Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Mon, 2004-11-22 at 14:49 -0500, Eric S. Raymond wrote: Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED]: I submit that if your environment is at all like mine, you don't actually configure 192.168.whatever addresses on the equipment in your house. You run DHCP within the home and it assigns such. That

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 10:20:17AM +0100, Brian E Carpenter wrote: But this has also happened lately; not everybody is so short-sighted: http://www.pcworld.com/news/article/0,aid,118610,00.asp Since you cite Nokia, it's interesting that on the Communicator 9500 you can run a regular voice

Re: The gaps that NAT is filling

2004-11-23 Thread Margaret Wasserman
Hi All, It will probably come as no surprise to many of you that I have spent quite a bit of time over the last few years trying to understand why people use NATs and how they could be replaced with more architecturally harmonious mechanisms. I have been completely convinced for several years

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: Depends on the type of home user ;) Nevertheless, most homes currently only consist of maybe 3 ethernet segments (wired, wireless, office or something) and maybe a max of 20 hosts. Changing the IP's of those hosts should not be a

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Chown
On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 10:44:07AM -0800, Fred Baker wrote: At 01:05 PM 11/22/04 -0500, Richard Shockey wrote: Yes Fred I would _expect_ my ISP to sell me a /64 but at what price? It continues to amaze me that no one discussing the IP V6 adoption issues will focus attention on the obvious

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:17 +, Tim Chown wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: Depends on the type of home user ;) Nevertheless, most homes currently only consist of maybe 3 ethernet segments (wired, wireless, office or something) and maybe a max of 20

Re: The gaps that NAT is filling

2004-11-23 Thread John C Klensin
Margaret, I agree completely with your analysis -- it turns out that the two of us have been saying much the same thing for some time now. But I suggest that the situation with one of your four points is even a bit worse, IMO, than the way you describe it... --On Tuesday, 23 November, 2004

Re: The gaps that NAT is filling

2004-11-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 07:03 -0500, Margaret Wasserman wrote: Hi All, It will probably come as no surprise to many of you that I have spent quite a bit of time over the last few years trying to understand why people use NATs and how they could be replaced with more architecturally

alternative to the spam filtering of the IETF's users

2004-11-23 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 07:32 23/11/2004, some undisclosed @yahoo.com said: your last email kinda reminded me of a bunch ofpoliticians arguing. You managed to write hundreds of words and say nothing. You should have just wrote (what he said) and saved us all a bunch of time. ... I'm sure that there's a lot of other

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Tim Chown
On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:30PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:17 +, Tim Chown wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: Depends on the type of home user ;) Nevertheless, most homes currently only consist of maybe 3 ethernet

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread shogunx
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004, Tim Chown wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2004 at 01:44:30PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 12:17 +, Tim Chown wrote: On Mon, Nov 22, 2004 at 05:11:26PM +0100, Jeroen Massar wrote: Depends on the type of home user ;) Nevertheless, most homes

Re: alternative to the spam filtering of the IETF's users

2004-11-23 Thread Randy.Dunlap
JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: On 07:32 23/11/2004, some undisclosed @yahoo.com said: your last email kinda reminded me of a bunch ofpoliticians arguing. You managed to write hundreds of words and say nothing. You should have just wrote (what he said) and saved us all a bunch of time. ... I'm sure

RE: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Tony Hain
shogunx wrote: ... Ok. I'll bite. Who do you propose to tunnel to by default in all these embedded devices? Do you give users a choice of tunnel brokers? Does it work out of the box? Do you give them one address, or how large an allocation, or what? RFC 3056 /or

RE: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Tony Hain
Richard Shockey wrote: ... Yes deployment will be gated by economic factors. The problem the IETF and the transit network operator community keep overlooking is that the economic costs are not down in the plumbing. The costs are in application development and end system/lan

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 23 Nov 2004 13:44:30 +0100, Jeroen Massar said: Ack, nicely turn that NAT box into a real router by flashing it with a This is unfortunately not something that most people dare to do. Then again, I know that quite a lot of people 'upgraded' their SpeedTouch Argh. Flashing it with a

Re: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 22 Nov 2004 11:46:23 +1200, Franck Martin said: Well, in most Pacific Islands, there is only one operator who is nearly fully owned by the government, so the words sole ISP and country can be interchanged. The countries there are islands, physically and virtually. troll mode=on While

RE: How the IPnG effort was started

2004-11-23 Thread Daniel Senie
At 12:07 PM 11/21/2004, Peter Ford wrote: Content-class: urn:content-classes:message Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary=_=_NextPart_001_01C4CFEC.A4503CD1 Noel, You are sorely under-representing the IETF's and your own efforts wrt NATs. I think of your taxonomic study of NATs

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Daniel Senie
At 06:00 PM 11/22/2004, Fred Baker wrote: At 12:10 PM 11/22/04 -0800, Chris Palmer wrote: There's another feature of NAT that is desirable that has not yet been mentioned, and which at least some customers may be cognizant of: the fact that NAT is a pretty restrictive firewall. would that it were

Re: alternative to the spam filtering of the IETF's users

2004-11-23 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
Jefsey, why don't you go yell at the IPv6 Forum - http://www.ipv6forum.org/? It seems far more likely that you will get the IPv6 forum to be effective by contributing than that you will get the IETF to change its ways by long-winded messages on the IETF list. Harald --On 23.

Re: alternative to the spam filtering of the IETF's users

2004-11-23 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Harald, Thank you for your advice. As says the quote you kept, IPv6 is only part of a global issue where the key point is organizing the numbering plan, what IETF is not devised for, and ICANN does not consider. I am not interested in stardizing but in making sure the IETF deliverables fit the

IASA BCP Issue: Budgeting process and financial oversight

2004-11-23 Thread Bernard Aboba
In reading section 3, I believe that there are some issues with respect to separation between the IASA and IAD responsibilities. My overall comment on Section 3 is that co-mingles sections relating to the responsibilities of the IAD and the IAOC. Since the IAOC constitutes the management, while

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-23 Thread Jeroen Massar
On Tue, 2004-11-23 at 19:02 -0500, Daniel Senie wrote: At 06:00 PM 11/22/2004, Fred Baker wrote: At 12:10 PM 11/22/04 -0800, Chris Palmer wrote: There's another feature of NAT that is desirable that has not yet been mentioned, and which at least some customers may be cognizant of: the fact

Protocol Action: 'BGP Communities for Data Collection' to BCP

2004-11-23 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'BGP Communities for Data Collection ' draft-ietf-grow-collection-communities-06.txt as a BCP This document is the product of the Global Routing Operations Working Group. The IESG contact persons are David Kessens and Bert Wijnen. RFC Editor

Protocol Action: 'Diameter Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Application' to Proposed Standard

2004-11-23 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Diameter Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) Application ' draft-ietf-aaa-eap-10.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Authentication, Authorization and Accounting Working Group. The IESG contact persons are

Document Action: 'Architecture Taxonomy for Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points(CAPWAP)' to Informational RFC

2004-11-23 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Architecture Taxonomy for Control and Provisioning of Wireless Access Points(CAPWAP) ' draft-ietf-capwap-arch-06.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the Control And Provisioning of Wireless Access Points Working