RE: Acronyms
Standard usage (in general, not just IDs and RFCs) is that if you're absolutely sure that your intended audience knows what you're talking about, you can omit the explanation, as I just did. s/intended audience/all reasonable audiences who may need the document/ randy
Re: Making the IETF meeting network more representative of the real world
I liked Tony Hain's suggestion that the future IETF terminal room/ wireless LAN ntworks should offer NATted IPv4 and plain IPv6, to better reflect the choices available to much of the world. i wish i could agree that they are, but the transition plan seems to have a lot of nats in it. sigh randy
Re: Grazing the commons
New ISPs have sold multihoming to customers as a way to gain market share against incumbents whenever they could yup. and they get the money. but, since they neglected to put paying the rest of us in the financial model, i presume they will excuse our not spending our critical resources to aid their income. life can be simple. randy
un-noticeable infrastructure
when expected infrastructure works, we tend not to notice it. so ietf51 attendees may not notice that the net works, the wireless has been up since friday evening, etc. along with not noticing it, we don't think of the folk who made it work. so, if you see the folk in bt blue, gary, christian, franco, ..., say thanks. [ no, this message was not meant to jinx the whole thing ] randy
RE: Any value in this list ?
from the outside, it appears as if microsoft consciously decided to distribute software with everything enabled so that their product would be perceived as very easy to use. the problem is that this means it is also easy to abuse. so the net is now paying for them having a more salable product. who gains, who is bearing the cost? randy
Re: Any value in this list ?
people who evidently live in a complete vacuum and have never heard warnings about executable content oh you mean 98% of microsoft's customer base. yup, that's they. and ms loves to sell to the naive. randy
Re: Any value in this list ?
it may come down to whether or not one believes in gun control. 99% of net users are innocent children. should we ship guns that are loaded and with the safeties off? randy
Re: Any value in this list ?
procmail is your friend
# thanks to Sematimba Noah K [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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* ^Subject:.*(Virus Alert$|Virus Notification: A virus has been detected|Antivirus
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Re: Comparison of ICAP and SOAP
seems like SOAP's first problem is layering on top of HTTP . not a necessity, just blinders of that community, a limitation derived from understanding only layer seven. randy
london hotel
in case you are having trouble with medium price hotels in london, from a friend, philip hazel, coming down from cambridge: --- Incidentally, I found a suitable 3-star hotel in London for only GBP 55 per night. wow! how far from paddington, where i gather we will be? Couple of blocks. Royal Eagle Hotel. Found it via www.hoteladvice.com. It's one of the deals on their London Hotels page. Looks to be maybe 10 minutes walk from the Hilton Metropole, where IETF is. (The other side of Paddington.)
Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel
I'm aware of that, but only one machine in the world can have a given IP address, and only one machine can have a given FQDN. both assertions are false
Re: Competing Domain-Name Registries Creating Tower of Cyber-Babel
plonk!
Re: I am a strong believer in the democratic process.
Absolute bullshit on both quotes. Sometimes lies become truths for those who believe hard and see that king is infact well dressed rather than naked. Sure, the quotes sound sweet and beckon the revolutionary on. But please spare us the propaganda or what you'd like to refer to as the mantra. The IETF Does not believe in running code. The IETF used to. Very rarely do ideas come into existence and working groups getting formed because someone has running code. The Anonymous IESG area director does not know how to feel rough consensus s/he knows how to feel the wind ... So before you put on your righteous hat and select justice look around you; blessed are they who sit on a pin-head, for they shall rise fast. another major contributor speaks from deep experience. much appreciated. smiley for dripping sarcasm badly needed randy
