Broadband? Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Michael Painter wrote: A coupla' years ago, the FCC defined Broadband as 200Kbps and above. Hmm different jurisdiction but Tiscali NTL seems to think broadband is as low as 100Kbps http://www.tiscali.co.uk/products/broadband/3xfaster.html?code=ZZ-NL-11MR

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Sean Donela n writes: In reality, CALEA is a funding bill; it has very little to do with technology. There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also access without involving telco personnel, and possibly the ability to do many more wiretaps (have you looked

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread David Lesher
Speaking on Deep Background, the Press Secretary whispered: Any provider of wire or electronic communication service, landlord, custodian or other person furnishing such facilities or technical assistance shall be compensated therefor by the applicant for

where is whois.arin.net?

2004-06-19 Thread Jon Lewis
whois.arin.net appears to have been down for at least the past hour or two. Anyone know what happened or an ETR for it? ARIN seems to block ping/traceroute at their border, but www.arin.net is still usable. The web frontend to whois at www.arin.net seems nonfunctional at this time as well.

ARIN whois server offline ?

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Tancsa
Reachability to the network seems OK, but the server seems to time out. marble% whois -h whois.arin.net 220.175.8.27 whois: connect(): Operation timed out marble% marble% traceroute whois.arin.net traceroute to whois.arin.net (192.149.252.43), 64 hops max, 44 byte packets 1 iolite4-fxp2

Re: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists

2004-06-19 Thread Hank Nussbacher
At 04:32 PM 18-06-04 -0500, Stephen Sprunk wrote: Thus spake Daniel Golding [EMAIL PROTECTED] The amount of money the FBI would need to spend to tap a VoIP call is highest with the first option, intermediate with the second, and lowest with the last. Some services companies are really

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-19 Thread Michael Froomkin - U.Miami School of Law
Just curious. How much would it differ from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=icannwatch-20path=tg/detail/-/0262134128/qid%3D1041619276/sr%3D1-1 and http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf ? On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Jonathan Slivko wrote: Maybe try these guys?

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-19 Thread Peter H Salus
I will admit to only thinking about this for a few days. However, it seems to me that the Harvard material is rather narrowly focussed both on a temporal and on a topical level. I am an admirer of Froomkin's essays, and have published at least one of them (in the distant past when Matrix News

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: There's a lot more to it than that -- there's also access without involving telco personnel, and possibly the ability to do many more wiretaps (have you looked at the capacity requirements lately), but funding is certainly a large part of it.

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Hannigan, Martin
It's not just a funding bill. It provided $500MM for carrier network upgrades and for switch software compliance. That fund has been exhausted from what I have been told. It also clearly defined technical expectations that carriers and manufacturers have to live up to. All that being CALEA

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-19 Thread Paul Vixie
Just curious. How much would it differ from http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/redirect?tag=icannwatch-20path=tg/detail/-/0262134128/qid%3D1041619276/sr%3D1-1 and http://www.law.miami.edu/~froomkin/articles/icann.pdf as i said, it can't be written by an ambulance-chaser or nobody will

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-19 Thread Alexei Roudnev
(read it only today, so sorry if I repeat something). The technical roots of the problem are: proposed services VIOLATES internet specification (which is 100% clean - if name do not exist, resolver must receive negative response). So, technically, there is not any ground for SiteFinder - vice

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Hannigan, Martin
Sean, the capacity requirements aren't as straightforward as you are interpreting them. If you are a CLEC and you cover a full five state area in the Northeast, you probably are subject to a county aggregate of a capacity requirement of 1500. You would then look at your historicals, refer to

Re: Verisign vs. ICANN

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
Hi Alexei, I do not believe there is any technical spec prohibiting this, in fact that DNS can use a wildcard at any level is what enables the facility. I think this is a non-technical argument.. altho it was demonstrated that owing to the age and status of the com/net zones a number of

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Niels Bakker
* [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Shultz) [Fri 18 Jun 2004, 21:42 CEST]: Pay for it? If I remember from CALEA, the providers pay for it (and eventually their customers), and as for broadband Internet providers... I'm guessing anyone who offers end user customers a circuit bigger than 53.333k. Pet

Re: Broadband? Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Stephen J. Wilcox [19/06/04 16:38 +0100]: On Fri, 18 Jun 2004, Michael Painter wrote: A coupla' years ago, the FCC defined Broadband as 200Kbps and above. Hmm different jurisdiction but Tiscali NTL seems to think broadband is as low as 100Kbps In India, it is anywhere over 64 Kbps,

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Hannigan, Martin wrote: Sean, the capacity requirements aren't as straightforward as you are interpreting them. You are absolutely correct, they are not that straightforward. You should consult a telecommunications attorney with expertise in this area for legal advice.

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Hannigan, Martin
-Original Message- From: Sean Donelan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 19, 2004 8:39 PM To: Hannigan, Martin Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists] On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Hannigan,

Re: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Stephen Sprunk
Thus spake Niels Bakker [EMAIL PROTECTED] * [EMAIL PROTECTED] (Jeff Shultz) [Fri 18 Jun 2004, 21:42 CEST]: Pay for it? If I remember from CALEA, the providers pay for it (and eventually their customers), and as for broadband Internet providers... I'm guessing anyone who offers end user

Justice Dept: Wiretaps should apply to Net calls

2004-06-19 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
The battle rages on, apparently. The more things change, the more things stay the same, it would seem. ;-) This is from this past Wednesday --I'm surprised that I somehow overlooked it and only just now saw this. http://www.cnn.com/2004/TECH/internet/06/16/telecoms.voip.reut/index.html FYI,

Re: Justice Dept: Wiretaps should apply to Net calls

2004-06-19 Thread Fergie (Paul Ferguson)
I guess the Akami hoopla caused me to overlook it, but one more thing: I always did like John McCain. His quote: Since it is a breakthrough technology, there's going to be a lot of china broken. Shake, rattle, roll. Same as it ever was. - ferg -- Fergie (Paul Ferguson) [EMAIL PROTECTED]

real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
Howdy, Is there any place where people with experience dealing with DDoS attacks hang out? I'm getting very little assistance from my upstream beyond call whomever is in charge of each IP attacking and make them stop, and even though we null route the destination IP being attacked, this traffic

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Laurence F. Sheldon, Jr.
Charles Sprickman wrote: even though we null route the destination IP being attacked, this traffic will be billed.

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Jonathan Slivko
Hmmm. Maybe if NANOG had irc.nanog.org, maybe that might be something to consider - a real-time network of communication for network operators to deal with issues, etc. -- Jonathan On Sat, 19 Jun 2004 22:04:36 -0400 (EDT), Charles Sprickman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Howdy, Is there

RE: [Fwd: [IP] Feds: VoIP a potential haven for terrorists]

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Cade,Marilyn S - LGCRP wrote: Jim Dempsey's testimony at Senator Sununu's hearing is very interesting, and very educational on these issues. CALEA was not written for the IP world. When CALEA was being written, the Internet, IP and information services were all debated.

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jonathan Slivko wrote: Maybe if NANOG had irc.nanog.org, maybe that might be something to consider - a real-time network of communication for network operators to deal with issues, etc. There's always http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/nsp-security -- srs

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jonathan Slivko wrote: Maybe if NANOG had irc.nanog.org, maybe that might be something to consider - a real-time network of communication for network operators to deal with issues, etc. There's always

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Rubens Kuhl Jr.
Is there any place where people with experience dealing with DDoS attacks hang out? I'm getting very little assistance from my upstream beyond call whomever is in charge of each IP attacking and make them stop, and even though we null route the destination IP being attacked, this traffic

S.2281 Hearing (was: Justice Dept: Wiretaps...)

2004-06-19 Thread John Curran
The particular hearing that set this all off is the Senate Commerce Committee's review of S.2281 (VoIP Regulatory Freedom Act) that took place on last Wednesday, and in general, the hearing has a higher content to noise ratio than the resulting press coverage. The agenda and statements of the

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Mike Lewinski
Charles Sprickman wrote: Is there any place where people with experience dealing with DDoS attacks hang out? I'm getting very little assistance from my upstream beyond call whomever is in charge of each IP attacking and make them stop, and even though we null route the destination IP being

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Christopher L. Morrow
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jonathan Slivko wrote: Maybe if NANOG had irc.nanog.org, maybe that might be something to consider - a real-time network of communication for network operators

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Charles Sprickman
On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: which of your 2 upstreams isn't helping out? I'm fairly certain both providers have security groups, and do mitigate attacks for customers on a regular basis. Perhaps you are not getting in touch with the correct customer service folks? We

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Charles Sprickman wrote: I don't want to go too much into it, but HE.net, once they supplied me with the proper channels immediately null-routed the IP, hurrah! I'm waiting on the answer as to whether we get billed or not for this traffic. One other way to get a hold of clueful contacts,

Re: real-time DDoS help?

2004-06-19 Thread Bubba Parker
I could host and/or setup the irc server if anyone is interested. On Sun, Jun 20, 2004 at 03:23:06AM +, Christopher L. Morrow wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Charles Sprickman wrote: On Sun, 20 Jun 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, Jonathan Slivko wrote:

Re: S.2281 Hearing (was: Justice Dept: Wiretaps...)

2004-06-19 Thread Sean Donelan
On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, John Curran wrote: S.2281 takes the middle of the road position in areas such as lawful intercept, universal service fund, and E911. At a high-level, those VoIP services which offer PSTN interconnection (and thereby look like traditional phone service in terms of

Re: S.2281 Hearing (was: Justice Dept: Wiretaps...)

2004-06-19 Thread John Curran
At 12:06 AM -0400 6/20/04, Sean Donelan wrote: On Sat, 19 Jun 2004, John Curran wrote: S.2281 takes the middle of the road position in areas such as lawful intercept, universal service fund, and E911. At a high-level, those VoIP services which offer PSTN interconnection (and thereby look

Re: S.2281 Hearing (was: Justice Dept: Wiretaps...)

2004-06-19 Thread Henry Linneweh
if the pro-ported bad guys are so swift why would they use anything packaged anyway? They have engineers and scientific minds in their ranks that understand devices, boards and the likes and could simply create their own data centers and simply use new protocols to communicate over the public