Re: About cookies and refreshments cost and abuse

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Cridland
On Wed Mar 29 03:08:59 2006, Brett Thorson wrote: I think it interesting that the great minds of the IETF are discussing in depth something that is probably just slightly more important than the outcome of this week's American Idol contest. Oh well, here are my two cents... There's several

Re: About cookies and refreshments cost and abuse

2006-03-29 Thread Carl Malamud
Cookies seem to be a scarce resource, so why not bring your own darn cookies to the meeting, and you wouldn't have a problem. Seriously, stop by a local grocery store, and plop down $3 and buy whatever kind of cookies make you the most happy. Aggravation avoided. That's a very

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread Julien Laganier
Hi Jordi, On Friday 24 March 2006 06:10, JORDI PALET MARTINEZ wrote: Not really. If you look to the recent sponsors, the current one and the next one, they are all European companies, hosting IETF in North America. Actually it can be presented in the other way around, as they host here, 50%

Re: Moving from hosts to sponsors

2006-03-29 Thread bmanning
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 at 06:47:46AM -0800, Dave Crocker wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ah yes, the IETF as a FormulaOne race car. I'll approach CocaCola Visa for branding rights if that would help (esp for those folks denied a 770) ah yes, the ad absurdem form of

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Hi Julien, I guess is a question of planning. I tend to book my flights at least 3 months ahead. Then a flight Madrid-Europe-Madrid, for example, could be so law as 80 Euros (replace Europe with Munich, London, Paris, Brussels, or any other preferred EU destination). For the same period (a

Re: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Scott Leibrand
Well, in the case of IPv6 we're currently playing in a sandbox 1/8 the size of the available address space. So if what you say is true, and we manage to use up an exponential resource in linear time, then we can change our approach and try again with the second 1/8 of the space, without having to

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread Julien Laganier
Jordi, You are speaking about low cost flights. I am sure they are readily available from/to any capital like Madrid, but what about other places. When I want to go from a secondary french city to a secondary city in germany without over the week-end stay (say monday-thursday) the prices can

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Scott W Brim
On Tue, Mar 28, 2006 04:12:24PM -0500, Noel Chiappa allegedly wrote: locators are a lot easier to deal with if they're location-independent Huh? Did you mean identifiers are a lot easier to deal with if they're location-independent? I really was talking about

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
You didn't mean locators are a lot easier to deal with if the name has nothing to do with where the thing it names is, you meant locators are a lot easier to deal with if their meaning (i.e. the thing they are bound to) is the same no matter where you are when you evaluate them. This is a

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-mrt-2006, at 16:17, Keith Moore wrote: it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two-party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two-party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A can say to a process on host B, contact this

Re: the iab net neutrality

2006-03-29 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
We could ask the IEEE, since the relationship between the WiFi folks and IEEE 802.11 seems to be somewhat similar. One of the problems I see is that many of the industry associations (SIP Forum, IPv6 forum, to name two I'm somewhat familiar with) tend to focus on service providers, not

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-mrt-2006, at 16:43, Keith Moore wrote: it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two- party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
it would be okay if the only apps you needed to run were two-party apps. in other words, it's not just users and hosts that need addresses to be the same from everywhere in the network - apps need stable addressing so that a process on host A can say to a process on host B, contact this process

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread JORDI PALET MARTINEZ
Hi Julien, Well, that's not the case in Spain. If instead of Madrid I'm in small city like Valencia, Murcia, Bilbao, etc., typically the cost different will be only 10-15 Euros more. The companies make the money from the big hop, and if necessary subsidize part of the small one to sell more

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Michel Py
Jeroen Massar wrote: I guess you missed out on: http://www.iana.org/assignments/ipv6-address-space I declined to co-author it, as a matter of fact. It started as GUSL (Globally Unique Site Locals), did you miss that season? Read the dark side stuff I will post later... Austin Schutz wrote:

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 29-mrt-2006, at 18:34, Keith Moore wrote: - DNS is often out of sync with reality Dynamic DNS updates are your friend. From an app developer's point-of-view, DDNS is worthless. DDNS is far from universally implemented, and when it is implemented, it's often implemented badly. DDNS can

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
Point made many times, and the proof is in the pudding: if they're using it so widely it means it works for them. Actually, no. The world is full of examples of practices and mechanisms that are widely adopted and entrenched that work very poorly. You only have to look at any day's

Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Keith Moore
- DNS is often out of sync with reality Dynamic DNS updates are your friend. From an app developer's point-of-view, DDNS is worthless. DDNS is far from universally implemented, and when it is implemented, it's often implemented badly. DDNS can actually makes DNS a less reliable source of

Re: Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Francois Menard
Are you saying that ENUM is a dead end? F. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 819 692 1383 On Wed, 29 Mar 2006, Keith Moore wrote: - DNS is often out of sync with reality Dynamic DNS updates are your friend. From an app developer's point-of-view, DDNS is worthless. DDNS is far from universally

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Michel Py
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: ...including the RIR reserves which are at an all time high of nearly 400 million) Also, keep in mind that the RIRs are not the only ones to have reserves. The address space itself has reserves, class E for example. ISPs have reserves, and customer have reserves too

Re: Why DNS sucks for referrals (was Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Peter Dambier
Francois Menard wrote: Are you saying that ENUM is a dead end? F. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] 819 692 1383 ENUM is a dead born child. ENUM is supposed to be good for VoIP. Well, I do have VoIP but my VoIP does work allthough ENUM does not. My router could use ENUM - but which one should I ask,

PI space (was: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them)

2006-03-29 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] We aren't *ever* going to give everyone PI space (at least, PI space in whatever namespace the routers use to forward packets) ... Routing (i.e. path-finding) algorithms simply cannot cope with tracking 10^9 individual destinations (see

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Dave Cridland
On Thu Mar 30 00:06:25 2006, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: Now, consider that in that city one does go by street numbers but by building names. As we did for a very long time and many still do. So our building is named by the City Registry Innovation House - and if a day it is scrapped and

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread Ray Pelletier
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Keith Moore wrote: It will also be a more open process. Today, in my opinion, having to negotiate with each possible sponsor in secret, is a broken concept, and against our openness. I'm a lot more concerned about openness in IETF protocol development. some

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 01:28 30/03/2006, Dave Cridland wrote: On Thu Mar 30 00:06:25 2006, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: Now, consider that in that city one does go by street numbers but by building names. As we did for a very long time and many still do. So our building is named by the City Registry Innovation

RE: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 20:46 29/03/2006, Michel Py wrote: Just to make it clear: I'm not in denial and v4 exhaustion is not FUD, but the Internet is not going to stop the day after we allocate the last bit of v4 space either. The issue is not so much when we will be prevented from doing what we currently do. It

Re: PI space (was: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them)

2006-03-29 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Noel Chiappa [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] We aren't *ever* going to give everyone PI space (at least, PI space in whatever namespace the routers use to forward packets) ... Routing (i.e. path-finding) algorithms simply cannot cope with

Re: 128 bits should be enough for everyone, was: IPv6 vs. Stupid NAT tricks: false dichotomy? (Was: Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.)

2006-03-29 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: So how big would you like addresses to be, then? It's not how big they are, it's how they are allocated. And they are allocated very poorly, even recklessly, which is why they run out so quickly. It's true that engineers always underestimate required capacity, but

RE: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread Yaakov Stein
Title: Re: Making IETF happening in different regions Definitively, from Europe, for me seems the most expensive Australia, thenAsia Pacific/Africa... ... and for those of us on the "outskirts" of Europe, the ratio in flight prices to the US as compared to the EU can easily exceed a

Re: Making IETF happening in different regions

2006-03-29 Thread YAO Jiankang
Title: Re: Making IETF happening in different regions these days, many IETFer are from asia. Asia cities also should be a choice. actually, the accommodations in many asia cities are very cheap while the flight price to ASIA is not much different from the price of flight to america or

Re: Stupid NAT tricks and how to stop them.

2006-03-29 Thread Andrew McGregor
On 29/03/2006, at 5:10 AM, Scott Leibrand wrote: On 03/28/06 at 7:00am +0200, Anthony G. Atkielski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Agreed, but they reduce the amount of money you must pay to your ISP each month by a factor of ten or more. Your ISP charges you 9 times as much for IPv4 addresses

Last Call: 'Update to DirectoryString Processing in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile' to Proposed Standard

2006-03-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has received a request from the Public-Key Infrastructure (X.509) WG to consider the following document: - 'Update to DirectoryString Processing in the Internet X.509 Public Key Infrastructure Certificate and Certificate Revocation List (CRL) Profile '

Document Action: 'JavaScript Object Notation (JSON)' to Informational RFC

2006-03-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'JavaScript Object Notation (JSON) ' draft-crockford-jsonorg-json-04.txt as an Informational RFC This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG contact person is Scott Hollenbeck. A URL

Protocol Action: 'Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0' to Draft Standard

2006-03-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Remote Network Monitoring MIB Extensions for Switch Networks Version 1.0 ' RFC 2613 as a Draft Standard This document is the product of the Remote Network Monitoring Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Bert Wijnen and David Kessens. A

Protocol Action: 'Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Frame Relay Over MPLS Networks' to Proposed Standard

2006-03-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'Encapsulation Methods for Transport of Frame Relay Over MPLS Networks ' draft-ietf-pwe3-frame-relay-07.txt as a Proposed Standard This document is the product of the Pseudo Wire Emulation Edge to Edge Working Group. The IESG contact persons

Protocol Action: 'The AES-CMAC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE)' to Proposed Standard

2006-03-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'The AES-CMAC-PRF-128 Algorithm for the Internet Key Exchange Protocol (IKE) ' draft-songlee-aes-cmac-prf-128-03.txt as a Proposed Standard This document has been reviewed in the IETF but is not the product of an IETF Working Group. The IESG

Document Action: 'A Roadmap for TCP Specification Documents' to Informational RFC

2006-03-29 Thread The IESG
The IESG has approved the following document: - 'A Roadmap for TCP Specification Documents ' draft-ietf-tcpm-tcp-roadmap-06.txt as an Informational RFC This document is the product of the TCP Maintenance and Minor Extensions Working Group. The IESG contact persons are Jon Peterson and

RFC 4441 on The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship

2006-03-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4441 Title: The IEEE 802/IETF Relationship Author: B. Aboba, Ed. Status: Informational Date: March 2006 Mailbox:[EMAIL PROTECTED]

RFC 4430 on Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (KINK)

2006-03-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4430 Title: Kerberized Internet Negotiation of Keys (KINK) Author: S. Sakane, K. Kamada, M. Thomas, J. Vilhuber Status:

RFC 4450 on Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents

2006-03-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4450 Title: Getting Rid of the Cruft: Report from an Experiment in Identifying and Reclassifying Obsolete Standards Documents Author: E.

RFC 4443 on Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification

2006-03-29 Thread rfc-editor
A new Request for Comments is now available in online RFC libraries. RFC 4443 Title: Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMPv6) for the Internet Protocol Version 6 (IPv6) Specification Author: A. Conta, S.