Re: IPv6 only Plenary Makes the News

2008-03-11 Thread Ofer Inbar
> Subject: IPv6 only Plenary Makes the News Isn't that just a press release from ISOC, being distributed by wire services online? -- Cos ___ IETF mailing list IETF@ietf.org https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf

Re: how to contact the IETF

2009-02-09 Thread Ofer Inbar
Alex Loret de Mola wrote: > Dear Carsten: (And others who feel upset at the recent development) > > As someone who's been a (mostly silent, but frequently reading) member > of this mailing list, I can understand your concern. However, can you > propose a better way for them to contact members of

Re: ideological opposition to patents

2009-02-10 Thread Ofer Inbar
Powers Chuck-RXCP20 wrote: > If the technology in the document to be standardized is > unencumbered, then the fact that _some_ uses of that technology may > run into encumbered territory is irrelevant, except to those who > hate patents in general. I think software patents are a bad idea, and wou

New RR problem not evidence that DNS needs to be replaced (was Re: SRV records considered dubious)

2006-11-22 Thread Ofer Inbar
e new RR problem hasn't been solved is that the solution is so recent (3 years old) that Microsoft hasn't implemented it yet, obviously this doesn't constitute evidence that we need to solve the problem again by developing a new protocol. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

Re: [OT] Internet / DNS Timeline (The History of the Internet DNS)

2007-07-31 Thread Ofer Inbar
On Thu, Jul 19, 2007 at 10:10:28AM -0400, Joe Baptista <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now this is an interesting little giggle. I made it into a DNS > timeline. Incredible. > > http://www.inaic.com/index.php?p=internet-dns-timeline ... a timeline of the DNS that documents the teeniest details, b

Re: namedroppers, continued

2002-12-09 Thread Ofer Inbar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Does anybody have a reference on an authorization scheme that > doesn't imply any authentication? From:-line based email filters. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cos.polyamory.org/ -- WBRS (100.1 FM) -- [EMAIL PROT

DNS RMX RR draft

2003-06-02 Thread Ofer Inbar
pplicability or effectiveness) -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://cos.polyamory.org/ "OSI is a beautiful dream, and TCP/IP is living it!" -- Einar Stefferud <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, IETF mailing list, 12 May 1992

Re: Welcoming newcomers

2000-12-27 Thread Ofer Inbar
elf-fulfilling. It's easy to percieve a clique where there isn't one, if you're expecting a clique. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Exodus Professional Services -- http://www.exodus.net/ "We all misuse the net for personal gain, one way or another." -- Larry Wall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>

Re: Not developing protocols

2001-02-11 Thread Ofer Inbar
s an accident that that WG effort did not produce a standard, although of course I can't prove anything about anyone's intent at the time. -- Cos (Ofer Inbar) -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Exodus Professional Services -- http://www.exodus.net/

Re: Not developing protocols

2001-02-11 Thread Ofer Inbar
Vernon Schryver <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > From: Ofer Inbar <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > "If farmers can be paid not to grow wheat, why can't IETF > > > WGs be paid not to develop protocols?" > > > > We can. Just go work for

Re: NAT natural example

2001-02-15 Thread Ofer Inbar
aries who can freely change between fax or mail without changing the content of the messages exchanged by their bosses. NAT, as far as I can tell, is pretty much always a kludge, whether it's natural or not. It doesn't make people happy unless obscurity and reduced communication is what

closing list posting won't help us much

2001-05-22 Thread Ofer Inbar
e: 781-273-2380 -- (Ofer Inbar) [EMAIL PROTECTED]-- pager: 800-351-9387

filtering and the purpose of mailing lists

2001-10-26 Thread Ofer Inbar
t want to see? Yes, this particular thread is off topic if taken out of context. Fortunately a single thread is easy to ignore, as long as it doesn't recur repeatedly and keep spawning new threads. Could we please avoid that? [Jim Fleming, too, would not have been a problem if he'd only

Re: Hugh Daniel has passed away

2013-06-04 Thread Ofer Inbar
Paul Wouters wrote: > Hugh Daniel passed away on June 3rd after what appears to have been > a heart attack. Whoah. I had completely lost track of him in the past decade, but he was one of the most memorable people I ever met through the IETF. We met first at IETF 37 I think, in San Jose, and ke

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-13 Thread Ofer Inbar
Scott Brim wrote: > These technical answers are all great "for use in Internet protocols" > [3339] but the scope of the question is web pages destined for humans to > read and understand ... and some humans don't understand them. You > could justify what's there now and ignore their problem, or (

Re: What day is 2010-01-02

2010-03-18 Thread Ofer Inbar
YAO Jiankang wrote: > "HUANG, JERRY (ATTLABS)" wrote: > >What I am not so sure about is the sweeping statement that Americans > >would likely have difficulties with the '-mm-dd' format. I walked > >around the office and polled seven of my co-workers who happen to be > >around (all engineers b

Re: IPv4 depletion makes CNN

2010-05-27 Thread Ofer Inbar
Brian E Carpenter wrote: > The major problem with the story is that it confounds IANA runout > (objectively predicted for 2011) with when ISPs run out of IPv4 space > (which is not so easy to predict, but 2015 is a popular estimate). The > rest is pretty good for a story in the non-technical media

Re: My comments to the press about RFC 2474

2010-09-03 Thread Ofer Inbar
Marshall Eubanks wrote: > On Sep 2, 2010, at 8:45 PM, Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > > So in my view the problem here is that when I pay for an X Mb/sec > > connection at the moment I have no real way of knowing whether that is > > really X Mb/sec all the time or X/n Mb/sec when I am using a servic

Re: US DoD and IPv6

2010-10-08 Thread Ofer Inbar
Phillip Hallam-Baker wrote: > Since the one legacy protocol that has a dependency on IP address constancy > is FTP, it would seem to me to be much easier to upgrade FTP to remove the > dependency than to try to control the network. There are other protocols hiding out there. MATIP, RFC2351 (not

Re: what is the problem bis

2010-10-26 Thread Ofer Inbar
On Oct 26, 2010, at 2:39 PM, Dave CROCKER wrote: > I'm a fan of reducing down to 2 levels, too. But it has nothing to > do with how overblown the effort to get to Proposed is. (Well, I feel like we already have a 2-level system. What's the practical difference between Proposed and full Standard

Re: one data point regarding native IPv6 support

2011-06-13 Thread Ofer Inbar
I've never been able to get first level tech support at my ISP to understand "latency" or "packet loss". They only understand "can you load a web page?" This does not mean their ISP doesn't provide packet loss and latency, standard with their service :) More to the point, when I've been at hotel

Re: Changes needed to Last Call boilerplate

2009-02-13 Thread Ofer Inbar
Michael Dillon wrote: > With the text above, don't be surprised when people learn that they can > become bona fide IETF members by subscribing to the IETF discussion list and > the new subscription volume swells exponentially. Given the contents of many > of the letters received on the patent issu

Re: Does being an RFC mean anything?

2009-03-11 Thread Ofer Inbar
> There are, it appears, many types of IETF RFCs, some which are intended to > be called "Internet standards" and others which bear other embedded labels > and descriptions in their boilerplate text that are merely "experimental" or > "informational" or perhaps simply "proposed standard". One contr

Re: Your "favorite" network faults

2009-04-13 Thread Ofer Inbar
On Apr 10, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Henning Schulzrinne wrote: >As part of a research project, we are working on automated >diagnostics of network-related faults in residential, SOHO, >conference/special event, hotel and similar networks. If you have >observed errors that were hard for a lay person

Re: ITC copped out on UTC again

2012-01-20 Thread Ofer Inbar
If the main problem with leap seconds is their future unpredictability, isn't there a compromise option between the status quo and no more leap seconds? Couldn't they come up with a fixed schedule for leap seconds for many centuries at a time, based on current predictions of approximately how many

Re: IPv6 networking: Bad news for small biz

2012-04-05 Thread Ofer Inbar
"Worley, Dale R (Dale)" wrote: > Also, NAT provides the ability to connect a small network to a service > provider that only provides a single DHCP address, or wants to charge > extra for every device you attach to its network. NAT is a > significant technical tool in the business conflict betwee

Re: 'Geek' image scares women away from tech industry ? The Register

2012-04-30 Thread Ofer Inbar
This PBS interview with Harvey Mudd president Maria Klawe, on the subject of why fewer women go into tech & engineering fields, is worth watching: http://www.pbs.org/newshour/extra/video/blog/2012/04/college_president_discusses_wo.html -- Cos

Re: IETF posting delays

2012-05-07 Thread Ofer Inbar
Fred Baker wrote: > > Question, did the IETF list setup disable the "non-member" email > > notifications? > > Spam reduction. We apply the rule to all of our mailing lists, and it is very > helpful. I don't think that's what Hector asked. The question isn't "do we block email from non-members

Re: RFC 2119 terms, ALL CAPS vs lower case

2012-05-19 Thread Ofer Inbar
As a reader of RFCs, I've come to expect that 2119 words are always capitalized, and that when the same words appear in lowercase or mixed case they're not being used in the 2119 sense. This seems to be a de facto standard, even though 2119 doesn't require it. I'm in favor of continuing with this

Re: Proposed IETF 95 Date Change

2012-07-21 Thread Ofer Inbar
Glen Zorn wrote: > On Sat, 2012-07-21 at 13:25 -0700, Martin Thomson wrote: > > > On 21 July 2012 06:55, Yoav Nir wrote: > > > This year Ramadan started yesterday, and ends on August 19. Moving the > > > meeting one week in either direction would not have helped. > > > > But moving it to the s

Re: IETF 95 Date Change Proposal - Round 2

2012-09-10 Thread Ofer Inbar
lizhong@zte.com.cn wrote: > 1-3 April 2016 will be holiday in China. If the time is 3-8 April, then > many Chinese attendees have to give up the holiday. Would you propose > another time? Thank you. I think there's probably always either a major holiday somewhere or another conference that t

Re: IAB Statement on Dotless Domains

2013-07-13 Thread Ofer Inbar
Reading some of this discussion leaves me puzzled because I can't tell which things that some people are saying are intended to be about "dotless" use of domains, or are intended to be about the expansion of top level domains in general. The IAB's statement does not seem to be about whether or not

Re: The case of dotless domains

2013-07-16 Thread Ofer Inbar
> >>What this brings to mind is that we used to have implicit DNS domain > >>search in the early days of DNS. When edu.com accidentally hijacked > >>a huge chunk of the Internet, most of the net very quickly got rid of > >>implicit search, and we got the explicit DNS search feature that many > >>p

Re: 6tsch BoF

2013-08-03 Thread Ofer Inbar
Dave Crocker wrote: > On 8/1/2013 10:50 AM, Ralph Droms wrote: > > In particular, the effect of humming versus > >show of hands was pretty obvious. > > The fact that the results were so profoundly different should get our > attention, enough to get us to consider specifying how to measure > con