Re: merde! Patrick F. and ICANN board error

2000-01-05 Thread Eric Brunner
Normally I ignore Cook, and am grateful to have missed the original screed. Technical contributions on the content of the draft-hollenbeck-rrp-00.txt are nice, but deviations from content analysis are awkward. Eric

Fwd: URGENT: Los Alamos Fire: Network & Systems volunteers needed

2000-05-12 Thread Eric Brunner
The National Indian Telecommunications Institute (NITI) run Digital Council Fires (DCF) mailing list carries the following URGENT request for 10-15 Network & Systems volunteers to assist in the Los Alamos fire response. The originator of the request is the New Mexico Information Technology and S

New mailing list for data protection & privacy (cookies et al)

2000-05-22 Thread Eric Brunner
I've set up a mailing list for discussion of policy implications of http cookies, and other persistent session artifacts which may be used as identifiers. We've list(s) for discussion of the mechanism(s), e.g., Tom Limoncelli's http-state list, the W3C P3P interop list, the mozilla general list,

Re: CCIE

2000-06-14 Thread Eric Brunner
>> Forgive this spam, but I am looking for 7 CCIE's >> for locations in London, Silicon Valley, >> California and Tokyo. > > i can not find an rfc for "CCIE." what is one, some kind of can opener? "Carbon Copy Internet Explorer", from the "New Corporation(s)." They'll I-D on or about 04/01/01,

Re: fyi.. House Committee Passes Bill Limiting Spam E-Mail

2000-06-15 Thread Eric Brunner
Keith, Assume that that e-ad and direct e-marketing (email) was $4 billion in 1999. The estimates I have at hand are that the the rate will be $18 billion in 2002. Roughly between now and 2005 the net's share of ads, regardless of the delivery form, is going to increase six-fold -- according to m

Re: IP over MIME (was Re: WAP Is A Trap -- Reject WAP)

2000-06-22 Thread Eric Brunner
> I have seen a lot of different people bash WAP over the past two days. > However, I am a firm believer that WAP will become what IP is to us today. How nice to have firm belief-systems. What I write here are only my personal opinions. I posted Rohit's tour of the tangle when I was at Nokia Res

Re: XML as disruption

2000-06-25 Thread Eric Brunner
Simon, The IETF general list may not be the best venue for advocacy pieces written for non-specialists. The characterization of Keith Moore's and Franklin Reynold's works ("Substrate" and "CC/PP", resp.) are not substantive and in my opinion detract from or confuse a reading of your disrupt-the-w

Re: WAP - What A Problem...

2000-06-29 Thread Eric Brunner
> Do you mean that WAP is: > - overhyped? ... Rats. I thought he ment the bit about the frog genes gone awry. Self-pollenating dino-phibs. Oh well, back to the data. Cheers, Eric

Defining "Internet" (or "internet")

2000-07-06 Thread Eric Brunner
The Swedish legal definition (Patrik provided the pointer) may not be the only one which attempts to define what "Internet" is, fixed or broken, er, "mobile". Anyone else with a normative legal reference, your favorite jurisdiction or someone else's, please drop me a line. I'll summarize to the

RE: Email Privacy eating software

2000-07-19 Thread Eric Brunner
[from [EMAIL PROTECTED], (www.benton.org/News/) Communications-related Headlines for 7/19/2000 ] BRITISH AUTHORITIES MAY GET WIDE POWER TO DECODE E-MAIL Issue: Privacy/International Britain may adopt a law making it the only Western democracy where the government could require anyone using the I

Re: more on IPv6 address space exhaustion

2000-08-12 Thread Eric Brunner
there was a time when the assertion that string allocation policies in the dns are subordinate to trademark registration was viewed as exotic, if not deranged or at best mildly ignorant. some community or another, together with some government and some contractor, and innumerable sundry other ac

Re: more on IPv6 address space exhaustion

2000-08-13 Thread Eric Brunner
keith, having punted on the marks over strings2addrs (policy by indirect rather than direct beneficiaries), is anyone kidding themselves that the result of the content over routing (policy by ...) is going to follow a similar path? i wish i'd made the "you can't do good design with a mindset lik

Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

2000-12-04 Thread Eric Brunner
> I guess one of the first questions should be; "Is some partitioning of the > Internet community such a bad thing?"... If the "partition" intended for discussion is "@sign vs !path" addressing conventions, Eric Allman and Peter Honeyman have left a discussion archive on the subject. Arguably t

Re: Will Language Wars Balkanize the Web?

2000-12-05 Thread Eric Brunner
Martin, I'll send you a copy of the "@sign vs !path" debate from my USENIX papers archive. See "Pathalias: or The Care and Feeding of Relative Addresses" by Honeyman and Bellovin, undated, at http://www.uucp.org/papers/pathalias.pdf. Speculations on the general utility and availability of "singl

Re: Technical Internet Advancements for White House Internet Strategies

2001-01-04 Thread Eric Brunner
> following that, the use of other languages might be a considerably > benefit - e.g. spanish, chinese and hopi spring to mind Add Dineh (Navaho), don't want to inflame the Joint-Use Area conflict any further, though Hopi do go Republican (those who "vote"), unlike the majority of Dinetah and awa

Re: Single-letter names

2008-07-08 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Ted, As Edmond pointed out, the position at present is that: "Single and two-character U-labels on the top level and second level of a domain name should not be restricted in general." I personally expect that for applications made as "IDN ccTLD", whether "fasttrack" or not, will be reviewed

Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-25 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
> PS - is no one else alarmed by the re-publishing of material > submitted under an explicit agreement for 'removal after 6 mos'? Yes. More generally the presumption that RFC doesn't mean "Request for Comments" and that the explicit withdrawal of the preliminary form has been over-ridden by a cla

Re: can vpn's extended to mobility

2000-09-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
> The "P" in > "VPN" stands for "privacy", which requires encryption ... I expected the term or concept of "data confidentiality" (the "p" is silent) to be bundled into this service model, not "privacy". Eric

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
> I would suggest only "possibly of current interest to an IETF WG". Too WG-centric, e.g., if draft-jaye-http-trust-state-mgt-01.txt has expired (it has), and if the HTTP WG has shut down (it has), then no interested party (using the above suggested definition of "validity") can exist. Mind, it (

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
> My definition is that 'validity' simply warns interested readers > of the limited conclusions one can reach about an I-D's > relevance to IETF activities once the I-D has passed the > magical 6 month marker. Since work is done in WGs, and I-Ds > foster work, then being WG-centric is a pragmatic

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-28 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
> So we add "and/or IESG" to the list ... Um, they don't have a monopoly on omnicience, to approxi-quote Fred, and cannot be an exhaustive remedy for WG and I-ID expiry. If they were, then I wouldn't be writing draft-brunner-iesg-http-cookies-wrong-00.txt. Incidently, this arises out of the exp

Re: Need to preserve Internet Drafts

2000-09-29 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Grenville, I don't mind that you don't find anything valid in my little bit of our exchange, that was the point -- WGs, IESG, inexpiry, etc., aren't the exhaustive sources of "validity". Incidently, the "isn't revised, and falls into the expired (and hence not-valid) state" applies to both the H

Re: Topic drift Re: An Internet Draft as reference material

2000-09-30 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
> And what WG? Internet Drafts were and are generated by Individuals w/o > benefit of an associated WG. Precisely my point to Grenville.

Re: Rechartering WREC

2000-10-10 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Harald (the match peddler) wrote: > I know I shouldn't be bringing more tinder to the bonfire, but Cache interposition semantics on end-to-end policy evaluation and expiry semantics is my cup of gasoline. The policy-de-jour is P3P, to which Mark and I both ... contribute ... or er, illuminat

Re: [DNSOP] Fwd: Last Call: (Special-Use Domain Names) to Proposed Standard

2011-01-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
There are label segments that have semantics. The "--" violation, prepended by something, "^xn", where "^" indicates a label boundary, to indicate a (the current) "IDN" processing. Bytes within a label with values in excess of 127. Off hand I can't think of anything else (that is intentional)

Re: My resignation

2009-04-18 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
LB wrote: Dear IETF Members, Sorry, I do not speak but I read Engslih. I use Google translation. tant pis. il ya des ingénieurs à beijing, des vrai contributeurs, qui ont fait plus d'efforts que tois. *French text:* JFC Morfin m'avait demandé d'interfacer nos groupes de travail, fra...@larg

Re: Stockholm IETF Code Sprint

2009-05-21 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
Russ, did you mean "1" or more likely "2"? IETF Chair wrote: Stockholm IETF Code Sprint When: July 15, 2009, begining at 9:30 AM Where: IETF Hotel in Stockholm What: A bunch of hackers get together to work on code for the IETF web site. Some people may be porting of existing funct

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

2001-01-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
I trust we will get a quick "hum" to the proposition that "truncating" the v4addr to a /25 does not, in a dhcp, or in a static address regime, offer a great deal of "privacy enhancement", given the effectiveness of profiling and the sparsity of "like browsing sequences" at any collection moment.

Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-02-15 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
David, > IPv6 does not solve the need to renumber if you change providers (and no, > not everyone can be a provider -- IPv6 uses CIDR, just like IPv4). Until > that issue is addressed, there will be NATs. Even for v6. Odd. Every time I renumbered some site (hq.af.mil and sundry other sites s

Re: [midcom] WG scope/deliverables

2001-02-16 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
David, Ron Natalie and I renumbered hq.af.mil the week of the Loma Prieta quake. List the NAT implementations deployed at the time. The point you'll have made is that an-aide-to-renumbering NATs weren't. If they are marketed now as such, happy, but not necessary, is the marketeer. Eric

Fwd: Indianz.com NEWS BRIEFS: APRIL 1, 2001

2001-04-02 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Not having seen an RFC come over the transom yesterday or today, here is an alternative. http://216.218.205.86/april1.asp Enjoy, Eric

Re: Revision to RFC2727 - NOMCOM

2002-01-25 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
James, I'm going to differ with my learned colleges Dave and Paul. There may be points of 2727 and draft 2727bis that have the potential to benefit from deference until the current nomcom has done its job, but from my reading not all of them fall into that bin. In particular, I don't see how this

Re: Guidance for spam-control on IETF mailing lists

2002-03-17 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams in Portland Maine
Oh goodie! We get to chat about the other IAB -- Internet Advertizing Bureau. (http://www.iab.net) Reading Mr. Kehres back-to-front. Is in-list spam in-scope for poisson? Yup. Is there a venue for general spam? Yup (April's got it). Would adopting an opt-in regime in the US improve things? Yup.