Re: is CERNET part of the Internet?

2012-09-27 Thread brunner
On 9/27/12 9:24 AM, ku po wrote: CERNET policy is FREE of charge for it's members, as long as the traffic is in their 'FREE networks' eg most of IP Blocks in China and some Universities in the world. However, outbound traffic to Non-free networks eg most blocks outside China will be charged.

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread brunner
howdy all from a cold room 100km north of the equator. ... That's an *amazingly* oblique and de minimis reference to the topic on point, couched in Eric's usually opaque language ... ... i'm reading this from the meeting room where the generic names supporting organization council is meeting

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread brunner
so did anyone have a question or is my epistolary stylistic genius sufficient as topic of general interest? ... and he talked for 45 minutes, and no one understood a word that he said. i'm happy to leave the reportage and issue analysis to those better informed. you look to be someone

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread brunner
[...] I don't mind new TLDs, but company ones are crazy and going to lead to a confusing and messy internet. are either confusing or messy the best rationals for declining either or both of corporate names or trademarks? are these (corporate naming and trademark registration as generators)

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-19 Thread brunner
Really, if you're going to opine on the disasters that will befall ICANN as a result of the new gTLD program, you might want to actually read what that program does and doesn't do. Really. you made my morning dave. thanks for the chuckle!

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
ray, ... only trust .band and that .com et. al. are less secure. secure is not a well-defined term. as the .com registry access model accepts credit card fraud risk, a hypothetical registry, say .giro, with wholesale registration at the same dollar price point but an access mechanism accepting

Re: unqualified domains, was ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
Another avenue could be At-Large. The North American Regional At-Large Organization (NARALO) - uniquely amongst the RALO's - accepts individual members. as the elected unaffiliated member representative (or umr) i suppose i should point out that (a) yes, the structural feature of individual

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-20 Thread brunner
185K is just the application few, the process includes some requirements to have a given amount of dough for operations in escrow, add what you need to pay attorneys, experts , lobbyists, and setup and staff a small corporation even if you plan to outsource part of the dayt-2-day operations

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-21 Thread brunner
I was talking about public perception and the ability to change it through marketing; not any actual security. It's like the difference between .com and .biz, people don't understand when something isn't a .com and don't trust it. When I say people I'm talking about the average

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
Well I just asked the question during the Getting Ready panel at the ICANN 41 meeting. keep in mind that the venues for asking precise questions for the purpose of obtaining accurate answers of record are tdg-legal, or the saturday gnso gtld hours (the kurt show). Q: How much on top of the

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
Lets say I want to apply for .WINE with commercial purposes, then what is a ballpark figure for the funds/investment required ? My guess, it is way way above the $185K assuming no defect in the application, necessitiating a second bite at the apple, at cost (extended eval), and no objections

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-23 Thread brunner
My perception is that if you don't have access to ~$2M for that kind of gTLD don't even waste your time. you may want to consult with a practitioner in the jurisdiction of your choice who does business organization and investor equity structures, as the cost to acquire a right to contract for a

assume v6 available, average cost to implement

2011-08-03 Thread brunner
Folks, In the never ending game of policy whack-a-mole, we are offered the claim that that the cost to a small to medium business to make its operational purpose v6 address enabled is in the mid-five figures. For those of you who do smb consults, some numbers to make a hypothetical shop

Re: On the control of the Internet.

2010-06-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 6/13/10 1:11 PM, Seth Mattinen wrote: On 6/13/10 9:35 AM, Larry Sheldon wrote: How about the case where the master zone file has be amputated and the secondaries can no longer get updates? We just saw that with Haiti. This overlooks the consequences of that particular catastrophic

Re: (OT) recipe for Live streaming from NANOG49

2010-06-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Does anyone have the video bits from the Haitian panel? I'd like to run it within our loop at the ICANN meeting next week in Brussels. Tia! Eric

Re: Broadband initiatives - impact to your network?

2010-06-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I wrote a first round BTOP application. No, the program doesn't quite promise to change, by orders of magnitude, the pipe that's available to most folks, and even if it did, that isn't a very strong promise. Most folks live in urban areas, adequately served by physics, if not the private,

I went so you don't have to -- ICANN Bruxelles pour les nuls

2010-07-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
There are a few people who have some passing interest in ICANN so I will inflict upon the list my few paragraph summary of things that matter. All the past large dragons appear to have been killed or reduced to largish lizards. The Four Over Arching Issues, of which only one was real,

Re: On another security note... (of sorts)

2010-07-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/16/10 11:17 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote: The thorniest issues aren't technology-related, per se; they're legal exposure (both real and imagined), regulatory concerns (both real and imagined), antitrust concerns (both real and imagined), management/marketing/PR concerns (largely imagined),

I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
There are a few people who have some passing interest in ICANN so I will inflict upon the list my few paragraph summary of things that matter, see also my July 2nd post: I went so you don't have to -- ICANN Bruxelles pour les nuls. The initial report of the 65 person VI WG is published.

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 12:45 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: You forgot the fifth option. Invade a country (invasion is not strictly required) and take over control of their ccTLD which probably does not have an agreement with ICANN so you can charge and do as you please. Many of the greedy registrars will be more

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 3:28 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Now seriously, just how many pages of the IV Initial Report did you read before coming up with the fifth option? I read the entire thing. Of the 138 pages, take out the Summary, the ToC and several of the Annexes where many of them are sort of cut past

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 6:00 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: I found Milton Mueller's summary - noted at http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1006- useful. Is there anything there that you would disagree with? He errors in characterizing the position statements as static, rather than evolving over time. His own position

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 7:11 PM, Franck Martin wrote: The question too, is which model is mitigating the best the presence of rogue registrars (like domain tasting registrars, etc..) Franck, First, tasting is only a part of the extensions from the registrant serving business model that ICANN explicitly

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 7:50 PM, William Pitcock wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:42 -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: But I do take your point about .co/.com, and in all fairness, it is a decade delayed favor returned by NeuStar to Verisign for the .bz/.biz collaborative marketing ploy of 2001

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 8:46 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Being one of the rare known external readers, is there any bit of it you have a view on not already reflected in the para above and below? There is another dimension to the whole enchilada that makes a compromise a moving shooting target. Some of the

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-08-11 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
The window for comments closes tomorrow. Of course, the window for comments that somehow paint ICANN as a bastion of fools never closes, but anyone in the access and above business that opines on the structure, and interests, of registrars and registries, who opines after tomorrow, but not

Re: Lightly used IP addresses

2010-08-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 8/15/10 6:25 PM, Tony Finch wrote: On Sat, 14 Aug 2010, Randy Bush wrote: when the registry work was re-competed and taken from sri to netsol (i think it was called that at the time), rick adams put in a no cost when we (sri) lost the defense data network nic contract in may '91, disa

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-06 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
so ... should domains associated with asn(s) and addr block allocations be subject to some expiry policy other than it goes into the drop pool and one of {enom,pool,...} acquire it (and the associated non-traffic assets) for any interested party at $50 per /24? Eric

Re: New hijacking - Done via via good old-fashioned Identity Theft

2010-10-06 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 10/6/10 10:34 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Oct 6, 2010, at 6:35 AM, Ben McGinnes wrote: On 7/10/10 12:08 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: so ... should domains associated with asn(s) and addr block allocations be subject to some expiry policy other than it goes into the drop pool and one

Re: wikileaks dns (was Re: Blocking International DNS)

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
... ... The termination of services was effected pursuant to, and in accordance with, the EveryDNS.net Acceptable Use Policy. the claim is that being ddos'd is an aup violation. go figure.

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
there exists a free speech application for fast flux hosting networks, and its in connecticut, not china. (during the icann gnso pdp on fast flux hosting the above assertion was generally dismissed) -e On 12/3/10 12:41 PM, Zaid Ali wrote: I see a new T-Shirt Free speech has an IP address

Re: wikileaks unreachable

2010-12-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 12/3/10 1:05 PM, Christopher Morrow wrote: On Fri, Dec 3, 2010 at 1:01 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams brun...@nic-naa.net wrote: there exists a free speech application for fast flux hosting networks, and its in connecticut, not china. (during the icann gnso pdp on fast flux hosting the above

Re: UN mulls internet regulation options

2010-12-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
fred, and others with (misspent) wsis++ / ig++ travel nickles, it would _really_ help me if you provided more context, off-line if necessary, as i spent the week before last more involved with the gac than at any prior point in my decade of icann involvement. i don't mind the 'tude, as we

Re: UN mulls internet regulation options

2010-12-20 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 12/19/10 8:28 PM, John Curran wrote: ... I also intervened twice requested clarification of exactly how a government-only decision body for Internet policy would fulfill the consultation with all stakeholders paragraph specified in the Tunis agenda. The answer from several countries was

in case of prefix withdrawal, dial-out

2011-01-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
It is my son's turn to have the laptop so I won't bother to translate. The non-francophones can use Google's auto-xlate bot. http://www.lemonde.fr/technologies/article/2011/01/28/pour-contourner-le-blocage-du-web-les-modems-56k_1471819_651865.html

Egypt: direct economic cost estimated at $18m/day

2011-02-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
This is from a 3% to 4% estimate of telecomms and datacomms in the overall Egyptian economy. The OEDC communique notes that attracting foreign investment may now be more difficult. (Is there anyone not looking at regional alternatives?) Source:

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-06 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
the authoritative and secondary servers for the ميسر. zone were unreachable, a circumstance which existed a year ago for the .ht zone. the authoritative and secondary servers for the .eg zone were mutually unreachable. wireline dialtone was prevalent during the prefix withdrawal period.

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
well, i've argued new gtld registry operators in general do not benefit from a manditory v6 reachability requirement at transition to delegation, a position unpopular with v6 evangelicals and others who suppose that new gtld registry operators will exist to serve the next billion users rather

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I disagree... I think that offering alternate name space views to the existing {b,m}illions of v4 addressed spindles requires IPv6 reachability as well since those will also be adding IPv6 capabilities in the next year or two. so your claim is that to have a .cat, serving registrants

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/9/11 10:32 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 9, 2011, at 3:08 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: I disagree... I think that offering alternate name space views to the existing {b,m}illions of v4 addressed spindles requires IPv6 reachability as well since those will also be adding IPv6

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
owen, at several points you assert that gtlds are global, which i suggest is an error on your part. gtlds are whatever the controlling contract (icann) requires, and that currently lacks an external to the point of service performance measurement, and whatever the registrants require, with

Re: Looking for an IPv6 naysayer...

2011-02-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/14/11 3:30 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: On Feb 14, 2011, at 7:12 AM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: owen, at several points you assert that gtlds are global, which i suggest is an error on your part. TLDs come in two flavors. GTLD -- Global Top Level Domain -- A domain which contains

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/16/11 4:25 PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect ... ditto. i'm not aware of any actions by the .eg registry operator, though i'll ask, coincidental to the prefix withdrawal. i suppose in the interests of completeness i should

Re: Local root zone (Was NYTimes: Egypt Leaders Found ‘Off’ Switch for Internet)

2011-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/16/11 6:10 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote: On Feb 16, 2011, at 4:25 13PM, Fred Baker wrote: I don't think that the Egyptian shutdown of domain names had much effect; that's why the bgp prefixes were withdrawn. What was effective was the withdrawal of BGP prefixes. Per the NYT article, the

OT: What vexes VoIP users?

2011-02-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
OT, but NANOG is almost always good for quick clue ... For those who have residential VoIP, what provider {features | bugs} are most vexing? For those who provision residential VoIP, what subscriber {expectations | behaviors} are most vexing? Thanks in advance, Eric

OT: Where are the VoIP clue bats?

2011-03-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
First, thanks for all the responses to What vexes VoIP users? I'm looking for pointers to sites, like Geoff Huston's potaroo.net, that are VoIP clue dense, or mailing lists(*) where the VoIP-full lurk. Thanks in advance, Eric (*) I'm already on the ecrit list, though my real interest in the

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/21/11 1:19 PM, Stefan Fouant wrote: So the days of pointless TLDs are amongst us as we've now given would-be registrars the right to print money and companies are forced to purchase useless domain names in order to protect their trademarks, prevent squatting, etc. When will sanity

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/26/11 5:17 PM, Scott Howard wrote: ... But do you really believe playboy are going to give up playboy.com? Or that new websites are going to register an address that will result in their website not being visible by 1/6th of the worlds population (

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/26/11 7:17 PM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: ... For some reason the aerodynamics of pigs comes to mind here. Having pigs fly is just about as likely as having ambitious Southern prosecutors give up the ability to bring meaningless, but newsworthy, porn prosecutions, ICANN's new TLD or no. ICM

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
: -Original Message- From: Eric Brunner-Williams [mailto:brun...@nic-naa.net] Sent: Saturday, March 26, 2011 7:24 PM ICM retained competent counsel for the ICANN issue advocacy. I expect Stuart will retain competent counsel for the follow-on issues. Yes, it is certain that Stuart

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Two comments from two commenters: I can't seem to find anyone that would benefit from this, with the exception of Stuart and ICM's shareholders. ... I expect the board and staff really really would not want to have to answer questions under oath like who did you talk

Re: ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/27/11 2:35 PM, John Levine wrote: ... I expect the board and staff really really would not want to have to answer questions under oath like who did you talk to at the US Department of Commerce about the .XXX application and what did you say? and why did you vote

Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/27/11 4:36 PM, John Levine wrote: Next, on what basis do you make the claim that .coop and .cat have failed to attract the predicted support from their nominal communities? Arithmetic, mostly. There are 40,000 co-ops in the United States, 160,000 in Europe, and apparently several million

Re: not really ICANN approves .XXX red-light district for the Internet

2011-03-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/27/11 5:50 PM, John R. Levine wrote: Arithmetic, mostly. There are 40,000 co-ops in the United States, 160,000 in Europe, and apparently several million world-wide, yet there are only 6700 domains in .COOP. I would find it hard to say that under 3% takeup was significant support. Do you

Re: De-funding the ITU

2013-01-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/12/13 10:49 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote: ... serious corruption problem, that wants to shut the Internet down ... Bill, I don't accept the premise that (a) the settlement free peering model as modernly practiced can not also be characterized as problematic, and that (b) the intents (note the

Re: De-funding the ITU

2013-01-14 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/14/13 11:23 AM, Bill Woodcock wrote: ... The ITU ... How shall states determine what harms are lawfully attempted, and what harms are not lawfully attempted? Shall there be a treaty concerning cyber strife between states, or shall cyber strife between states be without treaty based limits?

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/29/13 9:40 AM, William Allen Simpson wrote: I'd like to join Jay, Scott, Leo, and presumably Dave supporting muni network ... +1 i'm indifferent to the public-can't rational as munis appear to do an adequate job of water and power delivery-to-the-curb, in eugene, palo alto, san francisco,

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/29/13 3:50 PM, Jean-Francois Mezei wrote: It is in fact important for a government (municipal, state/privince or federal) to stay at a last mile layer 2 service with no retail offering. Wholesale only. That reminds me, the City of Eugene is interviewing for a CTO. I think the City could

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-01-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/30/13 6:33 AM, Jason Baugher wrote: The other thing I find interesting about this entire thread is the assumption by most that a government entity would ... could we agree that contract management is a problem inherent and not abandon an engineering discussion, which includes economics, to

Re: Muni fiber: L1 or L2?

2013-01-31 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 1/31/13 6:28 PM, Dan Armstrong wrote: But the most successful municipal undertaking to support telecom I have ever seen is a municipally owned conduit system…. Could you be a bit more specific? What is the muni, and where can the business model data be found? Also, what was the muni's ROW

Re: Muni network ownership and the Fourth

2013-02-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/1/13 6:26 AM, Dave Sparro wrote: municipal utilities: - sell bonds cheaper (holders get tax-advantaged rates in interest income, and are ultimately backed by the muni taxpayers) Tangential to the private vs public screed: The ability to issue (and sell) tax exempt (T-E) bonds for any

Re: Will wholesale-only muni actually bring the boys to your yard?

2013-02-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/2/13 9:54 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: I would think in this model that the city would be prohibited from providing those services. That is what I just said, yes, Brandon: the City would offer L1 optical home-run connectivity and optional L2 transport and aggregation with Ethernet provider

Re: looking for terminology recommendations concerning non-rooted FQDNs

2013-02-22 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/22/13 11:01 AM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Without getting into metaphysics, we can think of the dot in the presentation format as representing the separators in the wire format. In the wire format, of course, these separators are octets that indicate the size of the next label. And since

GMAIL contact

2013-03-06 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Folks, We'd a user account compromised a couple of weeks ago, spam naturally. We're not getting any response from Gmail's set of contacts, so if anyone has a working Gmail contact, phone or mail, that they're willing to share off-list, I'd appreciate it. Eric Brunner-Williams

Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 4/9/13 4:23 PM, Mark Andrews wrote: It's about time certification was lost for failure to handle records. The same should also apply for DS records. You can suggest this to the compliance team. It seems to me (registrar hat == on) that in 2.5 years time, when Staff next conducts a

Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 4/9/13 5:39 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: I said all of this years ago as a suggestion for the next round of contract renewals (since I was told that it had to be added to the contracts first). Best of luck. Personally, I think it should have been a requirement at least 5 years ago. And exactly

Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

2013-04-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 4/9/13 5:47 PM, Jared Mauch wrote: Can you point is at the right address or form to submit regarding this? Seems like its time for both on and DS. Jared, Joe is an employee of the corporation, a rather high ranking one. As I mentioned in my response to Mark, he _may_ be in a position

Re: Quad-A records in Network Solutions ?

2013-04-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
In time of response order: There is Leo's reference to the not yet concluded RAA process, in which a para contains possibly relevant registrar shall terms. This is forward looking (the proposed RAA is not yet required by the Corporation) and may apply only to parties contracting with the

Re: [inquiry] Internet/cell in Teheran down?

2009-06-13 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I exchanged notes with someone in Tehran shortly after 6am EDT this morning. NPR is at least partially incorrect. Steve Pirk wrote: Npr (All things considered) is reporting that cell phones and Internet access in at least Teheran if not all of Iran is down. Reporters are unable to connect

Re: Outages in wales ?

2009-07-19 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Peter Dambier wrote: Marc Manthey wrote: i hope i can visit wales someday :-))) , it looks very nice, but the accent is for me as an europen non native english speaker nearly incomprehensible :-0 Hello Marc, it is not an accent. It is a language. In fact most welsh do

Re: sat-3 cut?

2009-08-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
above link, and routing, at transport, there is a tld effort as well. Randy Bush wrote: Does NANOG have an outreach and construction program? yes. informally, a fair number of nanogians have spent the last few decades doing tech transfer to the developing economies, including helping

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
In the applications I wrote earlier this month for BIP (Rural Utilities Services, USDA) and BTOP (NTIA, non-rural) infrastructure, for Maine's 2nd, I was keenly aware that broadband hasn't taken off as a pervasive, if not universal service in rural areas of the US. I don't think the speed

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
In the applications I wrote earlier this month for BIP (Rural Utilities Services, USDA) and BTOP (NTIA, non-rural) infrastructure, for Maine's 2nd, I was keenly aware that broadband hasn't taken off as a pervasive, if not universal service in rural areas of the US. I don't think the speed

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-27 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Fred, I picked Aroostook, Washington, and Lincoln counties for a 4g wireless with backhaul infrastructure proposal. A wireline infrastructure proposal for these counties (BIP) would, for some arbitrary amount of capital expense, serve some of the population in towns, but leave the non-in-town

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
+1 I operate a Maine ISP/ASP, and Senator Snowe is my lobbying target. Steven M. Bellovin wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009 19:46:19 -0400 (EDT) Sean Donelan s...@donelan.com wrote: On Sun, 30 Aug 2009, Jeff Young wrote: The more troubling parts of this bill had to do with the President,

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
randy, moveon is a maine-based org. it is an effective, fund raising, partisan organization. it is much more than a click-and-opine vehicle, it puts hundreds of thousands of dollars into competitive races, and has a competent political director. to create a NagOn we would have to hire or

Re: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-31 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
The order arose from Cobell v. Salazar (was C. v. Kempthorne, was C. v. Norton, was C. v. Babbitt). On October 20th, 2005, Judge Royce C. Lamberth ordered the Interior Department to disconnect from the Internet all computer systems that house or provide access to Individual Indian Trust

Colt outages?

2009-09-08 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Anyone have news on this? I understand Colt has fixed London and are working on Dublin, Bruxelles and Geneva... but that's all I have.

colo space in vancouver, bc?

2009-09-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Hi, I've a project that needs approximately a rack, in the Vancouver, BC area. Suggestions? Eric

Re: Congress may require ISPs to block fraud sites H.R.3817

2009-11-05 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Barry Shein wrote: I was at an IP (as in intellectual property), um, constituency I think, IPC, meeting at ICANN which basically consisted of 99 lawyers and me in the room. By the Montevideo ICANN meeting '01 the Internet Service Providers Constituency (ISPC) had dwindled down to the

Re: Who has AS 1712?

2009-11-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Jared Mauch wrote: On Tue, Nov 24, 2009 at 07:58:00AM +0900, Randy Bush wrote: It's not just AS1712. AS1707 - AS1726 appear to all have been allocated to Renater. AS1707 was ERX'd to RIPE on Sep 9, 2002, but it appears that AS1708-AS1726 were missed and have subsequently been reallocated

Re: I got a live one! - Spam source

2009-11-25 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Russell, My personal inclination would be to look for what legit entities are provisioning them with critical resources and what margins they appear to be paying. For DNS resources, the domains, to identify registry preference, probably a simple volume correlation, and the registrars, which

Re: What DNS Is Not

2009-11-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Dan White wrote: On 26/11/09 07:37 -0800, David Conrad wrote: There are folks on this list who work for ISPs which are doing wildcards/synthesis/etc. They (or, more likely their management) can tell you there are obvious business reasons why they do wildcards/synthesis/etc. Perhaps I'm

Re: [#135346] Unauthorized BGP Announcements (follow up to Hijacked Networks)

2012-02-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/2/12 12:32 PM, Ray Soucy wrote: So, to pose the obvious question: Should there be [a law against prefix hijacking]? So far the track record of the US government trying to make laws regarding technology and the Internet has been less than stellar. ... While I agree with Ray's

Re: [POLITICS] ICANN elections

2012-02-03 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
of the ICANN Board. The ASO AC is pleased to announce the following four candidates for its upcoming appointment. The Candidates are: - Thomas Eric Brunner-Williams - Martin J. Levy - William Manning - Raymond Alan Plzak In accordance with the ASO AC election procedures

Re: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing

2012-02-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 2/15/12 8:32 AM, Mark Andrews wrote: ... Before deciding to go the IDNA route, treating DNS labels as UTF-8 was discussed, evaluated and rejected. well, sort of. we started with idn as a wg label. the smtp weenies opined that they'd never have a flag day and anything other than a boot

Re: Programmers with network engineering skills

2012-03-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
In my experience the path of least resistance is to get a junior network engineer and ... agree, where the end goal is to increment the facility's scripting capable administrators. been there, done that. disagree, where the end goal is to create a coherent distributed system with a non-trivial

Re: Request to lease IP space, or things that make you want to go hmmmmm..

2012-03-09 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Thank you George. Not SMTP but HTTP. I expect exact match string (as brand) marketers, and also partial match string (as brand typo-squatter) marketers, to exploit this asset class (widely spread and legitimately routed IPs). #include string/metric.h #include icann/udrp.h #include seo/ppc.h

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

2012-03-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
In article 95f7df59-052d-43ba-869f-289df915c...@arbor.net you write: On Mar 10, 2012, at 7:02 PM, Robert E. Seastrom wrote: there are four gtlds Aren't there actually seven? Including the new IDN TLDs, there are now 60. well there are the legacy (pre-2000) set. there are the seven

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

2012-03-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Also, one could make a distinction between sponsored TLDs and generic TLDs, but that's probably splitting hairs. I suppose, but they all have similar registry and registrar agreements with ICANN, which is what makes them different from ccTLDs. at present there are almost as many

Re: Concern about gTLD servers in India

2012-03-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/10/12 3:23 PM, Jonathan Lassoff wrote: I would presume that Verisign decided that it just wasn't worth the effort to deploy into India. operational control of .in passed to a for-profit operator domiciled in one_of{us,ca,ie} other than VGRS. as india is a competitor's property, investment

Re: US withdraws IANA RFP, ‘no suitable responses’

2012-03-12 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
good head line copy edit. body lacks substance, though not attitude. -e

Re: BCP38 Deployment

2012-03-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 3/28/12 11:45 AM, David Conrad wrote: Actually, given the uptick in spoofing-based DoS attacks, the ease in which such attacks can be generated, recent high profile targets of said attacks, and the full-on money pumping freakout about anything with cyber- tacked on the front, I suspect a

Re: French Regulator to ask all your information about your Peering

2012-03-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
interesting discussion of jurisdiction. In the present instance, we regard ARCEP’s proposed reporting requirement as constituting an extra- territorial obligation that ought not to be applied to operators who are neither established in France nor directly providing services within

Re: Vixie warns: DNS Changer ‘blackouts’ inevitable

2012-05-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 5/23/12 1:40 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: In a modestly favorable light, ISC looks like an arms dealer (DNS redirection) to the bad guys my thought looks like a reasonably successful alternate root operator. i mention kevin dunlap as well as bill's mention of phil

Re: Wacky Weekend: The '.secure' gTLD

2012-06-01 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 5/31/12 10:52 PM, John Levine wrote: What will drive the price up is the lawsuits that come out of the woodwork when they start trying to enforce their provisions. What? I have already printed my letterhead! What do you mean my busted DKIM service is a problem? History suggests that the

Re: Wacky Weekend: The '.secure' gTLD

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 6/4/12 12:30 AM, Keith Medcalf wrote: The greatest advantage of .SECURE is that it will help ensure that all the high-value targets are easy to find. one of the rationalizations for imposing a dnssec mandatory to implement requirement (by icann staff driven by dnssec evangelists) is that

Re: Wacky Weekend: The '.secure' gTLD

2012-06-04 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 6/4/12 3:28 PM, Andrew Sullivan wrote: Well, I note that at least the .secure promoters haven't decided it's a good idea: the _known_ .secure-and-all-confusingly-similar-labels promoters. the reveal is weeks away, followed by the joys of contention set formation. there may be more than one

Re: UDRP and ICANN / Input Requested

2008-10-23 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Ernie, Martin's suggestions (go rummage around the Berkman dump) is a good one. Not too far from you is someone who actually is a leading figure in this somewhat arcane field, Prof. Froomkin at Miami Law. There've been a couple of papers over the years that are good sources too. Drop a note

Re: UDRP and ICANN / Input Requested

2008-10-24 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
I should have mentioned this, its a nice, non-fatal, 31pp intro to part of the problem space, from the IPC weenies: http://marques.org/sunrise/A%20Perfect%20Sunrise.pdf Eric

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