Re: Deployment of standards compliant nameservers

2013-05-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 May 2013, at 02:44, Keith Moore mo...@network-heretics.com wrote: p.s. I wonder if the problem you describe might at least partially be caused by DNS proxies and interception proxies, including but not limited to those incorporated in consumer-grade routers. Those are already

Re: [IETF] back by popular demand - a DNS calculator

2013-03-20 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 Feb 2013, at 02:46, Carlos M. martinez carlosm3...@gmail.commailto:carlosm3...@gmail.com wrote: Wasn't the 'evil bit' able to hold the value 2 ? Use all evil bits for IP addresses and we'll soon have no need for IPv6. Geoff Huston and I wrote a draft to use the evil bit to indicate the

Re: ITC copped out on UTC again

2012-01-23 Thread Ray Bellis
Just curious, but I've often used the formulation: day = (now - now % 86400) where now is the output of gmtime() of equivalent to calculate the number of days since the epoch. How is this affected (or not) by the presence of leap seconds, and/or any proposal to remove them. Ray

Re: Consensus Call (Update): draft-weil-shared-transition-space-request

2011-12-08 Thread Ray Bellis
On 5 Dec 2011, at 18:08, Noel Chiappa wrote: I hear you. However, after thinking about it for a while, I still think we ought to include a chunk of 240/ space _as well as_ some 'general use' space (be it a /10 of that, or whatever). +1 Ray ___

Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-15 Thread Ray Bellis
On 15 Nov 2011, at 20:46, Barry Leiba wrote: By suipport it, you mean accept it and convert it to something else, a meaning of support with which I'm unfamiliar. I'd say tolerate. Well, support may have been a little strong - specifically the meeting materials page says: You can only

Re: Plagued by PPTX again

2011-11-14 Thread Ray Bellis
On 15 Nov 2011, at 10:24, Brian E Carpenter wrote: Please can everybody who doesn't upload PDF to the meeting materials page at least take care to upload PPT instead of PPTX? Noted - we'll ask for PDF next time. Please do note that the final proceedings will be in PDF format, though. Ray

Re: Requirement to go to meetings

2011-10-28 Thread Ray Bellis
On 27 Oct 2011, at 12:03, Richard Kulawiec wrote: I support this concept, although I would go much further and eliminate ALL face-to-face meetings. I absolutely wouldn't. Travel (for meetings) is expensive, time-consuming, energy-inefficient, and increasingly difficult. Your assertions

Re: whine, whine, whine

2011-06-22 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 Jun 2011, at 14:44, Klaas Wierenga wrote: otoh, not having to go through US immigrations saves you about as much time as you would have saved with a direct flight, not to mention the terrorist until proven innocent treatment. ;-) Thus far I've been lucky with the TSA and found them

Re: My Internet experience in the West at times is comparable to female foeticide

2011-06-22 Thread Ray Bellis
On 22 Jun 2011, at 09:59, Krishna Birth wrote: Some not all internet forums/mailing list organisers need some educating and need to educate others for example by having some by-laws and rules so that I am treated without these problems. Oh, but they do! The most common rule being that postings

Re: whine, whine, whine

2011-06-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 Jun 2011, at 14:02, Simon Perreault wrote: Not going to argue about San Diego vs Québec, but just going to point out that multiple carriers do serve Québec. Among them are Air Canada, United, Continental, Delta, and US Airways. The only European operator into YBQ appears to be Air

Re: whine, whine, whine

2011-06-21 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 Jun 2011, at 14:37, Tim Chown wrote: For a single operator trip from the UK to Quebec City, there's Air Canada out of Heathrow. You can go via Montreal or other cities. I seem to recall that it was actually somewhat cheaper to fly BA. Although I didn't check economy class... Ray

Re: draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-22 Thread Ray Bellis
On 21 Oct 2010, at 23:42, John Levine wrote: I dunno about you, but it seems utterly unreasonable to demand that we change the way we've been placing calls for the better part of a century merely to avoid a few DNS lookups. I thought computers were supposed to make life easier for people,

draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-20 Thread Ray Bellis
Gentlemen, Re: §4.2 of your IAB Draft draft-iab-dns-applications-00: (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-dns-applications-00.txt) Send-N is not only intended for open number plans, it's intended for use in _any_ plan with variable length telephone numbers. It came out of the

Re: draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-20 Thread Ray Bellis
Such a mechanism simply does not work when: draft-iab-dns-applications-00 In these plans, a telephone switch ordinarily cannot anticipate when a dialed number is complete, as only the terminating customer premise equipment (typically a private branch exchange) knows how long a

Re: IETF Attendance by continent

2010-08-09 Thread Ray Bellis
On 9 Aug 2010, at 16:12, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Since we're providing anecdotal data, I'll mention that for me the big central room in Maastrict turned out to provide far greater cross-fertilization than I got in Anaheim. +1 I actually thought the Anaheim venue was really poor for this, and