Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Patrik Fältström
At 15.20 -0400 2000-04-07, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: I think it's important to carefully distinguish between these sorts of redirection. Some clarifying text in the draft to this effect would be helpful. That is what I have asked the authors to do. The problems with "intercepting proxies" are

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-0

2000-04-08 Thread Patrik Fältström
At 17.29 -0700 2000-04-07, Peter Deutsch wrote: LD is intended to sit in front of a cluster of cache engines containing similar data, performing automatic distribution of incoming requests among the multiple caches. It does this by intercepting the incoming IP packets intended for a specific IP

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-08 Thread Salvador Vidal
Hi folks and all, At 10:04 06/04/00 JST, Masataka Ohta wrote: Online business patents are, at large, ineffective and harmless. We can have servers outside of US and there is no legislation (even under US laws. note that the servers can serve yet another countries) to make the servers illegal.

SNMPCONF Working Group Interim Meeting Announcement

2000-04-08 Thread Jon Saperia
The SNMPCONF Working group intends to hold an interim meeting to work on all items currently in our charter: - The Best Current Practices Document - The Differentiated Services Policy MIB Module - The General Policy MIB Module To better coordinate with other meetings, the location has

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-08 Thread John Stracke
Masataka Ohta wrote: Even if it's not true in the general case, a sufficiently expensive lawyer might be able to convince the court that, since the Internet makes location irrelevant, the location of the infringement is irrelevant. that US patents are applicable even if both servers,

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-0

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Hi Patrik, Patrik Fältström wrote: At 17.29 -0700 2000-04-07, Peter Deutsch wrote: LD is intended to sit in front of a cluster of cache engines containing similar data, performing automatic distribution of incoming requests among the multiple caches. It does this by intercepting the

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Keith Moore
Peter, I think that by now I've made my points and defended them adequately and that there is little more to be acheived by continuing a public, and largely personal, point-by-point argument. If you want to continue this in private mail I'll consider it. The simple fact is that I believe

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Pyda Srisuresh
--- Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ... stuff deleted As we have done with the NAT WG, it is often useful to accurately document the drawbacks of a common practice as well as to encourage exploration of alternatives. From my point of view there were significant forces within the

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Keith Moore wrote: Peter, I think that by now I've made my points and defended them adequately and that there is little more to be acheived by continuing a public, and largely personal, point-by-point argument. If you want to continue this in private mail I'll consider it. Okay,

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 08 Apr 2000 15:28:12 EDT, Keith Moore said: The simple fact is that I believe that the idea of interception proxies does not have sufficient technical merit to be published by IETF, and that IETF's publication of a document that tends to promote the use of such devices would

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Doug Royer
Peter Deutsch in Mountain View wrote: [in part you said] I still object to your notion that it's not censorship since people can always go elsewhere. Where does this lead? I see the day when people can't publish a new directory service protocol because "The IETF has endorsed LDAP for

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Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Keith Moore
Keith - I argued to keep the term "transparent routing" in the NAT terminology RFC (RFC 2663). The arguments I put forth were solely mine and not influenced by my employer or anyone else. didn't say that they were. Clearly, your point of view is skewed against NATs. It is rather

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Pyda Srisuresh
--- Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Keith - I argued to keep the term "transparent routing" in the NAT terminology RFC (RFC 2663). The arguments I put forth were solely mine and not influenced by my employer or anyone else. didn't say that they were. Clearly, your point of

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Keith Moore
Publication under Informational and Experimental has typically been open to all wishing it. uh, no. this is a common myth, but it's not true, and hasn't been true for many years. I hope (and believe) that the *potential* for publication is open to all, and that the process isn't biased

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Pyda Srisuresh
--- Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Sorry.. Your conclusion is based on a wrong premise. The NAT group's draft documents speak for themselves. My point exactly. regards, suresh __ Do You Yahoo!? Talk to your friends online with

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-08 Thread Jon Crowcroft
as ye sow, so shall ye weep...in reading this thread i guess i saw several problems: oxymoron alert "thought...patent" tautology alert "sufficiently expensive...lawyer" internet bogon alert "find the server" is a server where the ip address, DNS name, lat/long of the CPU, memory, disk, or

prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-08 Thread Dave Crocker
At 05:06 PM 4/8/00 -0400, Keith Moore wrote: Publication under Informational and Experimental has typically been open to all wishing it. uh, no. this is a common myth, but it's not true, and hasn't been true for many years. First, let's be clear that your statement includes a

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Keith Moore wrote: The industry and their customers have already decided against you on this one. Industry people love to make such claims. They're just marketing BS. The Internet isn't in final form yet and I don't expect it to stabilize for at least another decade. There's still

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-08 Thread Keith Moore
One would be hard-pressed to inspect the author-list of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt, the work of the associated companies, and the clear need for optimizations of application performance, and then deem this document not relevant. I'm not hard-pressed to do this at all. In fact I find it

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Keith Moore
the problem with a "NAT working group" is that it attracts NAT developers far more than it does the people whose interests are harmed by NATs - which is to say, Internet users in general. so by its very nature a "focused" NAT working group will produce misleading results. This bias

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Lloyd Wood wrote: Well, look at the list of signatories to the Draft in question. technical merits, please. I was not arguing for the merits of the technology in question based upon who signed it. In fact, I haven't tried to address the technical merits of the specific document at

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-08 Thread Karl Auerbach
I'd like note my agreement with to the comments made by Dave Crocker. And I would like to suggest that there is perhaps yet another aspect of this debate: The IETF recently made a strong moral statement against CALEA. That statement carried weight; it was noticed; it had impact. And that

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Keith Moore
Peter, I don't think I would agree that NECP is out of scope for IETF. I think it's pefectly valid for IETF to say things like "NECP is intended to support interception proxies. Such proxies violate the IP architecture in the following ways: ... and therefore cause the following problems...

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Keith Moore wrote: One would be hard-pressed to inspect the author-list of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt, the work of the associated companies, and the clear need for optimizations of application performance, and then deem this document not relevant. I'm not hard-pressed

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-08 Thread Martin J.G. Williams
I've come into this discussion rather late, however there is at least one salient point which I believe that Keith Moore has argued rather well... In my understanding the role of the IETF is to promote the logical growth and evolution of the Internet Protocols. Whilst 'vendors' have massive