Re: IETF Last Call for two IPR WG Dcouments

2008-03-28 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> My suggestion is to rewrite section 4 a bit to call out that this > document does not cover the incoming rights for the independent and > irtf stream and to use the terms "ietf-stream" and possibly "iab- > stream" in the definitions. thats all well & good for the independent stream since t

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-03 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Ole guessed > My understanding is that the blue sheet serves mainly as a record of > "who was in the room" which I think is largely used to plan room > capacities for the next meeting. the "blue sheets" are required as part of the basic openness process in a standards organization - there is

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-03 Thread Scott O. Bradner
that would test something but I'm not sure you could isolate the spam-fear factor Scott --- Date: Thu, 03 Apr 2008 17:44:47 -0700 From: Eric Rescorla <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott O. Bradner) Cc: ietf@ietf.org, [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Blue S

Re: Blue sheet harvest

2008-04-04 Thread Scott O. Bradner
< it started w/ folsk scanning the pages of the early bound < copies of IETFF proceedings. the sheets are no longer included in the proceedings > the process you describe has happend in recent memory at more than > one IETF. at what scale? 100s of people? 10s? Scott _

Re: Blue sheet harvest

2008-04-04 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> and signing the sheet is strictly voluntary to date well, there are no guards with guns watching but someone who decides to not sign is not being honest about their participation Scott ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/l

RE: Appeal against IESG blocking DISCUSS on draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-06-17 Thread Scott O. Bradner
if indeed RFC 2606 (a.k.a, BCP 32) said "all domain names in RFCs MUST use one of the following bases" then a blocking DISCUSS by an IESG member would be a reasonable thing. RFC 2606 does not say that and, thus, a blocking DISCUSS is not reasonable if the IESG had posted a set of rules that s

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

2008-07-17 Thread Scott O. Bradner
an observation: With today's half day on Friday a good percentage of those people who chose to stay until noon can still catch a flight home that same day in most IETF meeting locations (except for people flying across some ocean). Moving the end time on Friday until 15:15 would cut that percenta

Re: new text for ID_Checklist sect 3, item 6

2008-08-13 Thread Scott O. Bradner
good stuff --- >From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Wed Aug 13 06:54:56 2008 X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Original-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivered-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at amsl.com X-Spam-Flag: NO X-Spam-Score: -2.359 X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Sta

Re: Removal of IETF patent disclosures?

2008-08-19 Thread Scott O. Bradner
it seems to be a real bad idea to let people actually remove any type of IPR statement that might have been relied upon by a WG in any way and since its hard to figure out if thats the case, it seems like a real bad idea to let someone remove a IPR statement at all having a way for someone (prope

Re: Archives for closed WGs

2008-08-20 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> Do we archive charters and complete millstones for closed WGs? see http://www.tools.ietf.org/wg/concluded ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Archives for closed WGs

2008-08-20 Thread Scott O. Bradner
ps - very impressive work by the tools group Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Archives for closed WGs

2008-08-20 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> Oh gosh, I hope we're not archiving all those WG millstones... in the fiction department :-) ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: RFC 2026 interpretation question

2008-10-02 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> Worse, it is possible to read the current text of 2026 as > requiring, especially in the absence of an ISOC newsletter, that > a version of STD1 be published as an RFC before the clock starts > running on the waiting period. I think that would violate > common sense, especially given the interp

TSV Area review of draft-ietf-dime-qos-parameters

2008-11-13 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address any issues raise

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

2008-12-12 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> I'm disappointed at how few people have signed up. Even people who've > been active in this debate haven't signed up to the old version. I signed the old form (on paper) and handed it in a while back but do not see my name on the list -- did a bit get dropped somewhere? Scott __

Re: "Discuss" criteria

2006-12-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
to follow up on Dave's note > * The IETF as a whole does not have consensus on the technical > approach or document. There are cases where individual working > groups or areas have forged rough consensus around a technical > approach which does not garner IETF consensus. An AD may DISCUSS

Re: Last Call: draft-iesg-sponsoring-guidelines (Guidance on Area Director Sponsoring of Documents) to Informational RFC

2007-02-08 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> But its Informational. My read of RFC 2026 says that > the 4 week case applies to Standards Track only. rfc 2026 says what must be done in some cases - it does not say what can not be done in the cases it does not cover - specifically, RFC 2026 in no way would block a 4-week last call for an inf

"free standards" [was Re: Withdrawal of Approval and Second Last ...]

2007-04-11 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Simon sez: > According to what definition of 'free standards'? I agree with the other Scott - please be clear in what you are wanting to write about there seem to be as many definitions of "free standards" as people writing about them - my definition revolves around how much money to I have t

Re: consensus and anonymity

2007-05-31 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> If our consensus process is not independently and openly verifiable, we > might as well close shop! a hum in a WG meeting is subject to the perceptions of the people in the room but its not clear that a fully verifiable process is needed since we specifically try to do rough consensus not maj

Re: IETF Streaming

2007-07-24 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> I already have links to Agendas, Jabber-rooms, Meeting-materials, > draft tarballs and room location on http://tools.ietf.org/agenda, so > it seems like a good idea to add links to the audio streams, too > (in addition to any mention which is added to the IETF69 Meeting page). seems to me that t

draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-26.txt

2007-09-25 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I reviewed draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-26.txt as part of the Transport Area review effort. I did not find any particular issues in the described technology - a few nits: section 3.1 "Export Time" someday the IETF needs to stop using 32-bit "seconds since 1 jan 1970" for timing - at least within in

Re: [IPFIX] draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-26.txt

2007-09-25 Thread Scott O. Bradner
yeh - I read that but am not convinced that the message is clear enough of what can happen if those rules are not followed Scott --- Date: Tue, 25 Sep 2007 23:02:52 +0100 From: Stewart Bryant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Scott O. Bradner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ietf@ietf

Re: [IPFIX] draft-ietf-ipfix-protocol-26.txt

2007-09-27 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> we received similar comments during the transport directorate review of > the IPFIX implementation guidelines. The new revision of the document, now > available at: > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-ipfix-implementation-guidelines-07.txt > > might address your concerns. > > I'

Free? Software Foundation

2007-10-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
it is interesting that the "free" software foundation is espousing censorship Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Free? Software Foundation

2007-10-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I seem to have hit a nerve you are asking the IETF to not publish an IETF doucment - what else can you call it? Scott --- On Mon, Oct 29, 2007 at 09:55:06AM -0400, Scott O. Bradner <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote a message of 9 lines which said: > it is interesting that the "

Re: Free? Software Foundation

2007-10-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> So, each time in a Last Call, someone says "This document should not >be published", it is censorship? That's quite insulting for the > victims of real censorship. I do not recall another case where the IETF got requests to not publish documents in last call - most of the time there are construc

tools everywhere (was Daily Dose version 2 launched

2007-11-02 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Joel sed: > The basic issue for me is that from the tools page I expect to find the tools. my basic issue is somewhat different in that its not a future issue why does "tools" have to show up in just about every IETF URL these days? nomcom feedback for example - yes its a tool but the key is t

Re: tools everywhere (was Daily Dose version 2 launched

2007-11-02 Thread Scott O. Bradner
brian corrected: > ID submission isn't at the tools server, it's at > https://datatracker.ietf.org/idst/upload.cgi true but it shows my point as well why not www.ietf.org/id/submit "datatracker" is a meaningful as "tools" in this context Scott ___ I

Re: Should the RFC Editor publish an RFC in less than 2 months?

2007-12-03 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Harald sed: > For the implementors, an I-D + the fact of approval is sufficient. For > those who write other documents, it's not - they need the RFC number. including the folk in other SDOs that want to point to IETF documents Scott ___ Ietf mailing

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-rfc2026-changes (Changes to the ..

2008-01-21 Thread Scott O. Bradner
sorry - it does not make any sense at all to last call this document it has had no meaningful discussion - we should not be updating our core process documents this flippantly Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/l

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-rfc2026-changes (Changes to the ..

2008-01-21 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Russ, I was specifically not commenting on the contents of this ID (I will soon) but on the process being followed I see no justification of issuing an IETF Last Call on a ID that is designed to modify our core process document where the document has gotten so little discussion or indicat

Re: Last Call: draft-carpenter-rfc2026-changes (Changes to the ..

2008-01-21 Thread Scott O. Bradner
substantive review: I think that Brian has pointed out a number of areas where, if we were to produce a revised 2026, work needs to be done and I think that some number (but by no means all) of his suggestions are good, but 1/ I think a delta of this complexity makes the result unreadabl

Re: Hasty procedural changes (was: Re: [RFC 3777 Update for Vacancies])

2012-10-25 Thread Scott O Bradner
On Oct 25, 2012, at 11:03 AM, John C Klensin wrote: > (ii) The IESG could use its implied authority to interpret RFC > 2026 (an authority it has at least implicitly applied many times > in the past). It could interpret the 2026 variance procedure as > applying to all bodies to which 2026 applies

Re: ISOC BOT and Process BCPs

2012-10-28 Thread Scott O Bradner
Sam - The ISOC BoT has generally (with some slip-ups) accepted IETF process documents as describing the IETF process - this has been seen as a good idea for the insurance coverage there is no requirement in the IETF process that such RFCs be approved by the ISOC board nor that they ar

Re: Recall petition for Mr. Marshall Eubanks

2012-11-03 Thread Scott O Bradner
I have not "signed" the petition because I did not think it was proper to do so (as a IAOC member - see Russ's message and RFC 3777) but, that aside, I do support the petition - I feel that the IAOC has given Marshal the full opportunity to start participating again or to resign and he has done

Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-06 Thread Scott O Bradner
On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > > Not being a lawyer, I can't comment on the legal details of IPR cases. What I > am looking at is the understandability of a statement. A lawyer that I was > speaking with recently told me that the IETF IPR policy is ambiguous; one > mu

Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-06 Thread Scott O Bradner
correct - except that the IRTF has adopted the same disclosure requirements Scott On Nov 6, 2012, at 4:56 PM, Stephan Wenger wrote: > > > On 11.6.2012 16:17 , "Scott O Bradner" wrote: > >> >> On Nov 6, 2012, at 10:54 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: &g

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels-01

2010-06-25 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> The ISD proposal > required the IESG spend a lot of time that the individuals simply did > not have. so the IESG insisted - that was not the opinion of the newtrk chair (who thought that ISDs would likely reduce the load on ADs > Further, this came at a very, very bad time and that, apparently

US government and IPv6 (was US DoD and IPv6)

2010-09-28 Thread Scott O. Bradner
not the DoD but maybe of interest Scott http://www.cio.gov/Documents/IPv6MemoFINAL.pdf ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-25 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> I'd like to hear from the community about pushing forward with this > proposal or dropping it I do not think this proposal fixes any known problems the major reason (imo) that technology is not advanced along the standards track is because there is no need to do so. someone labors for a whi

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> The known problem is it takes well over four years to get anything > published. ... > What I *am* hoping is that with two, clearly defined maturity levels, we > can go back to publishing Proposed Standards in about a year the only way that could happen is if the IESG were to change their ways

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Russ asks > Just to clarify, do you think that it would be better to document "one > step" or do you think that the community should not spend time on this > topic at all? I think the community should only change its processes with careful deliberation taking into account the interplay of the di

what is the problem? (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
some more thoughts first figure out what problem you are trying to solve is the problem: 1/ that the 3 step standards track described in RFC 226 and its predecessors does not describe what happens most of the time? 2/ (as Eric says) that it takes too long to get to the first stage 3/ too much

what is the problem bis

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
while we are the topic of problems Russ basically proposes too change the maturity warning label on IETF standard track RFCs -- remove baby before folding carriage -- this hardly seems like our biggest problem The IETF publishes a lot of standards track RFCs each year. Mostly these are PS (186 i

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Barry coments > Scott, I'm confused about one thing you say: >You seem to be saying that we have to carefully deliberate, consider > many factors, and be serious if we want to *change* the basic rules... > but that it's OK to *ignore* the basic rules and do whatever we want, > with no deliberation

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Phillip politely says > I think this is nonsense. > We have been discussing this for over a decade. Time for debate is up. It is > time to make a decision. since I see no reason to think that the proposed changes will do anything at all to address any of the problems that I, and others, have bro

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2010-10-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I think that Phillip and I have agreed to disagree Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

[79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-11 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Some history Back when the IETF decided to charge for meetings ($100/meeting sometime in the early 1990s) Steve Coya said that the IETF would never check badges to block people from meetings. That, I think, was to indicate that people who could not afford to pay could still attend. But that was

Re: [79all] IETF Badge

2010-11-11 Thread Scott O. Bradner
correction to history - it was Phill Gross not Steve Coya ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-26 Thread Scott O. Bradner
1/ I still do not think this (modified) proposal will have any real impact on the number of "Proposed Standard" documents that move to a (in this proposal, "the") higher level since I do not see how this makes any significant changes to the underlying reasons that documents have not pr

prerequisite for change (was Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels)

2011-01-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I've previously expressed my opinion that proposals to muck with the number of steps in teh IETF standards process will no do anything useful (i.e., will not be effective) - JOhn and I have just posted what, to us, would be a prerequisite for amy process mucking proposal to succeed Scott - F

Re: [IAOC] xml2rfc and legal services RFPs

2011-02-21 Thread Scott O. Bradner
jck sed: > Perhaps I'm the only member of the community who cares any more. he is not alone quite a few of us were quite worried when the IAOC was formed that it would tend to evolve into a management group that thought it knew best for the the IETF without getting around to asking. announcing

Re: Last Call: (Reducing the Standards Track to Two Maturity Levels) to BCP

2011-05-05 Thread Scott O. Bradner
As I have stated before, I do not think that this proposal will achieve anything useful since it will not change anything related to the underlying causes of few Proposed Standards advancing on the standards track. I see it as window dressing and, thus, a diversion from the technical work the IETF

Re: External IPR Disclosures vs IPR disclosures in the document.

2011-06-22 Thread Scott O. Bradner
see RFC 3979 section 4 A - a note like Mike asks for is called for but the other Scott is also right - do not be specific - see section 11 of the same RFC Scott On Jun 22, 2011, at 3:56 PM, Michael StJohns wrote: > At 11:42 AM 6/22/2011, Scott Brim wrote: >> On Wed, Jun 22, 2011 at 11:11, Mich

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-28 Thread Scott O. Bradner
this is better than the last version but 1/ I still see no reason to think that this change will cause any significant change in the percent of Proposed Standards that move up the (shorter) standards track since the proposal does nothing to change the underlying reasons that people do not expend

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-07-31 Thread Scott O Bradner
how. > > RjS > > On Jul 28, 2011, at 8:19 AM, Scott O. Bradner wrote: > >> >> this is better than the last version but >> >> 1/ I still see no reason to think that this change will cause any >> significant change in the percent of Proposed Standards

Re: Gen-ART Review: Last Call

2011-08-11 Thread Scott O. Bradner
fwiw - the author of 2119 thinks that less is more when it comes to the use of these terms see, as Cullen points out, Section 6 but there is a balance - for example, if you define a structure and say that all fields are required, it is redundant to use MUST with each example of using the struct

Re: 2119bis

2011-08-31 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I've been traveling so have not had a chance to do anything but watch the discussion on a RFC 2119 update. a few thoughts 1/ I am far from convinced that there is a need to update RFC 2119 there is a bug in the boilerplate (as has been mentioned) and some people seem to have a hard t

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-02 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Jari Arkko sed > I also saw a couple of opposing opinions, though some of them were more about > a desire to do something else > than specific objections about this proposal. for the record in case Jari is confused - I have specific objection to this proposal imo - it fixes no known problem -

Re: Conclusion of the last call on draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-09-10 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> On 2011-09-11 08:11, Sam Hartman wrote: > > > >> I do not think the following types of comments should be considered as >> objections when judging this sort of consensus: >> >> >> 2) This will not do any good now lets see, this argument seems to be that the fact that a particular process

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-15 Thread Scott O Bradner
I'm fully supportive of reclassifying any RFCs that pose a risk to the Internet to historic but fail to see the usefulness of doing so for RFCs that describe unused but non-harmful technologies - seems like busywork and useless at best. Scott On Sep 15, 2011, at 1:45 PM, Mykyta Yevstifeyev wrot

Re: Pre-IETF RFCs to Historic (not really proposing)

2011-09-15 Thread Scott O Bradner
technologies were actually unused Scott On Sep 15, 2011, at 2:36 PM, Scott O Bradner wrote: > I'm fully supportive of reclassifying any RFCs that pose a risk to the > Internet > to historic but fail to see the usefulness of doing so for RFCs that describe > unused but non-harmful tec

Re: Last Call: (The Reasons for Selecting a Single Solution for MPLS-TP OAM) to Informational RFC

2011-09-29 Thread Scott O Bradner
I'm having a hard time understanding just what this document is trying to do I understand from the title that it is supposed to be telling the reader why a single OAM solution is a good idea for MPLS-TP if that is the case I'm not all that sure what the purpose of sections 4 and 5 are for - th

Re: IETF 82 Audio Streaming

2011-11-01 Thread Scott O. Bradner
how about - when the URLs get added to http://www.ietf.org/meeting/82/remote-participation.html#audio they are URLs that bypass the spy features of meetecho? Scott On Nov 1, 2011, at 6:37 AM, Simon Pietro Romano wrote: > ...forgot to include the list in my response. Sorry about that. > > Simon

Re: IETF and open source license compatibility

2009-02-13 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> > A more interesting question is if you can submit somebody else's > > public domain work to the IETF. I don't know the answer to that. > > Legally, yes; it's public domain. Academic honesty and common courtesy > would demand an acknowledgment. more than that - the standards process requires

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-18 Thread Scott O. Bradner
tme wrote: the comment period is extended to the 23rd of July. are we under some legal threat that requires this unseemly haste? Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-18 Thread Scott O. Bradner
I may have missed it but I did not see any response to my posting from when these changes were first proposed along the lines of what John just posted - I thought that the Trust was supposed to be responsive to requests from the IETF not go off on its own figuring out things to do I would like a

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-18 Thread Scott O. Bradner
tme said: > 6. Provide the rationale for proposed changes in the future, rather than > a summary listing of the changes this, to me, is exactly the wrong way for the IETF Trust to work. I do not want a "rationale for proposed changes" it seems to me that the Trust should work in one of 3 ways d

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-19 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> Isn't this what has essentially happened in this case? I did not see a statement from the IETF asking for changes nor did I see a statement from the Trust saying that there are these issues that need to be fixed for legal or cosmetic reasons maybe there were such statements and I missed them

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-20 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> Aren't RFC 5377/5378 (and subsequent discussion) such a statement? sorry - I must have missed the announcement by the trust that they were responding to these RFCs Scott ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions (TLP)

2009-07-20 Thread Scott O. Bradner
> Aren't RFC 5377/5378 (and subsequent discussion) such a statement? did I miss the posting that lists each of the proposed chages with a pointer to the specific request for change (or specific need for change) in these RFCs? Scott ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: Re: [Trustees] Proposed Revisions to the IETF Trust Legal Provisions(TLP)

2009-07-20 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Some history that may explain some of my and some other reaction to the recent postings by the Trust When the Trust was formed a number of us were quite worried that it would begin to see itself as self directed and not as a function whose purpose was to act at the direction of and in support of

Re: Retention of blue sheets

2009-07-30 Thread Scott O. Bradner
the reason that the blue sheets were created was as part of maintaining a full record of the open standards process - the question of room size was never considered the basic idea is discussed in section 8 of RFC 2026 Each of the organizations involved in the development and approval of In

Re: Retention of blue sheets

2009-07-30 Thread Scott O. Bradner
Bill - sez Pointing this out for completeness sake, it is not currently required to sign said sheets to participate in WG sessions. no one is lording over you but it is expected that all people in the room will sign Scott ___ Ietf mailin

Re: An Antitrust Policy for the IETF

2011-11-29 Thread Scott O. Bradner
fwiw - the last time I looked at this law 1/ the IETF did not qualify as a SDO under the law 2/ the law only protected employees of the SDO, not participants Scott On Nov 28, 2011, at 4:13 PM, Richard Shockey wrote: > +1 > > It would be helpful in the non normative statement t

Re: Another last call for draft-weil

2012-02-15 Thread Scott O Bradner
+1 On Feb 14, 2012, at 1:25 PM, Ross Callon wrote: > +1. > > Ross > > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of Owen > DeLong > Sent: Monday, February 13, 2012 2:06 PM > To: ietf@ietf.org > Cc: draft-bdgks-arin-shared-transition-space@tools. org > Subject: Re: A

Re: Last Call: (Allocation of an Associated Channel Code Point for Use by ITU-T Ethernet based OAM) to Informational RFC

2012-03-02 Thread Scott O. Bradner
what John said with one caveat - ITU-T consensus to modify an IETF protocol rather than bringing requirements to the IETF should not escape the gatekeeper function Scott On Mar 1, 2012, at 6:04 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Thursday, March 01, 2012 18:39 + Stewart Bryant > wrote:

Re: Proposed IESG Statement on the Conclusion of Experiments

2012-04-20 Thread Scott O Bradner
encouraging a report is fine retracting the code points seems to add more confusion than it is worth unless the code space is very tight and I see no reason to obsolete the experimental rfc or move it to historic status unless the report is that some bad thing happens when you try it out - upda

Re: Future Handling of Blue Sheets

2012-04-23 Thread Scott O Bradner
see rfc 2418 - they are to keep a record as who is taking part in a WG's activities keeping track of attendees is a basic part of any standards development organization's process Scott On Apr 23, 2012, at 10:04 AM, George, Wes wrote: >> From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.o

Re: [IAOC] Feedback Requested on Draft Fees Policy

2012-07-23 Thread Scott O Bradner
I did it once - it took 2 or 3 hours *it was quite a while back and I do not remember) there were no significant expenses - the depo was in Boston & my only expense was a few hours parking - the depo was done in the office of the law firm that was providing the IETF with pro-bono legal services a

Re: [IAOC] Feedback Requested on Draft Fees Policy

2012-07-23 Thread Scott O Bradner
I did not do them any favor - I did the IETF a favor (as the then ISOC VP for Standards) Scott On Jul 22, 2012, at 4:43 PM, John R Levine wrote: >> I did it once - it took 2 or 3 hours *it was quite a while back and I do not >> remember) >> >> there were no significant expenses - the depo was

Re: I-D Action: draft-balaji-mpls-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis-00.txt

2012-07-30 Thread Scott O Bradner
2804 does not say not to talk about such things - or that such documents should not be published as RFCs - 2804 says that the IETF will not do standards work in this area Scott On Jul 30, 2012, at 5:04 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Under the long-standing IETF policy defined in RFC 2804, I tru

Re: I-D Action: draft-balaji-mpls-lawful-intercept-thru-label-dis-00.txt

2012-08-01 Thread Scott O Bradner
:-) its a label not a process (in this case) i.e., according to 2804 the label on the rfc should not be standards track Scott On Jul 30, 2012, at 1:33 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >> 2804 does not say not to talk about such things - or that such documents >> should >> not be published as RFCs - 280

Re: Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Scott O Bradner
singing this statement is the right thing to do Scott (responding to a sorta-last-call) On Aug 11, 2012, at 2:10 PM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > On Aug 11, 2012, at 5:05 AM, Randy Bush wrote: > >>> The IETF Chair and the IAB Chair intend to sign the Affirmation >>> of the Modern Global Standards Pa

Re: Last Call: Modern Global Standards Paradigm

2012-08-11 Thread Scott O Bradner
ah yes - Mac Mail being helpful (again) :-) On Aug 11, 2012, at 7:14 PM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > On Aug 12, 2012, at 00:51, Scott O Bradner wrote: > >> singing this statement is the right thing to do > > For 0.29 seconds, I imagined you in front of a microphone in a r

Re: Draft IESG Statement on Removal of an Internet-Draft from the IETF Web Site

2012-09-04 Thread Scott O Bradner
in addition since there is no admissions control on IDs I would think that the IESG would want to reserve the option to remove an ID that contained clear libel or inappropriate material (e.g., a pornographic story published as an ID as part of a DoS attack on the IETF) once the IESG had been gi

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-02 Thread Scott O Bradner
On Sep 2, 2013, at 10:23 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Olaf, Scott, > > Apologies for a late reply on this (I was on vacation after the IETF). But > thank you for writing this draft. My general comment is that the draft makes > what in my mind is an accurate correction to our documents, aligning th

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Scott O Bradner
thank you - clarity does help but such an effort will not remove the need for this document imo Scott On Sep 3, 2013, at 9:20 AM, Jari Arkko wrote: > Olaf, John, Scott, > >> In fact, going back to the language of RFC2026 for Full (now Internet) >> Standard. It confirms that popularity (sign

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-03 Thread Scott O. Bradner
fwiw - I would love for the IESG to exercise flexibility here but I have not seen that in many years - so I think we are already there without a discernible path back Scott On Sep 3, 2013, at 4:40 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > I mostly agree with this draft, but I have a concern. Let's anchor > t

Re: Last Call: (Retirement of the "Internet Official Protocol Standards" Summary Document) to Best Current Practice

2013-09-05 Thread Scott O Bradner
looks good to me except that maybe using the IETF Announce list rather than IESG minutes as the publication of record Scott On Sep 5, 2013, at 1:10 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: > Having seen no further comments, Jari has asked me to post -01 with the > changes. Done. > > pr > > -- > Pete Resnic

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-13 Thread Scott O Bradner
On Sep 13, 2013, at 2:32 PM, Olaf Kolkman wrote: > > On 13 sep. 2013, at 19:17, S Moonesamy wrote: > > >> The intended status would have to be BCP instead of Informational. > > Correct…. fixed on trunk. > > >> In Section 3.1: > >> "A specific action by the IESG is required to move a

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-17 Thread Scott O. Bradner
1/ I believe that change would be factually incorrect 2/ I do not see that being factually correct about what happened says anything about the community opinion about any future IESG decision to change processes. Scott On Sep 17, 2013, at 6:48 PM, Pete Resnick wrote: > On 9/17/13 11:27 AM

Re: PS Characterization Clarified

2013-09-18 Thread Scott O Bradner
John covered why I said that Pete's assertion is factually incorrect that said, I agree that being accurate here (that the IESG is the final decider and the body that changed the review from what was described in RFC 2026) may be counter productive when the document is reviewed outside of the

Re: [Tools-discuss] independant submissions that update standards track, and datatracker

2013-10-02 Thread Scott O Bradner
1 April RFCs excepted Scott On Oct 2, 2013, at 10:10 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: >> "because all IETF document are examined by IESG" >> >> No they're not. See RFC4844. > > Lloyd, it *is* true that all documents in the IETF stream are reviewed > and approved by the IESG. I would take "IETF docume

Re: Last Call: (Terms used in Ruting for Low power And Lossy Networks) to Informational RFC

2013-10-03 Thread Scott O Bradner
On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:34 AM, The IESG wrote: > > The IESG has received a request from the Routing Over Low power and Lossy > networks WG (roll) to consider the following document: > - 'Terms used in Ruting for Low power And Lossy Networks' > as Informational RFC "Ruting" - "Rüting is a munici

Re: Last Call: (Terms used in Ruting for Low power And Lossy Networks) to Informational RFC

2013-10-03 Thread Scott O Bradner
00 AM, Dave Cridland wrote: > On Thu, Oct 3, 2013 at 12:49 PM, Scott O Bradner wrote: > > On Oct 3, 2013, at 6:34 AM, The IESG wrote: > > > > > The IESG has received a request from the Routing Over Low power and Lossy > > networks WG (roll) to consider the follo

Re: Last calling draft-resnick-on-consensus

2013-10-11 Thread Scott O Bradner
As Dave Crocker pointed out, this document is, at best, revisionist history. Dave's original RFC 1603 text (that I carried forward into RFC 2418) bears little resemblance to the process/considerations described in this ID. This ID may be describing how we should start to view the meaning of th