Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-30 Thread Carl Malamud
As the maintainer of the Linksys Blue Box Router HOWTO, I am quite well aware of this fact. And if my objective were to have exciting adventures in system and network administration, I would have reflashed my Linksys long since. I don't want to have exciting adventures in system and

Re: IASA BCP Section 5.3

2004-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
scott bradner wrote: bert goes on to ask OTOH if ISOC received an unexpected donation for IETF purposes, that should be transferred promptly - does this need to be stated somewhere? I would assume, that if such a donations was indeed for IETF purposes that it would then be earmarked as such or

Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: do we need dedicated IASA (bank) accounts

2004-11-30 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Geoff Huston wrote: At 12:15 AM 27/11/2004, Wijnen, Bert (Bert) wrote: In revision draft-ietf-iasa-bcp-00.txt we have text in sections 5 through 5.4 about IASA funding and where the money needs to be kept. Specifically, the current text suggests that there is/are one or more IASA specific bank

Another document series?

2004-11-30 Thread Michael StJohns
Folks - I've recently been asked to review a number of works in progress related to restructuring and other similar things. Those documents were liberally splattered with references to various IDs (http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt,

Re: Another document series?

2004-11-30 Thread Sam Hartman
Michael == Michael StJohns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael It seems to me that neither ID status nor RFC status are Michael appropriate for these documents. The ID series is, by Michael design, ephemeral and generally not citeable. The RFC Michael series is stable and

Re: Another document series?

2004-11-30 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
--On tirsdag, november 30, 2004 12:13:41 -0500 Michael StJohns [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Folks - I've recently been asked to review a number of works in progress related to restructuring and other similar things. Those documents were liberally splattered with references to various IDs

Re: Another document series?

2004-11-30 Thread Michael StJohns
At 12:49 PM 11/30/2004, Sam Hartman wrote: Michael == Michael StJohns [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Michael It seems to me that neither ID status nor RFC status are Michael appropriate for these documents. The ID series is, by Michael design, ephemeral and generally not citeable. The

Re: Another document series?

2004-11-30 Thread Eliot Lear
Mike, As the other co-author to http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-ietf-newtrk-cruft-00.txt, [...]Its unclear that either the work in progress or the cited drafts will ever be published as RFCs. Its also unclear that this (restructuring etc) will be resolved within the 6 month lifetime

Re: AdminRest: IASA BCP: do we need dedicated IASA (bank) accounts

2004-11-30 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
Sorry, in this I must disagree. We are in an international situation and we want simple to read for everyone, crystal clear statements in due time by third party. The only certified situation reports we have in case of conflict is a neat banking monthly statement. Another complex issue where an

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-30 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Iljitsch van Beijnum [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually in IPv6 you are well-protected against random scanning withough the need for any device in the middle: a /64 subnet is so large, that scanning it is completely infeasible. Now of course someone who knows your address doesn't have to

Re: Why people by NATs

2004-11-30 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Tim Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] I didn't say that your mother could do this, but given that some amateurs have already modified the Linksys to do v6 then it would not be difficult for Cisco/Linksys to do so in a short timeframe, if they chose to. The interesting question is why