A little comic relief.... was: RE: NATs as firewalls

2007-03-09 Thread Thomas Gal
. NAT sucks. You suck. /http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/ipv6.ars -Thomas Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 08, 2007 4:16 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: ietf@ietf.org Subject: Re: NATs as firewalls

RE: ASCII art

2005-11-21 Thread Thomas Gal
This is not to say that all RFCs do just fine with ASCII art. We have non-standards documents, which we want the outside world to read, that look silly with the current formatting restrictions. We live with projecting that visual clumsiness, as geeks often do. I understand this. But

RE: ASCII art

2005-11-21 Thread Thomas Gal
This is not to say that all RFCs do just fine with ASCII art. We have non-standards documents, which we want the outside world to read, that look silly with the current formatting restrictions. We live with projecting that visual clumsiness, as geeks often do. I understand this.

RE: Faux Pas -- web publication in proprietary formats at ietf.org

2005-11-08 Thread Thomas Gal
Actually quite a lot of people disagree. And this would HARDLY be considered a MS friendly venue, though clearly as someone mentioned you've got a gripe with Microsoft and not proprietary standards otherwise you wouldn't have mentioned PDF. On Sat, 05 Nov 2005 18:59:10 +0100, Brian E

RE: New lists (was: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against [...])

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Gal
I am particularly uncomfortable with the idea that we might consider unpopular, mis-guided, insistent, frequent and/or hard-to-understand posts to be an abuse of the IETF consensus process, as I am quite certain that I have fallen into many of those categories from time-to-time. from

RE: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Gal
Messages like I'm for this or I'm against this seem to be taking the form of a vote, when it seems to me that what's probably more appropriate would be an attempt at persuasion. Melinda Yes. We have an RFC with a procedure. I don't like the procedure, and will oppose it regardless is

RE: a new DNS root for the world?

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Gal
Actually the whole DNS caching and forwarding scheme is simply analagous to a nice and easy heuristic greedy algorithm. It's not perfect..but it's about the best you can do without being rediculous. -Tom The last time I had a reason keep a copy of the root file locally was back around

RE: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Gal
For example, consider two college roommates. One wishes to exercise his freedom of expression by listing to music until 3 AM in the morning (without the benefit of headphones, of course!). The other wishes to exercise his right to get sufficient sleep so as to be well rested

RE: On PR-actions, signatures and debate

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Gal
Well put. Actually I have yet to see ANYONE refute any of the examples Harald made about inappropriate acts. Nothing but I don't support this action universally. THAT sounds a lot like not tolerating disagreement. -Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL

RE: PR action against anyone [Re: Anyone not in favor of a PR-Action against Jefsey Morfin]

2005-10-07 Thread Thomas Gal
I'm sorry I didn't read these calm well thought out comments before I responded to some of the other posts. -Tom Hold on. To put it bluntly, you and some others have changed the topic to: we don't like RFC 3683. Now, that RFC is a BCP that was duly approved after IETF last call

RE: a new DNS root for the world?

2005-10-06 Thread Thomas Gal
Should _every_ Internet user (let count one billion) receive a personal copy of the root file every month, the decrease of root related traffic on the Internet would be by 90%. That the root server system works well, does not implies that the root servers system concept is still the best

RE: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against JefseyMorfin posted

2005-10-04 Thread Thomas Gal
Quote from RFC which I guess you didn't read: Q: Is this censorship? A: Only if you believe in anarchy. What is important is that the rules surrounding PR-actions exhibit the same properties used by the rest of the consensus-based process. Please do not make inferences

RE: quick comments over Harald's use of RFC 3683

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Gal
I believe I made quite a similar set of points off list to JFC soon after Harald proposed his 3683. I definitely agree that it appears there is a fundamental divergence between the mindset and protocols of this orgnaization and his ways. I guess it boild down to should we stop trying to pound this

RE: Petition to the IESG for a PR-action against JefseyMorfin posted

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Gal
(this should not go on [EMAIL PROTECTED], but for lack of a better list... please disregard if it bothers you) Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: Sure there is - create your own page, write your petition text, and ask people to sign up there. I'll even share the PHP code with you if

RE: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Gal
Michael Mealling writes: Because, particular codifications of it in the law aside, it represents a pretty good description of how human beings cognitively use names and words. No, it simply represents the way trademark holders force others to do their bidding. IP law is

RE: Reexamining premises (was Re: UN plans to take over our job!)

2005-09-30 Thread Thomas Gal
Michael Mealling writes: All very deployable and rather easy to build and setup... So is the current system. Why does it have to change? Well, given the origin of this thread, there are large numbers of users who consider the current system to be broken. More specifically, there

RE: Minority opinions [Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]]

2005-09-29 Thread Thomas Gal
At 13:32 29/09/2005, Brian E Carpenter wrote: They are both published, and obviously the consensus document is the one on the standards track. It exactly an example of the IETF publishing a minority opinion. Obviously, we couldn't publish two standards for the same bits. Dear Brian,

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Gal
Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk Note that I consider it irrelevant whether his position in this or any past instance turns out to be correct: it's the form, not the content, of his efforts that is the problem. S That is a perilous line of reasoning indeed. You're saying if I don't

RE: delegating (portions of) ietf list disciplinary process

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Gal
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On I'm interested to know whether people would see arguments for either or both of 1. An IETF Ombudsman (or Ombudscommittee), to act as a dispute mediator. 2. An IETF netiquette committee, to offload list banning

RE: [dnsop] [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Mismanagement of the DNSOP list]

2005-09-28 Thread Thomas Gal
Thomas Gal wrote: [..] I hope that being too forceful, stubborn, or persistent (NOT oblivious or ambivalent) doesn't become justification for reprimand. Since when have political conspiracy theories, allusions to impending legal action and references to other people's

RE: ISMS working group and charter problems

2005-09-06 Thread Thomas Gal
Actually, a Firewall Considerations section would make sense. Agreed. What would be in such a section? There are only three possibilities: 1. There is no firewall: no need for text. 2. There is a firewall, and it doesn't try to block the protocol: no need for text. 3. There is a firewall,

RE: Appeal: Publication of draft-lyon-senderid-core-01 in conflictwith referenced draft-schlitt-spf-classic-02 MARID[EMAIL PROTECTED]

2005-08-27 Thread Thomas Gal
Well clearly IANA won't accept 2 differing registrations that overlap on this matter. Certainly it is the IETF/IESG/IAB's job to rectify that incongruity? If the two proposals cannot come to a resolution regarding the differing interpretations of the DNS records then clearly they must be

RE: Keeping this IETF's schedule in the future...?

2005-08-03 Thread Thomas Gal
That's an easy one. It's because you're in Europe where the paradigm if you will of water is different. I think explicit arrangements would need to be made, while in the US water would be a given. T -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Samuel

RE: Excellent choice for summer meeting location!

2005-01-03 Thread Thomas Gal
Couple of questions: -What kind of city with a population of 75,000 has hotel accommodations for 2000 people unless it's a tourist Mecca and likely expensive and overbooked? -What kind of mass transit does your typical city of that size have? On that note, what kind of car rental capacity is it

Organizationed spam RE: [Sip] WiMAX Summit'05 - Paris - France

2004-12-15 Thread Thomas Gal
+q9bQOx/5ayEQLGFACeLMNxzQyiRwgB0n5KdxPHD0s3LxAAnRcl NfKI62xgIbF44qYivQyJ4Dmj =IY/A -END PGP SIGNATURE- From: Thomas Gal [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 10:05 AM To: 'Gunther Palmer' Cc: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' Subject: RE: [Sipping] WiMAX

RE: AdminRest: IASA BCP: Should IAB chair be a voting member of IAOC

2004-11-16 Thread Thomas Gal
Probably because people who are influental outside their organization should be curtailed. Say it's sufficient that you respect their opinion, and also know that they have enough to do that they should be giving rough opinions for actual voting members to ponder at length (i.e. read it once vs 3

RE: AdminRest: BCP and IASA IRTF support

2004-11-15 Thread Thomas Gal
A practical one when when budgets are tight? I don't see how this matters when the amount is so miniscule. I would note that we were able to have a RG meeting last week at a local university thereby obviating the need for ANY funding in that case, and this was done on the request of

Virus Found in message

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Gal
Norton AntiVirus found a virus in an attachment you (Ietf) sent to ThomasGal. To ensure the recipient(s) are able to use the files you sent, perform a virus scan on your computer, clean any infected files, then resend this attachment. Attachment: Joke.com Virus name: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Action

RE: RE: Oz Bar BoF @ IETF 61

2004-11-05 Thread Thomas Gal
What secret? That nobody in Australia actually drinks Fosters? -Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Greg Daley Sent: Friday, November 05, 2004 4:46 PM To: Eric Burger Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: RE: Oz

RE: Collecting media statistics for SIP calls?

2004-10-31 Thread Thomas Gal
I don't think that's really a SIP domain issue, though this may have been adressed somewhere that I'm not aware of. If you're using RTP to carry the audio than these statistics are derived from the RTP stream in the context of the sender (with you being the receiver) and the

RE: A new technique to anti spam

2004-10-28 Thread Thomas Gal
I think this discussion shoulg probably move to the Anti Spam Research Group list No? [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Tom [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, October 28, 2004 1:14 PM To: test

RE: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-19 Thread Thomas Gal
Wow... I hate it when elected politicans presume to speak for me. I will not sit quietly and let self-appointed individuals try the same. *DO NOT* tell me to my face that you are negotiating on my behalf or even just for 95% of the other people who write or have written

RE: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-15 Thread Thomas Gal
Faber wrote: On Tue, Oct 12, 2004 at 09:44:02PM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: On 12-okt-04, at 19:36, Thomas Gal wrote: and IP is on it's way out Please note that in the IETF the letters IP first and foremost mean Internet Protocol. To use them for something else

RE: isoc's skills

2004-10-13 Thread Thomas Gal
I think complete nonsense is a little extreme. Typically when you build something you hire a general contractor who is reponsible for the project THEY hire the individual contractors to do the tile and roof etc. I think all that's being put forth is an analogy. In this case it's

RE: Shuffle those deck chairs!

2004-10-12 Thread Thomas Gal
Comments inline Eric, We're not out to rid the world of patent-laden work, nor are we out to make patent owners rich. The IETF exists to promulgate relevant and correct standards to the Internet Community, and educate people on their intended safe use. There is a fine balance to be

RE: Alternative hotels in DC

2004-10-12 Thread Thomas Gal
Windsor Parl Hotel is .2 miles away. Orbitz worked pretty well finding a hotel on price, AND it ended up being right next door. Tom -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Saravanan Govindan Sent: Wednesday, October 06, 2004 9:38 PM To:

RE: Academics locked out by tight visa controls

2004-09-30 Thread Thomas Gal
You could have registered and read it by now. It takes anyone of us longer to explain the article then to just register for free.use a fake email if you're afraid (I think most of us have an email just for stuff like that). Lame, T Ps it's about how lame it is for people who can't get into

RE: Reviewing: draft-malamud-consultant-report-00.txt

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Gal
Exopounding on your last thought. I think it is very important that we come up with a central portal for this network of organizations that can provide a roadmap and point lay persons in the right direction. Even a unified search engine which comvers all of the sites would be useful. I think the

RE: Please help us revise of Tao of the IETF

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Gal
I think a doc like this should certainly be prominently featured somewhere, maybe even under the title, on our webpage. Whatever way anyone could come up with to get someone to read background on the org before blindly searching for an RFC or posting to a list would probably help A LOT of people.

RE: Please help us revise of Tao of the IETF

2004-09-07 Thread Thomas Gal
YeahI blew it.trying to do two things at once. I meant it in the context of my comment earlier today: Exopounding on your last thought. I think it is very important that we come up with a central portal for this network of organizations that can provide a roadmap and point lay persons in

RE: On the difference between scenarios A and B in Carl's report

2004-09-06 Thread Thomas Gal
Yes. Seems odd to have procedure for making procedures and everything else but nothing formal about an umbrella organization that sits between us and the real world. Seems counter to the well documented openess that seems to be a core tenent of everything else that goes on. -T -Original

RE: How IETF treats contributors

2004-08-30 Thread Thomas Gal
I agree with: This isn't suppose to be an ego trip. If people really think the documents are important, they don't need their names on them. If they need their name on it, they are doing it for the wrong reasons. Not to mention the spirit of removing authorship. In reality I feel like

RE: List of standards

2004-08-18 Thread Thomas Gal
Actually if you knew what it meant but weren't that familiar with the place of an RFC(someone who's read 2 specs or something) you would assume IMHO that an Internet Standard is NOT a request for comments. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of