Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread Tripp Lilley
On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Peter Deutsch in Mountain View wrote: readily accessible. I still see value in having documents come out as "Request For Comments" in the traditional sense, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to find ways to better distinguish between the Standards track and other documents.

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Tripp Lilley wrote: On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Peter Deutsch in Mountain View wrote: readily accessible. I still see value in having documents come out as "Request For Comments" in the traditional sense, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to find ways to better distinguish between the

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread Dave Crocker
At 10:33 AM 4/9/00 -0400, Fred Baker wrote: wrestled to the appearance of support as standards. We're all aware of cases where something was poublished as informational, experimental, etc, and the next press release announced support of that "standard", and of cases where RFCs, like IP on

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 09 Apr 2000 23:01:38 PDT, Dave Crocker [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: At 10:33 AM 4/9/00 -0400, Fred Baker wrote: cases where RFCs, like IP on Avian Carriers, started winding up on RFPs simply because it was an RFC, and therefore "must" be the standard. This is another case of meaning

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
Let's remember that a major goal of these facilities is to get a user to a server that is 'close' to the user. Having interception done only at distant, localized server farm facilities will not achieve that goal. granted, but... an interception proxy that gets the user to a server that

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread RJ Atkinson
At 16:09 09-04-00 , Peter Deutsch in Mountain View wrote: Well put. As Dave has pointed out earlier this weekend, there is a burning need for better, permanent access to the Drafts collection. If we had that, perhaps much of this discussion might become moot, since some of the out-on-a-limb

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Mon, 10 Apr 2000 07:00:56 EDT, Keith Moore said: and a technology that only works correctly on the server end seems like a matter for the server's network rather than the public Internet - and therefore not something which should be standardized by IETF. Much the same logic can be applied

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread John Stracke
RJ Atkinson wrote: While the folks in this discussion might disagree on which drafts fall in that category, everyone believes that at least some documents ought not be published in an IETF-related archival document series. Mmm...I think the patent thread pointed out that, if we archived all

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
and a technology that only works correctly on the server end seems like a matter for the server's network rather than the public Internet - and therefore not something which should be standardized by IETF. Much the same logic can be applied to NAT (the way it's usually implemented).

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
The I-D in question has been referred to an existing IETF WG for review, that assertion was made, but not confirmed by the ADs. is it really true? it seems odd because it really isn't in scope for wrec. Keith

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Francis Dupont
In your previous mail you wrote: But IP-layer interception has some fairly significant limitations for this application. ... There's a technical problem with IP intercepting that I've not seen mentioned, including in the draft. Any intercepting based on TCP or UDP port

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Derrell D. Piper
Bottom line is that IP-layer interception - even when done "right" - has fairly limited applicability for location of nearby content. Though the technique is so widely mis-applied that it might still be useful to define what "right" means. And there you have the argument for publishing

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Dick St.Peters
Let's remember that a major goal of these facilities is to get a user to a server that is 'close' to the user. Having interception done only at distant, localized server farm facilities will not achieve that goal. ... client -- Internet - ISP - Intercept - Internet - Server1

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-10 Thread John Martin
At 10:39 AM 10/04/00 -0400, Keith Moore wrote: The I-D in question has been referred to an existing IETF WG for review, that assertion was made, but not confirmed by the ADs. is it really true? it seems odd because it really isn't in scope for wrec. Let me jog your memory: At 06:29 PM

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Jon Crowcroft
Bottom line is that IP-layer interception - even when done "right" - has fairly limited applicability for location of nearby content. Though the technique is so widely mis-applied that it might still be useful to define what "right" means. That sounds overly optimistic. user

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Jon Crowcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... its the 21st century: f you dont use end2end crypto, then you gotta expect people to optimize their resources to give you the best service money can buy for the least they have to spend. ... That's an interesting idea. People might eventually

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Magnus Danielson
From: Vernon Schryver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt Date: Mon, 10 Apr 2000 10:41:43 -0600 (MDT) From: Jon Crowcroft [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... its the 21st century: f you dont use end2end crypto, then you gotta expect people to

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Patrik Fältström
At 11.50 -0400 2000-04-10, Dick St.Peters wrote: What is the fundamental difference between choosing the best path and choosing the best source? Arguments that the latter breaks the IP model are simply arguments that the IP model is broken for today's Internet and will be even more broken for

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Gary E. Miller
Yo Randy! On Mon, 10 Apr 2000, Randy Bush wrote: all these oh so brilliant folk on the anti-cacheing crusade should be sentenced to live in a significantly less privileged country for a year, where dialup ppp costs per megabyte of international traffic and an engineer's salary is $100-200

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Joe Touch
One other item: Neither this, nor many NAT I-D's, address the particular issue of sourcing IP addresses not assigned or owned by the host/gateway, e.g., as they affect the standards of RFCs 1122, 1123, and 1812. If a device creates (rewrites) IP source

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
Bottom line is that IP-layer interception - even when done "right" - has fairly limited applicability for location of nearby content. Though the technique is so widely mis-applied that it might still be useful to define what "right" means. And there you have the argument for

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Randy Bush [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... That's an interesting idea. People might eventually finally start using end2end crpyto not for privacy or authnetication where they really care about either, but for performance and correctness, to defend against the ISP's who find it cheaper to

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-0

2000-04-10 Thread Joe Touch
Peter Deutsch wrote: g'day, "Michael B. Bellopede" wrote: ... Regardless of what occurs at higher layers, there is still the problem of changing the source address in an IP packet which occurs at the network(IP) layer. The Content Services Business Unit of Cisco (Fair Disclosure

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
its the 21st century: f you dont use end2end crypto, then you gotta expect people to optimize their resources to give you the best service money can buy for the least they have to spend. ... That's an interesting idea. People might eventually finally start using end2end crpyto

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Keith Moore
all these oh so brilliant folk on the anti-cacheing crusade should be sentenced to live in a significantly less privileged country for a year, where dialup ppp costs per megabyte of international traffic and an engineer's salary is $100-200 per month. and as long as we're talking about just

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Vernon Schryver
I tried to send this earlier, but got a response from [EMAIL PROTECTED] complaining that every line is a bogus majordomo command. My logs say I sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] and not [EMAIL PROTECTED] or anything smilar. I did use the word "s-u-b-s-c-r-i-b-e-r-s" 3 times. This time I've replaced all

RE: breaking the IP model (or not)

2000-04-10 Thread Bernard Aboba
it's completely natural that people will try such approaches - they are trying to address real problems and they want quick solutions to those problems. In particular, they will try such approaches if they are not presented with better alternatives. but if the quick fix solutions get