Re: How many standards or protocols...

2002-05-06 Thread Meritt James
When all you have is a hammer, every problem looks like a nail is needed. John Stracke wrote: IMHO, people are people. Whether they are in sales or engineering or management or in Marketing or communication, it does not matter!! When you ask someone to do a job, it does matter what job

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-04-16 Thread Meritt James
Opinion: An unenforced directive is guidance, not a rule. The separate items under consideration may be considered guidance and not rules and treated accordingly. Jim Michel Py wrote: Dave Crocker wrote: Query to the group: If we believe we should not hold working groups to their

Re: Article: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6

2002-03-27 Thread Meritt James
Message - From: Meritt James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Article: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6 The problems with Mobile IPv6 are frustrating for IPv6 proponents, who view wireless applications

Re: Article: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6

2002-03-26 Thread Meritt James
. -Basavaraj - Original Message - From: Meritt James [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, March 25, 2002 3:06 PM Subject: Article: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6 The problems with Mobile IPv6 are frustrating for IPv6 proponents

Article: Mobile security flaw delivers yet another blow to IPv6

2002-03-25 Thread Meritt James
The problems with Mobile IPv6 are frustrating for IPv6 proponents, who view wireless applications as the likely first adopters of IPv6. This frustration was evident at a meeting of the IETF's Mobile IP working group, which was held in Minneapolis on March 22. It's a setback for those who are

Re: I don't want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2013

2002-03-21 Thread Meritt James
You want to be facing 8-bit bugs in 2002? I recommend reconsideration of priorities. -- James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA Booz | Allen | Hamilton phone: (410) 684-6566

Re: Netmeeting - NAT issue

2002-03-20 Thread Meritt James
See the problem? Lots of That is not the problem, THIS is the REAL problem and all too few doable solutions. Throwing rocks is easy. Catching them is harder. -- James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA Booz | Allen | Hamilton phone: (410) 684-6566

Article: Should Geeks, Or Governments, Run the Net?

2002-03-14 Thread Meritt James
Once again, the people who decide how the Internet is supposed to function are not getting along. The Net is alight with e-flames, and people from all over the world are in Accra, Ghana, this week, arguing with the passion of parents at a Little League game. Sometimes, what these relatively

Re: OK... we thought we were running out of IPv4 address space*before*..

2002-01-31 Thread Meritt James
I can hardly wait to see the hack report. Jasen Strutt wrote: Which I might add we've requested it be SNMP v3 compliant - Original Message - From: Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 30, 2002 9:38 AM

Re: What is at stake?

2002-01-24 Thread Meritt James
Which number? The Al Gore invented the internet in the early '80s? Yup. Bogus. I'm finding the inoperable wishes quite entertaining. Nice thoughts, but impractical. Gary E. Miller wrote: Yo All! Well Al Gore invented the internet in the early '80s, and the internet penetration was

Re: Why IPv6 is a must?

2001-11-29 Thread Meritt James
I wish to express doubt on the (as you mentioned in an aside) there should be. Consider what these addresses would be for and the implications of THAT. Eric Rosen wrote: Sure, in theory one could add zillions of new globally routable addresses without increasing the size of the routing

Re: Why IPv6 is a must?

2001-11-28 Thread Meritt James
Here is a point - what kind of IA would go on these accessible devices? Do you WANT to be able to address (and control) your fridge remotely? How about your home heating? Want to come home to find a disgruntled hacker thought it funny to have your fridge turned off and 130 degrees in your

Re: Jim Fleming's posting privilleges have been revoked

2001-10-26 Thread Meritt James
Don't you think a discussion on not having a discussion is off topic? -- James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA Booz | Allen | Hamilton phone: (410) 68406566

Re: Who Is Bin Laden?

2001-10-23 Thread Meritt James
This is spam. Stop now. JEB wrote: This is a Petition ... -- James W. Meritt CISSP, CISA Booz | Allen | Hamilton phone: (410) 68406566

Re: The International Love Bond... is this possible?

2001-10-22 Thread Meritt James
Makings for a spammers heaven. Recommendation: Go away. JEB wrote: WELCOME HOME IN THIS TIME OF URGENT NEED, WE MUST OPEN THE CHANNELS OF COMMUNICATION BETWEEN OUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE OF OUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE OF OUR NATION AND THE PEOPLE OF THE WORLD.

Re: Rumor about US disaster

2001-09-13 Thread Meritt James
Geeze, give me a break. I hope you are not spreading rumors everywhere you can get to. War on who? Now, what was done has been classified as an act of war, but that is against us, not by us. Draft? Get real. That has to work its way through Congress. A response against what? Don

Re: onlyphones.com

2001-09-07 Thread Meritt James
Apparently, everyone on the ietf mailing list, right next to the one that says infect me [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: big snip ok, who's wearing the sign that says spam me? -- James W. Meritt, CISSP, CISA Booz, Allen Hamilton phone: (410) 684-6566

Re: MANZAOLI

2001-09-05 Thread Meritt James
Another double-dot attachment? Geeze... From a microsoft site? uh oh... CESAR HERNANDEZ wrote: Part 1.1Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable Name: MANZAOLI.doc.com MANZAOLI.doc.com Type: unspecified type

Re: Mailing Lists

2001-08-14 Thread Meritt James
Why should a firewall or virus protection be necessary? It should be intuitively obvious just looking at the attachment name. James K. Murray (AMSS Domain) wrote: There can be nothing more irritating than receiving several dozen Emails with attachments, each containing a virus!

Re: Microsoft, please protect your stacks (was Re: [ih] ...stack?)

2001-08-06 Thread Meritt James
And you expect them to save us from ourselves? Interesting. David P. Reed wrote: Not sure why I got this(I'm not on ietf.org), but probably I was bcc'ed. It calls for a response, though, if only to oppose a burgeoning meme that somehow Microsoft could save us all from hackers if it only

Re: Attachment Stripped in Transaction

2001-08-01 Thread Meritt James
Works nicely. Seems that there may be active content in the templates used. Check http://support.microsoft.com/support/kb/articles/Q288/2/66.ASP Robert Moskowitz wrote: At 08:42 PM 7/24/2001 -0400, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On the other hand, I could live with the filtering of active

Re: Production Feb 7

2001-07-31 Thread Meritt James
You realize, of course, that there is no way I am going to open an attached Shortcut to MS-DOS Program (double dot file). I suspect a viral infection. Robert Shelton wrote: Part 1.1Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable

Re: Production Feb 7

2001-07-31 Thread Meritt James
. Meritt James wrote: You realize, of course, that there is no way I am going to open an attached Shortcut to MS-DOS Program (double dot file). I suspect a viral infection. Robert Shelton wrote: Part 1.1Type: Plain Text (text/plain) Encoding: quoted-printable

Re: Any value in this list ?

2001-07-31 Thread Meritt James
How about the ones who have the problem doing a bit towards solving THEIR problem? You think there is one-and-only-one cause for everything? Perhaps you didn't notice that the patch to repair the vulnerability that Red Code exploits was released back in June? Keith Moore wrote: I