Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Scott Weeks
I believe you were responding to me, but it was really hard to tell. If so, here's the conversation... > Also, please don't just look at continental countries > when researching. Look at the small PICs (Pacific > Island Countries). For example, search the posts from > Christian on Kiribati

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 08:36, Ben Cannon wrote: > Then Africa in particular is specifically disadvantaged - I spent a good deal > of time in Haiti and 4G connectivity was abundant at good speeds, as were > terrestrial fiber connections. Haiti isn't exactly a large country. Africa has a ton of countr

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Nick Hilliard
Mark Tinka wrote on 29/05/2018 08:20: Never quite understood (or like) the term "3rd world", but... it's a term which refers to post-WWII militarily non-aligned countries, for example Kenya, Switzerland, Sweden or the DRC. Obviously there is a clear correlation between mobile data coverage q

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 10:40, Nick Hilliard wrote: >   > > it's a term which refers to post-WWII militarily non-aligned > countries, for example Kenya, Switzerland, Sweden or the DRC.  > Obviously there is a clear correlation between mobile data coverage > quality and political neutrality stances - I don

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Lamar Owen
On 05/28/2018 06:13 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic across, in Nairobi. Yes, that's about $60,000/year. I live in the US of A, and this is what 200Mb/s roughly would cost me as well here

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Matt Hoppes
I am incredibly rural in Pennsylvania and pay about $.50 per megabit. > On May 29, 2018, at 09:23, Lamar Owen wrote: > >> On 05/28/2018 06:13 PM, Matthew Petach wrote: >> Your 200mbit/sec link that costs you $300 in hardware >> is going to cost you $4960/month to actually get IP traffic >> acro

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
I guess not all rurals are the same. In my parts, being rural could mean not having a 2G/3G signal until you have to climb a tree... not literally, but you get my point. Mark. On 29/May/18 15:27, Matt Hoppes wrote: > I am incredibly rural in Pennsylvania and pay about $.50 per megabit. > >> On

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread John R. Levine
I am sure these third world nations have more important things to spend their money on rather than data plans and data devices. Things like food and medicine come to mind... My goodness, aren't we condescending. Since we're talking about Kenya here, a few milliseconds of research reminds us th

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mike Hammett
Is that PennRen\Kinber? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Matt Hoppes" To: "Lamar Owen" Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Tuesday, May 29, 2018 8:27:17 AM Subject: Re: Impacts of Encryption

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread ML
$100M+ in federal dollars goes a long way. On 5/29/2018 10:17 AM, Mike Hammett wrote: Is that PennRen\Kinber? - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Matt Hoppes" To: "Lamar Owen" Cc: nanog@nano

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Matt Hoppes
Multiple providers. I don’t think I should publicly name them for various reasons. You are a smart man though and can probably figure it out from BGP peering tables. > On May 29, 2018, at 10:17, Mike Hammett wrote: > > Is that PennRen\Kinber? > > > > > - > Mike Hammett > Intelligen

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mike Hammett
I know who you have and it's easily found who you use. I was implying exactly what "ML" said". - Mike Hammett Intelligent Computing Solutions Midwest Internet Exchange The Brothers WISP - Original Message - From: "Matt Hoppes" To: "Mike Hammett" Cc: nanog@nanog.org

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 16:16, John R. Levine wrote: > > My goodness, aren't we condescending.  Since we're talking about Kenya > here, a few milliseconds of research reminds us that it's a > significant agricultural exporter.  Agricultural development there is > generally about better use of existing lan

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Leo Bicknell
In a message written on Mon, May 28, 2018 at 09:23:09AM -0500, Mike Hammett wrote: > However, this could be wildly improved with caching ala squid or something > similar. The problem is that encrypted content is difficult to impossible for > your average Joe to cache. The rewards for implementin

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Andy Ringsmuth
> On May 29, 2018, at 9:44 AM, Leo Bicknell wrote: > > Basically, while you presented the "pro" side of unencrypted content > (being able to cache), you didn't present any of the negative side. > I have to wonder if the villagers were given a choice of faster > internet, where 5% of them had th

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 17:09, Andy Ringsmuth wrote: > If you’re in $TinyVillage in $PoorAfricanCountry, do you even have a bank > account or an online identity that could be stolen? Bank accounts are so 2018...     https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M-Pesa Where've you been, man :-)... Mark.

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Randy Bush
northerners who have never traveled pontificating about africa might, or might not, be interested in https://afrinic.net/blog/333-revealing-latency-clusters-in-africa randy

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Based on my experience a couple of years ago while in West Africa: If you look at the BGP adjacencies and bidirectional traceroutes for ISPs in Sierra Leone or Liberia; Freetown and Monrovia are both are logically suburbs of London. Just with much higher transport latencies via the submarine fiber

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 18:03, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Based on my experience a couple of years ago while in West Africa: > > If you look at the BGP adjacencies and bidirectional traceroutes for ISPs > in Sierra Leone or Liberia; Freetown and Monrovia are both are logically > suburbs of London. Just with muc

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> > The http+signature data could then be cashed just fine, and stored in > the clear. The web site could determine what to serve up that way to > maintain security. All POST commands would have to be HTTPS (data from > client to server), and of course sensitive information would be returned >

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> > The Internet in Indonesia is the very same Internet in Eritrea, as it is > in Canada. We can't quite split that… I admit that I haven’t been to Eritrea or Indonesia, but using Ethiopia and Malaysia as stand-ins (which I have been to), I can say that while they are the same internet, the level

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
Ah, the wonderful USF. Here’s my take on USF. It’s a perfectly wonderful intent whose implementation has gone horribly horribly wrong. Instead of equalizing economic incentives for infrastructure between rural, urban, and suburban areas, it has heavily tilted the incentives in favor of the hig

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> On May 29, 2018, at 00:05 , Scott Weeks wrote: > > > I believe you were responding to me, but it was really > hard to tell. If so, here's the conversation... > >> Also, please don't just look at continental countries >> when researching. Look at the small PICs (Pacific >> Island Count

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
4G depends on Radio. Radio works very well in an environment like Hispañola (the island containing Haiti and Dominican Republic). You’ve got some convenient very high central locations, lots of nice conductive ground-plane salt-water surrounding the area, and very little terrain interference fr

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
Ethiopia is significantly different and unique, in its own unusual way, because of the government monopoly telecom. Other people can correct me if I'm wrong, but unless the situation has changed in the past two years, all small to medium sized ISPs in Ethiopia are mandated by law to be downstream o

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
It was a convenient example with which I had experience near Eritrea. My statement would apply equally for say, Zambia or Morocco. Owen > On May 29, 2018, at 10:58 , Eric Kuhnke wrote: > > Ethiopia is significantly different and unique, in its own unusual way, > because of the government mon

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Eric Kuhnke
The one thing that you CAN generalize about a great many developing nation telecom markets, which is different than the US and Western Europe: Many urban locations have a complete absence of functioning last mile, legacy copper telecom infrastructure, which in a US city you would see used for ADSL

Opinions on intent-based networking

2018-05-29 Thread LF OD
Been following the articles on "intent-based" networking from Cisco and other vendors for a couple years now, and I have a basic grasp of the concept of "define your goals/outcomes and automation will make it so", but I do not know the practical applications of it or how you are supposed to conv

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Randy Bush
> Ethiopia is significantly different and unique, in its own unusual > way, because of the government monopoly telecom. sadly, these are far from unique; not only in africa, but asia, oceania, even alyc, ... randy

Re: Opinions on intent-based networking

2018-05-29 Thread Michael Hallgren
BGP? :-) mh Le 2018-05-29 20:32, LF OD a écrit : Been following the articles on "intent-based" networking from Cisco and other vendors for a couple years now, and I have a basic grasp of the concept of "define your goals/outcomes and automation will make it so", but I do not know the practical

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Michael Hallgren
Morocco... Sure? Data points? mh Le 2018-05-29 20:00, Owen DeLong a écrit : It was a convenient example with which I had experience near Eritrea. My statement would apply equally for say, Zambia or Morocco. Owen On May 29, 2018, at 10:58 , Eric Kuhnke wrote: Ethiopia is significantly dif

Re: Opinions on intent-based networking

2018-05-29 Thread Mel Beckman
It’s just another lame buzzword. As if all prior networking designs were random! Sheesh! The Montecarlo method is only used in statistics :) -mel > On May 29, 2018, at 12:16 PM, Michael Hallgren wrote: > > BGP? :-) > > mh > > Le 2018-05-29 20:32, LF OD a écrit : >> Been following the articl

Re: Opinions on intent-based networking

2018-05-29 Thread K. Scott Helms
A substantial percentage, perhaps 100%, of the use case can be accomplished using micro-segmentation. On Tue, May 29, 2018 at 2:33 PM LF OD wrote: > Been following the articles on "intent-based" networking from Cisco and > other vendors for a couple years now, and I have a basic grasp of the > c

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Ben Cannon
Everyone in Haiti had a cell phone. Everyone. Even the poorest of the poor. They skipped the enormous expense of copper infrastructure. The world is very different in person. And these pockets of extreme isolation sound like a prime opportunity for a WISP or other disruption. -Ben On Ma

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Owen DeLong
> On May 29, 2018, at 12:49 , Ben Cannon wrote: > > Everyone in Haiti had a cell phone. Everyone. Even the poorest of the poor. > They skipped the enormous expense of copper infrastructure. > > The world is very different in person. > > And these pockets of extreme isolation sound like a

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mike Hammett
"And these pockets of extreme isolation sound like a prime opportunity for a WISP or other disruption. " Which is what the OP of the thread I was looking at was doing, starting a WISP. They could get a 100 - 200 megabit/s per AP access network, but their link to the outside world is currently

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 19:21, Owen DeLong wrote: >> I admit that I haven’t been to Eritrea or Indonesia, but using Ethiopia >> and Malaysia as stand-ins (which I have been to), I can say that while they >> are the same internet, the level of development, the payment systems which >> are usable via said i

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 19:58, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > Ethiopia is significantly different and unique, in its own unusual way, > because of the government monopoly telecom. Other people can correct me if > I'm wrong, but unless the situation has changed in the past two years, all > small to medium sized ISPs

Re: Impacts of Encryption Everywhere (any solution?)

2018-05-29 Thread Mark Tinka
On 29/May/18 20:01, Eric Kuhnke wrote: > The one thing that you CAN generalize about a great many developing nation > telecom markets, which is different than the US and Western Europe: > > Many urban locations have a complete absence of functioning last mile, > legacy copper telecom infrastruc