Re: Geoip lookup

2013-05-24 Thread Tom Vest
On May 24, 2013, at 3:27 AM, Paul Kelly :: Blacknight wrote: >>> >>> Just because I have operations in one region does not preclude me >> from having operations >>> in other regions. YMMV of course. >>> >>> /bill >> >> That was exactly my point, Bill... If you have operations in RIPE

Re: Possibly a little OT, has spam in theme

2012-12-09 Thread Tom Vest
Actually it's in Japanese. Nifty is one of the oldest (and at one time, largest) access services in Japan. It's owned by owned by Fujitsu. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nifty_Corporation http://www.nifty.co.jp/english/ From here it looks like it's originated by AS2510, which is also Fujistsu. So

Re: L3 announces new peering policy

2011-10-13 Thread Tom Vest
Note the distinction in the new peering relationship requirement -- only direct adjacencies with other transit-providing ASes count. ...or did that change happen some time ago and I'm just noticing it now (?) TV On Oct 13, 2011, at 2:13 PM, Scott Weeks wrote: > --- a...@latency.net wrote: > F

Re: "general badness" AS-based reputation system

2011-09-26 Thread Tom Vest
On Sep 26, 2011, at 1:11 AM, Manish Karir wrote: > > On Sep 25, 2011, at 11:31 PM, Tom Vest wrote: > >> >> On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Manish Karir wrote: >> >>> On Sep 25, 2011, at 6:31 PM, nanog-requ...@nanog.org wrote: >>> >>>&

Re: "general badness" AS-based reputation system

2011-09-25 Thread Tom Vest
On Sep 25, 2011, at 9:23 PM, Manish Karir wrote: > On Sep 25, 2011, at 6:31 PM, nanog-requ...@nanog.org wrote: > >> Message: 9 >> Date: Sun, 25 Sep 2011 18:37:17 +0300 >> From: Gadi Evron >> To: nanog@nanog.org >> Subject: "general badness" AS-based reputation system >> Message-ID: <4e7f4aad.80

Re: Expanding into China (data center info required)

2011-08-04 Thread Tom Vest
Hi Pascal, A friendly fyi from a former China and HK surveyor and colocator: Topologically, China and Hong Kong are not the same place at all; in fact for some/many requirement-site pairings, Hong Kong may not not even be the closest place to China. I don't think it's possible to be both suff

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-11 Thread Tom Vest
On Mar 11, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Randy Bush wrote: >> I'm sorry, but some people are spending too much time denying >> history. IPv6 has been largely ready for YEARS. Less than five years ago >> a lot of engineers were declaring IPv6 dead and telling people that >> double and triple NAT was the way o

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Tom Vest
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > >> >> On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: >> >>> Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying >>> to allocate a large >>> pool of addresses? >>

Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

2008-07-28 Thread Tom Vest
Sort of makes one wonder how the US came to have ubiquitous roads, or power, or water distribution... TV On Jul 28, 2008, at 1:06 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Lets put aside for a moment the conspiracy theories of government intervention and the telcos evil doing, IMHO there is a simple reason wh