Re: Differing topics (was: IAOC Meeting location selection)

2009-05-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 11:23:26PM -0400, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > discussed, not always separately, in this thread, I should have said "these threads", of course -- I was implicitly tying this discussion to the recent discussion of particular sites for meetings. But the general point is still

Differing topics (was: IAOC Meeting location selection)

2009-05-29 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On Fri, May 29, 2009 at 02:34:03PM -0700, Fred Baker wrote: > our Asian colleagues, that means flying to a major US or Canadian airport > like EWR, ORD, or YYQ, and taking another flight to YQB. [other air routings elided] Also, note, the passenger rail service to Québec from either Montréal o

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Douglas Otis
On May 29, 2009, at 7:33 AM, Francis Dupont wrote: I don't understand your argument: it seems to apply to UDP over SCTP but here we have SCTP over UDP. BTW the easiest way to convert DNS over UDP into DNS over SCTP is to use an ALG (application layer gateway) which in the DNS is known as

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
Dean Anderson wrote: > The dispute on 'certificate' is over the definition of what > 'certificate' means. As I used the word 'certificate' with a reference, there is no point to argue against me with terminology different from the refereed paper. Anyway, the definition of 'certificate' does not

Re: IAOC Meeting location selection

2009-05-29 Thread Fred Baker
I don't think we have a specific set of requirements from the community. Dave Crocker and some friends started putting some notes together more than a decade ago, and last I spoke with him about it he had dropped it because he had been unable to form a consensus. Maybe that needs to be rene

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4a20539e.3070...@necom830.hpcl.titech.ac.jp>, Masataka Ohta writes: > Paul Wouters wrote: > > > DNSSEC involves no certificates and no certificate authorities. You know > > this. > > As is documented in the paper of David Clark; > >http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=383034.

Re: IAOC Meeting location selection

2009-05-29 Thread David Kessens
John, On Thu, May 28, 2009 at 03:39:17PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > > When you have time, I (and I believe others) would like to > understand better how you evaluate "reasonable costs for the > IETF and attendees". I think it is general knowledge that it > is possible to trade IETF costs o

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Masataka Ohta
Paul Wouters wrote: > DNSSEC involves no certificates and no certificate authorities. You know > this. As is documented in the paper of David Clark; http://portal.acm.org/citation.cfm?doid=383034.383037 These certificates are principal components of essentially all public key schemes, e

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Masataka Ohta wrote: Though there seems to be some confusion that DNSSEC security were end to end It is. , below is an excerpt from an authentic document by David Clark on how PKI, including DNSSEC, involves certificate authorities DNSSEC involves no certificates and n

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Alessandro Vesely wrote: It's what the patch has reinforced. SCTP is more secure than the patched bind, yet easier than DNSSEC. where easier means "update all the root and TLD servers and load balancers and what not to support DNS over SCTP. While DNSSEC is supported *righ

Re: [Fwd: More information requested on publication status of draft-crocker-email-arch]

2009-05-29 Thread SM
At 14:42 26-05-2009, Alexey Melnikov wrote: There have been two Last Call notices sent to the IETF for: 'Internet Mail Architecture' as a Proposed Standard The IESG has received a concern about the intended publication status of this document and wishes to confirm the community's prefere

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
David Conrad wrote: Given that it is pretty easy to predict a subset of the queries a given server will issue in a give time frame, using SCTP can improve reliability better than adding another 32bit random number. 1) It isn't easy What did your mail server look up after receiving this messa

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Dean Anderson wrote: TCP is used by many, if not all, resolvers to get large responses. And I'm working on changes to DJBDNS dnscache that enable a configuration option to use TCP by default and fall back to UDP if TCP is not available. As that would increase security, I imagine that many op

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread David Conrad
Alessandro, On May 29, 2009, at 12:09 AM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: One has to trust each cache! With DNSSEC, you don't have to trust the cache since the only thing the miscreants who compromise the cache can do is the functional equivalent of removing the entry from the cache. Given that

Re: IAOC Meeting location selection

2009-05-29 Thread John C Klensin
Bob, I'd like to express my thanks for this information. I believe that, if the community had more information of this sort, updated as needed, we would have fewer firestorms when meeting sites are announced. When you have time, I (and I believe others) would like to understand better how you ev

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: Shouldn't be difficult. I'm not much into either technology, but since SCTP can be tunneled through UDP, it should be possible to retrofit SCTP adoption onto an existing DNS implementation. On an OS that provides SCTP natively, a module inserted bet

Re: DNS over SCTP (was: Re: [Asrg] DNS-based Email Sender Authentication Mechanisms: a Critical Review

2009-05-29 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: I thought TCP was the default when the UDP message size is not enough. => with EDNS0 this is a bit more complex but IMHO this is the idea. Note the recommended "connection management" (RFC 1025 4.2.2) suggests multiple queries/responses too. That's, AFAIK

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Paul Wouters
On Fri, 29 May 2009, Alessandro Vesely wrote: transport security is pretty meaningless in the DNS world which operates using a distributed caching system. One has to trust each cache! Your solution to protect the DNS is "just trust everyone"? Given that it is pretty easy to predict a subset

Re: Taking a time out

2009-05-29 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, May 29, 2009 06:18 -0600 Doug Ewell wrote: > Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >>> plans about changes in RFC and I-D formats >> >> Huh? > > From ASCII to UTF-8, or from plain-text to PDF. Or the more recent, long and with many messages, discussion about the order of the abstract

Re: Taking a time out

2009-05-29 Thread Doug Ewell
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: plans about changes in RFC and I-D formats Huh? From ASCII to UTF-8, or from plain-text to PDF. -- Doug Ewell * Thornton, Colorado, USA * RFC 4645 * UTN #14 http://www.ewellic.org http://www1.ietf.org/html.charters/ltru-charter.html http://www.alvestrand.n

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Michael Tüxen
On May 29, 2009, at 12:23 PM, Alessandro Vesely wrote: David Conrad wrote: However, pragmatically speaking, I suspect it is going to be much, much easier to get DNSSEC deployed than it would be to get every router/firewall/NAT manufacturer and network operator to support/ deploy SCTP, not t

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
David Conrad wrote: However, pragmatically speaking, I suspect it is going to be much, much easier to get DNSSEC deployed than it would be to get every router/firewall/NAT manufacturer and network operator to support/deploy SCTP, not to mention getting every DNSSEC server to support DNS over SC

Re: DNS over SCTP

2009-05-29 Thread Alessandro Vesely
Paul Wouters wrote: On Thu, 28 May 2009, Alessandro Vesely wrote: The limitations in TCP or SCTP security stem from transport security is pretty meaningless in the DNS world which operates using a distributed caching system. One has to trust each cache! Given that it is pretty easy to predi

Re: Taking a time out

2009-05-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 28 mei 2009, at 23:39, John C Klensin wrote: plans about changes in RFC and I-D formats Huh? ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf