Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-08 Thread William Astle
wg.org/ has the membership application and other info. The $4000/year minimum membership fee is a non-starter for small organizations who are already strapped for operating cash as it is. This is probably where the perception comes from. -- William Astle l...@l-w.ca

Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation

2009-09-08 Thread William Astle
anog.org Sent: Tue Sep 08 17:17:58 2009 Subject: Re: Repeated Blacklisting / IP reputation ISPs can be invited and there are specific meetings for them (closed to other members). There're also whitepapers for ISP (and others). But I agree, hoping ALL the ISPs join MAAWG or even hear about

Re: "Permanent" DST

2022-03-15 Thread William Astle
On 2022-03-15 14:37, Eric Tykwinski wrote: What I don’t understand, is why change time, just change working hours. I’m all for giving up the time change, but the standard should probably still be UTC offset. If you work 9-5, change it to 10-6.  Every company can post working hours on their we

Re: IPv6 deployment excuses

2016-07-02 Thread William Astle
There's one other major issue faced by stub networks which I have encountered at $DAYJOB: - My upstream(s) refuse(s) to support IPv6 This *is* a deal breaker. The pat response of "get new upstreams" is not helpful and shows the distinct bias among this community to the large players who actua

Clueful contact at Microsoft needed

2017-05-08 Thread William Astle
Apologies if this is off topic for NANOG. I need to contact someone at Microsoft who can correct problems with Microsoft accounts. I've been trying unsuccessfully to disavow a Microsoft account for some time. Note this an account someone has managed to associate with one of my email addresses.

Re: Clueful contact at Microsoft needed

2017-05-10 Thread William Astle
th to resolution. Best regards, Christian -Original Message- From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of William Astle Sent: Monday, May 8, 2017 11:00 AM To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Clueful contact at Microsoft needed Apologies if this is off topic for NANOG. I need to co

Re: Canada and IPv6

2014-06-19 Thread William Astle
On 14-06-18 06:16 PM, Sadiq Saif wrote: On 6/18/2014 14:25, Lee Howard wrote: Canada is way behind, just 0.4% deployment. Any Canadian ISP folk in here want to shine a light on this dearth of residential IPv6 connectivity? For that matter, how about on the other side of the equation. Why is

Re: Color vision for network techs

2012-08-31 Thread William Astle
On 12-08-31 08:15 AM, Berry Mobley wrote: Hello, Do any of you do any color vision screening in your interview process? How do those of you with color vision impairments compensate? I'd never considered this until I was in one of our facilities with my son (who has limited color vision) and we h

Re: Netsol AAAA glue

2012-07-14 Thread William Astle
On 12-07-14 09:43 AM, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: On Sat, 14 Jul 2012 10:14:08 -0400, Andrew Sullivan said: This isn't true in ICANN-contracted registries. The maximum period is 10 years, absolutely, so if you have 10 years to go and you pay for a transfer you lose the additional year's paym

IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread William Astle
There has been much talk about IPv6 lately, and for good reason. Whatever your opinion on whether IPv6 is a good solution to IPv4 address exhaustion, it's the only solution we have. Yet deployment, at least in North America, has been ridiculously slow. I have just been informed by a sales rep for

Re: IPv6 foot-dragging

2011-05-11 Thread William Astle
On 2011-05-11 09:10, Mike Tancsa wrote: > On 5/11/2011 11:03 AM, ja...@jamesstewartsmith.com wrote: >> I have had similar problems with our providers, and these are tier 1 >> companies that should have already been full deployed. These are also some >> of the more expensive providers on a per Mb

Re: ARIN just subdivided their last /17, /18, /19, /20, /21 and /22. Down to only /23s and /24s now. : ipv6

2015-06-26 Thread William Astle
On 15-06-26 09:47 PM, tqr2813d376cjozqa...@tutanota.com wrote: 27. Jun 2015 03:06 by j...@baylink.com: And that's the ballgame. http://www.reddit.com/r/ipv6/comments/3b5p3i/arin_just_subdivided_their_last_1718192021_and_22 And here's to another eternity of shitty ISPs not implementing IPv6

Re: ARIN Region IPv4 Free Pool Reaches Zero

2015-09-24 Thread William Astle
On 2015-09-24 10:49, Dovid Bender wrote: The issue now is convincing clients that they need it. The other issue is many software vendors still don't support it. Regards, Dovid Actually, the issue now is convincing certain big providers to actually make IPv6 service available to their custom