My Notes from Wednesday Night Plenary - IETF 59

2004-03-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Please let me know what I got wrong. Have a great night, Spencer -- Wednesday Plenary - Harald This is the first Korean IETF we've had, and the smoothest, most well-run, and most fun IETF since Oslo State of the Union tonight - Administ

Re: IETF59 Network Tear Down Starts at 12:00 Noon Friday

2004-03-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
What Dan said. My impression is that you took the lessons from Minneapolis (for instance, having a penalty box for ad hoc nodes who thought they were ietf59) and didn't have to learn them from scratch. Thank you for learning from the experience of others! Spencer From: "Romascanu, Dan (Dan)" <[E

My Notes from Thursday Night Plenary - IETF 59

2004-03-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Please contact me with any updates or corrections - thanks! Spencer Dawkins Thursday Plenary - Leslie Daigle Erik Nordmark - locator/identifier split This concept is sticking it's head up from multiple holes, like a gopher - Want to start the entire comm

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-07 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I spent more time trying to capture what people were saying at the plenary than trying to figure out who said what, but I would like to figure out who said [06:43:24] too much time needed to take something out there and take it back to historic. [06:43:44] suggests steps for things to automatica

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I don't KNOW that what I'm thinking is true, but I'm wondering to myself if the target audience for protocol specification maintenance is all in the IETF... Spencer - Original Message - From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Rick Stewart" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PR

Re: Work effort? (Re: Proposed Standard and Perfection)

2004-03-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
This really is NEWTRK material, but I think part of the question is "how long is it SUPPOSED to take to get to Proposed?" I happen to like the idea that you could write an I-D during one IETF meeting cycle, talk to people about it at the meeting, rev it a couple of times on a mailing list during t

IETF 59 Plenary Meeting Minutes

2004-03-17 Thread Spencer Dawkins
The draft minutes are now available at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/04mar/minutes/plenary.htm. Please look over them if you spoke at either plenary - I would like to quote people correctly, and attribute quotes correctly. I'm almost sure that "Eric" identified in the Jabber logs is usually Erik

Re: Categorization of TCP/IP service provision types (FWD: I-D ACTION:draft-klensin-ip-service-terms-00.txt)

2004-03-19 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, John, I like the idea, and your draft is more than a skeleton plus examples. There are a couple of concepts that could be added if you could come up with non-perjorative names... - "Filtered" actually splits into a few possibilities - the service provider may actually be "filtering" known se

The madness continues

2004-03-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I know I can't be the first person to get a 90-KB bounce message from a Majordomo server, but I got my first one this morning. It's the e-mail you get when someone forges e-mail as being from you, with a virus-bearing attachment, so the Majordomo server processes every string in the virus as a sep

Draft-klensin-process-july14-01.txt.

2004-03-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
John Klensin and I wrote a draft on lightweight process experiments, and would like to get other people's feedback before requesting last call for publication as a BCP. The abstract is In the last two years, the IETF has initiated a number of interrelated efforts to improve or fine-tune its

Re: Naming crap (Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents)

2004-03-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
From: "Dassa" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "'Iljitsch van Beijnum'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; "'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: "'IETF Discussion'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, March 28, 2004 3:37 PM Subject: RE: Naming crap (Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents) > > Personally and

Re: respect privacy please !

2004-05-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Harald, From: "JORDI PALET MARTINEZ" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, May 21, 2004 10:08 AM Subject: Re: respect privacy please ! > > I don't think a legal requirement for our process can jump over the laws. Is like if we > decide that we need to sacrifice one of us

Re: Naming convention for a WG I-D that returns to

2004-08-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
> I don't know whether stopping "manyfolks" is right or not. Sigh. Are there Internet Drafts that matter, that *don't* have inputs from "many folks"? and if so, why? I could never decide whether this was more likely a pure-hearted attempt at modesty or an evil-hearted attempt to demonstrate that

Notes from WG Chair Training on Sunday

2004-08-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
My slides have been uploaded to the EDU website (see http://edu.ietf.org) (thanks, James). A couple of questions came up during our session that I needed to check on the answers to: - Yes, WG secretaries CAN be listed on WG charter pages - for example, NSIS (http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/nsis

First hack at Wednesday Plenary notes

2004-08-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Please let me know if I'm misquoting or mis-hearing... Thanks! Spencer --- 1930-2200 Plenary - IETF Business Meeting - Grande Ballroom - Welcome, and introduction - Harald Alvestrand Wednesday is state of the union, Thursday is planning

First hack at Thursday plenary notes

2004-08-06 Thread Spencer Dawkins
1930-2200 Plenary - IETF Planning Meeting - Grande Ballroom - Welcome, and introduction - Leslie Daigle - IRTF presentation: ASRG Report Have broken problem domain into pieces, some closer to IETF than others Working on drafts for BCPs for ISPs that want to do the right thing (DNSBL/DNSWL, por

Re: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Bob, I think the intent of Iljitsch's note was that the "list of IETF Standards" should appear in an obvious place (labeled "IETF Standards") on http://www.ietf.org/ - if the label points to http://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc.html, that's fine. ... leaving the question of "what standards" are actually

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

2004-09-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Harald-the-General-AD, Can we PLEASE do as Melinda says - change the policy now for new drafts? so we can stop having part of this conversation and, in the meantime, stop making the problem worse? I review documents for Harald as part of Gen-ART. It is really nice to be able to look back a

IETF 62 (was: Re: first steps)

2004-09-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
We kind of went away from the first half of Harald/Scott's notes, which was From: "scott bradner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Harald asks I feel some urgency to make sure that we have meeting arrangements in place for 2005 - without imperiling our ability to make the best long-term choices for the IETF

Re: Scenario C or Scenario O ? - I say let us go for C !

2004-09-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
From: "Margaret Wasserman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Wijnen, Bert (Bert)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, September 23, 2004 8:36 AM Subject: Re: Scenario C or Scenario O ? - I say let us go for C ! Hi Bert, Both you and Ted have posted preferences for Scenario C that, to m

Re: Reminder: Poll about restructuring options

2004-10-04 Thread Spencer Dawkins
And If the [Ll]eadership of this organization screws up badly enough, the Internet Community *WILL* route around the damage. It's happened before. That's how W3C came to be. Eliot Erk! I haven't been involved with W3C since 2000, but I WAS involved in W3C during the late 1990s. It's worth poi

Re: Sunshine Law

2004-10-25 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Ummm, when I saw That's not quite the point. Both in an ad hoc group like Adminrest, and in the IAB and IESG, it is entirely possible that in a discussion of the real issues, something like the following would be said: A: The real problem here is X, who simply can't do his/her job. B: No, it's Y,

Ticket for the Tuesday Night social available

2004-11-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I'm registered for the Tuesday night social, but now have an "informal meeting" conflict - I don't know if the social is sold out or not, but if you'd like my ticket, please e-mail privately. Thanks, Spencer ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] h

Re: Ticket for the Tuesday Night social available

2004-11-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
It looks like I have a taker for this ticket - thanks - and the nice people at Alcatel said they have sold out, just FYI... Spencer - Original Message - From: "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "IETF General Discussion Mailing List" <[EMAIL PROTECTE

Sponsor T-shirt Thank You...

2004-11-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Just a quick thank-you to Alcatel for providing t-shirts that are long-sleeved, heavier-weight than usual, and (my personal favorite) non-pure white - you have doubled the number of long-sleeved IETF t-shirts in my closet, and I'm still wearing the IETF 55 shirt every chance I get ... Spencer

Re: IPv4 consumption statistics and extrapolations

2004-11-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
What I'm afraid of is that we may end up in a situation where many people have all the addresses they need and don't see any reason to adopt IPv6, while others who are late to the table can't get sufficient IPv4 address space and will have to adopt IPv6 out of necessity, resulting in a fragment

Re: Why, technically, MIP and IPv6 can't be deployed

2004-11-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
ftp://ftp.rfc-editor.org/in-notes/rfc3819.txt was published in July (blush!)... Finally: I rather get annoyed when L1/L2 people tell me "that's not the way our L1/L2 works!", blah, blah, blah. Fine. Engineer us something that does work; stop telling us to engineer for broken media. IP has won in

Re: Why, technically, MIP and IPv6 can't be deployed

2004-11-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
esigned without clue. Similar environments, but different readers.   And thanks for asking!   Spencer - Original Message - From: Fred Templin To: Spencer Dawkins ; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 12:11 PM Subject: Re: Why, technically, MIP and

Re: encouraging candidates for the IAB

2004-11-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Sally, thank you for all the help you've provided (including to me personally), and thanks for this heads-up - it's got to help us give better input to NOMCOM to know if people are planning to be replaced... Spencer As I have been individually telling folk informally for a while now, I am step

My notes from the One-Night Stand Plenary

2004-11-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Please send corrections (and especially name mis-attributions and mispellings) to me privately, so I can make them in the official minutes, but this is what I caught so far...   Spencer    1930-2200 Plenary - International Ballroom Center     - Welcome, and introduction - Harald Alvestra

Re: draft-farrel-rtg-morality-requirements-00.txt

2004-11-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
From: "Fred Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> At 03:57 PM 11/16/04 -0800, Bob Hinden wrote: We should be proactive and create a morality area in the IETF. The morality ADs can review and vote Discuss if the Morality Considerations section in drafts being reviewed by the IESG is not adequate. Do the Mo

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I apologize in advance for feeding this thread, but the conversation seems to be diverging from what I thought we had actually been previously... IIRC, we've semi-recently been off to the land of "PCs in homes and cell phones". I can say I was honestly dismayed that cable providers in the Unit

Re: Adminrest: section 3.5b

2004-12-01 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Scott, draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-01 section 3.5 goes on to say: Decisions of IAOC members or the entire IAOC are subject to appeal using the procedures described in RFC 2026 [RFC2026]. Appeals of IAOC decisions go first to the IESG, then continue up the chain as necessary to the IAB and the ISO

Re: Adminrest: section 3.5b

2004-12-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Brian suggests: Maybe we need a much more restricted right of appeal. Strawperson: Decisions of the IAOC are subject to appeal exclusively on the grounds that they have materially damaged correct execution of the IETF standards process [RFC2026]. They follow the appeals process applicable to

Re: Adminrest: section 3.5b (appealability)

2004-12-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Agree with Joel here. I would hate to see someone "appeal" an IAD decision because they happened to disagree with it. That would make the job impossible. There probably are some things that should be subject to appeal. I don't know what they would be. If we can not list them, I don't think we

Re: Adminrest: section 3.5b

2004-12-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
community" food chain, and if we get as far as "IAD makes horrible decision that neither IESG nor IAB nor the ISOC BoT think is horrible decision", having individuals continue to pursue an appeal is probably fruitless anyway ... Please see notes inline. Spencer From: "Brian E Carp

Re: Draft version of the IAD job announcement from the IASA TT

2004-12-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Is "Salary levels commensurate with experience and qualifications" a cop-out? You might say "expected to be in the range..." Adrian Agree with Adrian here - "commensurate" makes sense when you hire several people with a range of experience, or when you are waiting to see who actually applies befo

Re: Consensus? #746 Section 3.4 - IAOC decision making

2004-12-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
OK, you guys are playing out of my depth, but ... However, there can be situations where less than half the IAOC *is* an appropriate majority - consider, for instance, a situation where two of the IAOC are on holiday (leaving us with 6), one of the IAOC is employed by EvilCorp, and the IAOC has

Re: Consensus? #746 Section 3.4 - IAOC decision making

2004-12-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
This works for me. Spencer IAOC decisions are taken by a majority of the non-conflicted IAOC members who are available to vote in person, by teleconference, or by email. so that we avoid defining a specific quorum but do require a majority of those who are not off in the woods. Brian __

Re: #720 and #725 - Appeals and IAD autonomy

2004-12-22 Thread Spencer Dawkins
John's concern and suggested improvements work for me. FWIW, I am more comfortable with 2026-style appeals when we're talking about publishing a protocol specification than I am when we're talking about (for example) contracting for an IETF meeting location. The short-term downside of not making

Re: #720 and #725 - Appeals and IAD autonomy

2004-12-23 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi John - Your note seems like an outlier. In particular, it takes a really *strong* stance on protecting people from each other because people *will* act badly. For example, the way I read your note, the IESG will micromanage and the IASA/IAD will order bagels flown in daily from New York. Appe

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I thought that was implied by "required".. if we don't like "required", I think we should drop the subsentence, leaving us with: In principle, IETF administrative functions should be outsourced. Decisions to perform specific functions "in-house" should be explicitly justified by the IAOC, wit

Re: No communication: #746 IAOC decision making

2005-01-12 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Brian, John, Avri and Spencer: Can you state if you have an opinion about whether or not the quorum rules should be in the document or not? Let's get this point settled before we dig into what the quorum rules should be - if they don't go into the BCP, the whole text of #746 gets passed as "ad

Re: Consensus? #733 Outsourcing principle

2005-01-13 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I can't promise I'm interpreting the discussion correctly, but my understanding is that our bias is not in favor of outsourcing, but against empire-building and bloat. As long as we say "zero-based", so that we're giving the right clues about not spending lots of money in ways that create the e

Re: Consensus search: #725 3.4b Appealing decisions

2005-01-13 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Harald, So the IAD and IAOC don't have to respond to individual requests for review unless IAB or IESG make the request on behalf of an individual, but we all get to see requests and responses and make our own NOMCOM inputs? Spencer 3.5 Decision review In the case where someone questions a de

Re: Consensus search: #725 3.4b Appealing decisions

2005-01-13 Thread Spencer Dawkins
This works for me... Spencer From: "Harald Tveit Alvestrand" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Spencer Dawkins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Sent: Thursday, January 13, 2005 8:07 AM Subject: Re: Consensus search: #725 3.4b Appealing decisions --On torsdag, januar 13, 2005 07:20:2

Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5

2005-01-23 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I agree with the idea that there are extremes when we talk about our ideas on "review", but please don't assume that JohnK and Michael are the only people at that end of the pool... I had assumed that the IETF would let IASA run things with periodic general feedback and rare specific feedback (

Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5

2005-01-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
But that isn't what I (and probably Mike, Spencer, and others) are concerned about. We are concerned about the "decision gets made and then someone tries to second-guess it" scenarios, on which we want to place extreme limits. This is exactly what Spencer is concerned about... this, and the "bozo

Re: #425: Review versus appeal?

2005-01-26 Thread Spencer Dawkins
- And last: Even if there is an appeals chain, I don't think the IESG and the IAB should be in it. We are supposed to be selected for the wrong sort of competence. Harald I'm really not trying to muddy the waters here, but - I agree with Harald on this point, for exactly the re

Re: Mud. Clear as. Re: Rough consensus? #425 3.5

2005-01-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I am actually not strongly in favor of principle (6) myself. I think that the IAB, IESG and ISOC BoT could be trusted to decide whether overturning a particular (non-binding) decision is appropriate in a particular situation. But, others seemed to feel strongly that allowing anyone else to ov

Re: 1918bis

2005-02-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Tony, It is long past time to get over any thoughts about reclaiming IPv4 space. It will never happen. No organization is going to give up any they have until we are well past the point where anyone cares about getting more. IPv4 has reached the point of success/failure and is a dead end p

Re: WG Review: IPv6 over IEEE 802.15.4 (lowpan)

2005-02-09 Thread Spencer Dawkins
This may be a mindstoppingly stupid comment, but "LowPAN" isn't exactly a commonly-used term in my end of the swamp, and it wasn't defined on the WG Review announcement ("go read the drafts", I guess?). If you charter the WG, it would be lovely to define it on the WG home page... Spencer __

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I'm not smart about the definition of "fair" in an IETF context, but it's also worth noting that - as Steve Coya pointed out every IETF meeting for years during the WG chair training, there is NO linkage between what the filename is and whether it's a WG draft or not. The WG name is listed in a

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
ears ago when I was listening to someone who'd been around longer than me sighing that he used to read ALL the DRAFTS, but was now unable to read all the draft ABSTRACTS... and I can't remember if that was Klensin or not :-) Have a great weekend, Spencer From: "Julien Laganier

Re: MARID back from the grave?

2005-02-24 Thread Spencer Dawkins
... "it's just a name" - and it's not like working groups are (or that working groups should be) consistent in when they adopt a draft as a working group draft. I see this as a bigger problem - some working groups that have more work in individual drafts than in working group drafts, because th

What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
now that we know that the secretariat keeps track of drafts that claim to obsolete another draft, we could make this Real Simple: drafts that say they obsolete another draft get the later deadline. Harald (who won't have to decide that) That would only work if it was "s

Just one last whine before IETF 62

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Since I was looking at 2418 again last night, I happened to wonder about 7.1. Session documents (deleted down to) The final session agenda should be posted to the working group mailing list at least two weeks before the session and sent at that time to [EMAIL PROTECTED] for publication on th

Re: What problems does the draft cut-off solve? (was: Re: MARID back from the grave?)

2005-03-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
My LORD, it's like I read Margaret's mind... I hadn't seen this post when I sent my own whine to the list! Spencer I'd like to add-on to Spencer's point... At 6:14 AM -0600 3/2/05, Spencer Dawkins wrote: - Most important - we expect people to read the drafts before d

Re: IETF62 Wireless Network Update

2005-03-07 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Jim, Thank you for the update. Best wishes on tomorrow :-) Spencer - Original Message - From: "Jim Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Monday, March 07, 2005 6:33 PM Subject: IETF62 Wireless Network Update Gentlepeople, We just wanted to give everyone an update on the state of the wi

Re: IETF62 Network and Terminal Room Information

2005-03-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Just to add an observation - we've been in Minneapolis before, but 802.11 is catching on. Dean Willis noted early in the week that the projectors and hand controllers used 802.11 in ad hoc mode, and I hadn't noticed this at previous meetings. I was seeing a LOT of other ad hoc networks, but it

Unhosted IETF meetings (was: Re: reflections from the trenches of ietf62 wireless)

2005-03-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Paris is hosted (including the WLAN), so there is at least 6 months until it is needed (is Nortel providing the Vancouver WLAN?). OK, on a side note... a quick look back at http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/directory.html enties since 2000 makes me think we're still pretty successful at finding ho

Meeting models (was: Re: Unhosted IETF meetings)

2005-03-21 Thread Spencer Dawkins
[Merely observing, not proposing anything...] If your last point is true, it suggests a model more like the W3C technical plenary, in which the general format is an all-day plenary in the middle of the week, preceded and followed by parallel 2-day (sometimes 1-day) working group sessions for tho

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

2005-04-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
FWIW, there was the separate suggestion that NOMCOM publish the NUMBER of candidates who agreed to be considered, and this seems helpful without setting off the usual alarms... From: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jari Arkko" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; "Dave Crocker" <[EMAIL PROTECT

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

2005-04-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Just to agree with JohnL, NOMCOM has been good about soliciting feedback, but I still think that we miss out on useful feedback because IETF members cannot reliably say who is a candidate and who is not. Some candidates have sent around BCC: mails, from time-to-time, saying that they are a can

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Thoughts? Do other people think that it would help (efficiency or visibility) for all discusses to be sent to the WG mailing lists? Any thoughts on which of the three approaches above would work better? Margaret OK, let me see if I understand the problem - - the ADs probably aren't members of

Re: text suggested by ADs

2005-05-08 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Sorry, I was imprecise. From: "Sam Hartman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> "Spencer" == Spencer Dawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Spencer> - the mailing lists are often not set up to allow posting Spencer> by non-members That's a violation of policy. P

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

2005-05-10 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Brian, This works for me, too. FWIW. Actually, I think there is a slightly better way, somehow analagous to the 'petition period' used by the ISOC NomCom process. On day N, publish the list of willing nominees so far and invite further nominations before day N+14. On day N+28, publish the final l

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

2005-05-14 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Sam, "Spencer" == Spencer Dawkins <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Spencer> My point is that I *have* seen a complete list of Spencer> nominations, including a couple of ringers, for specific Spencer> AD positions, and I *have* seen a complete list of Spe

Re: New root cause problems?

2005-05-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Sorry for taking so long to follow up here: From: "Margaret Wasserman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> I have one new "root cause" issue that I don't believe was included in the original Problem Statement: It takes too long to publish an RFC after final approval. It currently takes several months for an

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

2005-05-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
You've seen Danny's message with the results of asking the question in a straightforward way - 20% of IESG nominees say they would not have volunteered. It's not my intent to develop BCP text on ietf@ietf.org, but I do feel the need to say that we've had a previous suggestion that we could ask pe

Re: More pretty graphs

2005-05-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Bill, thank you for developing this tool and for posting the note about it to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Spencer - Original Message - From: "Bill Fenner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Based on the positive feedback from my RFC-Editor graph, I've updated some work that I started some time ago - a set of gr

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Henning, Thank you for a series of reasonable suggestions. My thoughts are inline. Spencer There has been a fair amount of effort in accelerating the tail end of the document process, i.e., after IETF last call. It is unclear whether this has succeeded (as there don't seem to be any publish

Re: Front-end delays

2005-06-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Henning Schulzrinne wrote: I was envisioning a "meta"-tracker, just like you already have for drafts on the WG overview page. In other words, it would show information from your database (WGLC date range, charter deadlines, etc.) as well as the state from the 'real' I-D tracker. It obviously wo

Re: Reasons for delay

2005-06-16 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Henning, Thanks again for the thoughtful set of suggestions. Spencer (3) Exhaustion: Far too many drafts linger years in 90%-completed state, while the authors or the WG has moved on to other things. It would be interesting to take a look at long-delayed drafts and see how much they have rea

Re: WG management

2005-06-17 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Agree with Henning, with one addition - some IETF participants DO participate on their own time and on their own dime, but even participants who are paying their own way want to see progress. Please, ask for these commitments. If a company moves someone and they are no longer able to meet the

Re: WG management

2005-06-20 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Henning, This was the most thought-provoking of your recent posts for me, so I spent a little time thinking before trying to contribute to the thread... You have served us well by pointing these problems out. The meta-issue for me is, of course, how we move forward on any of these proble

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

2005-06-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Ralph, Are you saying that the vendor community interprets registration delay as damage, and routes around it? Spencer John - as a concrete example of the problem you describe, the dhc WG perceived that there was a looming problem with exhaustion of the DHCP option code space. So, we wro

Re: S stands for Steering [Re: Should the IESG rule or not?]

2005-06-30 Thread Spencer Dawkins
If I may plead for a moment of silence ... There is an Internet Draft that is intended to give the community a chance to provide comments on what the IETF vision of option registration might be - or, might not be. If we could discuss this draft, and say things like "I agree", "I disagree", "

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

2005-07-02 Thread Spencer Dawkins
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 attempt

Re: RFC 2434 term "IESG approval" (Re: IANA Action: Assignment ofanIPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Oh, great... As Harald noted, draft-klensin-iana-reg-policy is pretty prescriptive about saying that if we're in conservation mode for a registry, we also need to be in evasive-action mode ("how do we get more room in this registry?"). If we are already in conservation mode on IPv6 options,

Re: [newtrk] Question about Obsoleted vs. Historic

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
What is the reason for continuing to list something obsolete as a Draft Standard? Ummm, because most people don't notice standards maturity levels? But the idea of an "obsolete Best CURRENT Practice" makes MY head hurt... Spencer ___ Ietf mail

Re: When to DISCUSS?

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
As most RFC authors know, when an IESG member identifies a problem in a draft under IESG review, he or she casts a DISCUSS ballot, with accompanying text, and the DISCUSS has to be cleared before the document can advance. draft-iesg-discuss-criteria-00.txt talks about this. Even within the IESG,

Re: When to DISCUSS?

2005-07-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Scott (Brim), There are occasions when limiting the number of deployed solutions is very good for the future of the Internet, and in those cases, pushing for Foo even when Bar is just as good is quite legitimate. Yeah, I agree completely with the sentiment. I just wish there was a tigh

Re: Test version of the Parking Area

2005-07-14 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Brian and Bill, Thanks for providing this! Is this (239-element) table sorted? I might suggest "sorted by ID name within WG", but any sort would be a good thing to provide. Thanks for making it available, Spencer What's the Parking Area? It's the list of all drafts that have been app

Re: Meeting Locations

2005-07-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
There are a couple of helpful data points for many attendees. In my own case, knowing there are two North American meetings planned, or only one, in a given year tells me a lot about budgeting long before a specific location is announced. Spencer From: "Brian E Carpenter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: A proposed experiment in narrative minutes of IESG meetings

2005-07-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear IESG, I sent a private "thank you" to Brian replying to his original note, but wanted to say so in public. Thank you. Spencer From: "John C Klensin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> It is precisely because the above concerns can be raised and examined in this context --and cannot in the context o

Re: Port numbers and IPv6

2005-07-15 Thread Spencer Dawkins
It would be OK if someone smart responded to this posting, but until they show up, http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2960.txt is showing - a 16-bit source and destination port numbers in the common header (3.1), AND - a 16-bit stream identifier (3.3.1), AND - a 32-bit Payload Protocol Identifier (3

Re: Meeting Locations

2005-07-23 Thread Spencer Dawkins
The timing on this one was too good to ignore: URL: http://www.abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory?id=969926 Title: "At 117 Degrees - No One Escapes the Heat" I could go for Mexico, but Las Vegas is just so weird! Thanks, Spencer From: "Hallam-Baker, Phillip" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "shogunx" <[EMAIL

draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-26 Thread Spencer Dawkins
This draft (available at http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt) does a reasonable job of balancing between current-generation leadership continuity and next-generation leadership development. I have previously expressed the opinion that an absolute prohibition on

draft-klensin-stds-review-panel-00.txt

2005-07-26 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I have been waiting for a proposal like this one (available from http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-klensin-stds-review-panel-00.txt) since the SIRS experiment in 2003. But, before I start commenting ... Would this draft be in scope for Newtrk, or is it IETF Discussion material? Thank

Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I too like this draft and agree that having most IESG members serve for two terms is ideal and making it more the exception that people serve for three or four terms. I also like the flexibility it gives the NOMCOM without creating strict term limits. When someone is "needed" for more than tw

Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-27 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Bill, Thanks for the quick crank through the data - it's pretty interesting, and especially valuable for discussion of this draft. Spencer (p.s. Bill pointed out in a private e-mail that the input dataset he is using seems to undercount General Area ADs pretty seriously - Fred Baker sho

Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-28 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear John Just to chime in here... --On Thursday, 28 July, 2005 15:24 +0200 Brian E Carpenter <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: John C Klensin wrote: ... p.s. We've got something of a tradition of moving people from the IESG to the IAB and vice versa. ... Nothing in the proposal would prohibit

Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt

2005-07-29 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Dear Philip and Eliot, Without going through the full-bore version of this discussion, I have to say I was discouraged when the best IETF participants could do (when some unfamiliar person started e-mailing people who had registered for the the social and asking for more details on credit car

I'm not the microphone police, but ...

2005-08-01 Thread Spencer Dawkins
From RFC 2418 section 1 ... Participation is by individual technical contributors, rather than by formal representatives of organizations. It seems like we're being especially casual about saying, "I'm Waldo from Walden Pond Networks, and ..." or even "I'm giving you the requirements f

Re: I'm not the microphone police, but ...

2005-08-01 Thread Spencer Dawkins
That would be fine, if I changed the Newcomer's Orientation :-) Spencer Spencer, However, many people here are not using their 'individual money' to get here in Paris. Our name badges list our employers (in most cases). I think its a different issue if I come to the mic and say, 'We at th

Re: Let's make the benches longer.... (Re: draft-klensin-nomcom-term-00.txt)

2005-08-01 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I have argued at times (draft-iesg-alvestrand-twolevel) that our current structure of 2 area-specific ADs managing a bunch of WG-specific WG chairs is not optimal. Yeah, and I wish it hadn't expired ... perhaps we could try again, now that Harald has some time on his retired-AD hands? It is

Re: I'm not the microphone police, but ...

2005-08-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Hi, Philip, Our mileages probably vary ("welcome to the IETF, variable mileage is how we know we're here!"), but ... In the working group chair training, we point out that the most important thing working group chairs do, and the only responsibility they can't delegate, is declaration of wor

Re: Re: I'm not the microphone police, but ...

2005-08-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
Well, the one that really pushes my button is when someone, probably a vendor, but even sometimes an operator, comes to the mic and says "The Really Big SDO needs this work." Its impossible to know if this person has any official standing at the Really Big SDO, or if it is a possition that that

Re: Keeping this IETF's schedule in the future...?

2005-08-03 Thread Spencer Dawkins
This is EXACTLY my experience, too. I've been able to grab a BUNCH of people that I needed to talk to, every morning this week so far. Another really useful feature here in Paris were the tables for sit- down breakfast. Result: Productive breakfast meetings. Gruesse, Carsten I agree on th

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