Re: Fw: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process rather than some

2006-09-14 Thread Tim Chown
Isn't he barred from posting here? On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:51:27PM -0700, todd glassey wrote: I am forwarding this on behalf of Dean Anderson. Thanks --Dean On Mon, 11 Sep 2006, Noel Chiappa wrote: From: todd glassey [EMAIL PROTECTED] Why cant the IETF and

Re: Fw: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process rather than some

2006-09-14 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Tim Chown wrote: Isn't he barred from posting here? If by he you mean Dean Anderson, yes. As I observed, the delete key is handy. Brian On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 07:51:27PM -0700, todd glassey wrote: I am forwarding this on behalf of Dean Anderson.

Re: Fw: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process ratherthan some

2006-09-14 Thread todd glassey
Really - so where is the magic list of all barred members? Todd - Original Message - From: Tim Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ietf@ietf.org Sent: Thursday, September 14, 2006 5:37 AM Subject: Re: Fw: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process ratherthan some Isn't he barred from

Re: Fw: Why cant the IETF embrace an open Election Process rather than some

2006-09-14 Thread Jeffrey Hutzelman
On Thursday, September 14, 2006 01:37:11 PM +0100 Tim Chown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Isn't he barred from posting here? Perhaps, but one of the checks against abuse of the ability to bar posters is that they can still get a point across if they can convince someone else to forward their

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-19 Thread Joe Touch
Joe Touch wrote: Tony Hain wrote: -Original Message- From: Tony Hain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'iab@iab.org'; 'iesg@ietf.org' Cc: 'ietf@ietf.org' Subject: Why? Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-18 Thread Joe Touch
Tony Hain wrote: -Original Message- From: Tony Hain [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, March 10, 2005 6:23 PM To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; 'iab@iab.org'; 'iesg@ietf.org' Cc: 'ietf@ietf.org' Subject: Why? Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT traversal crap???

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-15 Thread Brian E Carpenter
... Another concern I have is that, in an IPv6-only world, even if you eliminate NAT, there will still be firewalls, and those firewalls will frequently have the property that they block traffic coming from the outside to a particular IP/port on the inside unless an outbound packet has been

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-15 Thread Melinda Shore
On Tuesday, March 15, 2005, at 09:44 AM, Brian E Carpenter wrote: I think this is why we chartered MIDCOM in the first place. Yes, and midcom as currently specified does support firewall attributes. To get back to the broader questions, when we set out to do midcom and to address the general

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-15 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] 'A tremendous amount of work' is the fundamental point of my complaint. We are wasting valuable resources patching a hack. 'A tremendous amount of work' is the fundamental point of my complaint too. We are wasting valuable resources trying to

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Tom Petch
inline Tom Petch From: Kevin Loch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: nanog@merit.edu; ietf@ietf.org Sent: Friday, March 11, 2005 10:09 PM Subject: Re: FW: Why? As you know, the value of a network is roughly proportional to the square of the participants. The value of a network can depend on what

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Jonathan Rosenberg
inline. Tony Hain wrote: Joel M. Halpern wrote: This discussion seems to take as a premise the view that if we define applications only on IPv6, even though they could be defined on IPv4, that this will give people a reason to use IPv6. It also seems to take as a premise that if we don't define

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
On 10:46 14/03/2005, Tom Petch said: As you know, the value of a network is roughly proportional to the square of the participants. The value of a network can depend on what is on it, not how many or who. One useful (http/ftp/...) server can make a network worth accessing, worth paying for.

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Tony Hain
Jonathan Rosenberg wrote: ... I agree that ALGs are not the answer, and I believe the reasons for that are treated in: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-iab-nat-traversal- considerations-00.txt I have a fundamental problem with an IAB document that implies NAT provides a firewall.

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Pyda Srisuresh
Hi Tony, I have not been followign this thread at all. But, I did happen to look at this e-mail and decided to respond. Please see my comments below. Thanks. regards, suresh --- Tony Hain [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Jonathan Rosenberg wrote: ... I agree that ALGs are not the answer, and I

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Tony Hain
Pyda Srisuresh wrote: [suresh] Why is it a problem with what Jonathan said in the IAB document? It is true that traditinal NATs do inherently provide a limited firewall functionality. Jonathan did not say that NAT function implies full Firewall functionality. Also, what exactly do you

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-14 Thread Juergen Schoenwaelder
On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 04:09:18PM +0100, JFC (Jefsey) Morfin wrote: The solution is to find new externets to reboost the network. The Internet started as an overlay network over the telephony networks. It has been tremendously successful for various reasons and it is now even seeking to

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread shogunx
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005, Erik Nordmark wrote: Tony Hain wrote: Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT traversal crap??? FWIW I'm also concerned that we are doing too many different NAT traversal protocols. It should be sufficient to just define how IPv6 is tunneled

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Joel M. Halpern
This discussion seems to take as a premise the view that if we define applications only on IPv6, even though they could be defined on IPv4, that this will give people a reason to use IPv6. It also seems to take as a premise that if we don't define ways to work around NATs, people won't use the

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Noel Chiappa
From: Joel M. Halpern joel@stevecrocker.com The fact is that external evidence indicates that both premises are false. For a long time we tried ignoring NATs. ... As far as I can tell, following through on the kind of approach discussed here would simply make our

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
I have a totally different evaluation of the IPv6 issue I suggest you to consider. IPv6 was specified as IPv4 with larger addresses, this is what has been delivered and this is what is deployed by the RIRs and demanded by the market. One uses IPv6 as an extended IPv4 space. Any pressure for

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:04:52AM -0500, Joel M. Halpern wrote: Not needing NAT is a minor value add for IPv6. But we have already seen several major corporations publicly indicate that they intend to use NAT with IPv6, even though they can get enough public address space. Do you have

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Michel Py
Joel M. Halpern wrote: Not needing NAT is a minor value add for IPv6. But we have already seen several major corporations publicly indicate that they intend to use NAT with IPv6, even though they can get enough public address space. Tim Chown wrote: I assume the reason is lack of PI

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Ralph Droms
Would someone with first-hand knowledge of the reasons several major corporations publicly indicate that they intend to use NAT with IPv6 be willing to compare those reasons with the reasons listed in draft-vandevelde-v6ops-nap-01, and identify any reasons that might be missing from Gunter's

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Tim Chown
On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:35:21AM -0800, Michel Py wrote: The reasons are the same why they are currently using NAT with IPv4 even though they have enough public IPv4 address space. We have discussed these for ages; if my memory is correct, you are the one that convinced me some years ago

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread shogunx
On Fri, 11 Mar 2005, Tim Chown wrote: On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 07:35:21AM -0800, Michel Py wrote: The reasons are the same why they are currently using NAT with IPv4 even though they have enough public IPv4 address space. We have discussed these for ages; if my memory is correct, you are

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Michel Py
Ralph Droms wrote: Would someone with first-hand knowledge of the reasons several major corporations publicly indicate that they intend to use NAT with IPv6 be willing to compare those reasons with the reasons listed in draft-vandevelde-v6ops-nap-01, and identify any reasons that might be

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED] ento.ca.us, Michel Py writes: Ralph Droms wrote: Would someone with first-hand knowledge of the reasons several major corporations publicly indicate that they intend to use NAT with IPv6 be willing to compare those reasons with the reasons listed in

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Kevin Loch
Noel Chiappa wrote: I mean, it's now coming up on *11 years* since IPv6 was selected (i.e. back when the latest and greatest uSoft-ware was *Windows 3.1*, and the WWW had a grand total of about 3K sites), and still we hear the oh, it will take off soon - the same line we've been hearing for close

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread JFC (Jefsey) Morfin
At 22:09 11/03/2005, Kevin Loch wrote: If you really want to jump start n^2, find a way to convince the RIR's to require demonstration of IPv6 deployment for subsequent (non initial) IPv4 allocations. I fear that we overlook a point you make here: RIRs require demonstration. I suppose that if

RE: FW: Why?

2005-03-11 Thread Tony Hain
Joel M. Halpern wrote: This discussion seems to take as a premise the view that if we define applications only on IPv6, even though they could be defined on IPv4, that this will give people a reason to use IPv6. It also seems to take as a premise that if we don't define ways to work around

Re: FW: Why?

2005-03-10 Thread Erik Nordmark
Tony Hain wrote: Why are we wasting effort in every WG and research area on NAT traversal crap??? FWIW I'm also concerned that we are doing too many different NAT traversal protocols. It should be sufficient to just define how IPv6 is tunneled across NATs and start using more IPv6 in the