Looking for comments

2010-07-21 Thread Fred Baker
Hi IETF IPv6 Operations WG is looking at this draft, and we're interested in any comments you might have as well. http://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-arkko-ipv6-transition-guidelines Guidelines for Using IPv6 Transition Mechanisms, Jari Arkko, Fred Baker, 12-Jul-10

Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

2010-07-24 Thread Fred Baker
I tend to think a /60 is a reasonable allocation for a residential user. In my home I have two subnets and will in time likely add two more: - general network access - my office (required to be separate by Cisco Information Security policy) - (future) would likely want routable separate

Re: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course

2010-07-24 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 24, 2010, at 6:40 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote: Such a site would be the seed for when (if) we come up with the tech for everyone to have PI and lose all the restrictions imposed so far. Oh, we have the technology. It's called memory. Speaking from the perspective of a vendor, I'll

Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-25 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 25, 2010, at 7:24 PM, Tarig Yassin wrote: Deal all I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every day. For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they will get a *Forbidden Access Error* message. And some messages say: you are

Re: Did Internet Founders Actually Anticipate Paid, Prioritized Traffic?

2010-09-14 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 14, 2010, at 1:37 AM, Michael Dillon wrote: And let's not forget that the article which came up with the title of this thread equates IETF with Internet Founders and is talking about the 1990s and the introduction of diffserv. If that's the case, the proceedings of ISOC's INET '98

Re: RIP Justification

2010-09-29 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 29, 2010, at 1:20 PM, Jesse Loggins wrote: A group of engineers and I were having a design discussion about routing protocols including RIP and static routing and the justifications of use for each protocol. One very interesting discussion was surrounding RIP and its use versus a

Re: The i-root china reroute finally makes fox news. And congress.

2010-11-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Nov 17, 2010, at 1:08 AM, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2010/11/16/internet-traffic-reportedly-routed-chinese-servers/ I have read the article and the list, and I'm puzzled. It's pretty clear that the root gets its records from a common source, and that the

Re: [Operational] Internet Police

2010-12-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 9, 2010, at 10:19 AM, Michael Smith wrote: My question is what architectural recommendations will you make to your employer if/when the US Govt compels our employers to accept our role as the front lines of this cyberwar? I figure once someone with a relevant degree of influence in

Re: UN mulls internet regulation options

2010-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 19, 2010, at 1:30 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 12/18/2010 9:52 PM, Joseph Prasad wrote: http://www.itnews.com.au/News/242051,un-mulls-internet-regulation-options.aspx Given the season, their efforts appear to be a form of mulled whine. Well, if you have followed the news, it

Re: UN mulls internet regulation options

2010-12-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 19, 2010, at 4:09 PM, Randy Bush wrote: Well, if you have followed the news, it comes down to the fact that some of our old friends from WSIS/WGIG/IGF+ICANN/GAC we're the government and we like the idea of being in charge friends are at it again. In one corner, Brazil, China, South

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 20, 2010, at 11:18 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: On Mon, 20 Dec 2010, Jim Gettys wrote: Common knowledge among whom? I'm hardly a naive Internet user. Anyone actually looking into the matter. The Cisco fair-queue command was introduced in IOS 11.0 according to

Re: TCP congestion control and large router buffers

2010-12-22 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 22, 2010, at 8:48 AM, Jim Gettys wrote: I don't know if you are referring to the RED in a different light paper: that was never published, though an early draft escaped and can be found on the net. Precisely. RED in a different light identifies two bugs in the RED algorithm, and

Re: quietly....

2011-02-01 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 1, 2011, at 4:31 AM, Jeremy wrote: Has there been any discussion about allocating the Class E blocks? If this doesn't count as future use what does? (Yes, I realize this doesn't *fix* the problem here) yes. The bottom line is that it only gives you a few more /8s, and every host and

Re: Post-Exhaustion-phase punishment for early adopters

2011-02-04 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 4, 2011, at 6:47 PM, Heinrich Strauss wrote: So once the early adopters migrate their networks to IPv6, there is no business need to maintain the IPv4 allocation and that will be returned to the free pool, since Business would see it as an unnecessary cost. Interesting reasoning. I

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-05 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would survive in the case of all out war and massive destruction. (strategic nuclear strikes)

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-05 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 5, 2011, at 6:11 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: On 2/5/2011 6:43 AM, Fred Baker wrote: On Feb 4, 2011, at 9:49 PM, Hayden Katzenellenbogen wrote: Not sure if it has been said already but wasn't one of the key point for the creation of the internet to create and infrastructure that would

Re: Weekend Gedankenexperiment - The Kill Switch

2011-02-05 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 5, 2011, at 7:00 PM, Jay Ashworth wrote: - Original Message - From: Fred Baker f...@cisco.com You mean, like drop a couple of trade towers and take out three class five switches, causing communication outages throughout New England and New Jersey, and affecting places

Re: IPv6 is on the marketers radar

2011-02-11 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 11, 2011, at 12:21 PM, Franck Martin wrote: http://www.marketingvox.com/under-the-microscope-what-the-end-of-ipv4-means-for-marketers-048657/ I can hear people, say oh no Interesting to see that marketers do not like CGNAT. They missed an important point. Who Will Be

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

2011-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
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. http://www.renesys.com/blog/2011/01/egypt-leaves-the-internet.shtml notes, for example, that routes *through* Egypt were

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

2011-02-16 Thread Fred Baker
ah On Feb 16, 2011, at 3:10 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

Re: Libya

2011-02-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 19, 2011, at 12:12 AM, Randy Bush wrote: there are a thousand means. the problem lies with the intent. yes

Re: [Nanog] Re: US .mil blocking in Japan

2011-03-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 17, 2011, at 6:57 PM, Jason 'XenoPhage' Frisvold wrote: Could this also be part of a communications blackout ? No, not in a sinister, government keeping secrets, manner. A friend of mine serves on a ship that's over there right now. He dropped me a note last night that they were

Re: CSI New York fake IPv6

2011-03-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 20, 2011, at 11:04 PM, Martin Millnert wrote: one would almost expect there'd be 555-equivalent address spaces defined by the IETF already. In IPv6, I would expect the documentation example (2001:db8::/32) would suffice for the purpose.

Re: IPv6 SEO implecations?

2011-03-28 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 29, 2011, at 1:21 AM, Wil Schultz wrote: So far the consensus is to run dual stack natively. While this definitely is the way things should be set up in the end, I can see some valid reasons to run ipv4 and ipv6 on separate domains for a while before final configuration. For

Re: East Africa Fibre Connectivity- Heads up

2009-08-05 Thread Fred Baker
That is very much to be expected, if nothing else due to pent-up demand. The existing vsat infrastructure tends to be pretty saturated, meaning that users experience a lot of loss as well as delay. What if they stop losing traffic? War story: in 1995 I found myself sharing a podium with

Re: FCCs RFC for the Definition of Broadband

2009-08-25 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 24, 2009, at 9:17 AM, Luke Marrott wrote: What are your thoughts on what the definition of Broadband should be going forward? I would assume this will be the standard definition for a number of years to come. Historically, narrowband was circuit switched (ISDN etc) and broadband

Re: Does Internet Speed Vary by Season?

2009-10-10 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 9, 2009, at 5:38 PM, Dragos Ruiu wrote: Well, since it's been documented that internet speed / usage varies with the weather (it gets faster when it's sunny, slower when it rains) I'm sure some seasonal correlation could be found. Could you point to the documentation? I having

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 21, 2009, at 4:36 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: It is precisely because the traffic has no signature distinguishable from normal application traffic oh my goodness. You're behind on your reading...

Re: ISP/VPN's to China?

2009-10-22 Thread Fred Baker
They exist and for certain applications are pretty effective. On Oct 21, 2009, at 6:47 PM, Alex Balashov wrote: I was not aware that tools or techniques to do this are widespread or highly functional in a way that would get them adopted in an Internet access control application of a

Re: Consumer Grade - IPV6 Enabled Router Firewalls.

2009-12-02 Thread Fred Baker
There are specifications for them being developed in the IETF, BBF, and Cable Labs. Basically, all of the usual suspects are interested in having product that meets needs. On Dec 2, 2009, at 3:16 PM, Wade Peacock wrote: We had a discussion today about IPv6 today. During our open thinking

Re: IPv6 prefixes longer then /64: are they possible in DOCSIS networks?

2011-11-28 Thread Fred Baker
Basically, if the address used by a host is allocated using RFC 3971/4861/4941, the host assumes a /64 from the router and concocts a 64 bit EID as specified. If the address used by the host is allocated using DHCP/DHCPv6, it is the 128 bit number assigned by the DHCP server. I see no reason

Re: Traceroute explanation

2011-12-08 Thread Fred Baker
This is just a guess, but I'll bet the route changed while you were measuring it. Traceroute sends a request, awaits a response, sends a request, ... Suppose that the route was 172.28.0.1 - 10.16.0.2 - 41.200.16.1 - 172.17.2.25 - 213.140.58.10 -

Re: Sad IPv4 story?

2011-12-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 9, 2011, at 10:37 AM, Franck Martin wrote: I just had a personal email from a brand new ISP in the Asia-Pacific area desperately looking for enough IPv4 to be able to run their business the way they would like… This is just a data point. We're going to be hearing a lot more of

Re: question regarding US requirements for journaling public email (possible legislation?)

2012-01-05 Thread Fred Baker
of your mail servers. Hi Eric, The only relatively recent thing I'm aware of in the Congress is the Protecting Children From Internet Pornographers Act of 2011. Since you bring it up, I sent this to Eric a few moments ago. Like you, IANAL, and this is not legal advice. From: Fred Baker f

Re: World IPv6 Launch Day - June 6, 2012

2012-01-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 18, 2012, at 9:03 AM, Shumon Huque wrote: But, checking www.worldipv6launch.org just now shows that it have IPv6 records now: I just successfully accessed it using IPv6. The service is real, not just the DNS record. The address I accessed it at was 2600:809:600::3f50:411.

Re: Wacky Weekend: The '.secure' gTLD

2012-05-31 Thread Fred Baker
with my military son, whose buddies apparently call me skynet, amusing... Begin forwarded message: From: Fred Baker f...@cisco.com Date: May 9, 2012 12:55:40 PM PDT To: Colin Baker ... Subject: Re: skynet On May 9, 2012, at 2:14 PM, Colin Baker wrote: so my friends and i have taken to calling

Re: NAT66 and the subscriber prefix length

2008-11-14 Thread Fred Baker
Before we get too deeply exercised, let Margaret and I huddle on it. The issue you raised can be trivially solved by adding the checksum offset to a different 16 bits in the address, such as bits 96..127. In fact, the only reason to care which bits it is added to is to handle multi-DMZ

Re: IPv6 Confusion

2009-02-17 Thread Fred Baker
You already have a fair bit of information, but the short answer to your question is... Apart from a few special purposes addresses (see RFC 4291), IPv6 addresses are a cross between IPv4-style CIDR addressing and XNS/IPX/ ISO-style network+host addressing. Bits 0..63 of the address are a

Re: Legislation and its effects in our world

2009-02-25 Thread Fred Baker
If it's at all like the EU Date Retention provisions, it would be in the ISP, not the home router. The Danish want the moral equivalent of a netflow trace for each user (log of the kind of information netflow records for a session for each TCP/UDP/SCTP session the user initiates or

Re: Legislation and its effects in our world

2009-02-25 Thread Fred Baker
I am not a lawyer; I am a person that can read something that is written in the English language, and considered by some to be a reasonable man. So please don't consider this to be legal advice. Also, although I am posting from a Cisco account, this note represents my understanding based

Re: Important New Requirement for IPv4 Requests [re impacting revenue]

2009-04-21 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 21, 2009, at 10:36 AM, Roger Marquis wrote: B) Technical standards for NAT NAPT are the IETF's job, not ARIN's. Too true, but no reason ARIN could not be taking a more active role. This is after all, in ARIN's best interest, not the IETF's. There is work happening in the behave

Re: ULA BoF

2007-06-01 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 1, 2007, at 4:05 PM, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: Solution: new type of local addresses that doesn't require any router magic to keep the packets within the site, and is globally unique so network merging isn't an issue. But ULAs *do* require router magic. They require a policy to

Re: Security gain from NAT

2007-06-04 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 4, 2007, at 12:22 PM, Dave Israel wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 04 Jun 2007 11:32:39 PDT, Jim Shankland said: *No* security gain? No protection against port scans from Bucharest? No protection for a machine that is used in practice only on the local, office LAN? Or to

Re: FBI tells the public to call their ISP for help

2007-06-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 15, 2007, at 1:23 PM, Kevin Day wrote: I've never tried it, but I've heard that they've been surprisingly helpful, even in cases where it was obviously not Microsoft's fault (directly, anyway). I'm not 100% positive that their policy explicitly allows OEM license holders to use

Re: So why don't US citizens get this?

2008-07-27 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 27, 2008, at 5:37 AM, Joe Greco wrote: Yes, I do. The free market is a system where corporations like to take the easiest road to do the least work to maximize profits, while everyone else is doing the same thing. Recognizing your biases here, I think an economist might define it

Re: Chinese bgp metering story

2009-12-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 10:32 AM, Steven Bellovin wrote: Could you post a summary, in appropriate technical terms, of precisely what is being requested, and what changes to BGP they want? Really. I can read tea leaves with the best of them, and the tea leaves I see tell me the reporter (in

Re: Chinese bgp metering story

2009-12-18 Thread Fred Baker
My sense is that the ITU has played with such ideas in the past, and the governments have for the most part found it in their interest to not screw with the Internet. Do you have any specific recommendations on how to keep that true? On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:05 PM, Bill Woodcock wrote:

Re: Chinese bgp metering story

2009-12-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 18, 2009, at 12:43 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: And don't be so hard on the ITU folks, the only thing they want to break is the monopoly of IP address allocation. With all due respect, they don't want to break said monopoly, assuming one agrees that it is a monopoly (I think there's a

Re: Article on spammers and their infrastructure

2009-12-30 Thread Fred Baker
One might say the same about the IETF, which Randy likes to lampoon. Not sure how it comes up in this context, as (as Randy loves to remind us) while many operators attend, it is not first-and-foremost an operational community. As to ICANN, I think Rich may be talking about the registries

Re: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-31 Thread Fred Baker
RFC 4594 would suggest using DSCP CS2 (01xx in the TOS byte; xx is the ECN flags). Section 3.1 discusses the issues with CS7, which is the DSCP counterpart to the deprecated IP Precedence 7. RFCs 2474/2475 discuss the Differentiated Services Architecture and its implementation.

Re: I don't need no stinking firewall!

2010-01-05 Thread Fred Baker
The primary value of a firewall is two-fold: - It enables a network administrator to define his edge, the interior of which he is responsible for. - It enables a network administrator to isolate his network from externally-originated traffic per his whims and viewpoints. IMHO, it is not

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 15, 2010, at 8:13 AM, Gadi Evron wrote: 1. Unlike GhostNet, which showed an interesting attack but jumped to conclusions without evidence that it was China behind them -- based on Ethos alone I'd like to think that when Google says China did it, they know. Although being a

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
The Google Spokesperson I heard on the radio yesterday evening said that they had not yet stopped censoring, and declined to give a date when they would. His point was that the clock is ticking and Google can see it. On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:52 AM, Jérôme Fleury wrote: On Wed, Jan 13, 2010

Re: more news from Google

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 13, 2010, at 8:31 AM, Anthony Uk wrote: The ability to automatically discern users' political positions from their inbox is not one that any email provider reasonably needs. I'm not Chinese, but putting myself in their position... I would be surprised if they were trying to

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Fred Baker
On Jan 15, 2010, at 3:05 PM, Bruce Williams wrote: Can you prove you are not Chinese and my computer is not hacked? Fred is your real name, isn't it? You are Fred, aren't you? You. Says so on my business card... inline: IMG_2226_2.jpg

Re: Email Portability Approved by Knesset Committee

2010-02-22 Thread Fred Baker
On Feb 22, 2010, at 12:51 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: Per the followup comments on this, the domain owner might be able to do some things in domain name usage and IP Address assignment to mitigate this, the initial and on-going costs of getting this right and the likelihood of eliminating all

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Fred Baker
I could imagine that the FCC sees it as a data source. On Mar 12, 2010, at 6:34 AM, Sean Donelan wrote: On Fri, 12 Mar 2010, Joe Greco wrote: I've gotten strange stuff each time I've tried their tests. I particularly like the factor of 10 difference in upload speeds. The FCC is probably

Re: FCC releases Internet speed test tool

2010-03-12 Thread Fred Baker
On Mar 12, 2010, at 5:43 AM, Marshall Eubanks wrote: http://www.broadband.gov/ I'm listening to all this and thinking through the questions the FCC might be asking. I'm also trying to do a somewhat-controlled test, which I'll give you the first several samples of. See attached. I picked up

Re: Using private APNIC range in US

2010-03-18 Thread Fred Baker
Are they using them only within their domain(s), and ARIN addresses outside, or are they advertising them to their upstream(s) to be readvertised into the backbone? If they are using them internally and NAT'ing to the outside, they're not hurting themselves or anyone else. I would personally

Re: FCC dealt major blow in net neutrality ruling favoring Comcast

2010-04-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 7, 2010, at 7:21 AM, Mark Smith wrote: One thing which would significantly help this argument for or against Network Neutrality is defining exactly what it is. The FCC has a definition of sorts, in terms of its six principles. Page three of

Re: Comcast's 6to4 Relays

2011-04-19 Thread Fred Baker
On Apr 19, 2011, at 5:52 PM, Butch Evans wrote: +1. 6to4 is very bad and should be off my default, but unfortunately many end users unwittingly have it on and this may provide them some relief. So am I to understand that services like Toredo client (which is what I PRESUME is being

Re: IT Survey Request: Win an iPad2 or Kindle!

2011-05-27 Thread Fred Baker
On May 27, 2011, at 9:50 AM, Michael Holstein wrote: Not picking on you personally .. but let's call a spade a spade, shall we? .. this is market research sponsored by a vendor with a hat in the game. Not exactly objective, and wasn't disclosed up-front. OK, let me step in here. This was

Re: ICANN to allow commercial gTLDs

2011-06-17 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 17, 2011, at 2:33 PM, David Conrad wrote: On Jun 17, 2011, at 11:23 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: http://tech.slashdot.org/story/11/06/17/202245/ You just learned about this now? In fact I did. I certainly haven't seen it mentioned on NANOG in the last 6 months or so; where should I have

Re: IPv6 words

2011-06-23 Thread Fred Baker
On Jun 23, 2011, at 3:23 PM, Pete Carah wrote: On 06/23/2011 06:16 PM, Paul Graydon wrote: On 06/23/2011 12:10 PM, Jeroen van Aart wrote: I am sure it has come up a number of times, but with IPv6 you can make up fancy addresses that are (almost) complete words or phrases. Making it almost

Re: Anybody can participate in the IETF (Was: Why is IPv6 broken?)

2011-07-11 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 10, 2011, at 12:16 PM, Jeroen Massar wrote: On 2011-07-10 17:56 , David Miller wrote: [..] +1 The lack of will on the part of the IETF to attract input from and involve operators in their processes (which I would posit is a critical element in the process). Eh ANYBODY,

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-13 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Scott Brim wrote: Cameron: As for ILNP, it's going to be difficult to get from where things are now to a world where ILNP is not just useless overhead. When you finally do, considering what it gives you, will the journey have been worth it? LISP apparently has

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-13 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 13, 2011, at 10:39 AM, Scott Brim wrote: On Wed, Jul 13, 2011 at 10:09, Randy Bush ra...@psg.com wrote: btw, a litte birdie told me to take another look at 6296 IPv6-to-IPv6 Network Prefix Translation. M. Wasserman, F. Baker. June 2011. (Format: TXT=73700 bytes) (Status:

Re: in defense of lisp (was: Anybody can participate in the IETF)

2011-07-13 Thread Fred Baker
On Jul 13, 2011, at 12:02 PM, Ronald Bonica wrote: At this point, it might be interesting to do the following: - enumerate the operational problems solved by LISP - enumerate the subset of those problems also solved by RFC 6296 - execute a cost/benefit analysis on both solutions I'll let

Re: What do you do when your Home ISP is down?

2011-08-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Aug 18, 2011, at 10:21 AM, Mark Keymer wrote: I am wondering what some of you guys do when your home ISP is down. At least those of you that don't give yourself internet. I'm on Cox Business Services, a Cable Modem network. The bad news: I pay more for less bandwidth. The good news: I

Re: tcp md5 bgp attacks?

2018-08-15 Thread Fred Baker
Well, think about RST attacks, in which someone bombards a TCP connection with TCP RESET in the hopes of threading a needle and taking it down. It's not the end of the world - BGP restarts - but there is an outage. The simplest way to protect against that (and against having someone with a

Re: Oct. 3, 2018 EAS Presidential Alert test

2018-10-07 Thread Fred Baker
> On Oct 7, 2018, at 12:23 PM, b...@theworld.com wrote: > > That was one advantage of the old air raid siren system, it was difficult to > ignore and required nothing special to receive (hearing > impaired excepted.) Where I grew up, the “Civil Defense Warning” was used for air raids, nuclear

Re: It's been 20 years today (Oct 16, UTC). Hard to believe.

2018-10-16 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 16, 2018, at 4:57 PM, Wayne Bouchard wrote: > Well, simply put, the idea is that you should be able to compensate > for a certain amount of deviation from accepted usage as long as its > still within what the protocol allows (or can be read to allow) but > that you yourself should act with

Re: Stupid Question maybe?

2018-12-18 Thread Fred Baker
On Dec 19, 2018, at 3:50 AM, Brian Kantor wrote: > /24 is certainly cleaner than 255.255.255.0. > > I seem to remember it was Phil Karn who in the early 80's suggested > that expressing subnet masks as the number of bits from the top end > of the address word was efficient, since subnet masks

Re: who attacks the weather channel?

2019-04-18 Thread Fred Baker
According to this, Weather Underground was purchased by the Weather Channel and firmed “The Weather Company”, and that was in turn purchased by IBM last year. https://www.wunderground.com/blog/JeffMasters/weather-underground-bought-by-ibm.html Sent using a machine that autocorrects in

Re: Gi Firewall for mobile subscribers

2019-04-11 Thread Fred Baker
> On Apr 11, 2019, at 8:43 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > I’m pretty sure that no matter how good your power management is, any cell > phone’s battery will die long before its /64 can be scanned. And that might be the point of the scan - not to find the addresses in use, but to deplete the

Re: Best ways to ensure redundancy with no terrestrial ISPs

2019-08-04 Thread Fred Baker
Between overlaid ads and the thing trying to force an account, i’d Describe it as a waste of time. Now, a page that delivered the data advertised... Sent using a machine that autocorrects in interesting ways... > On Aug 3, 2019, at 3:36 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > >  > Feel free to open

Re: [nanog] Cisco GLBP/HSRP question -- Has it ever been dis

2019-08-05 Thread Fred Baker
> On Aug 4, 2019, at 5:29 PM, Chriztoffer Hansen > wrote: > > The question was simply about if GLBP/HSRP had ever been up in discussions in > the IETF concerning publishing the protocol specifications as a standard. (As > pointed out. I totally forgot about the RFC concerning HSRP.)

Re: What can ISPs do better? Removing racism out of internet

2019-08-05 Thread Fred Baker
> On Aug 4, 2019, at 8:41 PM, Mehmet Akcin wrote: > > I am sure there are many sites like this out there, but could network > operators do anything to make these sites “not so easy” to be found, reached, > and used to end innocent lives? I''d suggest reducing their reputation rankings, as

Re: 44/8

2019-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
The fundamental reason given, from several sources, was that our experience with IPv4 address trading says that no matter how many IPv4 addresses we create or recover, we won't obviate the need for a replacement protocol. The reasons for that are two: (1) IPv4 isn't forward compatible with

Re: This DNS over HTTP thing

2019-09-30 Thread Fred Baker
On Sep 30, 2019, at 10:25 PM, Jay R. Ashworth wrote: > Is there an official name for it I should be searching for? The IETF calls it "DoH", pronounced like "Dough". https://datatracker.ietf.org/wg/doh/about/ There are a number of such services from Google, Amazon, and others. Firefox and

Re: Russian government’s disconnection test

2019-11-01 Thread Fred Baker
> On Nov 1, 2019, at 8:15 PM, Constantine A. Murenin wrote: > > If somehow all the transatlantic (and/or transpacific) cables are offline; > will the whole internet outside of the US stop working, too? This has nothing to do with cables, and everything to do with information control and

Re: Elephant in the room - Akamai

2019-12-08 Thread Fred Baker
Sent from my iPad > On Dec 5, 2019, at 9:03 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > For SP-grade routers, there isn't "code" that needs to be added to combat > buffer bloat. All an admin has to do is cut back on the number of packet > buffers on each interface -- an interface setting, you see. A

Re: RIPE our of IPv4

2019-12-03 Thread Fred Baker
> On Dec 3, 2019, at 3:22 PM, Valdis Klētnieks wrote: > > On Tue, 03 Dec 2019 14:58:59 -0800, FREDERICK BAKER said: > >> I think he is saying that companies like Reliance JIO have started with a /22 >> of IPv4 and a /32 (or more) of IPv6, > > As I said - you need IPv4 space to dual-stack.

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-03 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 3, 2019, at 12:30 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > On 10/3/19 8:22 AM, Fred Baker wrote: >> And on lists like this, I am told that there is no deployment - that >> nobody wants it, and anyone that disagrees with that assessment has >> lost his or her mind. That

Re: California public safety power shutdowns

2019-10-09 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 9, 2019, at 12:36 PM, Sean Donelan wrote: > Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison have started Public > Safety Power Shut-offs (PSPS) in California wildfire high-risk areas. > > Shut-offs are taking place in three phases. PG began shutoffs at midnight > in Northern

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-03 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 3, 2019, at 3:15 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > You still need a IPv6 version of RFC 1812. If we were to start with the current draft, I would probably want to start over, and have people involved from multiple operators. That said, let me give you some background on RFC 1812. The

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-03 Thread Fred Baker
On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:51 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > It appears that the only parallel paper for IPv6 is > draft-ietf-v6ops-ipv6rtr-reqs-04, _Requirements for IPv6 Routers_, which > currently carries a copyright of 2018. It's a shame that this document > is still in limbo; witness this quote:

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-03 Thread Fred Baker
Sent from my iPad > On Oct 3, 2019, at 12:14 PM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > On 10/3/19 8:42 AM, Fred Baker wrote: >> >> >>>> On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:51 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: >>> >>> Someone else mentioned that "IPv6 has be

Re: Update to BCP-38?

2019-10-03 Thread Fred Baker
> On Oct 3, 2019, at 9:51 AM, Stephen Satchell wrote: > > Someone else mentioned that "IPv6 has been around for 25 years, and why > is it taking so long for everyone to adopt it?" I present as evidence > the lack of a formally-released requirements RFC for IPv6. It suggests > that the

Re: QUIC traffic throttled on AT residential

2020-02-19 Thread Fred Baker
> On Feb 18, 2020, at 4:00 PM, Ca By wrote: > > I am not a fan of quic or any udp traffic. My suggestion was that Google use > an new L4 instead of UDP, but that was too hard for the Googlers. The argument I have heard is that residential firewalls often block anything that is *not* UDP or

Re: power to the internet

2019-12-26 Thread Fred Baker
> This time it’s PG all alone, but still fallout from back then. Too much > liability and they’ve not maintained the infrastructure and so they decided > that to reduce the liability costs it’s cheaper to blackout. Same story again > different colors. PG making a mint while people get screwed

Cox contact?

2020-10-15 Thread Fred Baker
Would an engineer from Cox please contact me privately?

Re: Is there *currently* a shortage of IPv4 addresses?

2020-08-04 Thread Fred Baker
> On Aug 4, 2020, at 1:01 PM, Tom Beecher wrote: > > The only other option then becomes the secondary transfer markets, where > costs to acquire v4 space are much higher than what direct allocations from > the RIRs used to be. > > On Tue, Aug 4, 2020 at 3:35 PM Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. >

Re: [v6ops] Question about "Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets with Extension Headers"

2020-07-29 Thread Fred Baker
your comments to if you wish. > > Thanks, > Fernando > > > > > Forwarded Message > Subject: [v6ops] Question about "Operational Implications of IPv6 Packets > with Extension Headers" > Date: Tue, 28 Jul 2020 22:55:45 -0700

Re: MAP-T in production

2020-07-22 Thread Fred Baker
For the record, we are asking similar questions about 464XLAT in v6ops. If you are deploying it, please advise Jordi Palet Martinez. For those unfamiliar with them, MAP-T and 464XLAT are each deployment frameworks for IPv4/IPv6 translation, as described in RFCs 4164, 4166, 4167, and 7915.

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-01-20 Thread Fred Baker
I recently had a discussion with an Asian ISP that was asking the IETF to PLEASE re-declare DoD space to be private space so that they could use it. This particular ISP uses IPv6 extensively (a lot of their services are in fact IPv6-only) but has trouble with its enterprise customers. Frankly,

Re: Call for academic researchers (Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections)

2021-05-31 Thread Fred Baker
I would add packet loss rate. Should be zero, and if it isn’t, it points to an underlying problem. Sent from my iPad > On May 31, 2021, at 11:01 AM, Josh Luthman > wrote: > >  > I think the latency and bps is going to be the best way to measure broadband > everyone can agree on. Is there

Re: New minimum speed for US broadband connections

2021-05-30 Thread Fred Baker
On May 28, 2021, at 11:55 AM, Chris Adams wrote: > I know multiple people that had issues with slow Internet during the > last year as two adults were working from home and 1-3 children were > also schooling from home. Parents had to arrange work calls around > their kids classroom time and

Re: DoD IP Space

2021-02-09 Thread Fred Baker
> On Jan 22, 2021, at 10:28 PM, Valdis Klētnieks > wrote: > > And how would you define "fully implement v6", anyhow? I would define it this way: if something can be done using IPv4, it has an obvious IPv6 counterpart that is usable by the same community to the extent that the community is

Re: AWS Using Class E IPv4 Address on internal Routing

2021-03-09 Thread Fred Baker
The "RFC" you're looking for is probably https://tools.ietf.org/html/draft-wilson-class-e-02, which was not agreed to and so has no RFC number. The fundamental issue that was raised during that discussion was that while repurposing class e would provide a few more IPv4 addresses and so delay

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