Re: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You

2002-11-23 Thread Rick Wesson
first of all I don't think this belongs in the IETF forum. > > Vint said "has increased the priority of root server security > evaluation" This is > an interesting comment. Again Vint please be concrete. What > precisely have they done? Where is their report? Have they ever > actually

Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did NotTell You)

2002-11-27 Thread Rick Wesson
Steve, On Wed, 27 Nov 2002, Steve Hotz wrote: > > H? > At the risk of feeding a diversionary thread, it does > seem appropriate to address the question of the number > of Internet users who can "see" New.net's domain names. [ many lines of self gratification trimmed ] I don't believe the

Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did NotTell You)

2002-12-02 Thread Rick Wesson
[ cc list trimmed ] On Mon, 2 Dec 2002, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > Okay, so when every foo.com. applies to become a foo., how will you control > the growth? What is to keep the root from becoming a flat namespace within > a few weeks? It won't take long for the masses realize that an SLD is not

naming debates

2002-12-03 Thread Rick Wesson
dns naming debates don't belong on the IETF list. there is a sandbox created just for naming debates, see [EMAIL PROTECTED] those interested in continuing these discussions should pick them up some place else. thanks, -rick

Re: DNSEXT WGLC Summary: AXFR clarify

2002-12-19 Thread Rick Wesson
> I agree with the notion that all folks in positions of perceived > power (e.g. IAB, IESG, WG Chairs, IRTF Chair) should be required to > disclose publicly all of their relationships (e.g. employment, > presence on other Internet-related positions such as board of a > registry, technical a

Re: Information on Directorates and Finances

2003-02-03 Thread Rick Wesson
Harald, I'd never seen any finances for the ietf, but are these from 2002 or did it just take that long to pull 2001 expenses together? -rick On Mon, 3 Feb 2003, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: > I have put two web pages up at the following URL: > > http://www.ietf.org/u/chair/ > > One details

sole-sourceing IANA function to ICANN for next 3 years

2003-02-03 Thread Rick Wesson
FYI -rick -- Forwarded message -- Date: Mon, 3 Feb 2003 14:15:30 -0500 Subject: FW: US Grants ICANN Extension of Global Domain Powers US Grants ICANN Extension of Global Domain Powers By Kevin Murphy ICANN, which manages policy aspects of the internet's domain name system, is

Re: Internet-Draft Cutoff Dates for San Francisco, CA (March 16-21,2003)

2003-02-14 Thread Rick Wesson
Could we see these cutoff dates on the main meeting page, since they change and the location of this document isn't well know. thanks, -rick On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, Internet-Drafts Administrator wrote: > > NOTE: There are two (2) Internet-Draft Cutoff dates > > February 24th: Cutoff for Initia

Re: Internet-Draft Cutoff Dates for San Francisco, CA (March 16-21,2003)

2003-02-14 Thread Rick Wesson
ok, got it. I had looked for the dates last week and couldn't find them. consider me now, clued. -rick On Fri, 14 Feb 2003, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Friday, 14 February, 2003 09:24 -0800 Rick Wesson > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Could we se

Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-15 Thread Rick Wesson
Harald, > The short and sweet of it is: Unless we change something, our current > funding methods won't pay for our current work. > At the presentation, I'll ask the floor what they think about various ideas > for improving the situation. At one point some of us tried to use the .org redelegati

Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-21 Thread Rick Wesson
PIR board but otherwise there is no > financial connection. > > Vint > > At 12:08 PM 3/15/2003 -0800, Rick Wesson wrote: > > > >Harald, > > > >> The short and sweet of it is: Unless we change something, our current > >> funding methods won't pay f

Re: spam

2003-05-29 Thread Rick Wesson
dean a small note before i add you to my procmailrc > > On Wed, 28 May 2003, Eric A. Hall wrote: > > > You still don't seem to understand the nature of proof, arguing instead > > that the existence of alternatives somehow disproves a matter of fact. > > Again, whether or not you think that the pr

RE: Testing Root A going away

2003-08-30 Thread Rick Wesson
On Sat, 30 Aug 2003, Christian Huitema wrote: [snip] > Obviously, cutting of the A root would have some pretty drastic > consequences. On the other hand, there are many computers that have no > business contacting directly the root servers. For example, in many > enterprises and campuses, compute

Re: [Fwd: [Asrg] Verisign: All Your Misspelling Are Belong To Us]

2003-09-16 Thread Rick Wesson
> An excellent question! But that is a discussion that belongs with > ICANN, not the IETF. > > Jim Jim, that would be true if the ICANN were functioning and this event is just proof that the ICANN does not function. the mission of ICANN (my paraphrase) is "Technical Administration of Internet

Re: Complaint on abuse of DNSOP lists

2004-05-11 Thread Rick Wesson
Dean, ok, i asked nicely and privately several times. PLEASE! take this thread some place else. -rick On Tue, 11 May 2004, Dean Anderson wrote: > On Mon, 10 May 2004, Noel Chiappa wrote: > > > So? Rob's not refusing to accept *any* email *at all* from you as a person > > (just from a range of

Re: [Ietf] New .mobi, .xxx, ... TLDs?

2004-04-29 Thread Rick Wesson
> This is the sort of thing ISOC should speak out on. doh! ISOC can't as they are the major benefactor from the .org divestature from verisign. sorry, try again. -rick ___ Ietf mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo

ACAP - rfc2244

2002-05-17 Thread Rick Wesson
does anyone know of any server/service that uses ACAP as in rfc2244, i've seen the cmu pages about it -- just wondering if anyone here knows of any source available servers, and if or why the protocol never got widely adopted. thanks, -rick

Re: Uniqueness of WHOIS handles

2002-10-12 Thread Rick Wesson
Florian, there is no guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles. there is no name space for whois, nor an entity to register such. pick any prefix you wish. -rick On Sat, 12 Oct 2002, Florian Weimer wrote: > Is there some method to guarantee the uniqueness of WHOIS handles? > Can I register af