Re: ATT CDPD

2005-07-09 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Alex Rubenstein wrote: > AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as > mandated by tge FCC. I think the date actually got pushed back to '08, but I've not heard anything about requiring CDPD. -- JustThe.net - Steve Sobol / [EMAIL PROTECTED] / PGP

Re: ATT CDPD

2005-07-09 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Fri, 8 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD > sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me > to 1xRTT, ?? AT&T doesn't use CDMA... so they wouldn't be running 1xRTT. EDGE, perhaps? -- JustThe.net

Re: DNS .US outage

2005-07-09 Thread Steven J. Sobol
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Michael Painter wrote: > In case other Win users aren't aware: > > http://www.samspade.org/ssw/features.html Do be aware that the WHOIS functionality is out of date - it doesn't know to search whois.publicinterestregistry.org for .ORG domains, for example. The source code

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread James R. Cutler
Actually, many naming and addressing management experts consider that the existence of a root defines a unique namespace. Also, the issue of authority for a namespace is a distinct and separate issue from affection for that authority. Cutler At 03:52 PM 7/9/2005, John Palmer (NANOG Acct)

Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

2005-07-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
On 09/07/05, Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > The second issue with boycotting, is the false positives. > > No, the *point* of the boycott is the "false positives". ISPs *will* react > when their general users find themselves unable

Fwd: [IGOVAP] A plan to hostile take over .ID domain management

2005-07-09 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
An interesting situation here. Budi operates ID-CERT, and has been ccTLD manager since 1997. APJII is the ISP association of Indonesia, have been a registrar so far. Apparently, according to this email, they also want to be registry, and perhaps also get NIR status, as they would like to allo

Re: London incidents

2005-07-09 Thread Sean Donelan
On Thu, 7 Jul 2005, Gadi Evron wrote: > I wonder, has anyone ever prepared a best practices paper of some sort > as to what can be expected in cases of big emergencies and mass > hysteria, for networks? Yes, there have been several studies and papers about what happens to networks during public e

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 14:52:23 CDT, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" said: > No public RSN that cares about its credibility will create collisions. Ergo, ICANN doesn't care about its credibility, because it created a .BIZ. Except that at the time, the people who had the .BIZ that got collided with had

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
No William, we are talking about multiple roots, NOT separate namespaces. There is one namespace. There cannot be collisions. Inclusive roots do not create collisions - only ICANN has done that so far. There are people who have a great disagreement about how ICANN is going about its business. Th

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
No one real DOS attack can create traffic, sugnificant for core routers (except one - two worm cases when millions of computers generated random traffic). I do not see a problem there. All problems you are talking about are resolved in modern CPU industry, resolved in modern servers, Router vendo

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, John Palmer (NANOG Acct) wrote: Repeat after me - COLLISIONS ARE BAD! We all agree with that. But you can't avoid collisions with multiple namespaces. This is exactly why Internet needs IANA - to avoid collisions in TLD names, used ip addresses, protocol parameters, etc.

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
- Original Message - From: "Todd Vierling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Jay R. Ashworth" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:51 PM Subject: Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse > > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > I'm going to dive in one more

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
- Original Message - From: "Stephen J. Wilcox" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 12:45 PM Subject: Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse > > I didnt realise it was that time of year again already, it feels li

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Todd Vierling
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > > "infrastructure at risk". Justify this *far-reaching* statement, > > > please. Show your work. > > > > AlterNIC overriding .COM and .NET listings, one of the issues leading to its > > demise. (This was done in addition to the more memorable cach

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 01:51:46PM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: > On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > > It's not the *root* operators that are the problem -- it's the *TLD* > > zone operators. > > Oh, I can certainly agree with that; we've seen some gross abuses of TLDs > documented in go

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread David Lesher
>From safely on the sidelines; I have a minor point to interject into the tale. See, I've heard that OMB's official's name mentioned in regards to some other projects -- usually prefixed by "^*&^#%@&^#$" or similar bits. Before you hock the kids' college fund to invest in [IPV6 supplier's IPO];

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:45:38PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > Those who consider ICANN the authority would disagree, I believe those > are the majority. Incidentally, Steve, clearly the USDoC NTIA is *not* in that majority. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 06:45:38PM +0100, Stephen J. Wilcox wrote: > Still its nice to see all the old kooks still alive and well and not > yet locked up in mental homes. I'd better do my part to feed the > trolls i guess... Ok, from what *I* can see, the people arguing *against* the topic are th

Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID)

2005-07-09 Thread william(at)elan.net
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote: On 07/09/05, Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: (I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.) Boyc

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Todd Vierling
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > I'm going to dive in one more time here. > > It's not the *root* operators that are the problem -- it's the *TLD* > zone operators. Oh, I can certainly agree with that; we've seen some gross abuses of TLDs documented in gory detail right here on the N

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:14:48 BST, "Stephen J. Wilcox" said: > > forget the talk of juniper t320s in the core.. you are talking about the > > problem caused by multihoming and multihoming prefixes are not originated > > typically by such large and exp

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
I didnt realise it was that time of year again already, it feels like only a couple months since the last annual alternate root debate. Still its nice to see all the old kooks still alive and well and not yet locked up in mental homes. I'd better do my part to feed the trolls i guess... On Sat

Re: boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID)

2005-07-09 Thread Todd Vierling
On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, J.D. Falk wrote: > > (I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to > > make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be > > taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.) > > Having lots of vocally unhappy customers == castrat

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
LC can hold only 20,000 ACTIVE routes., and ask central system if it needs more., How many ACTIVE routes are used in any CORE router? 0.1% or CORE? 2% of CORE?   Again, today it is not technical issue anymore. - Original Message - From: Syed Junaid Farooqi To: Christoph

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Jay R. Ashworth
On Sat, Jul 09, 2005 at 11:46:11AM -0400, Todd Vierling wrote: > On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > 1. Security ("man-in-the-middle"). > > > > VPNs, SSH tunnels, etc. There are ways to solve > > this problem. > > You would use a VPN or SSH tunnel to do what? That's orthogonal to D

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 11:23:26 CDT, "John Palmer (NANOG Acct)" said: > Please prove that Inclusive Namespace roots put name resolution at risk. You did it yourself, a few paragraphs later... > Please post a link or give an example. If you mean .BIZ, I would agree, it was > hijacked, but by ICANN,

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 18:14:48 BST, "Stephen J. Wilcox" said: > forget the talk of juniper t320s in the core.. you are talking about the > problem > caused by multihoming and multihoming prefixes are not originated typically > by > such large and expensive routers but by small cheap systems at th

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Stephen J. Wilcox
intel systems can do this. forget the talk of juniper t320s in the core.. you are talking about the problem caused by multihoming and multihoming prefixes are not originated typically by such large and expensive routers but by small cheap systems at the edge. Steve On Sat, 9 Jul 2005, Alexei

boycotting peers (was Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID)

2005-07-09 Thread J.D. Falk
On 07/09/05, Todd Vierling <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > (I may believe in the principles here, mind you, but I'm far to small to > make a point. A workable net-boycott absolutely requires that action be > taken by a non-castrated 800lb gorilla.) Having lots of vocally unhappy customers

Re: E-Mail authentication fight looming: Microsoft pushing Sender ID

2005-07-09 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The second issue with boycotting, is the false positives. No, the *point* of the boycott is the "false positives". ISPs *will* react when their general users find themselves unable to send e-mail because the entire netspace of the offending ISP is b

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread John Palmer (NANOG Acct)
- Original Message - From: "Todd Vierling" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: Sent: Saturday, July 09, 2005 10:46 AM Subject: Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse > So what? DNS is one of the protocols where interoperability is not just > desirable, it's MANDATORY.

Re: The whole alternate-root ${STATE}horse

2005-07-09 Thread Todd Vierling
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > 1. Security ("man-in-the-middle"). > > VPNs, SSH tunnels, etc. There are ways to solve > this problem. You would use a VPN or SSH tunnel to do what? That's orthogonal to DNS security issues, and illustrates that you haven't read DNSSEC and/or 2826

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sat, 09 Jul 2005 00:56:29 PDT, Alexei Roudnev said: > > It's chiken and egg problem. They do not have 4 Gb, because they do not need > it_now_. techbnically it is not a problem even today. > Small RAID systems have 1 Gb RAM easily. > > Line cards do not need so much memory - they can always ca

Re: mh (RE: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008)

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Senie
At 03:51 PM 7/7/2005, David Andersen wrote: On Jul 7, 2005, at 3:41 PM, Andre Oppermann wrote: Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote: > I'd have to counter with "the assumption that NATs are going away with v6 is a rather risky assumption." Or perhaps I misunderstood your point... There is one thi

Re: ATT CDPD

2005-07-09 Thread Alex Rubenstein
AMPS, as I understand it, is required to be around until 1/1/2007, as mandated by tge FCC. Scheduled to die soon, if it hasn't already. I was a second-tier CDPD sub, via Earthlink, until about a year ago; they took a hit to move me to 1xRTT, because the underlying networks were scheduled

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Daniel Roesen
On Fri, Jul 08, 2005 at 09:05:29PM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > Other failure modes require a full table (e.g. link failure between > the ISP and its upstream, or some other partial withdrawal of > connectivity). That's absolutely correct. I've overseen this failure mode. Consider me embarassed. :

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Randy Bush
> it is not _technical_ problem. no, it's a human problem. some reject clue. enough is enough.

Re: OMB: IPv6 by June 2008

2005-07-09 Thread Alexei Roudnev
It's chiken and egg problem. They do not have 4 Gb, because they do not need it_now_. techbnically it is not a problem even today. Small RAID systems have 1 Gb RAM easily. Line cards do not need so much memory - they can always cache routing tables. Just again - it is not _technical_ problem. IPv