On 2024-08-02 21:39, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote:
> Following process, redacted portions of the XONA Partners report have
> been published.
>
> https://crtc.gc.ca/otf/eng/2022/8000/c12-202203868.htm
I have some question on terminology: (pardon my newbieness, just wanting
to be
After a July 2022 outage that caused the whole Rogers network to go down
for an extended period (bring down the single homed Interac payment
system with it across Canada), political pressure caused CRTC to have a
process to look into it. Part of it was the commissioning of a report by
experts.
Fo
On 2018-03-28 17:45, Alain Hebert wrote:
> Same deal as Paypal and EBay.
Paypal and EBay have not worked fevereshly to avoid a presence in
Canada. They have presence and already handle the taxes.
> Netflix dropping their services in CDN/QC only serve
> attempt at making yet another ma
On 2018-03-27 18:28, Eric Dugas wrote:
> On the IP geoloc subject, we (EBOX) actually have multiple pools for QC-based
> and ON-based customers.
You may all have different IP pools, but are they registered such that
geolocation services show them with different provinces, or do they all
point to
On 2018-03-27 18:21, Ken Chase wrote:
> If Netflix has no physical presence in Quebec, what the lever are they going
> to use to force this? A lawsuit in in the
> US? What court is going to entertain a foreign jurisdiction's tax claim in
> their court? And how would that be then enforced?
Or Net
Not quite networking but probably relevant.
The Canadian province of Québec just introduced a new budget with
basically the intent to force foreign digital companies who sell
services to Québekers to collect the local value added sales tax and
remit those to the QC government.
The goal is to capt
Asking in a sanity check context.
As you may have heard, Bell Canada has gathered a group called Fairplay
Canada to force all ISPs in Canada to block web sites Fairplay has
decided infringe on copyright. (ironically, Fairplay is copyright by
Apple, and used without permission :-)
Canada has hu
Quick question: (sanity check).
For a deployment happening now by an incumbent telco (aka: serving large
number of homes), how many GPON ports would it want per each OLT card ?
or more precisely, what sort of range is there for the number of ports
for such a deployment?
(The CRTC in Canada is as
On 2018-02-01 22:59, Paul Ferguson wrote:
> Started getting a series of these just now from the past. :-)
Same here. The 821 headers show Received: to be "now", while the RFC
822 headers have a Date of first of where Month started in
August 2017.
Suspect something got reset and the list serve
On 2018-01-23 08:17, Jimmy Hess wrote:
> The promise of blockchain is fraud-resistant recordkeeping, database
> management, AND
> resource management maintained by a distributed decentralized network which
> eliminates or reduces the extent to which there are central points of trust
> involved in
On 2017-12-01 01:15, John Souvestre wrote:
> The #(provider name)sucks tweets on twitter in South Florida and South
> Texas have essentially stopped. I assume this means that providers
> have repaired almost all Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma damage.
In an area touched by freezing rain,
On 2017-11-30 22:34, Sean Donelan wrote:
> The #(provider name)sucks tweets on twitter in South Florida and South
> Texas have essentially stopped. I assume this means that providers
> have repaired almost all Hurricane Harvey and Hurricane Irma damage.
Sorry for delay in this old topic.
In e
The FCC is about to reclassify "Broadband Internet Access Service" as an
information service instead of Telecommunications Service. This
prombpted the following question which isn't about the FCC action per say.
This is about how does one define Transit provider vs ISP ?
Cogent for instance acts
On 2017-11-20 17:14, Masataka Ohta wrote:
> It is merely that third parties should pay ISPs offering multicast
> service for them. Amount of payment should be proportional to
> bandwidth used and area covered.
Since multicast benefits the ISP the most, why should the ISP charge the
content provid
On 2017-11-17 18:56, shawn wilson wrote:
> Besides Netflix, does anyone else offer CDN boxes for their services?
This is where local TV stations are different as they are already
present in the market they serve. They can connect locally, transit-free
to the local ISPs.
(and buy transit only for
On 2017-11-17 16:37, Luke Guillory wrote:
> Have you seen what the OTA guys charge for retrans rights? They don't want to
> do this,
Fair point. Coming from Canada, OTA stations, because are freely
available, can't charge distributors (BDUs (MVPDs in USA) so their
revenues are purely from adver
Once ISPs became able to provide sufficient speeds to end users, video
over the internet became a thing.
This week, the FCC approved the ATSC3 standard.
What if instead of moving to ATSC3, TV stations that broadcast OTA
became OTT instead? Could the Internet handle the load?
Since TV stations
On 2017-11-01 03:16, Jacques Latour wrote:
> JF, c¹est bon ça!
>
> This is good point JF, according to
> http://www.acwr.com/economic-development/rail-maps/canadian-national we
> seem to have a single rail on top of Lac Superior.
Both CN and CP (still) have their own tracks. CP along shore of Lak
On 2017-10-25 13:05, Matthew Pounsett wrote:
> I'm also led to wonder how much worse it would be if all those CPE were
> open recursives instead of open forwarders. I'd like to see CPE
> manufacturers' decision making and processes improved BEFORE we start
> encouraging them to go around ISPs' DN
On 2017-10-19 18:18, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
> Well, the problem as I understand it is that the infrastructure was
> not all that great to begin with. Much of it was damaged in the first
> storm and when this second one came through, what remained basically
> disappeared.
Being hit with a Cat 5 hur
On 2017-10-19 03:00, Sean Donelan wrote:
> not intended for long-term, continuous use. The generators will need
> maintenance and likely experience unscheduled failures the longer they're
> used.
Permanent duty diesel generators exist. Many northern communities in
Canada run on them as their 7
On 2017-10-17 17:43, Mike wrote:
> trying to address. We notified ATT of our need and only days later,
> without followup response, it was suggested that we somehow don't have
> the legal authority to install microwave
My reaction would have been to call local mayor, mayor in twon where you
try
re: alerts
last march, Montréal had a nasty winter storm which resulted in a
stretch of highway wheree all exits were blocked for hours (the
government had inquiry on what happened). Cars stuck in there in middle
of night for 6 hours.
Once police woke up, it would have been extremely helpful if
Note: Google Maps shows various alerts applicable to the region you are
looking at in maps.
So, assuming its Speaker is geolocated, Google would know if an alert is
applicable to its location and be able to send it to the unit.
On 2017-10-13 17:20, Clinton Work wrote:
>
> My understanding is that nobody has a 2nd diverse fiber route north of
> the great lakes from Winnipeg to Toronto. Every provider makes use of
> a fiber route south of the great lakes thru the US in order to provide
> diversity.
But if provider 1 has
On 2017-10-13 14:10, Roy wrote:
>
>
> The IBM 308x and 309x series mainframes were water cooled.
The bank I worked for had just installed one. A big change were noise
levels, the thing was really quiet. But servicing now required a plumber
too. (there was a separate cabinet for the water pumps
Answer from Allstream (aka Zayo)
A combination: Tor-Ott-Mtl N route is CP & S route is CN. From Tor-Wpg
its mostly CN on the N route and the S goes thru various US routes.
So Allstream would get you out west via the more northern CN line from
Toronto.
So you would need to find someone who has
back in the arly 1990s, Tandem had a computer called "Cyclone". (these
were mission critical, fault tolerant machines).
The reason for "Cyclone" name was that the cabinets had huge fan
capacity, and that was to deal with air conditioning failure by
increasing the air flow over the electronics to s
On 2017-10-12 16:58, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> (3) because they facilitate coerced risk transference away from the
> people who are actually responsible (and are paid to be so) to the
> people who shouldn't be responsible (and aren't paid to be)
I think biometrics are seen as a means to reduce the
BTW,
a web site showing list of registered cellular towers in Canada:
http://www.ertyu.org/steven_nikkel/cancellsites.html
In areas where the 17 or 11 stray from railroad, you could cobine that
map with Street View to try to spot towers to see if they are on
microwave or not.
If I were to cycle
On 2017-10-11 11:40, Jacques Latour wrote:
> Does anyone know if there's fibre resiliency between Calgary and Toronto over
> the Great lakes, I thinking redundancy could be achieved by using two paths
> one following the railroad and the other following the Trans-Canadian
> highway. Does anyone
On 2017-10-10 00:47, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> The Puerto Rico government has posted threee maps of cellular coverage and
> GPS coordinates of Cells on Wheels (COWs) in service.
>
> http://www.status.pr/Maps/
>
> It still looks grim in Puerto Ricofrom a telecommunications perspective.
I found t
I have not ound the official announcements, but the press is reporting
that the FCC has granted Google rights to fly 30 of its "Loon" high
altitude ballons to provide cellular cervice in Puerto Rico for up to 6
months.
(From my readings, there are glorified relays of ground based signals
(which I
got curious about the FCC's definition of "cell site" in the Maria
outages reports in Puerto Rico.
In the Oct 4 report: Arecibo is reported as having 68 cell sites served,
65 being out. (95.2% outage)
The FCC has an "ASR" (Antenna Structure Registration) search for cell
sites, and this points
On 2017-10-02 02:58, Wayne Bouchard wrote:
> Well, that's why recovery efforts in broad scale events like this have
> to go from a central point to pushing a perimiter farther and farther
> out. Create a habital, functional zone where workers can return to
> both to organize and recouperate and the
On 2017-10-02 00:32, Javier J wrote:
> I hope they do. There doesn't seem to be a shortage of FEMA, Army, etc
> personnel on the ground or a shortage of truck drivers in the US willing to
> help. If 80% of Truck drivers that pick up containers from the ports can't
> make it, then this needs to be
On 2017-10-01 23:09, Jason Baugher wrote:
> The more I read about this, the more disturbed I get. On the one hand, we
> keep hearing that the trucks aren't moving because roads are impassable.
Note: media NEVER shows places that are up and running, only shows
disaster zones, so one may not get ful
On 2017-09-29 23:07, Sean Donelan wrote:
> I don't know what FCC and PRTRB are counting:
>
> 286 working cell sites out of 2671 (according to FCC report)
> 96 working cell sites out of 1600 (according to PR Telecommunications
> Regulatory Board report)
I had noticed the different numb
FYI:
White House announces that the US Army Corp of Engineers is in charge of
power in Puerto Rico, and were given priorities to hospitals and other
emergency services. No mention of telecom being part of those
priorities. Initial push is installing temporary power generation.
They are not yet wor
On 2017-09-27 17:44, Sean Donelan wrote:
> After a week without power, all the stationary batteries throughout the
> telecommunications network are likely completely drained.
from the point of view of cell sites, wouldn't battery autonomy be
measured in hours rather than days? I could see some
On 2017-09-24 17:13, Sean Donelan wrote:
> I'm not sure what clearances they are waiting for. If they are already in
> Puerto Rico, self-sufficient, and respect curfews and other emergency
> responders, they should be able to start local restoration and recovery
> activities.
Priority is to r
What you do with the CPE "firewall" settings depends on what sort of
ISP you are. Do you cater to geeks or aunts/grand mothers?
Whatever you do, I would suggest that you document in a place that is
easy for customers to find exactlyt what apps/protocols are open/closed
with the settings you've de
During the 1998 ice storm, Hydro Québec stated its infrastructure had
not been built to widthstand this once in 100 year event. Reporters did
some research and the next day asked him if there was a trend in
increased freezing rain events. "I'll have to look into it".
The next day, the HQ CEO cam
On 2017-09-18 19:01, Nathan Anderson wrote:
> The larger issue for you with T-Mobile might be their previous (and ongoing?)
> use of AWS bands (split 1700MHz uplink/2100 downlink) for 3G service, which
> very few phones sold outside of the U.S. support. They have been working
> nationwide to r
On 2017-09-18 08:48, Mike Hammett wrote:
> It looks very difficult to manage, given the DNS TXT records and domain
> search fields. If it was as simple as entering the supported IP ranges, it'd
> be a lot easier to implement.
I would have to read the stuff again, but my understanding is:
cac
On 2017-09-17 19:37, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
> Server is an app now, any MacOS can have it running.
But do carriers/ISPs really want to deal with a rack unfriendly Mac Mini
or iMac at a carrier hotel? If the Server App could run on Linux, or if
OS-X could boot on standard servers, perhaps, it i
On 2017-09-17 18:41, Eduardo Schoedler wrote:
> https://www.peeringdb.com/net/3554
Peering would reduce an ISP's reliance on transit provider (and thus
load on transit providers) hut still present same problem on the ISP's
internal network.
Also, doesn't Apple use a CDN such as Akamai or L3 to de
On 2017-09-17 16:40, Max Tulyev wrote:
> 1. My phone is not LTE but 3G GSM/UMTS capable (all bands,
> 850/900/1700/1900/2100). Will it work? Is 3G coverage good enough in New
> York and Orlando for VoIP calls (SIP, Viber, Skype)?
3G coverage is a superset of LTE coverage. (aka: carriers still hav
A couple years ago, Apple unleashed an IOS update which made the news
because network operators reported serious congestion on their networks
as everyone and their uncle tried to download the gig+ package at 11:00 PDT.
Was the problem solved simply by Apple staggering the announcement of
downloads
Addituinal notes:
When setting up AT&T prepaid, at one point you need to insert the SIM
into your handset in order to receive a confirmation code (your login
password).
I know this process works while the handset is in Canada. Even though
service is not yet activated on this SIM, the SIM can stil
BTW, AT&T's prefered roaming partner in Canada is Rogers.
In other words, if you have an AT&T SIM card, it will try to log in
first via Rogers. I assume it also roams with Bell/Telus as second
choices but have not been able to test it.
On 2017-09-17 13:07, Max Tulyev wrote:
AT&T's $45 prepaid pans and its more expemsive sibbling (I think $65)
allow over 6GB of data at LTE speeds, and the rest is unlimited but at
2G speeds (I think).
The AT&T plans at the $45 and higher levels allows data and voice
roaming into Canada, as long
On 2017-09-01 18:38, Ricky Beam wrote:
> Buried stuff requires a great deal of planning, permitting, and insurance.
Are cables in railway right of way considered "burried stuff" from the
point of view of all the regulatory approvals since it is on private
land (railway's) ?
I take it that it is
On 2017-09-01 16:12, Alain Hebert wrote:
> Being somehow familiar with how things operate when it involve
> Quebec Govt and the Fed Govt... Expect hell. Pray for purgatory.
> Rejoice if it takes less than 3 months.
In this particular case, the government is giving CN new land, and once
A large highway interchange is being rebuilt in Montréal (Turcot) and
this requires that the CN mainline tracks out of downtown be moved a few
hundred metres to the north for a couple of kilometres until it rejoins
the existing alignment.
Part of the contract involves the cost of moving the fibre
On 2017-08-27 20:58, Tim Jackson wrote:
> KHOU's local transmitter (Missouri City I think is where it's at) seems to
> be back on the air, but with all production from WFAA out of Dallas.
KHOU had a tweet with video showing the water flooding into their
offices/studios and staff having to leave.
On 2017-08-16 18:29, Christopher Morrell wrote:
> Let’s not forget that all POTS and cell service was offline during the
> outage - even for local and 911 service.
It would be interesting to know how incumbent telco services within
Aliant territory became dependent on a link to central Canada. Wh
On 2017-08-09 10:11, Hiers, David wrote:
> That is what our lawyers are starting to figure out, too. Very glad to see
> them converging on the tribal wisdom.
late to discussion.
You might get some organisations which require you to provide
intra-canada routes for privacy reasons. But at the mom
On 2017-03-01 11:28, Ryan Pugatch wrote:
> At random times, my Windows machines (Win 7 and Win 10, attached to the
> network via WiFi, 5GHz) lose connectivity to the Internet.
> For what it's worth, the router is a Linksys EA7300 that I just picked
> up.
Way back when, I have a netgear router.
On 2017-02-16 14:59, Sadiq Saif wrote:
> From -
> https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2017/02/a-court-order-blocked-pirate-sites-that-werent-supposed-to-be-blocked/
Many thanks.
pardon my ignorance here, but question:
For an outfit such as Cogent which acts not only as a transit provider,
but
On 2017-02-14 08:27, Jared Mauch wrote:
> So risk avoidance on the part of the 100k other sites hosted by CF is now a
> conspiracy?
Cogent is a backbone network that is international in scope. When China
tells a network to block the BBC that block happens only in China.
If the USA wants to be
Cogent seems to have been very very silent on the issue.
Could this be because they got some police/NSA/FBI letter requiring
confindentiality and requiring Cogent to snoop on all traffic to
104.31.19.30 , and along with agreeing to comply, blocked all the
requested traffic which means that their
Since 104.31.19.30 is an anycast IP, is it possible that this isn't
related to PirateBay but more related to Cogent having a dispute with
Cloudfare ?
It is counter intuitive for a transit provider to refuse
business/traffic, but then again, Cogent has been involved in counter
intuituve disputes i
When doing business in 100 countries, what if vendor A has support in 80
of those countries, and vendor B has good presence in the last 20 ? What
if you require a vendor that has presence in all countries and this
limits your RFPs to a single vendor ?
Does your company run semi autonomous subsidi
On 2016-12-23 10:37, Seth Mattinen wrote:
> It would certainly suck to be an ISP in Canada and be forced to fund
> your competitors. Or does Canada not have any small privately run ISPs
> like we do in the US?
We not only have smaller ISPs, but also a wholesale framework where ISPs
can purchase
This is more of an FYI.
Yesterday, the CRTC released a big decision on broadband. In 2011, the
same process resulted in CRTC to not declare the Internet as "basic
service" and to set speed goals to 1990s 5/1.
Yesterday, the CRTC declared the Internet to be a basic service (which
enables additiona
Today, Rogers (in Canada) announced it was ditching it long running
project to move to an IPTV platform it had been developping and will
adopt Comcast X1. (some $500 million writeoff).
Telco IPTV systems use multicasting all the way to the customer's LAN
and generally use the Microsoft/Ericcson
On 2016-12-16 10:58, Rich Kulawiec wrote:
> This is a short-term (about one month) project being thrown together
> in a hurry...and it could use some help.
How much data are we talking about here? A few floppy disks ? a couple
of megabytes ? gigabytes ? terabytes ? petabytes ?
Have you consid
On 2016-11-21 21:56, joel jaeggli wrote:
> Not really the air interface uses OFDMA coding scheme, so it is both
> divided into sub-carriers from 1.4 to 20mhz wide which are then also
> scheduled accordingly.
I have read in a number of places that 1 * 20mhz yields much more
capacity than 2 * 10mhz
On 2016-11-21 15:18, joel jaeggli wrote:
> SRB and URB are the l2 presentation of the tunnels established for user
> and signaling traffic.
OK, so wth LTE, if carrier has 10mhz up and down, this represents a
single chunk of spectrum providing one pipe ? (in fibre terms: a single
light colour thr
On 2016-11-21 02:53, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote:
> Typically it travels on another "bearer" compared to Internet traffic.
>
> http://blog.3g4g.co.uk/2013/08/volte-bearers.html
>
> Think of bearers as "tunnels" between the mobile core network and the
> device.
Many thanks for the pointer. The fa
I need to verify some claims made by incumbents in Canada that VoLTE
data travels on a totally separate channel between the phone and the
antenna.
Does anyone have links to relevant VoLTE documentation that would
provide how VoLTE is provisioned ? I was under the impression that it
was more of an
On 2016-11-09 17:54, William Herrin wrote:
> I think this discussion is premature. We can hypothesize any number of
> evils from the President Elect but until someone introduces a bill we
> can only tilt at windmills.
The president elect chose Mr Eisenach to help fill jobs in FCC and other
telec
On 2016-10-30 14:20, Rod Beck wrote:
> Hi Jean,
>
>
> What is the status of net neutrality in Canada?
The Telecom Act has had a clasue against undue
preference/discrimination, as well as a "cannot control content", but
both have loopholes. (27(2) , a carrier can argue a
preference/discriminatio
This is a heads up, the CRTC (Canada's FCC) is holding a week long
hearing on net neutrality in Canada ("differential pricing" is the used).
Canada has had its "ITMP" (Internet Traffic Management Practices) policy
since 2009 which deals with unfair throttling, and now, we are arguing
on zero ratin
On 2016-10-29 14:07, Eric S. Raymond wrote:
> You don't build or hire a botnet on Mirai's scale with pocket change.
> And the M.O. doesn't fit a criminal organization - no ransom demand,
> no attempt to steal data.
it is wrong to underestimate script kiddies and open source code. It is
wrong to u
On 2016-10-26 18:02, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> http://p.globalsources.com/IMAGES/PDT/BIG/053/B1088622053.jpg
>
> i.e. a multitude of wall plates in every room, each one bristling with a
> multitude of RJ11 sockets into which all manner of shiny new IoT things
> will be directly plugged, th
On 2016-10-26 16:58, Mark Andrews wrote:
>
> Actually things have changed a lot in a positive direction.
>
> * Router manufactures are using device specific passwords.
> * Microsoft, Apple, Linux and *BSD issue regular fixes for their
> products and users do intall them.
> * My smart TV has auto
re: having gadgets certified (aka UL/CSA for electric stuff).
Devil is in the details. Who would certify it ? And who would set the
standards for certification?
How fast would those standards change? updated with each new attack?
Would standards update require agreement of multiple parties who ra
While I agree that fixing home routers is the best approach, something
bugs me.
If an IoT vendor doesn't even know that its devices have telnet or ssh
enabled by default (and hence, no management interface to change
passwords) and only focuses on the web interface it has added , then
how come the
On 2016-10-25 04:10, Ronald F. Guilmette wrote:
> If all of the *&^%$# damn stupid vacation pet feeders had originally shipped
> with outbound rate limits hard-coded in the kernel, maybe this could have
> been avoided.
I view this differently.
The problem is in allowing inbound connections and
Dumb question:
If some camera, vaccum cleaner, toothbrush or refrigirator is behind
NAT, can it do IP spoofing ? Won't the "from" address be replaced by
the CPE router with the proper IP address assigned to that customer so
that on the Internet itself, that packet will travel with a real IP
routa
Question:
For something like Mirai and others, there appears to be a timer that
starts the attack at a certain day/time (with unknown amount of time to
distribute the software to any/all infectable devices prior to attack).
Do these generally have a timer to also stop the attack and go dormant
aw
A bit tidbits of information from:
> http://www.networkworld.com/article/3134035/chinese-firm-admits-its-hacked-products-were-behind-fridays-massive-ddos-attack.html
Chinese firm admits its hacked products were behind Friday's massive
DDOS attack
Hangzhou Xiongmai Technology, a vendor behind D
On 2016-10-23 15:46, jim deleskie wrote:
> Sure lets sue people because they put too many/bad packets/packets I don't
> like on the internet. Do you think this will really solve the porblem? Do
> you think we'll not just all end up with internet prices like US medical
> care prices?
If this wer
On 2016-10-22 19:03, Keith Medcalf wrote:
> This does not follow and is not a natural consequence of sealing the little
> buggers up so that they cannot affect the Internet
Problem is that many of these gadgets want to be internet connected so
mother at work can check on her kids at home, start
On 2016-10-22 18:35, Ray Van Dolson wrote:
> https://urldefense.proofpoint.com/v2/url?u=http-3A__hub.dyn.com_dyn-2Dblog_dyn-2Dstatement-2Don-2D10-2D21-2D2016-2Dddos-2Dattack&d=DQIBAg&c=n6-cguzQvX_tUIrZOS_4Og&r=r4NBNYp4yEcJxC11Po5I-w&m=iGvkbfzRJPqKO1A6YGa-c1m0RBLNkRk03hCjvVGTH3k&s=bScBNFncB3kt_cG0L3
Generic question:
The media seems to have concluded it was an "internet of things" that
caused this DDoS.
I have not seen any evidence of this. Has this been published by an
authoritative source or is it just assumed?
Has the type of device involved been identified?
I am curious on how some hac
On 2016-10-21 18:45, david raistrick wrote:
> switch too..). setting TTLs that make sense for a design that supports
> change is also easy.
Cuts both ways. Had Twitter had TTLs of say 7 days, vast majority
wouldn't notice an outage of a few hours because their local cache wa
still valid.
It do
On 2016-09-15 16:03, Owen DeLong wrote:
> Please explain to me how one modifies a request or response without
> managing to “control the content” or “influence the meaning or purpose”?
>
> Blocking a request or simply failing to answer MIGHT be within the law,
> but returning a false record certa
I got to think about this (dangerous thing :-(
Ideally, law enforcement should have the smarts and tools to get
involved in DDoS and other similar situations and have the power to
compell upstream provider(s) to shut service to a suspect.
The current situation appears to be more of a wild-west si
On 2016-09-13 03:42, LHC wrote:
> I believe that the CRTC has rules against censorship - meaning that
> Videotron, Bell etcetera have a choice between following the CRTC code or the
> provincial law (following one = sanctions from the other), rendering internet
> service provision to Québec impo
On 2016-09-12 14:15, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote:
> I don't see "hijacking" in your description of the iStop case - it appears
> to have been fully coordinated and with permission.
While I am not sure about fully coordinated and with permission, it is
an example where it was a desirable outcom
On 2016-09-12 14:14, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
> Was this all done at iStop's request and with their full support?
When iStop's router stopped making BGP announcements to the world
(because its last transit link was cut), and ISP3 highjacked the IP
blocks and made BGP announcements pointing to ISP2, I
On 2016-09-11 16:54, Hugo Slabbert wrote:
> Hopefully this is operational enough, though obviously leaning more towards
> the policy side of things:
>
> What does nanog think about a DDoS scrubber hijacking a network "for
> defensive purposes"?
Different spin but still "highjacking":
Many moo
As many may know, the province of Québec has passed a law to protect the
interests of its lottery corporation.
To do so, it will provide ISPs with list of web sites to block (aka:
only allow its own gambing web site).
There is an opportunity to comment this week in which I will submit.
(I've gat
On 2016-05-11 10:30, Mel Beckman wrote:
> Read deeper into the thread and you'll find where I sourced inexpensive
> RF-based NTP servers using CDMA, GSM, and even WWV.
For shortwave, you would need to calculate propagation delay between
transmitter and receiver. (does signal reach via line of s
On 2016-05-10 10:59, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:
> Yes, but they may switch it off for civilian use (by going encrypted,
> for instance) at any time, if it is better for *their* operations.
In the days of selected availability (GPS precision reduced on purpose),
the time signal was still very acc
The CRTC hearing went well (thanks for all your help).
One of the unanswered questions was how to set performance standards for
the last mile to ensure people get advertised speeds (within reason).
I had asked the question about contention ratio and it appears there is
no proper way to set such
On 2016-04-20 13:09, Rob Seastrom wrote:
> Going to D3.1 in a meaningful way means migrating to either a mid-split at 85
> MHz or a high split at 200 MHz
Thanks. This is what I expected. But in the past, the canadian cablecos
had argued that removing the 42mhz upstream limitation was a huge
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