Re: Request for community guidance on issue concerning a future meeting of the IETF

2009-09-18 Thread Matt Crawford
On Sep 18, 2009, at 10:42 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: We are therefore asking for input from the community by two means - by commenting on the IETF discussion list, ... I'm trying to imagine the thought police remaining calm during a plenary such as the one at Danvers. I can't quite picture

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-31 Thread Matt Crawford
Let's assume that there is a FooBar server in SiteA. If another node in SiteA (NodeA) is communicating via a multi-party application to a node in SiteB (NodeB), and wants to refer NodeB to the FooBar server in SiteA, what does it do? I thought we agreed, completely outside of IPv6 concerns,

Re: Thinking differently about the site local problem (was: RE: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...))

2003-03-31 Thread Matt Crawford
All right, how do you make internal site communications completely oblivious to a change in your externally-visible routing prefix? You declare that any app that keeps connections around for more than some time period T (say for 30 days) have a mechanism for detecting and recovering from

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-28 Thread Matt Crawford
I suspect that most people there, who voted for the elimination ... At my first IETF meeting I received a T-Shirt, courtesy of Marshall Rose, I believe, that said We reject kings, presidents and voting... The real tragicomedy of this situation is that someone considered it fitting and proper

Re: site local addresses (was Re: Fw: Welcome to the InterNAT...)

2003-03-27 Thread Matt Crawford
Yes, there was mention of site local as a license to NAT, but there where many other arguments: leakage through IP, DNS or application; the lack of practicality of several restrictive models for site locals; the possibility or not to use other solutions for isolated sites; and the complexity

Re: IAB policy on anti-spam mechanisms?

2003-03-12 Thread Matt Crawford
I see your point. But I suspect it illustrates a significant limitation of the SSL/TLS protocol - in that SSL/TLS seems to assume that an IP address and port number are used by only one named service. It's been awhile since I looked at the TLS protocol but I don't recall any way for the

Re: IAB policy on anti-spam mechanisms?

2003-03-12 Thread Matt Crawford
Not quite inherent -- if you verify against a SubjectAltName dNSName you can decide the certificate is valid for many domains. Yes, this is true in theory, but I want to know how you're going to get VeriSign to issue you a certificate with subjectAltNames corresponding to a bunch of

Re: IAB policy on anti-spam mechanisms?

2003-03-12 Thread Matt Crawford
There's no reason a protocol can't be spec'd to let the client convey the name of the resource before the TLS handshake begins. no, there isn't. but it still wouldn't give the client a way to verify that the server is authoritative for that domain. ironyIf it isn't, your trust in the CA

Re: IAB policy on anti-spam mechanisms?

2003-03-12 Thread Matt Crawford
Not clear. SMTP can relay a single copy of a message to multiple recipients at multiple domains. Your suggestion would force a separate TLS session, or a separate SMTP session, for every distinct recipient domain. Yes, that's true, but that's inherent in the one certificate model.

Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Crawford
Dr. Einstein would like a word with you about your casual misuse of the word simultaneously. __ Matt Crawford [EMAIL PROTECTED]Fermilab

Re: Bind 9 AXFR Modification vs AXFR Clarification

2003-02-21 Thread Matt Crawford
draft-ietf-dnsext-axfr-clarify-00.txt Nominum Inc. March 2000 Seems to be 3 years ago. I remember when people thought OSI protocols took too long to standardize... :-) $X is a slow-moving parody of itself. -- Peter

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-13 Thread Matt Crawford
An interesting subject for a thesis: The Porn and The Internet. Sub-titled The Beauties and The Beasts ? Watch it. One fuzzball joke and I am outta here.

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-09 Thread Matt Crawford
Does anybody have a reference on an authorization scheme that doesn't imply any authentication? You will deliver the satchel to the one who presents the matching half of this hundred-euro note.

Re: Does anyone use message/external-body?

2002-11-15 Thread Matt Crawford
However, this raises a question: does *anyone* use external-body in association with I-D announcements? I access new I-Ds and RFCs through the message/external-body subparts of the announcement, and I sometimes send out documents of my own (not always IETF-related) using the same mecahnism. I

Re: Multihoming in IPv6

2002-11-12 Thread Matt Crawford
Just how fully worked was IPv6 when the IETF picked it? I clearly remember ipng area directors barging into wg after wg exhorting them to ship whatever they had done, and never mind the rest. We can always fix it when we go to draft was the rationalization of the complaisant

Re: [isdf] RE: Palladium (TCP/MS)

2002-10-31 Thread Matt Crawford
No. You can trace back to the fact that the signed data was at the same ^ a hash of place as the private key, at the same time. I've seen people *who operate CAs* lose sight of the fact that it's the hash

Re: MBone

2002-09-23 Thread Matt Crawford
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 up a steady stream of

Re: ARPOP_REQUEST with spoofed IP address (joe, turn it off!)

2002-07-22 Thread Matt Crawford
On Sat, 20 Jul 2002 10:41:02 +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: therefore, it is unsafe to transmit ARP_REQUEST with spoofed IP source address - it will overwrite ARP entries of neighbors. (He meant sender address, of course) Valdis Kletnieks said: This is,

Re: Speaking about experiments in a live network...

2002-07-15 Thread Matt Crawford
Since the most frequent SSID is pulver.com, I interpret this as the knife dripping with blood (but then Jeff could still be innocent even if the knife is engraved with his DNS name :-). You mean, it could be a case of media-layer FRAMING?

Re: TCP Checksum Interoperability

2002-04-05 Thread Matt Crawford
and RFC791 claims ttl is in seconds, ergo I don't have to decrement ttl because I know my traffic is on paths less than a second long. Cool reasoning. You lose -- 791 says you have to subtract at least 1 from TTL even if. However, I think that (A) most or all extant IPv4 routers violate

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-03-28 Thread Matt Crawford
however, it may be useful for folks to actually read the draft before making comments... thus far, i've only seen two folks with comments who claim to have actually read the thing. OK, here's a new data point: I read it all and I have no comment. It is neither more nor less than it purports

Re: Sponsorship (was Re: IETF Meetings - High Registration Fees)

2002-03-19 Thread Matt Crawford
essentially all of the work done at meetings happens in the hallways, restaurants, and bars - when small groups of people get together ... Yes, I see. So much for the myth of an open process.

Re: Sponsorship (was Re: IETF Meetings - High Registration Fees)

2002-03-19 Thread Matt Crawford
essentially all of the work done at meetings happens in the hallways, restaurants, and bars - when small groups of people get together ... Yes, I see. So much for the myth of an open process. I'm willing to place bets that a *very* large chunk of things accomplished in the

Re: PPP

2002-02-28 Thread Matt Crawford
DIVFONT face=3DArial size=3D2In what layer is PPP in the TCP/IP= =20suite?/FONT/DIV/BODY/HTML Layer 271828

Re: Vernon Schryver

2002-02-28 Thread Matt Crawford
Don't feed the troll If he'll believe that gravity is an illusion caused by neutrinos pushing in from space ( http://amoureternalcom/oti/gravity/page1htm ) he'll believe anything Anything, that is, except the voice of reason Which as *we* all know, is seldom found OnTheInterNet (Just wait

Re: Plenaries at IETF 53

2002-01-17 Thread Matt Crawford
I think two plenary's is a good idea. If we seriously used the time on friday, thus making thursday night more legitmate to schedule staying in town, that would help. also would mitigate the horrible double booking of wg meetings I think devoting Thursday night to a plenary is one factor

Re: Blue Sheet Etiquette

2001-12-16 Thread Matt Crawford
IEEE 802.11 / 802.15 meetings have solved this by attaching a helium ballon to their equivalent of the blue sheets. That way everyone can see where they are and if they have gotten hung up. That's a fun solution to the more general problem of slow blue-sheet propagation. For the name

Re: trying to reconcile two threads

2001-11-29 Thread Matt Crawford
It seems to me that these two can't both be true. IP Addresses cannot at once be scarce enough to charge for and non-scarce enough that scarcity is a non-issue. Does anyone else see something schizoid about this discussion? Not I. I, as an end user or small site, cannot use just any IP

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

2001-11-28 Thread Matt Crawford
However, the fact that a customer doesn't behave according to the ISP's assumptions does not inherently mean that the customer is stealing service - unless the customer has contractually agreed to limit the use of his internet service. Have you looked at any of these ISP's contracts? Just

Re: Printing Internet Drafts

2001-10-24 Thread Matt Crawford
do away with pre-formatted pagination. rely on section numbers for references. Then you would keep tables and ascii-art diagrams from being split ... how?

Re: Deja vu all over again (53rd IETF)

2001-05-09 Thread Matt Crawford
From http://www.ietf.org/meetings/0mtg-sites.txt: Spring 2002 - 53rd IETF March 17-22, 2002 Location: Minneapolis, MN Host: TBD We could have wished for nicer weather, but everything else went pretty well there.

Re: Carrier Class Gateway

2001-04-25 Thread Matt Crawford
Not just a lock, but there's a bridge to worry about; passing under it at low tide is your height limit. i would imagine the problem would be at high, not low, tide. oops. mea culpa. Not at all. On a trip between oceans, waiting less than 12 hours for a favorable tide is probably

Re: Carrier Class Gateway

2001-04-20 Thread Matt Crawford
Please suggest me place or a Document where i can get some information about " Carrier Class Gateway". There is no such thing. Neither the Panama Canal, the Suez Canal, nor any other man-made waterway has locks large enough to accommodate a modern aircraft carrier.

Re: bandwidth (and other support) required for multicast

2001-03-30 Thread Matt Crawford
Open standards is a fine thing, but you have to have some implementations and common use before it really matters. And let's not forget what the goal was: allow people to remotely participate (for some value of "participate"). Cool! Where can I get this free two-way interactive RealAudio

Re: Deja Vu

2001-03-29 Thread Matt Crawford
Let's see, the price is right, the convention center has plenty of room, there are loads of hotel rooms nearby. Hmm. Sounds great! OK, I'll bite: Kuala Lumpur which we just used for APRICOT 2001. Five-star hotel, the Pan Pacific $63 per night. Let's see, with the higher airfare and

Re: MIME Format

2001-03-26 Thread Matt Crawford
I want to give you the benefit of the doubt. So, a gentle reminder. There are women out here too. He doesn't appear to be a native English speaker; I doubt that he meant to exclude women. He probably meant "people" or "folks" rather than "men." I expect he speaks English better

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-many-gmpls-architecture-00.txt

2001-03-02 Thread Matt Crawford
Title : Generalized Multi-Protocol Label Switching (GMPLS) Architecture Author(s) : P. Ashwood-Smith et al. Wow. An I-D with 25 authors. I see we're starting to emulate the experimental physics community! Noel, this falls so

Re: Short sequences (Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1))

2001-02-07 Thread Matt Crawford
Is that a bit of chauvinism, Harald? :-) D. Belsnes, "Single-Message Communication," IEEE Transactions on Communication, Vol. TCOM -24, No. 2, pp. 190--194, February 1976.

Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

2001-01-04 Thread Matt Crawford
Please point to an example of a useful multipart message seen in this list or that might someday be useful in this mailing list. I have sent to wg lists a multipart containing a preamble and an internet-draft or similar file. This makes it easy for recipients to save the draft as-is.

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-19 Thread Matt Crawford
If DNSSEC were deployed, I see no reason why SAs could not be bound to domain names. Well, there are all those load-distributing hacks -- Akamai and others. But I bet they could come up with a huge flesh-tone bandaid so you would continue not to notice. On a good day.

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-18 Thread Matt Crawford
What is technically wrong with v6 that isn't already technically wrong with v4? Thank you, Perry, you've put it in a nutshell. Noel Excellent. We've agreed that IPv6's problems are a subset of IPv4's. Now until we have a concrete design proposal for a perfect world, can

Re: What is the IETF? -- A note of caution

2000-12-14 Thread Matt Crawford
But in retrospect, one thing he said bothered me greatly. He mentioned there were representatives of some five hundred different organizations at this meeting. That too is impressive. But it's that word "representative" I find disquieting. We are here not as corporate

Re: Internationalization and the IETF (Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?)

2000-12-07 Thread Matt Crawford
If the world had asked you or me to design an international language, I think either of us would have done better. Don't be too sure. Even today, there are no more speakers of Esperanto than of Mayan.

Re: How many cooks?

2000-12-04 Thread Matt Crawford
Is the IETF now competing with scholarly journals in the race for ``most authors on a single paper''? (No offense intended to the parties listed above, but you'll pardon me if I get a little uncomfortable with the idea of a 29-page document having 26 official authors.) Relax. For

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: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )

2000-08-17 Thread Matt Crawford
What'd be better is for SOME organization, perhaps IANA, setting up one provider-sized block of addresses for early adopters to USE. Hey, great idea! RFC 2471: This document describes an allocation plan for IPv6 addresses to be used in testing IPv6 prototype software. These addresses

Re: Deployment vs the IPv6 community's ambivalence towards large providers

2000-08-17 Thread Matt Crawford
Consider the rather nasty attitude in response to my technical deployment and utilization-scenario related Sean, you knowingly and deliberately wasted people's time all week with your nonsensical suggestions (as evidenced by your first message's label "Fuel for the B Ark") ...

Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 Thread Matt Crawford
Phone numbers have moved from being direct as originally implemented to being a level of indirection, thanks to a lot of behind-the-scenes mucking about. The Internet introduced DNS to gain that same level of indirection. Phone numbers are now portable; DNS names are portable. I don't agree

Re: Sequentially assigned IP addresses--why not?

2000-08-11 Thread Matt Crawford
Does this mean that every router will have to handle 2^48 routing table entries and that this vast amount of information must be sent over the internet on every routing table update? Salavat In a word, no. In two words, Hell no! See RFC 2374.

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-03 Thread Matt Crawford
Also heard at the IETF: In the plenary session the chair denied the existence of Ireland.

Re: Domain name organization recommendation

2000-07-24 Thread Matt Crawford
Its already set up link that, Not that I can ever recall seeing a .us. you have now. - Bill And what was that nonsense they were spewing about www.state.us? And if .us is "unusable", how did it get to be the third most common country-code domain,

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

2000-06-22 Thread Matt Crawford
Did the IESG depricate IP over Avian Carrier when I blinked? And the draft on IP over seismic waves is due any day now. Consider the possibilities of a neutrino beam -- no media costs and lower latency than direct point-to-point fiber.

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

2000-06-19 Thread Matt Crawford
actually I'd settle for well-defined mandatory labelling - at the SMTP level for big volume spammers and at the 822 level for everyone. Perhaps a future First Lady Tipper Gore will try to help you out there, as she did for the consumers of recorded music. Around here, we've been warned

Re: Acronims' ambiquity

2000-06-07 Thread Matt Crawford
* 'RFC editor publishes' argument becomes less quibbly and arguably * more futureproof.) The RFC Editor agrees with the futureproofing, ... folks have them buried in scripts, and pragmatic continuity is more valuable to the IETF membership than quibbling. In other words, it's easier

Re: asynchronous audio conferencing at www.wimba.com

2000-05-22 Thread Matt Crawford
As a linguistic exercise, you might reconcile this message, which you get when you refuse to grant their applets read/write/delete/execute access to all your files: In order to run the Wimba forums application, you will need to grant our applet a certain number of privileges. Our applet is

Re: interception proxies

2000-04-12 Thread Matt Crawford
you quoted, you'll see that "source address" does not mean the first address in the fixed part of the IP header, but the address in the "route data" provided by the source. ______ Matt Crawford

Re: I-D nroff macros

2000-01-04 Thread Matt Crawford
Alan, I'll send you my internet-draft nroff macros under separate cover. (There's probably some internet obscenity law forbidding the unsolicited transmission of nroff source.) Matt