Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-12-05 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Nov 27, 2007 8:08 PM, Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Several new projects have started around the world to achieve those goals. ITU anti-botnet initiative http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/cybersecurity/projects/botnet.html I wrote this one. And there are a few things in there that

RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-28 Thread michael.dillon
On a more practical/technical level, I'm interested in how French ISPs that worked on the plan to implement it on their networks? http://www.culture.gouv.fr/culture/actualites/conferen/albanel/rapportol ivennes231107.pdf I couldn't get a good copy from that URL but I did manage to get one

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-28 Thread Sean Donelan
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Rich Kulawiec wrote: In my view, it's the responsibility of everyone on the net to do whatever they can to squelch the first. But they have no obligations at all when it comes to the second -- that way lies the slippery slope of content policing and censorship. The

Re: [admin] RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-28 Thread Lamar Owen
On Tuesday 27 November 2007, Alex Pilosov wrote: I'd like to draw attention to nanog AUP, particularly #6: Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are prohibited. While the regulation of internet by filtering bad traffic is clearly political and/or legal, I do think the

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure.

RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Fred Reimer
No offense, but I think this is an overly political topic, and we just saw that politics are not supposed to be discussed. There is a huge political debate on what ISP's should and should not be doing to traffic that flows through their systems. There are other groups, like NNsquad, where these

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:38:40 EST, Sean Donelan said: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure. What's the networking

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:03:55 EST, Jared Mauch said: Within the next 2 major software releases (Microsoft OS) they're going to by default require signed binaries. This will be the only viable solution to the malware threat. Other operating systems may follow. (This was a WAG, based on

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 - -- Sean Donelan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Jared Mauch
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 10:18:47AM -0500, Fred Reimer wrote: No offense, but I think this is an overly political topic, and we just saw that politics are not supposed to be discussed. There is a huge political debate on what ISP's should and should not be doing to traffic that flows through

RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Frank Bulk
Rather than go after distilled water via reverse osmosis, I think a carbon filter would be a good place to start. Frank -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Sean Donelan Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 8:39 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject:

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Roland Dobbins
On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: Other operating systems may follow. (This was a WAG, based on gut feeling). Nokia by default require app installed on the phones to be signed, though one can disable this functionality (and in fact must, in order to run many of the

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread ww
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure. Quoting Wu

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Nov 27, 2007 at 09:38:40AM -0500, Sean Donelan wrote: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure. Yes -- well,

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Joel Jaeggli
Roland Dobbins wrote: On Nov 27, 2007, at 7:03 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: Other operating systems may follow. (This was a WAG, based on gut feeling). Nokia by default require app installed on the phones to be signed, though one can disable this functionality (and in fact must, in order

RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Jerry Pasker
But, if it's not viewed as political then... Your analogy is flawed, because the Internet is not a pipe system and ISP's are not your local water utility. And the internet is not a big truck! It'sIt's a series of tubes! Sorry, I couldn't resist... with all these things clogging all

[admin] RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Alex Pilosov
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007, Jerry Pasker wrote: But, if it's not viewed as political then... Your analogy is flawed, because the Internet is not a pipe system and ISP's are not your local water utility. And the internet is not a big truck! It'sIt's a series of tubes! Sorry, I

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Barry Shein
On November 27, 2007 at 09:38 [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Sean Donelan) wrote: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and

Re: [admin] RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Randy Bush
personal opinion the position that politics, culture, and society have no place in internet operations is beyond even an ostrich. they bloody *drive* the car. while we're at it, why not eliminate finances too? sheesh! randy

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Florian Weimer
* Jared Mauch: Within the next 2 major software releases (Microsoft OS) they're going to by default require signed binaries. This will be the only viable solution to the malware threat. Other operating systems may follow. (This was a WAG, based on gut feeling). The code signing CAs

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread John Payne
On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Florian Weimer wrote: * Jared Mauch: Within the next 2 major software releases (Microsoft OS) they're going to by default require signed binaries. This will be the only viable solution to the malware threat. Other operating systems may follow.

RE: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Fred Reimer
- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of John Payne Sent: Tuesday, November 27, 2007 4:32 PM To: Florian Weimer Cc: Jared Mauch; Sean Donelan; nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet On Nov 27, 2007, at 4:04 PM, Florian Weimer

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 22:04:23 +0100, Florian Weimer said: There's also the issue that you can't reliably tell data (which, presumably, does not need to be signed) from code. And active content is what happens when you *intentionally* blur the data/ code distinction. Unfortunately, it's (a)

Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet

2007-11-27 Thread Deepak Jain
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:38:40 EST, Sean Donelan said: Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution, and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure.