Re: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational

2003-01-13 Thread Kireeti Kompella
Hi All, On Tue, 31 Dec 2002, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request to consider CR-LDP Extensions for ASON > as an Informational RFC. > This has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF > Working Group. I have two comments about this draft. The first is that the d

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003 19:51:51 GMT, Lloyd Wood said: > Simon Spero wrote: > > > > I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The > > first use for any new communications technology is sex). > > any SUCCESSFUL communications technology, surely? This must mean that 3G phones ar

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 13 Jan 2003, Scott W Brim wrote: > I have a vague recollection that CU-SeeMe was used for porn in late > 1993. We were so innocent, we thought people would use it for > conferencing. Speaking of technologies, has porn ever been multicast? Could have been a killer application in those

IETF 56 hotel code

2003-01-13 Thread Stephen Casner
At this moment, the Group/Convention Code that the Hilton San Francisco has in its computer is "IET" rather than "IETF" as specified on the IETF web page. I imagine that this may get fixed one way or the other at some point. -- Steve

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Franck Martin
On Tue, 2003-01-14 at 07:51, Lloyd Wood wrote: Simon Spero wrote: > > I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The > first use for any new communications technology is sex). any SUCCESSFUL communications technology, surely? Well before that, the French had t

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Scott W Brim
I have a vague recollection that CU-SeeMe was used for porn in late 1993. We were so innocent, we thought people would use it for conferencing.

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Matt Crawford
> > An interesting subject for a thesis: > > > > The Porn and The Internet. > > Sub-titled The Beauties and The Beasts ? Watch it. One fuzzball joke and I am outta here.

Re: email and spam (was: Re: namedroppers, continued)

2003-01-13 Thread jfcm
On 21:06 13/01/03, John C Klensin said: --On Monday, 13 January, 2003 17:23 +0100 jfcm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear John, > I am afraid that at this stage (e-mail + 40 or so years) > telling someone to read the archives has no meaning. And > telling him to post if he has a _new_idea either.

Re: email and spam (was: Re: namedroppers, continued)

2003-01-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 13 January, 2003 20:51 + Bob Braden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > *> > Could we not think of an FPS (frequently proposed > solutions) *> > where each defeated "solutions" would be > listed and quickly *> > discussed. There would be two good > reasons: > *> > > *> > 1.

Re: email and spam (was: Re: namedroppers, continued)

2003-01-13 Thread Bob Braden
*> > Could we not think of an FPS (frequently proposed solutions) *> > where each defeated "solutions" would be listed and quickly *> > discussed. There would be two good reasons: *> > *> > 1. to provide a true list of what has been proposed. It would *> > save time to all and provide

Re: email and spam (was: Re: namedroppers, continued)

2003-01-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 13 January, 2003 17:23 +0100 jfcm <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dear John, > I am afraid that at this stage (e-mail + 40 or so years) > telling someone to read the archives has no meaning. And > telling him to post if he has a _new_idea either. You are entitled to your opinion. I was

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread John Stracke
Simon Spero wrote: I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The first use for any new communications technology is sex). Not exactly a new phenomenon--the oldest statues known, going back over 20,000 years, are figures of nude women. Objecting to it is like getting d

Re: November meeting overlaps with IEEE 802

2003-01-13 Thread Marcia Beaulieu
Hi Glenn, Unfortunately we are unable to change the IETF dates at this time. Marcia At 06:54 PM 1/9/03 -0500, Glenn Parsons wrote: Folks, I just noticed that the November meeting date appears to have firmed up to November 9-14. http://ietf.org/meetings/0mtg-sites.txt This conflicts with the I

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Simon Spero
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: I just wonder: does anyone know/remember when the first Web porn site came online? I believe Kapor's law was first stated at the January '92 Usenix (The first use for any new communications technology is sex). Anyone remember the day when someone found a world-w

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Dan Riley
"[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > In the first couple years of the web, adult sites financed it's > development. In 1997 and 1998 90% of commerce on the web was adult > related. The first few years of the web were financed by government funded research laboratories--initially CERN

RE: Cluster Addressing and CIDR

2003-01-13 Thread Vaudreuil, Greg M (Greg)
I don't recall that any of the ID's from the Public Data Networks working group were published as RFC's. There are references to the PDN drafts in old proceedings... back when we included the list of current ID's in each issue!! I have a reference in a copy of the FIfteenth IETF - Hawaii (Octo

Re: Cluster Addressing and CIDR

2003-01-13 Thread Bob Braden
Noel Chiappa wrote: *> (e.g. RFC-1287, "Towards the Future Internet Architecture"). *> *> In so doing, I was upset to see that the references included no mention of *> the work of Carl-Herbert Rokitansky, whose "cluster addressing" scheme was *> the first case I can recall of someone pr

Re: email and spam (was: Re: namedroppers, continued)

2003-01-13 Thread jfcm
Dear John, I am afraid that at this stage (e-mail + 40 or so years) telling someone to read the archives has no meaning. And telling him to post if he has a _new_idea either. Could we not think of an FPS (frequently proposed solutions) where each defeated "solutions" would be listed and quickly

Cluster Addressing and CIDR

2003-01-13 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
I was reading a paper by Paul Francis and Ramakrishna Gummadi, and a reference caused me to re-read an interesting-sounding old paper they referenced (RFC-1380, "IESG Deliberations on Routing and Addressing") to refresh my memory of it, and further to read similar documents it referenced (e.g. RFC-

Re: Dan Bernstein's issues about namedroppers list operation

2003-01-13 Thread Dean Anderson
This isn't true. We have been examining the issue, and have found clear evidence that Bernstein's email has been censored and handled differently from other email to namedroppers in recent months, and in the past, prior to changes in the adminstration of namedroppers. We are not yet ready to summa

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread grenville armitage
Franck Martin wrote: [..] > An interesting subject for a thesis: > > The Porn and The Internet. Sub-titled The Beauties and The Beasts ? cheers, gja

Re: Dan Bernstein's issues about namedroppers list operation

2003-01-13 Thread Aaron Swartz
Thomas Narten wrote: Namedroppers is a posters-only mailing list that is run in conformance with the policies outlined in http://www.ietf.cnri.reston.va.us/IESG/STATEMENTS/mail-submit- policy.txt. This states: """ 4) Any held message that is later approved for distribution on the mailing list

RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational

2003-01-13 Thread Lin, Zhi-Wei (Zhi)
Hi Gerry, Happy new year. In terms of where the liaisons are, not sure. I checked the link as well, and couldn't find any of the liaisons that was sent from ITU-T Q.14/15 to IETF CCAMP WG. In terms of the intentions of the draft Recommendations G.7713.x series, these draft Recommendations are

November meeting overlaps with IEEE 802

2003-01-13 Thread Glenn Parsons
Folks, I just noticed that the November meeting date appears to have firmed up to November 9-14. http://ietf.org/meetings/0mtg-sites.txt This conflicts with the IEEE 802 plenary. http://ieee802.org/meeting/future_meetings.html I think there are many people who would like to attend both. Is ther

RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informant ional

2003-01-13 Thread Osama Aboul-Magd
Title: RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informant ional Because the ITU cannot consent the draft without the code points. The ITU knows exactly that the standard work on CR-LDP is discontinued. Steve may correct me if I am mistaken. Regards; Osama Aboul-Magd ATI S

RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational

2003-01-13 Thread Osama Aboul-Magd
Title: RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational Loa, I've just sent a response to Adrian. ITU is scheduled to consent this draft at the end of the month. Therefore this draft is very urgent. Regards; Osama Aboul-Magd ATI Strategic Standards and Protocols Nort

Re: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational

2003-01-13 Thread Loa Andersson
Osama, sorry our mails crossed each other on the wire. I see your point, but doi not really understand why you need the actual code points to reach consensus - as long as you know you will get them? But, I will not try to stop publishing the draft - as long as the note on cr-ldp not scheduled for

Re: email and spam (was: Re: namedroppers, continued)

2003-01-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Tuesday, 07 January, 2003 13:33 -0500 Doug <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Doug has rediscovered the idea of closing open mail relays to > prevent >> unauthorised use by outsiders sending to outsiders. This was >> a big thing in the early 90s when email became popular. > > This may seem to be

RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational

2003-01-13 Thread Osama Aboul-Magd
Title: RE: CORRECTION: Last Call: CR-LDP Extensions for ASON to Informational Hi Adrian, The ITU is scheduled to consent G.7713.3 by the end of the month. In order for this to happen we need the IANA code points, and this is the only purpose of this draft. I hope now you see the urgency of

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Zefram
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >Why the creation of the first porn site is a >depressing moment I'm not sure. A few years ago I found myself wondering why most commercial websites are so garish, flashy, fragmented, and awkward to navigate. I came to the conclusion that they'd all taken their stylistic

Porn sites

2003-01-13 Thread Bill Cunningham
Why are pornsites depressing? Adults have a choice as to whether on not they want to visit these sites, the only bad thing is that if you enter your email address, you'll be hit by spam like never before.

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
By June and July of 1994 people were trying adult http sites. I'm afraid it's not clear how long before this these sites actually existed. I can tell you that there were very few adult sites in 1994. By 1996 the formula and format for such sites was pretty well fixed and that same formula and

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
just to be clear - I was thinking of porn sites using the HTTP protocol for access. Best so far: Paul Hoffman thinks that the first one was called "Adult Action", and probably predated the official Mosaic release. But that search term is too general for the Internet of today (8240 hits sigh

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread jfcm
At 17:03 12/01/03, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Despite having lived through much recent history, I've forgotten a lot of it I just wonder: does anyone know/remember when the first Web porn site came online? Wondering whether it was before or after the first official release of Mosaic