Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
FWIW, I believe Keith is probably right. Blacklisting has been a major impediment to my own email usage. I don't know about any *particular* blacklisting service because when your ISP gets blacklisted by mistake and you're simply collateral damage, it's very hard for you to get an explanation

Re: Visa for South Korea

2004-01-12 Thread Ken Hornstein
>I'd be interested in answers people get from other consulate/embassy >staff both from locations other than Boston and with different >phrasings of the question. Well, I finally was able to talk to someone at the Washington, DC, embassy. Their answer? "We're not sure, but you might need one". I

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Nathaniel Borenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > FWIW, I believe Keith is probably right. Blacklisting has been a major > impediment to my own email usage. I don't know about any *particular* > blacklisting service because when your ISP gets blacklisted by mistake > and you're simply collat

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - > From: "Vernon Schryver" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Monday, January 12, 2004 9:49 AM > Subject: Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx ... > Several times? As far as I know, most people I know have never been > collateral or other kinds of blacklist

dire outlook on internet and NAT

2004-01-12 Thread Fred Baker
Interesting reading: some have been asking what the cost of moving from a peer-to-peer to a service/consumer model are, in terms of applications deployed and the ability to build more robust business models. Many ISPs are thinking in terms of VoIP as a next generation business, the one after "s

Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Hain
While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to come. http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/ Like it or not, the IETF must stop wasting time and effort building new structures on a crumbling framew

RE: dire outlook on internet and NAT

2004-01-12 Thread Michel Py
> Fred Baker wrote: > Many ISPs are thinking in terms of VoIP as a next generation > business, the one after "selling bandwidth". But there are > issues with that as well... You must be talking about ISPs that are not in bed with a phone company; at this point in time I don't see how they can comp

Re: dire outlook on internet and NAT

2004-01-12 Thread shogunx
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Fred Baker wrote: > Interesting reading: some have been asking what the cost of moving from a > peer-to-peer to a service/consumer model are, in terms of applications > deployed and the ability to build more robust business models. Many ISPs > are thinking in terms of VoIP as

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 12:49 PM, Vernon Schryver wrote: Several times? As far as I know, most people I know have never been collateral or other kinds of blacklist damage. Do you use what might be called marginal ISPs? Some large outfits such as UUNet have long refused to care enough a

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Mike S
At 02:02 PM 1/12/2004, Tony Hain wrote... >While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should >be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to >come. The true threat is administrative, not technical. It won't do any good to have an IPv6 address sp

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Gordon Cook
While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to come. http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/ Like it or not, the IETF must stop wasting time and effort building new structures on a crumbling framewor

RE: dire outlook on internet and NAT

2004-01-12 Thread Michel Py
> Nathaniel Borenstein wrote: > Pardon me if I'm missing something obvious here, but > couldn't one just use either XMPP or Simple for presence, > associate your "server name" with a Jabber/Simple ID, and > automatically have your "server" findable via these > general presence protocols? One not

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Paul Robinson
Tony Hain wrote: While one aging application does not constitute 'the Internet', this should be taken as an early indicator of things that are happing, with more to come. http://www.fourmilab.ch/speakfree/eol/ Like it or not, the IETF must stop wasting time and effort building new structures on

Re: Visa for South Korea

2004-01-12 Thread Gene Gaines
Ken, As it happens, I attended a dinner Saturday that was addressed by Ambassador Han, the Korean Ambassador to the U.S. Taking up the Korean visa issue today, I spoke with an official in the Washington DC visa section. I believe I can state the visa regulation as it applies to U.S. citizens.

Re: Visa for South Korea

2004-01-12 Thread Ken Hornstein
> - Individuals traveling to Korean to attend the IETF meeting >do not need a visa, as they are traveling to attend a >non-profit conference. They can stay in Korea up to 30 >day for such purpose and for tourism. Ah, okay, this makes sense now, because there was a slight language iss

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Nathaniel Borenstein <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > I also have to say that I fear your approach would help the larger ISPs > use spam as an excuse to kill off smaller ISP's... How so? Exactly what is my approach? Please note what I've said too many times: - I don't currently use a pu

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 12-jan-04, at 20:55, Gordon Cook wrote: http://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/ is the really spooky essay. Excerpted in my December issue. Read the Digital Imprimatur if you haven't already. I find it a tad on the wordy side... (27731 words, to be precise, more than an hour

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 12-jan-04, at 21:13, Paul Robinson wrote: The modern Internet is run by marketing, not technical, requirements. IPv6 will not take off any time soon because neither the end-user nor the service provider sees the need. The moment AOL, Wanadoo, Tiscali, World Online et al shout out "we *need*

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Nathaniel Borenstein
[my final message to the list on this thread] On Monday, January 12, 2004, at 03:51 PM, Vernon Schryver wrote: I also have to say that I fear your approach would help the larger ISPs use spam as an excuse to kill off smaller ISP's... How so? Exactly what is my approach? I'm sorry, you're right

RE: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Tony Hain
You seem to have missed the point. Not only are we loosing existing applications, there are untold new things that are not making it to market. These new applications are unable to generate the critical mass they need to make any marketing noise because the NAT rich environment is too difficult for

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> Good point. That's why I favor giving users access to their spam pool > when they suspect problems, and using challenge/response in certain > (carefully defined) situations. > A good filtering mechanism is not nearly as black and white as a blacklist. so, you're conflating two things here:

RE: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Michel Py
> Tony Hain wrote: > You won't get the development community to pay attention > to the simplicity afforded by IPv6 until the IETF stops > wasting time trying to extend a dead protocol. If one in {IPv4,IPv6} could be qualified as dead, it's IPv6. If it was not for IPv4, the majority of this list wo

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > One problem with dropping suspected spam into a spam cesspool as > opposed to rejecting it outright in the SMTP session is that many > people (myself included) have neither the time nor the inclination to > wade through our spam cesspools on a re

Re: dire outlook on internet and NAT

2004-01-12 Thread Mark Smith
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004 10:29:02 -0800 Fred Baker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Interesting reading: some have been asking what the cost of > moving from a peer-to-peer to a service/consumer model are, in > terms of applications deployed and the ability to build more > robust business models. Many ISPs

Re: Visa for South Korea

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
> - Individuals traveling to Korean to attend the IETF meeting > do not need a visa, as they are traveling to attend a > non-profit conference. They can stay in Korea up to 30 > day for such purpose and for tourism. > > - If you travel to Korea for business purposes, such as >

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Mike S
At 06:50 PM 1/12/2004, Vernon Schryver wrote... >Instead of paying the extra cost to hire an ISP that cares >enough to not have spamming customers, people complain about the evils >of blacklists. Feh. Once again with an argument based on incorrect assumptions. I don't spam. I would preferential

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Dean Anderson
On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike S wrote: > At 06:50 PM 1/12/2004, Vernon Schryver wrote... > >Instead of paying the extra cost to hire an ISP that cares > >enough to not have spamming customers, people complain about the evils > >of blacklists. > > Feh. Once again with an argument based on incorrect ass

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Mike S
At 09:58 PM 1/12/2004, Dean Anderson wrote... >On Mon, 12 Jan 2004, Mike S wrote: >1) privacy - routing via my ISP's outbound SMTP gives them >> the right to intercept and read my email, according the ECPA; > >Err, Just the opposite is more freqently the case.The ECPA specifically prohibits the >I

Re: SMTP Minimum Retry Period - Proposal To Modify Mx

2004-01-12 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Mike S) > ... > >Instead of paying the extra cost to hire an ISP that cares > >enough to not have spamming customers, people complain about the evils > >of blacklists. > ... > I can't do so because my IP address is on a blacklist. I have > cable modem, but the world th

Re: Visa for South Korea

2004-01-12 Thread Bill Manning
% > - Individuals traveling to Korean to attend the IETF meeting % > do not need a visa, as they are traveling to attend a % > non-profit conference. They can stay in Korea up to 30 % > day for such purpose and for tourism. % > % > - If you travel to Korea for business purposes, s

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-12 Thread Joe Abley
On 12 Jan 2004, at 15:13, Paul Robinson wrote: IPv6 will not take off any time soon because neither the end-user nor the service provider sees the need. The moment AOL, Wanadoo, Tiscali, World Online et al shout out "we *need* IPv6" it will happen. Quickly. Interestingly, whenever we deploy an F