Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip LIR's may assign blocks in the range of /48 to /64 to end sites. All assignments made by LIR's should meet a minimum HD-Ratio of .25. * /64 - Site needing only a single subnet. * /60 - Site with 2-3 subnets initially. * /56 - Site with 4-7

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20-aug-2007, at 9:57, Roger Jørgensen wrote: I would say this entire problem is related to the fact that a /48 is a huge amount of IP addresses and most people have a hard time to understand why everyone, even end-users (your grandmother or any other non-technical users) should get this

RE: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread michael.dillon
I know the reasons behind the /48 etc but it just going to cause us trouble to keep it like that, we should divide the /48 cateogry of users into two: - people that can get the current /48 as long as they have more than ONE subnet - people that only have ONE subnet, typical home-users

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On 8/20/07, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I know the reasons behind the /48 etc but it just going to cause us trouble to keep it like that, we should divide the /48 cateogry of users into two: - people that can get the current /48 as long as they have more than ONE subnet

Re: Gen-art review of draft-ietf-ccamp-inter-domain-pd-path-comp-05.txt

2007-08-20 Thread JP Vasseur
Hi, On Aug 17, 2007, at 5:06 PM, BRUNGARD, DEBORAH A, ATTLABS wrote: Much thanks Elwyn - JP - I scanned quickly and they seem to be fair comments - very helpful as another perspective. The fixes look to be largely descriptive clarifications and editorial. Can you handle the updates on this

Gen-ART review of draft-ietf-avt-rtp-and-rtcp-mux-07.txt

2007-08-20 Thread Black_David
I have been selected as the General Area Review Team (Gen-ART) reviewer for this draft (for background on Gen-ART, please see http://www.alvestrand.no/ietf/gen/art/gen-art-FAQ.html). Please wait for direction from your document shepherd or AD before posting a new version of the draft.

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread RJ Atkinson
I am quite startled by this thread, both in its emotion and in the apparent oversight of multiple approaches to the issue of having LOTS of connected user devices at a house/site/office when an IPv6 /64 prefix has been provided by one's upstream network provider. First, giving each end user a

Re: the curse of the S(imple) protocols, was: Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Sunday, 19 August, 2007 11:48 -0700 Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, 17 August, 2007 16:18 -0700 SM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: There are ways to validate the sender the first time you establish a contact. Once that is done, you can use it

Re: the curse of the S(imple) protocols, was: Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Crocker
John C Klensin wrote: If was precisely SPF and Sender-ID, and some similar approaches, to which I was referring.And I agree with the skepticism and, based on my personal biases, could have said something a lot stronger that appear to be: I was trying to be as neutral (every now and

Secretariat Services Bidder Comments Sought

2007-08-20 Thread Ray Pelletier
The IAOC is accepting private comments through September 4th regarding the qualifications of the companies bidding to provide services under the IETF Secretariat Services RFP. ( iaoc.ietf.org/rfpsrfis.html ) The RFP sought bids to provide the following services: 1. Meeting 2. Clerical

Re: Review of draft-hartman-webauth-phishing-05

2007-08-20 Thread Sam Hartman
Hi, Eric, responding as an individual. Obviously, I disagree with your basic claim that it is too early to write a document like this. I've asked the sponsoring AD to make a consensus call on whether we have sufficient support to be making this sort of statement. If not, then I'll be happy to

Informational vs. Informational

2007-08-20 Thread Paul Hoffman
On a thread about a specific document that is proposed to be an Informational RFC coming through the IETF process: At 1:12 PM -0400 8/20/07, Sam Hartman wrote: I've asked the sponsoring AD to make a consensus call on whether we have sufficient support to be making this sort of statement. If

Re: Informational vs. Informational

2007-08-20 Thread Andy Bierman
Paul Hoffman wrote: On a thread about a specific document that is proposed to be an Informational RFC coming through the IETF process: At 1:12 PM -0400 8/20/07, Sam Hartman wrote: I've asked the sponsoring AD to make a consensus call on whether we have sufficient support to be making this

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino
caveat: i have not checked the entire thread yet, so it could be a duplicate of someone's words. First, giving each end user a /64 means that the user can have up to 2^^64 devices at their site/home/office. That 2^64 interface ID is picked to reduce the possibility (or

Re: Informational vs. Informational

2007-08-20 Thread Sam Hartman
Paul == Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul On a thread about a specific document that is proposed to be Paul an Informational RFC coming through the IETF process: Paul At 1:12 PM -0400 8/20/07, Sam Hartman wrote: I've asked the sponsoring AD to make a consensus call on

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 18-aug-2007, at 16:27, RJ Atkinson wrote: Second, Ethernet bridging is a well understood technology and it works just fine even with very large numbers of devices. That's a meaningless statement. Yes, it works well if you work around the limitations. If you create a loop in a bridged

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-20 Thread Arnt Gulbrandsen
Mark Andrews writes: Cable companies need this amount of address space for controlling the CPE boxes. The customers still get public addresses. That's a minimum of two addresses per customer. One of which can easily be an IPv6 address, so allocating 240/x for this

Re: the curse of the S(imple) protocols, was: Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread SM
At 08:06 20-08-2007, John C Klensin wrote: I was trying to suggest --obviously in too subtle a way-- that the supposedly easy-to-deploy transport-based systems often don't work well if there is more than one hop. If that is equivalent to what you say above, then so be it: the apparent silliness

Does anybody know where Jim Bell is - is he out of jail?

2007-08-20 Thread Joe Baptista
I'd like to talk to Bell. Designer of the Assassination Politics protocol. Anyone know if he's out of jail yet? thanks joe baptista -- Joe Baptistawww.publicroot.org PublicRoot Consortium The

RE: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I have a slightly different take from John here. My strong belief is that a proposal for a new protocol that does the same thing as SMTP but slightly better is a total non starter. No matter how much better the protocol is the cost of transition will dominate. The only way that I see a new

RE: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I am pretty sure the EUI-64 requirement has been dropped. If not I can't see how the real world security practitioners are going to implement it. The EUI-64 address reveals the hardware manufacturer and model of hardware that I am using. There are no circumstances in which I am going to allow

RE: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
Why do I need more bits to support more subnets? Since my IPv6 addresses are going to be assigned via DHCP and since I have not the slightest intention of using the MAC address as the low order bits that appear on the Internet proper, I don't see why I would be requiring more than 2^32 devices

RE: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
I do not believe that it is difficult to design fire and forget systems for the home. The problem is not design, it's the politics. Apple has gone a long way towards doing just that, and they have brought a lot of manufacturers with them. They have approached the problem with a more feasible

RE: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
My appologies for not replying earlier. Yes, Fred, you are entirely correct here and this was the original point that I raised in the plenary. David Clark is not the sort of person to propose a dogma. As you point out the original paper is couched in terms of 'here are some issues you might

Re: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread Michael Thomas
Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: I have a slightly different take from John here. My strong belief is that a proposal for a new protocol that does the same thing as SMTP but slightly better is a total non starter. No matter how much better the protocol is the cost of transition will dominate.

RE: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 20 August, 2007 15:16 -0700 Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have a slightly different take from John here. My strong belief is that a proposal for a new protocol that does the same thing as SMTP but slightly better is a total non starter. No matter how much

RE: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
The slightly different spin that I started from but did not manage to quite get to come out in the message was that I don't think that the successor to email will be designed as the successor to email. I think that it will be an infrastructure that is designed to do something different and

Re: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Crocker
John C Klensin wrote: The only way that I see a new email infrastructure emerging is as a part of a more general infrastructure to support multi-modal communication, both synchronous and asynchronous, bilateral and multilateral, Instant Messaging, email, voice, video, network news all combined

Is there a need for a standard general XML format for describing computer files?

2007-08-20 Thread Trace Bond
Dear folk, For the past two years I've been casually searching for an XML format for describing computer files that I could use for creating catalogs of files for backup purposes. Such a format seems to me to be a very important tool for making, duplicating and sharing vendor-independent file

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-wilson-class-e-00.txt

2007-08-20 Thread Mark Andrews
Mark Andrews writes: Cable companies need this amount of address space for controlling the CPE boxes. The customers still get public addresses. That's a minimum of two addresses per customer. One of which can easily be an IPv6 address, so allocating 240/x for

Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 20, 2007, at 3:16 PM, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: Which is what prompted the original point I made in the plenary: when someone is using the end to end principle to slap down some engineering proposal they don't like I would at least like them to appear to have read the paper they

Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Crocker
Fred Baker wrote: The funny thing is that I'm not convinced that this is a change. As I have said in this and other fora, there is an argument for functional complexity in the network, and routing is its poster child. ... What we need to do is figure out how to let the intelligent network

Re: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
Anyone who thinks that a new mail protocol that relies on users seeing some secure or trustworthy indicator should read: An Evaluation of Extended Validation and Picture-in-Picture Phishing Attacks Collin Jackson, Daniel R. Simon, Desney S. Tan, and Adam Barth, Proc. USEC '07.

Re: e2e

2007-08-20 Thread John Day
What we need to do is figure out how to let the intelligent network core work cooperatively with the intelligent edge to let it do intelligent things. Right now, the core and the edge are ships in the night, passing and occasionally bumping into each other. No, we don't want unnecessary

Re: Informational vs. Informational

2007-08-20 Thread Eric Rescorla
At Mon, 20 Aug 2007 15:09:09 -0400, Sam Hartman wrote: Paul == Paul Hoffman [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Paul On a thread about a specific document that is proposed to be Paul an Informational RFC coming through the IETF process: Paul At 1:12 PM -0400 8/20/07, Sam Hartman

Re: New models for email (Re: e2e)

2007-08-20 Thread Dave Crocker
Michael Thomas wrote: The only way that I see a new email infrastructure emerging is as a part of a more general infrastructure to support multi-modal communication, both synchronous and asynchronous, bilateral and multilateral, Instant Messaging, email, voice, video, network news all