Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
That's odd. I was invited, by the US, but I'd scheduled CORE's technical meeting in Dortmund the following week, and there is only so much away time I can schedule while my wife is a 1L at Cornell Law, so I sent my regrets. The utility of going, as part of the US ISP delegation, and being

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread Joly MacFie
Why isn't this on YouTube? j On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Well, actually, ICANN was in Geneva specifically for the meeting, but we weren't allowed into the room.  Quite annoying, actually. Regards, -drc --

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread David Conrad
On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Well, actually, ICANN was in Geneva specifically for the meeting, but we weren't allowed into the room. Quite annoying, actually. Why isn't this on YouTube? You'd have

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread Joly MacFie
I'm talking the ITU refusing ICANN entrance at the door.. On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 3:18 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Well, actually, ICANN was in Geneva

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Joly, It is just another 501(c)(3) incorporated in California. Just as the ITU is just another treaty organization. The basis for cooperation has to be mutual interest, not mere assertion of presence, and getting to maybe after a long, and not very cooperative history, isn't necessarily YouTube

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:18 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Mar 31, 2010, at 6:52 AM, Joly MacFie wrote: On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 8:15 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: Well, actually, ICANN was in Geneva specifically for the meeting, but we weren't allowed into the room. Quite

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-31 Thread Richard Barnes
Actually, it's 31,800 CHF == 30,170 USD. Plus, you have to get the approval of your local government even to submit an application. http://www.itu.int/members/sectmem/Form.pdf On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 6:15 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Mar 31, 2010, at 12:18 PM, David Conrad

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread Jared Mauch
You can speak for yourself :) Some of us are watching the lists on the appropriate mailing list(s) hosted by the US State Department. I know I facilitated a few people joining them. - Jared On Mar 30, 2010, at 7:50 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: None. On 3/11/10, Eric Brunner-Williams

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread Richard Barnes
There were a few representatives of the Internet community at the meeting. All five RIRs were represented, as was ISOC. The notable absence was ICANN. Of course, this sample is by no means representative of the entire community, but it's more than None. On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 7:50 PM,

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread David Conrad
Well, actually, ICANN was in Geneva specifically for the meeting, but we weren't allowed into the room. Quite annoying, actually. Regards, -drc On Mar 30, 2010, at 2:05 PM, Richard Barnes wrote: There were a few representatives of the Internet community at the meeting. All five RIRs were

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread Martin Hannigan
Eric asked who was invited by a government to join a delegation. I think that the ITU invited the RIR's. Jared. Mailing lists don't count :) Best, Marty On 3/30/10, Richard Barnes richard.bar...@gmail.com wrote: There were a few representatives of the Internet community at the meeting.

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: Eric asked who was invited by a government to join a delegation. I think that the ITU invited the RIR's. Jared. Mailing lists don't count :) When the invitation goes out to the list membership saying Who is going to be at X and needs

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread Bill Woodcock
On Tue, 30 Mar 2010, Jared Mauch wrote: You can speak for yourself :) Some of us are watching the lists on the appropriate mailing list(s) hosted by the US State Department. I know I facilitated a few people joining them. Yep, I would agree that the Internet technical

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-30 Thread Martin Hannigan
I'm not disagreeing. But see DRC's comment. Best, -M On 3/30/10, Jared Mauch ja...@puck.nether.net wrote: On Mar 30, 2010, at 8:25 PM, Martin Hannigan wrote: Eric asked who was invited by a government to join a delegation. I think that the ITU invited the RIR's. Jared. Mailing lists

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-11 Thread Randy Bush
I'm sorry, but some people are spending too much time denying history. IPv6 has been largely ready for YEARS. Less than five years ago a lot of engineers were declaring IPv6 dead and telling people that double and triple NAT was the way of the future. It's only been over the past two years

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-11 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
What NANOG contributors, if any, are invited by a government, to join their national delegation to the initial meeting of the ITU's IPv6 Group in Geneva next week?

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-11 Thread Tom Vest
On Mar 11, 2010, at 5:08 AM, Randy Bush wrote: I'm sorry, but some people are spending too much time denying history. IPv6 has been largely ready for YEARS. Less than five years ago a lot of engineers were declaring IPv6 dead and telling people that double and triple NAT was the way of the

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-03 Thread Paul Wall
On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: nope.  in japan, there is still far more powerpoint than packets.  i have ntt ftth.  it is v4 only.  i have to tunnel to iij to get v6. do not believe powerpoint. NTT also charges its (wholesale) IP transit customers a premium

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-03 Thread Jared Mauch
On Mar 3, 2010, at 7:05 PM, Paul Wall wrote: On Mon, Mar 1, 2010 at 12:30 AM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: nope. in japan, there is still far more powerpoint than packets. i have ntt ftth. it is v4 only. i have to tunnel to iij to get v6. do not believe powerpoint. NTT also

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-03-03 Thread Jorge Amodio
Formation of a U.S. Delegation to the ITU Meeting on IPv6, March 15 and 16 in Geneva Will the State Department also provide hardware and ammo ? Regards Jorge

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-28 Thread Randy Bush
I get the impression that in Japan the incentives led to real deployment nope. in japan, there is still far more powerpoint than packets. i have ntt ftth. it is v4 only. i have to tunnel to iij to get v6. do not believe powerpoint. randy

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/02/2010 06:20, Kevin Oberman wrote: I'm sorry, but some people are spending too much time denying history. IPv6 has been largely ready for YEARS. Less than five years ago a lot of engineers were declaring IPv6 dead and telling people that double and triple NAT was the way of the future.

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 27/02/2010 04:04, Phil Regnauld wrote: I'm not saying that political incentives (carrot stick) or government regulations in the line of implement IPv6 before X/Y or else... have had any effect, except maybe in Japan: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Jorge Amodio
Long time ago (10+ years, Randy, others, correct me if I'm wrong) Japan had the vision and strategy for embracing IPv6 to assume a leadership position in the data telecommunications market. I remember how often during our (VRIO) IPO due diligence and later when the company became part of NTT,

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 27/02/2010 04:04, Phil Regnauld wrote: I'm not saying that political incentives (carrot stick) or government regulations in the line of implement IPv6 before X/Y or else... have had any effect, except maybe in Japan: Correct

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread Tony Finch
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things: - tax incentivise ipv6 compliance - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese government

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-27 Thread joel jaeggli
Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Joel Jaeggli wrote: On 02/27/2010 03:49 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Correct me if I'm wrong, but the Japanese government did two things: - tax incentivise ipv6 compliance - make meaningful ipv6 compliance mandatory when dealing with Japanese

[Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Adam Waite
I didn't see this on NANOG yet, but it's caused a stir on the RIPE list. ---BeginMessage--- Dear Colleagues, As you may be aware, the International Telecommunication Union's (ITU) Telecommunication Standardization Bureau (TSB) has convened an ITU IPv6 Group, the first meeting of which

RE: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Brandon Kim
Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 13:03:01 +0100 From: awa...@tuenti.com To: nanog@nanog.org Subject: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jared Mauch
On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State Department to get involved with ITU activities and be

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Mans Nilsson
Subject: RE: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU?IPv6 Group] Date: Fri, Feb 26, 2010 at 08:47:57AM -0500 Quoting Brandon Kim (brandon@brandontek.com): Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? ITU is trying to stay relevant and justify its existence, over the years they have been loosing their grip over telecom and networking standards. This last move to grab a chunk

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Tom Vest
On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a large pool of addresses? For those of you

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Michael Dillon
For those of you that are unaware, it is possible to contact the State Department to get involved with ITU activities and be added to their mailing lists to discuss these positions. In addition, if you work for a largish company, they probably have a regulatory department which may already

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread gordon b slater
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:40 -0600, Jorge Amodio wrote: I guess nobody needs ITU-T anymore, or do we ? ZCZC well, from vague memory, H.264, G711/729, H323, X.509 were/are ITU-T standards - maybe X.25 too though I could have that one wrong. I'll just sit on the fence: as an old radiocomms guy,

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Feb 26, 2010, at 11:29 AM, Tom Vest wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 9:19 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:55 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 8:47 AM, Brandon Kim wrote: Interesting, why is it causing quite a stir? Is it because they are trying to allocate a

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
From: gordon b slater gordsla...@ieee.org Date: Fri, 26 Feb 2010 16:52:21 + On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 09:40 -0600, Jorge Amodio wrote: I guess nobody needs ITU-T anymore, or do we ? ZCZC well, from vague memory, H.264, G711/729, H323, X.509 were/are ITU-T standards - maybe X.25 too

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, gordon b slater wrote: I must admit to total confusion over why they need to grab IPs from the v6 address space? Surely they don't need the equivalent of band-plans for IP space? Or have I missed some v6 technical point totally? The ITU Secretariat and a few

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
well, from vague memory,  H.264, G711/729, H323, X.509 were/are ITU-T standards - maybe X.25 too though I could have that one wrong. Some of the encoding stds are not that bad. The X series and colored books are from the CCITT era, that BTW given that they were Recommendations many phone

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, David Conrad wrote: non-biased way). There are a couple of papers put out by the ITU (or perhaps more accurately, ITU-funded folks) that discuss this. If anyone cares, I can dig them up. Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things):

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote: Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good end-of-week belly laugh should take a look at Delayed

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx yeah, yeah, ITU still making noise with the Y Series docs and NGN (Next Generation Networks) framework. Jeluuu ITU, kind of you are 25+ years late ...

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread David Conrad
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote: Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Antonio Querubin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010, Nick Hilliard wrote: The pitiful level of misunderstanding displayed by the authors of these documents is frightening. Indeed. A usern...@domain is as valid a VOIP ID as is a traditional telephone number. And country coded TLDs can be moved around the net more easily

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
The pitiful level of misunderstanding displayed by the authors of these documents is frightening. Are the ITU folks planning to manage IPv6 address space allocations the same way they number their documents (ie no more than 100 docs per subject on the Y series) ? ;-}

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Bill Stewart
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem. One of the great things about IPv6's address space being mindbogglingly large is that there's plenty of it to experiment with. If the ITU wants an RIR-sized block to do RIR-like work, so what? If they wanted a /2 or /4 I'd be concerned, or if there

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
Maybe I'm dense, but I don't see the problem. It breaks the existing regional allocation and policy development process model establishing a second source that will probably not just want to allocate but also develop a parallel policy that will most probably not be consistent or compatible with

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Steven M. Bellovin
On Fri, 26 Feb 2010 10:43:11 -0800 David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: On Feb 26, 2010, at 10:22 AM, gordon b slater wrote: I must admit to total confusion over why they need to grab IPs from the v6 address space? Surely they don't need the equivalent of band-plans for IP space? Or

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
 Syria wants to roll the clock back. Not only Syria, some developed countries want to have 100% control of the big switch to turn the net off/on, if possible on a packet by packet basis. PTT = Prehistoric Telecommunications Technologies ... IMHO the most important driving factor behind all

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 26/02/2010 22:13, David Conrad wrote: If you want to be really frightened, remember that the IPv4 free pool is going to be exhausted in something like 576 days. Given the lack of IPv6 deployment, the subsequent food fights that erupt as markets in IPv4 addresses are established are likely

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Owen DeLong
On Feb 26, 2010, at 1:58 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: On 26/02/2010 21:13, Antonio Querubin wrote: Some googling for 'itu ipv6' turns up the following (among other things): http://www.itu.int/net/ITU-T/ipv6/itudocs.aspx Wow, there are some real classics in there. Anyone in need of a good

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Danny McPherson
On Feb 26, 2010, at 4:41 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote: I think that PTT is the operative token here, but for reasons having nothing to do with competition. If all they wanted was competition, the easy answer would be to set up more registries -- or registrars -- not bounded by geography;

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Phil Regnauld
Nick Hilliard (nick) writes: And the politicians. Yes, they will erupt in hitherto unseen outbursts of self-righteous indignation at the stupid internet engineers who let this problem happen in the first place and who made no provision whatsoever for viable alternatives, Um, not to

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread John Levine
There is much political froth being stirred up here. I don't see what the big deal is. It was patently unfair not to give every country a one-digit country code like the US and Russia have. So they don't want to make the same mistake with IPv6. R's, John

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Kevin Oberman
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 2010 12:04:12 +0800 From: Phil Regnauld regna...@nsrc.org Nick Hilliard (nick) writes: And the politicians. Yes, they will erupt in hitherto unseen outbursts of self-righteous indignation at the stupid internet engineers who let this problem happen in the first

Re: [Fwd: [members-discuss] [ncc-announce] RIPE NCC Position On The ITU IPv6 Group]

2010-02-26 Thread Jake Khuon
On Fri, 2010-02-26 at 22:20 -0800, Kevin Oberman wrote: Let's face reality. We have met the enemy and he is us. (Apologies to Walt Kelly.) We, the network engineers simply kept ignoring IPv6 for years after it was available. Almost all operating systems have been IPv6 capable for at least five