more to do with grappling with legacy hardware and operating systems
that don't (either happily or at all) support IPv6, than getting a
reasonably recent PC/CPE configured automagically via an existing IPv4
connection.
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In article <20120617095906.ga32...@vacation.karoshi.com.?>,
bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com top-posts:
Why not. Lots of aspects of the Internet are regulated.
Internet Regulator?
/bill
On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote:
In article <20120616160738.eee09..
where
the WHOIS information is shown to be false or significantly out of date.
They could send compliance teams in to check, just like the IRS does for
the accounts.
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In article <20120210213755.ga88...@ussenterprise.ufp.org>, Leo Bicknell
writes
Hypothetically, I get an e-mail from ripe.ca
Or from ripen.cc which is one of their actual domains (used briefly as a
url shortener).
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s, but it's quite
unlikely maintenance updates for the game might be available
on disc.
When did you last see a Windows or Office update available on disc?
(And don't say "buy the latest version retail" - in my experience they
are the ones that are hit with the biggest install-update.)
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In article <201201281518.47292.mti...@globaltransit.net>, Mark Tinka
writes
Needless to say, a lot of games are now pushing massive
updates via the Internet; on the order of hundreds of MB.
So does Microsoft Office (if you can call that a game).
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ems a reasonable assumption.
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In article <20120121121149.ga14...@gsp.org>, Rich Kulawiec
writes
But what -- *exactly* -- is an "illegal file"?
Perhaps you mean "infringing"?
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websites are exactly that.
In Europe we have a Copyright Directive which seeks to legitimise what
could be termed "incidental copying" involved in using a browser, and
I'm happy to say I was one of the industry people who persuaded a
sceptical previous generation of media lawyers that this was OK.
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ertheless regarded by many as immoral or highly undesirable within
some framework of commonly held values.
"Infringing Material" is content which is held without a legitimate
rightsholder's permission.
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an existing operator
(other than the founders having an earlier personal online account with
someone or other).
So it's not always a case of an entrant getting started using someone
else's IP transit (and IP addressing), then bringing that in-house.
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slation above asks for the name and address, and in many
jurisdictions revealing the credit card number or bank account number
would be regarded as *more* intrusive, not less.
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In article , Roland Perry writes
>Attempts a bit like this have come unstuck in the UK. Search for
>"Davenport Lyons" and "ACS Law"
And this ruling (and fine) have appeared from the UK's privacy regulator
today (note especially that the fine would have been
the legal system.
Attempts a bit like this have come unstuck in the UK. Search for
"Davenport Lyons" and "ACS Law"
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In article , Robert
Lusby writes
Short of scrapping this cabinet
If you have no other use for it - sell on eBay! That's where my spare
cabinet went last year.
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rough
the door, rather than the complete item.
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5 AM
Subject: Re: IPv6 - a noobs prespective
With the recent allocation of the last existing IPv4 /8s (which now kind of
puts pressure on going v6), it would be wonderful if at the next couple of
NANOGs if there could be an IPv6 for dummies session or two :)
-Mike
On Wed, Feb 9, 2011 at 10:22 AM, Jack Bates wrote:
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rom IPv4 to IPv6
will involve more than the ISP doing some magic that's transparent to
the majority of users. And good luck returning a 3 year old PS/3 for a
refund on the basis it doesn't support IPv6.
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mostly expect 3G and 4G networks to be broken internet anyway. I was
more speaking in terms of land-line providers.
Apparently there are something like three times as many people with
mobile phones in the world, as with Internet access. And a lot of
network expansion is expected to be based o
ssary learning curve?
[Maybe I should write a book about it]
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. You should be asking
the other vendors for similar support.
And when my vendor is Sipura, or Sony[1], how does an individual small
enterprise attract their attention and get the features added?
[1] Quite by accident I have three net-connected items of theirs, a
PS/3, a TV and a mobile phone.
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o work out
the algorithm used, it flips every day or two].
So will the likes of Vodafone and t-mobile support the PI model
described above?
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k) side effect that I don't have to
renumber my network when I change upstream providers - whether that's
once every five years like I just did with my ADSL, or once every time
the new ADSL hiccups[1] now that I have a CPE with 3G failover.
[1] Seems to be about weekly, so far.
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" between ISPs with in effect
no user intervention (and no pre-emptive configuration). I'll let this
pass for now and see how the market/technology develops.
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e, then that would just fine, in the sense that the
users (in this case including the self-administrators of these small
enterprise networks) won't notice the difference.
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ing the RFC 1123
requirements.
One client is no longer maintained (but I am very attached to it). The
other is nailed inside a five-year-old VoIP box and I suspect they'll
say "buy a new one".
These are just my straw poll of what may be difficult for small
enterprises in a change to IPv6.
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sounds like a lot of work, but am I a rare kind
of user?
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provider and an automatic failover to 3G
(completely separate supplier).
Almost everything inside my network doesn't notice when it switches
over.
Now, if only I could get it to automatically revert to ADSL when it
reappears - I wouldn't have to worry so much about the 3G bill.
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;t it?
Dutch authorities have a slight advantage because ISPs have to send them
subscriber details every night. So (within the limitations of specific
anonymising techniques by users) they 'know where everyone lives'.
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y sure those comments were added after i
posted.
I'm not trying to criticise the chronology; however if this book doesn't
have the text of the cables, then it's worth people knowing that.
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ok contains commentary and analysis regarding
recent WikiLeaks disclosures, not the original material disclosed via
the WikiLeaks website."
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here before he left the
building, but if the interview was from a regional studio he'd be long
gone.
On the other hand, if the BBC got hold of him, they must have some
contact details to trace him.
ps I was surprised the expert claimed that Visa's service had been taken
down by DDOS, despite being Akamaised.
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of issues but after three years
of operation is now focussing on anti-social behaviour rather than
scams. But there's a quite a lot of material there about avoiding scams,
and advice on what to do if you've been caught.
The generic preventative advice is mainly aimed at teenagers.
D
01.com (1995)?
Dalmatians, not binary five.
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sn't registered until 1997 (a year after Nominet's birth).
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et Time x4" meme, which was indeed in
its heyday in 2001.
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last just over a year. And, of course, policy and law related to the
Internet gets out of date four times as fast, too.
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regardless of source, the quotation is a truism, an urban myth and
ultimately means very little.
Growth at LINX was extremely steady (being an aggregate of over a
hundred operators).
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90's), it was a mistaken memory captured in 2001.
I mentioned it simply as a fairly contemporary reference to the meme.
Having said that, doubling every 9 months was approximately the growth
that LINX was seeing at the time.
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good rule of thumb during the late 1990's was that traffic doubled every
100 days", and going into print with that shows it was an accepted meme
at the time.
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ke was quoted as saying this - see
p2: https://www.linx.net/files/hotlinx/hotlinx-3.pdf
Although there were two factors here as far as LINX itself was concerned
- growth in members as well as growth in traffic from each individual
member.
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ping countries.
And does "everyone" have access, if their home does?
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gh that it made sense to share. And it worked. The
bigger challenge was getting Internet to the house, not round the house.
Ten years later, both voice and data would probably have been better
done by wireless (DECT and wifi respectively).
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Despite these potential operational banana skins, it was still a product
that tipped me irrevocably into the world of Ethernet (having earlier
toyed with pale imitations).
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7;d break your network when you powered off the
attached PC.
That tale of woe doesn't really sound like it's the fault of backwards
compatibility. Didn't the operational status of the LAX immigration
department fall to zero for almost a whole day, once; as a result of a
rogue network card crashing the LAN?
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g into the LAN.
As icing on the cake, they also had a Centronics-port dongle to hook up
almost all laptops very easily, and in an emergency you could even use
it on a desktop.
Price was a major feature, but interoperability and backwards
compatibility were the tipping points.
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98% or more.
Don't forget it also said:
"this excludes messages already rejected by blacklisting and
greylisting ... and sent to non-existent email addresses within
the ripe.net domain"
and:
"Additionally, our statistics only take our primary MX system
into account (and not email sent from the secondary MX system to
the primary)."
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x27;s true that we would not
have expected to see a real one in the UK until much later.
There are at least two sources which date the PET to "Winter CES" and
"Jan 1977", but I agree that June CES is where production items would be
first shown; however by then schools were out and my project was
finished (I was studying to be maths teacher).
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in a school is now commercially available".
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bothered to apply to IEEE).
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-year half hour event.
This is a case where it makes *perfect* sense to offload emergency
notifications to another, larger system such as twitter,
That's my current view, too.
you can use posterus
It's going to be hard enough getting them to be comfortable with
Twitter.
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as been teached in college ever been a defining
standard for what is happening on the internet or what the trend in
computing is ?
It shouldn't be, but I'm guessing this is where much of the conservatism
is coming from.
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t appropriate because they didn't
teach it to me in college 20 years ago" and those who say "Web 2.0 isn't
appropriate because they didn't teach it to me in college 5 years ago".
Shouldn't we at least be giving it the benefit of the doubt?
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In article <4a50a3c9.3080...@airwire.ie>, Martin List-Petersen
writes
for those type of notifications, it's perfect, also because it's not
part of your own infrastructure.
From an operational resilience point of view, that's a very important
feature.
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ourse, they could be deliberately throttled, rather
than run on inherently low-bandwidth kit. Which raises the issue of
whether such throttling schemes should take account of short bursts.
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s out...
In your case, the community will know quickly, all from a couple of
people logging into twitter and sending a few messages. Sounds like a
simple, ideal solution given your budget constraints.
I hope so.
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ome to rely upon it.
[1] the present system seems to be those few students who can get
through to the school then SMS the news to their friends.
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en debates about whether it's possible to monetise Twitter.
Operationally, it's an issue if they fail financially, but I don't think
the investment in setting up an account is large enough to worry about.
Counter-intuitively, I've probably seen more subscription-based servic
orms. All the
cables are underground. Of course, losing power would be another excuse
to close the school :)
is there a backup means of getting to the Internet ?
A laptop with a 3g modem would suffice, or for Twitter someone with a
suitably configure mobile phone.
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ts how to operate Powerpoint (yes I know that's not
an Internet application), and installing filters to try to keep them off
YouTube during lessons.
But I'm beginning to think that finally maybe Twitter has the right
profile for this application.
Again, why limit yourself? Use all the tools available.
One step at a time :)
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#x27;t get the opportunity, as I left there twenty years
ago, and Paypal wasn't invented until about ten years ago.
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h the traffic. I don't believe they can justify paying
more for better web hosting, just to manage this once-a-year half hour
event.
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y accounts for 99% of the stuff they have on
their PCs.
So "not sufficiently mature" we can get away with as an excuse, but
"Made in America" isn't going to put many people off :)
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b2.0 like Facebook
and Bebo is how dangerous they are for kids. But I'm beginning to think
that finally maybe Twitter has the right profile for this application.
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has it become "respectable" yet?
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..@posterous.com
It's this richness which confuses the ordinary person. How are they to
know which bit of the scattergun approach is the right one to use? Or
whether "posting everywhere" has some hidden disadvantage.
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and
unplanned outages.
The question being, how often will they co-incide with the events I'm
trying to track?
fwiw, I've been using twitter for about three months now, and have never
encountered either kind of outage.
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ed - so telling everyone
is a bit of a waste.
So it seemed to me that a Tweet from the school would be an ideal
solution.
But a system like yours, if it could be divided up into a few tens of
thousands of SIGs (one for each school), is the kind of "more
traditional" solution I was thinking about.
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ing an emergency, isn't an option.
The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive
an SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in
one SMS).
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In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jay R. Ashworth
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes
The Domain Name System is not now, and never has been, away to *find*
things, anymore than 123 Elm St, Worcester MA is a way to *find* a
house.
What about "1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA" ?
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constitutes infringement upon the rights of some holder of a trademark
to some component of that domain name?
Several at this website, I recommend starting with the
"MARKSANDSPENCER.COM" case (as I remember it taking place).
http://www.domainhandbook.com/dd2.html
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am bucket are:
NOT sent by someone on an RBL
NOT sent to an unpublished and unused address
(eg [EMAIL PROTECTED])
etc.
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week there was a short talk aimed at
future tld applicants, describing what "did and didn't work" about the
sunrise periods of a selection of recent new tlds.
http://par.icann.org/en/node/116
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be thrown back in the pot).
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has been ongoing
for at least five years, I think I detect a number of people here
hastily building stables, debating what kind of door to attach, when the
horse is already several blocks away.]
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nd why they should believe your business case.
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