Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Dillon
hours and it is an easy round trip without being late, and so on. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-09-15 Thread Michael Dillon
speaker is not. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Dillon
 As examples, we have had a significant number of venues in recent years that were distant from major transportation hubs and/or were distant from local resources such as the usual array of hotels, restaurants, markets and the like. Of these I can name only Dublin as falling into the

Re: All these discussions about meeting venues

2010-09-14 Thread Michael Dillon
Even in Dublin and Maastricht there were restaurant districts nearby for those with vehicles. Virtually no attendee had a vehicle ateither of those venues (or many others.) People willing to ride on a bus or pay for a taxi are those with vehicles. The point is that something which is too far

Re: Wallet theft in Brussels train station

2010-07-22 Thread Michael Dillon
on the seat, then turn 180 degrees and leave the aisle until it is clear again. Then I go for the overhead bins. You may find this to be a useful protocol as well. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: IETF 78: getting to/from/around Maastricht

2010-07-16 Thread Michael Dillon
Moscow, so you definitely could get to IETF Beijing that way if you have the time to spare. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Protocol for TCP heartbeats?

2010-06-25 Thread Michael Dillon
talked about the transition from bisync to IP. You really should be asking this kind of question elsewhere where the financial types hang out. Latency is so important that even the guys who are primarily software developers tend to know a lot about how to do this. --Michael Dillon

Re: The point is to change it: Was: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-06-10 Thread Michael Dillon
, but if that creates a barrier to implementing features like IPv6, then the marketplace can sort out that issue. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-03-30 Thread Michael Dillon
code. Not sure if this applies to Americans, but when I lived in Canada, I had a 5 or 6 digit pin code, but internationally, pin codes are only 4 digits. If you have a longer pin code, change it to a 4 digit one before travelling. --Michael Dillon 2 years ago I was back in Canada, visiting

Re: Advance travel info for IETF-78 Maastricht

2010-03-30 Thread Michael Dillon
for riding the tube, and in fact, many people have a special Oystercard (perhaps with extra RFID) that works in coffeeshops too. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Make HTML and PDF more prominent, was: Re: Why the normative

2010-03-20 Thread Michael Dillon
will present their business card to you with the English side up. But in Japan, they present it with the Japanese side up. In all cases, the card contains both representations. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman

Re: Make HTML and PDF more prominent, was: Re: Why the normative

2010-03-20 Thread Michael Dillon
will produce your перестроика manifesto? --Michael Dillon P.S. perestroika = перестроика ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: A state of spin ... presented in ASCII

2010-03-20 Thread Michael Dillon
a standard called SVG for diagrams, which retains the text labels of diagrams in a format which could be processed by automated translation tools like Google Translate. Currently Google translate doesn't process SVG, but the possibility exists unlike with many other image formats. --Michael Dillon

Re: Make HTML and PDF more prominent, was: Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-19 Thread Michael Dillon
, HTML with printable CSS, ASCII text, UNICODE text, specified column width text, paginated or unpaginated text with specified page length, PDF, PDF/A, XML, .doc, .docx, .sdw, .odt, etc... If nobody is willing to produce a sample normative XML format RFC, then let's drop the whole topic. --Michael

Re: draft-ietf-dnsext-dnssec-gost

2010-02-11 Thread Michael Dillon
chip and pin payment system, but a subtext of that announcement is that other weaknesses documented in previous years still have not been fixed. Signature algorithms used in payment systems get embedded in all kinds of devices, and software systems, making it hard to deprecate stuff fast. --Michael

Re: silly legal boilerplate, was Regarding RIM's recent IPR disclosures

2009-11-26 Thread Michael Dillon
discussion within the legal industry. I suppose it would also work to choose prominent newspapers that are typically read by lawyers, in the USA, New York Times or Washington Post, in the UK, The Times, or The Guardian, in Australia, the Sydney Morning Herald. --Michael Dillon

Re: The IETF and the SmartGrid

2009-10-05 Thread Michael Dillon
badly need to shine a light on the details of transitioning the Internet to IPv6. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Local Beijing people response - RE: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-10-01 Thread Michael Dillon
some idea who could prove to be an embarrassment and those people will not get their visas delivered in time to go to the meeting. But it is still worth having the dialogue with the PRC government. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https

Re: Subscriptions to ietf-honest

2009-03-26 Thread Michael Dillon
an injunction that bars Dean from doing this at all. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-18 Thread Michael Dillon
FSF is very well intentioned; don't understand me to say otherwise. That said, I think their view on IPR is pretty extreme - no IPR is acceptable. Perhaps that is their view as an organization, but if the IETF engages with the FSF to get individuals involved in the IPR discussions, I think you

Re: Proposal to create IETF IPR Advisory Board

2009-02-17 Thread Michael Dillon
on. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate

2009-02-13 Thread Michael Dillon
affect more than just the select few who participate in IETF WGs and meetings. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

RE: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys

2006-12-06 Thread Michael . Dillon
be sufficient to solve the problem. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Fwd: The IESG Approved the Expansion of the AS Number Registry

2006-11-29 Thread Michael . Dillon
to be changed. Such a draft should really come from the WG which extended the AS number in the first place. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-29 Thread Michael . Dillon
have total and exclusive ownership we need to maintain a single authoritative and exclusive owner of the root. Or in other words, if IBM wants to keep ibm.com then the root must remain under the control of a single exclusive authority. Fancy technology cannot change this. --Michael Dillon

Re: Something better than DNS?

2006-11-27 Thread Michael . Dillon
. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys

2006-11-22 Thread Michael . Dillon
service, that strips out all the unused cruft to enable domain naming service operators to simplify the software that they use. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: SRV records considered dubious (was: Re: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys)

2006-11-22 Thread Michael . Dillon
on a different port number. Divert all the DNS enhancement work to DDDBP unless it clearly addresses a need for the domain naming service infrastructure. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys

2006-11-22 Thread Michael . Dillon
share a relationship with the IM service providers. Nobody has yet tried to build an open-ended email network based on a chain of trust between participants. Instead we have the flat SMTP protocol open to all comers and two client protocols that do NOT support sending an email message. --Michael

Re: The 'failure' of SMTP RE: DNS Choices: Was: [ietf-dkim] Re: Last Call: 'DomainKeys

2006-11-22 Thread Michael . Dillon
of trust. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: [Ieprep] Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-16 Thread Michael . Dillon
-to-end path amidst a cacophony of cross-traffic. The IETF should do some more education on how the existing protocol set could be used in disaster/war scenarios without needing any new features tacked on to it. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: WG Review: Recharter of Internet Emergency Preparedness (ieprep)

2006-11-10 Thread Michael . Dillon
services the events are numbered in transactions per second. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Improving Security with Encryption

2006-11-10 Thread Michael . Dillon
around encrypted files to any part of the world where a laptop is likely to travel to. --Michael Dillon ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf