Re: comments on Friday scheduling, etc.

2002-01-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
I have a feeling we are going to have t think VERY hard about the entire schedule for the 54th meeting oin Yokohama given 80% of folks there wil be on severe sleep deprivation... In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dave Crocker typed: >>At 10:02 AM 1/18/2002 -0500, Scott Brim wrote: >>>Having on

Re: comments on Friday scheduling, etc.

2002-01-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
some people don't live in the US but do have families 50% of us are flying out saturday to be there for sunday all day meetings, flying eastwards on friday, to get back mid day saturday, we lose 2 weekends. compare this to intra-US flite to and from, i don';t think esxtending friday is sustainab

don't panic.

2001-05-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft

london ietf metadata

2001-05-09 Thread Jon Crowcroft
i was promted yesterday by a couple of (brit) WG chairs to send this: remember -there's some info about london at: http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ietf/> as suggested by ietfers - more suggestions always welcome too note london in august is v popular with tourists as there are so few cows here so

Re: "Don't fix it!"

2001-04-30 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>> What. Does that imply the preference of redesign to revision in IETF ? >>No. >>"If it ain't broke, don't fix it" is a colloquial saying meaning >>"Do not embark on repairs of things that do not need repair". It >>means "Don't repair a non-broken window". "Don't repair a working lamp".

Re: Carrier Class Gateway

2001-04-26 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steven M. Be llovin" typed: >>In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Bill Manning writes: >>> semantically confused. why would sailors be on the >>> bridge? (the one over the canal) >>Right -- they should be using routers, not bridges. but there's only 7 seas

Re: N:N multicast with extra address space?

2001-04-20 Thread Jon Crowcroft
there's a discussion on how to make some simple classes of assymetric multisender apps work with SSM, but there's not really anything useful for genuine multi-peer applications - what is needed is to revitalise the work on bidir pim, and then retrofit the SSM addressing (.e. what we proposed in r

Re: IPv9 ??

2001-04-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
for those of you in the US april fools day dates from the introduction of the gregorian calendar in the 16th century, and invovled moving the start of the year from apr 1 to jan 1 in france, a posson d'avril is a rather nice phrase for a person who is subject of one of these (supposed harmless)

london IETF information

2001-04-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
IETFers visiting london may wish to check out a few differences between the way europeans (and the UK is part of "yurp") say things in english, as this is the dominant language of the IETF meeting, but of course, american english is not the dominant dialect in blighty. so first off, when discuss

Re: connecting RFC April Fool dots

2001-03-31 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>This should be fertile ground for topics for PhD students. >>We still have PhD students, yes? yes, but no faculty to advise them - see below of course, if we fixed the multicast and the mbone (or used akamai/inktomi/idigital island, foobarbaz.com) we'd be able to leverage the internet to

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-25 Thread Jon Crowcroft
;> attitude consistent with the IETF's stated commitment to >>> open process? >>> >>> At 06:52 AM 3/23/01 , Jon Crowcroft wrote: >>> >>> >also,the wireless access fro mthe pub was inspired! we got really >>> >serious bar bof work done without tourists kibbitzing >> cheers jon

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
ssage <4.2.2.20010323090914.01abfd30@localhost>, Margaret Wasserman typed: >> >>Not to pick on Jon specifically, but how is this common IETF >>attitude consistent with the IETF's stated commitment to >>open process? >> >>At 06:52 AM 3/23/01 , Jon Crowcroft wrot

Re: Kudos to MSP IETF hosts & other ramblings

2001-03-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
also,the wireless access fro mthe pub was inspired! we got really serious bar bof work done without tourists kibbitzing In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RJ Atkinson typed: >>At 12:52 22/03/01, William Allen Simpson wrote: >>>This is a rare case where I disagree with Phil. This is a good >>>

alternate guide to london

2001-03-21 Thread Jon Crowcroft
hi this is a solicitation to peopel that know london (the venue for the next ietf) to send me suggestions for additions to an "alternative" IETFers guide to things in london i've made a very modest start at: http://www-mice.cs.ucl.ac.uk/ietf/ but am happy to add other stuff as people think

Re: Top 10 list of reasons to hold IETF 50 in Minneapolis in March

2001-03-15 Thread Jon Crowcroft
bt thanksful, some of us academics have to go to ieee infocom (very fine conference by the way) in anchorage in a month...not only same applies, but the minimum journey time from london england is a 23 hour oneits slightly faster to get to autralia. In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Dan Grossm

Re: rfc publication suggestions

2001-03-15 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Rahmat M. Samik-Ibrahim" typed: >>No rocket science, but perhaps archaeology. >>In the early 1980s, a unix box (68ks, vaxen, et.al.) came >>with a multi-volume manuals, including an nroff guide. >>In this millennium, not all distros have nroff guides. >>Wh

Re: Multicast

2001-03-08 Thread Jon Crowcroft
again, i don't know if the WHOLE IETF list wants to see this discussion, nor if IDMR (which now looks at a fairly small piece of the multicast picture) wants to be cc:d - the right place for this discussion is probably pim, and possibly ssm, - idmr is about ready to close down the right solutio

Re: Multicast

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Crowcroft
curity (see http://www.ietf.org/html.charters/msec-charter.html and for many-to-many, for congestion control (to meet transport area requirements) i think (but of course i am usually wrong) that we may see progress on this in 2002... >>Jon Crowcroft wrote: >> >>> In me

Re: Multicast

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ali Boudani typed: >>First the CBT protocol was created to use shared tree solutions because >>DVMRP and the other dense mode protocols werent scalable. there were >>many problems with CBT (which is bidirectional) so PIM-SM was cretaed >>which provide some swi

Re: Some data Re: Again: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-03-07 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Kyle Lussier typ ed: >>> > "is anyone aware of any estimations of fraction of Internet users >>> > who are behind firewalls and NATs?" >>How about for business users? If the assumption can be made >>that most Q3 players are home based (which would probably

Re: draft-many-gmpls-architecture-00.txt

2001-03-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. Noel Chiappa" typed: >>> From: Bob Braden <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> I agree with Noel's implication: are the Internet Drafts and RFCs >>> becoming a vanity press? >>Ah, Noel didn't mean to imply anything - I was just boggled at the size of

Re: DNSng: where to discuss/get info?

2001-03-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mohsen BANAN-Public typed: >>"Does IETF stand for Innovation Extermination Task Force?" hey , do what you want - its not a hierachical organisation - if its cool and people adopt it, fine - there's no "standing on the outside looking in" in the ietf - if you

Re: HTML better for small PDAs

2001-02-27 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, joaquin.riveraro [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: >>>I am sure that will help, while the discussion on the standard format goes on, >>the tools will be helpfull to everyone whatever the final decision

Re: Why XML is perferable

2001-02-25 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Stephen McHenry typed >>On a more serious note, having done a lot of instruction over the years, it >>shouldn't be about ego (I paid my "understanding dues" - everyone else >>should too!!), it should be about communication... i.e., how quickly can we >>eff

Re: was Why we shouldn' use ASCII text (now censorship)

2001-02-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Crowcroft typed: >>on another topic, we noticed that we cannot see certain sites that >>provide some interesgint IP anonymizing services -we ran a >>traceroute -p xyzd to them and discovered that some hi-level ISPs are >&

Re: Why XML is perferable

2001-02-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, gra [EMAIL PROTECTED] typed: >>Let's consider a few basic principles. ok - lots of good points below - a few responses... >>1. Neither ASCII nor XML are ever displayed. They are CODES for >>representing characters in a computer. It is the CHARACTERS ( glyp

Re: was Why we shouldn' use ASCII text (now censorship)

2001-02-22 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Crowcroft typed: >>ii) paper burns at farenheit 451 (ref: burroughs, '63, truffaut '68], people pointed out (correctly) that the right reference here is bradbury (ray, of light, not malcolm, of history) and not burroughs (not Edg

Re: Why we shouldn' use ASCII text

2001-02-22 Thread Jon Crowcroft
2/2001 +, Jon Crowcroft wrote: >>>i) the americans spent a lot of money on spaceworthy pens, >>>but the russians showed that PENCILS are fine >>> >>>ii) paper burns at farenheit 451 (ref: burroughs, '63, truffaut '68], >>>thi

Re: Why we shouldn' use ASCII text

2001-02-22 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Taylor Salman typed: >>ASCII text shouldn't be accepted because: >>Pen and paper is by far the most portable format on the planet and >>beyond. i disagree - i) the americans spent a lot of money on spaceworthy pens, but the russians showed that PENCILS are

Re: Multicast File Distribution protocols?

2001-02-21 Thread Jon Crowcroft
before you do multicast file transfer, you need to define multicast transport right place to look for this is the RMT working group (see ietf web pages for links) who have LOTS of ideas - the stuff below is part of the (much bigger now) design space... In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, John Krist

Re: what is NAT Good For ...

2001-02-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
of course if NAT is so cool, why not make _every_ hop do NAT (Naughty Awful Terrible stuff) instead of MPLS (My Protocol's a Lot Slower) as a way of aggregate traffic engineering without recourse to level 2 (which we all know is making a lot less money than level 3 right now) i mean they a

Re: ECC limits? (was RE: An alternative to TCP ...)

2001-02-11 Thread Jon Crowcroft
there's some very fancy codes that digital fountain and other companies doing FEC based reliable multicast have - see tornado codes and other references can this and the TCP discussion move to end2end-interest [EMAIL PROTECTED] coz its a more appropriate (focussed) place! In message <[EMAI

Re: An alternative to TCP (part 1)

2001-02-06 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Moore typed: >>I don't agree that abundant IPv6 addresses remove the need for something >>akin to a port number. They might remove the need for transport-level >>multiplexing, but only if any host could allocate a sufficiently large >>subnet, and it's

Re: NAT isn't a firewall Re: harbinger, Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-02-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Scott Brim type d: >>Although address obfuscation through combining NAT with your firewall >>can provide a small amount of additional security. against which attacks ? it doesnt provide better privacy, or non repudation, or access control, or any normal servic

Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-01-31 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. Noel Chiappa" typed: >>Keith, why don't you start an NAT-Haters mailing list, and take all this >>disgust with NAT's there? (I'm quite serious about this.) >>You seem to be having problems accepting that fact that NAT's are selling >>several orders of ma

Re: Computer-related Crime

2001-01-30 Thread Jon Crowcroft
as a european, i feel i have to be first to respond with: "We're the government and we're here to help" having said that, there's some useful references in yr. document for those of you out there in ietf land without brit TV access ,yo umight be amused to track down the Mark Thomas Product

Re: solution to NAT and multihoming

2001-01-26 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Jon Crowcroft typed: >>if multihoming is killing routing coz default free zone routers have >>too many entries >>and NAT is killing users coz they can't get always on addresses >>why not have multihomed sites (aren't th

Re: Blast from the past

2001-01-26 Thread Jon Crowcroft
on that picture, UCL would have been running triple (or maybe even quadruple) staccks - we had the x.25/colour book (you did i think), and the cambridge ring stuff, as well as some weird port expanders and so on.. to get email between 2 pdp11/44s on a cambridge ring at one point we used to u

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
o'dell's GSE draft addressed renumbering perfectly. In message <5.0.2.1.2.20010123015631.02bbba30@localhost>, "David R. Conrad" typ ed: >>Kyle, >> >>At 03:53 AM 1/23/2001 -0500, Kyle Lussier wrote: >>>It is a horried idea to start setting up NATs on cell phones, >> >>Hmm. We should proba

solution to NAT and multihoming

2001-01-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
here's an idea if multihoming is killing routing coz deautlk free zone routers have too many entries and NAT is killing users coz they can't get always on addresses why not have multihomed sites (aren't they usually server/core provider sites) LEASE their standby link address prefixes to access

Re: Number of Firewall/NAT Users

2001-01-22 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Moore typed: >>> The IETF has done it's job with 6to4, but like you said we can't force >>> people to deploy it. But let's stop and think about 6to4. Aren't some of >>> the same "tricks" or ALG's that are planned to make applications work >>> with IPv4

Re: The Internet and the Law, the Economist, 13-19 January 2001

2001-01-16 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Garrett Wollman typed : >>Which is, of course, how anonymizing services achieve most of their >>value. If only one person is using an anonymizer, then they are still >>effectively traceable. If, on the other hand, that one person is >>mixed in with 140,000 o

Re: internet voting -- ICANN, SmartInitiatives, etc.

2001-01-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
the bggest problems with security ssytems are generally 90% to do with design errors at level 10 (human, not policitcal, economic, application, transport etc) it would be interestign to run a _real_ experiment in 3 types of voting (comuter based, networked computer based and traiditional) and se

Re: IP course project

2001-01-12 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Vijay Ramachandran Iyer typed: >> I am a Masters' student at NCSU in Computer Networking. Recently >>registered at the ietf.org site. I am toying with the idea for a project >>in VoIP or Mobile IP for my IP class. What are the relevant RFC's should I >>be loo

Re: Technical Internet Advancements for White House Internet Strategies

2001-01-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
some of the folks on this list aren't american or US citezens and might think that this is a bit presumptious.but here goes:- the first thing the white house should do is educate its customers and organise voting properly the next thing it should do is apply for membership of the European U

Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

2001-01-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
each recipient chooses mailserver to subscribe whose sig you trust i.e. a distributed, heteroegenous system. for exampl,e i dont really care about windows viruses in my mail since i read mail on a unix system, so i would subscribe to a listserver that signed windows executables and visual ba

Re: Eliminating Virus Spam

2001-01-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Francis D upont typed: >>Vernon, I fully agree with you: there is no reason to get multipart >>messages in technical discussion mailing lists. Even if your solution >>seems drastic this is the way we should go. i'd prefer to see us develop a more 21st century

Re: NATs *ARE* evil^H^H^H^Hmpls!

2000-12-20 Thread Jon Crowcroft
one of nature's great dualities: statedulness will take root in the most barren soil, even though datagrams will try to route around it j though if nat speak unto nat, then ipv6 be born

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, RJ Atkinson type d: >>At 13:32 17/12/00, Perry E. Metzger wrote: >>From an operator perspective, supporting *2* IP protocols >>is much harder than supporting just one. If one looks around, >>very few NOCs on the planet today could reasonably be calle

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-17 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>I understand that there are pressures to do multihoming, but I just don't see >>how NAT (i.e. address sharing) is having much effect one way or the other on >>the intensity of the pressure to do multi-homing. NATs allow users to be irresponsible about the addressing since they dont require

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-17 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Sean Doran typed: >>Wait, it's because of *me* that IPv6 isn't a stunning success compared to NAT? > >>I didn't realize that, when I asked the IAB to use their technical insights >>as a market predictor, that behind the invisible hand of the marketplace >>lu

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
i can just see it when the aliens land and ask how to connect to our infrastructure, we'll have to say oh we used to have an internet, but it lost something in the translation j.

Re: NATs *ARE* evil!

2000-12-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
Sean, there were several interesting talks in the ietf plenary last night and i'd also like to respond 1/ randy's "woah, the DNS is bust" talk solution - put your named boot file on your web server and set up robots.txt right get the 15 or so most popular search engines to start pul

Re: 49th-IETF conf room planning

2000-12-13 Thread Jon Crowcroft
its appropriate that the 51st ietf is gonna be in the '51st state" - we've been playing with market forces for 23 years (18 years of margaret thatcher then john major, then tony blair) - solutons in london will involve vickrey auctions for the seats - themoney will be used to pay for upgrading th

Re: How many cooks?

2000-12-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>At least the drafts coming into the IETF don't show the >>same behavior as scientific papers, which is that title >>length directly correlates with the number of authors. perhaps we shpould encourage i-ds (and rfcs) to have authors from as many countries as possible so that they can be s

Re: More on bake-offs and trademarks

2000-11-07 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Henning Schulzrinne typed: >>"Just because you're paranoid doesn't mean they are not after you... " >>Apparently, Pillsbury is on a bigger crusade, as the editorial change at >>http://cacheoff.ircache.net/ is indeed due to lawyer pressure, based on >>reports f

Re: Usable Video from Meetings (was Re: Suggestion)

2000-10-20 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Harald Alvestrand typ ed: >>MBONE tunnels to connect, and a widely available (Linux?) client that would >>connect to that server, and behave like a multicast router? >>"start this program on a spare PC, and you too can watch the IETF multicast". we have refl

Re: Suggestion

2000-10-19 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Telecom Regulato ry Commission of Sri Lanka typed: >>Why cannot IETF arrange Netmeeting sessions. So that all new techniques >>such as Video, Audio, White board, Chat etc. can be used to exchange the >>valuable knowledge members posses. we do - we not only h

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-24 Thread Jon Crowcroft
anyone with a worthy i-d which is not gonna make it as an RFC could do worse than consider submiting it to INETa lot of the papers there are in that line and would then count as prior art, be archival, and citable. possible source of pressure/problem: interestingly enough, in tenure, most u

Re: NAT patent

2000-09-21 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Keith Moore typed: >>OTOH, if I owned that patent, I'd put it to good use... the normal corporate use of patents is to stop someone else charging you royalties for something covered by their patent - for example, cisco might need the NAT patent to stop someone

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-20 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Magnus Danielson typed: >>For most of the time it is just plain stupid, however, there are material wich >>is published in ID form but later down the line is being dropped but still form >>the fundament for design decissions made in IDs making it all the way to

Re: Quality task force on web sites

2000-09-07 Thread Jon Crowcroft
SIGCOMM this year... >>Quality of Content should be left to 'the Law of Natural Selection' and the First >Amendment Rights of the US Constitution (Freedom of Speech), which is the least >expensive and the long term good solution. >> >> >> >>On Wed, 06 Sept

Re: Quality task force on web sites

2000-09-06 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Maha devan Iyer typed: >> >> >>On Tue, 5 Sep 2000, Barathy, RamaSubramaniam wrote: >> >>> Hello Everybody, >>> >>> Would it not be nice to have some sort of quality control task force that >>> assigns a quality level for the web sites through out the worl

Re: getting IPv6 space without ARIN (Re: PAT )

2000-08-25 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>Multihoming is not a hard problem. to add to this making multihoming transparent to the application within the IP level is a hard problem, but is often _besides_ the point - failover and fault tolerant applications WANT to know in a timely and explicut manner when a link or interface fails -

Re: Addresses and ports and taxes -- oh my!

2000-08-03 Thread Jon Crowcroft
in an ideal world, this would be worked out thru a non linear dynamic pricing model the same way the airlines do differentiated seat pricing we haev ipv4 and ipv6 addresses; they have different cost recovery models and different utility functions and different marketing dweebs selling th

Re: Heard at the IETF

2000-08-02 Thread Jon Crowcroft
o course, if we were to internationalise the elevator ights, we';d have to syubtract 1 (as we count from zero, not 1) and then they'd all be even numbersunless of course one of them was the one even prime... In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Dawson, Peter D" typed: >>oh... did the other me

Re: Email Privacy eating software

2000-07-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Ll oyd Wood typed: >>On Tue, 18 Jul 2000, Jon Crowcroft wrote: >> >>> yo udont know about RIP then >>> >>> if you visit the UK, and are asked to show any files on your computer, >>> you cannot claim

Re: Email Privacy eating software

2000-07-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <008601bff09b$8b32e9b0$0a0a@contactdish>, Anthony Atkielski type d: >>> Well been British, we are to polite and would not like to make a fuss. :) >>Yeah, the ones who liked to make a fuss went off and started their own >>democracies centuries ago. >>So the British really don

Re: Email Privacy eating software

2000-07-18 Thread Jon Crowcroft
yo udont know about RIP then if you visit the UK, and are asked to show any files on your computer, you cannot claim you "cannot remember the key" that wil lbe deemed evidence that you are witholding evidence and yo ucan go to jail jus for that.,. i.e. our new crypto-fascist law takes away the

Re: Email Privacy eating software

2000-07-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
at the end points. what annoys me is that the UK government has persistnytly caimed that ALL opponents of the bill oppose intercept, when in fact almost all the ones I've spoken to object to a STUPID pointless waste of money, not to intercept at feasiable (E.g. end systems - such as

Re: Email Privacy eating software

2000-07-14 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <01dc01bfed78$0e7a55a0$0a0a@contactdish>, Anthony Atkielski type d: >>I don't understand why the FBI feels that it needs to have a top-secret >>black box attached to the ISP's network. Why not just have the ISP provide >>a copy of all e-mail to or from the specified mailbox?

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-07-10 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>Any comments on the content of the draft? I would go further - first to define by exclusion, secondly to define a new class of providers (according tro common uisage) so that discussion can proceed An ISP _hosts_ its own and customer's hosts. Hosts follow the hosts requirements RFC, at l

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-07-05 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>Jon, I wonder how WAP will fit into Multicast apps - even >>if its single line txt based msg's app ? football scores/(tennis etc) share price (look at stockbroker trading terminal - they have very small amount of realestate for the given instrument) many many things would work v. well

Re: Is WAP mobile Internet??

2000-07-05 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: >>I disagree, WAP, Wireless Application Protocol, Its a way of transmitting >>data I.E. to and from the Web. How does this not fall under the Internet >>Umbrella ? 1 youcan't get at an arbirtrary web page 2/ you can't get at an ar

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-30 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Alan Simpkins t yped: >>Valdis, I agree with you a hundred percent. The most >>expensive part of infrastructure is pulling the >>cables/fiber necessary to build the infrastrucuture. thats why intelsat and a cosortium of telcos has a charity that built a box th

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-29 Thread Jon Crowcroft
a technical discussion worth reading is at http://www.osopinion.com/Opinions/MikeBanahan/MikeBanahan1.html it would seeem (as i've suspected for a while) that the community in charge of this development has the same problem as the guy who built jurassic park - they haev no discipline, or underst

Re: Bluetooth is a flaucipaucinihilipilification...

2000-06-28 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: >> Anyone care to start a discussion about Bluetooth and how it >>may/will impact the future of communications ? And the new generation of >>Virus's that could come along with this technology. no. but a email thread on blueto

Re: Free Protocols Foundation Policies and Procedures -- Request For Review

2000-06-21 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Mohsen BANAN-Public typed: >>I request that you review the attached document and >>email us your comments to: >> mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] its a nice idea there is, after all, a free market in standards orgaanisations however, the ietf is the one with t

Re: mail sandbox wall authority, inward and outbound

2000-05-12 Thread Jon Crowcroft
the problem with sandboxes is that they are monolithic as is this discussion of mail - if i have a notion of a compartmentalized system with users, and access rights (like almost all operating systems from the late 60s onwards, but not like simple desk top single user executives as found on many

Re: WORM WARNING

2000-05-11 Thread Jon Crowcroft
if once it was a virus which it wasnt it surely is a worm now of course, microsoft have succeeded beyond david tenenhouses wildest dreams in active network deployment :-| j.

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-05-08 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Robinson typed: >>Even better, why doesn't the IETF employ a bunch of people dressed in >>black suits and wearing sun glasses to go around and 'enforce' IPv6... we do, but you keep forgetting. :-) j. iab member, and official "man in black"

Re: VIRUS WARNING & music at pittsburg?

2000-05-07 Thread Jon Crowcroft
1/ i think microsoft and the alleged hacker have provived an exxcellent lesson in active networks 2/ is anyone interested in jamming at the next IETF (folk, jazz, rock, thrash, triphop etc - you know, primal scream...) - i can bring a guitar (or bass or flute or something...) but local folks

Re: VIRUS WARNING

2000-05-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
"noone ever got fired for buying ibm" this was ironic coz ibm was expensive, but worked someone should get fired for buying someone elses prodiucts irony no class action just reality checkpoint time... for a systemic view, some stuff is engineered better than other stuff - see mark handl

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-05-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Masataka Ohta ty ped: >> Is it fair if providers using iMODE or WAP are advertised >> to be ISPs? >> >> Is it fair if providers using NAT are advertised to be ISPs? >> >>My answer to both questions is >> >> No, while they may be Internet S

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-04-27 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "J. Noel Chiappa" typed: >>> right, noels wrong. >>Noel is happy to wait, and see who's right. (I've been through this exact >>same experience before, with CLNP, so I understand the life-cycle.) So far, >>I've been waiting for quite a few years with IPv6

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-04-26 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Thomas Narten typed: >>> IPv6's claimed big advantage - a bigger address space - turns out >>> not to be an advantage at all - at least in any stage much short of >>> completely deployment. >>Not surprisingly, I disagree. right, noels wrong. the amount of

Re: IPv6: Past mistakes repeated?

2000-04-24 Thread Jon Crowcroft
its ironic you should send this today, when 12 million people in london, england, had to learn to dial 8 digits instead of 7 because of lack of foresight from the telephone regualtor when re-numbering less than a decade ago - it is reported that 2--30% of calls today are misdialled... repeat aft

Re: draft-ietf-nat-protocol-complications-02.txt

2000-04-23 Thread Jon Crowcroft
henning, good stuff... people would do well to read this - also, all attempts to fix NATs so as to ameliorate these problems have _exactly_ the same deployment complexity as IPv6 - there's a quote somewhere from yakov rehkter to this effect (can't find it exactly, but he was coming the ther w

Re: Source address (offtopic)

2000-04-13 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Matt Crawford typed: >>> The source address of a datagram was an architectural mistake, and should >>> never have been in the mandatory packet format. >>Nahh, the mistake was ignoring the source address when routing & forwarding. thats an implementation det

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-02.txt

2000-04-10 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>> Bottom line is that IP-layer interception - even when done "right" - >>> has fairly limited applicability for location of nearby content. >>> Though the technique is so widely mis-applied that it might still be >>> useful to define what "right" means. >>That sounds overly optimistic.

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-08 Thread Jon Crowcroft
as ye sow, so shall ye weep...in reading this thread i guess i saw several problems: oxymoron alert "thought...patent" tautology alert "sufficiently expensive...lawyer" internet bogon alert "find the server" is a server where the ip address, DNS name, lat/long of the CPU, memory, disk, or cac

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-04 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Graham Klyne typ ed: >>As many of us are finding, it seems to become more and more difficult to >>develop or implement a standard without tripping over somebody-or-other's >>patent for some piece of technology that many of us would regard as fairly >>obviou

Re: A thought about patents

2000-04-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
>>My thought is this: I'd like to see a presumption of lack of novelty if an >>idea gets raised in a public forum, even if it happens _after_ a patent has >>been applied for, unless it can be shown that the information came from >>leakage of proprietary information. intersting idea i w

Re: Topology Discovery in IP Networks

2000-04-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
infocom 2000 had 2 sessions (8 papers) from the main people - check out their web site (papers are online..ia ieee) In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Barbara Bao typed: >>Dear Friends, >> >>For my assignment, I need to know algorithms for discovering layer-3 and >>layer-2 network topology. Whe

Re: Re[2]: Re: Critically compare the congestion control on TCP/

2000-03-10 Thread Jon Crowcroft
the best work i know of on TCP behaviour _over_ ATM services is the thesis (and papers by) Olivier Bonaventure - http://www.info.fundp.ac.be/~obo/ cheers jon

history

2000-03-09 Thread Jon Crowcroft
i was looking thru some old archives (1982 on - yes, thats right, from just before this years college kids were born) of the original tcp-ip maillist and came across a message from mark crispin about a broken vax mailer flooding neighbor mailservers with SYNs..amazing how nothings new see ht

Re: What is the latest trend of network research ???????

2000-03-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <000d01bf834d$88c203c0$[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Zheng Youquan typed: >>Several month ago, DiffServ and MPLS is hot topic in network research. >>But how about now about Internet? a brief history of time-wasting in the early 80s, "research" concentrated on egp and dns - this was quite i

Re: Internet SYN Flooding, spoofing attacks

2000-02-17 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Steven M. Bell ovin" typed: >>Right. Yahoo, though, was flooded mostly by the volume. I worry about >>high-volume TCP garbage sent to port 80, which you can't filter. Steve so in the case that the server resource is overloaded, but not the link, what you

Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs

2000-02-16 Thread Jon Crowcroft
to people that think that the internet is mostly US centric, and will go on being so, and that this is relevant to the IETF anyhow - wrong, wrong, and also wrong! um the Internet is now mostly commercial - the Eu and Asia each have MORE money than the US, and also have growth economies. if you

Re: IETF Adelaide and interim meetings for APPS WGs

2000-02-15 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "Parkinson, Jonathan" typed: >>There is more than America out there ? >>;-) you mean america still exists - i thought it was actually a myth like atlantis >> >> >>-Original Message- >>From: John Stracke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] >>Sent: T

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