Re: Crypto Advocate Under FBI Investigation (For Treason)

1999-12-01 Thread Mark Atwood
Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Pardon me but, horse hocky! We are not talking about objecting to the > laws but rather how the FBI reacted to a report of a crime. Even tho' > they were pretty sure that they had been handed a red herring they were > still required to investigate. M

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread Jon Crowcroft
In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Paul Ferguson typed: >>I wouldn't be so quick to characterize NAT as a "dead-end" technology. i would. NATs are classic short term optimisation kills long term benefoit of the right way of doing things. also: for NATs to scale to deal with the global net comple

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1999-12-01 Thread Paullee 李保華
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Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread Thomas Narten
John, > You are absolutely right. Time should be spent developing "good > algorithms" which is common "good architecture". What NAT does is just > another form of the same thing that X.25, ATM, and MPLS do with different > identifiers. It is not bad algorithm there nor bad architecture. This

Application name space and ASN.1 (Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?)

1999-12-01 Thread Harald Tveit Alvestrand
At 22:52 30.11.99 -0500, John Day wrote: >At 18:12 -0500 11/30/99, Mark Atwood wrote: > >John Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> > >> Correct. Lets get an application name space so we don't need to worry > >> about it. > >> > > > >Please gods below, not more ASN.1 > >What a strange reaction!?

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1999-12-01 Thread Xiaobo Fan (LMC)
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Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread Christian Huitema
At 10:49 PM 11/30/99 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: >note also that DNS is often slow, and seems less reliable than IP. >by increasing the reliance on DNS you increase the probability of failure. Data point: out of 40,000 random DNS requests logged on my work station over the last year, 20% underwen

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread Brian E Carpenter
Bob, Bob Braden wrote: > >*> > *> The problem is not to make applications "NAT aware" or "NAT friendly". The > *> problem is to make applications "IP address unaware". What is an > *> application doing exchanging and using names for things 2 layers below it? > *> Sounds like a desi

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread Bob Braden
*> > *> > I don't believe this argument, John. The IP address is (part of) the *> > transport layer end point address, something that an application can *> > reasonably be expected to know about in the existing Internet *> > architecture. *> *> Unfortunately the existing Internet

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread John Day
>John, > >> You are absolutely right. Time should be spent developing "good >> algorithms" which is common "good architecture". What NAT does is just >> another form of the same thing that X.25, ATM, and MPLS do with different >> identifiers. It is not bad algorithm there nor bad architecture.

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread John Day
At 11:50 -0500 12/1/99, Brian E Carpenter wrote: >Bob, > >Bob Braden wrote: >> >>*> >> *> The problem is not to make applications "NAT aware" or "NAT >>friendly". The >> *> problem is to make applications "IP address unaware". What is an >> *> application doing exchanging and using nam

Re: Application name space and ASN.1 (Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?)

1999-12-01 Thread John Day
At 7:06 -0500 12/1/99, Harald Tveit Alvestrand wrote: >At 22:52 30.11.99 -0500, John Day wrote: >>At 18:12 -0500 11/30/99, Mark Atwood wrote: >> >John Day <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> >> >> Correct. Lets get an application name space so we don't need to worry >> >> about it. >> >> >> > >> >P

Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread Tony Dal Santo
John Day wrote: > Cmon, surely you can come up with a better counterargument than that! ;-)) > I certainly could. If it is architecturally acceptable for those protocols > to rewrite the address field at every hop, why shouldn't it be for IP? How > does it differ? Basically a NAT is doing wha

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1999-12-01 Thread ALLYSON CLARK
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Re: IP network address assignments/allocations information?

1999-12-01 Thread J. Noel Chiappa
Everyone, this conversation isn't really going to be very productive. The people who like A aren't about to start liking B, and vice versa. (And then there are the people who don't like either - but they aren't going to change their minds either! :-) So discussion on this point is not going to be

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread Cary FitzGerald
Christian: Is this something that you think is an inherent flaw in DNS? Will this new class of servers be less susceptible to congestion? Cary. Christian Huitema wrote: > At 10:49 PM 11/30/99 -0500, Keith Moore wrote: > > >note also that DNS is often slow, and seems less reliable than IP. > >

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RE: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread Dan Kohn
>>It seems to me that we may be able to recapture some aspects of end-to-end >>transparency at the application level if addressing issues are focused on >>host FQDNs, rather than IP addresses. >this works to some extent. it specifically doesn't work for applications >that need to rendezvous with

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread Donald E. Eastlake 3rd
So we want some application level namespace and a system to translate it to addresses. What characterstics should such a system have? It needs to be highly available, so you need replication among multiple servers. You can't concentrate all the data in one place so it needs to be distributed, p

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread David R. Conrad
Christian, > Increasing our reliance on the DNS is definitely not a good idea. Hmmm. This would appear to be the exact opposite of what the IETF has done with IPv6. Rgds, -drc

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread David R. Conrad
Cary, > Is this something that you think is an inherent flaw in DNS? Inherent flaw in the DNS: probably not. Inherent flaws in implementations of DNS (including, of course, ISC's BIND) and things in front of the DNS: probably. It is far too easy to do the wrong thing. And if this is true to

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-01 Thread Keith Moore
> > Is this something that you think is an inherent flaw in DNS? > > Inherent flaw in the DNS: probably not. Inherent flaws in implementations of > DNS (including, of course, ISC's BIND) and things in front of the DNS: > probably. It is far too easy to do the wrong thing. this is worth elabo

Re: Crypto Advocate Under FBI Investigation (For Treason)

1999-12-01 Thread tytso
Date: Tue, 30 Nov 1999 23:40:06 -0800 (PST) From: Brian Lloyd <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Pardon me but, horse hocky! We are not talking about objecting to the laws but rather how the FBI reacted to a report of a crime. Even tho' they were pretty sure that they had been handed a red herr

Re: [IFWP] a serious problem with cctld's

1999-12-01 Thread Jeff Williams
Bill and all, Ok, thanks for the update on your status. Much appreciated. Were you able to provide a contact for Joe? Given your generic comments below that does not at all seem clear or likely in the near term. Bill Manning wrote: > > > > > > Is there a name there at iana of someone who ca

Re: [IFWP] a serious problem with cctld's

1999-12-01 Thread baptista
Well - Bill told me he could help them out. I didn't want to burden anyone with it unnecessarily. This whole iana trip is a really big bother. Information is always outdated, updates are never on time. And when updates are done - critical information like whois servers are not properly recorde

Re: [IFWP] a serious problem with cctld's

1999-12-01 Thread Jeff Williams
Joe and all, ! wrote: > I've been doing our little annual update with the cctld community - > basically verifying that what is contained in the iana database is > correct. And usually it's not. You mean as usual don't ya Joe? >;) > > > This year - I'm being approached by alot of tld admins

Re: [IFWP] a serious problem with cctld's

1999-12-01 Thread baptista
Thanks Jeff - i've sent a note to manning and have advised the cctld admin accordingly. On Wed, 1 Dec 1999, Jeff Williams wrote: > Joe and all, > > ! wrote: > > > I've been doing our little annual update with the cctld community - > > basically verifying that what is contained in the iana data

Re: [IFWP] a serious problem with cctld's

1999-12-01 Thread Bill Manning
> > > > Is there a name there at iana of someone who can be responsible enought to > > get this done. > > Try Bill Manning. I don't have his E-Mail address handy though. > Bill Manning has not had anything to do with the IANA task for a long time. He is busy with other activ