The residential users don't need to have a globaly unique IP address.
That's like saying residential telephone users don't need to have a
phone number at which they can be reached. (after all, the purpose of
their residential phones is to call businesses for the purpose of
obtaining services,
I've attempted to update my summary of where everything is and placed it
on http://www.ietf.org/u/ietfchair/change-status.html
Because a cron job has to run before it's visible, it may be late in
arriving - if the date at the top says January 13, it's the new version.
A pre-production copy is
Hello all,
Sorry for opening this obvious can of worms (well, I think it has been
opened a number of times, so the worms are probably already gone
now..), but when considering how the IETF needs to change, it's
obvious that we'll first (unless we just stick to the relatively
safe changes, like
Pekka Savola [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
But as the vast evidence makes it clear, most ISPs do a very lousy job
of deploying networks *properly*, causing harm to the Internet as a
whole. Wouldn't it be somewhat in the IETF's business to try to give
advice (using BCP and Info documents) how to
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At 04:26 AM 1/17/2004, Pekka Savola wrote:
The purpose of the IETF is to create high quality, relevant, and
timely standards for the Internet.
I think I would state it in these words:
The Internet Engineering Task Force provides a forum for the
I'm not sure I see the ambiguities you assert.
Pekka Savola wrote:
[..]
- These are so overly broad statements that they're close to unusable
UNLESS you believe IETF is just a rubber-stamping standards
organization. For example, what constitutes deploying networks?
IETF certainly
