Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Good analysis (however there are probably 9 possibilities if a newbox was to be proposed by some smart person). This scenario is technically logic. But OSI, ATM, ISDN, etc shown us the market is not always logic. At 03:02 18/11/2004, Paul Vixie wrote: Let's assume ... that a large part of

Re: IASA BCP Section 5.3

2004-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Geoff Huston wrote: At 11:04 PM 17/11/2004, Margaret Wasserman wrote: I have some comments on Section 5.3 of the IASA BCP, Other ISOC Support. The first paragraph of this section says: Other ISOC support shall be based on the budget process as specified in Section 6. ISOC will deposit the

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Fred Baker wrote: At 10:15 PM 11/17/04 +0100, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: The effect of section 5, if I am reading it correctly, is to transfer these budgetary bumps and grinds to the IASA rather than allowing the ISOC to help out, making oops, we're low on cash something that has to be

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On torsdag, november 18, 2004 10:26:07 +0100 JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The least they want to hear is relative ease of acquiring v6 address space even least than relative ease to delpoy. This is what we think great. This is something they do not even understand. They want a

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Nov 18 2004, at 10:26 Uhr, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: if there is no hassle like [...] paying for this and that I'm a bit afraid there are players in this game that won't let us completely eliminate that hassle. Obviously, a situation where a /48 can only be obtained at business rates leads

RE: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread jools
Harald Tveit Alvestrand Wrote [18 November 2004 18:08] --On torsdag, november 18, 2004 10:26:07 +0100 JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The least they want to hear is relative ease of acquiring v6 address space even least than relative ease to delpoy. This is what we

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Robert Elz [EMAIL PROTECTED] the we don't need to change from v4, ever attitude is simply absurd. Ahem. Let's go to the tape: if life gives you lemons, you can either sit around with a sour look on your face, or make lemonade. NAT's make me look sour too,

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Robert Elz
Date:Thu, 18 Nov 2004 07:40:56 -0500 (EST) From:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Noel Chiappa) Message-ID: [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Not even my powers of pithy commentary can scale the heights needed to | adequately comment on the fact that we've now consumed more than twice |

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 11/17/2004 9:02 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: therefore after a middle state of perhaps five more years How long have folks been predicting ~5yr windows? Not to diminish your table or anything, but markets don't work in binary, and the problem has been with access more than anything else. Usually

Why the IPnG effort failed.

2004-11-18 Thread Masataka Ohta
Isn't it more productive than beating the dead horse? If reasons are recognized, it will be useful information to design alternatives, maybe by alternative standardization bodies. Masataka Ohta ___ Ietf

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Fred Baker
At 11:21 AM 11/18/04 +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If, in practice, some help from the IASA account is needed to smooth ISOC's cash flow temporarily, that is fine by me but I'd like it to be transparent and explicit. Actually, that's the opposite of what I was pointing out. I was pointing out

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
yes, it goes both ways - I thought I indicated that Brian Fred Baker wrote: At 11:21 AM 11/18/04 +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: If, in practice, some help from the IASA account is needed to smooth ISOC's cash flow temporarily, that is fine by me but I'd like it to be transparent and explicit.

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Carl Malamud
This relates to my previous comment in response to Geoff. It's all about how to smooth cash flow, given that both income and outgoings are bumpy. If, in practice, some help from the IASA account is needed to smooth ISOC's cash flow temporarily, that is fine by me but I'd like it to be

Re: Why the IPnG effort failed.

2004-11-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
It didn't. For an effort always expected to take at least 15 years, we are doing OK. It is always good to learn from history, of course. Brian ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF hotels charging the deposits and not reimbursing?

2004-11-18 Thread Scott W Brim
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 06:15:03PM +0200, Pekka Savola allegedly wrote: At IETF60, the Sheraton hotels charged me both for the deposit of one day, and for all days I stayed there. Now at IETF61, I noticed that the Hilton has also charged me for the deposit (one day), but did not take that

Re: Why the IPnG effort failed.

2004-11-18 Thread Scott W Brim
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 04:38:37PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: It didn't. For an effort always expected to take at least 15 years, we are doing OK. It is always good to learn from history, of course. That's funny. I recall that when we started we expected it to *last* 15 years,

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Vixie
given the relative ease of acquiring v6 address space and the relative ease of deploying v4+v6 end hosts and either v4+v6 campuses or v6 tunnels in v4 campuses, there is no incentive to do nat/v4 any more, and precious little incentive to do nonat/v4. *I* can get v6 connectivity easily

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Paul Vixie
How long have folks been predicting ~5yr windows? forever. Not to diminish your table or anything, but markets don't work in binary, and the problem has been with access more than anything else. i am directly aware of latent address space needs that are 50X larger than all of ipv4. geoff

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 11/18/2004 12:38 PM, Paul Vixie wrote: i am directly aware of latent address space needs that are 50X larger than all of ipv4. Me too, but the sum total of these (both now and immediately foreseeable) is very few. I mean, I can site the corner cases too, but what does that have to do with

Re: IETF hotels charging the deposits and not reimbursing?

2004-11-18 Thread Ken Raeburn
On Nov 18, 2004, at 11:38, Scott W Brim wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 06:15:03PM +0200, Pekka Savola allegedly wrote: At IETF60, the Sheraton hotels charged me both for the deposit of one day, and for all days I stayed there. Now at IETF61, I noticed that the Hilton has also charged me for the

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Franck Martin
Paul Vixie wrote: How long have folks been predicting ~5yr windows? forever. Not to diminish your table or anything, but markets don't work in binary, and the problem has been with access more than anything else. i am directly aware of latent address

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread shogunx
Franck, You cannot get allocations for the SOPAC countries? On Fri, 19 Nov 2004, Franck Martin wrote: Paul Vixie wrote: How long have folks been predicting ~5yr windows? forever. Not to diminish your table or anything, but markets don't work in binary, and the problem has

RE: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Ford
Noel, I especially like the proof by emphaticus assertionus: It's pretty clear by now that IPv6 is just not going to reach its stated goal - which is to ubiquitously replace IPv4. Reminds me of the discussion between two dinosaurs back in the Jurassic: well, it is now apparent we are not going

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread scott bradner
The basic point seems pretty simple: the ietf seems to want a seperate set of accounts so that iasa will have an accurate financial picture and a degree of financial control in regards to ietf-specific activites. not unreasonable - why not leave the description to say just that and leave the

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread John Loughney
Title: Converted from Rich Text Harold, Numbers are for losers and technologists. Except that numbers seem to cross a number of languages better than, say, 7-bit ASCII ... YMMV. John ___Ietf mailing list[EMAIL

Re: Why the IPnG effort failed.

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 17:52 18/11/2004, Scott W Brim wrote: On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 04:38:37PM +0100, Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote: It didn't. For an effort always expected to take at least 15 years, we are doing OK. It is always good to learn from history, of course. That's funny. I recall that when we

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 19:08 18/11/2004, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: --On torsdag, november 18, 2004 10:26:07 +0100 JFC (Jefsey) Morfin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The least they want to hear is relative ease of acquiring v6 address space even least than relative ease to delpoy. This is what we think great. This is

Re: Why the IPnG effort failed.

2004-11-18 Thread Scott W Brim
On Thu, Nov 18, 2004 09:27:55PM +0100, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin allegedly wrote: At 17:52 18/11/2004, Scott W Brim wrote: That's funny. I recall that when we started we expected it to *last* 15 years, or less, during which time we would come up with a truly new routing addressing architecture.

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Personally, I do not think that an IETF BCP is the correct place to include a lot of specifics about how the accounting for the IASA activity will be handled. I think that those details should be worked out, and adjusted as needed, by the IAOC (in consultation with ISOC, accountants and tax

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Sorry. I made a mistake, it was 313 months ago that I started using names made of a root, customer and host part. Robert Tréhin would know better (he was the one with Joe Rinde to introduce root names - or TLDs). Again if that is what you refer to. So old. 249 months ago is roughly when I

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Ted Hardie
At 4:35 PM -0500 11/18/04, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Personally, I do not think that an IETF BCP is the correct place to include a lot of specifics about how the accounting for the IASA activity will be handled. I think that those details should be worked out, and adjusted as needed, by the

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Jeff Young
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Peter, Neither of us has the required data to back this up but my impression of the IETF attendance in the last 5+ years has been largely hardware/ software vendors, followed at a distance by service

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi Ted, At 2:45 PM -0800 11/18/04, Ted Hardie wrote: That's something that the community should expect to understand and consent to; after all, a great deal of it is money they will contribute either through meeting fees or memberships. Expert review to make sure that we're saying what we want

RE: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Peter Ford
Jeff, In terms of being inside the ISP space, I would include all of those people who build software and hardware for ISPs such as router, switch, firewall, etc.. My taxonomy intended to differentiate between app/host vendors and IP-transport/router-switch vendors. Apologies to all in my broad

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread Ted Hardie
At 6:40 PM -0500 11/18/04, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi Ted, At 2:45 PM -0800 11/18/04, Ted Hardie wrote: That's something that the community should expect to understand and consent to; after all, a great deal of it is money they will contribute either through meeting fees or memberships. Expert

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 18 Nov 2004, at 13:30, Franck Martin wrote: For the moment what I'm working on is on ensuring that countries can get assigned a reasonable amount of IPv6 space. A lot of countries are below radar in the IPv6 assignement. When you have a population of less than 100,000 and when the IPv6

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Jon Allen Boone
On Nov 18, 2004, at 20:24, Joe Abley wrote: On 18 Nov 2004, at 13:30, Franck Martin wrote: For the moment what I'm working on is on ensuring that countries can get assigned a reasonable amount of IPv6 space. A lot of countries are below radar in the IPv6 assignement. When you have a population

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread shogunx
On Thu, 18 Nov 2004, Jon Allen Boone wrote: On Nov 18, 2004, at 20:24, Joe Abley wrote: On 18 Nov 2004, at 13:30, Franck Martin wrote: For the moment what I'm working on is on ensuring that countries can get assigned a reasonable amount of IPv6 space. A lot of countries are below

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Joe Abley
On 18 Nov 2004, at 21:05, Jon Allen Boone wrote: And non-ISPs [the folks whom some think IPv6 can successfully be deployed w/out help from the ISPs] get them exactly how? End sites get addresses from ISPs, or use 6to4, or get direct assignments from RIRs if they qualify as operators of critical

re: AdminRest: New version of IASA BCP document available

2004-11-18 Thread scott bradner
some comments overall this document seems quite reasonable but I think there are some quite real problems mostly stemming from it trying to over proscribe future arrangements. I think the document needs to articulate philosophies but not get too deep into the details because it would reduce the

Re: AdminRest: Finances and Accounting

2004-11-18 Thread scott bradner
Ted sed: No, I consider the attorneys and accountants you mentioned in your message to be external parties. I must be misunderstaning you because it sounds like you are saying that it does not make any difference if lawyers and/or accountants say that the structure proposed in the document is

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-18 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I apologize in advance for feeding this thread, but the conversation seems to be diverging from what I thought we had actually been previously... IIRC, we've semi-recently been off to the land of PCs in homes and cell phones. I can say I was honestly dismayed that cable providers in the