Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Randy Bush
> Based on this draft the recommended preference order is: > > 1) Validation ok > 2) not found > 3) Validation nok > > Suppose an operator would use local-pref to achieve this. > This intention (preferring validated routes) will break, when there's a > more specific announcement that doesn't val

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Matthew Petach wrote: Even without completely overflowing the ND cache, informal lab testing shows that a single laptop on a well-connected network link can send sufficient packets at a very-large-scale backbone router's connected /64 subnet to keep the router CPU at 90%,

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Martin Millnert
Carlos, On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 9:22 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > Hi, > > this is the second mention I see of RPKI and Egypt in the same > context. I sincerely fail to see the connection between both > situations. > It is quite simple actually. 1. Governments (eventually) want to take

Re: Connectivity status for Egypt

2011-01-30 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Benson Schliesser" > To: "andrew.wallace" > Cc: nanog@nanog.org > Sent: Saturday, 29 January, 2011 2:47:42 PM > Subject: Re: Connectivity status for Egypt > On Jan 28, 2011, at 1:44 PM, andrew.wallace wrote: > > > We should be asking the Egyptians to stagg

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Paul Vixie
> From: Alex Band > Date: Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:39:36 +0100 > > I think my question is very pertinent. Of course the number of signed > prefixes directly influences the number of validators. Do you think > the RIPE NCC Validator tool would have been downloaded over 100 times > in the last month if

Re: NANOG lIst replay?

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <00bd3d23-12d6-4bb6-882f-3ccae2a67...@delong.com>, Owen DeLong writes: > Is it my imagination, or, is the list replaying messages from several = > days ago? Yes. Yet another person using microsoft's pickup service and reinjecting the email using the To and Cc headers from the email r

NANOG lIst replay?

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
Is it my imagination, or, is the list replaying messages from several days ago? Owen

Re: What's the current state of major access networks in North America ipv6 delivery status?

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 28, 2011, at 4:07 PM, John Payne wrote: > > > On Jan 26, 2011, at 4:52 PM, Charles N Wyble wrote: > >> Comcast is currently conducting trials: >> http://comcast6.net/ (anyone participated in this?) > > Yes, and other than the fact that their 6rd implementation only gives me a > /64,

RE: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Frank Bulk
Write the RFPs asking for L3 -- I don't think they're asking for L3. Frank -Original Message- From: Cameron Byrne [mailto:cb.li...@gmail.com] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:55 PM To: Mikael Abrahamsson Cc: nanog@nanog.org Subject: Re: EPC backhaul networks On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:5

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Fernando Gont
Hi, Matthew, On 30/01/2011 08:17 p.m., Matthew Petach wrote: >>> The problem I see is the opening of a new, simple, DoS/DDoS scenario. >>> By repetitively sweeping a targets /64 you can cause EVERYTHING in >>> that /64 to stop working by overflowing the ND/ND cache, depending on >>> the specific N

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
Hi, this is the second mention I see of RPKI and Egypt in the same context. I sincerely fail to see the connection between both situations. Egypt cut their links the old fashioned way: they pulled the plug. I fail to see how such a situation could be made worse by RPKI. It simply has nothing to d

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Andree Toonk
.-- My secret spy satellite informs me that at 11-01-30 1:22 PM Randy Bush wrote: So, what are peoples' routing policies on RPKI going to be? Are people going to drop prefixes with no RPKI record? Or drop prefixes with an incorrect RPKI record? Or drop prefixes with a revoked status? draft-

Re: Strange L2 failure

2011-01-30 Thread Herro91
I had an issue on the 28xx with a static NAT that just stopped working. The router would not publish the MAC for the nat entry. I removed the NAT entry and reapplied - and magically it worked again. On Sat, Jan 29, 2011 at 10:05 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > On 1/29/2011 8:47 PM, ML wrote: > >> I just

looping email

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
Can whomever is at NEXTAG.COM please fix the pickup service to not use to To and Cc lines when re-injecting email. IT DOES NOT WORK. IT JUST CAUSES MAIL LOOPS. Received: from mail pickup service by corpmail5.corp.nextag.com with Microsoft SMTPSVC; Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:10:55 -0800 -- Mar

Re: test-ipv6.com

2011-01-30 Thread Jeroen Massar
On 2011-01-29 00:29, Blake Hudson wrote: > Does this site have an record? If so, my DNS does not pick it up. ipv6-test.com itself does not, and that would be 'bad' also as then when somebody has an IPv6 stack but broken connectivity they would not be able to reach that site. >From the oh so

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:40 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > Because they publish data you have signed. They don't have the ability > to modify the data and then sign that modification as if they were you if > they aren't holding the private key. If they are holding the private key, > then, you have, in

Planned IN-ADDR.ARPA Nameserver Change

2011-01-30 Thread Joe Abley
PLANNED IN-ADDR.ARPA NAMESERVER CHANGE This is a courtesy notification of an upcoming change to the nameserver set for the IN-ADDR.ARPA zone. There is no expected impact on the functional operation of the DNS due to this change. There are no actions required by DNS server operators or end users.

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Randy Bush
> I would hope the response to the USG pressuring ARIN to diddle the RPKI > db would be disabling of RPKI queries by most BGP speakers. no need. break down, take a break from typing, and actually read draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-origin-ops-04.txt

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread ML
On 1/30/2011 4:53 PM, Brandon Butterworth wrote: I think it is too early in the deployment process to start dropping routes based on RPKI alone. We'll get there at some point, I guess. Do we really *want* to get to that point? I thought that was the point and the goal of securing the routing

2011.01.30 NANOG51 community meeting notes

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew Petach
My hastily-jotted notes from tonight's community meeting have been posted to http://kestrel3.netflight.com/2011.01.30-NANOG51-community-meeting.txt (though it was so fast, and so non-controversial, with no input from the audience to speak of, i almost felt silly for taking notes. ^_^;; ) Matt

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Matthew Petach
On Tue, Jan 25, 2011 at 10:26 PM, Fernando Gont wrote: > On 24/01/2011 07:41 p.m., Michael Loftis wrote: > >>> Many cite concerns of potential DoS attacks by doing sweeps of IPv6 >>> networks.  I don't think this will be a common or wide-spread problem. >>>  The general feeling is that there is si

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 12:55 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote: >> >>> The only way to reach 2000 cell sites in Chicago with 100megs of Ethernet >>> handoff is with L2 metroE. There is not a feasible

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Andrews
In message <4d457f0e.7070...@consolejunkie.net>, Leen Besselink writes: > Hello Carlos, > > On 01/30/2011 02:57 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > > What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions > > we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions >

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Martin Millnert
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 5:08 PM, Jack Bates wrote: > Just a simple, if route invalidly signed, drop it. What constitutes a invalidly signed route more exactly? Would a signed route by a signer (ISP) who's status has been revoked by an entity in the RPKI-hierarchy-of-trust above (for whatever rea

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Phil Bedard
I work for a MSO and while we do provide L2 services today for wireless backhaul, the services are based on requirements from the wireless providers and I haven't seen an RFP yet in which someone wanted a L3 service. If someone really wanted a L3VPN as a backhaul solution we could oblige them but m

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/30/2011 2:47 PM, Nick Hilliard wrote: I'm concerned that if we're trying to avoid another Youtube affair, the RPKI policy acceptability criteria will have to be so strict that this may have a serious effect on overall reachability via the internet. Not really. Just a simple, if route inv

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Joel Jaeggli
On 1/30/11 1:13 PM, Ping Pan wrote: > On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > >> Yep. I hate L2. It is a total nightmare. But, it is literally the >> only game in town. I blame the MEF for spreading propaganda that >> MetroEis the best solution for backhaul ... most people don

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Phil Bedard
Easier to troubleshoot is the main reason but also, you would not put the MME/S-GW in every segment with the eNodeB anyways, so in the end you'd really want a L3 routed solution between them. One of the things I've seen is the L3 interface for the eNodeB terminates locally on an attached smaller c

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Brandon Butterworth
> > I think it is too early in the deployment process to start dropping > > routes based on RPKI alone. We'll get there at some point, I guess. > > Do we really *want* to get to that point? I thought that was the point and the goal of securing the routing infrastructure is laudable. But the voice

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Randy Bush
> So, what are peoples' routing policies on RPKI going to be? Are people > going to drop prefixes with no RPKI record? Or drop prefixes with an > incorrect RPKI record? Or drop prefixes with a revoked status? draft-ietf-sidr-rpki-origin-ops-04.txt randy

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 19:06:05 -0200, "Carlos M. Martinez" said: > I think it is too early in the deployment process to start dropping > routes based on RPKI alone. We'll get there at some point, I guess. Do we really *want* to get to that point? pgpkwGoDsk8jO.pgp Description: PGP signature

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Ping Pan
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:55 PM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > Yep. I hate L2. It is a total nightmare. But, it is literally the > only game in town. I blame the MEF for spreading propaganda that > MetroEis the best solution for backhaul ... most people dont even > think of L3 solutions all the

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
I think we just don't know (yet) how people are going to apply RPKI. If I were operating a large network today, I would try to run RPKI in a sort of warning-only mode, i.e. getting some sort of alert if an invalid route was detected. While this wouldn't have prevented YouTube's incident, it would

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:52 PM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote: > >> The only way to reach 2000 cell sites in Chicago with 100megs of Ethernet >> handoff is with L2 metroE.  There is not a feasible L3 service offered >> today. > > Ah. > > We either rent fibe

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote: The only way to reach 2000 cell sites in Chicago with 100megs of Ethernet handoff is with L2 metroE. There is not a feasible L3 service offered today. Ah. We either rent fiber or put up our own radio links, I guess different problems in different m

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Ping Pan wrote: Heard a lot about MPLS-TP to apply in this area. What do you think? Is it for real? MPLS-TP is great for SDH people, they don't have to learn anything new. It's the new SDH, just packet based instead of TDM. Everything else pretty much stays the same. I

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 30/01/2011 17:39, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: The solution to this problem (theoretical at least) already exist in the form of RPKI. So, what are peoples' routing policies on RPKI going to be? Are people going to drop prefixes with no RPKI record? Or drop prefixes with an incorrect R

A top-down RPKI model a threat to human freedom? (was Re: Level 3's IRR Database)

2011-01-30 Thread Martin Millnert
Here be dragons, On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 12:39 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > The solution to this problem (theoretical at least) already exist in > the form of RPKI. Any top-down RPKI model is intrinsically flawed. Deploying an overlay of single-point(s) of failure on top of a well-func

RE: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread George Bonser
> > In any case, the fact you can stick a terabyte of RAM into a 4U Dell > rack mount that sucks a whole lot of power doesn't mean we're anywhere > near being able to do it for consumer-class hardware. Remember, much > of the growth is going to be in the embedded and special purpose > systems - t

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Jack Bates
On 1/30/2011 11:15 AM, Nick Hilliard wrote: Depends on which IRR you use. The IRRDBs run by RIPE, APNIC and AfriNIC implement hierarchical object ownership, which means that if you're registering their address space, you can only do so if that address space legitimately belongs to you. This

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Ping Pan
Heard a lot about MPLS-TP to apply in this area. What do you think? Is it for real? Thanks! Ping On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 11:03 AM, Cameron Byrne wrote: > On Jan 30, 2011 10:11 AM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" wrote: > > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote: > >/ > >> There are just more compa

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 10:09 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson wrote: > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Glen Kent wrote: > >> I would like to understand why there is a preference for L3 VPNs over L2 >> VPNs for the EPC backhaul networks? We can use both layer 2 and layer 3 VPNs >> for communication between the eNodeB

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Jan 30, 2011 10:11 AM, "Mikael Abrahamsson" wrote: > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote: >/ >> There are just more companies offering L2 metroE than L3 in the backhaul space. I have pushed for L3 but very few offer the speeds and reach required > > > Could you please elaborate on what

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Cameron Byrne wrote: There are just more companies offering L2 metroE than L3 in the backhaul space. I have pushed for L3 but very few offer the speeds and reach required Could you please elaborate on what you mean by "reach" here? -- Mikael Abrahamssonemail: swm...

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Mikael Abrahamsson
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011, Glen Kent wrote: I would like to understand why there is a preference for L3 VPNs over L2 VPNs for the EPC backhaul networks? We can use both layer 2 and layer 3 VPNs for communication between the eNodeB and the MME or S-GW, so why is it that most providers prefer L3 over

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 17:39:45 +0100, Leen Besselink said: > On 01/25/2011 11:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > > > >> "640k ought to be enough for anyone." Remember that when this apocryphal statement was allegedly made in 1981, IBM mainframes and Crays and the like were already well in to the 64-256

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos M. Martinez
Hey! >> Steinar Haug, Nethelp consulting, sth...@nethelp.no > Because they publish data you have signed. They don't have the ability > to modify the data and then sign that modification as if they were you if > they aren't holding the private key. If they are holding the private key, > then, you ha

Re: EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Cameron Byrne
On Jan 30, 2011 9:03 AM, "Glen Kent" wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to understand why there is a preference for L3 VPNs over > L2 VPNs for the EPC backhaul networks? We can use both layer 2 and > layer 3 VPNs for communication between the eNodeB and the MME or S-GW, > so why is it that most provi

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:39 AM, Leen Besselink wrote: > On 01/25/2011 11:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: >> >> >>> "640k ought to be enough for anyone." >>> >> If IPv4 is like 640k, then, IPv6 is like having >> 47,223,664,828,696,452,136,959 >> terabytes of RAM. I'd argue that while 640k was short sig

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 8:28 AM, sth...@nethelp.no wrote: >>> - Hosted solutions offer a low barrier entry to smaller organizations >>> who simply cannot develop their own PKI infrastructure. This is the >>> case where they also lack the organizational skills to properly manage >>> the keys themselve

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
The solution to this problem (theoretical at least) already exist in the form of RPKI. On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 6:23 AM, Andrew Alston wrote: > Hi All, > > I've just noticed that Level 3 is allowing people to register space in its > IRR database that A.) is not assigned to the people registering

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Laurent GUERBY
On Sun, 2011-01-30 at 17:39 +0100, Leen Besselink wrote: > On 01/25/2011 11:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > If IPv4 is like 640k, then, IPv6 is like having > > 47,223,664,828,696,452,136,959 > > terabytes of RAM. I'd argue that while 640k was short sighted, I think it is > > unlikely we will see mac

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Nick Hilliard
On 30/01/2011 09:08, Jeff Wheeler wrote: This brings me to my point, which is that IRR is very good for preventing accidents and automating some common tasks. It should be "secure" to a point, but just because a route: object exists does not mean that mntner: really has authority over that addre

EPC backhaul networks

2011-01-30 Thread Glen Kent
Hi, I would like to understand why there is a preference for L3 VPNs over L2 VPNs for the EPC backhaul networks? We can use both layer 2 and layer 3 VPNs for communication between the eNodeB and the MME or S-GW, so why is it that most providers prefer L3 over L2. Glen

Re: Using IPv6 with prefixes shorter than a /64 on a LAN

2011-01-30 Thread Leen Besselink
On 01/25/2011 11:06 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > >> "640k ought to be enough for anyone." >> > If IPv4 is like 640k, then, IPv6 is like having 47,223,664,828,696,452,136,959 > terabytes of RAM. I'd argue that while 640k was short sighted, I think it is > unlikely we will see machines with much more t

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread sthaug
> > - Hosted solutions offer a low barrier entry to smaller organizations > > who simply cannot develop their own PKI infrastructure. This is the > > case where they also lack the organizational skills to properly manage > > the keys themselves, so, in most cases at least, they are *better off* > >

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
I see also that many concerns expressed here are extensions of the perceived failures of the whole CA business. I agree that the whole model of CAs has largely failed. Not only there are too many of them, but the fact that they try to operate as for-profits makes them vulnerable to all the pressure

Re: ARIN IRR Authentication (was: Re: AltDB?)

2011-01-30 Thread John Curran
On Jan 29, 2011, at 10:50 PM, Jeff Wheeler wrote: > On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 10:00 PM, John Curran wrote: >> Based on the ARIN's IRR authentication thread a couple of weeks ago, there >> were suggestions placed into ARIN's ACSP process for changes to ARIN's IRR >> system. ARIN has looked at the in

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
> >There's a big difference. If a bank screws up and loses $5,000 of my money, I > > can (at least potentially) sue them and recover $5,000 which is pretty much > > identical to the $5,000 I lost. If a key escrow company loses my private > > key, > > getting back an identical private key is exac

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Randy Bush
hi alex, just to be clear i think your web-based system is a good thing. 97.3% of your members do not want to go through the effort of installing certifying software and doing up/down with you. i am not fond of you holding folk's private keys, but that's what they get for laziness. of course y

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Valdis . Kletnieks
On Sun, 30 Jan 2011 11:57:57 -0200, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo said: > What I just don't get if, we as a society, have created institutions > we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can't be institutions > we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and > yes, probably "

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 6:11 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > Do you really think that a set of keys stored in a random PC in a > random office is safer than on a periodically backed-up, encrypted > database? In this future I only see lost keys, keys appearing listed > in something.ru domains, t

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Leen Besselink
Hello Carlos, On 01/30/2011 02:57 PM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions > we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions > we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and > yes, probab

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Owen DeLong
On Jan 30, 2011, at 5:57 AM, Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo wrote: > What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions > we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions > we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and > yes, probably "cryp

Re: help needed - state of california needs a benchmark

2011-01-30 Thread JC Dill
On 29/01/11 11:36 AM, Roy wrote: On 1/29/2011 10:00 AM, Mike wrote: The rub is, that they want to legislate that web based 'speedtest.com' is the ONLY and MOST AUTHORITATIVE metric that trumps all other considerations You took the state's money so you are stuck with their dumb rules.

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
Do you really think that a set of keys stored in a random PC in a random office is safer than on a periodically backed-up, encrypted database? In this future I only see lost keys, keys appearing listed in something.ru domains, tons of support calls to hostmasters, and ROAs repeatedly becoming inval

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Carlos Martinez-Cagnazzo
What I just don´t get if, we as a society, have created institutions we trust with our *money* (AKA banks), why there can´t be institutions we trust with our crypto keys. I know that banks sometimes fail, and yes, probably "crypto banks" will sometimes fail as well, but on the whole, the failure ra

Re: Another v6 question

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 09:20:01 -0600 Max Pierson wrote: > >I'm not missing your point. I'm saying that in IPv6, we've put enough > addresses > >in to allow for things nobody has thought of in 30, 60, 90, even 100 years > and > >then some. > > As Roland said, > "Possibly, as long as we don't blow t

Re: [arin-announce] ARIN Resource Certification Update

2011-01-30 Thread Alex Band
Paul, I think my question is very pertinent. Of course the number of signed prefixes directly influences the number of validators. Do you think the RIPE NCC Validator tool would have been downloaded over 100 times in the last month if there were only 5 certified prefixes? In my opinion, the wi

Re: /64 is "enough" until 2021 for 90% of users (was Re: Another v6 question)

2011-01-30 Thread Mark Smith
On Thu, 27 Jan 2011 11:03:41 -0500 Jared Mauch wrote: > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 10:04 AM, Owen DeLong wrote: > > > > > On Jan 27, 2011, at 6:49 AM, Jared Mauch wrote: > > > >> > >> On Jan 26, 2011, at 8:33 PM, Owen DeLong wrote: > >> > >>> I'd like to see IPv4 go away in ~3 years. Any faster

Re: Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Jeff Wheeler
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:23 AM, Andrew Alston wrote: > I've just noticed that Level 3 is allowing people to register space in its > IRR database that A.) is not assigned to the people registering it and B.) is > not assigned via/to Level 3. This is not unique to Level3 -- it is the industry st

Re: Wikileaks, Friend or Foe?

2011-01-30 Thread Martin Millnert
On Sun, Jan 30, 2011 at 3:52 AM, Joseph Prasad wrote: > A very good interview with John Young on Russia Today. > > http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oMRUiB_8tTc One thing that Mr Young mentions in this interview is the threat secret governance poses for any free and democratic society and how there

RE: DSL options in NYC for OOB access

2011-01-30 Thread Ryan Finnesey
Yes depending on the building location in most places we have two options for access cable plant (TWC, Comcast ect) or LEC. All via Layer 2. Cheers Ryan -Original Message- From: Joel Jaeggli [mailto:joe...@bogus.com] Sent: Sunday, January 30, 2011 2:32 AM To: Ryan Finnesey Cc: Andy Ash

Level 3's IRR Database

2011-01-30 Thread Andrew Alston
Hi All, I've just noticed that Level 3 is allowing people to register space in its IRR database that A.) is not assigned to the people registering it and B.) is not assigned via/to Level 3. So, I have two queries A.) Are only customers of Level 3 allowed to use this database B.) Can someone fr