RE: Anternet

2014-04-07 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Ant algorithms are currently part of the communications infrastructure. Here is a recent paper, and see the reference in the paper about the Ant Based Control (ABC) algorithm that is used for circuit switched networks. Marc http://www.ijarcsse.com/docs/papers/Volume_3/3_March2013/V3I3-0125.pdf

RE: Why is .gov only for US government agencies?

2014-10-20 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
I remember asking this same question when I first started managing DNS records in the early 1990s. Being young and unencumbered by "it's always been done this way" thinking I believed that it would only be a few years of transition and .mil/.gov would be pushed to the history books. Now I'm ol

RE: delays to google

2009-05-14 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
We are tracking it here: http://isc.sans.org/diary.html?storyid=6388 Marc Sachs Director, SANS Internet Storm Center -Original Message- From: Steve Williams [mailto:willi...@csr.utexas.edu] Sent: Thursday, May 14, 2009 11:49 AM To: na...@merit.edu Subject: delays to google am seeing s

RE: Ready to get your federal computer license?

2009-08-31 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
It's not a proposed "license for computer users" but rather a proposal to license computer security professionals. Here is the draft bill text, so that we are all on the same sheet of music: TITLE I-WORKFORCE DEVELOPMENT SEC. 101. CERTIFICATION AND TRAINING OF CYBERSECURITY PROFESSIONALS. (

RE: T-Mobile ?

2009-11-03 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Great question Jared! But I think for WPS to work you have to dial FROM a T-Mobile device rather than TO the device. But of course if the system is kaput WPS will be too. Based on what's happening at Twitter will we need TPS (Twitter Priority Service) some day in the near future? Marc

RE: Happy 1234567890 everyone!

2009-02-14 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
What about embedded systems (I'm thinking PCS, SCADA, ICS, etc.) that run a micro version of *nix? Wonder how many of them will still be warm but confused in January of 2038? Marc -Original Message- From: Florian Weimer [mailto:f...@deneb.enyo.de] Sent: Saturday, February 14, 2009 8:

RE: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Totally out of the box, but here goes: why don't we run the entire Internet management plane "out of band" so that customers have minimal ability to interact with routing updates, layer 3/4 protocols, DNS, etc.? I don't mean 100% exclusion for all customers, but for the average Joe-customer (

RE: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
flourishes when the status quo changes. (I see that Chris Morrow just posted some supportive comments. Thanks Chris!) Marc -Original Message- From: Steven Bellovin [mailto:s...@cs.columbia.edu] Sent: Tuesday, December 29, 2009 10:09 AM To: Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) Cc: NANOG list

RE: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Joe wrote: >Getting back to the OP's message, I keep having these visions of the >castrated "Internet" access some hotels provide. You know the ones. >The ones where everything goes through a Web proxy and you're forced >to have IE6 as a browser. For some people, who just want to log on >to Yah

RE: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Valdis said: >The gene pool needed some chlorine anyhow, but this is a creative approach. :) > >But seriously - would this be significantly different than the model that >many ISPs already use, where "consumer" connections get port 25 blocked, no >servers allowed, etc, and "business grade" skip th

RE: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Joe wrote: >I am still failing to see why what you're talking about cannot be done >with today's technology. > >And if it can be done with today's technology, and isn't being done with >it, either that's a business opportunity for you, or it says something >about the model. The later. It can be

RE: ip-precedence for management traffic

2009-12-29 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Sorry, your original query got lost behind the smoke of my out-of-the-box musings. My biggest quarrel with any type of IP precedence is that anybody along the chain can set or reset these bits. There is no assurance that a packet's priority will remain at the level set by the originator unless

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
The APT is the new game. Old rules, new game. -- Marcus H. Sachs Verizon +1 202 515 2463 Sent from my Verizon BlackBerry Storm http://www.verizonwireless.com/storm - Original Message - From: Gadi Evron To: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Fri Jan 15 09:21:15 2010 Subject

Re: Anyone see a game changer here?

2010-01-15 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Evron To: Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) Cc: nanog@nanog.org Sent: Fri Jan 15 10:20:00 2010 Subject: Re: Anyone see a game changer here? On 1/15/10 4:32 PM, Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc) wrote: > The APT is the new game. Old rules, new game. I don't see why it's new just because suddenly peopl

RE: Network Naming Conventions

2010-03-15 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
I used to use dead presidents to name devices. Lincoln, Washington, Jefferson, etc. Humorous yet patriotic. Marc

v6 Avian Carriers?

2011-04-01 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
I was wondering which April 1st this would happen on. Now I know. So if a v6 carrier swallows a v4 datagram does that count as packet loss or tunneling? http://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/rfc6214/ Marc

RE: Ham Radio Networking (was Re: Rogers Canada using 7.0.0.0/8 for internal address space)

2011-05-26 Thread Sachs, Marcus Hans (Marc)
Since we are turning the clock backI launched my first AX.25 node in 1985 when I was living at Ft. Belvoir, VA. It was part of the 144 MHz "eastlink" network that ran from Maine to Miami. Somewhere on a 5-1/2" floppy disk I have an ASCII map of that network. You really could hear the p