RE: Last Call: draft-george-travel-faq-03.txt (IETF meeting attendees' Frequently Asked (travel) Questions) to Informational RFC

2012-02-13 Thread George, Wes
From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of SM In Section 1: more efficiently than waiting until someone sends an email to the xxattend...@ietf.org list in the days leading up to the meeting. The XX is ambiguous. [WEG] Well, it was intended to be generic

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Arturo Servin
On 10 Feb 2012, at 22:12, Chris Grundemann wrote: Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the service, right? My bet is that no one is willing to drop the billions of dollars required -

Re: Gen-ART LC Review of draft-ietf-dhc-forcerenew-nonce-03

2012-02-13 Thread Ted Lemon
[RM] The intention is to use this method only for environments with native security mechanisms, such as the Broadband Access network. You are right it is not clearly said in the document I can add the following sentence at the end of the introduction in order to clarify this point: This

Re: Last Call:

2012-02-13 Thread Martin Rex
John C Klensin wrote: Arturo Servin wrote: Chris Grundemann wrote: Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the service, right? ... if they were, we could just sign everyone up for IPv6

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the service, right? Lots of CPE is actually owned by the customers, not the ISPs. E.g. in our

CGNs and shared space allocations (was: Re: Last Call:)

2012-02-13 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, February 13, 2012 17:11 +0100 Martin Rex m...@sap.com wrote: John C Klensin wrote: Arturo Servin wrote: Chris Grundemann wrote: Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the

RE: Last Call: draft-george-travel-faq-03.txt (IETF meeting attendees' Frequently Asked (travel) Questions) to Informational RFC

2012-02-13 Thread SM
Hi, At 07:22 13-02-2012, George, Wes wrote: [WEG] Well, it was intended to be generic (a variable to represent multiple numbers). Are you saying ambiguous as in this intent is unclear, use a different method to represent this generically or you should use a specific number as an example, e.g.

RE: Last Call: draft-george-travel-faq-03.txt (IETF meeting attendees' Frequently Asked (travel) Questions) to Informational RFC

2012-02-13 Thread Ole Jacobsen
Wes, As an additional example of what can be done and has been done you might want to point to http://hiroshima-info.info which is an example of a volunteer-contributed website (for IETF 76) which gives travel info from (I must admit) a geek perspective and from someone who has attended a lot

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-14 05:51, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the service, right? Lots of CPE is actually owned

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/12/2012 13:34, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org there _is_ a cost, the cost of not being able to allocate unique address space when there is a more legitimate need than the proposed wasting of an entire /10 to please those who did not do

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us If the RIRs do not deny these requests there is likely to be a revolt. On what grounds? The ISPs will come along and say 'I have X new customers, please give me more space for them'. The former being true, on what ground can the RIRs refuse (modulo

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote: If an ISP can't use a shared block, they'll go ask their RIR for a block - and given that they demonstrably have the need (lots of customers), they will get it. Multiply than by N providers. If the RIRs do not deny these requests there is

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt

2012-02-13 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2012-02-14 05:51, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, who do you suggest will? I suggest the ISPs, they are charging for the service, right?

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/13/2012 12:45, David Conrad wrote: On Feb 13, 2012, at 12:34 PM, Doug Barton wrote: If an ISP can't use a shared block, they'll go ask their RIR for a block - and given that they demonstrably have the need (lots of customers), they will get it. Multiply than by N providers. If the

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Roger Jørgensen
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 9:34 PM, Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us wrote: On 02/12/2012 13:34, Noel Chiappa wrote:     From: Nilsson mansa...@besserwisser.org     there _is_ a cost, the cost of not being able to allocate unique     address space when there is a more legitimate need than the

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us I haven't kept up to date on all of the RIRs' policies for granting requests, but I don't recall seeing give me a huge block so that I can do CGN as one of the established criteria. An ISP needs a block of size X for CGN only if it has X

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt

2012-02-13 Thread Masataka Ohta
Martin Rex wrote: The problem of ISP not newly shipping CPE that is not IPv6 capable needs to be addressed by regulatory power (legistation), That's how OSI failed. rather than by ignorance of the part of the IETF. So will be IPv6 by IETF as a regulatory power to prohibit address space

TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv4-bulk-leasequery

2012-02-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, I've reviewed this document as part of the transport area directorate's ongoing effort to review key IETF documents. These comments were written primarily for the transport area directors, but are copied to the document's authors for their information and to allow them to address

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 201202132046.q1dkk1hn020...@fs4113.wdf.sap.corp, Martin Rex writes : Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2012-02-14 05:51, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com Are you volunteering to buy everyone on earth a new CPE? If not, w ho do

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt

2012-02-13 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 201202132046.q1dkk1hn020...@fs4113.wdf.sap.corp, Martin Rex writes : Brian E Carpenter wrote: On 2012-02-14 05:51, Noel Chiappa wrote:     From: Arturo Servin arturo.ser...@gmail.com     Are you

Re: TSVDIR review of draft-ietf-dhc-dhcpv4-bulk-leasequery

2012-02-13 Thread Joe Touch
Hi, all, One additional transport suggestion: - it would be useful to include recommended configurations for TCP connections. Given these are multi-byte request/response exchanges, Nagle should be disabled, e.g. Joe On 2/13/2012 2:00 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Hi, all, I've reviewed this

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Måns Nilsson
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 03:42:58PM -0500, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us If the RIRs do not deny these requests there is likely to be a revolt. On what grounds? The ISPs will come along and say 'I have X new customers, please give me more space for

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread SM
Hi Noel, At 12:42 13-02-2012, Noel Chiappa wrote: On what grounds? The ISPs will come along and say 'I have X new customers, please give me more space for them'. The former being true, on what ground can the RIRs refuse (modulo cases like RIPE)? If you have X new customers and you ask a RIR to

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Doug Barton
On 02/13/2012 13:46, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: Doug Barton do...@dougbarton.us I haven't kept up to date on all of the RIRs' policies for granting requests, but I don't recall seeing give me a huge block so that I can do CGN as one of the established criteria. An ISP

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread David Conrad
Mans, On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote: To sum things up, we are at the stage where a /10 is a laughable proposition. Other than APNIC, I don't think this is correct. Perhaps folks from the RIRs can confirm. It is either 10/8 or squat. No other alternatives exist. I'd

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Måns Nilsson
On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 02:36:34PM -0800, David Conrad wrote: Mans, On Feb 13, 2012, at 2:17 PM, Måns Nilsson wrote: To sum things up, we are at the stage where a /10 is a laughable proposition. Other than APNIC, I don't think this is correct. Perhaps folks from the RIRs can

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt

2012-02-13 Thread Mark Andrews
In message CAD6AjGS1SQz9ns0epA+ysiwHO4EG=xzhh-xzasvn_vxapcw...@mail.gmail.com , Cameron Byrne writes: On Mon, Feb 13, 2012 at 2:06 PM, Mark Andrews ma...@isc.org wrote: In message 201202132046.q1dkk1hn020...@fs4113.wdf.sap.corp, Martin Rex = writes : Brian E Carpenter wrote: On

Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Martin Rex wrote: ... It was the IETFs very own decision to build IPv6 in a fashion that it is not transparently backwards compatible with IPv4. If the is anyone to blame for the current situation, than it is the IETF, not the consumers or the ISPs (except for those folks at ISPs who

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 2/13/2012 4:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: People say this from time to time, but it's a complete myth. well, not completely... IPv4 provides no mechanism whatever for addresses greater than 32 bits. Therefore, mathematically, there is no possible design for an IP with bigger

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-14 13:32, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 2/13/2012 4:17 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: People say this from time to time, but it's a complete myth. well, not completely... IPv4 provides no mechanism whatever for addresses greater than 32 bits. Therefore, mathematically, there is no

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 2/13/2012 4:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: There were very specific reasons why this was not done. Is there a useful citation that covers this strategic decision? Given that that decision was an essential part of what caused a roughly 15 year delay, it would be helpful to have it

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Randy Bush
IPv4 provides no mechanism whatever for addresses greater than 32 bits. Therefore, mathematically, there is no possible design for an IP with bigger addresses that is transparently backwards compatible. We've known that since at least 1992. i guess you forget the discussion of variable

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2012-02-14 13:42, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 2/13/2012 4:38 PM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: There were very specific reasons why this was not done. Is there a useful citation that covers this strategic decision? You may recall that at the time, we were very concerned about the pre-CIDR

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call:

2012-02-13 Thread Martin Rex
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Dave CROCKER wrote: Brian E Carpenter wrote: There were very specific reasons why this was not done. Is there a useful citation that covers this strategic decision? You may recall that at the time, we were very concerned about the pre-CIDR growth rate in BGP

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com The design error was made in the late 1970s, when Louis Pouzin's advice that catenet addresses should be variable length, with a format prefix, was not taken during the design of IPv4. Ironically, TCP/IP had variable length

Re: Backwards compatibility myth [Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt]

2012-02-13 Thread Masataka Ohta
Brian E Carpenter wrote: There were very specific reasons why this was not done. And it doesn't change the fact that an old-IP-only host cannot talk to a new-IP-only host without a translator. It is that fact that causes our difficulties today. The fact is that an old-IP-only host can talk to

Re: Last Call: draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request-14.txt (IANA Reserved IPv4 Prefix for Shared Address Space) to BCP

2012-02-13 Thread Masataka Ohta
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Sure, that's very common, but these devices are consumer electronics and will get gradually replaced by IPv6-supporting boxes as time goes on. The problem is that IPv6 specification is still broken in several ways to be not operational that existing boxes must be

Last Call: draft-ietf-pcp-base-23.txt (Port Control Protocol (PCP)) to Proposed Standard

2012-02-13 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Port Control Protocol WG (pcp) to consider the following document: - 'Port Control Protocol (PCP)' draft-ietf-pcp-base-23.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this action.

Last Call: draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-sec-08.txt (MANET Cryptographical Signature TLV Definition) to Proposed Standard

2012-02-13 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks WG (manet) to consider the following document: - 'MANET Cryptographical Signature TLV Definition' draft-ietf-manet-packetbb-sec-08.txt as a Proposed Standard The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits

Last Call: draft-ietf-manet-smf-13.txt (Simplified Multicast Forwarding) to Experimental RFC

2012-02-13 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Mobile Ad-hoc Networks WG (manet) to consider the following document: - 'Simplified Multicast Forwarding' draft-ietf-manet-smf-13.txt as an Experimental RFC The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few weeks, and solicits final comments on this

Document Action: 'Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)' to Experimental RFC (draft-ietf-lisp-22.txt)

2012-02-13 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Locator/ID Separation Protocol (LISP)' (draft-ietf-lisp-22.txt) as an Experimental RFC This document is the product of the Locator/ID Separation Protocol Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jari Arkko and Ralph Droms. A URL of this

RFC 6506 on Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3

2012-02-13 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 6506 Title: Supporting Authentication Trailer for OSPFv3 Author: M. Bhatia, V. Manral, A. Lindem Status: Standards Track Stream: IETF Date: