Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-22 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Given the circumstances, it is probably premature to assume that many ITU people are aware of the proposal at issue here, it indeed it is a formal proposal at all. On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 3:45 AM, Florian Weimer fwei...@bfk.de wrote: * Richard L. Barnes: Is this disingenuous or has the ITU

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-21 Thread Florian Weimer
* Richard L. Barnes: Is this disingenuous or has the ITU really not heard of netflow? I can understand if people are not too happy with best-effort accounting and billing. -- Florian Weimerfwei...@bfk.de BFK edv-consulting GmbH http://www.bfk.de/ Kriegsstraße 100

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-21 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
The current structures give a huge advantage to US and European providers. The rest of the world was essentialy allowed to connect up to the Internet provided that they paid the cost. As a result the settlements tend to reflect precedent rather than actual benefit to the parties. ITU-T is not an

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-21 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 4:11 PM, Brian E Carpenter brian.e.carpen...@gmail.com wrote: What somebody (ISOC?) should do is counter the absurd meme that the ITU is the United Nations body in charge of internet standards. That depends on how you parse the sentence. If you interpret 'in charge' as

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-21 Thread Phillip Hallam-Baker
Changing the BGP specs is easy, whether they have IETF 'permission' to do so or not. At worst just declare a BGP4, there is no real disadvantage to doing so as the move to a different charging regime would require all participants to upgrade in any case. That is the place where the scheme falls

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:24:43AM -0800, Ole Jacobsen wrote: (except it's not a joke) Chinese proposal to meter Internet traffic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders, it has emerged.

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-19 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 19 dec 2009, at 01.01, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: The current structures give a huge advantage to US and European providers. Yes and no. The trick here is that the question is not so simple (or the answer to the question is not so simple). I was myself working with launching Internet in

RE: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-19 Thread Christian Huitema
The trick here is that the question is not so simple (or the answer to the question is not so simple). I was myself working with launching Internet in Europe from -87 and sure, we had to pay quite a lot to get our first connection to ISPs (then only in the US) so I am pretty sure I have

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-19 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:55 PM, Robert Moskowitz wrote: Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: Richard == Richard L Barnes rbar...@bbn.com writes: Richard Here's (what the ITU claims is) the specific proposal that Richard has been made to the ITU: An

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-19 Thread Danny McPherson
On Dec 19, 2009, at 11:02 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: I don't think this idea is coming from people who don't understand the Internet or its current economic models. I think they understand it all too well. I think this is a thoroughly bad idea that really should be stopped dead in its

Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Ole Jacobsen
(except it's not a joke) Chinese proposal to meter Internet traffic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders, it has emerged. The move would require international agreement - but it is being discussed

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: (except it's not a joke) Chinese proposal to meter Internet traffic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders, it has emerged. The move would require

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Richard L. Barnes
Here's (what the ITU claims is) the specific proposal that has been made to the ITU: An ITU spokesman said: The ITU has no plans to modify the BGP protocol, which is not an ITU-T standard. A proposal has been made, and is being studied, to use BGP routers to collect traffic flow data,

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Ole Jacobsen
On Fri, 18 Dec 2009, Marshall Eubanks wrote: The move would require international agreement - but it is being discussed by the United Nations body in charge of internet standards. Are they referring to the ITU ? Yes. The ITU-T which is the United Nations body in charge of internet

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 12/18/2009 7:34 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: The move would require international agreement - but it is being discussed by the United Nations body in charge of internet standards. Are they referring to the ITU ? Yes, however: An ITU spokesman said: The ITU has no plans to modify the

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 10:39:03AM -0500, Richard L. Barnes rbar...@bbn.com wrote a message of 74 lines which said: Is this disingenuous or has the ITU really not heard of netflow? This is the IETF, use RFC 5101 instead :-) ___ Ietf mailing list

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Stephane Bortzmeyer
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:24:43AM -0800, Ole Jacobsen o...@cisco.com wrote a message of 34 lines which said: Chinese proposal to meter Internet traffic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm In France (translated by me):

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Florian Weimer
* Stephane Bortzmeyer: Today, Internet is completely rotten, says Jacques Myard. We have to nationalize this network, as the Chinese did. FWIW, Germany has got an established legal framework for covert keyword-based screening on all international data links. -- Florian Weimer

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Richard == Richard L Barnes rbar...@bbn.com writes: Richard Here's (what the ITU claims is) the specific proposal that Richard has been made to the ITU: An ITU spokesman said: The ITU Richard has no plans to modify the BGP protocol, which is not an Richard ITU-T standard. A

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 18 dec 2009, at 17.19, Sam Hartman wrote: What's so bogus about wanting to charge for traffic? Not bogus at all. But, there is a big difference between having A Country asking for agreed upon settlement structures and the current structure where the peers negotiate how the money is to

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: Richard == Richard L Barnes rbar...@bbn.com writes: Richard Here's (what the ITU claims is) the specific proposal that Richard has been made to the ITU: An ITU spokesman said: The ITU Richard has no plans to modify the BGP

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread John C Klensin
--On Friday, December 18, 2009 12:10 -0500 Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: What's so bogus about wanting to charge for traffic? Where I would raise a flag is, charge whom ? This sounds very much like the way that international long distance used to be done. That the Internet

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Dec 18, 2009, at 11:19 AM, Sam Hartman wrote: Richard == Richard L Barnes rbar...@bbn.com writes: Richard Here's (what the ITU claims is) the specific proposal that Richard has been made to the ITU: An ITU spokesman said: The ITU Richard has no plans to modify

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Richard L. Barnes
This goes hand-in-hand with nostalgia for various forms and properties of circuit-switched networks, especially wrt ... emergency services This one at least we have a story on: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ecrit/ ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Steven Bellovin
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:24 AM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: (except it's not a joke) Chinese proposal to meter Internet traffic http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its borders, it has emerged. The move

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Dave CROCKER
On 12/18/2009 10:10 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote: This goes hand-in-hand with nostalgia for various forms and properties of circuit-switched networks, especially wrt ... emergency services This one at least we have a story on: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ecrit/ The emulation is perhaps better

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Robert Moskowitz
Dave CROCKER wrote: On 12/18/2009 10:10 AM, Richard L. Barnes wrote: This goes hand-in-hand with nostalgia for various forms and properties of circuit-switched networks, especially wrt ... emergency services This one at least we have a story on: http://tools.ietf.org/wg/ecrit/ The

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Scott Brim
Stephane Bortzmeyer allegedly wrote on 12/18/2009 10:41 EST: In France (translated by me): http://tempsreel.nouvelobs.com/actualites/politique/20091217.OBS1017/un_depute_ump_propose_de_nationaliser_le_reseau_interne.html A member of parliament (UMP, the party of the president) wants to

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Bob Hinden
Van Jacobsen used to have a slide set titled Circuits: The Search for the Cure. See: http://www.sigcomm.org/about/awards/sigcomm-awards/vj-sigcomm01.pdf Bob ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond
Ole Jacobsen o...@cisco.com wrote: (except it's not a joke) As someone who has confronted some of these gentle people at IGF, let me tell you it is not a joke. I am always flabbergasted about what I hear, and never understand whom they get their information from. It is often full of

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread John Levine
Bogus because it's a bad idea or because the reporter significantly misunderstood/misrepresented what the suggestion is actually about? I read the story, and I think the reporter understood the discussion pretty well, except perhaps for the distinction between capacity and traffic. We all know

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Sam Hartman
Olivier == Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond o...@gih.com writes: Olivier Ole Jacobsen o...@cisco.com wrote: (except it's not a joke) Olivier As someone who has confronted some of these gentle people Olivier at IGF, let me tell you it is not a joke. Olivier I am always

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Cullen Jennings
The work in ECRIT has certainly helped the state of deployed E911 over VoIP to be much better today than it was in say 2000. More importantly, the progress that the industry is making in various SDOs, including the IETF, has been the primary factor that has caused regulators to not pass some

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Brian E Carpenter
On 2009-12-19 06:26, John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, December 18, 2009 12:10 -0500 Marshall Eubanks t...@americafree.tv wrote: What's so bogus about wanting to charge for traffic? Where I would raise a flag is, charge whom ? This sounds very much like the way that international long

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Scott Brim
Brian E Carpenter allegedly wrote on 12/18/2009 16:11 EST: What somebody (ISOC?) should do is counter the absurd meme that the ITU is the United Nations body in charge of internet standards. I suspect that came from the reporter. ___ Ietf mailing

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-18 Thread Patrik Fältström
On 18 dec 2009, at 21.55, Cullen Jennings wrote: The work in ECRIT has certainly helped the state of deployed E911 over VoIP to be much better today than it was in say 2000. Sweden 911-service evolution (SIP based signalling directly to the PSAP) is very closely following what is happening