RE: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Tony Hain
vinton g. cerf wrote: ... Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with governance To further your point, an area completely outside of ICANN's purview,

RE: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Stephen Kent
At 8:39 -0800 12/12/03, Tony Hain wrote: vinton g. cerf wrote: ... Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with governance To further your point, an area

RE: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Paul Hoffman / IMC
At 8:39 AM -0800 12/12/03, Tony Hain wrote: vinton g. cerf wrote: ... Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with governance To further your point, an

RE: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Tony Hain
Stephen Kent wrote: At 8:39 -0800 12/12/03, Tony Hain wrote: vinton g. cerf wrote: ... Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with governance

RE: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Tony Hain
Paul Hoffman wrote: At 8:39 AM -0800 12/12/03, Tony Hain wrote: vinton g. cerf wrote: ... Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with

Re[2]: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Tony Hain writes: FWIW: I specifically left out the business community because they always find a way to make money in whatever context the politicians create (even if it takes influencing the politicians to create a favorable context). You should leave out politicians, too, then, since they

Re[2]: ITU takes over?

2003-12-12 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Paul Hoffman / IMC writes: Absolutely agree with this sentiment. Anyone who starts an anti-spam proposal with All we need to do is digitally sign the {messages|SMTP transmissions}... is completely unclear on how little governance there is in this area. I agree, but isn't this what Yahoo

www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Simon Leinen
Ole J Jacobsen writes: Yep, works fine for me, Stef. Time to switch providers? :-) Time to disable ECN? $ telnet www.isoc.org 80 Trying 206.131.249.182... ^C : [EMAIL PROTECTED]; su Password: # ndd -set /dev/tcp tcp_ecn_permitted 0 # telnet www.isoc.org 80

Re: Re[2]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Scott Bradner
The real issue is whether an ECN bit is reserved, or not reserved. it's not reserved -- the ECN bits are assigned by RFC 3168 i.e. ECN is a proposed standard and the bits that it uses in the IP header are fully assigned Scott

Re: Re[2]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Thu, 11 Dec 2003 14:47:03 EST, [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Bradner) said: The real issue is whether an ECN bit is reserved, or not reserved. it's not reserved -- the ECN bits are assigned by RFC 3168 i.e. ECN is a proposed standard and the bits that it uses in the IP header are fully

Re: Re[2]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Scott Bradner
Yes, but if you're a firewall that stepped into a temporal stasis box before 3168 was published, you're still thinking that the bits are reserved, woe be to new applications through such a firewall Scott

Re: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Franck Martin
I cannot believe it ! I raised this thing to ISOC more than a year ago!!! I told them in person at INET in Washington too... They haven't done a dam thing since... If you look on the Internet there is a list of organisations not ECN compliant, you will find ISOC entry. How can such a

Re: Re[2]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Vernon Schryver
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Scott Bradner) Yes, but if you're a firewall that stepped into a temporal stasis box before 3168 was published, you're still thinking that the bits are reserved, woe be to new applications through such a firewall Yes, such junk no doubt has worse defects than

Re[4]: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Scott Bradner writes: woe be to new applications through such a firewall It's important to understand that the Internet is not monolithic, and no matter what the latest and greatest standards may be, there will always be parts of the Net that run older software. Expecting the entire Net to

Re: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Theodore Ts'o
On Fri, Dec 12, 2003 at 08:22:16AM +1200, Franck Martin wrote: I cannot believe it ! I raised this thing to ISOC more than a year ago!!! I told them in person at INET in Washington too... They haven't done a dam thing since... If you look on the Internet there is a list of

Re: www.isoc.org unreachable when ECN is used [was: Re: ITU takes over?]

2003-12-11 Thread Tim Chown
On Thu, Dec 11, 2003 at 03:48:44PM -0500, Theodore Ts'o wrote: Check the archives, this gets raised periodically, and ISOC is simply perenially unable to fix it. I think I raised some 12-18 months ago, and there has still gotten no action by ISOC. I think this falls in the so what else is

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-09 Thread Einar Stefferud
At this time on this date, I cannot get a connection to http://www.isoc.org. Have you ever gotten this connection? Can you get it now? Merry Christmas to all at your house;-)...\Stef At 16:50 -0800 12/8/03, Ole J. Jacobsen wrote: See http://www.isoc.org/ Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and

Re[2]: ITU takes over?

2003-12-09 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Einar Stefferud writes: At this time on this date, I cannot get a connection to http://www.isoc.org. Have you ever gotten this connection? It worked fine for me just now.

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-09 Thread jfcm
Dear Vint, You may guess that I am deeply involved in that prepartory issues and I probably can help with some (I will try) unbiased understandings (I am sorry if this hurts some) of what happens, focusing on ICANN and IETF. At 00:36 09/12/03, vinton g. cerf wrote: Content-Transfer-Encoding:

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-09 Thread shogunx
On Tue, 9 Dec 2003 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 05:37:18 EST, shogunx said: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, vinton g. cerf wrote: at the moment it is not well constituted to develop policy. No, but it well constituented to be. Is it only necessary that it be reconstituted.

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-09 Thread Masataka Ohta
Vint; Unfortunately, the discussion has tended to center on ICANN as the only really visible example of an organization attempting to develop policy (which is being treated as synonymous with governance). To be practical, considering that ICANN never acted as the authority of the Internet

ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Noel Chiappa
Just saw this online, and it seem apropos to recent traffic: A controversial plan to grant governments broad controls over the Internet has stolen the spotlight of a United Nations conference on IT next week, where China and Cuba will be among its strongest supporters. Leaders from

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Noel Chiappa writes: Anyone know more about this? Since it is being discussed in secret (with even ICANN excluded, apparently), it's hard to know more.

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread vinton g. cerf
There have been fairly intense discussions in a series of meetings called PrepComs as in preparatory committees leading up to the World Summit on the Information Society (WSIS) taking place December 10-12 in Geneva. In the most recent meetings, a government only rule was invoked that excluded

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread vinton g. cerf
Noel: 1. The Salt Lake Tribune: U.S. Net dominance questioned http://www.sltrib.com/2003/Dec/12082003/business/118003.asp 2. The Register: Internet showdown side-stepped in Geneva http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/34394.html 3. CNN Money: A potentially tangled Web?

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Eric A. Hall
On 12/8/2003 5:36 PM, vinton g. cerf wrote: The subject of Internet Governance has been a large focus of attention, as has been a proposal for creating an international fund to promote the creation of information infrastructure in the developing world. Internet Governance is a very broad

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Ole J. Jacobsen
See http://www.isoc.org/ Ole J. Jacobsen Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal Tel: +1 408-527-8972 GSM: +1 415-370-4628 E-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] URL: http://www.cisco.com/ipj On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Noel Chiappa writes: Anyone know more about

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Franck Martin
Hmmm, What is wrong with ISOC? Cannot it be this body, we are looking for? Cheers On Tue, 2003-12-09 at 11:36, vinton g. cerf wrote: There have been fairly intense discussions in a series of meetings called PrepComs as in preparatory committees leading up to the World Summit on the

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread vinton g. cerf
at the moment it is not well constituted to develop policy. v At 01:01 PM 12/9/2003 +1200, Franck Martin wrote: Hmmm, What is wrong with ISOC? Cannot it be this body, we are looking for? Vint Cerf SVP Technology Strategy MCI 22001 Loudoun County Parkway, F2-4115 Ashburn, VA 20147 703 886 1690

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[2]: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Anthony G. Atkielski
Franck Martin writes: What is wrong with ISOC? Cannot it be this body, we are looking for? ISOC membership is open to anyone. Very few governments are going to support an organization that does not restrict its membership to elite government representatives.

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread shogunx
On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, vinton g. cerf wrote: at the moment it is not well constituted to develop policy. No, but it well constituented to be. Is it only necessary that it be reconstituted. Scott v At 01:01 PM 12/9/2003 +1200, Franck Martin wrote: Hmmm, What is wrong with ISOC? Cannot

Re: ITU takes over?

2003-12-08 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 09 Dec 2003 05:37:18 EST, shogunx said: On Mon, 8 Dec 2003, vinton g. cerf wrote: at the moment it is not well constituted to develop policy. No, but it well constituented to be. Is it only necessary that it be reconstituted. The fact that cats could swim for long periods