Re: The RFC xx99 Series

2013-10-08 Thread Mark Atwood
Hello. I would like to express my concern about retiring the xx99 RFCs. I think they still fill a need, especially over longer periods of time, and should not be discontinued. It was stated that they are no longer needed because up to date information is available online, and the RFC search

Re: A modest proposal...

2011-08-01 Thread Mark Atwood
On Mon, Aug 1, 2011 at 10:08 AM, Hadriel Kaplan hkap...@acmepacket.com wrote: Fascinating.  I had no idea that there even *was* such a phrase in common usage, let alone that there was known etymology for it.  One learns something new every day. But I meant it quite literally: a

Re: 6to4 damages the Internet (was Re:

2011-07-31 Thread Mark Atwood
of an intrusive 3rd party, while mere users and upstarts can only call connect(). Some people consider that a feature. I do not. It is, in fact, getting really hard to avoid assuming malice on the part of people who want to nail the world to the nat44 cross. .. Mark Atwood

Re: draft-housley-two-maturity-levels

2011-01-27 Thread Mark Atwood
This post would be much less confusing if you would name names, cite examples, and point fingers. The reason why so many documents are at proposed is that they're often collections of bloat (limited-use features with an aggresive requirements level) from various interest groups that is not

Re: Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employment status

2010-04-08 Thread Mark Atwood
On Thu, Apr 8, 2010 at 10:22 PM, Dean Willis dean.wil...@softarmor.comwrote: On Apr 8, 2010, at 7:01 PM, Stephan Wenger wrote: Hi Fred, Would you really expect me not to throw my weight (assuming there were one) behind the proposal I fought teeth and claws before—and damage my

Public musing on the nature of IETF membership and employment status

2010-04-06 Thread Mark Atwood
Much of what makes the IETF work is how it is very different from other standards bodies (such as IEEE, ANSI, ISO, NIST, ITU, etc etc). One key difference is that groups do not join the IETF. Cisco, IBM, MCI, or Linden Lab are not a members of the IETF. No agency of the US government, or of any

Re: T-shirts?

2010-03-30 Thread Mark Atwood
On Mon, Mar 29, 2010 at 11:19 PM, Lars Eggert lars.egg...@nokia.com wrote: On 2010-3-27, at 13:41, Ray Pelletier wrote: We have been working with an online vendor to allow t-shirts and other paraphernalia (coffee mugs, ball caps, etc) to be purchased. The rock concert design has been a

Re: Make the Internet uncensorable to intermediate nodes

2010-03-23 Thread Mark Atwood
On Sun, Mar 21, 2010 at 11:24 PM, Greg Daley gda...@netstarlogicalis.comwrote: I would actually not encourage IETF to work on such a technology as this, particularly in the lead-up to IETF Beijing. That would be a serious affront to our hosts. By as this, you are referring to both

Re: Why the normative form of IETF Standards is ASCII

2010-03-11 Thread Mark Atwood
.epub has a number of serious faults of its own, that are starting to be experienced as people are playing with it in wake of the iPad stuff. It's basically a dead end repackaging of an old HTML spec, and it has nobody working on getting it up to date, or working on it at all. On Thu, Mar 11,

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Mark Atwood
vinton g. cerf [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: At 01:01 PM 12/9/2003 +1200, Franck Martin wrote: What is wrong with ISOC? at the moment it is not well constituted to develop policy. This is a feature, not a bug. -- Mark Atwood | When you do things right, [EMAIL PROTECTED] | people won't be sure

Re: Can employers forbid you from talking about IETF activities?

2001-05-30 Thread Mark Atwood
can build from scratch an ISP in that environment, it is very different and very challanging compared to yet-another-huge-dialup ISP. The Cisco guy should not get any cred jsut because of the corporation name on his business card. -- Mark Atwood | I'm wearing black only until I find something

Multicast File Distribution protocols?

2001-02-21 Thread Mark Atwood
ISTR reading an RFC or ID awhile back about using multicast to distribute files to many hosts from a central server via multicast. But I'm having no luck today with the search engines, and can't find it again. Can anyone post a pointer? -- Mark Atwood | I'm wearing black only until I find

Better yet, let's not. (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Atwood
nteed to give ulcers and headaches to every firewall admin on the `net. Netmeeting? *spit* I used it for a year to "video telecommute". -- Mark Atwood | Freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom from choice. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Is that the freedom you want? http://www.pobox.com/~mra

Re: Suggestion

2000-10-19 Thread Mark Atwood
to get heavy. Too many sales and PHB presentations, probably.) -- Mark Atwood | Freedom from want, freedom from fear, freedom from choice. [EMAIL PROTECTED] | Is that the freedom you want? http://www.pobox.com/~mra

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-21 Thread Mark Atwood
quot; is unnecessary. -- Mark Atwood | It is the hardest thing for intellectuals to understand, that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | just because they haven't thought of something, somebody else | might. http://www.friesian.com/rifkin.htm http://www.pobox.com/~mra

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-19 Thread Mark Atwood
n the SMTP banner. Rescap Profile for Mail User Agents draft-hoffman-rescap-mua-02.txt November 20, 1999 -- Mark Atwood | It is the hardest thing for intellectuals to understand, that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | just because they haven't thought of something, somebody else | m

Re: IETF, ITU-T membership

2000-06-15 Thread Mark Atwood
nd show up at the meetings. -- Mark Atwood | It is the hardest thing for intellectuals to understand, that [EMAIL PROTECTED] | just because they haven't thought of something, somebody else | might. http://www.friesian.com/rifkin.htm http://www.pobox.com/~mra

Re: Crypto Advocate Under FBI Investigation (For Treason)

1999-12-02 Thread Mark Atwood
e agent you are talking to, he has peers and superiours who are clueless and looking for "points". The ONLY ONLY ONLY thing you ever say to a LEO is "no" and "speak to my lawyer". -- Mark Atwood | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.pobox.com/~mra |

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-11-30 Thread Mark Atwood
John Day [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Correct. Lets get an application name space so we don't need to worry about it. Please gods below, not more ASN.1 -- Mark Atwood | [EMAIL PROTECTED] | http://www.pobox.com/~mra |