China blocking Wired?

2010-01-10 Thread Dean Willis
According to this article (links to Wired): http://snurl.com/u1gr0 Wired Magazine was or is being blocked by the Chinese national firewall, and they don't know why. Very interesting, from an IETF-hosting perspective. -- Dean ___ Ietf mailing lis

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-10 Thread Health
s\health> - Original Message - From: "Dean Willis" To: "IETF-Discussion list" Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:32 PM Subject: China blocking Wired? > According to this article (links to Wired): > > http://snurl.com/u1gr

RE: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-10 Thread Glen Zorn
- Original Message - > From: "Dean Willis" > To: "IETF-Discussion list" > Sent: Monday, January 11, 2010 12:32 PM > Subject: China blocking Wired? > > > > According to this article (links to Wired): > > > > http://snurl.com/u1gr0

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
At 10:32 PM -0600 1/10/10, Dean Willis wrote: >Very interesting, from an IETF-hosting perspective. I cannot imagine going to an IETF meeting and not being able to read Wired magazine while I am there. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium ___ Ietf

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Ole Jacobsen
What China blocks or doesn't block is quite irrelevant to what kind of service we can expect on the IETF meeting network in Beijing, as has previously been carefully explained. We have a document that has been humorously referred to as the Host Requirements Document. Enough said. Ole Ole J. Ja

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Dean Willis
On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: At 10:32 PM -0600 1/10/10, Dean Willis wrote: Very interesting, from an IETF-hosting perspective. I cannot imagine going to an IETF meeting and not being able to read Wired magazine while I am there. So, are there likely to be problems

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/11/2010 10:11 AM, Dean Willis wrote: What other sorts of publications should our attendees leave at home for fear of violating national standards with which me might not be familiar? This sort of pre-reality schadenfreude can't possibly serve any constructive purpose. Really, it woul

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, January 11, 2010 12:11 -0600 Dean Willis wrote: >... > What other sorts of publications should our attendees leave at > home for fear of violating national standards with which me > might not be familiar? Are thre likelto be be digital media > searches of the sort feared at US and

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Dean, Get real. When have you EVER had any reading material inspected by ANY authority ANYWHERE in the world? OK, so I am not aware of your particular reading habits and yes, I *can* imagine that *some* material *might* attract the attention of customs officials in any given part of the world,

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Dean Willis
On Jan 11, 2010, at 12:41 PM, John C Klensin wrote: Many of us have been to China multiple times. I am not aware of anyone who has been granted a business or professional visa, and who has gone and behaved professionally, having nearly the problems with entry or exit that have been typical of t

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2010-01-12 07:11, Dean Willis wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:18 AM, Paul Hoffman wrote: > >> At 10:32 PM -0600 1/10/10, Dean Willis wrote: >>> Very interesting, from an IETF-hosting perspective. >> >> I cannot imagine going to an IETF meeting and not being able to >> read Wired magazine wh

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Dean Willis
On Jan 11, 2010, at 1:21 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: Dean, Get real. When have you EVER had any reading material inspected by ANY authority ANYWHERE in the world? OK, so I am not aware of your particular reading habits and yes, I *can* imagine that *some* material *might* attract the attention of

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/11/2010 11:52 AM, Dean Willis wrote: How about some practical guidance for the folks who haven't been there multiple times, beyond "Behave professionally and don't do anything stupid." We have lots of people who don't know they're "being stupid" because in their world, what they're doing i

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Andrew Sullivan
On 2010-01-11, at 14:52, Dean Willis wrote: Unlike the US, whose border-liabilities are fairly well understood by IETFers, Seriously? I cross the US-Canada border all the time, and I'm a citizen of both countries, and I can still barely keep up with the constant, apparently random re

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread David Conrad
Dean, Oddly, I've had none of the experiences you've had and I've been known to travel a bit (1.6 million miles on United, top frequent flier "honors" on 3 carriers (UAL, NWA, JAL) simultaneously, etc.), including to quite a few places where folks from the US weren't particularly popular. The

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Melinda Shore
On Jan 11, 2010, at 11:36 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Seriously? I cross the US-Canada border all the time, and I'm a citizen of both countries, and I can still barely keep up with the constant, apparently random revocations niggly little details of local conventions at each crossing since l

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Dean Willis
On Jan 11, 2010, at 2:24 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Methinks you are implicitly suggesting that the IETF's pages for a site should include some "getting along in the site's country" guidance as an on-going requirement. Methinks this is an excellent idea. Happily, "Doing Business in..."

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Spencer Dawkins
I try not to follow up to postings on this topic, but since I can comment on specifics... Many of us have been to China multiple times. I am not aware of anyone who has been granted a business or professional visa, and who has gone and behaved professionally, having nearly the problems with en

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Zhen Cao
Hi, I just tried in Beijing China, everything is fine while accessing www.wired.com Thanks, Zhen On Mon, Jan 11, 2010 at 12:32 PM, Dean Willis wrote: > According to this article (links to Wired): > > http://snurl.com/u1gr0 > > > Wired Magazine was or is being blocked by the Chinese national firew

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-11 Thread Paul Hoffman
Title: Re: China blocking Wired? At 11:31 AM +0800 1/12/10, Zhen Cao wrote: Hi, I just tried in Beijing China, everything is fine while accessing www.wired.com That doesn't mean everything is fine: Dean can still come up with a list of hypothetical problems that would affect the China me

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-12 Thread Christer Holmberg
in" Reply-to: spen...@wonderhamster.org Subject: Re: China blocking Wired? X-RSN: 1/0/933/11208/49983 X-HREF: http://www.ietf.org/ibin/c5i?mid=6&rid=49&k1=933&k2=49983 I try not to follow up to postings on this topic, but since I can comment on specifics... >> Many of us ha

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-12 Thread Andrew G. Malis
camera. No > put-your-finger-here. Only a quick look at the passport and a "Ok" :) > > And, no checking of the luggage or questions regarding what stuff I'm > carrying. At least once I've had a couple of lap-tops with me. > > Regards, > > Christer > &

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-12 Thread Fred Baker
Dean: The first time I went to China was in 1998; I have been there several times a year most years since. I bring with me a bible, which is likely to be a lot more threatening to a communist government than a thousand naked ladies dancing in the airport, and encryption software (Cisco VP

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-12 Thread Ping Pan
quick look at the passport and a "Ok" :) > > > > And, no checking of the luggage or questions regarding what stuff I'm > > carrying. At least once I've had a couple of lap-tops with me. > > > > Regards, > > > > Christer > > > > > &g

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-12 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 1/12/2010 1:24 PM, Fred Baker wrote: People from the PRC don't have horns. Really. Actually, they have world-class performers for the full range of musical instruments. d/ -- Dave Crocker Brandenburg InternetWorking bbiw.net ___ Ietf

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-13 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Actually, they have world-class performers for the full range of musical > instruments. non-musical too ... Jorge ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-13 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
It was all a big mistake. Someone in the Chinese govt decided that they wanted the entire country to have 'wireless Internet' by 2010. Someone made a mistake and thought they had asked for a 'Wired-less Internet'. On Sun, Jan 10, 2010 at 11:32 PM, Dean Willis wrote: > According to this article (

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-13 Thread Samuel Weiler
A New York Times article posted this afternoon may be of interest to readers of this thread: "Google, Citing Cyber Attack, Threatens to Exit China". http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/13/world/asia/13beijing.html?hp "Google said that it had found 'a highly sophisticated and targeted attack on our

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-13 Thread Marshall Eubanks
This is all being overtaken by events. http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/01/12/google.china/index.html http://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/gadgets-and-tech/news/chinese-internet-activists-applaud-google-1866551.html http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/business/8455712.stm http://publicaddress.net/6413#p

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-13 Thread Ron Bonica
Dave CROCKER wrote: > > > Methinks you are implicitly suggesting that the IETF's pages for a site > should > include some "getting along in the site's country" guidance as an on-going > requirement. Methinks this is an excellent idea. > > Dave, I think that this is a *very good* idea, n

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-14 Thread joel jaeggli
Dave CROCKER wrote: > Historically, inconsistencies from one US airport to another have been > pretty common. It's really great fun to have a staffer at one airport > firmly instruct me on how to avoid future problems at security, with > what I carry and how I pack it, given conflicting, firm ins

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-15 Thread Gary E. Miller
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yo Joel! On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, joel jaeggli wrote: > it's not a secret it's not part of some wierd anti terrorist measure > which is inconsistently enforced for the purposes of obfuscation, it's > just an FAA rule. DOT != FAA. If it is an FAA rule c

Re: China blocking Wired?

2010-01-15 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Gary E. Miller wrote: > Yo Joel! > > On Thu, 14 Jan 2010, joel jaeggli wrote: > >> it's not a secret it's not part of some wierd anti terrorist measure >> which is inconsistently enforced for the purposes of obfuscation, it's >> just an FAA rule. > > DOT != FAA. > > If it is an FAA rule can y