RE: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Dave Crocker
At 08:05 PM 8/4/00 +, Bob Braden wrote: >Elevators are fundamentally inimical to the IETF, becauseelevators don't >scale. an elevator doesn't scale the building? d/

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
> They have not been overlooked by those who have been > working on IPv6 address allocation policy. What's the solution? Hint: No policy of advance address allocation will help, and neither will any form of address-based routing, no matter how clever.

Re: Address allocation revisited

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > How many Ethernet address blocks has 3com gone through? MAC addresses do not affect routing. They are just numbers. IP addresses cannot be randomly assigned, as they are correlated with routing. This severely restricts the allocation of the address space. > If you

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Keith Moore
> Elevators are fundamentally inimical to the IETF, because > elevators don't scale. Scalable elevators have been designed, and I believe, prototyped. However it appears that buildings don't scale well enough to make scalable elevators worthwhile. Keith

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Fri, Aug 04, 2000 at 08:05:44PM +, Bob Braden wrote: > > Elevators are fundamentally inimical to the IETF, because > elevators don't scale. But they are an established transport. We are not suppose to create a new one when an old one will serve the purpose. > Bob Braden

RE: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Bob Braden
Elevators are fundamentally inimical to the IETF, because elevators don't scale. Bob Braden

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake "Mahadevan Iyer" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open network like the > Internet to control critical matter-of-life-and-death public > infrastructure like power systems. What do you think? Public power systems are not life-and-death. Anywhere th

Non-USA countries and improvement in networks?

2000-08-04 Thread Andre-John Mas
The USA is the best networked country in the world with enough redundency to cope with any major network outages. The same can't be said for many countries around the world - many of them use the USA as the universal hub. Does anyone know what efforts, either nationaly and international are underw

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Steve Deering
At 8:36 AM +0200 8/4/00, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >I think we'll see IP addressable toasters and washing machines just after we >all switch from automobiles to hovercars and from telephones to >Picturephones. According to predictions being made by futurists for the >past few decades, all of these

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Steve Deering
At 8:49 AM +0200 8/4/00, Anthony Atkielski wrote: >Not relevant. IPv6 will be exhausted by overly-generous allocation of >address space, just like IPv4. I've already explained in the past why this >must be so. In part, it comes from the subjective impression that any new >address space is "more

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Jim_Stephenson-Dunn
I believe that we are looking at a wireless solution here, and the justification for building alternate dimension networks could be difficult to justify unless we have an overcrowding problem on earth. That in turn would open up all sorts of other possibilities. You can see the advertisements no

RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Parkinson, Jonathan
>all we need is programmers that remember to actually CHECK that string >lengths are in bounds. Lets hope they are X-Microsoft programmers, That should keep all us support staff busy and in secure jobs ;-) I know, Its Friday ! Jon -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EM

Re: Address allocation revisited

2000-08-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 08:52:37 +0200, Anthony Atkielski <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said: > Robert Book writes: > > Vinton's idea has much merit. A scheme to allocate blocks > > of addresses to manufacturers would be much easier to > > support ... > No. This will only accelerate the exhaustion of IPv6. B

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 04 Aug 2000 01:26:55 PDT, Mahadevan Iyer said: > At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open network like the > Internet to control critical matter-of-life-and-death public > infrastructure like power systems. What do you think? At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use some

RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Brijesh Kumar
> -Original Message- > From: Anthony Atkielski [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > Mahadevan Iyer writes: > > > At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open > > network like the Internet to control critical matter= > > of-life-and-death public infrastructure like power > > systems. Wh

RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Parkinson, Jonathan
The world connected Hmm Now I'm thinking Virus's /Jon/div -Original Message- From: Evstiounin, Mikhail [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 4:08 PM To: Steven Cotton; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my! Toaster is much more quite,

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread RL 'Bob' Morgan
> It would really really be cool if the Pub/Cafe is also on 802.11. > > (Wait, that will means everyone will stay whole day at the pub then to > attend _some_ WG for their 802.11) A couple of people mentioned to me that the availability of 802.11 connectivity (and presumably the wired connectio

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: =?iso-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns?= Nilsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > good point... but I do wonder how the border edge > > router will handle a datagram with > > TTL approx > 240 sec's > > ( i.e min time required for msg to pass between earth <=> mars) ? > > what about jitters, latency ,dropped packet

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Andre-John Mas
Dennis Glatting wrote: > > On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Andre-John Mas wrote: > [SNIP] > > > > Though if the devices already use ethernet, then each device would > > already have its own MAC address, and the IP address would be DHCP > > assignable. As stated earlier once firewall/routers/DHCP server comb

RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Evstiounin, Mikhail
Toaster is much more quite, even it takes more time. And all your mail will have brown-gold colour, while in blender you get everything mixed up:-) > -Original Message- > From: Steven Cotton [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Friday, August 04, 2000 5:05 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subje

[IETF48] IPv6 shutdown time will be 11:30

2000-08-04 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
we will remove IPv6 router at the venue around 11:30. thanks. itojun

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Mahadevan Iyer writes: > At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open > network like the Internet to control critical matter= > of-life-and-death public infrastructure like power > systems. What do you think? I think there are lots of idiots out there preparing to do exactly this.

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Andre-John Mas wrote: > > > Dennis Glatting wrote: > > > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Keith Moore wrote: > > > > [snip] > > > > > burning IP addresses into devices is a good way to give vendors the > > > ability to control those devices, monitor their usage, and to loc

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Måns Nilsson
"Dawson, Peter D" wrote: > > good point... but I do wonder how the border edge > router will handle a datagram with > TTL approx > 240 sec's > ( i.e min time required for msg to pass between earth <=> mars) ? > what about jitters, latency ,dropped packets, icmpv6 err msg well > whatever

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Dennis Glatting
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Mahadevan Iyer wrote: > At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open network like the > Internet to control critical matter-of-life-and-death public > infrastructure like power systems. What do you think? > I believe: * Engineers will build any possible feature i

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Andre-John Mas
Dennis Glatting wrote: > > On Thu, 3 Aug 2000, Keith Moore wrote: > > [snip] > > > burning IP addresses into devices is a good way to give vendors the > > ability to control those devices, monitor their usage, and to lock > > their customers in to particular services. not my idea of

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Andrew Rutherford
At 00:07 -0400 4/8/00, Fred Baker wrote: >At 10:21 AM 8/3/00 -0500, Matt Crawford wrote: >>Also heard at the IETF: In the plenary session the chair >>denied the existence of Ireland. > >News to me. Care to give me the context? I believe Matt's referring to the comment that there is one English s

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread John Stracke
James Seng wrote: > It would really really be cool if the Pub/Cafe is also on 802.11. > > (Wait, that will means everyone will stay whole day at the pub then to > attend _some_ WG for their 802.11) "Can I get a hum on whether there are snakes under my chair?" -- /===

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Steven Cotton
On Fri, 4 Aug 2000, Anthony Atkielski wrote: > The mere fact that something is technically possible doesn't mean that it > should be done. Definitely - what benefit can I get from my toaster having Internet conectivity when I will be able to use my blender to read mail? -- steven

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Mahadevan Iyer
At first glance, it seems sheer idiocy to use an open network like the Internet to control critical matter-of-life-and-death public infrastructure like power systems. What do you think? Or do you think, it is possible to build ultra-reliable secure real-time communication channels in the Interne

Address allocation revisited

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Robert Book writes: > Vinton's idea has much merit. A scheme to allocate blocks > of addresses to manufacturers would be much easier to > support ... No. This will only accelerate the exhaustion of IPv6.

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
Peter Dawson writes: > v6 address space works out to about 1500 address > per sq mtr of the earth's surface... > NOW..how many house fit on 1 sqm ? Not relevant. IPv6 will be exhausted by overly-generous allocation of address space, just like IPv4. I've already explained in the past why this

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
> The IPv6 address blocks allocated by ARIN are much > much larger, so the price per address for an ISP > is considerably lower. And IPv6 will be exhausted just as quickly or more quickly than IPv4 in consequence. Doesn't anyone ever learn? The same mistakes are being made over and over. There'

RE: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread vinton g. cerf
see www.ipnsig.org vint At 09:46 PM 8/3/2000 -0400, Philip J. Nesser II wrote: >-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >Hash: SHA1 > >There is already a lot of work being done on the Interplanetary >Internet problem. Vint Cerf has lead pioneering work with people at >JPL on the problem. I don't

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Anthony Atkielski
> When household appliances begin becoming IP addressable, > I think we will see a move towards assigning an Internet > IP address per household (much like today's street address). > The household will perform NAT for all devices within > (one street address can house many people, not just one).

Reg MIB Augments

2000-08-04 Thread Shaik Yunus Saleem
Hi folks, I would like to know , how exactly augments clause works for a MIB. when i augment an existing mib with a new one, should a walk issued on the old mib traverse to the new mib ?? This makes sense if the two tables are in the same node ie next in lexicographic order.But if these tw

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread vinton g. cerf
At 05:48 PM 8/3/2000 -0400, Keith Moore wrote: >The various proposals to burn IP addresses into devices are naive. for the record, I was assuming that only a lower order unique end-id was burned in and that the high order bits would be dynamically assigned based on connectivity to the global Inter

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 16:52:25 PDT, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: > why not consider all the dimentions, ever heard of polyfractal space ? Fabricating the router connections would be interesting WHat sort of crimping tool would it take to make a 2.75D connector stay on the cable? ;) PGP signature

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Fred Baker
At 10:21 AM 8/3/00 -0500, Matt Crawford wrote: >Also heard at the IETF: In the plenary session the chair >denied the existence of Ireland. News to me. Care to give me the context?

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 03 Aug 2000 22:06:13 BST, Lloyd Wood said: > in an ideal world, airlines don't _have_ differentiated seat pricing. Of course, in reality, they split them into coach and tolerable. ;) -- Valdis Kletnieks Operating Systems Ana

Re: publication delays...

2000-08-04 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > > >Let's see. Current patent law says that a patent is good >for 20 years from the date of filing so I guess Friedman's >patent expired in 1953. Tough break, Bill. But it was filed under the old law, so it's good till 2017. I guess

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-04 Thread Michael H. Warfield
On Thu, Aug 03, 2000 at 06:06:54PM -0400, Frank Solensky wrote: > Just before the afternoon break, one of the conference center staff was > wheeling a cart out towards the food area and was carrying a walkie-talkie. > The voice on the other end was saying, "Hope you can get through, JD: they're >

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-04 Thread vinton g. cerf
I had been assuming that the aggregation would take place at the "prefix" level of IPv6 addresses and that the unique component would be in some lower order part of the 128 bit space. If I have a bad model of that, I'd appreciate offline explanation. thanks vint At 04:19 PM 8/3/2000 -0400, [EM

TEST is the message still incomplete?

2000-08-04 Thread kysi ferul
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Re:How Domain Name Registries are 'run.' part TWO

2000-08-04 Thread kysi ferul
--- kysi ferul <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Casey Farrell, Domain Name Broker > > attn: NANOG/IETF/ICANN > > 1. I would like a direct answer in the form of the > written rules on the subject of just "what" you are > buying when you purchace a DOMAIN NAME ...if, there > be > no "UNDER CONS