> I'd put good money on James being correct, if you receive a notice, you will
> know whats needed or will be told - but you won't be able to tell anyone
You can, of course, tell some people. Your lawyer, for example, who may or may
not wonder about the compatibility of the notice you may or ma
> • In the UK, government policy is to fund 100% of the reasonable costs
> incurred by CSPs in complying with communications data retention notices.
> This means that CSPs are not financially disadvantaged by compliance and are
> not incentivised to pursue lowest cost solutions. This arra
Aled, I am not aware of such a guide, but because I have to do with numerous
(very) small providers, I have been fielding questions about just this. We are
looking at putting together such a guide with help from people specialising in
internet law at the law school. We would welcome help from ot
> The question is, do the new powers also apply to traffic that transits
> through the UK? Several of my providers out of Ireland have PoPs in
> London that are part of the path.
My reading is that any network operator can be ordered to do pretty
much anything (even, as written, things that might
> Well we could but paying ~40quid/Mb/s (vs 0.50quid for global transit) for
> the backhaul
> makes it a bit useless so unless TT/others offer it wholesale with some
> sensibly priced
> backhaul I can't see us selling any.
Indeed. If I had such a house and wanted fibre to it using BT services,
> anything other than a dotted quad is treated like a hostname.
So, use a hostname?
... does anyone know of such a beast?
-w
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Synthsys Centre for Mammalian Synthetic Biology : University of Edinburgh
Robert McKay writes:
> their configuration is probably fine for a small office with a single
> network.
Well, no, not really. If it is a small office with a single network,
there is no reason to give it a /48, it just needs a /64. And there is
nno reason that I can think of to *ever* configure
Brian Candler writes:
> I have now dealt with two UK providers who, when asked to add IPv6 to a
> business connection, have insisted on configuring a flat /48 on the CPE
> LAN port.
>
> ...
>
> It seems broken by design to me. Am I right, or is this considered a
> reasonable way to interconne
dopt such a design. As it is, where we take
full tables it is BIRD on FreeBSD which is rock solid.
Cheers,
-w
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. And any semi-competent criminal
will very quickly figure out what safe end to end encryption
software to use.
There's lots more. But to summarise, the law is buggy, even if it
weren't it wouldn't work and it would be very expensive both in terms
of operational cost and s
On Mon, 14 Sep 2015 11:12:29 +0100, Paul Mansfield
said:
> how would you ensure that the message, if in HTML, didn't have
> some sort of tracking URL/beacon in it which could allow the
> rights holder to discover your customer's IP and thus go on a
> fishing trip?
Please don't g
so that hopefully they can try to not do things that create
work for me.
Under no circumstances short of a (local) court order would I ever
give any information to the media companies.
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to be worth it...
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On Sun, 14 Jun 2015 07:40:06 +, Ryan Finnesey said:
> I apologize for what may be a very basic question but within the
> UK in there something that is similar to a US CLEC?
loosely, "one who unbundles bt exchanges"
uration is all done by editing a file, but I'd be more
> than happy to offer advice and assistance if need be.
I second this. BIRD on (appropriately tuned) FreeBSD is rock
solid, we've been doing this for several years.
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On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:32:01 +, "Neil J. McRae" said:
> How are you engaged in this project? Are they not going to
> tender it?
I should have been clearer about this. I'm not directly involved in
any way. I'm not bidding, and I don't work for the council. My only
vested interest is a
On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 12:23:26 +, Zoe O'Connell
said:
> Unless you have been served with a notice, you are under no
> direct legal obligation to keep any data.
Yes, but here we are dealing with civil servants who will perversely
want to take on as many obligations as possible to ward
Does anyone have some good pointers about what is exactly required of
a service providing (presumanly "free" for some values of free like
Aberdeen is doing and Edinburgh is planning) public Wifi? And how the
minimum standard can be met while avoiding intrusiveness?
How does this interact operation
On 05/09/14 17:15, Neil J. McRae wrote:
I think we are stuck in the time warp of 5 years ago. Its simple to
> make CGN scale - the question is whether you want to or not
I don't know about you, but I want the Internet to be a fundamentally
asymmetric place where consumers know their place and a
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> "The NCA is today urging members of the public to protect themselves
> against powerful malicious software (malware), which may be costing UK
> computer users millions of pounds.
I guess this is a good time to plug the Reset the Net campaign
On Fri, 17 May 2013 18:45:23 +, "Neil J. McRae" said:
> With a phone number or a postcode.
In many of the areas where the last mile is done with wireless (the
West coast of Scotland for example) this is insufficiently granular.
That said, in many of these areas community networking proj
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