Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Juergen Schoenwaelder
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:09:18PM +0100, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: > The solution is to find new externets to reboost the network. The Internet started as an overlay network over the telephony networks. It has been tremendously successful for various reasons and it is now even seeking to repl

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Gaurav Vaish
> Anybody can write an Internet-Draft (getting IETF community consensus > is another matter). In the case of a revision of a document created Hi Bruce, Great exhaustive mail. Thanks a ton. And I know, now, that it's going to be a little tedious job. I have forgotten troff -- not worked on it

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Tony Hain
Pyda Srisuresh wrote: > [suresh] Why is it a problem with what Jonathan said in the IAB document? > It is > true that traditinal NATs do inherently provide a limited firewall > functionality. Jonathan did not say that NAT function implies full > Firewall > functionality. > > Also, what exactly do

RE: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Michel Py
> Noel Chiappa wrote: > However, another way to look at this is to say that what > they really want is to configure their machines with only > one identifier, one which is (mostly) location-independent, > and therefore serves mostly to identify them. They are > quite happy to then have those machin

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Pyda Srisuresh
Hi Tony, I have not been followign this thread at all. But, I did happen to look at this e-mail and decided to respond. Please see my comments below. Thanks. regards, suresh --- Tony Hain <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jonathan Rosenberg wrote: > > ... > > I agree that ALGs are not the answer, an

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Tony Hain
Jonathan Rosenberg wrote: > ... > I agree that ALGs are not the answer, and I believe the reasons for that > are treated in: > > http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-nat-traversal- > considerations-00.txt I have a fundamental problem with an IAB document that implies NAT provides a firew

Re: [e2e] Introduction to ATP

2005-03-14 Thread Jason Gao
Sorry, there isn't any paper on it yet. I think I should write a paper in a few weeks. Anyway, it is just a paper design with many open issues, such as quantitive comparison with TCP, SCTP and so on. -邮件原件- 发件人: Lars Eggert [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 发送时间: 2005年3月14日 19:55 收件人: Jason Gao 抄

Re: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Noel Chiappa
> From: Keith Moore >> yeah, it *is* easier to deploy first and then later make incremental >> modifications for scalability - if you like NAT. > You do have to build upgrade paths into the architecture if you want it > to last ... Making an architecture last is all about ..

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Gaurav Vaish
> probably be to contact the appropriate IETF Area Directors > for guidance and for the names of other people who might be Thanks, Brian for the pointer. However, since I first visited the URL yesterday, I am confused as to which one to join. The closest that I could think of is ediint. Is that a

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 10:46 14/03/2005, Tom Petch said: > As you know, the value of a network is roughly proportional to > the square of the participants. The value of a network can depend on what is on it, not how many or who. One useful (http/ftp/...) server can make a network worth accessing, worth paying for. E

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Monday, March 14, 2005 09:18:43 AM -0500 Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 06:26, Bruce Campbell wrote: The IETF Meeting crew should look at supplying an additional 3 ethernet and power drops per room, labelled 'chair', 'presenter' and '(jabber) scribe' with the

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Greg Daley
Hi Geoff, - Original Message - From: Geoff Huston <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Monday, March 14, 2005 5:54 pm Subject: Re: IETF63 wireless > I believe that the concept that "meeting registration fees must > cover all > IETF suport costs" is, a best, an historical statement (and not > ev

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Aaron Falk
Carsten Bormann wrote: > > (The best WG meeting I ever attended was one where Tony Li hammered > out most of the IP-over-firewire details in one session by asking > the attending firewire experts all the right questions in one > sitting. I'm still wowed for life. But you can't do this for > somet

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Aaron Falk
Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > > Stateful DHCP lease tracking was clearly causing more trouble than > it's worth to the IETF network. Ya' know, I'd be happy if I received a static IP address with my meeting registration confirmation. I'd even be happy to supply my wireless MAC address... --aaron __

Re: for your amusement

2005-03-14 Thread Alexandru Petrescu
Carsten Bormann wrote: Lucy, congratulations, but "First intercontinental videoconference from the air"; hmm. Some of us have done this before (using iChat, no less). Well, I've read my emails at 9.6kbps 2-3 years ago, even replied to some, while above Atlantic. I must not have been the first doi

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Crocker
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:54:35 -0800 (PST), Joel Jaeggli wrote: >  So, how much are you(ietf attendees in general) willing to pay over and >  above the current cost of the meeting fee for the wireless service you >  want? it would, in fact, be really nice to be presented with a concrete proposal, f

Re: for your amusement

2005-03-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 09:22:53 -0800 (PST) "Lucy E. Lynch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > follow on to the Boeing presentation at the IAB Plenary: > http://www.vrvs.org/Announcements/Plane/VRVS_in_the_air.html > > Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services > Computing Center

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Geoff Huston
I believe that the concept that "meeting registration fees must cover all IETF suport costs" is, a best, an historical statement (and not even correct in that context). With the changes with the IASA activity I believe we have the opportunity to get this right, rather than muddling around atte

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On Sun, 13 Mar 2005, Dave Crocker wrote: This is about a mindset and an organizational approach that does not leave those volunteers out on a limb with fragile equipment, or insufficient resources. It is about our approaching this as a utility service and ensuring that that is what is delivered.

Re: for your amusement

2005-03-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
Lucy, congratulations, but "First intercontinental videoconference from the air"; hmm. Some of us have done this before (using iChat, no less). Gruesse, Carsten ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread ned . freed
>> if we could get rid of wireless and powerpoint, we'd be much better >> off. > > Personal opinion: disagree. Wireless is immensely useful to grab a > document, check something on another SDO's web site, and - yes - for > instant messaging (e.g. "we need you in here right now"). And some > people

Re: idea for spam protection

2005-03-14 Thread Dave Singer
At 9:22 AM -0500 3/13/05, Bruce Lilly wrote: > Date: 2005-03-12 11:18 From: Bill Sommerfeld <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> where's that Final Ultimate Solution to the Spam Problem scorecard? You're probably thinking of http://www.rhyolite.com/anti-spam/you-might-be.html great list. but just because the

for your amusement

2005-03-14 Thread Lucy E. Lynch
follow on to the Boeing presentation at the IAB Plenary: http://www.vrvs.org/Announcements/Plane/VRVS_in_the_air.html Lucy E. Lynch Academic User Services Computing CenterUniversity of Oregon llynch @darkwing.uoregon.edu (541) 346-1774

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Gaurav Vaish
Wooaah! Great to see your mail, Rik. > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list. This is the mailing list for the Another "great to see". > I wasn't able to find mail from you dated prior to yesterday (maybe the > spam filters got it). Yikes. And there's something to hate the spam filters. ;-)

Re:Why?

2005-03-14 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Regarding the firewalls and IPv6, I agree with your comment, but also there are some other reasons why that's bad, see: draft-vives-v6ops-ipv6-security-ps-03.txt and draft-palet-v6ops-ipv6security-02.txt Regards, Jordi > De: Jonathan Rosenberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: <[EMAIL PROTEC

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Jari Arkko
Melinda Shore wrote: However, while slides do tend to lead to a presentation-type meeting format, I think there are other factors substantially contributing to that, as well. Yes. Another factor is the ratio of work items to meeting time. If there are 5-6 or even more items per a two-hour slot ther

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Jonathan Rosenberg
inline. Tony Hain wrote: Joel M. Halpern wrote: This discussion seems to take as a premise the view that if we define applications only on IPv6, even though they could be defined on IPv4, that this will give people a reason to use IPv6. It also seems to take as a premise that if we don't define way

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Keith Moore
> From the top of my head, there are at least three kinds of > presentations I see frequently at the IETFs: > > a) about 5 slides (or less) of background for the work, some major > points, and maybe what has changed, on the last slide soliciting for > input on certain specific topics, > >

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 06:26, Bruce Campbell wrote: > The IETF Meeting crew should look at supplying an additional 3 ethernet > and power drops per room, labelled 'chair', 'presenter' and '(jabber) > scribe' with the expectation that they be used accordingly. Power was most assuredly not a proble

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Pekka Savola
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Keith Moore wrote: Whenever I see a presentation about the editorial progress of some draft, I find myself wondering - does _anybody_ here need to be watching this? If someone has typed in this summary in PPT, couldn't it as easily be posted to the WG mailing list, or place

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Bill Sommerfeld
On Mon, 2005-03-14 at 03:10, Tim Chown wrote: > Indeed; there seems to be some 'smart' Alcatel software that is doing > some ARP/DHCP trickery (at least the APs are Alcatel, so the favourite > for the s/w is the same vendor...). > > Note that my problem all week was getting dis-associated from WLA

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Keith Moore
I personally think that it may be appropriate that most people are not paying attention much of the time. In some WG, you may only really care about 1 or 2 drafts, and not at all about the details of the editorial progress of some other draft. Whenever I see a presentation about the editorial pro

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005 08:07:05 -0500 Keith Moore wrote: > >> if we could get rid of wireless and powerpoint, we'd be much better > >> off. > > > > Personal opinion: disagree. Wireless is immensely useful to grab a > > document, check something on another SDO's web site, and - yes - for > > insta

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
I would add that the first step in such an effort should probably be to contact the appropriate IETF Area Directors for guidance and for the names of other people who might be interested in helping. This looks like Applications Area material to me. See http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/wg-dir.html#

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Melinda Shore
On Monday, March 14, 2005, at 08:34 AM, Carl Malamud wrote: Edward Tufte makes a very convincing case that in the case of powerpoint, the medium certainly influences the message: The NY Times ran an article on PowerPoint and the deterioration of public speaking a few years ago, before Tufte started

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Carsten Bormann
On Mar 14 2005, at 14:07 Uhr, Keith Moore wrote: we used to get a lot more work done when we used our meetings primarily for discussion rather than scheduling presentations for most or all of the meeting time. Yes. WG chairs planning WG meetings, take note. But then, one difference is that a lot

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Carl Malamud
> As for presentations, the fact that they vary in quality can't be > blamed on PPT. It should be blamed on the presenters, perhaps. > > Brian > Edward Tufte makes a very convincing case that in the case of powerpoint, the medium certainly influences the message: Summary of Tufte's views in

Re:Why?

2005-03-14 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
This may be interesting if you want to take a look at models of adoption of technology. http://www.ist-ipv6.org/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=62 9 Regards, Jordi > De: Tom Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: Tom Petch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Fecha: Mon, 14 Mar 2005 10:

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Bruce Lilly
> Date: 2005-03-14 04:24 > From: Frank Ellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Looking again into 2026 I'm still not sure how Gaurav > could handle this if the authors don't answer. Anybody can write an Internet-Draft (getting IETF community consensus is another matter). In the case of a revision of a

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Keith Moore
if we could get rid of wireless and powerpoint, we'd be much better off. Personal opinion: disagree. Wireless is immensely useful to grab a document, check something on another SDO's web site, and - yes - for instant messaging (e.g. "we need you in here right now"). And some people simply have

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Tom Petch
inline Tom Petch From: "Kevin Loch" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: ; Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Re: FW: Why? > > As you know, the value of a network is roughly proportional to > the square of the participants. The value of a network can depend on what is on it, not how many or who

Re: [e2e] Introduction to ATP

2005-03-14 Thread Lars Eggert
Jason Gao wrote: Here ATP stands for Asymmetric Transport Protocol (somewhat for historical reason), not Appletalk Transaction Protocol. Welcome to http://atp.ebloggy.com/ to add comment. Is there a paper on it? The web page and your email don't have details. -- Lars Eggert

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Stewart Bryant
The IETF Meeting crew should look at supplying an additional 3 ethernet and power drops per room, labelled 'chair', 'presenter' and '(jabber) scribe' with the expectation that they be used accordingly. These functions, IMHO, are too important to leave to the possible failures/overloads of the wir

Re: What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Bruce Campbell
On Mon, 14 Mar 2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > Keith Moore wrote: > ... > > if we could get rid of wireless and powerpoint, we'd be much better off. > > meetings in the first place. The jabber scribing has become very > important for remote participants - this time we even had one Area The IETF

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Gaurav Vaish
>Or instead... I'd then go to W3C and ask for a standard And I just forgot how costly it is to be a member of W3C :D -- Cheers, Gaurav Vaish http://www.mastergaurav.org http://mastergaurav.blogspot.com ___ Ietf ma

What? No PPT or wireless? [Re: IETF63 wireless]

2005-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Keith Moore wrote: ... actually I haven't attended an IETF meeting in the past several years where I didn't get the impression that we'd be much more effective at getting work done _without_ wireless access. large rooms that are full of people sitting down typing on laptops and not paying attenti

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Gaurav Vaish
> Looking again into 2026 I'm still not sure how Gaurav > could handle this if the authors don't answer. And if >From 2229 (C) statement: However, this document itself may not be modified in any way, such as by removing the copyright notice or references to the

Re: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Michel Py wrote: Terry Gray wrote: Keith, Quick note from the peanut gallery: I believe your vision is only achievable if the address allocation policies for v6 are such that every man/woman/child and enterprise can obtain an "ample" amount of provider-independent v6 space (or some number of addre

Introduction to ATP

2005-03-14 Thread Jason Gao
Here ATP stands for Asymmetric Transport Protocol (somewhat for historical reason), not Appletalk Transaction Protocol. Welcome to http://atp.ebloggy.com/ to add comment. Known problems: Lack of references section; Lack of elliptic curve parameter definition; and much more:) Briefly: ATP aims t

Re: RFC - 2229 / Dictionary Server Protocol

2005-03-14 Thread Frank Ellermann
Baker Fred wrote: > I have some bed-time reading for you Thanks, excl. the new 3978/3979 I had read these texts. Looking again into 2026 I'm still not sure how Gaurav could handle this if the authors don't answer. And if the "inventors" of IsNot also "invented" dict he might need a lawyer _befor

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Tim, I was trying to say that: - Wireless 802.11 is an emerging technology (read "not fully cooked yet") - Wireless 802.11 is a wireless (read "radio) technology subject to complex patterns of interference and station interactions ("station" includes both basestations and clients) So, it is

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Tim Chown
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 05:02:00PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: > > It is precisely the style of thinking, and not the specifics, > that I was trying to suggest and illustrate. Indeed; there seems to be some 'smart' Alcatel software that is doing some ARP/DHCP trickery (at least the APs are Alc

Re: IETF63 wireless

2005-03-14 Thread Tim Chown
On Sun, Mar 13, 2005 at 01:47:05PM -0800, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > Simply saying that a network which is built by volunteers (or by anyone > else for that matter) MUST be reliable is just naive. It's a bit like > saying operating systems and other software must be bug free. Keep in > mind that the