Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input

2002-12-06 Thread John C Klensin
In thinking about the issues of temporary areas generally and this one in particular, I've got pair of concerns that have not been mentioned so far: (i) There is always the possibility that Nomcom selections and decisions will change the balance of consensus of the IESG on any particular

Re: namedroppers mismanagement: it never ends

2002-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:03:43 GMT, Lloyd Wood said: Bush and Bernstein are both the kind of people who wish to rearrange the world entirely to their own satisfaction. How unfortunate that they must share that world. It would be a lot simpler if one or both of them qualified as a net.loon (we've

Re: naming debates

2002-12-06 Thread Ray Fassett
It's just that IETF has discussed this periodically for many years. Understood and valid. And this will be my last post to the main page on this subject. What I would like to point out as that the change to the root, that ICANN has described as never been before, has now been done. If there was

Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You)

2002-12-06 Thread Randy Bush
From: Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM is a failed experiment and needs to be closed and/or eliminated. i thought i'd already said that. yes, i did. in november, 1995. h

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread avri doria
2/ establish a long-term area: decide that the SUB-IP area will be a long-term one, clearly define its charter, and ask the nomcom to select one or two people to be Area Directors I spoke on this at the Sub-IP area meeting. I beleive that the Area provides focus for a class

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Frank Kastenholz
All the stuff in the sub-ip area is a combination of applications running over IP and lower-layer services over which IP (and presumably anything else -- after all what do the MP stand for in MPLS?) runs. The logic which directs that these things be standardized in the IETF could be used to

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Touch
Eric Rosen wrote: Joe Many of these discussions (layer 2 VPNs, in particular) would be better Joe served by occuring within the context of their original host Joe organization (i.e., IEEE for ethernet over IP), since it was those Joe organizations that defined those LANs, and

Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You)

2002-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Wed, 04 Dec 2002 18:54:14 PST, Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: From: Paul Vixie [EMAIL PROTECTED] COM is a failed experiment and needs to be closed and/or eliminated. i thought i'd already said that. yes, i did. in november, 1995. h It may

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Scott W Brim
On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 08:15:16AM -0800, Joe Touch allegedly wrote: Eric Rosen wrote: IEEE is certainly not the right place to determine how to carry ethernet data and control frames over IP networks. They defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how to carry ethernet over

Re: [Fwd: Re: CAP ABNF and external references]

2002-12-06 Thread Doug Royer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Doug noted on 12/04/2002 06:14:26 PM: ...However your new p-integer does allow for 0 which is still a non-useful value for LATENCY. I agree the zero has no meaning - I'lll fix that. So are you taking the position that NO latency-param means Never times

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Hallam-Baker, Phillip
One of the main reasons why anti-spam measures are failing is that the spam-artists are fraudulently hijacking people's email addresses so as to bypass anti-spam filters. My reading of the open enrollement policy is that anyone can contribute. I don't think that a secondary manual filter by

Re: [Fwd: Re: CAP ABNF and external references]

2002-12-06 Thread Doug Royer
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In any case CAP 1.0 09-submitted is unclear as to what it means when no latency-param is specified and that needs to be rectified before it can pass WG last call. I'll add: If LATENCY is not specified, then the initiator is indicating that any timeouts are up to

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Yu-Shun Wang
Scott W Brim wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 08:15:16AM -0800, Joe Touch allegedly wrote: Eric Rosen wrote: IEEE is certainly not the right place to determine how to carry ethernet data and control frames over IP networks. They defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how to

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Touch
Scott W Brim wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 08:15:16AM -0800, Joe Touch allegedly wrote: Eric Rosen wrote: IEEE is certainly not the right place to determine how to carry ethernet data and control frames over IP networks. They defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how to

sub-ip area

2002-12-06 Thread Keith Moore
I can't speak about the quality or relevance of work that's been done in the sub-ip area; I simply haven't followed it closely enough. However it's clear to me that the Internet has an increasing need for commonality in services that are (depending on how you think about them) either between IP

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Randy Bush
From: D. J. Bernstein [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: namedroppers, continued ... Okay, Bush: Put [EMAIL PROTECTED] on the list of addresses from which submissions are automatically accepted. sorry bernstein. as

Re: namedroppers mismanagement: it never ends

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Vixie
Bush and Bernstein are both the kind of people who wish to rearrange the world entirely to their own satisfaction. How unfortunate that they must share that world. for the record, we must each work to create the world we want to live in (and that we want our children to live in.) i'm not in

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Dean Anderson
How much spam is going to namedroppers? I haven't seen any. So, don't you think this has gone a little of the deep end? --Dean On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: One of the main reasons why anti-spam measures are failing is that the spam-artists are fraudulently

Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You)

2002-12-06 Thread Bill Cunningham
They have COM+ and COM++ and DCOM now that they are working on, including this .NET thing. - Original Message - From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, December 04, 2002 9:54 PM Subject: Re: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Randy Presuhn
Hi - Message-Id: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Date: Fri, 06 Dec 2002 13:41:52 -0800 To: Hallam-Baker, Phillip [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: RE: namedroppers, continued Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] In-Reply-To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] .com ...

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Fred Baker
At 08:28 AM 12/2/2002 -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The only way to resolve this issue properly would be to require every submission to an IETF mailing list to be cryptographically signed (PGP or S/MIME), to require the subscribers to register their signing key and to then filter the mail

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Fred Bake r writes: At 08:28 AM 12/2/2002 -0800, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: The only way to resolve this issue properly would be to require every submission to an IETF mailing list to be cryptographically signed (PGP or S/MIME), to require the subscribers to

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Marc Schneiders
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002, at 13:41 [=GMT-0800], Fred Baker wrote: I think it was Steve Bellovin that suggested a procedure for reducing the utility of spoofing source addresses in emails; if not, it was me and I happened to suggest something his favorite algorithm fit into, by having a host in each

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Ayyasamy, Senthilkumar (UMKC-Student)
Too bad nobody has ever thought of it before; we could really use the outcome of that research while researchers has not thought about global PKI, their are research which focus on spam elimination. this is the work all about (yesterday's seminar in a MIT group) If I don't know you, and

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Fred Baker [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... I think that boils down to provide a global PKI in this solution, and presumes that spammers are incapable of using one. That might be a great research topic. Too bad nobody has ever thought of it before; we could really use the outcome of that

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Marc Schneiders [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... It might be easier to write a new protocol to succeed email, instant messaging, mobile phones (something useful in itself) with built-in abuse control from the start. That's another stupid crackpot spam solution that just won't go away. You

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Fri, 06 Dec 2002 14:34:14 PST, Hallam-Baker, Phillip said: The problem here is that having Randy Bush moderate is not a scalable solution to the problems of Spam in general. We could clone him, but that's probably not scalable either msg09660/pgp0.pgp Description: PGP signature

RE: new.net (was: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You)

2002-12-06 Thread Tomson \Yahoo.fr\ Eric
Bill, I don't think everybody is talking about the same COM... -Original Message- From: Bill Cunningham They have COM+ and COM++ and DCOM now that they are working on, including this .NET thing. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED]

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread william
I'v been saying about need for more radical change in mail protocol for years now on mailing lists. I'd rather work on smtp itself, but some people who were involved in original protocol do not want any serious changes to what they'v done, though its clear that abuse and other holes with

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread william
This is note quite right. While its impossible to built open system that would prevent all abuse, you can first of all built system that would provide good verification of who sender is and you can do a lot to make it difficult to send thousands of same emails or at least make it easy to

RE: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Baptista
On Fri, 6 Dec 2002 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: proposal of mailfrom dns record - http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailfrom.txt or I've had a look at vixies proposal and it's a good one. I certainly would welcome something like the mailfrom dns record. regards joe baptista

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread Paul Vixie
it's difficult to imagine a mailing list for which this thread is on-topic. I think it was Steve Bellovin that suggested a procedure for reducing the utility of spoofing source addresses in emails; if not, it was me and I happened to suggest something his favorite algorithm fit into, by having

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-06 Thread ned . freed
proposal of mailfrom dns record - http://www.vix.com/~vixie/mailfrom.txt or I've had a look at vixies proposal and it's a good one. I certainly would welcome something like the mailfrom dns record. actually I'd call it a nonstarter in its current form. I would have to agree. given

validating source of email (was something about namedroppers)

2002-12-06 Thread Keith Moore
Although I am reluctant to suggest anything involving public key crypto, another approach would be to put a public key in the MAIL-FROM DNS record and add a new header field containing a signature covering the message's MAIL FROM and the current date. that's an interesting idea. I don't see