Re: IESG Considering a Revision to NOTE WELL

2012-11-12 Thread bill manning
is "...an IETF context..." well defined? /bill On 11/6/12, IETF Chair wrote: > The IESG is considering a revision to the NOTE WELL text. Please review and > comment. > > Russ > > > > === Proposed Revised NOTE WELL Text === > > Note Well > > This summary is only meant to point you in the right

What If....

2011-02-28 Thread bill manning
The IANA function was split? http://www.ntia.doc.gov/frnotices/2011/fr_ianafunctionsnoi_02252011.pdf --bill ___ Ietf mailing list Ietf@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

this seems to have become broken some time back

2011-01-18 Thread bill manning
and I guess I am the only one who might still use it - but regardless, if its broken, it should be fixed to wit: A URL for this Internet-Draft is: http://www.ietf.org/internet-drafts/draft-(ofthehour).txt Internet-Drafts are also available by anonymous FTP at: ftp://ftp.ietf.org/internet-draf

Re: Publishing list of non-paying IETF attendees, was Re: [IAOC] Badges and blue sheets

2010-11-17 Thread bill manning
don't forget the comfy chairs and soft cushions... --bill On 15November2010Monday, at 1:34, Bert wrote: > > On Nov 14, 2010, at 10:55 PM, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > >> >> Bert on the other hand has clearly been taking advantage of us for >> years, we should put a stop to that :-) > > > The Sec

Re: [IAOC] Badges and blue sheets

2010-11-16 Thread bill manning
another datapoint for those keeping score. I am aware of people who register, pay and don't attend. seems that IETF attendance is a value proposition. is it worth it (to my organization/self) to spend the time, money, effort to engage in the IETF and its pr

Re: draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-20 Thread bill manning
On 20October2010Wednesday, at 14:06, David Conrad wrote: > Bill, > > On Oct 20, 2010, at 1:58 PM, bill manning wrote: >> right... but only rarely in the DNS world do edge nodes actually go hit >> the authoritative sources. much/most of the time they h

Re: draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-20 Thread bill manning
SSH & HTTP sessions running through the DNS. Ringtones? Piece of Cake. --bill > > -Original Message- > From: ietf-boun...@ietf.org [mailto:ietf-boun...@ietf.org] On Behalf Of bill > manning > Sent: Wednesday, October 20, 2010 3:43 PM > To: Richard Shockey

Re: draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-20 Thread bill manning
draft may include caching behaviours. Based on Richards email, it didn't seem so. --bill On 20October2010Wednesday, at 13:18, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 12:43 PM -0700 10/20/10, bill manning wrote: >> while I agree that the hierarchical and distributed nature of the DNS is >

Re: draft-iab-dns-applications - clarification re: Send-N

2010-10-20 Thread bill manning
while I agree that the hierarchical and distributed nature of the DNS is a scintillating, shimmering attractant, it is wise to be aware of the baseline assumption in your arguement, e.g. that a client will -ALWAYS- ask an authoritative source... The DNS is so designed that caching is a huge co

Re: [ietf] DNS spoofing at captive portals

2010-09-27 Thread bill manning
On 27September2010Monday, at 7:48, Tony Finch wrote: > On Fri, 24 Sep 2010, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: >> >> DNSSEC is a mechanism for establishing inter-domain trust. It is not an >> appropriate technology for intra-domain trust. > > Why not? Because the "atomic" unit of DNSSEC is a

Re: [ietf] DNS spoofing at captive portals

2010-09-24 Thread bill manning
On 24September2010Friday, at 17:16, John Levine wrote: >> Plan A: few consumers will use DNSSEC between their PCs and the ISP's >> resolver, so they won't notice. >> >> Plan B: consumers will observe that malicious impersonation of far away >> DNS servers is rare and exotic, but malware spam a

Re: Tourist or business visa from US?

2010-08-25 Thread bill manning
Dave, thats not what the text says... again: http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/hzqz/zgqz/t84247.htm Updated: 23/04/2009 Business Visa (F Visa) is issued to an alien who is invited to China for a visit, an investigation, a lecture, to do business, scientific-technological and culture

Re: Tourist or business visa from US?

2010-08-24 Thread bill manning
perhaps this will muddy the waters some... http://www.china-embassy.org/eng/hzqz/zgqz/t84247.htm sez: Updated: 23/04/2009 Business Visa (F Visa) is issued to an alien who is invited to China for a visit, an investigation, a lecture, to do business, scientific-technological and culture exchan

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-13 Thread bill manning
ISO not withstanding, its still confusing if only because other cultures use yyddmm. If the IETF website used something like ISO-2010-01-02 maybe. This format is less confusing: 02jan2010 --bill On 13March2010Saturday, at 7:06, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > On Mar 13, 2010, at 9:51 AM, Cu

Re: >1 Day One Day Passes

2010-02-24 Thread Bill Manning
data point. I tried this in Hiroshima and was rebuffed. They would only allow a -single- one day pass per IETF week. the second day they inisted I pay the walk up cost for the whole week - minus the cost of the one day pass I already used. So for one day, plus 20min in a WG on the second day

Re: Last Call: draft-jabley-sink-arpa (The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories)) to BCP

2009-12-21 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Dec 21, 2009 at 10:40:07AM -0800, The IESG wrote: > The IESG has received a request from an individual submitter to consider > the following document: > > - 'The Eternal Non-Existence of SINK.ARPA (and other stories) ' > as a BCP > > The IESG plans to make a decision in the next few

Re: Most bogus news story of the week

2009-12-20 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Dec 18, 2009 at 07:24:43AM -0800, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > (except it's not a joke) > > > Chinese proposal to meter Internet traffic > > http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/8417680.stm > > China wants to meter all internet traffic that passes through its > borders, it has emerg

Re: our pals at ICANN, was Circle of Fifths

2009-11-13 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Nov 09, 2009 at 01:16:37PM -0800, David Conrad wrote: > On Nov 6, 2009, at 9:30 AM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > Clearly the root operators are responsible to and accountable to the > > Internet community. > > Err, no. > > First, the root server operators are all independent actors pe

Re: our pals at ICANN, was Circle of Fifths

2009-11-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Nov 06, 2009 at 05:28:52AM -0500, Steve Crocker wrote: > > On Nov 5, 2009, at 11:30 PM, John R. Levine wrote: > > >I actually don't think we have any serious disagreement here. > >ICANN's management of the root zone is cautious for all sorts of > >reasons, and as you note the root se

Re: One level up on the IAOC decision in re: China.

2009-09-24 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 10:58:17AM -0700, Ted Hardie wrote: > Howdy, > > I'd like to take one step up on this discussion. When the discussions [elided] > making it possible for participants to attend can have. I think their > efforts to make it easier for colleagues from China to attend are > ge

Re: Important Information about IETF 76 Meeting Registration

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Manning
the japanese equivalent of the OMROM V600-D23P71 --bill On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 09:16:37AM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > I have asked Osamu and Kato to answer. Stay tuned. > > Ole > > > Ole J. Jacobsen > Editor and Publisher, The Internet Protocol Journal > Cisco Systems > Tel: +1 408-527-8

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-23 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 11:05:02AM +0200, Olivier MJ Crepin-Leblond wrote: > > The matter came up in an IPv6 discussion ISOC Chapters teleconference call > last night. We reached a burning question which nobody could answer > factually: > > Is a dual stack IPv4-IPv6 likely to be more unstable t

Re: IPv6 standard?

2009-09-17 Thread Bill Manning
a standard does not deployment make. There are networks still running DECNETpV, Chaosnet, X.25, and even XNS. If there ever is a time when IPv4 -not- running somewhere, it is likely to be after 2038 - there is no "pure" IPv4 today and it is doubtful there will ever be a "pure" IPv6 Internet.

Re: Retention of blue sheets

2009-07-30 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 04:25:11PM +0200, Pete Resnick wrote: > On 7/30/09 at 3:03 PM +0100, Samuel Weiler wrote: > > >What harms would come from destroying those old records and/or not > >collecting such details in the future? And how widespread is the > >support for destroying them? > > Repe

Re: Retention of blue sheets

2009-07-30 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Jul 30, 2009 at 10:11:39AM -0400, Scott O. Bradner wrote: > the reason that the blue sheets were created was as part of maintaining > a full record of the open standards process - the question of room size > was never considered > > the basic idea is discussed in section 8 of RFC 2026 > >

Re: Possible TLP discussion list

2009-07-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 12:54:28PM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > Hello; > > I am writing this to see what people think about creating a tlp- > discuss mailing list. > > While I hope that the need for TLP revisions will diminish after the > current round is completed, it seems to several of

Re: Decentralising the DNS

2009-06-12 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Jun 12, 2009 at 03:55:05PM +0100, Sabahattin Gucukoglu wrote: > Silly question, I'm sure - any chance of putting the DNS into a > gigantic DHT and spreading the entry nodes liberally about the planet? > > Cheers, > Sabahattin > > PS: No political agenda implied. > been propose

DNSSEC was never designed for transport end to end security

2009-06-05 Thread Bill Manning
So quit trying to be a dead horse that is not even there. If you are so interested in transport layer security, then by all means, encourage, promote, and develop solutions. STCP is one such measure. IPSEC is another. there are many choices. transport level security (integrity, authenticity)

Re: DNSSEC is NOT secure end to end

2009-06-03 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Jun 02, 2009 at 10:38:28PM +0900, Masataka Ohta wrote: > Christian Huitema wrote: > > >>That is, security of DNSSEC involves third parties and is not end > >>to end. > > > That is indeed correct. An attacker can build a fake hierarchy of > > "secure DNS" assertions and try to get it accep

Re: Status of the 16-bit AS Number space

2009-05-05 Thread Bill Manning
> The question is why there should be moratorium on returned ASNs. I can > think of one reason that could be of dis-service to a new assignee, but > all we have so far is handwaving from the proponents. > ___ a thought experiment. John is prop

Re: My resignation

2009-04-20 Thread Bill Manning
Chers LB, D??sol??, je ne parle pas mais je lis en fran??ais. Je utiliser Google traduction. *google translation:* ok, bye. English version. ok, bye. --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (lega

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewandcomments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Manning
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 04:28:31PM -0800, Randy Presuhn wrote: > Hi - > > > From: "Bill Manning" > > To: "Lawrence Rosen" > > Cc: "'IETF Discussion'" > > Sent: Saturday, January 10, 2009 2:42 PM > > Subject: Re: [Trust

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Manning
On Sat, Jan 10, 2009 at 11:17:47AM -0800, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > Bill Manning wrote: > > "This document is an Internet-Draft and is subject to all provisions of > > Section 10 of RFC2026 except that the right to produce derivative works > > is not granted." > -

Re: [Trustees] ANNOUNCEMENT: The IETF Trustees invite your reviewand comments on a proposed Work-Around to the Pre-5378 Problem

2009-01-10 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Jan 09, 2009 at 02:16:43PM -0800, Lawrence Rosen wrote: > > That's why I challenged Ted Hardie directly. Please don't take it personally > or as flaming, but anyone who wants to assert a private ownership right in > any copyright in any IETF RFC ought to do so now or forever hold your peac

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-28 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Nov 28, 2008 at 10:58:59AM -0500, Andrew Sullivan wrote: > > As a DNS geek, I'd _prefer_ more-intelligent end points with respect > to the DNS. But I don't buy the argument that they're a necessary > condition for DNSSEC deployment. apparently you and john (and me too) do not sh

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-28 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Nov 27, 2008 at 03:52:50PM -0500, Steve Crocker wrote: > > All of the above should invisible unless the end system explicitly > invokes the DNSSEC-compliant recursive resolver AND asks for a signed > response. > > > Steve for me, this statement is the crux of the issue.

Re: Proposed DNSSEC Plenary Experiment for IETF 74

2008-11-26 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Nov 26, 2008 at 10:50:56AM -0500, Russ Housley wrote: > I have been approached about a plenary experiment regarding > DNSSEC. The idea is for everyone to try using DNSSEC-enabled clients > during the plenary session. I like the idea. What do others think? > > Russ > nifty! jck shar

Re: 73rd IETF - Registration

2008-08-22 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 07:46:21AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > >but what about cookie preference? > > s/cookie preference/cookie size preference/ > > Marshall > > >;-) > > > >James > > > >> Dietary Restrictions? > >> > >> Tony Hansen see Dietary Restrictions, re cookie pref

Re: Improvements for IETF 72

2008-08-11 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Aug 10, 2008 at 05:32:36PM -0700, Ole Jacobsen wrote: > > Third, on site you received a booklet rather than the usual stack of > various sheets of paper. The Note Well, Local Info and Agenda was > combined into a single document thus making those manilla envelopes a > thing of the past.

Re: Proposed Experiment: More Meeting Time on Friday for IETF 73

2008-07-17 Thread Bill Manning
what is interesting to me is the weekend factor. for nearly a decade, I've been going to mtgs the wkend before the start of IETF - workshops, training sessions, sidebars, RSSAC mtgs, etc. about five years ago, the -other- suite of interesting/useful meetings started occuring the weekend -after-

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 02:34:59PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 05:11:35PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > And vanity TLDs are going to be much more attractive if people think > > they can get single-label host names out of them. > > Of your concerns (which I don't have the rel

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-08 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Jul 08, 2008 at 01:49:24AM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Monday, 07 July, 2008 12:08 -0700 Bill Manning > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > John, do you beleive that DNS host semantics/encoding that > > form the bulk of the IDN w

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:25:31PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 02:04:31PM -0700, Bill Manning wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:44:28PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:38:28PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > > > > On M

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-07-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:44:28PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:38:28PM -0700, Ted Faber wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 01:32:10PM -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > If you can cite verifiable evidence that even a single case that works > > > reliably now, will cease

Re: Services and top-level DNS names (was: Re: Update of RFC 2606

2008-07-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Jul 07, 2008 at 12:25:09PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Monday, 07 July, 2008 10:30 +1000 Mark Andrews > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >... > > If / when MIT stop using ai.mit.edu, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" will not longer > > mean [EMAIL PROTECTED] This will mean that any

Re: problem dealing w/ ietf.org mail servers

2008-07-03 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Jul 04, 2008 at 07:57:58AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > A mobile machine can register its current addresses in the > DNS regardless much more easily than it can register its > reverse PTR records. er... both are registering things in the DNS. manipulation

Re: problem dealing w/ ietf.org mail servers

2008-07-03 Thread Bill Manning
you are not the first to report this problem. On Wed, Jul 02, 2008 at 10:47:53PM -0700, 'kent' wrote: > Hi Rich > > I'll cc this to the ietf list, as you suggested. > > I've found the problem. It may or may not be something that ietf want's to > do something about -- I would think they would

Re: Update of RFC 2606 based on the recent ICANN changes ?

2008-06-29 Thread Bill Manning
> > I'm suggesting it would be helpful if there were an RFC directing IANA > to establish a registry that contains both labels and rules (e.g, no > all-numeric strings, no strings that start with 0x and contain > hexadecimal values, the string 'xn--', the 2606 strings, etc.) that > specify

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-22 Thread Bill Manning
> Two additional observations: > > (1) While we think of RFCs as online documents, their > antecedents, and all of the early ones, were paper publications. [elided] > I suggest that the community would be better served, and the ISSN > made more useful, if we treated RFCs as "authoritative paper, >

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 06:02:20PM -0700, Hallam-Baker, Phillip wrote: > So? The rules of academic citation are broken. Take a look at their idiotic > criteria for citing web pages. > > Unfortunately the folk who designed the reference manager for office 2008 > made the mistake of taking them se

Re: ISSN for RFC Series under Consideration

2008-05-21 Thread Bill Manning
would the ISSN apply to the whole series? --bill On Wed, May 21, 2008 at 01:52:09PM -0400, Ray Pelletier wrote: > The IETF Trust is considering applying to the U.S. Library of Congress > to obtain an International Standard Serial Number (ISSN) for the RFC > Series and would like community inp

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-04 Thread Bill Manning
bout something entirely > different. > > Thanks, > -drc > > On Apr 4, 2008, at 2:11 PM, Bill Manning wrote: > > > >WIDE camps have done the RFID thing for several years now. > > > >--bill > > > > > >On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:35:12AM -0400

Re: Blue sheet harvest

2008-04-04 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 03:14:08PM -0400, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:50:08AM -0700, Bill Manning wrote: > > On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:08:41AM -0400, Scott O. Bradner wrote: > > > < it started w/ folsk scanning the pages of the early bound > > >

Re: Blue Sheet Change Proposal

2008-04-04 Thread Bill Manning
WIDE camps have done the RFID thing for several years now. --bill On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 11:35:12AM -0400, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: > The registration database for each IETF meeting already contains email > addresses of all attendees, presumably a superset of the blue-sheet > signers. >

Re: Blue sheet harvest

2008-04-04 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Apr 04, 2008 at 07:08:41AM -0400, Scott O. Bradner wrote: > < it started w/ folsk scanning the pages of the early bound > < copies of IETFF proceedings. > > the sheets are no longer included in the proceedings right - the point is that this has been a problem for years.

Re: Blue sheet harvest

2008-04-03 Thread Bill Manning
the process you describe has happend in recent memory at more than one IETF. it started w/ folsk scanning the pages of the early bound copies of IETFF proceedings. --bill On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:10:12PM -0400, Scott O. Bradner wrote: > > Ole guessed > > My understanding is that the blue sh

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-31 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Mar 30, 2008 at 11:53:37PM -0400, John C Klensin wrote: > > It was obvious 20+ years ago that MX processing was broken > > as there was no way to say "I don't want email". > > First, it may have been obvious to you, but it wasn't obvious to > many of us. In the general case, it

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 01:15:23PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: > Bill Manning wrote: > > > example.com. soa ( > > stuff > > ) > > > ns foo. > > ns bar. > > ; > > mailhost fe80::21a:92ff:fe99:2ab1 > > > is what i am us

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-26 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 12:10:38AM -0700, SM wrote: > At 19:32 25-03-2008, Bill Manning wrote: > > er... what about zones w/ A & rr's and no MX's? > > when I pull the A rr's, you are telling me that SMTP > > stops working? That

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 09:30:27AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:00:23AM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: > > > Ned Freed wrote: > > > > > > > If the consensus is that better interoperability can be had > > > > by banning bare records that's perfectly fine with me.

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 03:56:14PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: > Bill Manning wrote: > > >> FWIW, I'd like that... > > >>>> Clarity can be established and interoperability _improved_ > >>>> by limiting discovery to just A and MX records.

Re: Online blue sheets, was: Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:17:36AM -0400, Joe Abley wrote: > > On 25 Mar 2008, at 10:08 , Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > > >On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Bill Manning wrote: > >>On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >>>So I&#

Re: Online blue sheets, was: Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 10:08:02AM -0400, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > On Mar 25, 2008, at 9:46 AM, Bill Manning wrote: > >On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >>So I'm offering to build an online version of the blue sheets so in >

Re: Online blue sheets, was: Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 02:22:05PM +0100, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > So I'm offering to build an online version of the blue sheets so in > the future, it will be easy to determine which wgs attract the same > people and overlap can be avoided more effectively. > as someone who has

Re: Last Call: draft-klensin-rfc2821bis

2008-03-25 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 12:00:23AM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: > Ned Freed wrote: > > > If the consensus is that better interoperability can be had > > by banning bare records that's perfectly fine with me. > > FWIW, I'd like that... > > >> Clarity can be established and interoperability

Re: Scheduling unpleasantness

2008-03-24 Thread Bill Manning
one has to schedule unpleasentness, since there is so much of it. -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the time you read them, and certainly don't reflect those of any other entity (legal or otherwise). ___ IETF mailing list IETF@iet

Re: ISO 3166 mandatory?

2008-02-20 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 07:25:17PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: > lconroy wrote: > > > I guess that the IETF Meeting Registration pages are run by/on > > behalf of the IETF, and that's where the mandatory code is required. > > Tons of forms want this for obscure purposes, if in doubt I pick UM.

Re: FYI - ZDNet and the "Birth of IPv6" referring to the BBC article

2008-02-17 Thread Bill Manning
in the case of "B" - you would have only gotten "A" records prior to 04feb2008. --bill On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:59:38PM -0500, Jeffrey S. Young wrote: > Prior to 4 Feb, quite a few of the root servers had listed IPv6 > addresses > (see http://www.root-servers.org). I took this announcemen

Re: IETF 72 --> Dublin!

2008-02-07 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 02:27:13PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Feb 06, 2008 at 01:29:40PM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote: > > > > I really have a hard time being sympathetic to this complaint. If > > the purpose of the IETF is open discussion and cross-pollination, > > what does it matter w

Re: FYI - "Examining Actual State of IPv6 Deployment"

2008-01-20 Thread Bill Manning
if you read the ARIN statement on IPv6, you will find that Keith is describing the story of how to cook a frog. soon, (pick your favorite study) all IPv4 space will be allocated. For folks who need IP access after that time, IPv6 will be available. Its those (ones and twos) who will need t

Re: Finding information

2008-01-20 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Jan 20, 2008 at 09:15:26AM -0500, Edward Lewis wrote: > At 10:25 -0800 1/19/08, Bob Braden wrote: > > *> > > *> The RFC repository also has rfc-index.txt, which lists all the RFCs, > > > >And an RFC search engine... just type "1730" into the little box, > >and it will magically return the

Re: AAAA records to be added for root servers

2008-01-07 Thread Bill Manning
gt; would offer in addition to getaddrinfo(). The library > I'm thinking of would also have to handle reachability > checking - and as John said, would ideally also be stateful > to avoid repeating the same timeouts. > > Brian > > On 2008-01-06 11:45, Bill Manning

Re: AAAA records to be added for root servers

2008-01-05 Thread Bill Manning
the IETF has refused to adopt the DISCOVER opcode for the DNS - which pretty much handles this problem. Others may have developed other techniques. --bill > > As Phill H-B has implied more than once, there's scope > for a library on top of the socket API that takes care > of this once and fo

Re: AAAA records to be added for root servers

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 07:57:29PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: > > > > (3) As Keith Moore has pointed out repeatedly for the general > case and as I and others have pointed out for more specific ones > (including today's mail-and-DNS case), dual stack is a nice > thing to do if one is developin

Re: AAAA records to be added for root servers

2008-01-04 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Jan 04, 2008 at 01:33:54PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: > > > --On Monday, 31 December, 2007 10:05 -0800 Barbara Roseman > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On 4 February 2008, IANA will add records for the IPv6 > > addresses of the four root servers whose operators have > > requeste

Re: eating our own dogfood...Re: IPv4 Outage

2007-12-18 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 12:05:36AM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 02:20:32PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > On Wed, Dec 19, 2007 at 11:36:34AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > The problem is getting the records for them published. > > > > A local

Re: eating our own dogfood...Re: IPv4 Outage

2007-12-18 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 10:09:28PM +0100, Frank Ellermann wrote: > Bill Manning wrote: > > > as offical spokesmodel for the IETF in your role > > as Sgt at Arms, your you SURE you want to advocate > > the IETF abandon its published statement wrt there > &g

eating our own dogfood...Re: IPv4 Outage

2007-12-18 Thread Bill Manning
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 02:43:10PM -0500, Theodore Tso wrote: > On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 01:32:00PM -0500, John C Klensin wrote: > > Yes, right now IPv6 deployment isn't good enough that we can't do this > without using all sorts of workarounds. OK, let's document those > workarounds and make them

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-16 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Dec 16, 2007 at 08:48:38AM -0800, Paul Hoffman wrote: > At 7:56 AM -0800 12/16/07, Dave Crocker wrote: > >Yaakov Stein wrote: > >>Why don't we dedicate a separate 2 hour plenary just to this > >>experiment with the moderator announcing workarounds and collected > >>statistics ? > > > >Tha

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-14 Thread Bill Manning
On Fri, Dec 14, 2007 at 06:32:26PM -0800, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > Bill Manning wrote: > > > The IETF can do that? > > Just have Bill jack it again... > again? i never (well not publically) -- --bill Opinions expressed may not even be mine by the ti

Re: IPv4 Outage Planned for IETF 71 Plenary

2007-12-14 Thread Bill Manning
On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 08:54:01AM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > We will make more information about the structuring of this activity over > > the next few weeks. Please do whatever you can to make ready ... > > > > Russ Housley > > IETF Chair > > > >

Re: Transitioning IETF DNS services

2007-12-12 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Dec 13, 2007 at 05:11:47PM +1100, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > Mark Andrews wrote: > > >> Hello Ray , > > >> > > Brian > > You need both physical (power, hardware, location) and > operational (different global prefixes, preferably different > AS's) diversity for re

Re: Non-participants [Re: Experimental makes sense for tls-authz]

2007-10-27 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Oct 28, 2007 at 07:52:25AM +1300, Brian E Carpenter wrote: > > I think the process has proved to be rather resistant to packing of > meetings, written statements distributed in the meeting room, and > back-channel campaigns to have non-participants commenting on drafts > they haven't read.

Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

2007-09-23 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Sep 23, 2007 at 07:16:20PM +0900, Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote: > > We have more than enough IPv4 addresses for China. > > no way. > > itojun > well... being charitable, there are likely enough IPv4 addresses for all the china in my family... but adding the

Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

2007-09-15 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:17:21PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:08:30AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > > > > > interestingly, some software vendors ship w/ license > > > > keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise > > > > lev

Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

2007-09-15 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Sep 16, 2007 at 12:08:30AM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > interestingly, some software vendors ship w/ license > > keys tied to IP addresses... particularly for enterprise > > level stuff. not so easy to update in my experience. > > I've always thought that practice t

Re: IPv6 will never fly: ARIN continues to kill it

2007-09-15 Thread Bill Manning
On Sat, Sep 15, 2007 at 12:06:26PM +1000, Mark Andrews wrote: > > > Mark, > > > > > I get renumbered in IPv4 today. > > > > I suspect there is probably a question of scale here. > > > > I wouldn't be surprised that a small home network with a limited > > number of subnets and systems could b

Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-14 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 05:29:39PM -0700, Tony Hain wrote: > David Conrad wrote: > > > > IPv6 _is_ IPv4 with more bits and it is being deployed that way. > > No it is not, and you need to stop claiming that because it confuses people > into limiting their thinking to the legacy IPv4 deploym

Re: Call for action vs. lost opportunity (Was: Re: Renumbering)

2007-09-13 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 11:05:22PM +0300, Jari Arkko wrote: > David, > > > We had an opportunity to fix that, but we blew it. > > I think everyone agrees that having that flexibility > (ease of renumbering, no routing explosion in the > core etc) would be good. > > But I would suggest that inste

Re: Next step on web phishing draft (draft-hartman-webauth-phishing-05.txt)

2007-09-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Mon, Sep 10, 2007 at 01:21:00AM +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > On 10-sep-2007, at 0:51, Marshall Eubanks wrote: > > >I tend to rely on Dictionaries to sort these things out - from > >Dictionary.com > > Dictionaries are useless, when in doubt they just add definitions. > For instance,

Re: IPv6 RIR policy [was Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all]

2007-08-30 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Aug 30, 2007 at 02:03:47AM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > >> maybe I'm misled but I've never thought of the registries as bodies > >> whose purpose was to collect operational experience. > >> > >> but yes, I'd very much like for IETF to have more input from those > >> involved in operation,

Re: IPv6 RIR policy [was Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all]

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 10:58:21PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > >> perhaps, but if IETF has the problem that it's not willing to assert its > >> ownership over its own protocols, that problem is better addressed in > >> IETF than in ARIN. > >> > > > > very true. but throwing protocols "ove

Re: IPv6 RIR policy [was Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all]

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 04:36:51PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > > >> again, the fundamental problem here is that the RIRs are trying to > >> second-guess IETF design decisions. > >> > >> > > > > "the" RIRs are membership organizations, with members > > consisting of the operational com

Re: IPv6 RIR policy [was Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all]

2007-08-29 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Aug 29, 2007 at 12:57:44PM -0400, Keith Moore wrote: > Bob Braden wrote: > > In this whole discussion, I find it hard to keep separate the > > technical issues, about which the IETF should care a lot, from > > the business model and issues, about which the IETF should be > > agnostic. We m

Re: IPv6 addresses really are scarce after all

2007-08-17 Thread Bill Manning
Michael Dillon sez: "ARIN ... belives IPv6 addresses are ... resources that need to be [distributed] according to need." I guess I have to agree with this sentiment. If the ARIN community decides there is a better way to distribute IP addresses *OTHER THAN* need, I'd be really happy to hear wh

Re: IPv4

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 04:35:02PM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote: > At 11:40 AM -0700 8/9/07, Bill Manning wrote: > >O... > > > > > > ICANN is also a legal entity, with the same vulnerabilities > > as all other companies including RIR's... which was my po

Re: IPv4

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 12:59:38PM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote: > At 9:03 AM -0700 8/9/07, Bill Manning wrote: > >... > > > RIR's are legal entities, just like other companies... and are > > subject > > to the same problems that companies have, e.g. a

Re: IPv4

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Thu, Aug 09, 2007 at 10:49:20AM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote: > At 6:35 AM -0700 8/9/07, Bill Manning wrote: > >... > > > The RIRs are working to enable clean transfer of address space > >> holdings, using X.509 certs. While one could do what what Harald > >&

Re: IPv4

2007-08-09 Thread Bill Manning
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 01:25:13PM -0400, Stephen Kent wrote: > At 4:36 PM +0200 8/8/07, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote: > >On 8-aug-2007, at 12:07, Harald Alvestrand wrote: > > > >>Routing certificates are simple. If HP "sells" (lends, leases, > >>gifts, insert-favourite-transaction-type-here) addres

Re: Do you want to have more meetings outside US ?

2007-07-30 Thread Bill Manning
On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 03:58:53PM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > > ... missing the heart of the issue. Which in my opinion > is that the operation of the overhead functions that are the general > ietf infrastructure are funded out of the meeting fees which means the > amount made on the meeting has

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