Re: "Reciprocation of SMTP Trace Record", draft-harrison-email-tracking-00.txt

2005-02-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
ght before them. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: anti-climatic odometer sighting

2005-02-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 10:16 PM -0800 2/15/05, Wes Hardaker wrote: So if you want to look for something new in the 4000+ range, look at 4001 as being special. It's not really a secret, so I'll spoil the ending: it's a MIB. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _

Re: WG management

2005-06-16 Thread Paul Hoffman
willing to take the lead, that is valuable information about the work being done. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Protocol Action: 'Pre-Shared Key Ciphersuites for Transport Layer Security (TLS)' to Proposed Standard

2005-06-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
list, will not help increase the security of the Internet. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-06 Thread Paul Hoffman
tion should not be null. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IANA Considerations

2005-07-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:15 PM +0200 7/11/05, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Paul Hoffman wrote: At 5:15 PM +0200 7/6/05, 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

Re: Multiple roots & E2E PKI trust discovery, chain management & capabilities exchange

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Hoffman
users, I would say it would be "bad" to introduce it now. A similar model would be fine in other contexts, but not the DNS or the IP address space. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-narten-iana-considerations-rfc2434bis-02.txt

2005-07-22 Thread Paul Hoffman
them; that way, we can judge what they are judging. If it was a pointer to an Internet Draft, great; a pointer to some other document(s) works just as well. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1

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

2005-08-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
;the Public-Root is not an alternative root but a solution" seems dishonest when one reads the material at the site describing the service. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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

2005-08-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
ou prevent mDNS, the main proponent of the .local namespace, from becoming a standard, the number of those names will remain low. If it becomes a standard and implementers use that namespace more, the load will of course increase. --Paul Hoffman, Director -

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

2005-09-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
raffic that is moved daily over it. --Paul Hoffman, who shares a lot of legal music and OSs with BitTorrent ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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

2005-09-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
IETF. Sure seems like it to me. Should we be concerned? Nope. Might there be film at 11 at some point because of it? Yes, if one that has bad congestion control becomes popular. But, given the mindshare of BitTorrent these past few years, that seems pretty unlikely. --Paul

Re: UN

2005-09-29 Thread Paul Hoffman
root, not a real root, so it seems that you knowing what real root operators would do is particularly unlikely. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: a new DNS root for the world?

2005-10-03 Thread Paul Hoffman
e proviso that this TLD must not be resolved, except locally ? Absolutely not. There are already literally dozens (if not hundreds) of such local tlds, some of which have the same names for different purposes. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___

RE: WG Action: Conclusion of Credential and Provisioning (enroll)

2005-10-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
inside and outside the IETF, that matches the definitions that some WG participants thought were the ones we should be using.") --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Audio streaming and slides suggestion

2005-11-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
ourse, the ability to listen has also been very helpful as well. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Audio streaming and slides suggestion

2005-11-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
#x27;t read RFC 2119. Often, what they really want is "MAY (and it is a very good idea)" but they feel like making it MORE IMPORTANT anyway. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

ASCII art (was: lots of other threads)

2005-11-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
andable". The same would be true for documents where there is explanatory text and { ABNF | C code | Perl code | ASN.1 | ... }. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: ASCII art

2005-11-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
do just fine with ASCII art. We have non-standards documents, which we want the outside world to read, that look silly with the current formatting restrictions. We live with projecting that visual clumsiness, as geeks often do. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium

RE: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
tting Internet Drafts. It is acceptable to turn in unpaginated plain text, and the number of columns is only required for ASCII art if you want your Internet Draft to be eventually published as an RFC. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf ma

RE: XML2RFC submission (was Re: ASCII art)

2005-11-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 3:58 AM -0500 11/26/05, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, November 25, 2005 10:45 AM -0800 Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 9:13 PM -0800 11/24/05, Christian Huitema wrote: An interesting part of the current text format is that it is defined in a very simple way: so many

Re: DHCID and the use of MD5

2005-11-29 Thread Paul Hoffman
of privacy is needed. It is also arbitrary until someone can say how much strength each algorithm gives the protocol, and that has yet to be stated. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
d not assume that every person reading the document could display it. They would put a legend or explanation near the example. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-11-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 5:59 PM -0800 11/30/05, Douglas Otis wrote: On Nov 30, 2005, at 2:23 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 1:54 PM -0800 11/30/05, Douglas Otis wrote: Rather than opening RFCs to text utilizing any character-set anywhere, as this draft suggests, That is not what the RFC suggests at all. The

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-01 Thread Paul Hoffman
entities in examples are supposed to be the escaped or unescaped versions. UTF-8 use would require additional considerations regarding searching however. Please list those; they would be valuable for the Internet Draft. --Paul Hoffman, Direc

Re: I-D file formats and internationalization

2005-12-04 Thread Paul Hoffman
or our grandchildren. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

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

2005-12-20 Thread Paul Hoffman
nts. It is fortunate that the Atompub WG didn't have language like this in our charter, because we made many improvements from the widely-deployed, pre-IETF Atom 0.3 spec. Having such language would have made it harder to get them in the final spec, and therefore would have degraded th

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

2006-01-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:25 PM +0200 1/2/06, John Loughney wrote: Just out of curiosity, when browsing www.ietf.org, I noticed that the Neustar logo on www.ietf.org is larger than the ISOC logo. Any particular reason why? It just kind of jumps out at you Eeeew. Fully agree. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN

Re: Normative figures

2006-01-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
Why are we talking about the input formats and not the output formats? Are people suggesting that we allow LaTeX and so on as *output* formats and appear in Internet Drafts and RFCs? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list

RE: Alternative formats for IDs

2006-01-10 Thread Paul Hoffman
the design-by-entire-IETF-mailing-list work factor. Instead, a bit of human interaction is much less expensive. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Wireless at IETF

2006-01-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
of time and include it in the registration packet. The cost of a ream of paper is small relative to the lost productivity this causes. Heck, maybe even put it on the IETF web site ahead of time. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf

Re: FW: I-D ACTION:draft-palet-ietf-meeting-venue-selection-criteria-04.txt

2006-01-19 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 2:28 PM -0500 1/19/06, Richard Shockey wrote: It's a classic example of the current IETF fashion for process over substance. Fully agree. What is the justification for this becoming an RFC? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___

Re: amsl.com certificate?

2008-02-20 Thread Paul Hoffman
guration issue with your particular copy of Safari. I can go to the registration page just fine on "the latest version of Safari" without hitting any dialog boxes. Safari tells me that the cert is valid. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _

RE: Last Call: draft-ietf-smime-sha2 (Using SHA2 Algorithms withCryptographic Message Syntax) to Proposed Standard

2008-03-01 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 4:06 PM -0500 2/29/08, Turner, Sean P. wrote: > >In addition, it is not acceptable to reference in the >>*normative* references "work in progess", i.e.[ECCADD]. > >I'm pretty sure this is done all the time. There are 17 IDs in the RFC >editor queue with works-in-progress in normative references

Re: Last Call: draft-ietf-smime-sha2 (Using SHA2 AlgorithmswithCryptographic Message Syntax) to Proposed Standard

2008-03-04 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 3:06 PM +0100 3/3/08, Denis Pinkas wrote: > >> >While I welcome this draft, everybody should take into consideration that, if the SHA2 family happens to be broken then we will be at risk. This should be mentioned into the security considerations section. >>> >>>If an algorithm is c

Re: Impending publication: draft-iab-dns-choices-05

2008-03-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
ave implemented and deployed it, and they can certainly talk about deploying the DKIM TXT records and limitations that they encountered (if any). --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mail

Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
d text has been part of the documents, we could easily explain >how and why that license doesn't meet a needed criteria. So could an email to him and the rest of the Trust. Note the difference. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 7:30 PM +0200 3/30/08, Simon Josefsson wrote: >Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > These are interesting points, but maybe not interesting in the way >> you intended. If some large group (in this example, the Debian folks) >> want to have some restrict

Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
s about what errors would cause problems of what magnitude. In the end, it is probably better for readers of the errata to have just one category, and for the IESG to not waste its time differentiating between the two categories. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _

Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
ze something important into the second list. I guess I'm arguing for less work for all of us at the expense of a bit more categorizing of importance for the implementers. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Proposed IESG Statement Regarding RFC Errata for IETF Sream RFCs

2008-04-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
orial nits and only a dozen significant errata, a developer reading the whole list would not spend more than an hour or two separating the wheat from the chaff. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
le *not* to put the ISSN designation in their Internet Drafts (which are not part of the RFC series), but then switch it on for the RFC, and so on. The cost of putting "ISSN: 12345678" on a few pages at rfc-editor.org and ietf.org is tiny and hopefully sufficient for t

Re: Guidelines for authors and reviewers

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 5:03 PM -0400 5/30/08, Suresh Krishnan wrote: >I'm not sure if > > that needs a separate "review netiquette RFC", IMO it should be >> a part of the "Tao", or the next Tao if it is not already clear. > >Paul Hoffman is working on the TAObis.

Re: Guidelines for authors and reviewers

2008-05-30 Thread Paul Hoffman
this; I did; it was fine" reviews. Group communication, in both directions for a review, helps everyone. It also helps prevent a WG hearing that "I changed this thing we had all agreed to because I was told to by { a security person | an IAB member | an ex-AD | .

Re: RFC Errata proposals -- a missing piece

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
what has changed in an RFC has to read the errata list *and* look at some view of the the RFC database to determine if the RFC has been updated, obsoleted, made historic, and so on. Having that notation in the errata list will help more readers, and hurt no one. --

Re: RFC Errata proposals -- a missing piece

2008-06-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
he RFC metadata referred to above could be updated at the time a new RFC is approved in its stream, not at the time the RFC itself is published. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Qualitative Analysis of IETF and IESG trends

2008-06-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
aobis is still definitely an open document. (For IETF newcomers reading this thread: the latest version of the Tao can be found at <http://www.ietf.org/tao.html>.) --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes?

2008-07-01 Thread Paul Hoffman
. I was approached by one such fine, upstanding citizen who asked which names "currently reserved by the IETF" would be most valuable for a search page. This does not mean that ICANN won't listen to the IETF; it means that there will be voices more familiar to ICANN saying thin

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
ld be easy to just add privacy to that protocol"; they should scoff at us for making wild guesses about values in a huge, unregulated business that is less than ten years old. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
being "too cautious". They have money behind them, and we have our reputation. ICANN gets to weigh those two against each other. This is somewhat parallel to the political process in most capitalist democracies. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _

Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

2008-07-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
ever-so-popular "biz" TLD. "tld" seems like an excellent suggestion. Not much like any current TLDs; it's well-known in the field of use; it is unlikely that there is much commercial value to it; it's nearly impossible to pronounce without spelling out the acr

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 2:33 PM -0700 7/17/08, IETF Chair wrote: The IESG is considering an experiment for IETF 73 in Minneapolis, and we would like community comments before we proceed. Maybe this could be delayed until the spring meeting in San Francisco. Many people who will bring their families to Minneapolis

Re: About IETF communication skills

2008-07-31 Thread Paul Hoffman
. The very small pile that remains, including interviews with our leadership about where they think the IETF is going and in-depth articles comparing multiple contenders being considered in IETF areas, are mostly written by Carolyn Duffy Marsan. --Paul Hoffman,

Re: Call for review of proposed update to ID-Checklist

2008-08-10 Thread Paul Hoffman
An additional check should be added to the list: all URLs that are meant to be able to be resolved must actually resolve at the time of submission. For example, the first URL in the ID-Checklist document does not resolve... --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium

Re: Last Call for Comments on " Legal Provisions Related to IETF Documents"

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Hoffman
nd doesn't give attribution. Is the IETF Trust really going to sue them over the lack of attribution? If not, why even have that addition to the BSD license? Like in our technical protocols, simplicity is good here. --Paul Hoffman, Director -

Re: Last Call for Comments on " Legal Provisions Related to IETF Documents"

2008-08-12 Thread Paul Hoffman
on of the source of the code in the code itself, such as "This code was derived from IETF RFC ". --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
r own amendment summarizing the dispute. These are fairly easy to follow and give latitude to the moderator. Concerns about censorship or incompetence on the part of the moderator are dealt with fairly easily: the aggrieved party can send mail to the IETF mailing list. Thoughts? --Paul Hoffman, Dir

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
rking on a list, perhaps to report back to the RFC Editor well before the end of March :-(. In addition, having a volunteer make those decisions could easily lead to claims of conflict of interest and we don't want to go there. That works for me just as well as a NomCom appointee. --Pa

RE: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
endering plant" is also valid. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-15 Thread Paul Hoffman
e to me, compared to inventing a new process that effectively have the same properties. I did not mean my proposal to be a new process, just a delta from the current process that is mostly working. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailin

Simpler than draft-rfc-image-files-00.txt

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
s no changes from the current format for Internet Drafts or RFCs. It does require that the RFC Editor add some tools and maintain URLs in a consistent manner, but that is what they are paid to do. It also avoids the problems that have been listed so far. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium

Re: Simpler than draft-rfc-image-files-00.txt

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
I agree with John, and strongly disagree with Yakov, that agreeing on a format for text with embedded graphics for the RFC series is still impossible. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Simpler than draft-rfc-image-files-00.txt

2008-08-25 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 3:01 AM +0200 8/26/08, Frank Ellermann wrote: >Paul Hoffman wrote: > >>> It has to be tuned for the "or more" part of "one or more". > >> I can't fully parse your meaning, but I think I disagree. > >Yes, I also think we disagree. I pref

Re: Publishing RFCs in PDF Formal

2008-08-27 Thread Paul Hoffman
gs that are difficult to render in ASCII. It sure it. It just turns out to be a terrible format for extracting text as anything other than lines, and even then doesn't work reliably with commonly-used tools --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium __

Re: Gen-ART Review of draft-ietf-forces-mib-07

2008-09-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
;. Because tools.ietf.org makes reading Internet Draft diffs so easy, there is really no good reason to not have the input to the RFC Editor be a known-clean document. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Gen-ART Review of draft-ietf-forces-mib-07

2008-09-03 Thread Paul Hoffman
e "authors are too slow to post a new draft" state are WG items, a two-line note from the AD to the WG upbraiding the authors for not turning in the new draft should get a quick result. Better still, the original note that was asking for a new draft with minor edits can be Cc'

Re: On being public (Was: Call for Nominees)

2008-09-13 Thread Paul Hoffman
t have done otherwise. It is not clear to me that there is much value to the above kind of public statement for IAB members, but it would probably also be find for the IAOC slot. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: FW: IETF copying conditions

2008-09-17 Thread Paul Hoffman
*incompatible* versions of their protocols? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: I-D Action:draft-rfc-image-files-01.txt

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/mail11.html> In particular, please see my comment at <http://www.ietf.org/mail-archive/web/ietf/current/msg53066.html>, in which I make a counter-proposal that makes no changes to the current Internet Draft format and gives more flexibility in the

Fwd: I-D ACTION:draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs-02.txt

2008-09-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
Given the recent discussion of changes that might be made to the RFC format, this seems to be relevant again. The need certainly continues to grow. The discussion of this should probably be on the [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list instead of [EMAIL PROTECTED] --Paul Hoffman A New Internet

Re: draft-hoffman-utf8-rfcs-03.txt

2008-10-06 Thread Paul Hoffman
there. I will put a note to that effect in the -04 version. If the document moves to IETF Last Call, it will certainly get discussed here. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [TLS] Fwd: Last Call: draft-rescorla-tls-suiteb (Suite B Cipher Suites for TLS) to Informational RFC

2008-10-23 Thread Paul Hoffman
ing of the section it applies to. 3) Other Not really a nit: the document consists of two profiles, but the Abstract says "a profile". --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Hoffman
ding a new value, they can write an RFC for it and create the registry at that time. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last Call: draft-hoffman-dac-vbr (Vouch By Reference) to Proposed Standard

2008-11-07 Thread Paul Hoffman
ther here. I read SM's message >as adding VBR-Info: to the list of known mail header lines here: > >http://www.iana.org/assignments/message-headers/perm-headers.html > That's right, I misread SM's message. We'll include this in the next draft. Oh, and also fix t

Re: Last Call: draft-irtf-asrg-dnsbl (DNS Blacklists and Whitelists)

2008-11-08 Thread Paul Hoffman
am an erroneous target). The text seems to be all about bits-on-the-wire interoperability that affects large and small ISPs. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: How I deal with (false positive) IP-address blacklists...

2008-12-09 Thread Paul Hoffman
ur message would not have been blocked. What are you advocating here? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: How I deal with (false positive) IP-address blacklists...

2008-12-10 Thread Paul Hoffman
ssumption. Who do you think are making those assumptions? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Time for a sign-up campaign [Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary]

2008-12-12 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 8:56 AM +1300 12/13/08, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >I'm disappointed at how few people have signed up. +1. The Trust even had cookies in the room when I signed my old form. New form is on the way to them. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Co

Re: RFC 5378 "contributions"

2009-01-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
ng to sound like to me. > >IANAL, but it seems to me that we should proceed on the assumption >that this would fall under fair use provisions. Anything else >would seem unreasonable to me. IANAL, and I'm only following about 10% of this thread, but the phrase "fair use" do

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments on revised proposed legend text to work-around the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-23 Thread Paul Hoffman
me? If so, that wording seems fine. If not, document authors will need pretty detailed guidance about when *not* to put this boilerplate in a document. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments on ...

2009-01-24 Thread Paul Hoffman
l prevent them from suing the IETF and incurring great costs in time and money. A very very careful boilerplate *might* cause them to be less likely to win damages, but balancing that against the time and effort we put into the boilerplate is literally impossible to do. --Paul Hoffman, Director --

Re: ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your comments on ...

2009-01-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:10 PM -0500 1/26/09, Sam Hartman wrote: >I think having an opt-in list of people who have agreed to IETF IPR >policy would be better. That list could be pre-populated with email addresses from all current IETF lists to which the "note well" has been sent. --Paul Hoffman

Re: LC announcements -- lessons to be learned?

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
org/public/pidtracker.cgi?... > >by simply: > >| The draft and related information (including IESG discussion) can be >| obtained via: >| http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-xxx-yyy-zzz-nn > +1 --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _

Re: FSF's comment on draft-housley-tls-authz-extns

2009-02-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
t >about this issue to the free software community may be causing >inconvenience, but causing inconvenience was not the point of that >call. Welcome to the world of calls for action having unintended negative consequences. The IETF has our own history with that... --Paul Hoffman, Di

Re: Document Action: 'US Secure Hash Algorithms (SHA and HMAC-SHA)' to Informational RFC

2006-02-07 Thread Paul Hoffman
that are going to be widely referenced, if for no other reason than to alert the authors of the documents that will reference them that they have an opportunity for open discussion. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-04-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
mentation is correct in this area is not a good idea, at least from the hands-on experience in our lab. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF lists as RSS?

2006-04-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
Many IETF lists are archived at gmane.org, which does feeds for most or all of the lists it collects. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: The Emperor Has No Clothes: Is PANA actually useful?

2006-05-26 Thread Paul Hoffman
lt;https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/nea>. The post-Dallas discussions have been quite fruitful, and the discussion this week particularly so. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.

Re: netwrk stuff

2006-07-13 Thread Paul Hoffman
rs or customers. Moving PS -> H seems reasonable, but is the effort of defining and, more important, implementing PS -> S worth the benefit of having some things have a special status? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf maili

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
l and certainly useful to the IETF community, but maybe we shouldn't be mandating a protocol we haven't even started to standardize. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 11:53 PM +0200 7/18/06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Hi Paul, on 2006-07-18 22:31 Paul Hoffman said the following: At 8:27 PM +0200 7/18/06, Henrik Levkowetz wrote: Should we require that the current availability through rsync and ftp is continued? Maybe I'm being a bit pedantic here

Re: RFC Editor RFP Review Request

2006-07-18 Thread Paul Hoffman
ion of rsync greater than X.Y.Z', or some such. The current debian stable version (2.6.4-6) would work for me. Saying "rsync version 2.6 or later" works for me, as long as we understand the "can't eat our own dogfood" aspect of this requirement. --Paul Hoffman, Dir

Re: netwrk stuff

2006-07-21 Thread Paul Hoffman
not they should implement various standards, both in the positive sense ("is it worth paying an OEM to include this?") and in the negative sense ("will we look silly if we include this, even though it is in the standard?"). --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium

Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys Identified Mail (DKIM) Signatures' to Proposed Standard (draft-ietf-dkim-base)

2006-11-14 Thread Paul Hoffman
different (and, in this case, strongly-held) views, but consensus was reached and agreed to by the AD and with the DNS folks. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

[Ipsec] Re: MUST implement AES-CBC for IPsec ESP

2007-01-20 Thread Paul Hoffman
asking the IETF's armchair lawyers to start firing up their keyboards? :-) --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: ietf-moms

2007-02-02 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 7:55 AM -0800 2/2/07, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: (seriously: Just Do It!) Isn't this a perfect test case for the IETF meeting Wiki? I know that there was little contribution in San Diego, but this sounds like a good opportunity to see if folks can find and edit the wiki. -

Re: About Gen-ART reviews

2007-02-13 Thread Paul Hoffman
nd it to ietf@ietf.org so others can see and maybe comment on those suggestions and questions. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Request for input (patchwork RFCs)

2007-02-16 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 1:39 PM -0800 2/16/07, Lucy Lynch wrote: So, my question to the community, as the author of this admittedly pitiful draft is: Should I withdraw the draft and publish it as an IAOC approved ION? Yes. It is a great use of IONs. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium

NATs as firewalls

2007-03-01 Thread Paul Hoffman
x27;t want the NATs they have now, and that they instead want to become firewall administrators. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Last call comments about draft-housley-tls-authz-extns-07

2007-03-05 Thread Paul Hoffman
refs to dead documents would anyway add yet *> more cruft to the RFC process, so let's not. *> *> S. *> s/cruft/integrity/ How does adding a downref to a dead document add more integrity to the RFC process? --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _

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