RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Joanna Lane
Only for a heartbeat. ENUM. When your wireless number folds into the DNS and you can't verify your ID without it, you might want to retract this statement. Can you explain to me how that works? Something along the lines of taking your phone number, stripping non-numeric characters, reversing,

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Can you explain to me how that works? Something along the lines of taking your phone number, stripping non-numeric characters, reversing, adding dots and attaching to a TLD, so for example: +1 (613) 473-1719 becomes 9.1.7.1.3.7.4.3.1.6.1.e164.arpa. And this does what exactly? -- Clique

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Joanna Lane
Can you explain to me how that works? Something along the lines of taking your phone number, stripping non-numeric characters, reversing, adding dots and attaching to a TLD, so for example: +1 (613) 473-1719 becomes 9.1.7.1.3.7.4.3.1.6.1.e164.arpa. And this does what exactly? Spell trouble.

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 04:13 AM 3/19/02 -0500, you wrote: Can you explain to me how that works? Something along the lines of taking your phone number, stripping non-numeric characters, reversing, adding dots and attaching to a TLD, so for example: +1 (613) 473-1719 becomes 9.1.7.1.3.7.4.3.1.6.1.e164.arpa. And this

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 20:52 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: There's a $35 piece of sofware called Simple DNS+ that puts bind to shame for ease of use anf user friendlyness. http://www.jhsoft.com/ There's a 30 day free trial. I tried it and paid for it, it's really quite amazing; it

Re: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D.
And this does what exactly? www.enum.org Because ENUM puts telephone numbers into the DNS, it allows for a wide range of applications based solely on a phone number. Probably the most exciting application is an improvement in Voice over IP, in which telephone calls can be made over the

Re: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, at 10:43 [=GMT-0500], John Berryhill Ph.D. J.D. wrote: And this does what exactly? www.enum.org Because ENUM puts telephone numbers into the DNS, it allows for a wide range of applications based solely on a phone number. Probably the most exciting application is an

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Einar Stefferud
Yeah;-)... This is the original TPC.INT scheme set up by Marshall Rose and Carl Malamud to map all phone numbers in the world into the DNS;-)... 9.1.7.1.3.7.4.3.1.6.1.tcp.int They used it to set up free FAX transmission via the Internet with local volunteer servers all

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Einar Stefferud
At 12:08 PM +0100 3/19/02, Marc Schneiders wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 20:52 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: There's a $35 piece of sofware called Simple DNS+ that puts bind to shame for ease of use anf user friendlyness. http://www.jhsoft.com/ There's a 30 day free trial.

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Tue, 19 Mar 2002, at 13:19 [=GMT-0800], Einar Stefferud wrote: At 12:08 PM +0100 3/19/02, Marc Schneiders wrote: On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 20:52 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: There's a $35 piece of sofware called Simple DNS+ that puts bind to shame for ease of use anf

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Joanna Lane
And this does what exactly? www.enum.org Because ENUM puts telephone numbers into the DNS, it allows for a wide range of applications based solely on a phone number. Probably the most exciting application is an improvement in Voice over IP, in which telephone calls can be made over the

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Marc Schneiders
Seriously, the basic idea is great, but the number idea is stupid. But let them set this up. If you can use the DNS to contact people more easily on whatever they have (phone, mail, sip, icq, msn) over 1.2.2.3.4.5.6.7.8.e164.arpa you can also do the same over joanna.lane.ego The special Enum

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Ken Freed
So fine to see such active, informed, playful discourse on the IFWP list again! Does my heart good to hear the debate. Open minds discovering options -ken And this does what exactly? www.enum.org Because ENUM puts telephone numbers into the DNS, it allows for a wide range of applications

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-19 Thread Einar Stefferud
Of course Marc;-)... Too True! But, without it, the ITU Telephone Heads would not have left a mark anywhere in the Internet. Surely you do not expect them to give up on leaving their mark! So far as I can tell, they have done very little to improve on what TPC.INT did 5 years or more ago,

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
The root Zone is minuscule these days relative to the size, for instance of Windoze. Or IE or OutLook, etc, ad nauseum... How many bytes is it Richard? 368738 bytes It got pretty big when we added the Name Space tlds. -- Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.]

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 01:03 AM 3/18/02 -0700, you wrote: Wasn't the original idea a decentralized network that could survive a nuke attack? Not exactly, but close enough. But that's why you should primary the root for yourself, you rely even less on the n-way redundent root servers. Should decentralization of the

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Ellen Rony
Doesn't name.space have some colliders,the same TLD delegated to more than one administrator in the inclusive TLD universe? [Aside: .SHEESH still is a collider because Adam Todd REFUSES to make the simple redelegation change I have been requesting for 1.5 years. One excuse after another.]

SHEESH (RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder)

2002-03-18 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 08:04 [=GMT-0800], Ellen Rony wrote: [Aside: .SHEESH still is a collider because Adam Todd REFUSES to make the simple redelegation change I have been requesting for 1.5 years. One excuse after another.] Correct me if I am wrong, but isn't this just a matter of a root

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Sun, 17 Mar 2002, at 22:00 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: and in fact, if you adopt the recommended practice of running your own private root server [1] then the ORSC servers could get taken out by that same thunderbolt and everything would still work for us. root servers are a

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Einar Stefferud
There is no Internet Governance involved with ICANN, except for the hidden agenda of gaining control of Information Distribution by means of contracts binding users of DNS names to control by the name delegators who in fact have no natural reason to be controlling what people do with their

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Einar Stefferud
Isn't 368738 bytes well within the max size limit of a single SNMP message? Cheers...\Stef At 10:07 AM -0500 3/18/02, Richard J. Sexton wrote: The root Zone is minuscule these days relative to the size, for instance of Windoze. Or IE or OutLook, etc, ad nauseum... How many bytes is

Re: SHEESH (RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder)

2002-03-18 Thread Ellen Rony
Yes, you are correct, and I don't know why any of the root zone operators would point to his AURSC or IRSC knowing this. Seems like there should be encouragement to route around anyone who doesn't handle the responsibily ethically and professionally, but then comes the question abo9ut who

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Internet governance my butt. This is just about domain names. If all you do on the net is send mail, read usenet news and use IRC you'll probably never hear of icann; it has no affect on any of those things. -- Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 08:04 AM 3/18/02 -0800, you wrote: Doesn't name.space have some colliders,the same TLD delegated to more than one administrator in the inclusive TLD universe? Maybe 2 of them. 2 out of a thousand isn't bad. [Aside: .SHEESH still is a collider because Adam Todd REFUSES to make the simple

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 08:14 AM 3/18/02 -0800, you wrote: Isn't 368738 bytes well within the max size limit of a single SNMP message? Beats me. It's been years since I've even looked at SNMP. -- Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Einar Stefferud
No, I don't mean per any protocol. Is it not typical to receive messages in the size range of 368738 bytes?...\Stef At 11:40 AM -0500 3/18/02, Richard J. Sexton wrote: At 08:14 AM 3/18/02 -0800, you wrote: Isn't 368738 bytes well within the max size limit of a single SNMP message? Beats

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Einar Stefferud
We should interpret Adam Todd's refusal as a request for removal. Simple action, positive result!...\Stef At 8:04 AM -0800 3/18/02, Ellen Rony wrote: Doesn't name.space have some colliders,the same TLD delegated to more than one administrator in the inclusive TLD universe? [Aside: .SHEESH

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Mon, 18 Mar 2002, at 11:40 [=GMT-0500], Richard J. Sexton wrote: [1] http://cr.yp.to/dnsroot.html or http://support.open-rsc.org I do this on my home Windows box Slaving root? How? Windows9*? There's a $35 piece of sofware called Simple DNS+ that puts bind to shame for ease of

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
There's a $35 piece of sofware called Simple DNS+ that puts bind to shame for ease of use anf user friendlyness. http://www.jhsoft.com/ There's a 30 day free trial. I tried it and paid for it, it's really quite amazing; it does caching, authoritative nameservice and zone transfers. Works

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Einar Stefferud
Will it run on OSX? Cheers...\Stef At 8:52 PM -0500 3/18/02, Richard J. Sexton wrote: There's a $35 piece of sofware called Simple DNS+ that puts bind to shame for ease of use anf user friendlyness. http://www.jhsoft.com/ There's a 30 day free trial. I tried it and paid for it, it's

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 08:09 PM 3/18/02 -0800, you wrote: Will it run on OSX? Cheers...\Stef No, it's a windows program. Isn't OSX just BSD with a Mac GUI? -- Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See Click, v. i.] A narrow circle of persons associated by common interests or for the

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Einar Stefferud
Sort of. Its lineage is via NeXT, which includes NeXT STEP and some other non-unix stuff. It has a MACH kernel, among other things. So, lots of stuff will port easily, but not all. the people I talk to love it, and say It is REAL UNIX which I believe, but I do not have much info on what

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Well if it's real unix then djbdns should work: http://cr.yp.to/djbdns At 10:30 PM 3/18/02 -0800, you wrote: Sort of. Its lineage is via NeXT, which includes NeXT STEP and some other non-unix stuff. It has a MACH kernel, among other things. So, lots of stuff will port easily, but not all.

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-18 Thread Joanna Lane
Internet governance my butt. This is just about domain names. If all you do on the net is send mail, read usenet news and use IRC you'll probably never hear of icann; it has no affect on any of those things. Only for a heartbeat. ENUM. When your wireless number folds into the DNS and you can't

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Joanna Lane
, March 16, 2002 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder Richard J. Sexton wrote: Moving Up the Ladder http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm It is further resolved [02.31] that the Chairman of the Board of ICANN will undertake to liaise

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
At 07:21 PM 3/17/02 -0500, you wrote: Yeah, right, and they'll call upon UN forces to defend security and stability of the internet. How long till they criminalize inclusive/ alternate roots? I hope they do; that would be great. -- Clique \Clique\, n. [F., fr. OF. cliquer to click. See

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Einar Stefferud
. How long till they criminalize inclusive/ alternate roots? Regards, Joanna -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Michael Sondow Sent: Saturday, March 16, 2002 10:02 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder Richard J

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Joanna Lane
Stefferud Sent: Sunday, March 17, 2002 7:58 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder There is no such thing as an alternate inclusive root. The Inclusive root includes all non colliding TLDs, so there is nothing alternate about it...Stef At 7:21 PM

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
Actually, an alternate root would be one that does not include the A root, which would seem infinitely preferable to one that does, which would be an inclusive root, to my way of thinking. I understand you to mean any root zone not the DoC controlled root zone but pinning it down to dependancies

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Joanna Lane
PROTECTED] Subject: RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder Actually, an alternate root would be one that does not include the A root, which would seem infinitely preferable to one that does, which would be an inclusive root, to my way of thinking. I understand you to mean any root zone not the DoC

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Richard J. Sexton
If a great thunderbolt from heaven descended upon ICANN and took out 13 DoC controlled root servers, would your zones still work? Yes, absolutely. That's one of the major motivating factors for what we're doing, and in fact, if you adopt the recommended practice of running your own private root

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Einar Stefferud
Right on Richard;-)... The root Zone is minuscule these days relative to the size, for instance of Windoze. Or IE or OutLook, etc, ad nauseum... How many bytes is it Richard? Cheers...\Stef At 10:00 PM -0500 3/17/02, Richard J. Sexton wrote: If a great thunderbolt from heaven descended

RE: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-17 Thread Ken Freed
Wasn't the original idea a decentralized network that could survive a nuke attack? Should decentralization of the root enourage decentralizalization of governance? -- ken If a great thunderbolt from heaven descended upon ICANN and took out 13 DoC controlled root servers, would your zones

Re: [IFWP] Moving Up the Ladder

2002-03-16 Thread Michael Sondow
Richard J. Sexton wrote: Moving Up the Ladder http://www.icann.org/minutes/prelim-report-14mar02.htm It is further resolved [02.31] that the Chairman of the Board of ICANN will undertake to liaise with the appropriate activities and persons engaged in UN ICT work, keeping alert,