Re: Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

2014-10-19 Thread George Herbert
Loma Prieta, very little; the UCSC line was a non-redundant T1 from San Jose BARRNET, and the other leaf nodes off that were down. As I recall the San Jose / SF to LA links were all golden. Phone service to Santa Cruz was down, then spotty, then up over the course of a day, but every line

Re: Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

2014-10-19 Thread Eliot Lear
On 10/19/14, 9:45 AM, George Herbert wrote: Loma Prieta, very little; the UCSC line was a non-redundant T1 from San Jose BARRNET, and the other leaf nodes off that were down. As I recall the San Jose / SF to LA links were all golden. Phone service to Santa Cruz was down, then spotty, then

Re: Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

2014-10-19 Thread Pete Carah
On 10/19/2014 02:45 AM, George Herbert wrote: Loma Prieta, very little; the UCSC line was a non-redundant T1 from San Jose BARRNET, and the other leaf nodes off that were down. As I recall the San Jose / SF to LA links were all golden. Phone service to Santa Cruz was down, then spotty,

Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Matthew Petach
Wondering if some of the long-time list members can shed some light on the question--why is the .gov top level domain only for use by US government agencies? Where do other world powers put their government agency domains? With the exception of the cctlds, shouldn't the top-level gtlds be

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread sthaug
Wondering if some of the long-time list members can shed some light on the question--why is the .gov top level domain only for use by US government agencies? Where do other world powers put their government agency domains? With the exception of the cctlds, shouldn't the top-level gtlds

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Joe Greco
Wondering if some of the long-time list members can shed some light on the question--why is the .gov top level domain only for use by US government agencies? Where do other world powers put their government agency domains? With the exception of the cctlds, shouldn't the top-level gtlds

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Donald Eastlake
Why is the Greek flag always flow at the Olympics as well as the Olympic and host nation flags? Why is Britain the only country allowed, under Universal Postal Union regulations to have no national identification on its stamps used in international mail? Basically, if you are first, you tend to

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Jimmy Hess
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was some heavy lobbying

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Paige Thompson
On 10/19/14 12:42, Donald Eastlake wrote: Why is the Greek flag always flow at the Olympics as well as the Olympic and host nation flags? Why is Britain the only country allowed, under Universal Postal Union regulations to have no national identification on its stamps used in international

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Joe Greco
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there was significant money to be had running the registry, so there was some heavy

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Mike.
On 10/19/2014 at 8:13 AM Jimmy Hess wrote: |[snip] |So then, why aren't .EDU and .GOV just allowed to continue to exist |but a community decision made to require whichever registry will be |contracted to manage .GOV to accept registrations from _all_ |government entities regardless of

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Mehmet Akcin
you can register .edu if you are a non-us institution as long as you are accredited by a US recognized organization Mehmet On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:13 AM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: But to make a long story

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread John Levine
The same problem exists with .EDU capriciously adopting new criteria that excludes any non-US-based institutions from being eligible. I believe the major issue is that if a TLD is in the global namespace, then it should NOT be allowed to restrict registrations based on country; the internet is

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Stephen Satchell
On 10/19/2014 06:20 AM, Joe Greco wrote: But given the choice between rationality and insanity, usually the process seems to prefer insanity. Or, alternatively, inertia. I would be like renumbering, only worse, because so many links would need to be found and updated.

Re: Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

2014-10-19 Thread Jim Shankland
On 10/19/14 2:03 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: This was my recollection as well. Many corporate PBXes failed, and as it happened, for some reason, the mobile towers functioned with excess capacity, to the point where I had a line coming out of my car. Best form of communication into and out of the

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Franck Martin
On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:13 AM, Jimmy Hess mysi...@gmail.com wrote: On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 7:12 AM, Joe Greco jgr...@ns.sol.net wrote: But to make a long story short, and my memory's perhaps a bit rusty now, but my recollection is that shorter URL's looked nicer and there was significant

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Rubens Kuhl
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:05 AM, Matthew Petach mpet...@netflight.com wrote: Wondering if some of the long-time list members can shed some light on the question--why is the .gov top level domain only for use by US government agencies? Where do other world powers put their government agency

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread David Conrad
On Oct 19, 2014, at 9:35 AM, Rubens Kuhl rube...@gmail.com wrote: Wondering if some of the long-time list members can shed some light on the question--why is the .gov top level domain only for use by US government agencies? RFC 1591. Where do other world powers put their government

Re: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-19 Thread Jim Popovitch
On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 12:51 PM, David Conrad d...@virtualized.org wrote: RFC 1591. It is extremely unlikely that any other TLDs will be created. My how times have changed. -Jim P.

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-19 Thread Colton Conor
So it looks like DOCSIS cable has a great solution with IPDR, but what about DSL, GPON, and regular Ethernet networks? It was mentioned that DSL uses radius, but most new DSL systems no longer use PPPoE, so I don't believe radius is a viable option. What about Wifi Access Points? What would be

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-19 Thread Alastair Johnson
There's no correlation between PPPoE and RADIUS. Many (if not all) BRAS/BNG platforms will support RADIUS based accounting for IPoE sessions. The majority of accounting is done that way; with outliers using some other mechanism (Diameter; proprietary vendor billing solutions; flow based

Re: Major California Faults Ready To Rupture | IFLScience

2014-10-19 Thread Jay Ashworth
- Original Message - From: Jim Shankland na...@shankland.org On 10/19/14 2:03 AM, Eliot Lear wrote: This was my recollection as well. Many corporate PBXes failed, and as it happened, for some reason, the mobile towers functioned with excess capacity, to the point where I had a line

ISP Shaping Hardware

2014-10-19 Thread Skeeve Stevens
Hey all, Just wondering what/if people are using any shaping hardware/appliances these days, and if so, what. I have a client which has thousands of customers on Satellite and needs to restrict some users who are doing a lot. So I wanted to see what the current popular equipment out there is.

Re: Keeping Track of Data Usage in GB Per Port

2014-10-19 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Wed, 15 Oct 2014, Colton Conor wrote: So based on the response I have received so far it seems cable was a complicated example with service flows involved. What if we are talking about something simpler like keeping track of how much data flows in and out of a port on a switch in a given