Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oh goodie! We get to chat about the other IAB -- Internet Advertizing Bureau. (http://www.iab.net) Reading Mr. Kehres back-to-front. Is in-list spam in-scope for poisson? Yup. Is there a venue for general spam? Yup (April's got it). Would adopting an opt-in regime in the US improve things? Yup.

Re: Revision to RFC2727 - NOMCOM

2002-01-25 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
James, I'm going to differ with my learned colleges Dave and Paul. There may be points of 2727 and draft 2727bis that have the potential to benefit from deference until the current nomcom has done its job, but from my reading not all of them fall into that bin. In particular, I don't see how this

Fwd: Indianz.com NEWS BRIEFS: APRIL 1, 2001

2001-04-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Not having seen an RFC come over the transom yesterday or today, here is an alternative. http://216.218.205.86/april1.asp Enjoy, Eric

Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
David, Ron Natalie and I renumbered hq.af.mil the week of the Loma Prieta quake. List the NAT implementations deployed at the time. The point you'll have made is that an-aide-to-renumbering NATs weren't. If they are marketed now as such, happy, but not necessary, is the marketeer. Eric

Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-02-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
David, > IPv6 does not solve the need to renumber if you change providers (and no, > not everyone can be a provider -- IPv6 uses CIDR, just like IPv4). Until > that issue is addressed, there will be NATs. Even for v6. Odd. Every time I renumbered some site (hq.af.mil and sundry other sites s

Re: The Internet and the Law, the Economist, 13-19 January 2001

2001-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I trust we will get a quick "hum" to the proposition that "truncating" the v4addr to a /25 does not, in a dhcp, or in a static address regime, offer a great deal of "privacy enhancement", given the effectiveness of profiling and the sparsity of "like browsing sequences" at any collection moment.