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-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: interception proxies

2000-04-11 Thread Joe Touch
"BookIII, Robert" wrote: Joe, Am I to presume by your statement that you are of the mind that the time for considering whether vs. which has already come and gone? Is there anyone on this list who thinks that? With respect to 'inside the WG', yes, the assumption has been (to me)

Re: interception proxies

2000-04-11 Thread Joe Touch
... Joining that mailing list would not be useful, prudent, or honest for people with sentiments like mine. Moving the question of the wisdom of such proxies to WREC would be equivalent to moving the question of the wisdom of wiretapping to the wiretapping working group. At best the

Re: interception proxies

2000-04-11 Thread Joe Touch
FWIW, there _was_ discussion in WREC of the hazards of transparent web caching. I dug up an old e-mail, describing the hazards of transparent web caching which I summarized at the time, when WREC was forming. A copy of the note, admittedly very rough (just an outline, and a very rough one at

Re: vLANs vs VPNs

2000-04-18 Thread Joe Touch
At 12:02 PM 4/18/00 -0400, Michael B. Bellopede wrote: Virtual Private Network (VPN) and a Virtual LAN (VLAN) are two unrelated terms. VPN deals with security and connecting nodes in a private network across a public IP internetwork. Read RFC 1853 - IP Tunneling. 1853 is informational.

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-04-25 Thread Joe Touch
Daniel Senie wrote: Ian King wrote: From the reports I read, this was implemented by mapping phone numbers to some other tag (which the user doesn't see) which is used to get the calls to the proper carrier and ultimately to the proper user. Sounds a whole lot like using DNS to map

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-04-25 Thread Joe Touch
Anthony Atkielski wrote: Exactly ... but that's the magic of the variable address scheme. You only have to allocate disparate chunks in a fixed address scheme because the size of each chunk is limited by the length of an address field. But if the address field is variable, you can make

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-04-25 Thread Joe Touch
Anthony Atkielski wrote: I agree! Why create a finite anything when an infinite possibility exists? Exactly. If you designed an open-ended protocol, you're far less likely to ever have to rewrite it. PS - that's what we have version numbers for. Open-ended can sometimes mean "you

Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.

2000-05-31 Thread Joe Touch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 30 May 2000 23:33:13 EDT, Garreth Jeremiah said: Excuse me if this is answering the wron question here, but. This is just cycling through the clients "DNS Suffix search order", which is clearly set to: dept.other.edu Not necessarily. Resolvers also

Re: Security and suffixes (Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.)

2000-06-02 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: At 09:22 31.05.2000 -0700, Joe Touch wrote: It may be useful to distinguish resolver behavior from browser behavior. If the host has no more specific (explicit) resolver information, the current fully-qualified hostname, minus the first component

Re: Security and suffixes (Re: Cite on DNS-related traffic.)

2000-06-02 Thread Joe Touch
John C Klensin wrote: --On Friday, June 02, 2000 10:56 AM -0700 Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: The use of the trailing dot (www.netscape.com.) remains a useful way to force the resolver to avoid suffix extensions. And a useful way to induce massive confusion, since many

Re: Acronims' ambiquity

2000-06-08 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Lloyd, Just to review the actual facts one more time: The IAB is responsible for the RFC-Editor function under its charter, RFC 2850. At the IAB's request, the ISOC sub-contracted the RFC-Editor function to ISI. At the IETF's request (RFC 2026), the ISOC

Re: IETF Wireless LAN history

2000-06-29 Thread Joe Touch
"Theodore Y. Ts'o" wrote: Date: Thu, 29 Jun 2000 13:22:32 -0400 From: RJ Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] Actually, IETF has made IEEE 802.11-DSSS the convention for wireless LANs at all IETF meetings for some time now. This has been supported at least at Oslo, DC, Adelaide,

Re: IETF Wireless LAN history

2000-06-29 Thread Joe Touch
RJ Atkinson wrote: At 16:15 29/06/00 , Joe Touch wrote: DS appears to be better for large, flat spaces (largely 2-dimensional, under 3 stories tall, since transcievers on the middle floor largely cover the upper and lower). FH is better for more spherical spaces (largely 3

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Vernon Schryver wrote: think we mean having unincumbered availability of the common application protocols, email, http, ftp, ssh, ... that's not quite enough; in the UK we're seeing cable-modem ISPs attempt to restrict services to those applications, or to a subset of

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-07-06 Thread Joe Touch
Vernon Schryver wrote: From: Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] ... would pacbell filtering all multicast at all CPE equipemt fall into your bucket, where do you draw the line? At IP, as Bob Braden said. SMTP is _over_ IP. Multicast _redefines_ IP (or portions

Re: Defining Internet (or internet)

2000-07-07 Thread Joe Touch
TSIGARIDAS PANAGIOTIS wrote: I found this definition in the INTEROP Book of Carl Malamud. The Internet (note the uppercase "I') is a network infrastructure that supports reasearch, engineering, education, and commercial services. The word internet (with a lowercase "i") refers to any

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-25 Thread Joe Touch
Pete Loshin wrote: The last RFC I looked at, RFC 2917, has two (of four) references to "work in progress". No, they don't reference specific I-Ds, but we all know that "work in progress" is a code word for "some Internet-Draft" and we all probably have no serious problem tracking down

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: Eliminating Virus Spam

2001-01-03 Thread Joe Touch
RJ Atkinson wrote: At 19:07 03/01/01, Lloyd Wood wrote: I'd just bounce all emails with non-text attachments with a message requesting that attachments not be sent to the list, and that the message be resent as text. Simple. sufficient. Fully agree. There is no need to use any

Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-01-31 Thread Joe Touch
Ed Gerck wrote: Keith Moore wrote: I expressed an opinion that this group should confine itself to addressing short-term goals rather than trying to make NATs a part of the Internet architecture. NATs are already part of the Internet, and gaining share. An alternate perspective

Re: STD-2 is obsolete

2001-02-01 Thread Joe Touch
Brian E Carpenter wrote: Joe Touch wrote: ... Speaking of keeping standards, I am wondering why STD-2 is still RFC-1700, although the current version is kept by IANA at http://www.iana.org/numbers.htm . Very good question. I'll be glad to raise the issue with IANA; at least

Re: STD-2 is obsolete

2001-02-05 Thread Joe Touch
"Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" wrote: Joe Touch wrote: I was not aware that there was ever a proposed STD-1 I-D and/ or last call. STDs are labels of existing standard RFCs which go through the usual procedure. But, neither I was aware that there was ever an I-D and/or a

Re: Network Edge definition (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

2001-02-08 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Alvestrand wrote: At 09:17 08/02/2001 +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Anyway, I agree with Mr Gao that it will be usefull to have a distinguishing name for the last network element, something like ONE "outest network element" or END "edge netework device" or any other that may be

Re: Announcement: new email reflector for IP over InfiniBand

2001-02-15 Thread Joe Touch
Dan Cassiday - High End Server Systems wrote: This note is to announce a new IETF email reflector to discuss methods for running IP traffic over an InfiniBand fabric. A BOF on this subject has been proposed for the March IETF meeting. To join the reflector, send email to [EMAIL

Re: What is the differents between Switch and Router?

2001-03-16 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Alvestrand wrote: At 09:03 15/03/2001 +0800, huangjianbo wrote: I am working on a paper on router, but one problem blocked my process. That is what's the differents between a switch and a router for the view of theoritical. As to the 3 Layer switch and router, both of them work

Re: in memoriam

2001-10-18 Thread Joe Touch
to the Internet. :-) Joe Touch Director, PCEN

Re: participation in IETF meetings

2001-10-23 Thread Joe Touch
Kastenholz, Frank wrote: At 09:49 AM 10/23/01 -0400, RJ Atkinson wrote: The challenge is that some folks clearly do use the wireless LAN to download I-Ds to review precise text during the meeting discussing that particular I-D (in lieu of carrying paper around, I suppose), or for

Re: Printing Internet Drafts

2001-10-23 Thread Joe Touch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a question on how to print Internet Draft with the right pagination on Windows machine. Take the document below as an example, http://search.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-hain-msword-template-06.txt If I print this document from Internet

Re: Cable Co's view: NAT is bad because we want to charge per IP

2001-11-28 Thread Joe Touch
stanislav shalunov wrote: NAT is an ugly hack that's impairing people's connectivity, right? For some, it might be. Others find different faults with NAT. A highly unusual for an IETFer (and very disturbing) perspective of cable companies is provided in an article in CED magazine The CAT

Re: Cable Co's view: NAT is bad because we want to charge per IP

2001-11-29 Thread Joe Touch
Aaron Falk wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 07:44:49PM -0500, Michael H. Warfield wrote: On Wed, Nov 28, 2001 at 03:05:24PM -0500, Gene Hastings wrote: Using NAT to connect several of your own computers is one thing. Using it to connect your neighbors and buddies is quite another. Many ISP

Re: RFC2119 Keywords

2002-02-15 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Braden wrote: * I don't believe the intent of 2119 was to change the meanings of * should, must, etc., in RFCs, but rather to define new terms * SHOULD, MUST, etc., with specific new meanings. * * Keith * Keith's statement was certainly correct when we first

Re: Proprietary IP Protocol Type

2002-03-04 Thread Joe Touch
Vernon Schryver wrote: To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Proprietary IP Protocol Type From: Kuniaki Kondo [EMAIL PROTECTED] I am working on a distributed router and i want to run my own proprietary protocol inside over the IP layer. ... I also

Re: MPLS issues spam

2002-03-08 Thread Joe Touch
Andrew G. Malis wrote: Melinda, I sent an email to the anonymous yahoo ID identified as the mplsissues list owner to please identify him or herself, and to cease spamming IETF and other lists. I also completely agree with Randy's point. Posting to IETF lists should be restricted to

Re: MPLS issues spam

2002-03-08 Thread Joe Touch
Andrew G. Malis wrote: Joe, I also completely agree with Randy's point. Posting to IETF lists should be restricted to list participants. That's often harder to do than it appears, esp. for those who have multiple mail addresses from which they might reply, or for those on local

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-15 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Will not the spammers soon learn to send their spams with one of these addresses as bogus sender? You overestimate the spammers :-). Most probably have no idea what IETF is or that they're spamming an IETF list. I dunno. I've received several complaints from people

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-15 Thread Joe Touch
James M Galvin wrote: On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Joe Touch wrote: A nontrivial number of users utilize employer-independent email destinations, such as *@ieee.org, *acm.org, etc. I'm not willing to write-off that as ignorance of how email works. Sorry, you lost me here. I

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-16 Thread Joe Touch
Patrick R. McManus wrote: [James M Galvin: Fri, Mar 15, 2002 at 08:40:44PM -0500] On Fri, 15 Mar 2002, Joe Touch wrote: These are destination-only addresses, used for forwarding. I tried this with Mailman (presumably a modern application?), to which I had subscribed [EMAIL

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-16 Thread Joe Touch
Patrick R. McManus wrote: [Joe Touch: Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 11:21:28AM -0800] Lists for open discussion should require such hoops for participation, esp. when there are plenty of reasonable, sufficiently correlated identifiers than not a list member to identify spam. ... I think you're

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-16 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Lists for open discussion should require such hoops for participation, esp. when there are plenty of reasonable, sufficiently correlated identifiers than not a list member to identify spam. assuming you meant should not require I'm very much in agreement. Oops - typed too

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-16 Thread Joe Touch
Patrick R. McManus wrote: [Joe Touch: Sat, Mar 16, 2002 at 02:03:22PM -0800] Patrick R. McManus wrote: ... The e2e-interest blacklist is new. It appears to be a reaction to the embarrassing amount of spam that that list has redistributed over the last couple of years It's a little over a year

Re: IETF Meetings - High Registration Fees

2002-03-17 Thread Joe Touch
Marshall Rose wrote: This is something I have discussed with several people and every one seems to agree. The current registration fee of $575 is outrageously high. Even though IETF claims to be an open forum with no membership fee - you need $575*3=$1725 per year for registration fee alone for

Re: IETF Meetings - High Registration Fees

2002-03-17 Thread Joe Touch
Marshall Rose wrote: Joe - since you replied to my note rather than bonney's, i am obliged to reply. Unlike both of you, i am not expressing an opinion on the fees. What i am saying is that neither of you have any data. I had data - from other conferences. Granted, I'm asserting there

Re: TCP Checksum Interoperability

2002-04-05 Thread Joe Touch
Rob Austein wrote: The last time this came up for a TCP implementation I used to maintain, our interpretation of Robustness Principle applied to this problem dictated that we shouldn't send segments with checksum fields set to all ones (that is, we shouldn't send ~(+0)), but that we had to

Re: How many standards or protocols...

2002-04-16 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Hinden wrote: Ran, Proprietary is a commonly used term to describe something that does not have a full, complete, and open specification -- which is the current state of IS-IS. Now folks (including me) are trying to fix that issue by publishing sundry non-standard RFCs on

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-29 Thread Joe Touch
John C Klensin wrote: Hi. I've recently had another close encounter with the patent system and notions of prior art. It occurs to me that we could make a slight modification to the Internet Draft structure and encourage including an additional bit of information that would be quite

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-29 Thread Joe Touch
Lloyd Wood wrote: Given that a large number of drafts, including even draft-bradner-submission-rights-00.txt currently end in a boilerplate saying copyright (year) or an out-of-date year because the boilerplate has been cut and pasted from a previous draft, it would be impossible to rely

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Touch
Peter Deutsch wrote: g'day, John C Klensin wrote: . . . Please, folks, I am _not_ trying to restart the discussion of archival I-Ds. Personally, I remain opposed to the idea, and I believe that they should be treated as drafts and discarded. If they result in an RFC, then the RFC

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: if respecting the author's wishes isn't reasonable or practical, it might be that you live in a pretty warped world. Or a courtroom (or will). These aren't just wishes; there are valid copyright issues. Joe

Re: joe, turn it off!

2002-07-14 Thread Joe Touch
Randy Bush wrote: joe touch and crew, please turn it off Jul 15 13:01:45 roam /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) As I said at 10:30, and will repeat, this is the result of an arp cache that hasn't been flushed. An arp cache that we don't control, most likely

Re: joe, turn it off!

2002-07-14 Thread Joe Touch
Randy Bush wrote: joe touch and crew, please turn it off Jul 15 13:01:45 roam /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) As I said at 10:30, and will repeat, this is the result of an arp cache that hasn't been flushed. An arp cache that we don't control, most likely on a router

Re: joe, turn it off!

2002-07-14 Thread Joe Touch
Randy Bush wrote: We did (at 9:30am, minutes after the problem was detected). It didn't go away. Now be an engineer and show us a trace. a bit hard when it is broken arp packets Jul 15 11:47:27 roam /kernel: arp: unknown hardware address format (0x0800) Jul 15 11:47:27 roam /kernel:

Re: MBone

2002-09-23 Thread Joe Touch
Kevin C. Almeroth wrote: It only requires being on a non-IGMP'd switch or a hub; at that point, you can snoop the traffic and see any packet going to any multicast group. It's much harder to snoop UDP; for non-broadcast, you'd have to be in-line (on the wire, effectively) or on a hub. While

Re: MBone

2002-09-23 Thread Joe Touch
Kevin C. Almeroth wrote: Multicast is necessarily a LOT weaker: 1) I can get a copy of packets by normal operation (join a group). there is no equivalent for UDP, notably for paths that aren't shared. Again, not in all cases. You over-simplify the effectiveness of scoping.

Re: MBone

2002-09-24 Thread Joe Touch
Gary E. Miller wrote: Yo Joe! On Fri, 13 Sep 2002, Joe Touch wrote: Without a dobut you are right, though I think the degree of difference is awful small. Through hosts with root on switches or through wireless into the mix and you are back to being roughly equivalent. Hosts with root

Re: MBone

2002-09-24 Thread Joe Touch
Gary E. Miller wrote: Yo Joe! On Mon, 23 Sep 2002, Joe Touch wrote: root has no problem seeing adjacent UDP even on a switch. Just overflow the arp cache or poison it. That all presumes the switch doesn't detect this as an attack and shutdown that link, which is an entirely reasonable

Re: MBone

2002-09-24 Thread Joe Touch
Kevin C. Almeroth wrote: Multicast is necessarily a LOT weaker: 1) I can get a copy of packets by normal operation (join a group). there is no equivalent for UDP, notably for paths that aren't shared. Again, not in all cases. You over-simplify the effectiveness of scoping.

Re: MBone

2002-09-24 Thread Joe Touch
Joe Touch wrote: Gary E. Miller wrote: ... Barring that, please name ONE switch, or cite ONE credible reference source, where arpspoofing is prevented at the switch by any means short of harcoding the MACs. Practical != economical. Further, there are MACs which are hardcoded (i.e

Re: MBone

2002-09-24 Thread Joe Touch
Matt Crawford wrote: Barring that, please name ONE switch, or cite ONE credible reference source, where arpspoofing is prevented at the switch by any means short of harcoding the MACs. Never mind, even hard-coding the MACs to the right ports doesn't solve the problem. Eve on port X can keep

Re: TCP/IP Terms

2002-09-30 Thread Joe Touch
Bill Cunningham wrote: - Original Message - From: Michel Py [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: Bill Cunningham [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 30, 2002 1:28 PM Subject: RE: TCP/IP Terms Bill, Bill Cunningham wrote: I think the main goal is to compete with OSI's

Re: anyone remember when the root servers were hi-jacked? (fwd)

2002-11-01 Thread Joe Touch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] would be a fine place to discuss this further, as it is (by definition) about (albeit recent) Internet history ;-) Joe Craig Simon wrote: I've got a lot of information on this which I'd be happy to share and exchange, but I still need and want more details. I'm not sure the

Re: Root Server DDoS Attack: What The Media Did Not Tell You

2002-11-25 Thread Joe Touch
. or give me proof of your claims? How about proof of the hi-jacking? (sauce for the gander) Until then, please keep your attacks those who are still able to defend themselves. Joe Touch Director, Postel Center for Experimental Networking USC/ISI

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Joe Touch
Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: ... IETF SUB-IP area ... Although the SUB-IP working groups have made considerable progress (with 7 RFCs published, another 12 IDs approved for publication, 9 IDs under IESG consideration and an additional 11 IDs having been passed to the ADs for their

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-05 Thread Joe Touch
Danny McPherson wrote: 3. The I in IETF means that the IETF shouldn't be working sub-IP anyway. Many of these discussions (layer 2 VPNs, in particular) would be better served by occuring within the context of their original host organization (i.e., IEEE for ethernet over

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Touch
Eric Rosen wrote: Joe Many of these discussions (layer 2 VPNs, in particular) would be better Joe served by occuring within the context of their original host Joe organization (i.e., IEEE for ethernet over IP), since it was those Joe organizations that defined those LANs, and

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-06 Thread Joe Touch
Scott W Brim wrote: On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 08:15:16AM -0800, Joe Touch allegedly wrote: Eric Rosen wrote: IEEE is certainly not the right place to determine how to carry ethernet data and control frames over IP networks. They defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how

Re: IETF Sub-IP area: request for input (fwd)

2002-12-07 Thread Joe Touch
Danny McPherson wrote: They defined ethernet. It is they who would best determine how to carry ethernet over another protocol and keep current ethernet correctness. Sure, but what about IP network correctness (e.g., security or congestion control)? Security isn't an IP issue; it's an IPsec

Re: a personal opinion on what to do about the sub-ip area

2002-12-09 Thread Joe Touch
Scott Bradner wrote: for what it's worth here is my personal opionion on what we should do in the question of the sub-ip area I think we should go with the status quo (with the IESG selecting two volunteers to manage the area next March) I do not think that we can make a reasoned decision to do

Re: a personal opinion on what to do about the sub-ip area

2002-12-09 Thread Joe Touch
Vach Kompella wrote: Let's also let the VRRP WG decide on the fate of SIP WG documents, the CALSCH WG decide on the fate of OSPF WG docs... Let's particularly ignore the fact that the folks closest to the issues have the most interest in getting the best possible outcome. We don't let WGs

Re: Reminder: Deadline for input on sub-ip discussion

2002-12-09 Thread Joe Touch
I'm in favor of 1/ 3/, again, seems contradictory. The status quo is that it disappears. Continuing it without a fixed end date is to subversively result in 2/ without a clear charter definition and Nomcom participation. To be specific, I don't think 3/ should be on the table, at least not

Re: a personal opinion on what to do about the sub-ip area

2002-12-10 Thread Joe Touch
Eric Rosen wrote: Keith In my experience, IESG has tremendous breadth - considerably Keith exceeding that of any single WG. You must be joking. Or perhaps you just mean that you tend to agree with the IESG's program of trying to preserve the academic, ivory tower vision of the

Re: a personal opinion on what to do about the sub-ip area

2002-12-10 Thread Joe Touch
Yakov Rekhter wrote: Paul, Er, toning down the rhetoric a bit, it is worthwhile to ask two questions: - Does keeping the WGs in one area help significantly? - Does keeping the WGs in the IETF help significantly? I think it would be worthwhile to ask the following three questions: I do too.

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread Joe Touch
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It sort of had to start happening. Marriott apparently aims to provide wireless access at 400 hotels in Germany, the U.K. and the U.S. FWIW, wireless access != being on the Internet Many places use NATs and/or firewalls, or require registered MAC addresses (some

Re: Wireless in future meetings

2002-12-20 Thread Joe Touch
John Stracke wrote: Pekka Savola wrote: I would imagine that the IETF as _customers of the hotel_ can do pretty much what it wants. Depends on Marriott's contract with Wayport--it probably specifies some degree of exclusivity. But Wayport might be happy to grant an exception when they

Re: followup discussion

2003-03-13 Thread Joe Touch
Dave Crocker wrote: Folks, For some reason, we continue to make followup discussion a matter of accident, rather than facilitation. In line with Don's suggesttion: We ought to make sure that all I-Ds and RFCs contain contact information, not just for the authors, but also for the group

Re: WG review: Layer 2 Virtual Private Networks (l2vpn)

2003-06-19 Thread Joe Touch
Vach Kompella wrote: Melinda, As a process kind of thing, I'm also concerned about the growth of the temporary sub-IP area, so I think there are issues here with both the work itself and in how the IETF goes about taking on and structuring its work. And proposals have been made to dismantle

Re: literature review [ was: blah blah blah ]

2003-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Hinden wrote: Randy, as bernard pointed out a while ago, the lack of a review of, and reference to, the [should be] known literature is notable in many classes of ietf work and an embarrassing number of internet drafts. ... and email messages, to wit: I think the expression that applies to

Re: arguments against NAT?

2003-12-02 Thread Joe Touch
Zefram, Our take on why NATs are bad is at: http://dsonline.computer.org/0207/departments/wp4icon.htm And our method for undoing what a NAT does, called TetherNet is at: http://www.isi.edu/tethernet and paper about it is at: http://www.isi.edu/touch/pubs/discex03-tethernet/ (Contact me if you

Re: arguments against NAT? - what breaks

2003-12-02 Thread Joe Touch
Doug Royer wrote: Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: NAT has obvious disadvantages. ... ... Chat and instant messaging services will fail, and there is no way to get them to work with NAT. So far I have not been able to get chat or instant messages services to fail because of NAT. (Not that I

Re: arguments against NAT?

2003-12-02 Thread Joe Touch
Melinda Shore wrote: ... I'm not sure if you're arguing that there should be a comprehensive document presenting the technical problems introduced by NATs. I suspect there should be, although frankly this is one particular area where there's a clear and growing divide between this community and

Re: arguments against NAT?

2003-12-03 Thread Joe Touch
Michel Py wrote: Joe Touch wrote: Since we've been lacking a similar non-NAT solution, we (ISI) built one called TetherNet, as posted earlier: http://www.isi.edu/tethernet What is this beside a box that setups a tunnel? What's the difference with: http://www.cisco.com/en/US/tech/tk583/tk372

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-13 Thread Joe Touch
Eric A. Hall wrote: On 1/12/2004 9:03 PM, Noel Chiappa wrote: IPv6's only hope of some modest level of deployment is, as the latter part of your message points out, as the substrate for some hot application(s). Somehow I doubt anything the IETF does or does not do is going to have any affect

Re: Death of the Internet - details at 11

2004-01-13 Thread Joe Touch
John C Klensin wrote: Noel, I'm slightly more optimistic along at least two other dimensions... ... (2) The no servers unless you pay business rates, and its close relative, you don't get to run VPNs, or use your own email address rather than ours nonsense you and many others are experiencing

Re: power in Korea..

2004-02-25 Thread Joe Touch
Matt Holdrege wrote: I am shocked that the IETF didn't rewire downtown Seoul to accommodate our conference! The next thing we'll hear is that our TDMA phones won't work. Or that they don't have TGI Friday's within easy walking distance. :-) About phones: You can use a tri-mode CDMA USA phone

Re: IESG review of RFC Editor documents

2004-03-29 Thread Joe Touch
Keith Moore wrote: Okay, I read draft-iesg-rfced-documents-00.txt regarding a proposed change in IESG policy regarding RFC-Ed documents. I'm opposed to the change, because I believe it would make it too easy for harmful documents to be published as RFCs. As someone who has been waiting over

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-03 Thread Joe Touch
Michael Richardson wrote: One thing to consider, is having a web server which, when asked for: http://www.ietf.org/ref/rfc0791.txt redirects to: http://www.ietf.org/std/std005.txt STD-5 is a nice choice - it actually refers to 6 different RFCs. So which one redirects to

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-04 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Braden wrote: * * And what happens when a STD is updated/revised? * * Joe Joe, Unnnh, let me guess. Update the web pointer to the new RFC(s)? Bob Braden I was thinking of the case where 791 - STD3 In which case when STD3 points to a new RFC, papers citing STD3 would be

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-04 Thread Joe Touch
Bob Braden wrote: * * * Bob Braden wrote: * ** ** And what happens when a STD is updated/revised? ** ** Joe * * Joe, * * Unnnh, let me guess. Update the web pointer to the new RFC(s)? * * Bob Braden * * I was thinking of the case

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Touch
Michael Richardson wrote: Valdis == Valdis Kletnieks [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Valdis But anyhow, if we ever update STD005, we'll just do the Valdis obvious - create STD079 or whatever we're up to, stick an Valdis Obsoletes: STD005 on it, and stick an Obsoleted By: Valdis STD079

Re: STD series of documents

2004-06-07 Thread Joe Touch
Michael Richardson wrote: Joe == Joe Touch [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: One thing to consider, is having a web server which, when asked for: http://www.ietf.org/ref/rfc0791.txt redirects to: http://www.ietf.org/std/std005.txt Joe STD-5 is a nice choice - it actually refers to 6

Re: Problem of blocking ICMP packets

2004-06-17 Thread Joe Touch
Mike S wrote: At 12:34 AM 6/16/2004, Sally Floyd wrote... Alberto Medina, Mark Allman, and I have a draft paper on Measuring the Evolution of Transport Protocols in the Internet that has a section (Section V.B.) on Path MTU Discovery. From the paper: Table X shows that PMTUD is used and succeeded

Re: List of standards

2004-08-19 Thread Joe Touch
Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Why is the list of internet standards so hard to find? It seems to me this list deserves top ranking on the first page at www.ietf.org, but that's certainly not the case. (Try to find it and see what I mean.) It deserves top ranking on search engines; knowing that

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-10 Thread Joe Touch
Carl Malamud wrote: You could do an opt-out period, say 6 months, before publishing the database. With sufficient publicity, say periodic reposting of the opt-out announcement on the ietf list, this seems to strike a balance between the unspecified policy of the past and a new policy for the

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
Spencer Dawkins wrote: Dear Harald-the-General-AD, Can we PLEASE do as Melinda says - change the policy now for new drafts? That may have a chilling effect on new drafts. I.e., this isn't as simple as let's just change it now for future stuff. IMO, changing the policy would indeed be making

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-11 Thread Joe Touch
Carl Malamud wrote: Hi Scott - Thanks for pointing out the proceedings. Having the i-d's published there certainly demonstrates how futile it is to pretend that we can erase history. The position that Bill Manning and Joe Touch are taking reminds of when I was ordered by the Secretary-General

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Kai Henningsen wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Joe Touch) wrote on 11.09.04 in [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Spencer Dawkins wrote: Dear Harald-the-General-AD, Can we PLEASE do as Melinda says - change the policy now for new drafts? That may have a chilling effect on new drafts. I.e., this isn't as simple

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Christian Huitema wrote: -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Joe Touch Sent: Sunday, September 12, 2004 10:42 AM To: Kai Henningsen Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: archives (was The other parts of the report Kai Henningsen wrote: Joe

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Melinda Shore wrote: On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 04:02 PM, Joe Touch wrote: It's still unclear - the document contains required wording about its expiration, under the same document. The two statements are in conflict in that regard. I have some problems with retroactively changing

Re: archives (was The other parts of the report....

2004-09-12 Thread Joe Touch
Melinda Shore wrote: On Sunday, September 12, 2004, at 06:03 PM, Joe Touch wrote: Even the IETF distinguishes between normative refs and non-normative (though it has a penchant for wanting to redefine those words too). Private correspondence is not citable as a normative ref, nor

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