Re: national security

2003-12-06 Thread jfcm
Iljitsch, have we figures about the frequency of changes in the root file? Always wanted to check that, but since it is of interest on a substantial duration never did. The only serious figure I have is that ICANN decided that three months and half to update major ccTLD secondaries was OK

Re: SMTP compressed protocol...

2003-12-06 Thread ned . freed
Franck Martin wrote: While talking about HTML in e-mail messages that consume a lot of bandwidth... Why SMTP servers do not negotiate to send an 8bit compressed stream between themselves. Doesn't STARTTLS take care of that? Doesn't TLS support compression, to eliminate redundancy and resist

Re: Ietf ITU DNS stuff

2003-12-06 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
Jeffrey, Governments and ccTLDs: A Global Survey at http://www.michaelgeist.ca/geistgovernmentcctlds.pdf Column at http://shorl.com/fastokobruhako [Toronto Star] Think Web's virtually government free? Think again MICHAEL GEIST LAW BYTES This study is seems flawed.

Re: national security

2003-12-06 Thread Dean Anderson
I think there are three confluences which tend to support the notion of national root nameservers: 1) Root Server scalability 2) Foriegn distrust of US control on the internet 3) Isolation due to technical or political issues. On Fri, 5 Dec 2003, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 5-dec-03, at

Re: Re[3]: national security

2003-12-06 Thread vinton g. cerf
I don't know what jefsey means by IP zones Louis and I met in 1973 and his datagram ideas, sliding window ideas for flow control, influenced my thinking about TCP. Gerard LeLann, who worked in Louis Pouzin's group at IRIA came to Stanford in 1974 to work on the TCP and Internet. IEN 48 refers

Re: national security

2003-12-06 Thread Iljitsch van Beijnum
On 6-dec-03, at 23:04, Dean Anderson wrote: I don't think this stealth business is a very good idea. If you want a root servers somewhere, use anycast. That means importing BGP problems into the DNS, which is iffy enough as it is. That seems to argue against anycast... If there were 65 actual

Re: national security

2003-12-06 Thread Jaap Akkerhuis
have we figures about the frequency of changes in the root file? The serial # changes twice a day. The contents hardly as far as I can see. Always wanted to check that, but since it is of interest on a substantial duration never did. It is very easy to check. Just pull over the

Re: national security

2003-12-06 Thread Bill Manning
% % have we figures about the frequency of changes in the root file? % % The serial # changes twice a day. The contents hardly as far as I % can see. other contents change about three times a week. % jaap % % PS. I wonder how soon someone will tell me I shouldn't be feeding

Re: national security

2003-12-06 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Iljitsch van Beijnum) writes: ... (Selecting the best path is pretty much an after thought in BGP: the RFC doesn't even bother giving suggestions on how to do this.) congradulations, you're the millionth person to think that was an oversight. I don't have a problem with

Re: national security - proposed follow-up

2003-12-06 Thread grenville armitage
jfcm wrote: [..] I suggest we start a specialized WG with a clean shit study charter. Well you've come to the right place! Don't get it much cleaner than around here, that's for sure. gja