Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-02 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Mon, 02 Nov 2009 13:54:29 +, stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk said: > The networking I was talking > about was that lovely beast called Decnet Phase IV. I suspect you mean Decnet Phase V, which is also what I was talking about... -- Keith Edmunds +--

Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-02 Thread Sean Gibbins
Stephen Davies wrote: > I was doing that around that time as well. The networking I was talking > about was that lovely beast called Decnet Phase IV. > Those were the days. Yeltsin sitting on a tank in Moscow while I talked > at a University there about something as boring as Networking. He obvi

Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-02 Thread Stephen Davies
Keith Edmunds wrote I was giving presentations in the early nineties about a kind of networking that set out to achieve broadly the same goals as IPv6 I was doing that around that time as well. The networking I was talking about was that lovely beast called Decnet Phase IV. Those were the days.

Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-01 Thread Andy Smith
Hi Stephen, On Sun, Nov 01, 2009 at 04:25:26PM +, Stephen Davies wrote: > IMHO, the issue is if the DNS bits in whatever device it is can handle > strings in UTF-8 or UTF-16 OR UTF-8 with UTF-16 command switches(ie > where you can indicate a UTF-16 or UTF-8 set of charactes withing a string

Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-01 Thread Keith Edmunds
On Sun, 01 Nov 2009 16:25:26 +, stephen.dav...@ultraconsulting.co.uk said: > Then you have the move to IPV6 I was giving presentations in the early nineties about a kind of networking that set out to achieve broadly the same goals as IPv6. That never materialised in any way worth talking abou

Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-01 Thread The Holy ettlz
On Sun, 2009-11-01 at 16:25 +, Stephen Davies wrote: > IMHO, the issue is if the DNS bits in whatever device it is can handle > strings in UTF-8 or UTF-16 OR UTF-8 with UTF-16 command switches(ie > where you can indicate a UTF-16 or UTF-8 set of charactes withing a string. > > Then you have

Re: [Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-11-01 Thread Stephen Davies
IMHO, the issue is if the DNS bits in whatever device it is can handle strings in UTF-8 or UTF-16 OR UTF-8 with UTF-16 command switches(ie where you can indicate a UTF-16 or UTF-8 set of charactes withing a string. Then you have the move to IPV6 and I'm sure there is going to be a lot of kit m

[Hampshire] Internet addresses set for change

2009-10-31 Thread Chris Dennis
Hi folks Have you seen this? http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8333194.stm I wonder how many programmes / operating systems / routers etc. will break? cheers Chris -- Chris Dennis cgden...@btinternet.com Fordingbridge, Hampshire, UK -- Please post to: