Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Robert West wrote: -Original Message- From: Robert West [mailto:robert.w...@just-micro.com] Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:56 PM To: 'Tarig Yassin' Subject: RE: Who controlls the Internet? Each individual government seems to control the information the

Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Jared Hirst
Internet filtering in Australia is yet to come in, however give it time and Australia will have filters in place to block all content that the government deems inappropriate! Just do a google for filtering in Australia! Kindest Regards, Jared Hirst Sent from my iPhone On 26/07/2010, at 5:06

Re: FW: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Cian Brennan
On Sun, Jul 25, 2010 at 11:41:05PM -0400, Robert West wrote: > > > -Original Message- > From: Robert West [mailto:robert.w...@just-micro.com] > Sent: Sunday, July 25, 2010 10:56 PM > To: 'Tarig Yassin' > Subject: RE: Who controlls the Internet? > > Each individual government seems to co

Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Marshall Eubanks
On Jul 25, 2010, at 1:24 PM, Tarig Yassin wrote: Deal all I want to show you some obstacles that some countries face them every day. For example when users from Sudan trying to access some web site they will get a *Forbidden Access Error* message. And some messages say: you are fo

ICANN bashing (was Re: Who controlls the Internet?)

2010-07-26 Thread David Conrad
Bill, On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:21 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > except ICANN has presumed for itself an operational role. ICANN, since its inception, has been the IANA functions _operator_. It inherited the role IANA staff performed prior to ICANN's creation. As far as I am aw

Re: ICANN bashing (was Re: Who controlls the Internet?)

2010-07-26 Thread bmanning
On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 10:57:26AM +0200, David Conrad wrote: > Bill, > > On Jul 25, 2010, at 10:21 PM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > > except ICANN has presumed for itself an operational role. > > ICANN, since its inception, has been the IANA functions _operator_. It > inherited th

Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Gadi Evron
On 7/25/10 8:24 PM, Tarig Yassin wrote: I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet? Vix does, who else? :) Gadi.

Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Franck Martin
- Original Message - > From: "Tarig Yassin" > > > I would like to issue a question here, who controls this Internet? > The elders of the Internet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iDbyYGrswtg

Re: ICANN bashing (was Re: Who controlls the Internet?)

2010-07-26 Thread David Conrad
Bill, I suspect this thread has degenerated to the point of irrelevance, so this will be my last comment. Feel free to have the last word. On Jul 26, 2010, at 2:30 AM, bmann...@vacation.karoshi.com wrote: > yes, ICANN is the current IANA functions _operator_. The IANA _never_ > ran

3com switching geeks?

2010-07-26 Thread Michael 'Moose' Dinn
Any 3com switching geeks out there? Contact me offlist if you don't mind a question or two. thanks

Re: Who controlls the Internet?

2010-07-26 Thread Patrick W. Gilmore
On Jul 25, 2010, at 11:41 PM, Robert West wrote: > Each individual government seems to control the information the enters or > leaves their borders. No, each individual government can have laws restricting information entering and leaving their borders. Few gov'ts actually control said info. T

I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
There are a few people who have some passing interest in ICANN so I will inflict upon the list my few paragraph summary of things that matter, see also my July 2nd post: I went so you don't have to -- ICANN Bruxelles pour les nuls. The initial report of the 65 person VI WG is published. Regist

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
You forgot the fifth option. Invade a country (invasion is not strictly required) and take over control of their ccTLD which probably does not have an agreement with ICANN so you can charge and do as you please. Many of the greedy registrars will be more than happy to sell the name ... Get your d

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 12:45 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: You forgot the fifth option. Invade a country (invasion is not strictly required) and take over control of their ccTLD which probably does not have an agreement with ICANN so you can charge and do as you please. Many of the greedy registrars will be more

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Now seriously, just how many pages of the IV Initial Report did you read > before coming up with "the fifth option"? I read the entire thing. Of the 138 pages, take out the Summary, the ToC and several of the Annexes where many of them are sort of cut & past of discussions/text circulated throug

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Barry Shein
On July 26, 2010 at 14:42 brun...@nic-naa.net (Eric Brunner-Williams) wrote: > > When Hewlett-Packard wrote to ICANN earlier this year that it should > get .hp, the obvious rejoinder was "Buy a country like everyone else, > submit a change request to the iso3166/MA, and do business under .h

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 3:28 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Now seriously, just how many pages of the IV Initial Report did you read before coming up with "the fifth option"? I read the entire thing. Of the 138 pages, take out the Summary, the ToC and several of the Annexes where many of them are sort of cut& past

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:43:39 -0400, Lee Howard wrote: RIAA should be IPv6 activists. Right. That's not going to bite them on the ass either... privacy addresses only stick around for ~72hrs. A demand for an address from 3 months back would be impossible to answer. (that would require L2

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Michael Thomas
On 07/26/2010 01:30 PM, Ricky Beam wrote: On Fri, 23 Jul 2010 17:43:39 -0400, Lee Howard wrote: RIAA should be IPv6 activists. Right. That's not going to bite them on the ass either... privacy addresses only stick around for ~72hrs. A demand for an address from 3 months back would be impossib

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 04:48:13 -0400, Owen DeLong wrote: ... Very Interesting Times for ISPs that deploy LSN and are subject to CALEA. CALEA is not a time machine. When an order is received, the "collection agency" starts receiving traffic; nothing (or at most, very little) is known prior

RE: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Deepak Jain
> CALEA is not a time machine. When an order is received, the > "collection > agency" starts receiving traffic; nothing (or at most, very little) is > known prior to the wiretap order. Put another way, you cannot be > ordered > to produce tapes of phone call that happened a month ago. (CALEA only

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Sat, 24 Jul 2010 16:36:08 -0400, Christopher Morrow wrote: say, i wonder how many actual calea requests have been sent out anyway?? (I know one very large network has yet to get a single one, or so the grape vine tells me.) I see this asked a lot... http://www.askcalea.net/reports/wiretap

RE: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Deepak Jain
> I see this asked a lot... > > http://www.askcalea.net/reports/wiretap.html > > [2009] http://www.askcalea.net/reports/docs/2009wiretap.pdf (warning: > 314pg verbose report) To save yourself the trouble (pg 8 of the slow 5MB download): Telephone wiretaps accounted for 98 percent (1,720 case

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Rubens Kuhl
> Between e-discovery and RIAA issues, retention times are probably shrinking > even though capacity for retention is growing. Capacity for retention has grown but one still needs fast searching of data, or a few LEA requests on the same day or week will overflow your capacity to answer them. Dis

Re: IPv4 Exhaustion...

2010-07-26 Thread Ricky Beam
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 17:09:55 -0400, Deepak Jain wrote: I think it's safe to say CALEA is a non-issue for this crowd. That's true for now. But with an increasingly data hungry world, and VoIP popularity, ISPs aren't going to escape CALEA forever. There are reasons IOS has provisions for C

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Joly MacFie
I found Milton Mueller's summary - noted at http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1006- useful. Is there anything there that you would disagree with? j On Mon, Jul 26, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > Actually the alliances visible at present are: > > JN2 proposal: Verisign, NeuStar, Ne

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Franck Martin
The question too, is which model is mitigating the best the presence of rogue registrars (like domain tasting registrars, etc..) - Original Message - From: "Joly MacFie" To: "Eric Brunner-Williams" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, 27 July, 2010 10:00:03 AM Subject: Re: I slogged throu

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 6:00 PM, Joly MacFie wrote: I found Milton Mueller's summary - noted at http://www.isoc-ny.org/p2/?p=1006- useful. Is there anything there that you would disagree with? He errors in characterizing the position statements as static, rather than evolving over time. His own position i

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 7:11 PM, Franck Martin wrote: The question too, is which model is mitigating the best the presence of rogue registrars (like domain tasting registrars, etc..) Franck, First, tasting is only a part of the extensions from the registrant serving business model that ICANN explicitly a

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread William Pitcock
On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:42 -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: > But I do take your point about .co/.com, and in all fairness, it is a > decade delayed favor returned by NeuStar to Verisign for the .bz/.biz > "collaborative marketing" ploy of 2001. Or eNom's .cc/.com ploy from 1999-present. D

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 7:50 PM, William Pitcock wrote: On Mon, 2010-07-26 at 14:42 -0400, Eric Brunner-Williams wrote: But I do take your point about .co/.com, and in all fairness, it is a decade delayed favor returned by NeuStar to Verisign for the .bz/.biz "collaborative marketing" ploy of 2001. Or eNom

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Jorge Amodio
> Being one of the rare known external readers, is there any bit of it you > have a view on not already reflected in the para above and below? There is another dimension to the whole enchilada that makes a compromise a moving shooting target. Some of the entities at the table don't like or want a

Re: I slogged through it so you don't have to -- ICANN Vertical Integration WG for dummies

2010-07-26 Thread Eric Brunner-Williams
On 7/26/10 8:46 PM, Jorge Amodio wrote: Being one of the rare known external readers, is there any bit of it you have a view on not already reflected in the para above and below? There is another dimension to the whole enchilada that makes a compromise a moving shooting target. Some of the ent