Re: OT- need a new GSM provider

2004-09-04 Thread Bill Stewart
ATT spun off ATT Wireless a couple of years ago, and the spinoff is renting the brand name and the Death Star logo, and probably buys a bunch of network and telco service from ATT but is otherwise unconnected. As a stockholder of the spinoff company, I'm disappointed though not surprised that

RE: Senator Diane Feinstein Wants to know about the Benefits of P2P

2004-09-04 Thread Michel Py
Michel Py wrote: In other words: as of today a large part of the bandwidth is allocated to building everyone's collection of files. This might gradually change to become bandwidth being used only for incremental updates as huge local file libraries become common place. Peter Galbavy

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Rodney Joffe [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes For those who care, based on responses and some analysis, it appears that very few networks do follow the ripe-229 recommendations regarding golden networks, including, oddly enough, parts of RIPE itself. Did you mean parts of

RE: Best Practices for Enterprise networks

2004-09-04 Thread Måns Nilsson
--On söndag 29 augusti 2004 17.42 -0700 Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Tracy Smith wrote: Specifically, to NAT or not to NAT? This is not much of an issue anymore. If you receive IP addresses from your ISP, not natting would be foolish. No. Renumbering is easy and fun, not to

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Rodney Joffe
Roland Perry wrote: Did you mean parts of RIPE-NCC? Sorry to be so pedantic, but this thread started off with a mild diversion caused by confusion between RIPE and RIPE-NCC. You're right - it is a little confusing. According to their joined about pages, RIPE-NCC provides the administrative

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Rodney Joffe wrote: On Sep 3, 2004, at 10:46 AM, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: Given Network A, which has golden network content behind it as described by the RIPE paper (root and tld data), if the network has some combination of events that result in all of their

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Alex Bligh
--On 02 September 2004 16:09 -0700 John Bender [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This would not be as problematic if dampening could be applied to a path rather than a prefix, since an alternate could then be selected. But since this would require modifications to core aspects of BGP (and additional

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Sat, 4 Sep 2004, Alex Bligh wrote: if in a heavily plural anycast domain prefix route changes are more common than normal routes (albeit without - dampening aside - affecting reachability), does this mean route dampening disproportionately harms such routes? This

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread Petri Helenius
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Fri, 3 Sep 2004, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: the logic seems rather irrefutable: - as a rule, shorter prefixes are more important and/or more stable than long ones - so we dampen long prefixes more aggressively - the root DNS servers tend to live in

Re: RIPE Golden Networks Document ID - 229/210/178

2004-09-04 Thread David Barak
--- Petri Helenius [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Pay me to treat your prefixes more nicely? 1/2 :-) Isn't that the difference between transit and peering? Does anyone dampen people who are paying them? = David Barak -fully RFC 1925 compliant-