Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-20 Thread Henrik Levkowetz
Wednesday 19 November 2003, Stig wrote: > Just want to add that the network worked perfectly for me during the > entire IETF, I didn't have any problems at plenary either. > > Twice in the lobby bar I lost the association with the access point for > a short while, but apart from that... > > I use

Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-20 Thread Leif Johansson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Stig Venaas wrote: | Just want to add that the network worked perfectly for me during the | entire IETF, I didn't have any problems at plenary either. Mee to. I even had good reception in my room at the doubletree. leifj -BEGIN PGP SIGNATUR

Re: Plans for IETF - 60

2003-11-20 Thread Simon Leinen
Another suggestion (maybe this could even be done for IETF59): 4) Publish a list of known "official" IETF base station MAC addresses, so that if/when we experience connectivity problems, we can do a quick check whether we're associated to a rogue base station. By the way, thanks a lot for y

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Alexandru" == Alexandru Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandru> If my node has mode "managed" it will never attach to laptop Alexandru> nodes Alexandru> having same key same essid but mode ad-hoc. No, that's isn't true. It is t

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Richardson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- > "Alexandru" == Alexandru Petrescu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: Alexandru> Joel Jaeggli wrote: >> what exactly is the point of having a wep key shared by 2000 people. Alexandru> I didn't mean it for data confidentiality; I meant it for Alexa

Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-20 Thread Mark Prior
Kevin C. Almeroth wrote: It might be a good idea to stop comparing Minneapolis to Vienna. Vienna had a host and Minneapolis did not. I'm not sure there should be any difference. I was the host in Adelaide but I didn't do the radios, I "out sourced" them to a local company that specialises in th

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2003-11-20 Thread Claudio Lori
escom wrote: The purpose of the protocol is to manage over the internet the information stored in a RF-ID tag. More in detail the idea is to develop a crittography system and a certification authority. To encrypt the data stored into the tag will be necessary to prevent frauds on the tagged p

RE: IETF58 - Network Facts

2003-11-20 Thread Vach Kompella
Well I was one satisfied customer :-) > ---In other news-- > (Think Red Cross, don't think Power Company) > > I had six people come up to me on Thursday to let me know > that their wireless > connection was acceptable (they used words like great, and no > problems). I > hope that mor

Re: IETF58 - Network Status

2003-11-20 Thread Stig Venaas
Just want to add that the network worked perfectly for me during the entire IETF, I didn't have any problems at plenary either. Twice in the lobby bar I lost the association with the access point for a short while, but apart from that... I used 802.11b most of the time. I don't know if I'm excep

RE: IAB Response to Tony Hain's appeal of October 9, 2003

2003-11-20 Thread Tony Hain
I appreciate the prompt response. A few points of clarification: The contention was that there was no WG decision, because there was no consistent technical basis for the question. It is impossible to judge 'correctness' without some defining scope. When the responsible AD & Chair use clarificati

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > >>We've noticed that setting both the essid and the key helps a lot with > >>the automatic detection various procedures, such as end-user laptops > >>don't get automatically attached to essid's that happen to be advertised > >>

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Joel Jaeggli wrote: We've noticed that setting both the essid and the key helps a lot with the automatic detection various procedures, such as end-user laptops don't get automatically attached to essid's that happen to be advertised without keys by other end-users' laptops. I expect you'll get a

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Pekka Savola wrote: On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: -for the general public, set the AP's with both an essid and a key, in Infrastructure mode (managed). -for the aodv public, convene to use a different essid and a different key and ad-hoc mode. If the aodv people need several a

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > what exactly is the point of having a wep key shared by 2000 people. > > I didn't mean it for data confidentiality; I meant it for building the > wires W in WEP not for the P privacy. Basically one such W for ietf and > on

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Pekka Savola
On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > -for the general public, set the AP's with both an essid and a key, in > Infrastructure mode (managed). > > -for the aodv public, convene to use a different essid and a different > key and ad-hoc mode. If the aodv people need several ad-hoc mod

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Joel Jaeggli wrote: what exactly is the point of having a wep key shared by 2000 people. I didn't mean it for data confidentiality; I meant it for building the wires W in WEP not for the P privacy. Basically one such W for ietf and one for aodv. We've noticed that setting both the essid and the

Re: howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Joel Jaeggli
what exactly is the point of having a wep key shared by 2000 people. except to have another thing for people to screw up when they try and type it in our paste it. thereby increasing the support overhead at the help desk. joelja On Thu, 20 Nov 2003, Alexandru Petrescu wrote: > Hi, I was not a

howto WLAN, several subnets

2003-11-20 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Hi, I was not at the last IETF, and couldn't see live the reportedly bad workings of WLAN. I am not going to make suggestions to 58crew since I'm certain they've already tried lots of configurations. Just to share our thoughts on how we make work several independent/deterministic-behaviour 802.11

Re: WLAN's and trains (was: IETF58 - Network Facts_

2003-11-20 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: <> Thanks, I didn't know about that one. For more on WLAN and trains, google the following: -NetSeal Avecra (in-train restauration's cashier syncs with station's mainframe) -Virgin in UK (WLAN hotspots alongside tracks) -GNER in UK -Click TGV in France -PointShot in the

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
There are going to be *at least* three desirable encodings of a person's identity -- the 'natural' encoding in the preferred/native charset of the person's name, some kind of phonetic-ASCII encoding that tells non-natives how to pronounce the name, and the email/idna encoding[s] that folks would us

Re: IETF58 - Network Facts

2003-11-20 Thread Tom Petch
Is that 11xx as in local group address or xx00 as in universal unicast? Tom Petch -Original Message- From: Adam Roach <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: 'Theodore Ts'o' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; Brett Thorson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMA

Re: IETF58 - Network Facts

2003-11-20 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED] com>, Adam Roach writes: >Theodore Ts'o wrote: > >> Would it be possible to publish a list of MAC addresses that were >> operating in ad-hoc or AP mode? If all of the happened to come from a >> signle manufacturer, that might be a very interesting data point. > >A lot

RE: IETF58 - Network Facts

2003-11-20 Thread Adam Roach
Theodore Ts'o wrote: > Would it be possible to publish a list of MAC addresses that were > operating in ad-hoc or AP mode? If all of the happened to come from a > signle manufacturer, that might be a very interesting data point. A lot -- possibly even a majority -- of the cards I saw operating i

Re: RFID and EPCglobal

2003-11-20 Thread Michael Mealling
On Thu, 2003-11-20 at 10:52, Richard Shockey wrote: > EPCglobal is focusing on the standards though I suspect there are aspects > of the protocols being discussed that should come to the IETF or IEEE for > proper peer review and/or standardization. There is an extensive discussion > of the use o

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread John Stracke
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 19-nov-03, at 22:28, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets. Wouldn't it be even cheaper if everyone who has a laptop with wireless with them signs in on an electronic version of the blue sheets? This just

RFID and EPCglobal

2003-11-20 Thread Richard Shockey
At 08:45 AM 11/20/2003, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Besides what Bill Manning said about reviewing what's been done in the auto-id center (now closed), there are a number of research projects/initiatives around the world (e.g., Japan's ubiquitous id center at uidcenter.org). For a list of some relate

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 19-nov-03, at 22:28, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets. Wouldn't it be even cheaper if everyone who has a laptop with wireless with them signs in on an electronic version of the blue sheets? This just takes a few hours of fiddling

RE: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Rosen, Brian
Actually, I think RFID is much more expensive than bar codes, and it's even more expensive the more you use it. With barcode, you pay once for the readers. Printing barcodes on badges doesn't cost anything. RFID tags cost money every time you make a badge, plus the readers are what, 10X the cost

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Eric A. Hall
Dave Crocker wrote: >> What I would suggest, if we do this, is writing the person's name >> *twice*: once in their native character set, and once in a form that >> an english-reader can read. The latter is an established interchange >> architecture > > I believe that was the intention in the pro

RE: Rf Id tag protocol

2003-11-20 Thread Robert . Shaw
Besides what Bill Manning said about reviewing what's been done in the auto-id center (now closed), there are a number of research projects/initiatives around the world (e.g., Japan's ubiquitous id center at uidcenter.org). For a list of some related resources, see: http://www.itu.int/osg/spu/

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread John Stracke
JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: It should be RFID, cheaper, and easier, not only for the blue sheets. How would RFID be cheaper than barcodes? Someday, maybe, but today the tags are expensive--according to CNet, "depending on volume, customers can expect to pay 30 cents to $1 per radio tag". The I

Re: Rf Id tag protocol

2003-11-20 Thread escom
The purpose of the protocol is to manage over the internet the information stored in a RF-ID tag. More in detail the idea is to develop a crittography system and a certification authority.   To encrypt the data stored into the tag will be necessary to prevent frauds on the tagged products.  

RE: IETF58 - Network Facts

2003-11-20 Thread Gordon . Lennox
<> http://www.computerworld.com/mobiletopics/mobile/story/0,10801,87322,00.html ?f=x68 So at least we know one place not to take the WiFi-enabled horde that is the IETF road-show! Then again... /gordon

Re: i18n name badges

2003-11-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20-nov-03, at 4:05, James Seng wrote: I think having the punycode form have no "value" on a name badge. Punycode, as it is designed, is meant for machine-to-machine communication. So why don't we come up with a machine-to-human transliteration mechanism? So if someone called ÎÎáÏ (trouble wi