Re: jon postel

joey@gmail.com (Joseph) wrote: > A good book on the topic of the early internet is "Where Wizards Stay Up > Late" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. +1 The only thing I have to criticize is that the book has way too few pages.

Re: ARIN RPA updated (again) to address TAL distribution (Re: ARIN RPKI services terms/conditions - Change to Management of the Trust Anchor Locator for ARIN’s RPKI Service)

Thanks a lot for your overview Christopher. We’re very happy that ARIN is working to address the concerns expressed by the community about the Relying Party Agreement and TAL distribution. Based on earlier conversations on this list [1], NLnet Labs intended to ship a new release of the free, o

Re: jon postel

RFC 2468 is brief but captures the both pleasure of working with Jon and his selfless spirit in pursuit of a better Internet. /John > On 16 Oct 2022, at 8:28 PM, Daniel Sterling wrote: > > One of the best things about this list is first hand accounts of our internet > lore > > Does anyone

2:45 apple's talk on responsiveness tuesday

It's "fun" to run their new go based responsiveness test on the conference wifi: https://github.com/network-quality/goresponsiveness - especially with two or more people at the same time. Hotel wifi is *even* more fun. in-Bar 5G comparing it (or the new speedtest app which is also measuring roughl

Re: jon postel

On 10/16/22 8:28 PM, Joseph wrote: A good book on the topic of the early internet is "Where Wizards Stay Up Late" by Katie Hafner and Matthew Lyon. A large part of the book covers happenings at Bolt Beranek and Newman, and there are plenty of mentions of Jon Postel. +1 (with an extremely larg

Re: jon postel

On 2022-10-17, at 16:57, Grant Taylor via NANOG wrote: > > In my not so humble opinion, Where Wizards Stay Up Late should be required > reading for anyone wanting to learn about the history / development of the > ARPAnet and the Internet. That said, it would be a worthwhile project to collect

Re: any dangers of filtering every /24 on full internet table to preserve FIB space ?

I already had this idea, I even implemented it in the desperate time of the 512K "bug". And with that I can tell you: Do not do it! You will be bothered! But if you want to go this way, what I can recommend is to try not to put routes in the FIB that match your Default. Talking about having a def

Re: jon postel

On 10/17/22 10:54 AM, Carsten Bormann wrote: That said, it would be a worthwhile project to collect the places in which this source can be supplemented with additional information (a.k.a. grains of salt). Agreed. I believe there is much discussion to this effect on the Internet History maili

Re: jon postel

That book needs a sequel. +10 on the internet history mailing list also.

Looking for historical AS1239 Sprintlink on-net site lists, POP lists, etc

If anyone has on-net site/POP lists for AS1239 that are at least 8-10 years old or older, I'm wondering if I could get a copy. Obviously nothing that anybody signed an NDA for, maybe some people out there have some spreadsheets or text files that were shared by Sprint sales persons many years ago.

Re: jon postel

Jon Postel participated in many online forums such as the tcp-ip mailing list. To access them, I’ve been using the archives at ban.ai , but I can’t access them currently. They’re also available via Google Groups