Re: Please recant or appologize to Jim Flemming

2003-01-07 Thread Peter Deutsch
.." - peterd --------- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software ""It doesn't hurt to be optimistic. You can always cry later." -- Lucimar Santos De Lima --

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-12 Thread Peter Deutsch
> > > > Wondering whether it was before or after the first official release of > > Mosaic > > > > Harald > > > > > > -- - Peter Deuts

Re: Searching for depressing moments of Internet history.....

2003-01-12 Thread Peter Deutsch
sex... > > > An interesting subject for a thesis: > > The Porn and The Internet. > > You think I can apply for a grant to the NSF? Nah, that would never fly. How about "An Investigation into the Utility of Stimulus-Response Sites For Promoting Networked Growth Patterns&quo

Why not a ".IETF" TLD? (was: Re: Financial state of the IETF...)

2003-03-16 Thread Peter Deutsch
. The demands upon space likely wont drop back down again on their own, so some hard calls might be needed to balance the books here. In summary, I would suggest that if decisions are made based upon built-in assumptions such as "attendance is going back up" or "falling attendan

Re: Financial state of the IETF - to be presented Wednesday

2003-03-17 Thread Peter Deutsch
em's solved but somehow I'm not sure this is going to solve the problem in practice... - peterd -- - Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software

Re: Barrel-bottom scraping

2003-03-20 Thread Peter Deutsch
s and your profit margins once you past break-even are great. Oh, and it's a great way for participants to show their direct support for the process by using their IETF domain for posting to the IETF lists. What's not to like here? - peterd -- ---

Re: please move the spam discussion elsewhere

2003-05-27 Thread Peter Deutsch
ectation that this thread is starting on its death spiral. Can somebody please make a reference to Adolf Hitler, so we can all declare victory and go home? - peterd (queue the Monthy Python SPAM song...) -- --- Peter Deutsch

Re: spam

2003-05-27 Thread Peter Deutsch
ke you're trying to lend legitimacy to odious practices by sleight-of-hand mathematics. Shame on you... - peterd -- - Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software "Bungle..." "That's an 'i', you idiot..." "Oh, right. 'Bingle..." - Red versus Blue... -

Re: spam

2003-05-27 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Vernon Schryver wrote: > > > From: Peter Deutsch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > ... > > despite the fact that the vast majority of folks have *not* agreed with > > you, and some of us have specifically challenged (I wont be so > > presumptuo

A modest proposal (was: Re: spam)

2003-05-27 Thread Peter Deutsch
actually think is the way to go. So, okay, this discussion needs to move off the ietf general list, but again I agree with Paul. Where is the direction about where we should be heading with this? - peterd -- ----

A peer-to-peer trust system model (was: Re: spam)

2003-05-29 Thread Peter Deutsch
mes die down As I said, I've done some digging and found nothing exactly like this, but Paul's casual remark suggests I'm missing something basic in the literature (admittedly I haven't done an exhaustive search yet). Pointers to the obvious work, or pointers to the obvious holes,

Re: A peer-to-peer trust system model (was: Re: spam)

2003-05-29 Thread Peter Deutsch
e (trust me, this can be done. I have a proof of this, but the margins of my screen are too small to contain it. It's enough for the purposes of this exposition to note that this is something that can be precomputed so it can be obtained somewhat efficiently). So, back comes the Oracle, with the pa

Re: A peer-to-peer trust system model (was: Re: spam)

2003-05-29 Thread Peter Deutsch
uot;Bacon" (for the hopefully obvious reason). I wrote: > So, back comes the Oracle, with the path: > > Peter Deutsch -> Einar Stefferud -> Randy Bush -> Paul Vixie Sorry Randy, I'm going to drop you from the example. I think it's funnier if it reads:

Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

2003-05-30 Thread Peter Deutsch
f to its roots and do some statistically valid analysis on its origins, goals, etc. Otherwise, we seem to be in grave danger of designing a system (spam control) without ever talking to its users (the spam generators). Sounds like a recipe for disaster to me... -

Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

2003-05-31 Thread Peter Deutsch
hard data. If not, this might be something the IMC could consider pulling together? I'd agree that there's way too much hand-waving going on here on this point... - peterd --

Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

2003-05-31 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > > At 10:40 AM -0700 5/30/03, Peter Deutsch wrote: > >Paul Hoffman / IMC wrote: > >... > >Well, perhaps it's more accurate to say "if they thought it could be > >solved by working with all those nice and entusiastic

Re: The utilitiy of IP is at stake here

2003-06-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
it's perceived to be a growing problem for the rest of the Internet, for which a solution will be needed in the not too distant future, so people on this list are discussing the near future, not *your* particular present reality. Your "but it's not a problem for me" reaction is

Re: myth of the great transition (was US Defense Department forma lly adopts IPv6)

2003-06-19 Thread Peter Deutsch
"J. Noel Chiappa" wrote: > > > From: Keith Moore <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > > > The reason that we are explaining (once again) why NAT sucks is that > > some people in this community are still in denial about that > > The person who's most in denial around here is you - about how defini

Re: myth of the great transition

2003-06-19 Thread Peter Deutsch
Keith Moore wrote: > > > > expecting the network > > > to isolate insecure hosts from untrustworthy attackers, or more > > > generally, to enforce policy about what kinds of content are > > > permitted to pass, has always been a stretch. > > > > > > > So where do firewalls fit into your picture?

Re: New mailing list for Common Indexing Protocol discussions

1999-10-25 Thread Peter Deutsch
yone needs any other data feel free to contact me and I will be happy to coordinate its release with the trustee in a timely fashion. - peterd ---------- Peter Deutsch

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-02 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, David R. Conrad wrote: > > Charlie, > > > DNS is supposed to be a way to resolve domain names into IP addresses. > > As a hammer is supposed to be a way to pound nails. However, when it is > perceived that all you have is a hammer, it is amazing what begins to look > like nails. Actua

Re: To address or NAT to address?

1999-12-02 Thread Peter Deutsch
Hi Dave, Dave Crocker wrote: > > At 03:01 PM 12/2/1999 , Peter Deutsch wrote: > >Actually, I think it would be as accurate to say "DNS is a distributed > >database service. The first application was name to IP address > >translation, but it's now used for a num

Re: correcting a media article on Raven/IPv6

1999-12-04 Thread Peter Deutsch
Hi Randy, You know, I probably don't want to go here, but since you pulled the ring tab and opened this can: Randy Bush wrote: . . . > > statement available from > > "available as" i suspect a url is *popularly* considered to be the document > not it's location. Well, I don't recall any pol

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-12 Thread Peter Deutsch
Dick St.Peters wrote: > However, I'm now of the opinion that email is first-class mail, not > parcel post. Seems like a question to be decided by users, not engineers. Most of the mail I receive is simple text or Word docs, and thus well under 1M, but last night I received two pieces of email fr

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-14 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Vernon Schryver wrote: . . . > There is no magic. Users have been demanding the impossible from SMTP > on the grounds that they don't understand why not for decades. With all due respect, we're not the law-givers, come down from on high with the tablets. We're the hired help. Telling

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-16 Thread Peter Deutsch
Kent Crispin wrote: > > On Thu, Dec 16, 1999 at 06:00:09PM -0600, Stephen Sprunk wrote: > > Customers are generally much happier when you give them what they ask for > > instead of forcing them to use something else; if people want to be able to > > mail full DVDs to each other, it's our job to d

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-18 Thread Peter Deutsch
Kent Crispin wrote: > > On Fri, Dec 17, 1999 at 04:27:36PM -0600, Richard Shockey wrote: > [...] > > > > Excellent idea... HTTP Push to a defined directory with email notification > > of an appropriate URL. One problem. > > > > > > http://www.patents.ibm.com/patlist?icnt=US&patent_number

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-18 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Richard Shockey wrote: > > > > >Actually, there have been a few of these in recent years. I've done some > >consulting for lawyers seeking to overthrow patents where someone has > >obviously simply gone out and documented things done by others. > > > >To revisit a theme I raised back in t

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-18 Thread Peter Deutsch
Hi Dave, Dave Crocker wrote: > > At 09:02 AM 12/18/1999 , Peter Deutsch wrote: > >To revisit a theme I raised back in the summer, this need to be able to > >prove prior art is the reason I believe we need to preserve Internet > >Drafts, not just mailing lists and other w

Re: Email messages: How large is too large?

1999-12-18 Thread Peter Deutsch
Hi Scott, Scott Bradner wrote: > > >To revisit a theme I raised back in the summer, this need to be able to > >prove prior art is the reason I believe we need to preserve Internet > >Drafts, > > the IESG has asked the IETF Secretariat to do this and the old IDs > should be on-line soon Cool! T

Re: Switches on Oz power outlets

2000-03-06 Thread Peter Deutsch
Ross Finlayson wrote: > > At 01:59 PM 3/6/00 -0800, Cameron Young wrote: > >Most of the wall power outlets have little rocker switches built into the > >outlet cover that also needs to be turned on. > > > >*Don't* forget to check this if you are charging a cell phone / laptop for > >use the nex

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

2000-04-07 Thread Peter Deutsch
substantial revision before it is found > acceptable. So you are arguing for explicit censorship of ideas based upon your own moral assessment of the potential misuse of those ideas? Wow. Now *that* is a dangerous notion indeed. I sincerely hope it is not a widely held one within the eche

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-0

2000-04-07 Thread Peter Deutsch
d upon an individual's sense of what is a moral or legal use of that technology (when the individual doesn't justify this through any particular creditials in either morality or the law) strikes me as somewhat naive, to say the least...

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

2000-04-07 Thread Peter Deutsch
egedly uses and I don't want to be thinking of the Queen of England every time I read one of your postings. Why can't I demand the IETF forbid any mail posted from you without the leading "the"? Okay, it's Friday and I'm being silly, but the underlying concept here is most definitely censorship of ideas in a mo

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch
umented role of the IETF to be a clearing house for information in the process. If you want the appropriate words of RFC 22026 and 1718 deleted that you take the appropriate steps to initiate the change, but I suggest that meanwhile you shouldn't be denying the documented evidence for such a

Re: breaking the IP model (or not)

2000-04-12 Thread Peter Deutsch
oved along slowly even without NAT. > but it would probably have moved faster had NATs not existed. > > best thing I can say about NAT is that it motivated me to work on 6to4. > > Keith -- Peter Deutsch work email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Leader Content

Re: Carrier Class Gateway

2001-04-26 Thread Peter Deutsch
t; > > > > i would imagine the problem would be at high, not low, tide. > > > > > > > oops. mea culpa. > > > > > > > > L. > > > > > > > > > Sorry to add yet another post to a pointless thread but... > > > Ll

Re: Carrier Class Gateway

2001-04-26 Thread Peter Deutsch
y and maximum payload size of the transport layer to properly model traffic here... - peterd > L. > > size does matter. > > <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>PGP<http://www.ee.surrey.ac.uk/Personal/L.Wood/> -- --

Re: Why IPv6 is a must?

2001-11-27 Thread Peter Deutsch
first glance it seems pretty mundane. - peterd -- -- Peter Deutsch work email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Engineering Edge Delivery Products Content Networking Business Unit

Re: trying to reconcile two threads

2001-11-29 Thread Peter Deutsch
he old saying goes, if you build a smarter mouse trap, all you get are smarter mice... - peterd -- ------ Peter Deutsch work email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Director of Engineer

Re: Fwd: Re: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification

2002-01-23 Thread Peter Deutsch
g'day, Kyle Lussier wrote: . . . > I'm a strong proponent of the "one true mark", easy-in, no hassles. > With strong, but forgiving enforcement policies. > > That's the only way I see to do it, not to mention, if it's cheap > and easy, lots of people will do it, and you would generate a > $10m

Re: Yes, conformance testing required... Re: Fwd: Re: IP: Microsoft breaks Mime specification

2002-01-27 Thread Peter Deutsch
the place, please take it over there, but personally I think it's time to let this one die here. Would somebody please mention Adolf Hitler so we can declare this thread complete? AD-thanks-VANCE... - peterd -- ---

Re: IETF Meetings - High Registration Fees

2002-03-18 Thread Peter Deutsch
g that "large corporations" will willingly pay an order of magnitude more for the privilege of subsidizing individual contributors doesn't seem viable to me... - peterd -- --

Re: IETF Meetings - High Registration Fees

2002-03-18 Thread Peter Deutsch
"bio-overhead" in that number, but the benefits are real enough that I'd vote to keep paying for the cookies... - peterd --- Peter Deutsch

Re: Netmeeting - NAT issue

2002-03-20 Thread Peter Deutsch
e to accept that you lost a technical argument and move on... - peterd -- --- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software "This, my friend, is a pint." "It comes in pints?!? I'm getting one!!" - Lord of the Rings --

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-03-29 Thread Peter Deutsch
to use the other set of utilities > >(Basically > >I had inherited two developers code). Well my KLOC for the week was > >somewhere in > >the -10 range, and it was a month before I started going positive again. My > >reviews > >sucked, but it was the right thin

Re: I-D ACTION:draft-etal-ietf-analysis-00.txt

2002-03-30 Thread Peter Deutsch
elsewhere, sounds like failure of *something* to me. Of course, it *does* solve the overcrowding problem, so if you want to measure success by the ability to get a cookie in the corridor, this would be a good thing... ;-) - peterd -- --- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software "This, my friend, is a pint." "It comes in pints?!? I'm getting one!!" - Lord of the Rings --

Re: How many standards or protocols...

2002-04-19 Thread Peter Deutsch
w to best monetize it. Maybe that's why you're an engineer, and not a marketing guy... ;-) - peterd -- --- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software I cannot

Re: Global PKI on DNS?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Deutsch
er at the subroot level... (As he hides behind blast wall, to avoid flying shrapnel... ;-) - peterd -- ----------- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] "I had to do an assign

Re: Global PKI on DNS?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Deutsch
; reasons anyways, and by using a different port you'd find the proxy/interception issues go away, too. Sounds like a win for everybody... - peterd -- --- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL P

Re: Global PKI on DNS?

2002-06-11 Thread Peter Deutsch
area. Either possibility makes me sad... :-) - peterd (Who will now slink back into his hole, wondering what on earth possesed him...) -- --- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] &qu

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-06-30 Thread Peter Deutsch
h an archive would be invaluable. "He who fogets history is doomed to repeat it" and all that - peterd -- ----- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
ited. If you have received this electronic message in error, please > notify us by telephone or email (to the numbers or address above) > immediately. > -- - Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gy

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
of a first derivative of research, to do research about research I guess... - peterd -- - Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software That's it

Re: IPR and I-D boilerplate

2002-07-01 Thread Peter Deutsch
have done so for a long time. All we're talking about here is simplifying things... - peterd -- ----- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software That's it for now. Remember to read chapt

Re: Spring 2003 IETF - Why San Francisco?

2002-11-25 Thread Peter Deutsch
lots more people in the corridors... :-/ - peterd --------- Peter Deutsch [EMAIL PROTECTED] Gydig Software "Time will end all of my troubles, but I don't always approve of time's methods..." -

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

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
t we limit name-calling on IETF lists to within the bounds of quoting appropriate snippets of Monty Python. You'd be free to publish elsewhere, so it's not censorship, and we'd be sure not to sully the IETF's reputation for quality of discourse. At the same time, I'm going to

Re: recommendation against publication of draft-cerpa-necp-0

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Hi Patrik, Patrik Fältström wrote: > > At 17.29 -0700 2000-04-07, Peter Deutsch wrote: > > LD is intended to sit in front of a cluster of > >cache engines containing similar data, performing automatic > >distribution of incoming requests among the multiple ca

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

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Keith Moore wrote: > Peter, > > I think that by now I've made my points and defended them adequately and > that there is little more to be acheived by continuing a public, > and largely personal, point-by-point argument. If you want to continue > this in private mail I'll consider it. O

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

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
Keith Moore wrote: > > The industry and their customers have already decided against you on > > this one. > > Industry people love to make such claims. They're just marketing BS. > The Internet isn't in final form yet and I don't expect it to stabilize > for at least another decade. There's s

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

2000-04-08 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
ay grade (and not the way I see this company working at all). I'm just suggesting that at least some individuals I know (and not just at Cisco) are starting to feel that the IETF is less relevant to their needs than it used to be. Some people are going to say "great, that'll cut d

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-09 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
e IETF. And clearly, some would think that a good thing. - peterd -- ---------- Peter Deutsch work email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Technical Leader Content Services Business Unit private: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cisco Systems or : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Alcohol and calculus don't mix. Never drink and derive. --

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-09 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
having documents come out as "Request For Comments" in the traditional sense, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to find ways to better distinguish between the Standards track and other documents. - peterd -- ---

Re: prohibiting RFC publication

2000-04-09 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
g'day, Tripp Lilley wrote: > On Sun, 9 Apr 2000, Peter Deutsch in Mountain View wrote: > > > readily accessible. I still see value in having documents come out as "Request > > For Comments" in the traditional sense, but it certainly wouldn't hurt to find

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

2000-07-19 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
we'll have only ourselves to blame if and when the users pass us by... - peterd (feeling testy this evening) -- -------- Peter Deutsch work email: [EMAIL P

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

2000-09-30 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
r keeping the I-Ds "officially ephemeral", and if > deja-id pops up to archive them, i'll probably occasionally poke around in > there myself. > > cheers, Greg > > -------- > >Part 1.2 Type: application/pgp-signature --

Re: "redesign[ing] the architecture of the Internet"

2001-02-04 Thread Peter Deutsch in Mountain View
usible, organisms sometimes thrown up for consideration by the Darwinian process. But only *some* people hate the fact that it lead to humanity (and thus, IP! :-) Keith, you really should trust the process a lot more than you do... - peterd -- ---