Re: Internet Kill Switch.

2010-06-19 Thread Roland Perry
. What's the average household size, especially in developing countries. And does everyone have access, if their home does? -- Roland Perry

Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-06 Thread Roland Perry
, Mike was quoted as saying this - see p2: https://www.linx.net/files/hotlinx/hotlinx-3.pdf Although there were two factors here as far as LINX itself was concerned - growth in members as well as growth in traffic from each individual member. -- Roland Perry

Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-07 Thread Roland Perry
), simply pointing out that in 2001 Mike said that a good rule of thumb during the late 1990's was that traffic doubled every 100 days, and going into print with that shows it was an accepted meme at the time. -- Roland Perry

Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-09 Thread Roland Perry
memory (of the late 90's), it was a mistaken memory captured in 2001. I mentioned it simply as a fairly contemporary reference to the meme. Having said that, doubling every 9 months was approximately the growth that LINX was seeing at the time. -- Roland Perry

Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-09 Thread Roland Perry
, the quotation is a truism, an urban myth and ultimately means very little. Growth at LINX was extremely steady (being an aggregate of over a hundred operators). -- Roland Perry

Re: off-topic: historical query concerning the Internet bubble

2010-08-10 Thread Roland Perry
going to last just over a year. And, of course, policy and law related to the Internet gets out of date four times as fast, too. -- Roland Perry

Re: network name 101100010100110.net

2010-10-19 Thread Roland Perry
(a year after Nominet's birth). -- Roland Perry

Re: Tools for teaching users online safety

2010-10-26 Thread Roland Perry
to the owner. -- Roland Perry

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Roland Perry
the building, but if the interview was from a regional studio he'd be long gone. On the other hand, if the BBC got hold of him, they must have some contact details to trace him. ps I was surprised the expert claimed that Visa's service had been taken down by DDOS, despite being Akamaised. -- Roland

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Roland Perry
: This book contains commentary and analysis regarding recent WikiLeaks disclosures, not the original material disclosed via the WikiLeaks website. -- Roland Perry

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-09 Thread Roland Perry
comments were added after i posted. I'm not trying to criticise the chronology; however if this book doesn't have the text of the cables, then it's worth people knowing that. -- Roland Perry

Re: Mastercard problems

2010-12-10 Thread Roland Perry
authorities have a slight advantage because ISPs have to send them subscriber details every night. So (within the limitations of specific anonymising techniques by users) they 'know where everyone lives'. -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-02 Thread Roland Perry
wouldn't have to worry so much about the 3G bill. -- Roland Perry Nottingham, UK

Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Roland Perry
of work, but am I a rare kind of user? -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-03 Thread Roland Perry
. -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Roland Perry
, in the sense that the users (in this case including the self-administrators of these small enterprise networks) won't notice the difference. -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-04 Thread Roland Perry
weekly, so far. -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-05 Thread Roland Perry
supplier blocks port 25 sometimes, I've yet to work out the algorithm used, it flips every day or two]. So will the likes of Vodafone and t-mobile support the PI model described above? -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-05 Thread Roland Perry
. -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-05 Thread Roland Perry
what's the best way to get them up the necessary learning curve? [Maybe I should write a book about it] -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-06 Thread Roland Perry
. -- Roland Perry

Re: quietly....

2011-02-06 Thread Roland Perry
IPv4 to IPv6 will involve more than the ISP doing some magic that's transparent to the majority of users. And good luck returning a 3 year old PS/3 for a refund on the basis it doesn't support IPv6. -- Roland Perry

Re: IPv6 - a noobs prespective

2011-02-10 Thread Roland Perry
...@brightok.net wrote: -- Roland Perry

Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
an emergency, isn't an option. The only other idea I've had is to sign all the customers up to receive an SMS via some sort of broadcast service (the news will fit easily in one SMS). -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
of a waste. So it seemed to me that a Tweet from the school would be an ideal solution. But a system like yours, if it could be divided up into a few tens of thousands of SIGs (one for each school), is the kind of more traditional solution I was thinking about. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
, that twitter itself is subject to frequent planned and unplanned outages. The question being, how often will they co-incide with the events I'm trying to track? fwiw, I've been using twitter for about three months now, and have never encountered either kind of outage. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
which confuses the ordinary person. How are they to know which bit of the scattergun approach is the right one to use? Or whether posting everywhere has some hidden disadvantage. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification (was: Fire, Power loss at Fisher Plaza in Seattle)

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
respectable yet? -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-04 Thread Roland Perry
that finally maybe Twitter has the right profile for this application. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
, and Paypal wasn't invented until about ten years ago. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
application), and installing filters to try to keep them off YouTube during lessons. But I'm beginning to think that finally maybe Twitter has the right profile for this application. Again, why limit yourself? Use all the tools available. One step at a time :) -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
are underground. Of course, losing power would be another excuse to close the school :) is there a backup means of getting to the Internet ? A laptop with a 3g modem would suffice, or for Twitter someone with a suitably configure mobile phone. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
ones. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
come to rely upon it. [1] the present system seems to be those few students who can get through to the school then SMS the news to their friends. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
out... In your case, the community will know quickly, all from a couple of people logging into twitter and sending a few messages. Sounds like a simple, ideal solution given your budget constraints. I hope so. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
. Of course, they could be deliberately throttled, rather than run on inherently low-bandwidth kit. Which raises the issue of whether such throttling schemes should take account of short bursts. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
In article 4a50a3c9.3080...@airwire.ie, Martin List-Petersen mar...@airwire.ie writes for those type of notifications, it's perfect, also because it's not part of your own infrastructure. From an operational resilience point of view, that's a very important feature. -- Roland Perry

Re: Using twitter as an outage notification

2009-07-05 Thread Roland Perry
appropriate because they didn't teach it to me in college 20 years ago and those who say Web 2.0 isn't appropriate because they didn't teach it to me in college 5 years ago. Shouldn't we at least be giving it the benefit of the doubt? -- Roland Perry

Re: Sad IPv4 story?

2011-12-17 Thread Roland Perry
operator (other than the founders having an earlier personal online account with someone or other). So it's not always a case of an entrant getting started using someone else's IP transit (and IP addressing), then bringing that in-house. -- Roland Perry

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-20 Thread Roland Perry
values. Infringing Material is content which is held without a legitimate rightsholder's permission. -- Roland Perry

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-20 Thread Roland Perry
. -- Roland Perry

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-21 Thread Roland Perry
In article 20120121121149.ga14...@gsp.org, Rich Kulawiec r...@gsp.org writes But what -- *exactly* -- is an illegal file? Perhaps you mean infringing? -- Roland Perry

Re: Megaupload.com seized

2012-01-22 Thread Roland Perry
a reasonable assumption. -- Roland Perry

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-28 Thread Roland Perry
In article 201201281518.47292.mti...@globaltransit.net, Mark Tinka mti...@globaltransit.net writes Needless to say, a lot of games are now pushing massive updates via the Internet; on the order of hundreds of MB. So does Microsoft Office (if you can call that a game). -- Roland Perry

Re: XBOX 720: possible digital download mass service.

2012-01-28 Thread Roland Perry
.) -- Roland Perry

Re: PGP, S/MIME + SSL cross-reference (Was: Dear RIPE: Please don't encourage phishing)

2012-02-12 Thread Roland Perry
In article 20120210213755.ga88...@ussenterprise.ufp.org, Leo Bicknell bickn...@ufp.org writes Hypothetically, I get an e-mail from ripe.ca Or from ripen.cc which is one of their actual domains (used briefly as a url shortener). -- Roland Perry

Re: ZOMG: IPv6 a plot to stymie FBI !!!11!ONE!

2012-06-17 Thread Roland Perry
) where the WHOIS information is shown to be false or significantly out of date. They could send compliance teams in to check, just like the IRS does for the accounts. -- Roland Perry

Re: ZOMG: IPv6 a plot to stymie FBI !!!11!ONE!

2012-06-18 Thread Roland Perry
In article 20120617095906.ga32...@vacation.karoshi.com.?, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com top-posts: Why not. Lots of aspects of the Internet are regulated. Internet Regulator? /bill On Sun, Jun 17, 2012 at 10:43:26AM +0100, Roland Perry wrote: In article 20120616160738.eee09...@resin05

Re: Hurricane season starts June 1: Carriers harden networks

2008-05-29 Thread Roland Perry
they should believe your business case. -- Roland Perry

Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of new TLDs)

2008-06-27 Thread Roland Perry
for at least five years, I think I detect a number of people here hastily building stables, debating what kind of door to attach, when the horse is already several blocks away.] -- Roland Perry

Re: Mail Server best practices - was: Pandora's Box of new TLDs

2008-06-30 Thread Roland Perry
are: NOT sent by someone on an RBL NOT sent to an unpublished and unused address (eg [EMAIL PROTECTED]) etc. -- Roland Perry

Re: what problem are we solving? (was Re: ICANN opens up Pandora's Box of

2008-07-01 Thread Roland Perry
In article [EMAIL PROTECTED], Jay R. Ashworth [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes The Domain Name System is not now, and never has been, away to *find* things, anymore than 123 Elm St, Worcester MA is a way to *find* a house. What about 1 Microsoft Way, Redmond, WA ? -- Roland Perry

Re: Finding content in your job title

2010-03-31 Thread Roland Perry
(even people like me with a Masters in Engineering, but never bothered to apply to IEEE). -- Roland Perry

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Roland Perry
available. -- Roland Perry

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Roland Perry
in the UK until much later. There are at least two sources which date the PET to Winter CES and Jan 1977, but I agree that June CES is where production items would be first shown; however by then schools were out and my project was finished (I was studying to be maths teacher). -- Roland Perry

Re: legacy /8

2010-04-04 Thread Roland Perry
and greylisting ... and sent to non-existent email addresses within the ripe.net domain and: Additionally, our statistics only take our primary MX system into account (and not email sent from the secondary MX system to the primary). -- Roland Perry

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-07 Thread Roland Perry
. -- Roland Perry

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-07 Thread Roland Perry
? -- Roland Perry

Re: what about 48 bits?

2010-04-08 Thread Roland Perry
these potential operational banana skins, it was still a product that tipped me irrevocably into the world of Ethernet (having earlier toyed with pale imitations). -- Roland Perry

Re: Hubs on a NIC (was:Re: what about 48 bits?)

2010-04-08 Thread Roland Perry
). -- Roland Perry

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Perry
do) that needs assembling, and feed the parts through the door, rather than the complete item. -- Roland Perry

Re: OT: Server Cabinet

2011-05-04 Thread Roland Perry
In article banlktin1qsuj_knoamc4n+yame0odz3...@mail.gmail.com, Robert Lusby nano...@gmail.com writes Short of scrapping this cabinet If you have no other use for it - sell on eBay! That's where my spare cabinet went last year. -- Roland Perry

Re: 23,000 IP addresses

2011-05-10 Thread Roland Perry
a threatening letter); I expect to see a lot more of this until some sense returns to the legal system. Attempts a bit like this have come unstuck in the UK. Search for Davenport Lyons and ACS Law -- Roland Perry

Re: 23,000 IP addresses

2011-05-10 Thread Roland Perry
In article fotexpppbuynf...@perry.co.uk, Roland Perry lists@internetp olicyagency.com writes Attempts a bit like this have come unstuck in the UK. Search for Davenport Lyons and ACS Law And this ruling (and fine) have appeared from the UK's privacy regulator today (note especially that the fine

Re: 23,000 IP addresses

2011-05-11 Thread Roland Perry
jurisdictions revealing the credit card number or bank account number would be regarded as *more* intrusive, not less. -- Roland Perry

Why we did Internet-in-a-box (was: Remember Internet-In-A-Box?)

2015-07-21 Thread Roland Perry
with legacy hardware and operating systems that don't (either happily or at all) support IPv6, than getting a reasonably recent PC/CPE configured automagically via an existing IPv4 connection. -- Roland Perry

Re: [Nanog-futures] Charter and crossposting.

2008-03-15 Thread Roland Perry
accept, I believe it's my mailreader's job (which is does excellently) to only show me each cross-posted email once. -- Roland Perry ___ Nanog-futures mailing list Nanog-futures@nanog.org http://mailman.nanog.org/mailman/listinfo/nanog-futures