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: A thought about patents

2000-04-01 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
In looking in multimedia-related patents, I'm also utterly amazed by the complete lack of citation of published technical articles or related work (RFCs, Internet drafts, etc.). The problem with many patents is that if submitted as a technical paper at even the lowliest conference, it would be lau

Conflict IEEE Infocom - IETF spring meeting

2000-04-01 Thread Henning Schulzrinne
In recent years, IEEE Infocom (www.ieee-infocom.org) and the spring IETF meeting have clashed repeatedly, including this year. IEEE Infocom is scheduled several years in advance (through 2004 at this point), so it is easy to avoid. I've brought up the topic in the past, but was told that the numbe

"You have bad breath more often than you think!" 'Mannix'

2000-04-01 Thread kysi ferul
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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: A thought about patents

2000-04-01 Thread Vernon Schryver
> From: Jon Crowcroft <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > ... > perhaps the length of patent protection should be directly related to > the cost of developing an idea - in pharmaceutical industry, long > patents make sense because of the large investment in testing a new > drug safely - similar i nthe automot

Re: HTML forms

2000-04-01 Thread Stephanos Piperoglou
On Thu, 30 Mar 2000, James P. Salsman wrote: > The proposal would involve ammending the registration of the > text/html media type, incorporating the W3C standards extended with > two attributes of the INPUT element, DEVICE and MAXTIME. Last time I checked, IANA, and not the IETF, controls the d

Re: HTML forms

2000-04-01 Thread James P. Salsman
>From [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sat Apr 1 15:25:32 2000 Date: Sun, 2 Apr 2000 02:25:06 +0300 (EEST) From: Stephanos Piperoglou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "James P. Salsman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: HTML forms On Thu, 30

Re: HTML forms

2000-04-01 Thread Keith Moore
> Last time I checked, IANA, and not the IETF, controls the definitions > of Media Types. yes, but IANA follows IETF rules in assignment and updating of media types. > The entry for text/html [1] says, simply "See RFC > 1866". And RFC 1866 [2] is a more or less verbatim copy of the HTML > 2.0 S

ACCEPT and DEVICE (was Re: HTML forms)

2000-04-01 Thread James P. Salsman
Stephanos, Thanks for your message: >... You need detailed definitions, changes to DTDs, and more. > If you have these details, it would be nice to point us all to a > proposal so we know how "DEVICE" and "MAXTIME" would work. Sorry about not pointing to this document: http://www.bovik.org/d

support for device upload (was Re: HTML forms)

2000-04-01 Thread James Salsman
Keith, Thanks for your message: > the problem as I see it is that Mr. Salsman has not been able to obtain > much community support, much less consensus, for his idea. I am > not so sure that it's a fundamentally bad idea, but perhaps it needs > tweaking in order to gain widespread support.

hacker invasions

2000-04-01 Thread Betsy Brennan
Can anyone help me find documentation of a hacker attack that includes details of the attack and what was done to prevent similar attacks in the future? Respectfully, Betsy B.

Re: HTML forms

2000-04-01 Thread John Stracke
Keith Moore wrote: > Note that since IETF does acknowledge W3C as the "owner" of the HTML > specifications ...much as the ITU acknowledges the IETF as the "owner" of the IP specifications. Let's not set a precedent we can't live with. :-) -- /==

Re: support for device upload (was Re: HTML forms)

2000-04-01 Thread Keith Moore
James, bottom line is, this is a W3C matter. you need to convince *them*. Keith

Re: support for device upload (was Re: HTML forms)

2000-04-01 Thread ned . freed
> If there needs to be a formal proposal to the IETF, it should > not be submitted by me alone. Experience has shown that an > outspoken geek with no apparent interest is not taken as > seriously as would be, for example, the officers in charge of > teaching spoken languages to cadets at West Poi

Re: support for Salsman proposal for form-based device input

2000-04-01 Thread James P. Salsman
Dear Dr. Berners-Lee, Thanks for your message: > Rather than trying to change The HTML specification, one needs to > encourage this feature to be implemented, and implemented well. I completely agree with that end goal, whether the means involve extending HTML or not. > Ways to do this inclu