RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-24 Thread Nicholas Staff
I hope that we can discuss this as soon as possible. Until then, I will try to refrain from sending any more messages on this topic as I don't believe that this will be productive. People on this mail list might want to consider to do the same thing. Thanks, David Kessens Operations

RE: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-24 Thread Nicholas Staff
- Forwarded message from Dean Anderson [EMAIL PROTECTED] - FYI: I am being threatened for posting operationally relevant criticism of mis-operation of the F DNS Root server on the DNSOP list. -- -- Forwarded message -- Date: Fri, 23 Sep 2005 15:55:20 -0700

RE: Cost vs. Benefit of Real-Time Applications and InfrastuctureArea

2005-09-21 Thread Nicholas Staff
I thought it was interesting that there were 8 areas at the time RFC 2418 was written and I couldn't see anything in the 50% of it I read that hinted at 8 being a problem (and there are only 7 now I believe?). The way I see it is that in many ways everyone subscribed to this list is an AD for

RE: net.stewards [Re: BitTorrent (Was: Re: [Isms] ISMS charter broken- onus should be on WG to fix it)]

2005-09-18 Thread Nicholas Staff
What fascinates me about p2p is that it was clearly the next Big Thing, but there seems to be no feedback loop operating whatsoever. At the risk of birthing a much unwanted tangent, I think it would have been somewhat egocentric for the IETF to do anything that lent legitimacy to the p2p

OFF TOPIC - Bail money for IETF 64?

2005-09-18 Thread Nicholas Staff
It would seem we will all be in violation of Canadian law (as will the IETF as an organization) when we convene for IETF 64. Those canucks apparently regulate the term Engineer and the use of Software, Network, or Systems Engineer is um apparently not allowed. I wonder if they'll put Dave

RE: OFF TOPIC - Bail money for IETF 64?

2005-09-18 Thread Nicholas Staff
There's a difference between take our course and we certify that you are an engineer and my job title is engineer. Not in Canada. The word itself is regulated and can not be used in a job title or function unless you are a member of their engineers society. A candle maker can not call

RE: Re: OFF TOPIC - Bail money for IETF 64?

2005-09-18 Thread Nicholas Staff
Even though I benefit from this change, I disagree with it in principle because there are too many people out there running around calling themselves engineers who don't have a clue. If/when there are a non-trivial number of schools offerring degrees in network engineering,

RE: NAT/Proxy combinations

2005-08-29 Thread Nicholas Staff
Basically, a NAT is just a simple and general-purpose way to implement a proxy. It does play the role of a proxy nobody has ordered and nobody does even no it exists. So it does breake security by providing a proxy that should bo be there in the first place. I don't understand

RE: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 inconflictwith referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02

2005-08-27 Thread Nicholas Staff
Two will leave but only one shall return...I'm by no means suggesting that's a desirable approach to decision making but we've managed to get ourselves into a place where I think it's now the best way out. Fortunately since this incompatibility will result in email that should have been received

RE: Stopping loss of transparency...

2005-08-18 Thread Nicholas Staff
AM To: Nicholas Staff Cc: IETF General Discussion Mailing List Subject: Re: Stopping loss of transparency... On 18-aug-2005, at 6:10, Nicholas Staff wrote: Does this work on port 443? I would assume the SSL security checks wouldn't accept this. I believe the FQDN is not encrypted

RE: Stopping loss of transparency...

2005-08-18 Thread Nicholas Staff
yes , thats exactly what it does , they call it Portal-Guided Entrance on port :80 and 443. Does this work on port 443? I would assume the SSL security checks wouldn't accept this. I believe the FQDN is not encrypted, though the part of the url after the FQDN is (so one

RE: Stopping loss of transparency...

2005-08-17 Thread Nicholas Staff
On 17-aug-2005, at 15:34, Marc Manthey wrote: Just to be sure: what were talking about is that when a customer gets up in the morning and connects to www.ietf.org they get www.advertising-down-your-throat.de instead, right? yes , thats exactly what it does , they call it

RE: what is a threat analysis?

2005-08-15 Thread Nicholas Staff
Why doesn't someone just ask Russ what he meant and be done with it? -Nick -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Michael Thomas Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 7:24 AM To: Harald Tveit Alvestrand Cc: Michael Thomas; ietf@ietf.org

RE: Question about Obsoleted vs. Historic

2005-07-11 Thread Nicholas Staff
John, The way I understand it, an RFC is only historic(al) if the technology it defines is no longer in use. An obsolete RFC means the technology is still being used, but some part of the specification (obsolete RFC) has been updated. An obsolete RFC can still be a standard as the RFC that

RE: RFC 2434 term IESG approval (Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option)

2005-07-05 Thread Nicholas Staff
Keith (and anyone interested in this thread that doesn't have me on ignore), I think as has already been suggested we are having two different discussions masquerade as one. I obviously can't speak for Robert but it seems to me he is not saying the IESG ought to approve every (or any) extension

RE: S stands for Steering [Re: Should the IESG rule or not?]

2005-07-01 Thread Nicholas Staff
I agree that no noise usually means agreement, but once a counterpoint has been raised I don't know how to tell which side the silent people are agreeing with. I'm not saying I see all angles to this but it seems like Robert really has some strong logic behind him - If assigning the registration

RE: I'm not going to listen to this any more.

2005-06-28 Thread Nicholas Staff
You could also reasonably rule it obnoxious, childish, and pubescent. Moreover since according to your earlier post you don't think fact is an acceptable defense of a personal attack your response is at best a curious double standard. Unless of course your comment about it being fact was just

RE: Proper behaviour towards irritating persons (RE: I'm not going to listen...)

2005-06-28 Thread Nicholas Staff
TIME OUT. 1. There was a last call for a BCP 2. It was suggested the BCP was at least in part based on erroneous data 3. Examples were given to support that claim. 4. Harald shared that he was irritated (thereby irritating the few of us who weren't). 5. You (gja) write you think this past week

RE: I'm not going to listen to this any more.

2005-06-28 Thread Nicholas Staff
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, June 28, 2005 10:28 AM To: Nicholas Staff Cc: 'Dean Anderson'; 'Harald Tveit Alvestrand'; ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: I'm not going to listen to this any more. Nick, I could, but I won't. You and Dean may not realise just how annoying and irrelevant your public quarrel

Re: IANA Action: Assignment of an IPV6 Hop-by-hop Option

2005-06-25 Thread Nicholas Staff
I've been holding off comenting on this issue because in the context of this mailing list my knowledge of the policies of the IETF and IANA is basically zero. The thing is I think Robert is right about the tone and assumed purpose of this rejection. It reads like a letter from someone playing

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification

2005-06-21 Thread Nicholas Staff
] To: Nicholas Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; iesg@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Monday, June 20, 2005 9:09 PM Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification See what worries me is when you didn't understand the relevence of my post you didn't ask me one

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' toBCP - Clarification

2005-06-21 Thread Nicholas Staff
- Original Message - From: Bill Sommerfeld [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nicholas Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Tony Finch [EMAIL PROTECTED]; iesg@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:34 AM Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' toBCP

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification

2005-06-21 Thread Nicholas Staff
: Carl Hutzler [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: iesg@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Tuesday, June 21, 2005 5:57 AM Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 00:28, Nicholas Staff blames the victims: whats

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification

2005-06-20 Thread Nicholas Staff
] Best regards, Nick Staff - Original Message - From: Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Nicholas Staff [EMAIL PROTECTED]; iesg@ietf.org; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Sunday, June 19, 2005 11:15 AM Subject: Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification

2005-06-20 Thread Nicholas Staff
Dean, I couldn't agree with you more - thanks for saying it. whats funny to me is if anything would have given spammers a reason to exploit open relays it would have been the blacklists. I mean when you arbitrarily blacklist millions of their ISP's addresses you leave them with no other

Re: Last Call: 'Email Submission Between Independent Networks' to BCP - Clarification

2005-06-16 Thread Nicholas Staff
Because I have already recieved several comments relating to one aspect of my original post I thought a clarification was in order as I didn't explain myself properly and there is some misunderstanding. When I wrote that nobody would be complaining if spam primarily consisted of Bloomingdale's