Re: AboveNet Global Routing issue

2008-02-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I'm seeing everything from Hughes Network (my vsat) go to Portland, Maine, from Northern Virginia, by way of Nashville, Las Vegas, Los Angeles (Verizon), and then back to Boston (Alter), for 20 hops. The usual is 10, straight up the eastern seaboard. Lots of delay, and more bad dns than usua

Re: [admin] Re: Fourth cable damaged in Middle Eest (Qatar to UAE)

2008-02-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Alex Pilosov wrote: This conversation is quickly spinning into discussion of politics and terrorism. Reminder to all, please stick to the *operational* aspects of this thread. -alex [NANOG MLC Chair] Agreed. In December of 2005, for reasons entirely personal, I read every paper availabl

Is 7bits enough? (was: Re: [admin] Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal)

2008-01-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
My note of yesterday didn't make it to the list, which happens from time to time, but as I'm not asking about automobile licenses or number portability, this might make it past the rather broad kill-this-thread administrative dicta. Hi, We (the P3P Spec WG circa pre-9/11) didn't specify what

Re: network reputation [was: IP is...]

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Security is a strong supporter of privacy ... I've removed the part of this sentence I don't understand. Privacy involves more than just non-disclosure, it also involves issues like identifiable retention and identifiable 3rd-party provisioning and identifiable other-policy collection linka

Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Lou Katz wrote: They are both right. If you have a dynamic IP such as most college students have, it is here-today-gone-tomorrow. If you have static IP (business, us slugs in the Swamp, etc) you are identifyable. Hi Lou, Long time. The thing is this isn't an atemporal question. The ass

Re: EU Official: IP Is Personal

2008-01-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Hank Nussbacher) writes: http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5g08qkYTaNhLlscXKMnS3V8dkc-WwD8UAGH900 they say it's personally identifiable information, not personal property. EU's concern is the privacy implications of data that google and others are

Re: Why ICANN did the Right Thing [Was: Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx doma in]

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
hey ferg, its not that interesting an analysis. struan doesn't really close on any policy issue, and concludes with the usual: I think ICANN was right to reject the current proposal. Because it does little more than add yet another domain to the internet that nobody needs

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
... > use. Hunt down "BU joins the internet", a typo in our initial update > tickled a bug in the bsd hosttable program which brought down about > 2/3 of the internet (yes, down.) I can't say I'm proud of that, but > it's kind of hard to forget. i overflowed the core routers, summer '88. That was

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
earlier i wrote: > the how-to-label problem has been around since the w3c's pics effort. > > the jurisdictional issue is aterritorial, as the cctlds cover that, > and the authority, nominally, is a 501(c)(3) in marina del rey, and, > purely contractual, as is the registry restricted to cooperati

Re: MEDIA: ICANN rejects .xxx domain

2006-05-11 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
the how-to-label problem has been around since the w3c's pics effort. the jurisdictional issue is aterritorial, as the cctlds cover that, and the authority, nominally, is a 501(c)(3) in marina del rey, and, purely contractual, as is the registry restricted to cooperative entities and the registry

Re: dnsstealer.com

2006-03-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
isn't this a job for super-icann?

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
David, Before turning to your certainty that laws are self-explanitory and not nuanced, I should mention soething I forgot. The Elashi case rattled the Export Controls Defense bar, because the Elashis didn't actually send anything to Libya, their buyer was some computer broker in Malta, and that

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> And they did violate US laws in the US. An export regulation, one normally punished by a fine. > Ah well, maybe they will get deported when they get released from prison, > just like their wives. There is an interesting register of export violaters, and quite a few are foreign nationals, and

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Bill, I forgot to mention that the idiot Brit who wanted .iq was going to run it -- all of it -- off of generators from inside the Green Zone. I don't know if my notes made a bit of difference, but I advised that ICANN not redel and open the adverse redel can unnecesarily. I'm not sure if I un

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> > For those who care about excesses of zeal, the Elashi brothers (operators > > as well as sponsor delagees of .iq) of someplace in Texas, were charged with > > giving money to Hamas or a charity linked to Hamas, and sending a PC to > > Syria, > > and parts of a PC -- perhaps a mouse pad -- to

Re: .iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Bill, Have you got an opinion on .mm? Last December (when Vint and I did exchange notes on getting India to allow relief workers into the Andaman and Nicobar Islands, and some British embassy in Baghdad guy who wanted to get .iq for the Occupation regime-de-jour) it so happened that all their ser

.iq [ was: Re: Paul Vixie serving ORSN ]

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> it's enough for me that they're going to do it no matter what you (or i) say, > and that they're doing it responsibly (without any namespace pollution). if > ORSN is afraid war is going to break out somewhere and that ICANN might delete > the ccTLD's for countries that are part of the "axis of

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> Are there operational issues to attempt to make this thread remotely on > point for NANOG? Probably not. Its just bits, and whether the bits are all > 0x000 or quasi-random distributions between 0x000 and 0x177 is water under > somebody else's bridge. The constraint-space is "solve in applicatio

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
Vint, I don't think I know any longer, if I ever did, what "IDN" means. Alternatives to Unicode were proposed during the IETF IDN WG lifetime, both as a single normative reference, and as a normative reference. Likewise an intermediate tables redefinition of Unicode, mentioned in my last poi

Re: [political pontification] Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers

2005-09-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams at a VSAT somewhere
> I should have made my comment more specific: what is the problem with > single namespace without ccTLDs and without per-country exceptions? Thank you for asking. Harald Alvestrand and I had just this conversation during the IETF IDN WG lifetime, about the point where the Chinese (CN, TW, M

j19n (was: Re: Turkey has switched Root-Servers)

2005-09-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
wearing my worked-on-p3p-for-years hat, jurisdiction matters. how this translates into operational issues is: whois nonsense sld namespaces deresolution (upon local rule) process pricing and non-cash predicate and post-conditions moronic (or not) primary ge

Re: ICANN, VeriSign Will Consider Changes on .net Agreement

2005-07-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> >I don't know if it is the repeated "ICANN can't be trusted / is corrupt" > >messaging, or the sensitivity of the .NET "rebid" (aka VGRS deregulation) > >that got the prompt action -- > > It's more that ICANN has figured out that registrars are where all > their revenue comes from, and if they

Re: ICANN, VeriSign Will Consider Changes on .net Agreement

2005-07-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
FWIW, we did a "Major Protest" at the Rome meeting about Sitefinder and it took Vint months to come to the conclusion that it (interposition on the lookup error semantics) was not just a business decision. I don't know if it is the repeated "ICANN can't be trusted / is corrupt" messaging, or the

Fwd: ICANN Board Designates VeriSign ...

2005-06-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
ICANN's announcement is at: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-08jun05.htm See also: http://icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/net-rfp-process-summary-08jun05.pdf And so much for that. Eric

3rd and 4th place horses swap positions

2005-05-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Apparently DENIC is more qualified than Afilias to not run the .net registry. http://www.icann.org/tlds/dotnet-reassignment/net-rfp-finalreport-issue4-27may05.pdf

Re: Paul Wilson and Geoff Huston of APNIC on IP address allocation ITU v/s ICANN etc

2005-05-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
as i've mentioned previously, when proposing a work-around for the mess that a blind use of iso3166 causes for territorial jurisdictions, jon and i were talking about using x.121 _in_theory_ to aggregate what i knew then (and i know still are) technically weak and policy incomplete states in the a

Re: Stanford Hack Exposes 10,000

2005-05-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy all, Somewhere in this thread there is the issue of description of data collection practices, and for those mammals who care (see "Ice Age" with someone under 10 if you need help decoding that), you can do the following: Review the latest working draft (4 January 2005) of the P3P Spec http

Re: Underscores in host names

2005-05-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Supporting "IDN" is a necessary job. That's been made clear to the > Internet community. If it "complicates" things, well, then that's > what has to be done. If the Internet is to be global, it can't > restrict the world to just a few convenient languages. Not to quibble unnecessarily, bu

ot: gilat (spaceband, starband, deterministic) contacts

2005-05-08 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
howdy, if anyone from gilat (or its northamerican downstreams) is on-list, i'd appreciate a contact. tia, eric

Re: FCC To Require 911 for VoIP

2005-05-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
>are you -REALLY- arguing for the return of "finger" ?? If it gets the user a brown fizzy drink ... it can't be a completely bad idea.

Re: ICANN needs you!

2005-04-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Rodney, Can you compare the past out-reach exercises and the present one? You know, process and outcomes. I'm thinking of the process and outcome of the MITF exercise of 2002/3. It is now seven years since the issue of appropriation of tribal names was brought to the attention of the ICANN BoD

Re: Memory leak cause of Comcast DNS problems

2005-04-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
A friend in St. Paul left me a comment: Irritated Comcast customer from St. Paul here. I'm just glad I didn't wait until Friday to e-file my taxes. Eric

fwd: Cobell lawyers ask trust systems be shutdown again (3rd time)

2005-04-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy all, "Because it is indisputable that the 'poor state of network security' creates an imminent risk of irreparable injury... plaintiffs request that this court disconnect from the Internet and shut down each information technology system which houses

Re: Blog...

2005-04-08 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> and, instead of "polluting" the list with tech news > snippets, post them to a blog. ... > Can I get a Hallelujah?! :-) not from me. makes as much sense as turning nanog into a web-access only mail sink. i liked your news items. and sean's. i wouldn't have known to go look at the iraqi network

Re: report of .biz outage...

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Its between the CORE SRS and the NS SRS. Now if your position is that NS is inerrant, and by assertion, the failure lies somewhere else, fine. Who cares?

Re: report of .biz outage...

2005-04-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Ed, The occasional connectivity problems with Neulevel of March 31st persist. Eric

Re: Telcordia report on ICANN .net RFP Evaluation

2005-04-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> But my recent post was not "against" (or "for", for that matter) > Verisign. I am just disappointed that ICANN did not have the integrity > to select a company that is _truly_ independent to judge the > applicants. In the prior round ICANN picked a company doing non-trivial business with th

Re: Telcordia report on ICANN .net RFP Evaluation

2005-04-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> >ICANN Opens Public Comment Forum on .NET Evaluators' Report > >29 March 2005 /dev/null.

Re: Disappointment at DENIC over Poor Rating in .net Procedure

2005-03-31 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Anyway, DENIC's offer didn't match that of Sentan ... funny, the first item of work email i read today was this: the Neulevel SRS is currently down, .biz registrations are therefore not possible. We will inform you as soon as the registry is online again. your metric

Re: Disappointment at DENIC over Poor Rating in .net Procedure

2005-03-31 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
That's milder than the critique offered by SWITCH in the last round.

Re: The U.N. thinks about tomorrow's cyberspace

2005-03-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Paul, I worked with Houlin Zhao extensively during 2001, and met with him again at the Rome ICANN meeting. He's a smart guy. Eric

Telcordia report on ICANN .net RFP Evaluation

2005-03-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, A summary of the report and a link to the full report can be found at: http://www.icann.org/announcements/announcement-28mar05.htm So now you know. VGRS, NS+, AF, ranked 1, 2, 3; DE and CORE ranked 4 & 5. Eric

Re: ICANN on the panix.com theft

2005-03-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
nuance. > ICANN Blames Melbourne IT for Panix Domain Hijacking ICANN's current RAA (Registrar Accreditation Agreement) lacks a profound amount of teeth. If it had any, that is, if "ICANN Blames " ment anything, Domain Registry of America' (remember them) registrars (note the plural) would be on

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-24 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> 1) unenforcable old blue laws similar to how Native > Americans need to be escorted by police in > Massachussetts (i.e. they never got around to fixing > old bad law, but noone cares anymore) Actually, Indian towns were goverened by Blue Laws up the second half of the 20th century. Not every la

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, Over the holidays I had the opportunity to pick up some pin money experting for a case involving just this business model and the media ignored sides of some rather well-known persons who work the church markets in the US. > > that's EASY: there is hyperconcern for the welfare of > > ch

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Bill, I'll be happy to contact the IT and/or policy people at any or all of the Tribal Governments who's jurisdictions are surrounded by, or proximal to, those of the state of Utah. (a) They could use the business, just like anyone else, and (b) they are not subject to Utah's state law (and befo

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
thanks steve. i'm distracted. just got bit by red lake.

Re: Utah governor signs Net-porn bill

2005-03-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Could someone find out what the actual mandated requirements are? At one point it sounded a lot like just putting PICs lables on published URLs.

Re: Utah considers law to mandate ISP's block "harmful" sites

2005-03-06 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> | If HB260 is approved, it would require that Utah-based companies > | begin rating their sites for [... cryptofauna]. Oh. So its just PICS. If it was P3P I'd be more interested, but as it is (or appears to be at a very great distance) PICS, yawn.

Re: .US TLD Owners Lose Privacy

2005-03-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
hinderence, depending on perspective) drop me a line. Eric --- Forwarded Message Message-Id: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 04 Mar 2005 13:05:46 -0500 From: Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> X-Virus-Scanned: by amavisd-new a

Re: Who is watching the watchers?

2005-02-24 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> > > Former chief privacy officer of Gator has been appointed to the Data > > > Privacy and Integrity Advisory Committee of the Department of Homeland > > > Security. > > > > > > http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2005/02/23/gator/index.html > > as president bush (jr) said on tv in the days

Re: Iraqi TLD

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> And infocom was shutdown by the feds for terrorism reasons. The DOJ advanced three claims: an INS claim, an exports rule infraction claim, and a charity-linked-to-Hammas (a/k/a "terrorism") claim. The 1st was dismissed, the second obtained a precedent-setting convinction and an unprecedented se

Re: Iraqi TLD

2005-02-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, I suppose I should update what I have up at {nic,noc}-iq.nic-naa.net. At the Rome meeting I spoke (open mic) to the ICANN BOD about the issue. That was a year ago. A week before the Asian Tsunami David Cuthbertson wrote to me and asked about the delegation. He works for Adam Smith Inte

Re: Phishing Name Server?

2005-02-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy Paul, rgid:id:domain ENOM:048:SAFE-KEYNET.com YESN:100:CITIFINANCUPDATE.com YESN:100:WAMU4U.com YESN:100:WAMUCORP >From prior experience I don't see anything novel. Yup. Real domains, and possibly real certs. >From my last go around with Vint, if I were of a mind to, I could sell bulk to

Re: Regarding registrar LOCK for panix.com

2005-01-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, I wasn't going to discuss this because it is potentially confusing, but as we're ratholing on registrar lock ... --- Some 60 plus days after a party acquired a domain, s/he initiated an "UNLOCK" at the user interface of the operator that had arrainged to acquire this particular domain.

Re: EPP minutia (was: Re: Gtld transfer process)

2005-01-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> The problem that got us here was that registrars have > historically been not flexible enough at releasing > domains when the owners *did* want to transfer them. George, The point I tried to make in my prior note was that not all domains have the same temporal property of non-functional change

Re: EPP minutia (was: Re: Gtld transfer process)

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Sorry about the subject line. I switched horses in mid-stream.

EPP minutia (was: Re: Gtld transfer process)

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Bruce, > I am interested to hear what members of the NANOG list believe would be > a better transfers process. Non-functional changes of operationally significant configuration data is avoided. My thumbs are as thick as the next person's. I'm quite happy to buy a decade's worth of name, even

Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Paul, I ment to refer to the registry operator who operates the constellation of nameservers for the .com zone, and wrote something else. I'm going to press my red ears (both) to the copious available ice. Eric

Re: Terminal Servers (was Re: netblazer Was: baiting)

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Netblazers were fine except the Telebit lied about the SYN35 card > being usable with a T-1. uh, the test lab used T-0 (56kb) for the syn interface, so integers greater than 0 would be ... creative on someone's part, and TB mktg could be just as creative as the rest of the XX mktg golf pros.

Re: netblazer Was: baiting

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> My recollection of that show was "T-1 to BARRnet", not > bonded-Netblazer-dialout, but I didn't "work the show" until the > following spring, so my recollection could be at fault. Hey Robert, Correct, but we stuck in the NB because the funtional principle (demand dial and route) was distinct.

Re: Gtld transfer process

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> There seems to be a general lack of IETF design and review of protocols > in this crucial area. The IETF does not design and review propriatary protocols. VGRS published the RRP specifications. I'm always interested in EPP technical minutia. Eric

Re: Registrar and registry backend processes.

2005-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> For what it is worth, some consider the .de whois server broken; see > below. Let's note that the new RFC (3912) doesn't mention the "help > methodology" anymore. In the high stakes game of registry redelegation, with .org as a data point and the new gTLD competition (winners: [info,biz,name,

Re: Standard of Promptness

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Bill, > The Registry is the party that must revert the data to the previous > state. For the stability of the Internet, it must be done as quickly > as possible before old correct caches time out. Therefore, that's > where the penalties should apply. Agree. This is a solution to the publicatio

Re: netblazer Was: baiting

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> (And I was serious, not sarcastic, about the 'blazer. YMMV,) Martin, That's OK, I never got work for a router vendor after that, a solution that I've now completeley generalized, having discovered a trivial but obscure and beautiful technique, as any good mathematician must. However, since I

Re: Root vs TLD (was Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?)

2005-01-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> You may or may not think Verisign as registry is blameless / disreputable > and to blame for this incident. There is causation for incoherence between the authoritative and non-authoritative nameservers for a particular data set. > You may or may not think the gaining/losing registrars are bl

Re: domain hijacking - what do you do to prepared?

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Gadi, > The question that comes to mind is - what do you do to be prepared? Well, for a start you can put a comment into the ICANN comments on the new xfr policy. I did earler today. Next, you can, as some today did, decide that cache trumps authority under some conditions, and ensure that cache

Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Chris, CORE was neither the losing nor the gaining registrar. Please acquire context. Eric IANA-439, and CORE-124

Re: panix.com

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
The outcome I expected when Bruce got involved. --- Forwarded Message From: "Bruce Tonkin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconve

Re: Association of Trustworthy Roots?

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
It isn't just that the root operators are silent. On the registrar's list there has been only five items on the subject. 1 Mark Jeftovic (easydns) who is on NANOG, copying the RC list. 2 Ross Rader (tucows) who is not, blowing it off, no delta between authoritative and cachi

apropos of nothing

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, I was interested in a policy I came across recently at a cctld registry. If a domain has no (or few for some value of few) hits over some period of time post-registration, the registry will recover the string and let another user acquire it, and presumably actually use it. So if t = 3m,

Re: The entire mechanism is Wrong!

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
ome shoddy trademark claim by some party that doesn't even use the dns for core operational practice. It doesn't reflect very well on the registries and registrars either. Eric Brunner-Williams CTO Wampumpeag, LLC Operator, USA Webhost, IANA-439, CORE-124

fwd: Re: [registrars] Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, Delivery of RC mail to me is fairly desultory. Apparently there is an earlier thread. Post-Rome the very purpose of the RC seems to me to be doubtful (advocacy for registrars other than NetSol+4), and post-Elana the process of the RC left me disinterested. I'm particularly enamored by R

Re: panix.com hijacked (VeriSign refuses to help)

2005-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, Its dawn in Maine, the caffine delivery system has only just started, but I'll comment on the overnight. You're welcome [EMAIL PROTECTED] If you'll send me the cell phone number for the MIT managment I will call wearing my registrar hat and inform whoever I end up speaking with that Bru

Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Howdy Perry, > Alexis Rosen of Panix was on the phone earlier today with the company > attorney for melbourneit -- reputedly he was informed that even if the > police called, they would not do anything about the problem until > Monday their time. (a) I don't know MIT's attorney, and (b) I wouldn

Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> If I were Panix ... Free advice. Bruce, Cliff and Chuck are people. Yes, even Chuck is a people. You want prompt service, you ask nice and you ask the right people and you don't assume there are facts not in evidence, like errors or malfeasence, when you could be solving the problem, before th

Re: panix.com hijacked

2005-01-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I've forwared to Bruce Tonkin, who I know personally, at MIT, and Cliff Page, who I don't know as well, at Dotster, Steve's note. These are the RC reps for each registrar.

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym

2005-01-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> The current pretense of "privacy" is nothing more than a convenient > mechanism for registrars to pad their wallets and evade responsible > for facilitating abuse. As an aside, I used a (wicked big) competitor's "privacy" service to regsiter a domain for a political worker who wanted to whistle

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonym

2005-01-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Because there is no data protection on many databases (such as ".com" > registrars who are forced to sell the data if requested), people lie > when registering, because it is the only tool they have to protect > their privacy. Yup. Our ICANN contracts both require us to sell bulk registrant dat

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "an

2005-01-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Of course, I know that. I just mentioned Africa because, in many > countries in Africa, it is simply impossible to get a PTR > record. That's a fact, there are many reasons behind. Howdy Stephane, It is also an area where many cctld operators maintain their registration data using spreadsheets

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Taking your comment in reverse order. > Or, alternately, you're simply saying that those who care about net > abuse are shackled by ICANN's bylaws and therefore we can do nothing. I don't think you have a monopoly on "care" (or clue) about net abuse, but it is pretty clear that you're not tall e

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Why is it considered such a crazy proposition that domains should have > valid and correct whois data associated with them? There is no relationship between data and funcion. The data is not necessary to implement function-based policy. > Bah. You're saying that you're uninterested in discussi

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> I suppose it depends on how you define 'unpublished'; and how you define > 'non-resolving'. Your opening remark was that policy foo must be applied to all domains. This doesn't accomplish anything for the set of domains that will never be published (registry reserved strings), nor those that a

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Numerous (as in "at least hundreds, probably more") of spam gangs are > purchasing domains and "burning through" them in spam runs. In many > cases, there's a pattern to them; in others, if there's a pattern, > it's not clear to me what it might be. >From my point of view, "pattern" is which r

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> Why would it matter if you deactivated an unpublished/non-resolving domain? How do "you deactivate an unpublished/non-resolving domain"? You may borrow a registrar or registry hat if that is useful to answer the question. > If you care about the domain, keep the whois data up to date and accur

Re: fixing insecure email infrastructure (was: Re: [eweek article] Window of "anonymity" when domain exists, whois not updated yet)

2005-01-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> 4) all domains with invalid whois data MUST be deactivated (not >confiscated, just temporarily removed ... All? Even those unpublished and therefore non-resolving? Sensible for the scoped-to-totality trademarks weenies who argue that the stringspace is a venue for dilution, whether the regi

Re: Survey of interest ..

2005-01-11 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I first read their report on blogs ... We're holding the Koufax Awards _now_ for lefty blogs, so we're about as root on the left hand side of the radio dial as one could hope for. It wasn't worth reading twice. Turning to the Pew vetted punditocracy, I went to the questionaire. Q9a got the belly

A Road Runner NOC contact

2004-12-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Off list please. A user issue. Sensetive.

Re: New Computer? Six Steps to Safer Surfing

2004-12-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Got (soy) milk? The WaPo writer's take on cookies is ... not mine. Then again, I wrote the cookie portions of the P3P spec and was "inside" the meetings between M$'s IE team circa IE5.5 pre-fcs and the (other) IAB (the word is "Advertizers") and the P3P tech and policy teams. I worked for Engag

Re: latest FCC rulings

2004-12-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Agreed. Both Copps and Adelstein are worth reading. http://wampum.wabanaki.net/archives/001512.html

Re: Interesting DNS problem.

2004-12-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
a related problem is having N ip addrs bound to M nics on a host, where N > M. if an ssl connection fails and debug is needed between the M:N:host and some other ssl-speaking box, then it makes a difference if the ssl connection is associated with the primary, or some aliased (set N-1) ip addr. c

fwd: contact for the world etc (nanog)

2004-12-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, FYI Eric --- Forwarded Message Return-Path: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Delivery-Date: Tue Dec 14 15:07:09 2004 Return-Path: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Received: from TheWorld.com (pcls3.std.com [192.74.137.143]) by nic-naa.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id iBEF78Cm009901 for <[EMA

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Rich, You have an opinion, but I'm unable to detect a basis for that opinion. Allocations of string-space do not give rise to control over any resource other than (conditionally) the string. Publication of association(s) between strings and addr

Re: no whois info ?

2004-12-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
In an earlier episode I pointed out to the list-resident VGRS person that the dynamic properties introduced for one marketing purpose would have a consequence in another problem domain, but no point revisiting that issue. [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Peter Corlett) wrote: > There's some awful tinpot domai

ddos from .mil, and from state.oh.us

2004-12-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, A month ago today Gadi was looking for a contact at US .mil, this morning I had the same need, as a node in the nipr.mil playpen was a major player in a 100+ node ddos directed at a web blog customer we host -- it had a high rate of fire, accounting for over 20% of the total POST methods

Anyone awake at blogspot (or google)?

2004-10-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oki all, Anyone know what the story is for this morning's multi-hour unscheduled down-time for blogspot? Backhoe's surround building 5? (oops, showing my age). TiA, Eric

cisco source saga

2004-09-20 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
This just made reuters: http://www.reuters.co.uk/newsArticle.jhtml?type=internetNews&storyID=6281153§ion=news

Ivan and outages

2004-09-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I'm looking for operational status information from Grenada, Jamaica, Grand Caymen, and Cuba. Anyone with clue drop me a note off-list, I will post a summary.

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-09-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> It would only be useful if those people were also in a position to > vigorously defend said patents when (and if) they were infringed. assign the patents to icann, to the eff, to the registrar constituency ...

Re: Oct. NANOG - hotel? At the two month marker now.

2004-08-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
> ... Reston is Hell, but with better visuals. I'm not certain of the truth of this comparison, having only half the data at hand. However, it has to be just about the least interesting place on the whole Eastern seabord to travel to.

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