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

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Farrell
Ted, Ted Hardie wrote: I believe the text here: Since experimentation resulted in significant Internet deployment of these specifications, the DKIM working group will make every reasonable attempt to keep changes compatible with what is deployed, making incompatible changes only when they are

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

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Eric, Eric Rescorla wrote: Since experimentation resulted in significant Internet deployment of these specifications, the DKIM working group will make every reasonable attempt to keep changes compatible with what is deployed, making incompatible changes only when they are necessary for the s

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

2005-12-21 Thread Stephen Farrell
Ted Hardie wrote: At 9:07 AM -0500 12/21/05, Tony Hansen wrote: I would be happy with the text that was used in the xmpp charter: Although not encouraged, non-backwards-compatible changes to the basis specifications will be acceptable if the working group determines t

Re: Pre-picking one solution (Re: [ietf-dkim] Re: WG Review: Domain Keys Identified Mail) (dkim)

2005-12-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Keith, Keith Moore wrote: I'm comfortable with having a domain's "root public keys" stored in DNS but allowing the corresponding "root private keys" to sign key certificates for "individual public keys" that can be included in DKIM-signed messages. The policies for use of those public keys c

Re: bozoproofing the net, was The Value of Reputation

2006-01-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
Jeffrey Hutzelman wrote: On Monday, January 02, 2006 08:51:20 PM -0800 Dave Crocker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I don't believe we have ever turned "winning by exhaustion" or "winning by intimidation" into virtues, even though those techniques are Actually we have. It is used with

Re: [Geopriv] Re: Last Call: 'Location Types Registry' to Proposed Standard

2006-01-18 Thread Stephen Farrell
A different question: Henning Schulzrinne wrote: Some additional comments on closer reading and a general comment: This registry intentionally (if you look at the RPID document) is not meant to directly extend the RPID schema. I suppose that one could add that any location types added automa

Re: Transition status (was Re: ISO 3166 mandatory?)

2008-02-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Bill Fenner wrote: > On 2/20/08, John C Klensin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> How much more of this will it take before you conclude that we >> have a problem? > > John, > > Forgive me for saying so, but this sounds like a very extreme > response to me. (Unless the expected answer is "A lo

Re: About IETF communication skills

2008-07-31 Thread Stephen Farrell
+1 & well said Steven M. Bellovin wrote: To put it bluntly, I'm not at all in favor of trying to manage news coverage, especially by organizational mechanisms. Say what you mean, say it clearly, and publish your own blog/newsletter/whatever if you need to. Complaints about misconstrued quotes

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

2008-08-26 Thread Stephen Farrell
Just a +1 to the thrust of Paul's suggestion. The I-D does appear a bit over complex to me, S. Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 2:20 PM -0400 8/23/08, John C Klensin wrote: >> --On Saturday, 23 August, 2008 14:55 +0200 Frank Ellermann >> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>> John C Klensin wrote: >>>

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

2008-09-27 Thread Stephen Farrell
Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 12:37 PM -0500 9/25/08, Stephen Nadas wrote: >> I have read this draft and I support this (imho) very good idea. I don't >> think there were any comments on -00. > > There was a great deal of discussion about this last month when the > first draft was posted. See (curren

Re: draft-ietf-dkim-ssp-06 in last call?

2008-10-08 Thread Stephen Farrell
Doug, Firstly, this draft is not yet in IETF LC, so you've jumped the gun a bit. In any case, I believe you had, and took, a number of opportunities to present your concerns at f2f meetings, on the list and in I-Ds like the one cited below. However, you did not garner support for your suggested

Re: Second Last Call: draft-ietf-smime-bfibecms (Using the Boneh-Franklin and Boneh-Boyen identity-based Encryption Algorithms with the Cryptographic Message Syntax (CMS)) to Proposed Standard

2008-10-21 Thread Stephen Farrell
SM wrote: > As there seems to be only one implementation and very little public > discussion about the draft, I don't see why it should be on the > Standards Track. I don't see any pressing need to publish these at all, especially given the (unfriendly IMO) IPR disclosure and (what I believe) i

Re: Publication track for IBE documents (Was Second Last Call...)

2008-10-21 Thread Stephen Farrell
So while I don't strongly object to these as informational RFCs, I do wonder why, if only one implementation is ever likely, we need any RFC at all. Its not like these docs describe something one couldn't easily figure out were there a need, given that the (elegant but not especially useful) crypt

Re: IPR Questions Raised by Sam Hartman at the IETF 73 Plenary

2008-12-18 Thread Stephen Farrell
FWIW my overall take on this is in line with Dave's. I also think EKR and Larry made good points. Basically, I'll just go with whatever xml2rfc produces at any given moment. Lastly, I can't really find the energy to get exercised by any of this, and wonder if interminable discussions like this a

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your review and comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-08 Thread Stephen Farrell
+1 to fred's proposal, let the exceptions be just that and don't bother most I-D authors, Stephen. On 8 Jan 2009, at 22:49, Fred Baker wrote: You asked me to make this comment publicly, so here it is. In my opinion, we need a 5378-bis that keeps the good bits but corrects the issue that h

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

2009-01-26 Thread Stephen Farrell
Paul Hoffman wrote: > That list could be pre-populated with email addresses from all current IETF > lists to which the "note well" has been sent. Seems a bit silly to me. You're opting me in automatically to some newish, demonstrably broken, IPR stuff? (5378 I mean.) No thanks if that was your s

IRTF DTNRG meeting more often than claimed...

2006-03-17 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi, The IRTF delay tolerant networking RG is meeting a bit more often than claimed on the official meeting agenda, thanks to some DARPA folks sponsoring additional room space, on Thursday and Friday mornings. The DTNRG meeting agenda, logistics etc. are at [1]. Regards, Stephen. [1] http://ww

Re: Last Call: 'Proposed Experiment: Normative Formatin AdditiontoASCII Text' to Experimental RFC (draft-ash-alt-formats)

2006-06-16 Thread Stephen Farrell
Carl Malamud wrote: This is not a job for a committee-of-the-whole ... I'd be perfectly happy to let the IAB or IESG pick a religion and let a working group define the rules of procedure. And, again, piggybacking on the w3c religion seems like a really easy way out of this never-ending debate.

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-26 Thread Stephen Farrell
Keith Moore wrote: DKIM as currently described in the I-Ds is a lot more broken than that, but they're not listening either. Eh - to be fair, your concerns wrt DKIM haven't been posted to that list since roughly the Vancouver BoF at which you took an action to propose some charter text you

Re: are we willing to do change how we do discussions in IETF?

2006-06-26 Thread Stephen Farrell
Keith Moore wrote: Keith Moore wrote: DKIM as currently described in the I-Ds is a lot more broken than that, but they're not listening either. Eh - to be fair, your concerns wrt DKIM haven't been posted to that list since roughly the Vancouver BoF at which you took an action to propose so

Re: draft-kolkman-appeal-support

2006-10-13 Thread Stephen Farrell
Keith Moore wrote: I just don't think that IETF meeting attendance is an appropriate way to decide who is a nutcase and who isn't. Me too. That'd be a move towards paid membership IMO and as was shown with the recent NomCom selection, the record keeping involved can lead to disputes. If we

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

2006-11-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Pekka Savola wrote: On Mon, 13 Nov 2006, Eric Allman wrote: Thanks for your good comments, which I will try to answer as best as I can. Advice from our AD and WG Chairs was that in Last Call the point is not to continue Working Group deliberations, but to (a) find minor wording issues, and

Re: ietf-moms

2007-02-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
Isn't IETF childcare the microphone in the big room on Wed & Thurs evenings? Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Would this be the place to raise the issue of childcare provision at IETF meetings? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.or

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

2007-03-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Russ Housley wrote: Pasi: 2) If this was published in a more academic environment, it would be proper (and required) to cite related work, tracing the source of ideas that were not entirely new. We don't usually have extensive citations in RFCs, but in this context, perhaps it would be approp

Re: References to prior work

2007-03-05 Thread Stephen Farrell
John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, 05 March, 2007 09:19 -0800 Paul Hoffman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: At 8:53 AM -0800 3/5/07, Bob Braden wrote: *> FWIW, I don't think we want to start bouncing specs because they *> don't pay homage - in this case all the similarities are probably *>

Re: Last Call Comments on draft-housley-tls-authz-07

2007-03-09 Thread Stephen Farrell
r_id=765) that claims to cover the technology. The listed terms are RAND but not necessarily royalty-free. The IESG rescinded the approval of this document and sent it back to last call. In the interim, two other IPR statements have been filed, one by Stephen Farrell on work that he did and a third

Re: On the IETF Consensus process

2007-05-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
I generally disregard messages that say things like "we need to..." a bunch of times but never say what or exactly why. If there's something you want, can't you say what it is, so we can see if it makes sense? S ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org ht

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-08 Thread Stephen Farrell
Not that I want to be in this argument, but I was intrigued by the name-dropping from folks who're not silly... Ned Freed wrote: BTW, I suspect you are correct about about the IPv6 transition not being Pareto efficient at the present time, but IMO the bigger issue is that it is widely percieved

Re: A priori IPR choices

2007-10-23 Thread stephen . farrell
> On Tue, 23 Oct 2007 08:42:06 -0400 > Theodore Tso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> I like this document a lot; kudo's to Simon for writing it! >> >> My personal opinion is that suggestions for how to write a free >> standard published as an informational RFC is much more useful than >> trying to ge

Re: Putting requirements on volunteer tool developers (Was: Re: Daily Dose version 2 launched)

2007-11-07 Thread Stephen Farrell
Jari Arkko wrote: In particular: If I'm not mistaken, you are the developer, not the set of end users. In which case your personal preferences are not relevant. Their preferences are very relevant, because often they created these things out of their own needs. They are very keen on hearing

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Farrell
Dave Crocker wrote: > pps. As an exercise, this could be interesting, for recruiting IETF > community participation. A multi-organization, cross-net effort to make > IPv6 useful will permit cataloguing what works, what doesn't, and what > is entirely missing. The problems with the current plan ar

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-18 Thread Stephen Farrell
Douglas Otis wrote: > > On Dec 18, 2007, at 9:29 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> >> While I think the original idea of doing this during a plenary is >> fine, doing it in the meeting areas on Tuesday evening does sound like >> a better option. Awarding success with r

Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
Ross Finlayson wrote: > How easy will it be to commute between the hotel and central Dublin > (e.g., if we want to eat lunch or dinner somewhere other than the > hotel)? You couldn't make lunch in the city centre from citywest. Dinner should be ok, even if it might take a bit longer than usu

Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
Jari Arkko wrote: > Dean, > >> We should know by now that isolated resorts ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE as >> meeting locations. >> > > Er... like Dallas or San Diego? > > I've never been to Dublin and I don't know what exists on site. Maybe > some locals could tell us? Actually, I think the hote

Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-08 Thread Stephen Farrell
Ray Pelletier wrote: > If you want to see Dublin, and I recommend it, consider arriving 2 - 3 > days early, or staying after the meeting at a hotel downtown near > Grafton Street and Trinity College. The college even has dorm rooms > available at very reasonable rates, if you don't mind rough

sec ADs office hours

2012-11-06 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi, Some area directors do "office hours" where they're available in case folks want to chat about a discuss or other topic. Sean and I haven't been doing that to date but have decided to give it a try this time. So the SEC ADs will be available in room 202 on Thursday from 1300-1500, if you wan

Re: NASA just bought IRTF

2012-11-13 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 11/13/2012 10:46 AM, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote: > http://anewdomain.net/2012/11/10/nasa-dtn-protocol-bp-protocol-vint-cerf-interplanetary-internet-how-it-works-what-legos-have-to-to-with-it/# > >> According to NASA's Delay-Tolerant Networking Research Group >> (DTNRG), "the DTN protocol is un

Re: Newcomers [Was: Evolutionizing the IETF]

2012-11-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 11/14/2012 04:48 PM, Carlos M. Martinez wrote: > I've had much better remote > participation experiences in other conferences than I've had with the IETF. Can you provide pointers? Ta, S.

Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi all, I've just posted an idea [1] for a small process improvement. If it doesn't seem crazy I'll try pursue it with the IESG as an RFC 3933 process experiment. If its universally hated then that's fine, it can die. The IESG have seen (more-or-less) this already but it hasn't be discussed, so

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Dave, On 12/01/2012 10:13 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > > On 12/1/2012 1:00 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: >> On 12/1/12 11:36 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: >>> What actual problem is this trying to solve? I see the reference to a >>> 'reward', but wasn't aware that there is a perceived problem needing >>>

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/01/2012 10:22 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: >> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-farrell-ft > > I have a serious problem with the premise of the proposal. > > The short version is that if the process we're talking about is > useful, we should not shortcut it as a "reward" for anything. I dis

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-01 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/01/2012 11:13 PM, Dave Crocker wrote: > Stephen, > > On 12/1/2012 2:56 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >>> At a minimum, any proposal for change should be expected to justify the >>> specific problem it is claiming to solve -- >> >> Disagree. RFC 3933

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 12/01/2012 09:06 PM, SM wrote: > > Could you ask an AD to sponsor this draft and generate the Last Call? Bit early yet. I'd like to know what folks think and hopefully improve the thing via others' good ideas. > > Regards, > -sm > > P.S. Make the draft experimental. Add a one-year

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
he process. If IETF > participants, especially those who don't attend meetings and long > participated remotely or via mailing list, lose faith in the WG process, > these process change proposals may expedite IETF work, but they may also > handicap the potential of a proposed standar

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
lly. Ta, S. > >Brian > > On 01/12/2012 20:12, Stephen Farrell wrote: > ... >> [1] http://tools.ietf.org/id/draft-farrell-ft > >

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 12/02/2012 12:21 AM, Barry Leiba wrote: >> > I, and I believe lots of us, do want to encourage running code >> > more than now. This is one attempt to help with that. Why not >> > try it and see? > Because as a "reward" for claiming to have running code, I think it's > a terrible idea.

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/01/2012 11:51 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 12/1/12 2:21 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> My reluctance to get into this is based on an opinion that process >> change proposals with more words attached tend to just not happen, >> so fewer words is better. > > I thi

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Stewart, On 12/03/2012 08:06 AM, Stewart Bryant wrote: > On 01/12/2012 20:12, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> Hi all, >> >> I've just posted an idea [1] for a small process improvement. >> If it doesn't seem crazy I'll try pursue it with the IESG as

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
t; and >> "internationalization", but only found the former, and not not in a >> discussion about how this proposal would make sure that cross-concerns >> are adequately addressed. >> >> Regards, Martin. >> >> On 2012/12/02 5:12, Stephen Farre

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi John, On 12/03/2012 12:29 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Monday, December 03, 2012 11:28 +0000 Stephen Farrell > wrote: > >>> Encouraging running code is a Good Thing. Publishing sloppy >>> specifications is a Bad Thing. >> >> Sure. I gue

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/03/2012 02:25 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > Running code, when it's an organic part of the document development, > is undoubtedly a good thing -- it doesn't make everything right, but, > yes, it does do *some* spec validation and probably does help spec > quality. Fully agree. And this kind of

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/03/2012 02:50 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > I'd really prefer if we'd talk about open source being desirable, but > not having it be necessary. Yep. I got another comment to that effect as well. I'll try address that (but that's not done yet). FWIW, a working copy is available [1] that has a b

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/03/2012 04:21 PM, Sam Hartman wrote: >>>>>> "Stephen" == Stephen Farrell writes: > > Stephen> On 12/03/2012 02:50 PM, Barry Leiba wrote: > >> I'd really prefer if we'd talk about open source being desirable, > >

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/03/2012 04:41 PM, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > I support this idea, but I think that free software should also be considered > as part of this experiment (free software and open source are not synonymous). > Using the acronym FOSS and defining it as Free or Open Source Software in the > doc

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Jari, I agree with almost all of what you say. I think we only disagree in two places, and perhaps more about tactics than anything else. The first is whether or not its worthwhile addressing the specific bit of process my draft tackles. I obviously do think it is, even though you correctly n

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-03 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 12/03/2012 10:50 PM, David Morris wrote: > > > On Mon, 3 Dec 2012, Marc Petit-Huguenin wrote: > > >> I support this idea, but I think that free software should also be considered >> as part of this experiment (free software and open source are not >> synonymous). >> Using the acronym FOS

Re: Idea for a process experiment to reward running code...

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, This proposal only kicks in (as an option) after the WG have done their job, however they choose to do that (within the IETF process). Later on, it might be a fine idea to try extend the fast-track concept so that a WG has a structured way do similar things but IMO that'd be better done af

Re: draft-farrell-ft-01.txt -- what signal are we attempting to sense?

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Ted, On 12/05/2012 05:22 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > Reading through Stephen's draft and the discussion to date, I think there > is some confusion/disagreement about what it is having an implementation > at this stage signals. > > One way to break up the work of the IETF is: > > Engineering--mak

Re: draft-farrell-ft-01.txt -- what signal are we attempting to sense?

2012-12-05 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Ted, Thanks that change looks good to me. I'll whack it in thanks. I do still like the word "reward" though so I'll tag that on too:-) Cheers, S. On 12/05/2012 07:36 PM, Ted Hardie wrote: > Hi Stephen, > > Some further comments in-line. > > On Wed, Dec

Re: Running code, take 2

2012-12-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Yaron, I'm glad to see more discussion of this general topic. On 12/12/2012 07:31 PM, Yaron Sheffer wrote: > Hi, > > I have just published a draft that proposes an alternative to Stephen's > "fast track". My proposal simply allows authors to document, in a > semi-standard way, whatever imple

Re: The notion of "fast tracking" drafts

2012-12-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 12/14/2012 11:09 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > Hi. > > I've been trying to say out of this because I think most of the > suggestions are better carried out by AD-encouraged experiments > and reports to the rest of us on effectiveness rather than by > long discussions in the community abou

Re: The notion of "fast tracking" drafts

2012-12-16 Thread Stephen Farrell
John, Keith, I really have to say that you both seem to be talking about things that have nothing whatsoever to do with my proposal. ISTM that you are of the opinion that anything the IETF does to go faster is bad in and of itself because its scary. This also seems to me to be an example of the

Re: The notion of "fast tracking" drafts

2012-12-16 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 12/16/2012 10:27 PM, Keith Moore wrote: > On 12/16/2012 04:49 PM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> ISTM that you are of the opinion that anything the IETF >> does to go faster is bad in and of itself because its >> scary. > It's not that simple, at least in my opi

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-11 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/11/2013 07:33 PM, SM wrote: > At 07:14 11-01-2013, The IESG wrote: >> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider >> the following document: >> - 'A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code' >>as Experimental RFC >> >> The IESG plans to make a decision

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/11/2013 09:02 PM, Stephan Wenger wrote: > Hi, > > Sorry for replying to this "advise to secretariat" thread and not to the > ietf-announce thread--I'm not subscribed to ietf-announce. > I have three comments, and regret that I have not followed all of the > discussions regarding this

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-12 Thread Stephen Farrell
if that's wrong. Cheers, S. On 01/11/2013 09:34 PM, SM wrote: > Hi Stephen, > At 12:36 11-01-2013, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> You mean rough consensus of the IETF I guess? Good question. > > No, I mean consensus as that's also part what is gauged during a Last Call.

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/14/2013 07:50 AM, Stephan Wenger wrote: >> ... > I understand that this is a rant. And, I'm not ranting back, even if > tempted. ... Yes, its tempting, but I'm going to resist since its irrelevant IMO. ... >> >> I'm not at all sure what concrete suggestion you're making, other

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Bernard, I'm sorry, I have no idea what it is that you agree with. Can you elaborate? Thanks, S. On 01/12/2013 10:47 PM, Bernard Aboba wrote: > +1 > > [IAB Chair hat off]. > >> Date: Fri, 11 Jan 2013 22:25:38 +0100 >> Subject: Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC >> with Running Cod

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
>As a background, I'm a long-time believer in "rough consensus" for > Proposed Standard and "running code" for advancement along the > standards track. I do not believe the two mix well. > >A standard needs to be as simple as possible (but no s

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
f the goal were that all PS RFCs would be processed this way. That's not the goal and that's stated in the draft. >A standard needs to be as simple as possible (but no simpler); > running code needs to be complex. > >Stephen Farrell wants to "speed up" our proce

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Olafur, On 01/14/2013 04:39 PM, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: > On 11/01/2013 10:14, The IESG wrote: >> >> The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to >> consider the following document: - 'A Fast-Track way to RFC with >> Running Code' as Experimental RFC >> >> The IESG plans

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Hector, On 01/14/2013 05:05 PM, Hector Santos wrote: > I have two concerns and comments: > > - How will success or failure be measured? Number of appeal increases > or lesser amount? I have a concern that once this door is open, there > will be increase appeals and also apathy of outcomes.

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
t; deserve a better community understanding... > > Stephen Farrell wrote: >> ... >> Well WGLC isn't part of 2026, and others have argued that that means >> that there's no need for this to even be a process-experiment... > >I think the Narrative Minutes s

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Martin, On 01/14/2013 08:32 PM, Martin Rex wrote: > John Leslie wrote: >> >>I'm pretty darn uncomfortable _ever_ picking a fight with any >> sitting AD, But I feel obligated to say this seems like a terrible >> idea to me. >> >>As a background, I'm a long-time believer in "rough consen

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-14 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Olafur, Thanks for the offer of text. Looking forward to getting that. Just on this one though... On 01/14/2013 10:29 PM, Olafur Gudmundsson wrote: >> That's also sort of like the point Stefan W. raised. And he >> suggested: >> >> "If the source code has been developed >>

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Martin, On 01/15/2013 02:10 AM, Martin Rex wrote: > John Leslie wrote: >> >>> ... >>> But more to the point, I think that in a lot of cases where >>> the IETF has done a good job, there has been running code >>> before the WG even started... >> >>This perhaps explains where Stephen is coming

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Brian, On 01/15/2013 10:55 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > On balance I think this experiment is safe to carry out, and therefore > probably should be carried out. There are a few comments below. > > However, I would urge the IESG to update the page at > http://www.ietf.org/iesg/process-experi

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/15/2013 11:49 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > I hate it when we end up legislating for common sense, so I > agree that for the experiment, this point could be put in the > wiki. Great. I'm accumulating stuff like that in the "changes" section (9.1) of the working version [1] for now,

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-15 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Ned, at the end... On 01/15/2013 10:31 PM, ned+i...@mauve.mrochek.com wrote: > Martin Rex wrote: > >> John Leslie wrote: >>> >>>I'm pretty darn uncomfortable _ever_ picking a fight with any >>> sitting AD, But I feel obligated to say this seems like a terrible >>> idea to me. >>> >>>

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-16 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Ned, On 01/16/2013 03:40 AM, Ned Freed wrote: >> Actually I think you make a couple of great points that ought be >> mentioned in the draft about implementability. (No chance you'd >> have time to craft a paragraph? If not, I'll try pinch text from >> above:-) Now that you point it out like th

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Joe, On 01/22/2013 04:39 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > Hi, all, > > On 1/11/2013 8:21 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: >> Hi Alexa, >> >> Please be aware of this document that has just entered a four-week >> IETF last >> call. The document describes a proposed IETF process experiment under >> the rules >> o

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 01/22/2013 05:14 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > > > On 1/22/2013 9:00 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> >> Hi Joe, >> >> On 01/22/2013 04:39 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > ... >>> This is a silly idea. >> >> So you're in two minds about it eh:-)

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/22/2013 05:14 PM, Joe Touch wrote: > > It puts more work on the community at large to review an idea that could > have been either rejected or significantly improved in a smaller > community before wasting the larger communities time. Actually it occurs to me that there might be som

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Thomas, On 01/22/2013 09:31 PM, Thomas Narten wrote: > FWIW, I share Joe's concerns. And Stephen's responses don't really > change my mind. Ah well. I'm willing to keep trying:-) > This document seems to have a bit of missing the forest for the > trees. In the overall scheme of things, I don

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi John, Bits and pieces below... On 01/22/2013 07:04 PM, John Leslie wrote: > Joe Touch wrote: >> On 1/11/2013 8:21 AM, Adrian Farrel wrote: >>> >>> The proposed experiment calls on the IETF Secretariat to take specific >>> actions under certain circumstances in corner cases of the experiment

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFCwith Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
Responses to some points below but I'd really like to ask people to consider a few things here: - what's proposed is an experiment, it'd likely get tried out a few times and won't consume any huge resource anywhere - its optional, WG chairs that want to try it could, those that don't can just

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 01/25/2013 03:27 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > In the context of draft-farrell-ft, the above makes the idea of > WG LC in parallel with IETF LC either irrelevant or bad news. > If the WG Chair (or AD) concludes that a WG LC is needed, then > the procedure should not be invoked. If a WG LC is no

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/25/2013 04:37 PM, John C Klensin wrote: > If I correctly understand the above, it lies at the root of the > problem I was trying to describe. This is really an experiment > if the effect of deciding we didn't want to make it permanent > was that we were at status quo ante, i.e., as i

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Martin, On 01/25/2013 09:36 PM, Martin Rex wrote: > I don't know about the last time it happened, but I know about > one time in Nov-2009 in the TLS WG (now rfc5746). I recall that and agree with the sequence of events you describe, but I'm not sure that that situation is relevant when consid

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way toRFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-27 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 01/27/2013 11:19 AM, t.p. wrote: > - Original Message - > From: "Stephen Farrell" > To: > Cc: "John C Klensin" ; "Thomas Narten" > ; ; > Sent: Friday, January 25, 2013 10:47 PM >> >> Hi Martin, >> >> On 01/25/

Re: FW: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFCwith Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-28 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 01/28/2013 04:27 AM, Joe Touch wrote: > About the idea of an "experiment": Right. The context being its an RFC 3933 IETF process experiment. > > On 1/25/2013 5:07 AM, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> >> Responses to some points below but I'd really like to as

Re: Last Call: (A Fast-Track way to RFC with Running Code) to Experimental RFC

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen Farrell
Responses to Cullen below, but this is getting to the point where unless someone else who likes the idea wants to join the discussion, I'm going to conclude that we're collectively either unwilling or unable to consider 3933 experiments and regard this one as dead, which maybe means 3933 is dead-i

Re: 3933 experiments

2013-01-29 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hiya, On 01/29/2013 05:49 PM, SM wrote: > Hi Stephen, > At 01:59 29-01-2013, Stephen Farrell wrote: >> Responses to Cullen below, but this is getting to the point >> where unless someone else who likes the idea wants to join >> the discussion, I'm going to con

Re: IETF Challenges - DTN and the Internet of Stuff

2013-03-02 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 03/02/2013 10:54 AM, Fred Baker (fred) wrote: > From my perspective, an important technical challenge in coming years might > be a variation on delay-tolerant networking. We have done a fair bit of work > in this area, for some definition of "we" - SOAP, Saratoga, and the NASA/JPL > DTNrg w

Re: Nomcom off in the wilderness: Transport AD

2013-03-06 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 03/06/2013 05:05 PM, Melinda Shore wrote: > On 3/6/13 4:57 AM, Dave Crocker wrote: >> Candidates could choose to circulate the first part publicly. > > I'm really, really against turning this into an election-like process Speaking as someone who's filled in these things and both been selecte

Re: IPR view (Re: Internet Draft Final Submission Cut-Off Today )

2013-03-07 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 03/07/2013 09:34 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: > Oh, and one more data point: > > The Internet-Draft archive also functions as a timestamped signed public > archival record of our "inventions". > (Which are often trivial, but triviality won't stop patenting of copycats, > while a good priority

Re: Less Corporate Diversity

2013-03-22 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 03/23/2013 02:22 AM, Melinda Shore wrote: > Sorry, Martin, but you're not describing how the IETF actually > works. > FWIW, seems to me you're describing one leg of the elephant each. From my experience I'd say you both actually have an appreciation of the overall elephant but that's not com

Re: It's a personal statement (Re: On the tradition of I-D "Acknowledgements" sections)

2013-03-25 Thread Stephen Farrell
Hi Lloyd, On 03/25/2013 10:03 PM, l.w...@surrey.ac.uk wrote: > (i'm just commenting on this thread so that when it results in an I-D > recommending how to write acks, I get acked...) Thanks! Yours is the first useful thing anyone's said in this thread that I recall. (Most previous mails made me

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-13 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 04/13/2013 01:09 PM, Lou Berger wrote: > gender bias ... > "western white guys". It may be that the latter phrase is a common term in north America, (I dunno) but fwiw it grates on me at least. If the issue we're talking about relates to gender, then I think sticking to that is better and fi

Re: IETF Diversity Question on Berlin Registration?

2013-04-13 Thread Stephen Farrell
On 13 Apr 2013, at 18:05, Michael StJohns wrote: > Maybe what we do is ask some of the large network companies to fund a few > research fellowships on topics that might be of interest to the IETF in the > 3-5 year time frame for post-doc types? They actually do that already. More of would be

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