RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread michael.dillon
(email string deleted...) I'm deeply saddened that the very folks who work so hard to run the Internet are publicly speculating that DHS wants to take over the 'net. Please provide some evidence of your assertion. I have seen no evidence that the very folks who work so hard to run the

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Sean Donelan
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote: I think the strawman proposals so far were something like: 1) iana has 'root' ca-cert 2) iana signs down certs for RIR's 3) RIR's sign down certs for LIR's 4) LIR's sign down certs for 'users' (where 'users' is probably address-space users, like

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Jeroen Massar
Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote: I think the strawman proposals so far were something like: 1) iana has 'root' ca-cert 2) iana signs down certs for RIR's 3) RIR's sign down certs for LIR's 4) LIR's sign down certs for 'users' (where 'users' is probably

RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus H. Sachs
Please provide some evidence of your assertion. I have seen no evidence that the very folks who work so hard to run the Internet are making any speculations at all about the DHS. Scroll backwards through the emails to the first one in this modified thread (RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity

RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread michael.dillon
Please provide some evidence of your assertion. I have seen no evidence that the very folks who work so hard to run the Internet are making any speculations at all about the DHS. Scroll backwards through the emails to the first one in this modified thread (RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS

RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus H. Sachs
NANOG is just a mailing list and the people who are on it are just people having a chat. Whew. That's refreshing good news. And here I thought that this was a place to discuss operational issues. OK, back to the real world and thanks for the chat. Marc

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread J. Oquendo
Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)) and read the first few comments that came in. Marc Getting back to the original articles here is where my notions and the notions of many others comes from: // END QUOTE // The US Department of Homeland Security (DHS), which was created after

RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus H. Sachs
J. Oquendo wrote: http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/87655 That is the article that started a very unfortunate chain of events. The reporter got all of the facts wrong, then people who I thought had some clue jumped into the mess and only made it worse.

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread J. Oquendo
Alrighty... Since you pointed out this article I already read. // QUOTE // This is the U.S. government stepping forward and showing leadership, Douglas Maughan, an official with the Department of Homeland Security's Science and Technology Directorate, told United Press International. // END

RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Marcus H. Sachs
to continuing this in person over a beer or other libation at some future gathering. Marc -Original Message- From: J. Oquendo [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, April 24, 2007 9:58 AM To: Marcus H. Sachs Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic) Alrighty

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Leigh Porter
9:58 AM To: Marcus H. Sachs Cc: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic) Alrighty... Since you pointed out this article I already read. // QUOTE // This is the U.S. government stepping forward and showing leadership, Douglas Maughan, an official with the Department

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007, Sean Donelan wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Chris L. Morrow wrote: I think the strawman proposals so far were something like: 1) iana has 'root' ca-cert 2) iana signs down certs for RIR's 3) RIR's sign down certs for LIR's 4) LIR's sign down certs for 'users'

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 24 Apr 2007 12:34:25 BST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Did that. The first three are from J. Oquendo, Valdis Kletnieks and Hey - I stayed out of the signed-BGP and signed-DNS lunacy. The only thing *I* commented on was the reported leakage of 10 to 20 terabytes of data. And I think we can

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-24 Thread Scott Weeks
-Marcus H. Sachs wrote: Mr. Oquendo (I presume Mr. but if it's Ms. please accept my apologies...), it appears that there is little common ground between you and me. So, rather than stringing this out for the next several days and boring everybody else to tears, I

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread David Lemon
are not assigned yet. Following are some... 99.245.135.129 99.246.224.1 99.244.192.1 -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Frank Bulk Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 2:14 PM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: IP Block 99/8 Please provide a pingable IP

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 4/23/07, David Lemon [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: still in dire need of assistance from this list as we still have many complaints from residential customers that cannot reach certain sites. Naming those sites / ASs would probably have some effect. And there's the peeringdb / inoc-dba to

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread James Blessing
Shai Balasingham wrote: We recently started to assign these blocks. So all the ranges are not assigned yet. Following are some... 99.245.135.129 99.246.224.1 99.244.192.1 All reachable from here (as8468) J -- COO Entanet International T: 0870 770 9580 W: http://www.enta.net/ L:

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread Owen DeLong
All reachable from the ARIN meeting. Owen On Apr 23, 2007, at 7:46 AM, James Blessing wrote: Shai Balasingham wrote: We recently started to assign these blocks. So all the ranges are not assigned yet. Following are some... 99.245.135.129 99.246.224.1 99.244.192.1 All reachable from here

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread michael.dillon
As you can see we do indeed own these blocks: Nope, you do NOT own these blocks: OrgName:Rogers Cable Communications Inc. OrgID: RCC-99 Address:One Mount Pleasant City: Toronto StateProv: ON PostalCode: M4Y-2Y5 Country:CA NetRange: 99.224.0.0 - 99.253.159.255 CIDR:

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread David Lemon
. Frasnelli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 11:02 AM To: David Lemon Subject: RE: IP Block 99/8 David, Appears to be correct in our configurations and it passes my traceroute inside AS701 test. Let me know if the problem appears to be with our public networks (701/702/703

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread John Payne
On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:28 PM, David Lemon wrote: www.homedepot.ca Akaimai It's Akamai, and I'm contacting you off-list

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-23 Thread John Payne
On Apr 23, 2007, at 2:19 PM, John Payne wrote: On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:28 PM, David Lemon wrote: www.homedepot.ca Akaimai It's Akamai, and I'm contacting you off-list Just for clarification (as I've already been ping'd off list)... I was merely correcting the typo in the OPs post :p

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread J. Oquendo
Marcus H. Sachs wrote: If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols for the Routing Infrastructure initiative (http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/spri.html). Due to budget cuts this program is on

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007 14:40:31 EDT, J. Oquendo said: More recently, Major General William Lord told Government Computer News in August 2006 that China has downloaded 10 to 20 terabytes of data from DoDÂ’s main network, NIPRNet. Hello, Chinanet? Some guys over in 99/8 want to know how to get

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Kradorex Xeron
On Monday 23 April 2007 14:40, J. Oquendo wrote: Marcus H. Sachs wrote: If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols for the Routing Infrastructure initiative

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 23, 2007, at 4:36 PM, Kradorex Xeron wrote: On Monday 23 April 2007 14:40, J. Oquendo wrote: Marcus H. Sachs wrote: If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols for the

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: ...what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign IP space allocations and/or annoucements? The idea in-and-of-itself doesn't sound wholly unreasonable. (I am not advocating this, just saying the idea

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Mike Tancsa
At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be in charge of the Internet any more than the next person. And good thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not withstanding. But what has that got to do with

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Apr 23, 2007, at 5:04 PM, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be in charge of the Internet any more than the next person. And good thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread J. Oquendo
Bill Woodcock wrote: On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: ...what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign IP space allocations and/or annoucements? The idea in-and-of-itself doesn't sound wholly unreasonable. (I am not advocating this, just

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Mike Tancsa wrote: At 04:52 PM 4/23/2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote: I do not want any particular gov't (US or otherwise) to be in charge of the Internet any more than the next person. And good thing too, because it simply cannot happen, political pipe-dreams not

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Jerry Dixon
of government. My .02 Jerry - Original Message - From: J. Oquendo [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Woodcock [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: Patrick W. Gilmore [EMAIL PROTECTED]; nanog@merit.edu Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:04 PM Subject: Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic) Bill Woodcock wrote

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Sandy Murphy
Which report did you read... http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/dept_of_homelan.html http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/04/12/analysis_owning_the_keys_to_th e_internet/ http://www.tiawood.com/2007/homeland-security-grabs-for-nets-master-keys/ All of which were about

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Sandy Murphy
The question is who would do the signing and revocations. Whoever does that would indeed have a great amount of control over the internet. A single government agency should not have that sort of power to make a (for lack of better term), no surf list of IP space... You might try taking a

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:23:03PM -0400, Sandy Murphy wrote: You might try taking a look at the various presentations at NANOG/RIPE/ARIN/ APNIC/APRICOT about the whole idea. Central point: the entity that gives you a suballocation of its own address space signs something that says you now

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:23:03PM -0400, Sandy Murphy wrote: You might try taking a look at the various presentations at NANOG/RIPE/ARIN/APNIC/APRICOT about the whole idea. Central point: the entity that gives you a suballocation of its own address space signs

RE: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Marcus H. Sachs
(email string deleted...) I'm deeply saddened that the very folks who work so hard to run the Internet are publicly speculating that DHS wants to take over the 'net. If that's the message that DHS is sending, then we need to go back to the drawing boards and re-write the message. Can somebody

Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

2007-04-23 Thread Chris L. Morrow
On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 05:23:03PM -0400, Sandy Murphy wrote: You might try taking a look at the various presentations at NANOG/RIPE/ARIN/APNIC/APRICOT about the whole idea. Central point: the entity that gives

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-21 Thread Sean Donelan
On Fri, 20 Apr 2007, Marcus H. Sachs wrote: If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols for the Routing Infrastructure initiative (http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/spri.html). Due to budget

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-20 Thread Frank Bulk
Please provide a pingable IP address on each block so that we can check. Thanks, Frank -Original Message- Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 1:09 PM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: IP Block 99/8 Hi, I am Shai from Rogers Cable Inc. ISP in Canada. We have IP block 99.x.x.x assigned to our

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-20 Thread Shai Balasingham
To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: RE: IP Block 99/8 Please provide a pingable IP address on each block so that we can check. Thanks, Frank -Original Message- Sent: Friday, April 20, 2007 1:09 PM To: 'nanog@merit.edu' Subject: IP Block 99/8 Hi, I am Shai from Rogers Cable Inc. ISP in Canada. We

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-20 Thread bmanning
On Fri, Apr 20, 2007 at 01:54:37PM -0400, Shai Balasingham wrote: Hi, I am Shai from Rogers Cable Inc. ISP in Canada. We own the following blocks: 99.224.0.0/12 99.240.0.0/13 99.248.0.0/14 99.252.0.0/16 99.253.128.0/19 Shai. Own? ARIN gave you title? --bill

RE: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-20 Thread Marcus H. Sachs
If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. Most of you know that DHS was pushing the Secure Protocols for the Routing Infrastructure initiative (http://www.cyber.st.dhs.gov/spri.html). Due to budget cuts this program is on the shelf for now.

Re: IP Block 99/8

2007-04-20 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 20-apr-2007, at 21:32, Marcus H. Sachs wrote: If we had clean registries and signed/verifiable advertisements this would not be an issue. I wouldn't count on that. If such a mechanism would become available (which isn't completely unthinkable, see http://www.bgpexpert.com/