLMNR Last Call

2005-09-20 Thread Ned Freed
> Bernard Aboba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > b. Confusion between security issues and namespace separation. In > > peer-to-peer name resolution protocols, it is possible for a responder > > to demonstrate ownership of a name, via mechanisms such as DNSSEC. It > > is also possible for a respon

Re: Correct middlebox behavior

2005-09-28 Thread Ned Freed
> Friends, > 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 middlebox behavior to be used to guide those outside o

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-29 Thread Ned Freed
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Brian E Carpenter writes: > >Eduardo Mendez wrote: > > > >> What IETF discuss may hurt thir people, peace, culture. > > > But I am sure IETF Member do not realize this? > > > If they were told they would understand. > > > >What people do with technology may have g

Re: from the horse's mouth

2005-10-29 Thread Ned Freed
On 29 okt 2005, at 15.40, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: >> >> Amorality among scientists, engineers, and technologists has >> gotten the >> world into a lot of trouble. I prefer to think about the >> consequences >> of what I do. >> > > I think we all do, and I think it's one of the reasons

Re: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-25 Thread Ned Freed
> Dave, > > It is pretty much never a good idea to have the mechanics of a process > > contain artificial constraints, as a means of implementing higher-level > > policies. > > > > If a working group is worried about documents getting read, they will > > impose their own deadlines or they will con

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2005-12-23 Thread Ned Freed
> The IETF mandates the use of UTF-8 for text [RFC2277] as part of > internationalisation. When writing an RFC, this raises a number of issues. > A) Character set. UTF-8 implicitly specifies the use of Unicode/IS10646 which > contains 97,000 - and rising - characters. Some (proposed) standards

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2005-12-24 Thread Ned Freed
> From: "Ned Freed" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "TomPetch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Cc: "ietf" > Sent: Friday, December 23, 2005 7:13 PM > Subject: Re: Troubles with UTF-8 > > > > (Unicode > > > lacks a no-op, a meaningles

Re: Troubles with UTF-8

2005-12-26 Thread Ned Freed
> Ned Freed wrote: > >> (Unicode lacks a no-op, a meaningless octet, one that could > >> be added or removed without causing any change to the > >> meaning of the text). > > NBSP is used for this purpose. > My proposal u+FFFE was nonsense, I wanted u+

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-02 Thread Ned Freed
> Lets go ahead and ask then - > Does anyone else think that IETF should allow documents which > format/structure is not publicly known as one of the ways to > distribute IETF specifications? For the record, my answer is "absolutely not". > And why do all the other SDOs get along with non-

Re: Question about the Neustar logo on www.ietf.org

2006-01-02 Thread Ned Freed
> > > They seem to have it in place of the word "Neustar" CNRI > > > used to have their name there, and no logo. CNRI's had its > > > name there at least since 1996, so it's kind of traditional > > > to name the operator. > > It's traditional, and I think fair. I'll ask the IAD to see if > >

Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail (dkim)

2006-01-03 Thread Ned Freed
> >Here is the revised proposed charter text: > Thanks for pulling this together. > If I had unlimited time to waste, I might niggle about a word or two, > but it's fine as is, and I look forward to moving ahead and getting > some work done. Complete ageement here. This is plenty good enough to

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-03 Thread Ned Freed
> > Second, your assumption that other SDOs have been able to blissfully make > > use > > of private formats like MS Word without incident is simply untrue. One > > obvious > > counterexample I know of is the CCITT/ITU, which has in the past used MS > > Word > > as a distribution format for many

Re: Normative figures

2006-01-09 Thread Ned Freed
> In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott W Brim writes: > >On 01/09/2006 10:41 AM, Sam Hartman allegedly wrote: > >> Are you looking for normative figures? If so, can you point to an > >> example where you think they are necessary? (I'd like to avoid a > >> discussion of packet diagrams for the mo

Re: objection to proposed change to "consensus"

2006-01-09 Thread Ned Freed
> > I disagree that the use of diagrams is a religious issue. Diagrams > > are a very simple way to put specification and context together > > in a compact notation such that it is easy to move from key > > point to key point in a non-linear way. They provide visual > > hyperlinking. > Stewart, >

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