Re: Does being an RFC mean anything?
Melinda Shore wrote: From a librarian perspective, the RFCs are a document series. That's a problem insofar as the IETF is perceived to be a standards body. Certainly in bodies like ETSI there's an explicit distinction between a technical standard and a technical report that I think may be clearer than the distinctions among IETF standards, IETF best practices documents, IETF experimental standards, IETF informational documents, and then orthogonally the various routes to publication. Is this reallly a problem? Yes, RFCs can be published for a multitude of reasons, but whether a particular RFC is standards track, informational, experimental, historic, etc. is clearly indicated in the rfc index file. --James ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf
Re: Why we shouldn' use ASCII text
Alex Kamantauskas wrote: Away with your Mesopotamiacentric alphabets and writing implements!! Intelligent grunting was good enough for mankind for a million years! From certain email lists to which I'm subscribed, it seems that it's still good enough. Oh, you said *intelligent* grunting... sorry ;-) James
Re: First bit of IP Addresses
Anshul Jain wrote: I am not clear in basics of ip address format, why we are not using the first bit as 0 to define new class of addresses, may this double the available IPs, Hmmm... and why not call this new class of addresses "Class A"? In the classful world: bit 1 = 0 - Class A bits 1,2 = 10 - Class B bits 1,2,3 = 110- Class C bits 1,2,3,4 = 1110 - Class D (Multicast) etc. James
Re: NATs *ARE* evil!
Dennis Glatting wrote: If it isn't an address issue, is it a routing issue? Is it that the routing tables/protocols/hardware can't handle the large number of routes? Are ISPs refusing to carry reasonable routes? Seems to me if the entire address space was broken up into subnets of 4096, there would be about 1 million routes. What is the current size? I think I remember seeing numbers on the order of 50,000. Current size as of a few months ago was 85k routes. Today's global BGP table (at least from one view) contains approx. 95,000 entries (and it went over 100,000 for a short time yesterday). Take a look at http://www.mcvax.org/~jhma/routing/ for three years' history and a daily generated list of aggregation possibilities which could take the routing table down to a mere 65,000 or so entries. James
Re: Bake-off as trademark
"Henning G. Schulzrinne" wrote: I've been approached regarding the use of the (claimed-to-be) trademarked term bake-off. It would be helpful if somebody can provide credible evidence that this term has been used within the technical community for many years. (In case you didn't know, http://www.bakeoff.com/ shows the non-technical use) See, for example, rfc-1025 (September 1987). James
