Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:52 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:21 AM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 7b6af6e9-905a-4d14-b54f-8f244afcf...@delong.com, Owen DeLong write s: On Mar 24, 2014, at 8:52 PM, George Herbert george.herb...@gmail.com wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:02 PM, Owen DeLong o...@delong.com wrote: On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:21 AM, William Herrin

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Owen DeLong
On Mar 24, 2014, at 10:12 PM, Alexander Lopez alex.lo...@opsys.com wrote: On Mar 24, 2014, at 9:36 AM, Alexander Lopez alex.lo...@opsys.com wrote: not to mention the cost in readdressing your entire network when you change an upstream provider. Nat was a fix to a problem of lack of

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Randy Bush
I am not sure I understand the argument here. If you think that ARIN is not representing the address space holders in proper fashion, how would we suggest correcting that? i have made off the cuff suggestions. but seriously, i would seek real external governance counsel. If an address

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Andersen
Randy, Thanks for giving me a lead in! ARIN has been gradually evolving and tweaking the governance over the past fifteen years. Given it’s a small board it’s been generally done at the full Board historically. We’ve recently started to take a long look at a variety of issues to see if

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Andersen
Randy, Thanks for giving me a lead in! ARIN has been gradually evolving and tweaking the governance over the past fifteen years. Given it’s a small board it’s been generally done at the full Board historically. We’ve recently started to take a long look at a variety of issues to see if

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread John Curran
On Mar 25, 2014, at 1:07 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: ok, let me also try to be constructive. how the heck do we get ourselves out of a hole where we are ruled by self-perptuating monopolies which lack oversight and accountability. and it ain't just arin. look at the big [cc]tlds,

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Randy Bush
paul, ARIN has been gradually evolving and tweaking the governance over the past fifteen years. and there has been microscopic change Given it’s a small board it’s been generally done at the full Board historically. i think there is some idiom about the fox guarding the hen house. it

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Randy Bush
I do not agree with the characterization that ... we are ruled by self-perptuating monopolies which lack oversight and accountability, when you have a governance committee which is composed of the governing, not outsiders and governance experts, with no term limits, it would seem hard to

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread John Curran
On Mar 25, 2014, at 5:04 PM, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: I do not agree with the characterization that ... we are ruled by self-perptuating monopolies which lack oversight and accountability, when you have a governance committee which is composed of the governing, not outsiders and

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Randy Bush
[ you're cheating, you're in an asian time zone! ] I have nothing against term limits (but I also did not champion them back when I was an elected member of the Board of Trustees.) Many cite risk of losing well-qualified and experienced Board members right when they are most productive as

Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)

2014-03-25 Thread TJ
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 9:12 PM, Bob Evans b...@fiberinternetcenter.comwrote: Thus far, IPv6 has been the Field of Dreams those of us who have built it, we know they have not yet come (the IPv6 customers). That's all this discussion is really about is when will they come. I know the

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Mar 23, 2014 at 10:07 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.comwrote: As far as printers being a more dangerous attack vector than computers, I definitely don't buy that argument. It does not change in v4 or v6. Printers are not merely attack vectors; they are targets. It only makes

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Lee Howard
On 3/24/14 2:38 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 2:23 PM, Lee Howard l...@asgard.org wrote: On 3/24/14 1:37 PM, William Herrin b...@herrin.us wrote: That would be one of those details on which smart people disagree. In this case, I think you're wrong. Modern NAT

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 16:31:17 +1100, Mark Andrews said: My bet is the number needing more that a single /64 will exceed the number needing just a /64. Most phones really need two /64 for tethering and currently there are lots of kludges to work around only one being available. As a data

Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

2014-03-25 Thread Lee Howard
On 3/24/14 10:17 PM, Naslund, Steve snasl...@medline.com wrote: I can easily answer that one as a holder of v4 space at a commercial entity. The end user does not feel any compelling reason to move to ipv6 if they have enough v4 space. I can't give my employer a solid business case of why

Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)

2014-03-25 Thread Lee Howard
On 3/24/14 9:12 PM, Bob Evans b...@fiberinternetcenter.com wrote: I agree with one thing herein In order for IPv6 to truly work, everyone needs to be moving towards IPv6. Yep, chicken and the egg. I agree. We built an IPv6 native network - no tunneling - no customers to speak of ...

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Lee Howard
It is late and I am just rambling, but even with DHCP(4and6) changing IP networks is not a trivial thing. Not hard, but it will require a lot more planning than what many do today of simply changing the WAN IP address and some records in the DNS (if needed) We tried:

Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Evans
Bob Evans CTO On 3/24/14 9:12 PM, Bob Evans b...@fiberinternetcenter.com wrote: I agree with one thing herein In order for IPv6 to truly work, everyone needs to be moving towards IPv6. Yep, chicken and the egg. I agree. We built an IPv6 native network - no tunneling - no customers to

RE: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Naslund, Steve
Look at it this way. If I see an attack coming from behind your NAT, I'm gonna deny all traffic coming from your NAT block until you assure me you have it fixed because I have no way of knowing which host it is coming from. Now your whole network is unreachable. If you have a

Re: Level 3 blames Internet slowdowns on Technica

2014-03-25 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Steve Naslund snasl...@medline.com You are right but that is usually how it works with fiber because that last drop to the home is a pretty expensive piece that you don't usually want installed until it is needed. The LECS usually don't even light a

Re: IPv6 Security [Was: Re: misunderstanding scale]

2014-03-25 Thread Lamar Owen
On 03/24/2014 09:39 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: I'll leave it as an exercise for the remainder of... everywhere to figure out why there is resistance to v6 migration, and it isn't just because people can't be bothered. I'm sure there are numerous enterprises in the same shape I am in, with

Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)

2014-03-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 09:55:21 -0400, Lee Howard said: Some of us have quite a few IPv6 customers: http://www.worldipv6launch.org/measurements/ And we see significant traffic from those users. :-) I'm actually glad to see that we're no longer on the first page of that list. ;)

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Bob Evans
I have just as many issues getting ARIN IP space as the next guy and companies like Verizon. I do vote - yes half the time I am not sure, exactly who I am voting for from just a bio and candidate paragraph. As a result, I decided to attend ARIN meetings. I have been to about six ARIN meetings in

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
If you want to do address-based reputations for v6 similar to v4, my guess is that it will start to aggregate to at least the /64 boundary ... It says a lot about the state of the art that people are still making uninformed guesses like this, non ironically. On the one hand /64 is too coarse,

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 11:23 AM, John Levine wrote: Large mail providers all agree that v6 senders need to follow good mail discipline, but are far from agreeing what that means. It certainly means proper rDNS, but does it mean SPF? DKIM on all the mail? TLS on the connections? At this point, I don't

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, John Levine wrote: It says a lot about the state of the art that people are still making uninformed guesses like this, non ironically. Yep, SMTP and the whole spam fighting part of the Internet, isn't ready for IPv6. This is not IPv6 fault. I have repeatedly tried to

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 1:43 PM, Brielle Bruns br...@2mbit.com wrote: On 3/25/14, 11:23 AM, John Levine wrote: Large mail providers all agree that v6 senders need to follow good mail discipline, but are far from agreeing what that means. It certainly means proper rDNS, but does it mean SPF?

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
In article 5331c054.8040...@2mbit.com you write: On 3/25/14, 11:23 AM, John Levine wrote: Large mail providers all agree that v6 senders need to follow good mail discipline, but are far from agreeing what that means. It certainly means proper rDNS, but does it mean SPF? DKIM on all the mail?

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Chip Marshall
On 2014-03-25, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.se sent: I have repeatedly tried to get people interested in methods of making it possible for ISPs to publish their per-customer allocation size, so far without any success. Most of the time I seem to get we did it a certain way for IPv4, it

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Andersen
Randy, Thanks for giving me a lead in! ARIN has been gradually evolving and tweaking the governance over the past fifteen years. Given it’s a small board it’s been generally done at the full Board historically. We’ve recently started to take a long look at a variety of issues to see if

Outgoing traffic problem on Citrix Netscaler Load Balancer

2014-03-25 Thread Anil KARADAG
Hi, I setup a netscaler load balancer for sip traffic on Amazon EC2. Clients packets are arrived to the backend servers over to the load balancer but any responses cannot be arrived to clients. I see the responses on the load balancer. I think there is a config problem for that but I don't

Re: Outgoing traffic problem on Citrix Netscaler Load Balancer

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Bertain
Hi Anil, Have you setup MBF? I've seen that as an issue before. If you don't have a default route set, than MBF might help you send the response out the interface on which it was received. Paul On Mar 24, 2014, at 11:46 PM, Anil KARADAG akara...@netas.com.tr wrote: Hi, I setup a

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 11:56 AM, John Levine wrote: I think this would be a good time to fix your mail server setup. You're never going to get much v6 mail delivered without rDNS, because receivers won't even look at your mail to see if it's authenticated. CenturyLink is reasonably technically clued so it

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Barry Shein
Randy (et al): Included below is the response by Joe Sims (Jones Day) to Professor Froomkin's similar arguments in 1999. I include it because it's not that long but the link is: http://archive.icann.org/en/comments-mail/comment-bylaws/msg00025.html I found it interesting and very readable.

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Isn't this just a local policy issue with handling DMARC? I know for sure at least one other (very large) organization that (also) rejects messages which do not have an rDNS entry, and it is a local DMARC policy. - - ferg On 3/25/2014 1:57 PM,

Re: arin representation

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/25/2014 11:53 AM, Bob Evans wrote: I like term limits for every governing body - except when it's a company I built with my money. :-) I have absolutely no business jumping into this discussion, but it keeps hammering on a topic that interests me in other venues: term limits. I am

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
The usefulness of reverse DNS in IPv6 is dubious. Maybe the idea is to cause enough pain that eventually you fold and get them to host your email too. -Laszlo On Mar 25, 2014, at 8:57 PM, Brielle Bruns br...@2mbit.com wrote: On 3/25/14, 11:56 AM, John Levine wrote: I think this would be a

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Elizabeth Zwicky
DMARC says nothing about rDNS, and given how late in the game DMARC comes, it seems like an odd place to enforce rDNS. Local policy, sure; local DMARC policy, wait what? Elizabeth On 3/25/14, 2:12 PM, Paul Ferguson fergdawgs...@mykolab.com wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 5:33 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.net wrote: The usefulness of reverse DNS in IPv6 is dubious. Maybe the idea is to cause enough pain that eventually you fold and get them to host your email too. Heh, I say the same things about DMARC where a lot of the major

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 3:33 PM, Laszlo Hanyecz wrote: The usefulness of reverse DNS in IPv6 is dubious. Maybe the idea is to cause enough pain that eventually you fold and get them to host your email too. Well, like I said, there is nothing wrong with using rdns as part of a score in how legit a

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
This seems like to sort of problem that Mailops or MAAWG should be hammering out. Of course MAAWG is working on it. But don't hold your breath. R's, John

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
In article 5331edab.8000...@2mbit.com you write: On 3/25/14, 11:56 AM, John Levine wrote: I think this would be a good time to fix your mail server setup. You're never going to get much v6 mail delivered without rDNS, because receivers won't even look at your mail to see if it's authenticated.

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Rich Kulawiec
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 02:57:15PM -0600, Brielle Bruns wrote: Nothing wrong with my mail server setup, except the lack of RDNS. Lacking reverse should be one of many things to consider with rejecting e-mails, but should not be the only condition. Lack of rDNS means either (a) there is

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
The OP doesn't have control over the reverse DNS on the ATT 6rd. Spam crusades aside, it can be seen as just another case of 'putting people in their place', reinforcing that your end user connection is lesser and doesn't entitle to you to participate in the internet with the big boys. How

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 3/25/2014 2:38 PM, Elizabeth Zwicky wrote: Local policy, sure; local DMARC policy, wait what? My goof. Apparently just local policy sans DMARC. - - ferg - -- Paul Ferguson VP Threat Intelligence, IID PGP Public Key ID: 0x54DC85B2 -BEGIN

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Ricky Beam
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 19:07:16 -0400, Laszlo Hanyecz las...@heliacal.net wrote: One would hope that with IPv6 this would change, but the attitude of looking down on end subscribers has been around forever. And for damn good reasons (read: foolish and easy to trick into becoming a spam

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
In article 3d7d0845-cb25-4c05-8fab-f5728c860...@heliacal.net you write: The OP doesn't have control over the reverse DNS on the ATT 6rd. Ah, OK, you're saying that their IPv6 isn't ready for prime time. One would hope that with IPv6 this would change, but the attitude of looking down on end

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message 20140325233557.6311.qm...@joyce.lan, John Levine writes: In article 3d7d0845-cb25-4c05-8fab-f5728c860...@heliacal.net you write: The OP doesn't have control over the reverse DNS on the ATT 6rd. Ah, OK, you're saying that their IPv6 isn't ready for prime time. One would hope

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John R. Levine
Or he could just not like NSL and the fact the ISP's are required to abide by them. If people want their email going through where it can be snooped apon that is their perogative. Just don't force people to have to use I-WILL-SNOOP-ISP!!! Who said anything about being required to use your

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Mark Andrews
In message alpine.bsf.2.00.1403252016070.6...@joyce.lan, John R. Levine writes: Or he could just not like NSL and the fact the ISP's are required to abide by them. If people want their email going through where it can be snooped apon that is their perogative. Just don't force people to

DNSSEC in .au

2014-03-25 Thread Adam King
auDA has announced it will be introducing DNSSEC into the .au domain space in an experimental capacity. Deployment on production servers will commence during April and will be trialled for 4 months. The .au DS records will_not be added to the root zone during this period. Operators

Re: DNSSEC in .au

2014-03-25 Thread Mehmet Akcin
Congratulations Adam. Mehmet On Mar 26, 2014, at 7:19, Adam King adam.k...@auda.org.au wrote: auDA has announced it will be introducing DNSSEC into the .au domain space in an experimental capacity. Deployment on production servers will commence during April and will be trialled for 4

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 5:35 PM, John Levine wrote: In article3d7d0845-cb25-4c05-8fab-f5728c860...@heliacal.net you write: The OP doesn't have control over the reverse DNS on the ATT 6rd. Ah, OK, you're saying that their IPv6 isn't ready for prime time. One would hope that with IPv6 this would change,

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread TJ
In an attempt to get this thread back on topic: * Does Google require rDNS for IPv4 mail sources? If so, doing so for IPv6 shouldn't be a surprise. Your current provider's inability to support rDNS for IPv6 is not a protocol failure, it is a provider failure. If not, is there an additional

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Robert L Mathews
On 3/25/14, 6:24 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: The problem is, it blows my cred and rep with my end users when on day one of getting them set up and fully running on IPv6, they can't e-mail the local school district, or their business partners, because the other end uses Google mail. It makes me

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Paul Ferguson
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 On 3/25/2014 7:03 PM, Robert L Mathews wrote: On 3/25/14, 6:24 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: The problem is, it blows my cred and rep with my end users when on day one of getting them set up and fully running on IPv6, they can't e-mail the local

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/25/2014 9:24 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Last time I checked, there is no RFC that states that using SMTP transport is mandatory with the originator having rDNS (ipv4/ipv6). It may be SUGGESTED or RECOMMENDED, but not MANDATORY or REQUIRED. It is an arbitrary decision made by each mail

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 7:58 PM, TJ wrote: In an attempt to get this thread back on topic: * Does Google require rDNS for IPv4 mail sources? After a quick test here, Google did not reject the mail from an IPv4 address that did not have rDNS. If so, doing so for IPv6 shouldn't be a surprise. Your

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 8:03 PM, Robert L Mathews wrote: I don't quite see how this is anything to do with IPv6. It does when you've got the job of trying to convince people who know nothing about how the internet works why they should invest time in something new. Unless, I'm wrong in that we're

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Brielle Bruns
On 3/25/14, 8:08 PM, Paul Ferguson wrote: Also, please do*not* expect folks to toss anti-spam measures out the window just because they might move to v6. That would be naive. Of course not, been spending the last few months trying to adapt my own anti-spam measures to work properly for

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John R. Levine
None of this is REQUIRED. It is forced on people by a cartel of email providers. It must be nice to live in world where there is so little spam and other mail abuse that you don't have to do any of the anti-abuse things that real providers in the real world have to do. Regards, John

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/25/2014 10:25 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Like I said in a previous response, if you are going to make rdns a requirement, why not make SPF and DKIM mandatory as well? many ISPs ALREADY require rDNS. So making that standard official for IPv6 is isn't asking for much! It is a NATURAL

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 12:51 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson swm...@swm.pp.sewrote: On Tue, 25 Mar 2014, John Levine wrote: It says a lot about the state of the art that people are still making uninformed guesses like this, non ironically. I have repeatedly tried to get people interested in methods

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John R. Levine
I would suggest the formation of an IPv6 SMTP Server operator's club, with a system for enrolling certain IP address source ranges as Active mail servers, active IP addresses and SMTP domain names under the authority of a member. Surely you don't think this is a new idea. R's, John

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
I'm sure you are as vocal about outright rejecting messages for lack of SPF (even if softfail) and lack of DKIM as you are about requiring rDNS? Interesting guess, but completely wrong. Or perhaps making TLS mandatory, outright rejecting cleartext. Not until we have SMTP DANE. Seems like the

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Rob McEwen
On 3/25/2014 10:51 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: I would suggest the formation of an IPv6 SMTP Server operator's club, That comes across too much like the failed FUSSP ideas. What happens when spammers try to get onboard? Who is the arbitrator? How fast could they react? And then you have legit senders

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Tue, 25 Mar 2014 22:51:11 -0400, Rob McEwen said: On 3/25/2014 10:25 PM, Brielle Bruns wrote: Like I said in a previous response, if you are going to make rdns a requirement, why not make SPF and DKIM mandatory as well? many ISPs ALREADY require rDNS. So making that standard official

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On 25 Mar 2014 22:55:19 -0400, John R. Levine said: I would suggest the formation of an IPv6 SMTP Server operator's club, with a system for enrolling certain IP address source ranges as Active mail servers, active IP addresses and SMTP domain names under the authority of a member.

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Laszlo Hanyecz
Maybe we could give everyone globally unique numbers and end to end connectivity. Then maybe the users themselves can send email directly to each other without going through this ESP cartel. -Laszlo On Mar 26, 2014, at 2:51 AM, Rob McEwen r...@invaluement.com wrote: On 3/25/2014 10:25 PM,

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 9:55 PM, John R. Levine jo...@iecc.com wrote: I would suggest the formation of an IPv6 SMTP Server operator's club, with a system for enrolling certain IP address source ranges as Active Surely you don't think this is a new idea. Would it make it more unique; if

IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Cutler James R
Wow, what a lot of NANOG traffic about IPv6 readiness for SMTP! Please explain my misunderstanding on the following: 1. IPv6 is a Routing Layer Protocol (with some associated helpers, like RA, ND, DHCP-PD, and the like). 2. SMTP is an Application Layer Protocol, supposedly independent of

Re: why IPv6 isn't ready for prime time, SMTP edition

2014-03-25 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 10:08 PM, Rob McEwen r...@invaluement.com wrote: On 3/25/2014 10:51 PM, Jimmy Hess wrote: I would suggest the formation of an IPv6 SMTP Server operator's club, That comes across too much like the failed FUSSP ideas. What happens when spammers try to get onboard? Who

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Paul S.
On 3/26/2014 午後 12:31, Cutler James R wrote: Wow, what a lot of NANOG traffic about IPv6 readiness for SMTP! Please explain my misunderstanding on the following: 1. IPv6 is a Routing Layer Protocol (with some associated helpers, like RA, ND, DHCP-PD, and the like). 2. SMTP is an

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/25/2014 10:31 PM, Cutler James R wrote: Wow, what a lot of NANOG traffic about IPv6 readiness for SMTP! Please explain my misunderstanding on the following: 1. IPv6 is a Routing Layer Protocol (with some associated helpers, like RA, ND, DHCP-PD, and the like). 2. SMTP is an

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
3. Arguing about IPv6 in the context of requirements upon SMTP connections is playing that uncomfortable game with one�s own combat boots. And not particularly productive. If you can figure out how to do effective spam filtering without looking at the IP addresses from which mail arrives, you

A little silly for IPv6

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog: IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times. -- Requiescas in pace o email Two identifying characteristics of System

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Larry Sheldon
On 3/25/2014 11:18 PM, John Levine wrote: 3. Arguing about IPv6 in the context of requirements upon SMTP connections is playing that uncomfortable game with one’s own combat boots. And not particularly productive. If you can figure out how to do effective spam filtering without looking at

Re: A little silly for IPv6

2014-03-25 Thread Jeff Kell
On 3/26/2014 12:28 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: According to the Ace of Spades HQ blog: IPv6 would allow every atom on the surface of the earth to have its own IP address, with enough spare to do Earth 100+ times. Not with a /64 minimum allocation per customer :) Jeff

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Jeff Kell
On 3/26/2014 12:33 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: On 3/25/2014 11:18 PM, John Levine wrote: 3. Arguing about IPv6 in the context of requirements upon SMTP connections is playing that uncomfortable game with one’s own combat boots. And not particularly productive. If you can figure out how to do

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread John Levine
But, as always, I'm not holding my breath. Is spam fighting really about SMTP? Or is it about abuse of the transport layer by (among other things) the SMTP? I don't think that your typical spam recipient cares how the spam got into her inbox. Anyone who has any familiarity with large scale

Re: misunderstanding scale

2014-03-25 Thread Owen DeLong
IPv6 adds an entirely new aspect to it. Well, if you mean the entirely new aspect is a list of hex addresses instead of dotted decimal addresses I guess so. I personally would rather have a list of actual end system addresses than a list of addresses that represent a mail server and

Re: misunderstanding scale (was: Ipv4 end, its fake.)

2014-03-25 Thread Owen DeLong
Thus far, IPv6 has been the Field of Dreams those of us who have built it, we know they have not yet come (the IPv6 customers). That's all this discussion is really about is when will they come. Some of us have quite a few IPv6 customers:

Re: IPv6 isn't SMTP

2014-03-25 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Tue, Mar 25, 2014 at 11:07 PM, Larry Sheldon larryshel...@cox.netwrote: On 3/25/2014 10:31 PM, Cutler James R wrote: 2. SMTP is an Application Layer Protocol, supposedly independent of Routing and lower layers of the protocol stack. Various communities have added connection initiation