Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

2009-12-08 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Robert Moskowitz wrote: > ALL my IETF mailing lists come to email accounts that I control on my own > mail server. but > > I recently submitted my first Internet Draft since my company was bought by > a BIG TELCO, and it has BIG email filtering rules.  In large part these > rules were develop

Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

2009-12-14 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
On Sat, Dec 12, 2009 at 15:10, Doug Ewell wrote: > A former employer of mine once blocked a message which contained the phrase > "magna cxm laude," where the X was a U.  Apparently that one word, taken out > of context, was sufficient. That's clbuttic. A group I belong to, once had a convention

Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

2009-12-14 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Randy Presuhn wrote: > It's about time we got rid of that pesky J and W, and we don't > *really *need both V and U, do uue? Cue Mark Twain and his orxografikl riform... -Dave -- Dave Aronson - Have Pun, Will Babble | Work: davearonson.com | /\ ASCII -+ Play

Re: Corporate email attachment filters and IETF emails

2009-12-14 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
On Mon, Dec XIV, MMIX at XX:X, Loa Andersson wrote: > great idea - and we should als adopt Latin numbers! ... > Loa Andersson > > Sr Strategy and Standards Manager > Ericsson /// >   phone:  +46 10 717 52 13 >           +46 767 72 92 13 Shouldn't you therefore have written: phone: +XLVI X DC

Re: Last Call: draft-iana-ipv4-examples (IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation) to Informational RFC

2009-08-23 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Jari Arkko wrote: > What should we do about this block? Some of the potential answers include > documenting its role, marking it as reserved but deprecating its use in > examples, and returning it to the free pool immediately (with a warning sign > about possible filtering problems). If we can ar

Re: Last Call: draft-iana-ipv4-examples (IPv4 Address Blocks Reserved for Documentation) to Informational RFC

2009-08-24 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Joel Jaeggli wrote: > By definition, if the IETF directed IANA to reserve it, it's not a Arin > prefix. D'oh, sorry, I mean IANA. That's what I get for typing in a hurry, juggling too many ETLAs -Dave, putting on dunce cap and sitting in corner -- Dave Aronson, software engineer or tr

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-16 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
David Harrington wrote: > As part of declaring IPv6 a full standard, would we also declare IPv4 > obsolete or Historic? Given IPv6's rate of adoption so far, how soon do you think IPv4 will *really* be in so little use as to be obsolete or historic? With the growth rate of the Internet and home

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-16 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
David Kessens wrote: > On Wed, Sep 16, 2009 at 11:36:53AM -0400, IETF Member Dave Aronson wrote: ... >> I'd be willing to bet that the number of IPv4 >> installations is *growing* per year, not shrinking, and that that >> trend will continue for at least the next

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-17 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 16 sep 2009, at 18:40, IETF Member Dave Aronson wrote: ... > What's the point of running IPv4 when you can do everything you need to do > over IPv6? (Note that it works the other way around, also...) Inertia. Lots of people are already running IPv

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-23 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote: > Is a dual stack IPv4-IPv6 likely to be more unstable than pure IPv4 or pure > IPv6? Just from a pure software-engineering standpoint, with no reference to the stability of current stacks nor the exact tasks at hand, it seems quite likely. More code, doing more

Re: Last Call: draft-dusseault-http-patch (PATCH Method for HTTP) to Proposed Standard

2009-10-27 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > > - 'PATCH Method for HTTP ' >   as a Proposed Standard This could be sort of a nitpick, but It seems to me that this could be used for both simple sequences of bytes, and

CAPTCHA is NOT a Turing test, or even close

2007-09-26 Thread IETF member Dave Aronson
Pars Mutaf [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > On 9/26/07, John L <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ... > > approaches that depend on something like a CAPTCHA to > > work don't have much of a long term future. > > I respect your opinion but it says that one day we won't be able to tell > humans and

Re: IETF solution for pairing cellular hosts

2007-09-26 Thread IETF member Dave Aronson
Virendra Gandhi [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > This is the classic John Smith problem, As an interesting (at least to me) side note: The most common *given* name in the world is Mohammed. The most common *family* name in the world is Chang. This does *not* mean that Mohammed Chang is a

Re: AMS - IETF Press Release

2008-02-12 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Frank Ellermann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Join the club of users despising their MUA... The dictum of Three Dead Trolls in a Baggie, re operating systems, applies equally well to nearly every sort of application. -Dave -- Dave Aronson "Specialization is for insects." -Heinlein Work: http://

Re: amusing text from recently-published US Military standards

2008-03-25 Thread IETF Member Dave Aronson
Jim Reid <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Perhaps someone should tell the DoD that WW2 has ended. :-) Might work. After all, the feds finally realized we didn't need to fund the Spanish-American War any more -Dave -- Dave Aronson "Specialization is for insects." -Heinlein Work: http://www.da

ietf-moms

2007-02-01 Thread IETF member Dave Aronson
Michael Richardson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > If there is interest, I will make a list. If someone has a more PC > name, I'll use it. As we all know, the absolutely most critically important thing about any project, and a mailing list should be no exception, is its name. It should be

DOS boot?

2007-03-26 Thread IETF member Dave Aronson
Adrian Farrel [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: > "Stephen Casner" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote... ... > > I am currently reading a boot... > > Yes, this has to be a new and innovative communication method :-) Not really; the concept of printing certain instructions on the heel has been aroun

Re: what's up with the management

2007-08-06 Thread IETF member Dave Aronson
Joe Abley [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes (or is that Joe [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] ably writes?): > > Perhaps requesting volunteers to help would reduce the work load? > > The IAB did that. I *am* the volunteer :-) Help the volunteer! Help the volunteer! ;-) ___