Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin
Dear Paul, Thank you for your response even if it is not to the question asked. I never made any proposal. I have listed suggestions made by different parties (I certainly takes seriously) to address real life problems of immediate security for nations subject to catastrophe, war, international

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread Karl Auerbach
On 1 Dec 2003, Paul Vixie wrote: ICANN's obligation is to guarantee to the public the stability of DNS at the root layer. i disagree... From ICANN's own bylaws: The mission of The Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) is to coordinate, at the overall level, the

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread Masataka Ohta
Paul Vixie; The switch to anycast for root servers is a good thing. again there's a tense problem. there was no switch to anycast. the last time those thirteen (or eight) ip addresses were each served by a single host in a single location was some time in the early 1990's. So? Service by

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread vinton g. cerf
karl, ICANN has responsibility to do what it can to make sure the DNS and ICANN root system work. It does not have to disenfranchise the RIRs and the root servers to do this. vint At 12:02 AM 12/1/2003 -0800, Karl Auerbach wrote: Verisign will wave the flag of bias and ask ICANN to

U.S. Anti-spam Bill and the IETF

2003-12-01 Thread Yakov Shafranovich
This is from the ASRG list, it seems that the new U.S. Federal anti-spam bill mentions IETF explicitly. Yakov Original Message Subject: [Asrg] 6. Proposals - Legal - Subject labelling (?) Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2003 10:22:51 + From: Jon Kyme [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: ASRG [EMAIL

ICANN but I CAN'T, sometimes

2003-12-01 Thread Dan Kolis
Any formal body has to have some jurisdiction in which it is constituted. One can argue whether California non-profit law is better or worse than being a UN entity. I believe there are arguments against the latter as much as there may arguments against the former. The IETF is about as close as

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread Paul Vixie
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin) writes: Most of all when the hacker seats in the Oval Office, what is the solution? Kaspurcheff was not the only root hacker to be known. Jon Postel was too. good bye, sir. -- Paul Vixie

Re[2]: national security

2003-12-01 Thread Philip J. Nesser II
On Fri, 28 Nov 2003, Anthony G. Atkielski wrote: Iljitsch van Beijnum writes: In the multi6 (multihoming in IPv6) working group, as one of many proposals, we've been looking at putting a 64 bit host identifier in the bottom 64 bits of an IPv6 address. If such a host identifier is

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread John C Klensin
--On Monday, 01 December, 2003 07:24 -0500 vinton g. cerf [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: karl, ICANN has responsibility to do what it can to make sure the DNS and ICANN root system work. It does not have to disenfranchise the RIRs and the root servers to do this. Vint, I would go even further than

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread Michael H. Lambert
Dear jfc, As far as I can tell, you have gone only by your initials on this thread. To help some of us weigh this discussion, could you please identify yourself by name and affiliation? Regards, Michael Lambert --- Michael H. Lambert Network Engineer Pittsburgh

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread jfcm
At 22:21 01/12/03, Paul Vixie wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] (J-F C. (Jefsey) Morfin) writes: Most of all when the hacker seats in the Oval Office, what is the solution? Kaspurcheff was not the only root hacker to be known. Jon Postel was too. good bye, sir. -- Paul Vixie Dear Mr. Vixie, Things

Re: national security

2003-12-01 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Alas for this rosy vision, ICANN *tried* to boss the RIRs and get them to sign contracts agreeing to pay it and obey it, but they balked. So all credit to the RIRs - and none to ICANN - on this one. On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, John C Klensin wrote: --On Monday, 01 December, 2003 07:24 -0500