RE: where the indirection layer belongs

2003-09-02 Thread Yuri Ismailov (KI/EAB)
No matter where the stabilization layer(s) live, using DNS as a means to map from identity to locations simply won't work. It might be good enough for initial connection (assuming that if a service exists on multiple hosts, any of them will do), but it's not good enough for re-establishing an

Re: FW: Virus alert

2003-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003, Tim Chown wrote: On Sat, Aug 30, 2003 at 05:25:19PM -0400, Dean Anderson wrote: The Virus writer obviously went to some trouble to pick valid addresses. It stands to reason that they expect that someone is getting mail to these addresses. It also stands to reason

Re: FW: Virus alert

2003-09-02 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 00:00:45 EDT, shogunx said: On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Dean Anderson wrote: Open source kernels aren't immune. They just aren't at focus this time. If a worm is executing visual basic code, then i think i am pretty darn immune. Google for the Lion worm, and quit smirking.

the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread S Woodside
http://simonwoodside.com/projects/ict/voip_paradox.html The Voice over IP paradox Simon Woodside *Abstract* Voice over IP is paradoxically both internet and telephony at the same time. This article presents the paradox, and associated arguments.

Re: Virus alert

2003-09-02 Thread Jonathan Hogg
On 31/8/03 23:34, Dean Anderson wrote: Your comments are true in general, but I don't think they take into consideration the differences between this virus and the ones that go through the address book. One can (more) easily get such valid, trusted, familiar addresses from the address book.

RE: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Rod . Walsh
It seems that there is no guarantee that VoIP is Internet either, just as IETF protocols can be used to great effect outside of the public Internet too. Cheers, Rod. -Original Message- From: ext grenville armitage [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 12:21 PM

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread S Woodside
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 05:21 AM, grenville armitage wrote: S Woodside wrote: [..] Voice over IP is paradoxically both internet and telephony at the same time. This article presents the paradox, and associated arguments. Your paradox seems artificial. IP Telephony is both

Re: where the indirection layer belongs

2003-09-02 Thread Robert Honore
Dear Keith Moore, Thank you for your reply. It seems that we are without a forum though, since what we are discussing is, according to Tony Hain, not in line with the IPv6 working group charter. Maybe we really do need a new working group for this issue. Should we propose the formation of

Re: FW: Virus alert

2003-09-02 Thread Einar Stefferud
So far I have not seen one case of someone I know informing me that I have sent a message to them with a virus included. They have all been from strangers, which is one reason they get trapped by my filters. As best I can tell, all the to and from addresses are randomly selected.

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Rosen == Rosen, Brian [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Rosen I therefore have a modest proposal: Rosen Allow the submission of an xml file meeting the requirements of Rosen RFC2629 Rosen along with the text file (and optional ps file) for an

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Eliot Lear
I don't know about about you, Paul, but I'm writing my drafts using EMACS and Marshall's tool. That allows for generation of HTML, NROFF, and text. The HTML allows for hyperlinks, which is REALLY nice. Eliot

RE: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread Henry Sinnreich
Could one use the NAPTR concept to create a new identifier space with specific dynamics? It would take two lookups: one to DNS to get the NAPTR and one to resolve the NAPTR identifier into an IP address. We will be soon able to test the speed of such a mechanism with the NAPTR client built

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Zefram
Rosen, Brian wrote: Allow the submission of an xml file meeting the requirements of RFC2629 along with the text file (and optional ps file) for an Internet Draft. The value in this would be that it provides everyone with the document source, suitable for generating patches for the author. This

RE: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Michel Py
Eliot Lear wrote: I'm writing my drafts using EMACS and Marshall's tool. That allows for generation of HTML, NROFF, and text. The HTML allows for hyperlinks, which is REALLY nice. XML is the way to go, no doubt about it. Michel.

Multimedia presentation services like (ugh) VoIP

2003-09-02 Thread Dan Kolis
I think SIP does more things that are fun rather than only things that are useful. This matters all the time; Not just when there is an earthquake, etc. Spending and planning, not technology per se determines whether things work in an emergency. Besides, the future is long. What familiar now

Re: where the indirection layer belongs

2003-09-02 Thread Pekka Nikander
Michel Py wrote: IMHO the only place to put the ID/LOC indirection layer (I would say sub-layer) that does not break a million things is: I like the third stack, added to the right, even more. A kinda new waist for the stack. OTOH, I think that most probably something new is also needed at

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 10:47 AM -0700 9/2/03, Eliot Lear wrote: I don't know about about you, Paul, but I'm writing my drafts using EMACS and Marshall's tool. That allows for generation of HTML, NROFF, and text. The HTML allows for hyperlinks, which is REALLY nice. Great! Why does that mean that the XML input

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Bradner
Perhaps, perhaps not. I live in Ontario Canada and in the recent blackout, my phone kept working. i.e., you did not have a ISDN or wireless phone Scott

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread ned . freed
At 6:15 PM -0400 8/27/03, Rosen, Brian wrote: I therefore have a modest proposal: Allow the submission of an xml file meeting the requirements of RFC2629 along with the text file (and optional ps file) for an Internet Draft. You didn't say what the additional value would be. We know the

Re: where the indirection layer belongs

2003-09-02 Thread Pekka Nikander
Robert, Robert Honore wrote: ... As such, I can distinguish the following issues as aspects of the problem given all that was mentioned in this thread, the solving the real problem thread and the one on the IPv6 mail list about deprecating Site Local addresses and the usage of IPv6 Link Local

RE: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Paul Hoffman / IMC writes: At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote: 2) Ability to cross reference documents That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you proposed. It seems to me that

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- IMC == IMC Paul writes: I think there are quite a few reasons. Mine are: 1) Ability to render in alternate ways to improve readability and accessibility IMC Please be more specific on accessibility. Which groups of people IMC are

Re: where the indirection layer belongs

2003-09-02 Thread Dave Crocker
Pekka, PN that stable end-point identifiers are mainly needed to make PN applications survive IP address changes. Dave Crocker's MAST PN is a good example how you can do that without having stable PN end-point identifiers. In general I suggest we find some specific scenarios that require a new

VoIP whatever

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Thomas
Dan Kolis writes: Sip and even H.323 are Multimedia presentation services. All are extensible far beyond two user full duplex speech. Like mislabelling atmospheric changes global warming... calling anything using speech codecs under Ip VoIP it completely distorts it and disrupts

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Scott == Scott Bradner [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Perhaps, perhaps not. I live in Ontario Canada and in the recent blackout, my phone kept working. Scott i.e., you did not have a ISDN or wireless phone Wired POTS phones did not continue

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread S Woodside
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 02:22 PM, Scott Bradner wrote: Perhaps, perhaps not. I live in Ontario Canada and in the recent blackout, my phone kept working. i.e., you did not have a ISDN or wireless phone Yes we still have an old-fashioned no frills basic telephone in the house. I also

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Scott Bradner
It is my impression that wireless local loop systems (WLL) for telephony include backup batteries in subscriber units as well. That I was referring to cordless phones - not cel phones they also die when the power goes out, for some reason some people do not expect that to be the case Scott

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Bill Strahm
I'll give you one good reason. And that is updating the drafts once the initial RFC is published. If the origional XML/.doc/input language of the day is available, then I don't have to spend my time converting the text into a usable form to get the formating done easily. For this reason only,

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Lyndon Nerenberg
You didn't say what the additional value would be. We know the additional value of a .ps file (drawings that don't translate to ASCII art). What is the value of XML? It certainly isn't searchability or readability. While I normally run in horror from all things XML, this is one of the few

Well, Marketing maybe (SIP, etc)

2003-09-02 Thread Dan Kolis
Mike said: If you're going to go there, it's worth pointing out that the V in VoIP is a pretty artificial distinction too. Mike Dan said: Sip and even H.323 are Multimedia presentation services. All are extensible far beyond two user full duplex speech. Like mislabelling atmospheric changes

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Kireeti Kompella
I was referring to cordless phones - not cel phones they also die when the power goes out, for some reason some people do not expect that to be the case which is why I still have _one_ corded phone, plugged into the power outlet sometimes referred to as a phone line. Kireeti.

RE: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread ned . freed
Paul Hoffman / IMC writes: At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote: 2) Ability to cross reference documents That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you proposed. It seems to me

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- S == S Woodside [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: S Yes we still have an old-fashioned no frills basic telephone in the S house. I also have a portable 900 MHz digital phone (dead), a DSL S connection (dead, at a minimum because the modem had no power),

Re: where the indirection layer belongs

2003-09-02 Thread Keith Moore
Maybe I read your paper on project SNIPE too quickly, but it was not immediately clear that the problems you mentioned were a specific result of an attempt to make the application resilient against (sudden) changes in IP address. that wasn't quite the purpose of SNIPE. SNIPE didn't

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Lyndon == Lyndon Nerenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Lyndon - give me a list of all the documents belonging to a particular Lyndon WG Ironically, it is easier with IDs than RFCs :-) Lyndon - for any given RFC, show me the chain of document

Re: Virus alert

2003-09-02 Thread Dean Anderson
I think this virus wasn't just designed to spread, I think it was designed to remain alive on each machine it infected. Hmm. Good points supporting this... Could be. I have received dozens of emails from helpful systems and people notifying me that I have the virus - and I have a Mac. I

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On dinsdag, sep 2, 2003, at 20:22 Europe/Amsterdam, Scott Bradner wrote: Perhaps, perhaps not. I live in Ontario Canada and in the recent blackout, my phone kept working. i.e., you did not have a ISDN or wireless phone The telco can provide power over the ISDN line for a single device on the

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Masataka Ohta
Simon; Voice over IP is paradoxically both internet and telephony at the same time. This article presents the paradox, and associated arguments. There is no paradox. The internet carries information. You should, at least, distinguish VoIP as a telephone network and the Internet telephony. In

Re: Virus alert

2003-09-02 Thread Jonathan Hogg
On 2/9/03 22:49, Dean Anderson wrote: [...] but once I've got an IP number I have no easy way to turn that into an email address for the user. Once you have an IP number, you can look up the responsible party in one of the registries (whois.arin.net, whois.ripe.net, whois.apnic.net,

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Richard Shockey
At 11:49 PM 9/2/2003 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: But what good does it do to have DC on your phone line if the network is utterly congested? With IP the service level degrades more gracefully. (Although this wouldn't necessarily work well for _voice_ over IP.) I'm sorry but obviously

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread ned . freed
telephony The public and private branch exchanges of the telephone network. Availability in telephony is counted as /five nines/. So, 99.999% of the time when you pick up the phone you get a dialtone. That's all but five minutes per year. and one has to carefully tune

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread S Woodside
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 06:24 PM, Masataka Ohta wrote: Simon; Voice over IP is paradoxically both internet and telephony at the same time. This article presents the paradox, and associated arguments. There is no paradox. The internet carries information. You should, at least,

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread Michael Richardson
Last IETF in Minneapolis, I couldn't call my home. Why? new exchange in Ottawa. 715. Minneapolis thinks that is an area code... Wisconsin. No operator could understand this concept or problem, and even 1800 calling card access seemed screwed. I SMS'ed or IRC'ed my wife to say I was going to my

Re: the VoIP Paradox

2003-09-02 Thread S Woodside
On Tuesday, September 2, 2003, at 09:11 PM, Michael Richardson wrote: Last IETF in Minneapolis, I couldn't call my home. Why? new exchange in Ottawa. 715. Minneapolis thinks that is an area code... Wisconsin. No operator could understand this concept or problem, and even 1800 calling card

A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread wang liang
Rosen, Brian wrote:Allow the submission of an xml file meeting the requirements of RFC2629along with the text file (and optional ps file) for an Internet Draft. I totally agree with it.RFC2629 may be something need improvement.Now some protocols arecompletely written in XML schema,like UDDI.Even

Re: Details

2003-09-02 Thread agenda
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Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread USPhoenix
Vinton, I bow to your position. We once had offices very close to each other. Remember MCI Mail? I am surprised you're back with MCI or whatever. But... Having quietly listened to what's being said, who's saying it, and where they are ... I am reading email from some good thinkers,

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread USPhoenix
Poor Randy, There's a microbrewpub in Minneapolis that serves the best Walleye dinner at the best price to be found anywhere. Showedpeople the place, couldn't get them to go anyplace else. OK, is fresh walleye worth eating? Any fish better?

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread shogunx
I am reading email from some good thinkers, obviously good people, not quite open source gnomes, but close. What's in it for me, or the world? Obviously IETF picks some pretty nice places to meet. And it is a pretty impressive org to work with to pretend to care about making a difference.

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread USPhoenix
You're welcome. You've shared some good thoughts. A little edgy sometimes. Maybe we're related.

Re: A modest proposal - allow the ID repository to hold xml

2003-09-02 Thread Jari Arkko
Michael Thomas wrote: Paul Hoffman / IMC writes: At 1:22 PM -0400 9/2/03, Rosen, Brian wrote: 2) Ability to cross reference documents That benefit only appears if all, or a significant proportion, of the Internet Drafts are in XML or a similar format. That's not what you proposed.

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread Melinda Shore
On Thursday, August 28, 2003, at 04:10 PM, Spencer Dawkins wrote: This makes me think that having something underneath the application take care of multiple interfaces is likely a good idea. We already do have something in that general direction, rserpool, which I think is something that's

Re: Solving the right problems ...

2003-09-02 Thread Kurt Erik Lindqvist
On onsdag, aug 27, 2003, at 18:20 Europe/Stockholm, Jeroen Massar wrote: The multi6 wg has been working on locator/identifier separation as a way to solve the multihoming in IPv6 problem for a while now. And ever since they haven't progressed much unfortunatly :( Hard to tell. There are two