Re: can vpn's extended to mobility

2000-09-27 Thread James P. Salsman
If IPSec adds any latency beyond startup negotiation The encryption takes some time. Some $olutions will have hardware for it, but straightforward implementations mean lots of bit-field operations, which most C compilers don't optimize very well, and some compilers on certain platforms

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Melinda Shore
From: Stephen Kent [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, September 26, 2000 2:00 PM Subject: Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material As someone who was around when the notion of an I-D was created, let me disagree

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread RJ Atkinson
At 12:07 27/09/00, Melinda Shore wrote: Archival material is *extremely* important for future research. The archival material is the RFC --*only*--. Just because the document isn't for publication and cannot be used normatively doesn't mean that it should be obliterated. I would not want

Recruiter spams nomcom volunteer list. Film at 11

2000-09-27 Thread Matt Crawford
Dave Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED], on behalf of "Nexsi Corporation", has sent unsolicited job-recruitment spam to addresses apparently gleaned from the posted IETF Nomcom volunteer list. Form your own opinion. You can guess mine. Matt Crawford

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Keith Moore
Archival material is *extremely* important for future research. no doubt. but we have a conflict of interests here. on one hand, historians and folks doing patent searches could make good use of archived internet-drafts. on the other hand, IETF needs the Internet-Draft series to be very

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Melinda Shore
From: RJ Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Melinda Shore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 6:58 AM Subject: Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material The archival material is the RFC --*only*--. Actually, it's not. It's whatever's

Re: Recruiter spams nomcom volunteer list. Film at 11

2000-09-27 Thread Randy Bush
Dave Andersen [EMAIL PROTECTED], on behalf of "Nexsi Corporation", has sent unsolicited job-recruitment spam to addresses apparently gleaned from the posted IETF Nomcom volunteer list. actually, it must have been a wider list, as i was included as a victim. i foolishly presume folk on the

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Melinda Shore
From: Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Melinda Shore [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 7:35 AM Subject: Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material already there are too many folks who avoid issuing I-Ds except when required to do so

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Keith Moore
already there are too many folks who avoid issuing I-Ds except when required to do so because they feel that the publication process is too burdensome and too slow, and too many people treat I-Ds as something akin to final form documents (as in, they need to be close to "right") rather

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Joe Touch
Tim Salo wrote: Date: Tue, 26 Sep 2000 00:02:00 -0700 From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: An Internet Draft as reference material [...] From RFC 2026, Section 10.3.1. All Contributions: Reading along further in the same document: ... Internet Drafts

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread John C Klensin
--On Wednesday, 27 September, 2000 09:58 -0400 RJ Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: At 12:07 27/09/00, Melinda Shore wrote: Archival material is *extremely* important for future research. The archival material is the RFC --*only*--. Melinda, I've got very mixed feelings about this

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On the other hand, there's the National Archives in the U.S. If I'm not mistaken, there's a requirement that even draft papers be preserved, precisely because of their importance to the historical record. (There's a lot of discussion there about retention of email and the like by government

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Steve Conner
Or "archived". Steve - Original Message - From: "Kurt D. Zeilenga" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, September 27, 2000 10:36 AM Subject: Re: An Internet Draft as reference material I, for one, would like to see the IETF host an public archive of expired I-Ds

Announcement for Informal Interim Rserpool meeting

2000-09-27 Thread Lyndon Ong
Folks, This is an announcement for an informal interim discussion of the (hopefully soon to be approved) Reliable Server Pooling group, to be held on Wednesday, October 25th in North Carolina. The group, formerly called RSPool and now called Rserpool, intends to address requirements and

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Hal Murray
But seriously - it would be *nice* if the trade press scrutinized all the documents - but sometimes I wish the reporter would wave a cluon-flux meter over the press release.. Mabe we need some publicity. How about a working group to issue "Golden Fleece" type awards at each IETF meeting? We

Re: Recruiter ....

2000-09-27 Thread Danny McPherson
actually, it must have been a wider list, as i was included as a victim. i foolishly presume folk on the ietf list are net.savvy enough to know that wise folk do not do any business with spammers. their lack of ethics is likely not limited to email. Come on, this guy's a head hunter.

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Keith Moore
It's not merely that I-D's are already archived, albeit inconveniently and obscurely. yes, but IETF isn't (yet) maintaining public archives, so IETF doesn't (yet) have the liability of breaking its agreement to expire the draft after six months. I agree that anyone who expects an I-D to

Re: Head Hunter

2000-09-27 Thread Beth Shaw
It has been brought to our attention that there has been an issue raised on this alias that the alias has been spammed by Nexsi. Nexsi takes spamming very seriously and does not condone nor authorize it. If you have any questions or further concerns, please contact me directly. Regards, Beth

Proposal to deal with archiving of I-Ds

2000-09-27 Thread Eliot Lear
Greg, it is so rare that I disagree, but I'm seeing a pattern now of loss of institutional memory, and that scares me. This especially holds for bad ideas or transition documents. So here's what I propose to address the matter: Convert the I-Ds to ps or pdf files (something hard to change)

Re: Head Hunter

2000-09-27 Thread RJ Atkinson
At 21:09 27/09/00, Beth Shaw wrote: It has been brought to our attention that there has been an issue raised on this alias that the alias has been spammed by Nexsi. Nexsi takes spamming very seriously and does not condone nor authorize it. If you have any questions or further concerns, please

Re: Head Hunter

2000-09-27 Thread Danny McPherson
Actually, the reality is that this alias wasn't spammed. Someone [apparently] used information obtained from some apparently-IETF-associated list to send unsolicited messages to lots of folks that are associated with the IETF (in some form or another). Ran, does your company make it routine

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: Keith Moore [EMAIL PROTECTED] It's not merely that I-D's are already archived, albeit inconveniently and obscurely. yes, but IETF isn't (yet) maintaining public archives, so IETF doesn't (yet) have the liability of breaking its agreement to expire the draft after six months.

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-27 Thread Scott Bradner
Perhaps the IETF should consider adding an explicit warning to each I-D when it enters the archive: STATUS OF THIS MEMO: THIS DOCUMENT IS AN EXPIRED INTERNET-DRAFT. USE OF THIS MEMO FOR ANY PURPOSE EXCEPT AS A HISTORICAL DOCUMENT IS STUPID, WRONG, AND

[Off Topic] contracts and etc

2000-09-27 Thread Michael Oh
Below is a so called representation agreement I received but it has many ambiguities. Is this agreement clear to you why there's $25,000.00 fee assessed prior and why it can be prudently fined for any "unspecified damages without proof of actual damages" on a call of "any would be damages or