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RE: Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggregation - Docume nt posting comments
by Robert Gray 09 Dec '98

09 Dec '98

Andy Linton wrote: >I'm happy to leave this alone IFF we all agree that we desist from >posting Word etc docs. Word docs suit me fine, particularly for sending out a mail shot to our customers. HTML with or without is useless for this purpose. Dean Pemberton wrote >I move that we make this an addition (suitable worded) to the charter of the >NZNOG list. May I suggest that an amendment to Dean's motion that we request a text version be posted as well as _any_ proprietary format (those with Word will find it easy to save as text). This should satisfy all parties and make it easy for those who have enough to do already. Personally however I would be much happier if even half as much attention was given to the substance rather than the form but then I'm old fashioned like that. BTW I'd like to thank Brett for doing the work and posting something we can use, in one format or another. Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz http://www.clearview.co.nz/ Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggre gation
by Frank March 09 Dec '98

09 Dec '98

I normally apologise for adding to gratutous email polution but not this time. I had nothing to do with any posting on this issue. I gave clear (and I believe sufficient) reasons for not interfering with the format of a document belonging to someone else when I posted on an entirely separate issue I though to be of importance to the commercial use of the New Zealand Internet. I take very strong personal exception to the tone of the communication from Chris Wedgewood. Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010 > -----Original Message----- > From: Chris Wedgwood [SMTP:chris(a)cybernet.co.nz] > Sent: Wednesday, December 09, 1998 6:31 PM > To: Andy Linton > Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: Re: [OFFTOPIC] Re: Appeal to end-users regarding IP address > aggregation > > On Tue, Dec 08, 1998 at 04:29:11PM +0000, Andy Linton wrote: > > > Let's try an analogy here. It looks like the Nazis are winning, let's > > all join the local fascist party, collaborate and learn German. > > > > Me, I prefer to remain part of the resistance. (;-) > > Umm... I wasn't clear, hence you missed my point. > > I'm not saying you _should_ use anything at all to view .doc files (I > hate 'em myself too), I was just suggesting a mechanism for doing so > if you wanted too. > > Anyhow, I'm none to happy about them myself (in theory I can read > them with various tools, but I choose not to because its all too much > effort) and if Frank March or indeed anyone else doesn't feel like > converting these files to a more appropriate format -- could the > please not post the whole fu^H^Hthing (over 100k) to the mailing > list? > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggregation (Translated to something usefull)
by Dean Pemberton 08 Dec '98

08 Dec '98

On Wed, Dec 09, 1998 at 04:53:52PM +1200, Michael Newbery wrote: > > > Yeah, yeah, I know, it's machine generated, and the orignal document should have been marked up right, but hey! I can nitpick too. > Oh I'm sorry Micheal, I always read my html documents in lynx. It looks fine to me =) Dean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Pemberton Ph: +61-3-9656-7000 Regional Technical Specialist Asia-Pacific Fx: +61-3-9656-7003 Ascend Communications, Inc Mb: +61-419-117-321 Lvl 38, ANZ Tower, 55 Collins St Melbourne,Australia mailto:deanp(a)ascend.com.au -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggregation
by brett.telfer＠telecom.co.nz 08 Dec '98

08 Dec '98

Hi all, Following on from the meeting at Cisco on the 27th Nov, I have attached an updated letter which includes suggested input from APNIC. This document (or at least the information it contains) can hopefully be distributed around all end-users as the start of an educational programme aimed at raising peoples awareness of current IP addressing issues. I have tried to make it as "neutral" as possible, but there may be pieces of "Telecom centric nature" that slipped past, so if anyone has issues with these please delete, cut and paste, bastardise etc as necessary. Apologies also for any inaccuracies that may be present. >From the meeting I believe everyone agreed information should be disseminated amongst end-users as quickly as possible, so that they can make informed decisions and have real input themselves. Hopefully everyone can send this (or something like this) out as a start...?? If there is merit in having parties signing a combined document to show support and good faith then we can go down that path, however I think we should just get on with it and let people know what issues we are facing. Regards BT

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Re: Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggregation (Translated to something usefull)
by Michael Newbery 08 Dec '98

08 Dec '98

Dean wrote: >Here is the HTML version of this document. I wish people would learn to >produce material in some form that is more architecture independant. and then he produced <STYLE>  </STYLE> Paf, whack, smite. Such a standard font RotisSanSerif it is. The document then goes on </HEAD> <BODY> Date Thump, bash, crunch. Having gone to the trouble of using styles, you then negate it to a large extent by comitting the sin of . Yeah, yeah, I know, it's machine generated, and the orignal document should have been marked up right, but hey! I can nitpick too. :-) -- Michael Newbery Technology Manager Saturn Communications Tel: +64-4-939 5102 Mobile:021-642 957 Fax:+64-4-939 5100 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Appeal to end-users regarding IP address aggregation (Translated to something usefull)
by Dean Pemberton 08 Dec '98

08 Dec '98

Here is the HTML version of this document. I wish people would learn to produce material in some form that is more architecture independant. Dean -- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Dean Pemberton Ph: +61-3-9656-7000 Regional Technical Specialist Asia-Pacific Fx: +61-3-9656-7003 Ascend Communications, Inc Mb: +61-419-117-321 Lvl 38, ANZ Tower, 55 Collins St Melbourne,Australia mailto:deanp(a)ascend.com.au -----------------------------------------------------------------------

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Minutes, NZNOG meeting, 27-11-98
by Roger De Salis 07 Dec '98

07 Dec '98

Ladies and Gentlemen, as promised, a set of minutes from the NZNOG meeting last Friday, 27th November 1998. ----------------------------------------------------------- Present Bob Grey - Clearview Peter Mott - 2Day Internet Craig Anderson - Iprolink Joe Abley - Clear Chris Wedgewood - Man about town Rowan Smith - ICONZ Tony Wicks - ICONZ Brett Telfer - Telecom Netgate Roger De Salis - Cisco/ISOCNZ Andy Linton - Netlink Don Stokes - Daedalus Consulting Subject: How to progress the NZ IP address space, to make administration and address exceptions easier, not more difficult to manage in the future. What to do about the 4 address blocks.. namely 202.27.0.0 - 202.27.255.255 202.36.0.0 - 202.37.255.255 202.49.0.0 - 202.49.255.255 202.50.0.0 - 202.50.255.255 203.96.0.0 - 203.97.255.255 The 203.96.0.0 - 203.97.255.255 block is not in question. This was delegated to NZNIC, not NZGATE, and has been well-delegated since (to Netlink, CLEAR, Iprolink, Netway, Xtra and many others. There are very few (if any) networks delegated to end users within this block. Issues arising 1/ Route Flapping, or possible administrative decision not to re-advertise routes less than /19 by US connection providers. (This is only a suggestion at this stage...) 2/ Requirement for Provider independent address space 3/ Aquisition of additional address space, by those suppliers in NZ requiring it. 4/ Mechanism of handing back address's that are no longer required or in use. 5/ An unequivocal statement that IP address space issues not be used as a commercial lever by Sales staff or other interested parties. It should be noted that all address bocks of /19 or larger are clearly large enough to be either Provider independent or Provider dependent, according to agreed terms. However, the ability to acquire a /19 block implies a scale of operations that may not suit all NZ operators. Address blocks of /25 or smaller are clearly not provider independent, for the purposes of Internet carriage in NZ. ------------------------------------------------------------------ Discussion followed about "what to do about the 4 blocks" Dominant provider within each block to advertise. Use APNIC recording mechanism to update/improve information quality, rather than create a separate recording mechanism, and attempt to keep them in sync. Discussion followed about possible creation of an NZNIC, however this was felt to be far to great a step, considering the nature of the problem. It was though that another organisation charged with "administering" IP address space was far to complex compared with the current issues open for discussion. Technical Problems arising from the current IP address regime:- 1/ Multi-homing 2/ Provider independent address space 3/ ISP not large enough to aquire a routeable block. These are more regional registry issues, rather than NZGATE issues, IMHO. The key technical issue at present is that it results in a very large number of long-prefix routes to be advertised all over the place, which (a) may put users in jeopardy in the future, (b) may put them in some jeopardy now due to higher flap penalties, and (c) are an administrative headache. There were three possible solutions suggested: 1. Telecom's proposal - as described in the "letter" from Telecom, describing one solution aggregating into 4 supernets. 2. Joe Abley's proposal - as documented 3. Andy's proposal - collapse the 4 NZGATE ranges into /19 (or larger) supernets, which will be advertised by the dominant provider in each range. The meeting felt that the third option has the most promise and was worth exploring further. The meeting gratefully received contributions from Joe Abley, a draft working paper on the NZGate Delegations. Andy Linton, a roughly correlated list of affected address's and customer names, within the 5 blocks. The following actions were agreed:- Education letter to Customers concerning "Internet Routing Best Practice" "Falling Utilisation due to increasing use of Firewalls" 2/ Document the customers in the 4 blocks Document the usage of the 4 blocks Include all address's, and ignore any issues of ownership. Use APNIC Database for Information Quality Improvement. My Thanks to all participants. Meeting closed at 2pm. -- \_ Roger De Salis Cisco Systems NZ Ltd </' +64 25 481 452 L3, 117 Customhouse Qy /) +64 4 473 4912 Wellington, New Zealand (/ roger(a)desalis.gen.nz rdesalis(a)cisco.com ` --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Question
by Roger De Salis 07 Dec '98

07 Dec '98

Gentlefolk, I did indeed circulate the mintues of that meeting to all the attendees, asking for errors and omissions. That was done on Thursday 3rd Dec. No direct responses about the content, although I'm in dialogue with jabley about additions. I'll post the minutes this afternoon (after I've got Joe's response today). Rgds Roger De Salis Frank March wrote: > > Hello James: > > I am copying your query and this response to Roger De Salis, a member of the > Council of ISOCNZ who a week ago convened a meeting of 15 or so fairly key > New Zealand ISPs to sort out some of the issues relating to the IP numbering > space inherited through what was at one time the sole New Zealand portal to > the Internet through a gateway operated by Waikato University. Roger is a > member of the ISOCNZ Council and our organisation has undertaken to > cooperate with the ISPs in New Zealand to assist in working through some of > the issues surrounding historical allocations of IP number space. > > The good news is that the major and minor ISPs in New Zealand are able and > willing to work on this issue jointly. The group has yet to publish any > notes coming out of the meeting but Roger will be able to comment on the > present situation. (please Roger!) > > Frank March > Secretary, ISOCNZ > > > -----Original Message----- > > From: James Fischer [SMTP:jfischer(a)supercollider.com] > > Sent: Tuesday, December 08, 1998 12:21 AM > > To: secretary(a)isocnz.org.nz > > Subject: Question > > > > Sirs: > > > > I recently read the following news snippet, and need > > to find out more about this issue. > > > > Does you group have any involvement in this? > > If so, is there any publicly-available information > > on the issue? > > > > "Net engineers move to clear up IP confusion > > NEW ZEALAND's Internet engineers are moving to > > prevent companies providing Internet services > > trying to get a competitive edge by exploiting > > confusion over Internet addressing." > > > > Our group has extensive distributed networks, supported > > by different bandwidth suppliers. Needless to say, > > the IP address situation, and the de-facto "hostage" > > situation created by the use of non-relocatable address > > blocks has executives "concerned". > > > > I have been charged with "fixing" the mess. > > > > Any information you could offer on your work in this area > > would be a big help. (Yes, your page "ipnums" is a well > > written description, but I am trying to figure out how > > one might best deal with the situation over the short term > > [pre IPv6]) given a need to route 6 to 8 class C blocks to > > each site, while still having each site's "feed" come from > > a wholesale provider. > > > > -- \_ Roger De Salis Cisco Systems NZ Ltd </' +64 25 481 452 L3, 117 Customhouse Qy /) +64 4 473 4912 Wellington, New Zealand (/ roger(a)desalis.gen.nz rdesalis(a)cisco.com ` --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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FW: organisational committee for the iibf seminar, march 1999
by Frank March 07 Dec '98

07 Dec '98

Dear Folks As I have had only one positive reply so far to my previous message asking for interest in the APEC TEL work on international Internet bandwidth pricing issues, I am forwarding this to the same circulation list as before. I will leave it to the end of this week before I set up a special mailing list and I will then forward information selectively. I have offered to fax copies of the papers I circulated previously in Word formats but I am not in a position to alter the originals for transmission as text as requested by various people. I am grateful to Brendan Black [ratfink(a)xtra.co.nz] for offering to assist with those people apparently lacking either Word or a fax machine by converting to html. Please note however, that this information, while not particularly confidential, does belong to the APEC TEL people and should not be placed into a public domain. Please note that TEL19 will take place in Japan in March 1999 and AFAIK anyone can attend APEC TEL meetings. The principal issue for the IIBF study is the cost of international Internet bandwidth outside North America and some of Europe because of the need to meet the total cost of data circuits from the 'periphery' instead of 'zero balancing' as is normal practice with international telephone calls. Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010 > -----Original Message----- > From: valerie(a)tas.gov.sg [SMTP:valerie(a)tas.gov.sg] > Sent: Monday, December 07, 1998 8:47 PM > To: apec-iibf(a)external.cisco.com > Subject: organisational committee for the iibf seminar, march 1999 > > > > > 07/12/98 15:47 > Valerie D COSTA(a)TAS.GOV.SG > Valerie D COSTA(a)TAS.GOV.SG > Valerie D COSTA(a)TAS.GOV.SG > 07/12/98 15:47 > 07/12/98 15:47 > > Dear Colleagues, > > As was discussed at previous IIBF Task Force Meetings during TEL18 > and from the comments received thus far, there seems to be broad > agreement that information seminars should be organised along the > major milestones of the IIBF Study, to give us the opportunity to > examine the state of play for the Study, to continue dialogue among > all interested participants and to update our knowledge and > understanding of this complex topic. > > > The first of the series of seminars is scheduled for one day on the > fringes of TEL19. Japan will be in touch with me to indicate which > date will be assigned to us. I am copying Yamada-san on this e-mail. > > I think now would be a good time to start preparations for the > seminar. I am writing to solicit interest in serving on an > organisational committee to prepare the programme, format and agenda > for the seminar and to start the search for good speakers from a > wide > range of interest groups. The organisational committee will work > solely by electronic means. > > Could I ask that you send me an email by Friday, 11 December 98, > copied to all Task Force members, to indicate your interest in > serving on this committee? Once the committee is formed and to get > the ball rolling, I will circulate a draft agenda to this committee > on 15 December 98 for comments and suggestions. > > Which brings me then to the issue of sponsorship! In its comments on > the 1st draft of the TOR, the US suggested that corporate > sponsorship > be sought for the information seminars. This would enable us to use > the funds raised thus far (US$100,000 from Singapore) to pay for the > actual conduct of the Study. I would appreciate it if you could > raise > this idea with interested organisations/companies within your > economies to look for potential sponsors. I'd suggest we work > tentatively with a proposed budget of about US$20, 000? Let me know > if this sum is feasible. > > If you are not interested to serve on the organisational committee > but nonetheless have ideas for good speakers or industry experts to > participate in the seminar, I'd welcome those suggestions too. > Again, > kindly copy your suggestions to all IIBF Task Force members until > the > organisational committee is formed. > > Many thanks and I look forward to hearing from you by 11 December 98 > > Regards > > Valerie > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: LONG: Industry Consultation on APEC study of "Compatible and
by Robert Hunt 06 Dec '98

06 Dec '98

Hi Brendon Yes please... do send me a copy of either the html rendition of TOR 2.1.rtf from Frank March and save me the hassle of finding a win32 login somewhere. Also have I missed the minutes of the get together at Cisco Systems? I am of course quite interested to read these. ~without prejudice~ :) I am told that RTF was meant to be an open standard but typical of a certain company's style of doing business that standard got "slightly" changed with subsequent releases of their software without publication of all of those changes so there are irritating situations when an RTF was created in recent Word and then one tries to open it in other software that (rightly) claims to support RTF. I guess if that is so then it explains a lot ... as in the end other vendors have to sniff out the changes and are usually one step behind therefore... so all credit to the StarOffice team if their suite handled an RTF with tables etc and did so impeccably) Robert Hunt --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: LONG: Industry Consultation on APEC study of "Compatible and Sustainable International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services"
by Technical Support 06 Dec '98

06 Dec '98

Brendan Black wrote: > I have been able to convert both documents to html, using > Star Office 5.0, and can mail > these to individuals or to the list if requested. The body of > the main document converted > OK, but variations in table handling in different browsers > may cause problems with the 2 > tables and the project plan at the bottom http://webpages.netlink.co.nz/~alastair/toc-2-1.html It's not exactly the most elegant code (using MS Word's "Save As HTML" - urg) and my method of printing the diagram and table then scanning them into a file is surely the beginning of a great leap backwards, but it's enough that people can read the document. Cheers Alastair Galloway mailto: ag(a)a.co.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: LONG: Industry Consultation on APEC study of "Compatible and Sustainable International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services"
by Frank March 06 Dec '98

06 Dec '98

Reluctantly and with apologies to those receiving this who do not need it, want it, or are receiving it twice, I copy below a note I sent to Andy Linton. I am doing this because I now have similar notes from Dean Pemberton and Craig Anderson and I can see no point this correspondence continuing. In addition to the points I made to Andy, the note was not sent by me as a member of the ISOCNZ Council, but with the appended sig. I emphasise that I will fax it to anyone interested who, for whatever reason, cannot read the original. Original reply as sent to Andy (actually, slightly edited): I am replying directly, personally in order to prevent unnecessary email pollution.. The TOR from APEC Telecommunications WG is not my document, it belongs to an international group who choose to work in their own fashion. The document is in a complex format which is not capable of being translated into text. The web would be a good alternative but I am not in a position to place material on the Web that does not belong to me. I am not interested (sorry Andy) in pursuing arguments about electronic formats.. I have a Microsoft formatted document which belongs to someone else..I can print it and fax it for limited distribution. IP issues and practicalities preclude any other course of action at this stage. Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010 > -----Original Message----- > From: Andy Linton [SMTP:asjl(a)netlink.net.nz] > Sent: Sunday, December 06, 1998 9:51 PM > To: Frank March > Cc: 'i > Subject: Re: LONG: Industry Consultation on APEC study of > "Compatible and Sustainable International Charging Arrangements for > Internet Services" > > Frank March wrote: > > > > I am distributing this in the first instance to members of ISOCNZ > Council > > and to the NZNOG group. Apologies to those who get it twice. I also > > apologise to those who cannot read the Word format document. Anyone > stuck, > > please email me and I will make some other arrangement; fax if > necessary. > > > > Frank, > > I raised this issue at the AGM last month and I refered to the Society's > Articles of Associaton. Section 8 at > http://www.isocnz.org.nz/articles.htm says: > > 8 COMMUNICATION WITH MEMBERS > > Every communication with a Member may be by electronic message in > clear ASCII text, directed to the email address of the Member as > recorded in the records of the Society, or where the Member has > no such address by such other means as may be defined by the > Bye-laws of the Society. Such messages will be acceptable for the > conduct of the business of the Society unless the Chairperson > shall advise that any specific business or meeting shall be > conducted at a meeting at which Members are required to be > physically present. > > Given the attention being given to the activities of Microsoft in the US > Courts, it seems to me that even indirect support should not be given to > the activities of an organisation which attempts to subvert the open > nature of the Internet that many of us have striven for over the years. > > I may be cutting my nose off to spite my face here but until ISOCNZ > changes its rules, then I will raise this issue every time I see this > happen on an ISOCNZ list. > > NZNOG of course has no such rules but I'd hope that they'd take a > similar stance on open communication. > > andy --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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LONG: Industry Consultation on APEC study of "Compatible and Sus tainable International Charging Arrangements for Internet Services"
by Frank March 06 Dec '98

06 Dec '98

I am distributing this in the first instance to members of ISOCNZ Council and to the NZNOG group. Apologies to those who get it twice. I also apologise to those who cannot read the Word format document. Anyone stuck, please email me and I will make some other arrangement; fax if necessary. ***If you want to continue to receive relevant material PLEASE EMAIL ME DIRECTLY. If you do not, take no further action, I will not trouble you again.***** Ideally, this process should have its own email list and, if there is interest, I will ensure one is established. As I explained some time ago to at least some of you; and I touched on briefly in my slot at the 98 F2F, the APEC Telecommunications Working Group (TEL) has moved quite rapidly to look at the issue of international charging for Internet services. Attached is a cover letter addressed to members of TEL and the current Terms of Reference for the study, both in Word 7 format (please note, before anyone bytes my head of, this is how I received it). I am asking ISOCNZ to provide a point of contact for consultation between the NZ Government representatives on TEL and the "industry" (whatever that means in this context). Please note that, as far as I am aware, anyone may become a member of TEL and attend its meetings so if folk have a problem with this consultation process they can bypass it. I consider a much greater danger to be that interested parties will not hear of the study through these two contact groups so I would appreciate comments on who should receive this information. Please pass it on to colleagues or friends. I am reluctant to blast it out over isocnz-l simply to avoid unnecessary pollution of the email waves. Thanks for your help Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010 <<TOR 2.1.rtf>> <<tor2.1covernote.doc>>

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 30 Nov '98

30 Nov '98

Hi. Can someone post some details on the outcome of Friday's meeting for those who could not attend or had to leave early. Thanks, -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 30 Nov '98

30 Nov '98

>Can someone post some details on the outcome of Friday's meeting for >those who could not attend or had to leave early. The lunch provided by CISCO was absolutely *fantastic* !! Roger was seen taking orders for lots of kit as a result :-) regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by Chris Wedgwood 26 Nov '98

26 Nov '98

On Thu, Nov 19, 1998 at 02:20:54PM +1300, Don Stokes wrote: > apnic-011 already says that, at least for addresses allocated in > the NZGate timeframe. I haven't found any other APNIC document > (expired or not) that states APNIC policy toward address ownership. Assuming we all follow this then -- do we have allow people or users with small (eg. /26) networks to take them with them should they decide to move? Allowing this _without_ any constraints would make fragmentation horrific. > Do you have a clause in your service contracts that states > explicitly what the position is regarding IP numbers you assign to > clients? Most ISPs do (and all should). No idea... I speak only for myself, not for any company. I don't look at the legal bits where possible, thats what marketroids and legal people are for. > Does it matter? Yes. If someone is allocated address space for which they are not specifically told whether or not it should be considered portable or not, and therefore they wish to take the network with them when they move providers, we could get considerable fragmentation when many people with small networks do this. > It does if anyone is allocating address space in new blocks without > explicitly stating the "ownership" of addresses, but for the old > addresses it just means that at worst the routing table space taken > up by old addresses doesn't get any smaller. I don't follow; surely we have a situation where providers in the past have carved up a say /20 for clients -- and when a client moves this /20 might then need to become sixeteen /24 routes (or a /21, a /22, a /23 and two /24 or whatever). > It also matters if an ISP wants to move a bunch old /24 prefixes > over to an upstream provider that refuses to deal with them -- so > far the ones that have made noises about refusing small netblocks > this have backed away from that position. Eventfully as enough /24 are freed up, we will be able to coalesce adjacent ones into large networks. > What can be done as a technical group is to develop a consensus on > how to retire old /24 prefixes and aggregate them into larger > blocks, either through the APNIC's return policy (apnic-072), or > through some local arrangement, without grossly impacting on either > ISP or customer operations. This seems like a good idea. > I think the first step in this is to get the "ownership" issues > aired (I don't think it will be "solved") at the ISOCNZ conference > tomorrow; at least then hopefully we'll have some idea of what > various positions are. I don't think the ex-NZGate issue can be > really proceeded on without that. Can someone who attends this meeting then please provide some feedback? -cw --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Anyone got a crowbar?
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

>> A rhetorical question: why does cisco rack mount equipment need a >> crowbar to install? I recall a similar problem years ago when in broadcast engineering environment. Except in those days the gear worked perfectly on the floor, but when bolted into that precision peice of engineering known as a rack, it started to play up. If you ever did your job really well and tied back the cables neatly so others could tell you were a professional, it was sure to stop. Just be thankful that even after your crowbar adjustment, your router still goes! regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Anyone got a crowbar?
by Michael Newbery 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

A rhetorical question: why does cisco rack mount equipment need a crowbar to install? Would it really be SO difficult to make the cases 2mm narrower so that when the mounting brackets are fitted they slide into the rack rather than having to be forced? Mild steel is a wonderful engineering material characterised by its ability to gracefully deform under stress, but that doesn't mean I have to enjoy watching it do so. Mumble. -- Michael Newbery Technology Manager Saturn Communications Tel: +64-4-939 5102 Mobile:021-642 957 Fax:+64-4-939 5100 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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FW: Let's look into ICANN Participation from Asia and Pacific Region
by Barry Raveendran Greene 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

[Sorry for the duplicates.] FYI - for those not on one of the AP* Groups mailing list (APNIC, APIA, APNG, APPLe, APTLD). -----Original Message----- From: owner-apia-board(a)apia.org [mailto:owner-apia-board(a)apia.org] On Behalf Of Kilnam Chon Sent: Thursday, November 26, 1998 8:47 AM To: apstar(a)apng.org Subject: [APIA-BOARD] Let's look into icann participation from ap region ICANN "made" the agreement with NTIA to be recognized.(See NTIA homepage) ICANN is looking for participation of Membership Advisory Committee, which is being newly created.(will attach the announcement) DNSO(and possibly other SOs; ASO, PSO) will look for participation of various stakeholders(associations, organizations, individuals,...).(will attach memos) Hope to see appropriate participation to various ICANN committees from AP regions. my idea is as follows; 1. ICANN Membership Advisory Committee each relevant AP organizations to volunteer at least one person: apng, apia, apple, apricot,...(more) 2. DNSO APIA for ISP/Telco Constituency APNG(?) and others for General Business(for- and non-profit) APNG(?), APRICOT, APPLe,.. for At Large chon ____________________________________________________________________________ __ >From iana-announce-owner(a)ISI.EDU Thu Nov 26 04:15:01 1998 Received: from zephyr.isi.edu (zephyr.isi.edu [128.9.160.160]) by cosmos.kaist.ac.kr (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id EAA23586 for <chon(a)cosmos.kaist.ac.kr>; Thu, 26 Nov 1998 04:14:58 +0900 (KST) Received: (from majordom(a)localhost) by zephyr.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) id KAA28440 for iana-announce-outgoing; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:08:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from tnt.isi.edu (tnt.isi.edu [128.9.128.128]) by zephyr.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA28435 for <iana-announce(a)zephyr.isi.edu>; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:08:11 -0800 (PST) Received: from ode.isi.edu (ode-e.isi.edu [128.9.160.68]) by tnt.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) with ESMTP id KAA03177; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:08:10 -0800 (PST) From: Internet Assigned Numbers Authority <iana(a)ISI.EDU> Received: (from iana(a)localhost) by ode.isi.edu (8.8.7/8.8.6) id KAA29487; Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:08:09 -0800 (PST) Date: Wed, 25 Nov 1998 10:08:09 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <199811251808.KAA29487(a)ode.isi.edu> To: iana-announce(a)ISI.EDU Subject: ICANN Membership Advisory Committee Cc: iana(a)ISI.EDU X-Sun-Charset: US-ASCII Sender: owner-iana-announce(a)ISI.EDU Precedence: discussion Status: RO Content-Length: 3512 Lines: 75 ICANN Membership Advisory Committee- Expressions of Interest Sought by 5 December, 1998 The ICANN Bylaws call for a membership structure to be established to elect At Large directors. (See Bylaws Article V, Section 9(c)) The Initial Board is establishing an advisory committee (see Bylaws Article VII, Section 3(c)) to advise it on the appropriate membership structure to satisfy the need for world wide representation on the board, and in particular how to create a diverse and open membership without subjecting the corporation to undue risk of capture by any particular interest group. The advisory committee will consist of up to ten members, and will include Initial Board members George Conrades as Chairman, and Greg Crew. The Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School has agreed to provide assistance to the committee, including an independent study of membership issues. Expressions of interest are invited from individuals willing to serve on this committee, which will address specific issues including but not limited to: a) membership structures and arrangements that will provide a world wide representative body to nominate and elect the 9 At Large ICANN board directors (with the goal of recommending three to five options to the ICANN Board). b) appropriate rights and obligations of members, including membership application and registration requirements, membership fee structures, liability limitation of members, and voting rights and procedures. c) requirements and procedures for various forms of membership, including individual, corporate and association. d) efficient procedures for members to nominate and participate in the election of At Large directors, and to participate in general meetings of the corporation. The work of the advisory committee will be open and inclusive of all members of the Internet community. Draft and final recommendations will be posted on the ICANN web site, and suggestions and comments via the Internet will be invited from interested parties. Recommendations from the committee will be subject to the notice and comment procedures set forth in the Bylaws, Article III, Section 3. The ICANN Board will select the committee with the goal of assembling a diverse and broadly representative group. Expressions of interest to participate are to be directed to msvh(a)icann.org, by midnight, 5 December, 1998, US west coast time. Applicants are requested to state what contribution they would expect to make towards the work of this committee; such statements need not be more than 100 words. The committee will commence work in December, 1998. Most of the work of the committee will be conducted via phone or the Internet. A final meeting is planned to be held in Singapore on 1 March, 1999, to prepare a report to the ICANN board by the end of March. Committee members will be expected to devote sufficient time to the work of the committee to achieve this very tight schedule. Pending the identification of an ICANN funding mechanism and the actual receipt of funds, ICANN's resources to support meeting and travel expenses of its committees is very limited. We ask that committee members assist us by assuming personal responsibility for their travel expenses, if possible. We will facilitate phone participation in face-to-face meetings as necessary. Contact: Molly Shaffer Van Houweling Senior Advisor to the President and CEO Staff to the Advisory Committee on Membership ICANN msvh(a)icann.org ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ 1998.11.24 Summary report of Monterey DNSO Meeting --------------------------------------- The second DNSO formulation consultation meeting was held in Monterey, Mexico in 1998.11.15-17. This is the informal summary report of the meeting. See www.dnso.org for the meeting minutes. 1. Around 40 people participated the meeting, similar to the first meeting in Bercelona in October 1998. Participation from Asia-Pacific was very small. Some trademark organizations such as INTA and CASIE participated, but not ICC nor WIPO. gTLD registries such as NSI/InterNIC did not participate this time either even though NSI participated the ad hoc meeting in Boston in the previous week. 2. We had (rough) consensus on structure, representation and funding this time, and decided to proceed to submit the application to ICANN by the end of this year as recommendated by ICANN. Others may be applying, too. 3. DNSO structure and each constituency's representation to Names Council are as follows; Names Council as the executive committee of DNSO 5 Constituencies 21 Registry 3+3 Registrar 3 Infrastructure and Connectivity Providers(ISP, Telco,..) 3 General Business(for- and non-profit) 3 Trademark 3 At Large(Other organizations and individuals) 3 Fair Hearing Panel(Option) 4. We set up the following teams to carry on the future work for DNSO formulation. Transition Team Articulation, Liaison, Outreach Drafting Team Minutes and Application Document We agreed to particularly emphasize on the outreach to include as many stakeholders as possible to DNSO. [hope many AP* organizations to participate in various constituencies of DNSO.] Remark: The next ICANN Meetings will be held in March 1999 in Singapore along APRICOT, and 3 Supporting Organizations(Domain Name, Address, and Protocol) are expected to be official approved then. The detail will be announced shortly.(www.icann.org) We need to agree with other major stakeholders such as NSI and ICC prior to submission of the DNSO application to ICANN, or we will be forced to coordinate after the application submission. ____________________________________________________________________________ ___ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Additional
by Joe Abley 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

Why do I always do that? Document is attached, this time.

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revised draft for NZGATE addresses
by Joe Abley 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

I have made some fairly rough and ready changes to my initial draft (now over a month old) based on feedback received through this list. This is still just "one possible solution". No flames please. I have not been able to spend as much time as I would like polishing this and thinking about the issues, since I've been working on this at nice -20 with frequent context switching :) Consider this very drafty but a possible starting point for the meeting tomorrow in Auckland. Joe --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Anyone got a crowbar?
by Michael Newbery 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

My racks don't have skins---no need since they are in a nice secure blockhouse---and I like the all-around access, but if I used racks I'd have to seismically brace the units (i.e. tie them to the shelves). Besides, it offends me that they do quite a nifty job with the rack mount kits---one size fits all: front/centre/rear/wall mount @19" or 23"---and then I need a jemmy to install the box. At least the PCMCIA slot on recent units is accessible (unlike on the 25xx series, oops). --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Regarding tomorrow's meeting
by Robert Hunt 25 Nov '98

25 Nov '98

Tena koe NZNOG, My apology to tomorrow's meeting. I am unable to be in Auckland at that time. As I am unable to be there I do now want to contribute a note on the matter of impacts created specifically for longer standing ISPs where the routing of a single Class C subnet is altered such that they have only ONE choice of NSP. I do not believe that the meeting will be so foolhardy as to agree to create a high level of disruption for my company and others in similar situations as I anticipate that there is enough awareness of the probable ramifications politically and legally. It is obviously unwise to create a serious disruption or to "be seen to limiting the basic commercial choice of an ISP to purchase different upstream services". However I think I should give you some detail of the type of impact there would be at an older ISP (taken from what would happen at mine) if NSP agreement is arrived at to act in this manner. This is a helpful step towards giving the meeting full information. Situation: A well used Class C that is not part of larger block beholden to the ISP. The Class C has been used rather fully for 5 years Customer connections of the following kind operative under it: Domestic and Business customers still operating statically configured softwares from earlier days of setups. N.B. this significantly predates the operations of entities like Xtra and Clearnet and therefore there may be those connected to these operations who do not have an appreciation of this dimension. We are referring to Older trumpet winsock, older MacTCP, Also however on the network concerned there are significant numbers of customers operating dialup masquerading/routing solutions that require a site visit and some hours of work to alter, dialup SMTPs that expect static allocation i.e.- to know their own IP in advance of connecting. So in the case of this operation if this class C is not independently routed EITHER we cannot change NSP OR I am talking about several hundred customers to appease if the routing is withdrawn ...given that most customers will not quite understand a message telling them to "reconfigure the IP settings of their software or fail to connect". How do I deal with the consequent level of disruption compressed into a few hours? One cannot. If an ISP makes a monumental screw up such as in the Xtra password debacle then they only have themselves to look to for how to cope with the support impact. If however the cause is arguably from new policies of NSPs imposed without agreement from the ISP and the result is scores of businesses and many private users suddenly without connection - .,. then this will be a very problematic situation even if both the ISP and their customers had been given technical notice of a change. So how can an ISP prepare when faced with the probability of this situation? Obviously one can spend on and implement an IP translation setup for all one's dialup traffic to be run through, or one can setup a separate dialup zone and start to move customers who will not need the translation to dialling that zone. Changing a phone number seems to be within customer reach of comprehension and "self responsibility" given due notice. IP configurations however are more often NOT viewed that way by the dialling public.. unfortunately. The ISP end of the option to do translation for all or part of the network is an elaborate commitment and costly and doing it this way is not something that we would like to see without seeing first that effort had been made practically, politically and legally to avoid having to take such steps. This is the extent of my thinking on emergency means to cope with a renumbering. If someone out there has a technical solution I am not aware of then please do share that here. Most people who have actually heard us out on the sheer moment of such changes in terms of hours and cost end up thinking more carefully around the issues than before hearing such a description. I strongly hope that this is true of the majority attending tomorrow's meeting and advise the meeting that you should be sure not to ignore the interests of long established ISPs. Their situation is NOT to be compared with the impact of renumbering for some situation like a law firm with 40 PCs. The additional impact for an ISP is that they have multiple arrows of responsibility to customer situations where they do not have much control. The business losses for an ISP can be quite significant here and as for many of us the NSP supplier is also a competing ISP os there would be quite a sting to the media tail that would emerge if this matter is "forced" through mainly by the will of the NSP players. In general I wish you a productive meeting where policies for overall effectiveness of national route management are arrived at that set new guidelines for new players. Robert Hunt --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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by Donald Neal 24 Nov '98

24 Nov '98

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has neither a king, a president nor a formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. (At last count the list had 61 subscribers.) The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by an employee of Telecom NZ Ltd. Neither of these organisations (nor the administrator) is responsible for its content. NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1. Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 4. Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 5. Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 6. Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 7. Postings of a political, philosophical or legal nature are discouraged. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/nznog/ To search the archive, see http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/search.html (and remember to select nznog). Subscribing to the List To subscribe to the NZNOG list, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz, where the body of the message reads subscribe nznog There are at present no restrictions on who may subscribe to the list, or even on who may post to the list. Digest Mailing List If you don't wish to receive postings as they are sent, you can instead subscribe to the nznog-digest mailiing list, on which all postings are sent out in a single "digest" every couple of days. Other Activities NZNOG does not at present have other regular activities than this mailing list, though some Auckland subscribers have been known to arrange meetings over beer. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Herald Article
by Joe Abley 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

What's this Herald article all about? The confusing one on the front page that talks about people snooping passwords using a virus? :) Anybody actually know what has triggered this? Or is the Herald just trying to get a bit more hacker-related airtime following IHUG's alleged attack? -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Communications Ltd http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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NZNOG meeting.
by Roger De Salis 23 Nov '98

23 Nov '98

It looks like we may be able to move the ISOCNZ council meeting to Dec 11th, so the NOG meeting will go ahead on Friday 27th Nov, at Cisco Auckland (25th Floor, ASB Tower) 10am start. I still have NO REPLIES FROM ANYONE ABOUT NUMBERS so some useful use of email in the short term would be appreciated. Rgds Roger De Salis Andy Linton wrote: > > Unfortunately, I've arranged several other things in Auckland for > Thursday/Friday and it would be hard for me to change at this point. A > number of other people have also committed to Friday at this stage as > well. -- \_ Roger De Salis Cisco Systems NZ Ltd </' +64 25 481 452 L3, 117 Customhouse Qy /) +64 4 473 4912 Wellington, New Zealand (/ roger(a)desalis.gen.nz rdesalis(a)cisco.com ` --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 22 Nov '98

22 Nov '98

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Humble Apologies (and Shameless Cross-Posting)
by Joe Abley 22 Nov '98

22 Nov '98

Apologies to all and sundry for not being more proactive with any additions to my earlier draft document regarding NZGATE portability/ aggregation issues. I've been tied up with various hairy issues, and the revised draft kept dropping off the end of the queue. Maybe I should increase my hold threshold. Of those who attended the ISOCNZ face-to-face, perhaps someone could give a summary of the section in which the NZGATE numbering issues were discussed? I will make another undertaking (hopefully not quite so worthless) to summarise the discussions following my earlier document, and to modify the draft appropriately in time for the NZNOG meeting at Cisco NZ on the 27th. [Warning, warning: this message is crossposted to NZNOG and ISOCNZ-L - please modify your headers on reply as appropriate to avoid unnecessary cross- pollination] -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Communications Ltd http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by Rowan Smith 19 Nov '98

19 Nov '98

From: Don Stokes <don(a)daedalus.co.nz> >No. The /20 supernet continues to be advertised, and the new /24 net >is also advertised. Since the /24 advertisement is more specific, >traffic is routed to it; if it's not inside the /24 but inside the /20, >the less specific route is used. Holes are all well and good, but they create greater administration nightmares. For example at Waikato, holes in 202.36.0.0/16 have created nightmare access lists and administration overhead (not to mention CPU overhead) to prevent end user traffic from re-using NetGates international capacity when a 202.36.x.x/24 network for some reason disappears from the advertisers backbone the traffic defaults back to NetGate due to the /16. It is obvisouly a much greater problem at Waikato due to the open nature of the exchange, but I am sure that as network complexity continues to ... complex:) this will cause problems for other providers. -Rowan --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 19 Nov '98

19 Nov '98

Hi. > NZGATE/Waikato has a little piece of paper which said they owned > these addresses? I meant that NZGATE addresses (those identified in Joe's document as NZGATE addresses) belong to those to whom they were issued. > Illegal - which law or laws would be in violation here? There are likely several. It's one of the reasons i earlier suggested a legal opinion would be appropriate. It makes little sense to suggest a policy that would likely be overtuned by the courts. However, there are many forms a policy could take that would make this unnecessary. > Which 'improvements in routing software' are we talking about here? Most specifically dampening. > but more routes is going to lead to more human errors > and more complicated access-lists, etc. It's already outside human built lists (which are always error prone) in many if not almost all circumstances. We'll see better tools and life will get easier in spite of a growing number of routes and peering relationships. > Was 202/8 initially not divided up into much large chunks (eg. /20)? No. 202/8 was in use before provider based addressing was introduced. Several (of the earliest) NZ ISPs have /24's in 202/8 direct from APNIC that are outside the NZGATE addresses. APNIC issued /24's all over the asia-pacific region out of 202/8 without country specific aggregation. Only later did they move to provider based addressing within 202/8. > Nobody should be forced to renumber (unless there network is very > small, say /28), but there should be mechanisms which encourage this > when appropriate. Anything longer than /24 is not very routable (Sprint for one doesn't accept routes longer than /24), so /24 is the usable limit. I have no problem with a statement saying blocks smaller than /24 are not portable. -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by Chris Wedgwood 19 Nov '98

19 Nov '98

> > Most specifically dampening. > > I don't think that makes routing faster or easier, it just makes life > easier for people when bad things might otherwise happen. Dampening was introduced to mitigate the effects (like 100% CPU load) route flapping had on hardware resources. Things like cache invalidation caused by route flaps certainly directly affect routing performance. > But you beleive that any /24 route should be considered completely > portable in most circumstances? Not at all. /24's where ownership is rightly assumed and where the /24 is in a block where the minimum allocation size was /24. For the NZGATE addresses we are asking that the minimum allocation size be recognised as /24. -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: legal issues, courts etc
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

Hi. > I think the first step in this is to get the "ownership" issues aired (I > don't think it will be "solved") at the ISOCNZ conference tomorrow; at > least then hopefully we'll have some idea of what various positions are. > I don't think the ex-NZGate issue can be really proceeded on without > that. Agreed. Since Iprolink will not have a representative attending the ISOCNZ conference. I will state our company's position on ownership: 1) ownership of NZGATE addresses belong to the company to which they were assigned. In the case of ISPs sub-assigning blocks, this may be a contractual matter between the ISP and the client; 2) NZGATE addresses include only those previously noted and within 202/8; and 3) we would view attempts by a group of NZ ISPs to block or otherwise restrict portability of the NZGATE addresses as illegal. I've already discussed some of the technical issues surrounding this matter, i'll repeat them. Some of this represents our position on technical issues: 1) in 1995 there was very valid concern that because routing table growth was outstriping router CPU and memory growth that is was only a matter of time before major routing problems developed; 2) the introduction of CIDR, minimum allocations sizes (no new assignments longer than /19), and improvements in routing software, have slowed router table memory and CPU requirements to much less than improvements in technology are delivering and can be expected to deliver. In short, the changes have removed any _need_ to introduce further changes and in fact indicate a relaxing of rules is more likely; 3) The only route filtering occurring on the Internet today that affects connectivity (i.e. backbones with no default route) is being done on /8's where the minimum allocation size is /19. With half the root nameservers on /24's, wholesale short prefix filtering will not occur in the short term. Attempts to predict long term policy are not valid. 4) The NZGATE addresses are in a /8 block where the minimum allocation size was /24; 5) With 40,000+ routes, it's hard to make a case that the addition of several hundred routes due to migration is significant (more than several hundred additional routes are unlikely because of aggregation and the likelyhood of distribution tending to favor a few ISPs). And with regard to policy: 1) Iprolink would support a public statement which encourages migration to new addresses (by explaining the benefits) where it would not tend increase use of address space. -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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new version of caida tool for capacity planning/trend analysis
by k claffy 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

per Barry Greene's request to forward to some of the Asian groups, the following was posted to nanog earlier this week: >From kc Mon Nov 16 15:01 PST 1998 Received: (from kc(a)localhost) by caida.org (8.8.8/8.7.3) id PAA21116; Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:01:27 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <19981116150126.A18088(a)caida.org> Date: Mon, 16 Nov 1998 15:01:26 -0800 From: k claffy <kc(a)caida.org> To: nanog(a)merit.edu Subject: new version of caida tool for capacity planning/trend analysis Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Mutt 0.93.2i Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Status: RO Content-Length: 1121 Lines: 36 heads up to ISPs into operational measurement of workload characteristics cflowd 2.0 code is now available for use in analyzing export-flows from ciscos http://www.caida.org/Tools/Cflowd/ software collects output from cisco's netflow export then aggregates the data in ISP-engineering relevant ways as-to-as matrices ( --> peering engineering) net-to-net matrics ( --> peering/routing engineering ) port and protocol tables ( --> capacity engineering, what traffic is your infrastructure supporting, how is it changing, how much of it elastic/optimizable/ hyperzealous/cache-able/etc ) other stuff ( and continually adding features for members, plus src available for your own footloose entertainment ) cflowd 2.0 is a redesign of cflowd 1.3b2 and includes arts++ for storage as well as significant improvements in user interfaces and functionality. details on the code and mail lists are available at the website, or by contacting cflowd's developer, daniel mcRobb, at dwm(a)caida.org think you'll like always seeking your feedback/experience, k --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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legal issues, courts etc
by Don Stokes 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

Chris writes: >The industry we are in and technology we work with is comparatively >new and most legal systems are doing an very poor job and keeping up >with the state of things and hence their abilities to make >`reasonable' decisions and pass reasonable legislation in woefully >inadequate (this isn't a slight against the people involved, these >things take time). <sigh> Civil law has nothing whatsoever to do with technology. It's entirely to do with what is agreed (or not agreed) between parties and what the contractual obligations and liabilities are. And the place to sort those issues out, where a binding ruling is needed bacause voluntary negotiation has failed, is the court. It's one of things that helps make our society work. It's not going to go away. It doesn't take a technically oriented judge to say "you don't have a contract that says you can do this so you can't do this". Technical issues may be factors to take into account in evidence, but they're not points of law, and as such generally don't need to be enshrined in law. I think the opposition to the Rogers bill demonstrated that. I don't really want to get into a debate about philosophy of law and technology on a technical list, but I do think it needs to be pointed out that there are contractual issues on all sides of the problem at hand that need to be taken into account. -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: your mail
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

Chris Wedgwood wrote:- >Not wishing to comment on other details, I will point out the claims >like `court action is a useful last resort' are bullshit. Legal action is a completely reasonable solution where two parties cant agree and all other options have been exausted. That is why we have the courts. The fact that IP networks may not have featured in court cases to date does not in my view diminish the legal system's capability to deal with a dispute involving such things. This is because the issue is likely to be about a sale and purchase agreement between the upstream provider and their customer. There is no problem with a court ruling on these sorts of things, because they do so every day. What may be a bizzare outcome is if a court rules that a customer has title or some other exclusive right to a particular network, and even orders the NZ upstream provider to route it, International upstream providers outside the reach of a NZ court may still refuse or be unable to route it, so thus it is broke. It may be yours, but you wont want it anymore because it dont work! Another solution is needed. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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None
by Don Stokes 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

Joe writes: >Then we have a technical, operational and _global_ issue being decided >by a New Zealand court. This is worth avoiding at all costs. While I'm not sure that court action should always be avoided "at all costs" (it's useful as a last resort), I think heading this off at the pass is a good idea. And we have to realise that legal issues will raise their heads -- it's no good coming up with a "technical" solution that can be contested in court, because sure as eggs somebody isn't going to like it. So a position that makes sense technically, contractually and legally needs to be developed. Legally speaking, policy documents from the APNIC (apnic-11) pertaining to the period when most 202/8 assignments were made imply that IP addresses are portable unless explicitly stated otherwise. "Stating otherwise" is an interesting point -- the NetGate contracts being waved around about this time quite explicitly stated that numbers belonged to NetGate -- thus anyone with 202/8 addresses assigned by Waikato U acting as an agent of NetGate after signing such a document have non-portable addresses. (This may be contestable regarding how Waikato's position was or wasn't represented to the end user, but at least there's a bit of paper as a starting point in the argument.) Addresses allocated via UoW prior to the NetGate would appear to me to fall into the "portable" category, since no policy statement was ever issued prior to or at the time of such assignments that contradicts the position stated in the apnic-11 document. (apnic-11 expired in mid '95, but the superseding document wasn't issued until mid '96, which itself doesn't appear to state a position on portability.) I think that adequately sums up the contractual situation, at least in broad terms. Someone tell me if they disagree with that. This I believe is a completely separate issue to the question of how to improve the aggregation of network addresses. /24 prefixes in old blocks are generally regarded as a fact of life, to be addressed as and when possible, but not an issue when addressing overall Internet routing table growth, since the number of these addresses is not increasing. It seems to me that the second side of the issue is whether an ISP can or should route a given address block; after all, it doesn't matter who "owns" the block, if their prospective ISP won't route the address they can't use it. On the other hand, that ISP may lose the business in favour of one that will route the address. So I think a common position on how to migrate users to provider addresses, taking into account the cost of renumbering has to be found, and it can't be a position based on "ownership". The third issue, is whether there is a place for NZ-based allocation of addresses. I'm rather in two minds about that -- I'm not sure NZ really has enough addressing activity to justify an NZ registry, but it still bothers me a little that IP addressing is controlled by an offshore organisation. Comments? -- don --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Let's try to sort the NZgate address questions out
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 18 Nov '98

18 Nov '98

>I've arranged with Cisco Systems for a room at their offices, Level 28, >ASB Tower, 135 Albert Street, Auckland at 10:00 am on Friday 27 >November. I've done it this way so that there's something definite for >us to aim at and because I see that Auckland is the most sensible venue >for this. If you are not fixed on a date, can it be the following Friday? I would really like to attend this meeting, but have prior commitments. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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meeting as technical people
by Robert Hunt 17 Nov '98

17 Nov '98

Hello NZNOG, I fail to see how a meeting can be successful where there is not comprehensive representation of the decision makers in matters of ownership/proprietary claim as that seems to be the basis of some of the most contentious aspects under discussion. Certainly as far as the 202/8 continued portability... the issue cannot be resolved as a purely technical elegance question. Robert Hunt Plain Communications (still using 202.36.174.0 for all our most important servers and still expecting those numbers to be portable if we change NSP) --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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meeting as technical people -Reply
by Donald Neal 17 Nov '98

17 Nov '98

People, It is important to bear in mind that the use of provider-based addressing is a reality of the Internet's operation, and has been for some years. There are important issues of process regarding the way in which transitions by customers from one service provider to another are handled, but there are in general no issues of ownership to be discussed without major changes to the architecture of the (global) Internet. Issues related to the surviving pre-CIDR addresses need to be kept separate if progress is to be made on them. - Donald Neal (Opinions expressed in this posting may not be those of Telecom NZ Ltd, though if Telecom NZ Ltd are sensible they'll agree with me.) >>> Robert Hunt <roberth(a)plain.co.nz> 18/November/1998 01:05pm >>> Hello NZNOG, I fail to see how a meeting can be successful where there is not comprehensive representation of the decision makers in matters of ownership/proprietary claim as that seems to be the basis of some of the most contentious aspects under discussion. Certainly as far as the 202/8 continued portability... the issue cannot be resolved as a purely technical elegance question. Robert Hunt Plain Communications (still using 202.36.174.0 for all our most important servers and still expecting those numbers to be portable if we change NSP) --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: meeting as technical people -Reply
by Robert Gray 17 Nov '98

17 Nov '98

Donald Neal wrote on Wednesday, 18 November 1998: > It is important to bear in mind that the use of provider-based addressing > is a reality of the Internet's operation, and has been for some years. > There are important issues of process regarding the way in which > transitions by customers from one service provider to another are > handled, .......... Hopefully Donald, you will be on hand on the 27th to assist us understand your (and perhaps Telecoms') views and progess towards to a concensus we can all live with? Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz http://www.clearview.co.nz/ Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Numbers, and beer for morning tea.
by Roger De Salis 17 Nov '98

17 Nov '98

Numbers to myself or Andy, I'm sure the fridge is well stocked although Cisco frowns upon us partaking before midday. But I'm sure we could open it for Andy, as an exception. > If you want to attend can you let me know so that I can pass numbers to > Cisco Systems who, as well as providing a meeting place, have kindly > offered to provide refreshments - I'm not sure if that includes beer... -- \_ Roger De Salis Cisco Systems NZ Ltd </' +64 25 481 452 L3, 117 Customhouse Qy /) +64 4 473 4912 Wellington, New Zealand (/ roger(a)desalis.gen.nz rdesalis(a)cisco.com ` --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: Let's try to sort the NZgate address questions out
by Frank March 17 Nov '98

17 Nov '98

> -----Original Message----- > From: Robert Gray [SMTP:bobg(a)clearview.co.nz] > Sent: Wednesday, November 18, 1998 5:52 AM > To: 'Andy Linton'; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: RE: Let's try to sort the NZgate address questions out > > Andy Linton wrote on Tuesday, 17 November 1998 > > > I'd like to propose that we meet face to face to try to resolve the > > NZgate address issues. > > While the NZGATE address questions are vitally important to those of us > who > use them, the issue is wider than that in my view. I would like to see a > comprehensive solution for rational address allocation in New Zealand for > the future, that is more than just NZGATE addresses I hope. I would like > this this meeting to be the start of the process. <snip> > It would also be nice to have representation (or at least an observer) > from > ISOCNZ and Telecom. > [FCM] My understanding is that Roger de Salis, who is an ISOCNZ Council member, will be there and will be facilitating. I have for sometime been concerned that this issue, and relationships with APNIC, especially as it becomes part of a 'supporting organisation' for ICANN, should be considered by ISOCNZ to be part of its responsibility for Internet consultation and governance in New Zealand. I will not be attending, Nov 27 is the date of the first meeting of the new ISOCNZ council, and besides I dont qualify ;) Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: Let's try to sort the NZgate address questions out
by Robert Gray 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

Andy Linton wrote on Tuesday, 17 November 1998 > I'd like to propose that we meet face to face to try to resolve the > NZgate address issues. While the NZGATE address questions are vitally important to those of us who use them, the issue is wider than that in my view. I would like to see a comprehensive solution for rational address allocation in New Zealand for the future, that is more than just NZGATE addresses I hope. I would like this this meeting to be the start of the process. I also gather there are some other legacy addresses that may not be regarded as NZGATE? I thnink that these should also be included. In any event I think this is an excellent idea and Andy is to be thanked for organising it. I will certainly attend. > I propose that we treat this meeting in the same vein as an IETF meeting > i.e. it is a meeting for engineers who will sit down and debate a > technical problem and solutions to that problem and agree on a best fit > solution. That's certainly the right approach given the technical nature of the problem, however the solution must address the commercial needs of the various operators in NZ, unless it does it will not be possible to obtain 'buy-in' from the players and no progress will have been made. While some of us may well be able to speak to both technical and commercial needs there may be some organisations where this is not the case and in this circumstance I would hope that appropriate representatives of both sides would be invited? Furthermore the solution may have a commercial dimension, for example the solution to the domain name issue lead to DOMAINZ. It would also be nice to have representation (or at least an observer) from ISOCNZ and Telecom. > .... nor am I interested in any sort of finger pointing exercise > at individuals or providers. Too right. > .... I'm not sure if that includes beer... I live in hope --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Let's try to sort the NZgate address questions out
by Andy Linton 16 Nov '98

16 Nov '98

I'd like to propose that we meet face to face to try to resolve the NZgate address issues. I've arranged with Cisco Systems for a room at their offices, Level 28, ASB Tower, 135 Albert Street, Auckland at 10:00 am on Friday 27 November. I've done it this way so that there's something definite for us to aim at and because I see that Auckland is the most sensible venue for this. I'd also like to be able to indicate to those interested parties who will be at the ISOCNZ Forum this week that this is happening. ISOCNZ have indicated that they may provide assistance with travelling expenses for out of town attendees. Anyone who wishes to explore that needs to talk to them directly and make a case. I propose that we treat this meeting in the same vein as an IETF meeting i.e. it is a meeting for engineers who will sit down and debate a technical problem and solutions to that problem and agree on a best fit solution. We should then document that solution and endeavour to see that our respective organisations adopt it. Although I do believe this should be an open meeting I am not keen to see lawyers, business managers, marketing types etc there nor am I interested in any sort of finger pointing exercise at individuals or providers. If you want to attend can you let me know so that I can pass numbers to Cisco Systems who, as well as providing a meeting place, have kindly offered to provide refreshments - I'm not sure if that includes beer... -- Mailto:Andy.Linton(a)netlink.net.nz Tel: +64 4 494 6162 Post: Netlink, PO Box 5358, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand -- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Need for .nz WHOIS server
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 12 Nov '98

12 Nov '98

Andy Linton wrote:- >I'll echo the call for a whois request in the form Joe suggested. I'll >also note that this is not a new request. I and a number of others asked >for this from Waikato when they ran the name registration, later when >ISOCNZ took over the administration before Domainz was created and again >since Domainz was in the picture. So we do share some concerns after all :-) >I look forward to being able to use it! As a matter of interest, what would you suggest the main purpose of having a .nz WHOIS is? regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Need for .nz WHOIS server
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 12 Nov '98

12 Nov '98

>> Reason for wanting published registration information is principally for >> finding out contact details, in cases of (a) network abuse, (b) spam or >> (c) operational problems. Plus it's interesting to poke around in :) The web based interface at Domainz meets this need for us. It does not matter if the data is a little old. >Is there any particular reason for wanting this in WHOIS format since the >information is available via the web? For us its not a question of whether we have http or whois access, but rather the data elements available meet our needs and the information is live. The current service does not meet either of these needs for us. A quick example is answering the question "Is this name available for registration?" We cant issue one request and get an authorative answer. These are the steps we currently have to take:- a) Check name has valid syntax b) Check name is not on our own offensive name list c) Check name is not same as a TLD Above checks are not made by Domainz "Check whether a name is registered" script. d) Lookup Domainz site to see if its registered e) Check Domainz pending queue to see if another request is known to be ahead of ours f) Submit template to Domainz for processing Unfortunately, due to Domainz system design, the pending queue is not updated in real time, so there are always periods of time when they may have a request for a name in the queue ahead of us, and we have no way of knowing until we get a rejection, sometimes hours later. This is only one example. There are lots of others regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Recent Political Cruft
by Patrick O'Brien 11 Nov '98

11 Nov '98

Cheers Andy. Call echoed. Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Andy Linton [SMTP:asjl(a)netlink.net.nz] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 1:04 PM To: Patrick O'Brien Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Recent Political Cruft Patrick O'Brien wrote: > > Joe, > > Thanks for WHOIS request. > > BTW I agree with Chris that the NZOG list should be for NZOG, I'm not a fan of > multiple cross postings, and I've not subscribed to your list. I'll echo the call for a whois request in the form Joe suggested. I'll also note that this is not a new request. I and a number of others asked for this from Waikato when they ran the name registration, later when ISOCNZ took over the administration before Domainz was created and again since Domainz was in the picture. I look forward to being able to use it! -- Mailto:Andy.Linton(a)netlink.net.nz Tel: +64 4 494 6162 Post: Netlink, PO Box 5358, Lambton Quay, Wellington, New Zealand -- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Recent Political Cruft
by Patrick O'Brien 11 Nov '98

11 Nov '98

Joe, Thanks for WHOIS request. BTW I agree with Chris that the NZOG list should be for NZOG, I'm not a fan of multiple cross postings, and I've not subscribed to your list. ISOCNZ does have its list for whatever purposes it chooses. My regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley [SMTP:jabley(a)clear.co.nz] Sent: Thursday, November 12, 1998 10:09 AM To: Chris Wedgwood; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Cc: jabley(a)clear.co.nz Subject: Re: Recent Political Cruft On Thu, Nov 12, 1998 at 09:47:07AM +1300, Chris Wedgwood wrote: > Isn't the recent political cruft and cross-posting (well, multiple > recipients) with isocnz-l, which, presumably, many of us get anyway > somewhat off-charter for this list? > > If I'm being anal, please tell me - but I'd really like this list to > stay away from the usually isocnz-l type flame wars. > > If we allow this list to sink to the level of others, it's usefulness > will be greatly reduced and the possibility of fragmentation becomes > greater... Yaay! The voice of reason. This list is here to discuss operational network issues and beer (not necessarily in that order). 2Day's personal issues with Domainz have been well documented elsewhere and it's simply annoying to see them being rehashed here. There was a reasonable question at the beginning of the tirade, which was whether there were any architectural suggestions which could be discussed in the NZNOG list to do with the domain registration process. I would like to see a whois server provisioned somewhere, so I can query (preferably in a RIPE-181 kind of a way) a subzone of the nz tld and get contact information... It's possible that the APNIC db will support the domain: records, in which case that's potentially a place that this information could be published. Something for domainz to think about? -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Recent Political Cruft
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 11 Nov '98

11 Nov '98

Joe Abley wrote:- >There was a reasonable question at the beginning of the tirade I thought it was too. >This list is here to discuss operational network issues and beer (not >necessarily in that order). 2Day's personal issues with Domainz have been >well documented elsewhere and it's simply annoying to see them being >rehashed here. I guess once some of the engineering issues we face become a problem for others, our position will be more widely understood. I apologise for the somewhat OT and terse exchange that occured. Back to the beer and networking :-) Speaking of which I see Brent Telfer of Telecom NZ has sent a letter to Netgate customers re IP routing. Top marks for having a go at explaining what its about. It will be interesting to see the response. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Recent Political Cruft
by Chris Wedgwood 11 Nov '98

11 Nov '98

Isn't the recent political cruft and cross-posting (well, multiple recipients) with isocnz-l, which, presumably, many of us get anyway somewhat off-charter for this list? If I'm being anal, please tell me - but I'd really like this list to stay away from the usually isocnz-l type flame wars. If we allow this list to sink to the level of others, it's usefulness will be greatly reduced and the possibility of fragmentation becomes greater... -cw (looking now for the asbestos suit...) --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Industry specification for registry interface
by Chris O'Donoghue 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

>Actually I thought I might get some interest from those providers who are >seeking to drive down administration costs through automation, but clearly >there are none lurking here. Must still be plenty of margin in the access >business! > I have some interest in this but I think like a few others we just pulled our heads in, while you and Patrick had your wee tiff. Regards Chris --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Industry specification for registry interface
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Andy Linton wrote >If the point of your seeking NZNOG input is to politicise this group, to >make >NZNOG into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own >personal >agenda, then I want no part. Actually I thought I might get some interest from those providers who are seeking to drive down administration costs through automation, but clearly there are none lurking here. Must still be plenty of margin in the access business! regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Industry specification for registry interface
by Patrick O'Brien 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Andy, Thanks. I'll resist the temptation to join at present, but will ask Dave Harpham our technical guy to sign up. My regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: Andy Linton [SMTP:asjl(a)netlink.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 3:33 PM To: Patrick O'Brien Cc: 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: Re: Industry specification for registry interface Patrick O'Brien wrote: > > Peter, > > You wrote, > > > We are looking to improve our automated application ... > > I assumed that you meant 2Day Internet, which is why I refered to changes that > you are wanting to make. > > > My interest is contributing our experience and resources into > > a specification which can benefit the entire industry. > > I've no issues with that, but Domainz is part of that industry too. > > > It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made > available to participate. > > If this is an ititiative of the NZOG group[, then again, I have no issues > there. > > As I admitted in my posting, I do not know the who/what/why of NZOG, nor had > any formal invitiation to be involved. Are you formally inviting DOmainz to > join on behalf of the group? > > > What has become clear to us as ... your delivery has been woefully > inadequate. > > Sorry Patrick, but I for one do not believe a word you say. > > I note 2Day Internet's personal views and claims. > > Sorry Peter, but I do not believe our delivery has been "woefully inadequate". > Is this the view of NZOG? > > If the point of your seeking Domainz input is to politicise this group, to make > Domainz into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own personal > agenda, then I want no part. I therefore need to re-assess my responses above. > > Can someone tell me who is the spokesperson for this group please, what its > objectives are, and whether there is a need for DOmainz to be involved? I don't believe there is a spokesperson for this group but I can state quite clearly here that Peter Mott does not speak for Netlink on this matter or any other. I don't know what agenda Peter is pushing either. Our experience with Domainz is positive with fast turnaround and low fees when compared with overseas registries. I paraphrase Patrick's comments above and direct them to Peter Mott: If the point of your seeking NZNOG input is to politicise this group, to make NZNOG into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own personal agenda, then I want no part. This list is open to interested parties - there is no need for a formal invitiation to Patrick or Domainz. To subscribe to nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: subscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Industry specification for registry interface
by Patrick O'Brien 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Peter, You wrote, > We are looking to improve our automated application ... I assumed that you meant 2Day Internet, which is why I refered to changes that you are wanting to make. > My interest is contributing our experience and resources into > a specification which can benefit the entire industry. I've no issues with that, but Domainz is part of that industry too. > It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made available to participate. If this is an ititiative of the NZOG group[, then again, I have no issues there. As I admitted in my posting, I do not know the who/what/why of NZOG, nor had any formal invitiation to be involved. Are you formally inviting DOmainz to join on behalf of the group? > What has become clear to us as ... your delivery has been woefully inadequate. > Sorry Patrick, but I for one do not believe a word you say. I note 2Day Internet's personal views and claims. Sorry Peter, but I do not believe our delivery has been "woefully inadequate". Is this the view of NZOG? If the point of your seeking Domainz input is to politicise this group, to make Domainz into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own personal agenda, then I want no part. I therefore need to re-assess my responses above. Can someone tell me who is the spokesperson for this group please, what its objectives are, and whether there is a need for DOmainz to be involved? My regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: 2Day Chief Enthusiast [SMTP:peter(a)2day.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 12:54 PM To: Patrick O'Brien; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Industry specification for registry interface Patrick Obrien wrote:- >I've just been forwarded this note seeking your input for changes that Peter >wishes to make to his applications. Sorry, but thats not what I said. I post it again below:- >>Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common >>industry >>specification My interest is contributing our experience and resources into a specification which can benefit the entire industry. >From Domainz standpoint, I would ask that if you know of areas of weakness, or >areas that you wish to improve, then you draw up a list to forward them >directly to me. We think our time and that of other providers would be better spent on working together to come up with a specification. It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made available to participate. >Clearly we are continually looking at improvements to the process, and any >thoughts that you do have, we would like to harmonise them inside our own >development priorities where sensible. What has become clear to us as your largest billing customer and manager of nearly 10% of commercial domains in NZ, is that whilst you say you are interested in improvements for the benefit of Internet providers, your delivery has been woefully inadequate. Sorry Patrick, but I for one do not believe a word you say. regards Peter Mott -----Original Message----- From: Patrick O'Brien [SMTP:p.o.brien(a)domainz.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 12:39 PM To: 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: Industry specification for registry interface To NZOG members, I've just been forwarded this note seeking your input for changes that Peter wishes to make to his applications. >From Domainz standpoint, I would ask that if you know of areas of weakness, or areas that you wish to improve, then you draw up a list to forward them directly to me. Clearly we are continually looking at improvements to the process, and any thoughts that you do have, we would like to harmonise them inside our own development priorities where sensible. We also have to take into consideration the wishes of others that may not be members of NZOG (I do not know much about your, your role nor your composition, excuse my ignorance). My regards, PATRICK J O'BRIEN Fax: (04) 473-4569 Voice: (04) 473-4567 Mail: P.O.BRIEN(a)DOMAINZ.NET.NZ Web: http://www.DOMAINZ.NET.NZ ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "2Day Chief Enthusiast" <peter(a)2day.net.nz> To: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Industry specification for registry interface Date sent: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:08:32 +1300 We are looking to improve our automated application which interfaces with Domainz. Whilst what we have does work, there is plenty of room for improvement. Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common industry specification which Domainz can use to improve the design of its system? regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Industry specification for registry interface
by Patrick O'Brien 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Peter, > There has not been any discussion at this stage OK, I'll do nothing and await any approaches that NZOG feel appropriate > Please name anything substantive...Maybe I missed them. > Dont be so pathetic. I thought the issue was improvements in the Registry interface? Our goal is to improve service to name holders on a fair and equal basis. As the RFC 1591 Country mnager, we have a duty to serve the community in an equitable way. We don't specifically target Internet providers as the key beneficiaries, nor do we target them as victims. > All I wanted to see was ... And all I wanted to see was whether there were issues, what they were, and what role (if any) there was for DOmainz in helping address potential issues. Hence my original response. Regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: 2Day Chief Enthusiast [SMTP:peter(a)2day.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 2:02 PM To: Patrick O'Brien; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Industry specification for registry interface >> It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made >>available to participate. >If this is an ititiative of the NZOG group[, then again, I have no issues >there. There has not been any discussion at this stage. NZNOG may not be interested at all. We have to wait and see. >Sorry Peter, but I do not believe our delivery has been "woefully inadequate". > Is this the view of NZOG? Please name anything substantive you have done which specifically benefited Internet Providers. Maybe I missed them. >If the point of your seeking Domainz input is to politicise this group, to make >Domainz into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own personal >agenda, then I want no part. I therefore need to re-assess my responses above. Dont be so pathetic. All I wanted to see was whether the techno types subscribed here wanted to contribute to something I thought worthwhile. If you have a tech person that wants to join in then that would be great. regards Peter Mott -----Original Message----- From: Patrick O'Brien [SMTP:p.o.brien(a)domainz.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 1:40 PM To: 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: Industry specification for registry interface Peter, You wrote, > We are looking to improve our automated application ... I assumed that you meant 2Day Internet, which is why I refered to changes that you are wanting to make. > My interest is contributing our experience and resources into > a specification which can benefit the entire industry. I've no issues with that, but Domainz is part of that industry too. > It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made available to participate. If this is an ititiative of the NZOG group[, then again, I have no issues there. As I admitted in my posting, I do not know the who/what/why of NZOG, nor had any formal invitiation to be involved. Are you formally inviting DOmainz to join on behalf of the group? > What has become clear to us as ... your delivery has been woefully inadequate. > Sorry Patrick, but I for one do not believe a word you say. I note 2Day Internet's personal views and claims. Sorry Peter, but I do not believe our delivery has been "woefully inadequate". Is this the view of NZOG? If the point of your seeking Domainz input is to politicise this group, to make Domainz into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own personal agenda, then I want no part. I therefore need to re-assess my responses above. Can someone tell me who is the spokesperson for this group please, what its objectives are, and whether there is a need for DOmainz to be involved? My regards, Patrick -----Original Message----- From: 2Day Chief Enthusiast [SMTP:peter(a)2day.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 12:54 PM To: Patrick O'Brien; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz Subject: Re: Industry specification for registry interface Patrick Obrien wrote:- >I've just been forwarded this note seeking your input for changes that Peter >wishes to make to his applications. Sorry, but thats not what I said. I post it again below:- >>Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common >>industry >>specification My interest is contributing our experience and resources into a specification which can benefit the entire industry. >From Domainz standpoint, I would ask that if you know of areas of weakness, or >areas that you wish to improve, then you draw up a list to forward them >directly to me. We think our time and that of other providers would be better spent on working together to come up with a specification. It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made available to participate. >Clearly we are continually looking at improvements to the process, and any >thoughts that you do have, we would like to harmonise them inside our own >development priorities where sensible. What has become clear to us as your largest billing customer and manager of nearly 10% of commercial domains in NZ, is that whilst you say you are interested in improvements for the benefit of Internet providers, your delivery has been woefully inadequate. Sorry Patrick, but I for one do not believe a word you say. regards Peter Mott -----Original Message----- From: Patrick O'Brien [SMTP:p.o.brien(a)domainz.net.nz] Sent: Wednesday, November 11, 1998 12:39 PM To: 'nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz' Subject: Industry specification for registry interface To NZOG members, I've just been forwarded this note seeking your input for changes that Peter wishes to make to his applications. >From Domainz standpoint, I would ask that if you know of areas of weakness, or areas that you wish to improve, then you draw up a list to forward them directly to me. Clearly we are continually looking at improvements to the process, and any thoughts that you do have, we would like to harmonise them inside our own development priorities where sensible. We also have to take into consideration the wishes of others that may not be members of NZOG (I do not know much about your, your role nor your composition, excuse my ignorance). My regards, PATRICK J O'BRIEN Fax: (04) 473-4569 Voice: (04) 473-4567 Mail: P.O.BRIEN(a)DOMAINZ.NET.NZ Web: http://www.DOMAINZ.NET.NZ ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "2Day Chief Enthusiast" <peter(a)2day.net.nz> To: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Industry specification for registry interface Date sent: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:08:32 +1300 We are looking to improve our automated application which interfaces with Domainz. Whilst what we have does work, there is plenty of room for improvement. Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common industry specification which Domainz can use to improve the design of its system? regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Industry specification for registry interface
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

>> It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made >>available to participate. >If this is an ititiative of the NZOG group[, then again, I have no issues >there. There has not been any discussion at this stage. NZNOG may not be interested at all. We have to wait and see. >Sorry Peter, but I do not believe our delivery has been "woefully inadequate". > Is this the view of NZOG? Please name anything substantive you have done which specifically benefited Internet Providers. Maybe I missed them. >If the point of your seeking Domainz input is to politicise this group, to make >Domainz into a political football to push 2Day Internet's or your own personal >agenda, then I want no part. I therefore need to re-assess my responses above. Dont be so pathetic. All I wanted to see was whether the techno types subscribed here wanted to contribute to something I thought worthwhile. If you have a tech person that wants to join in then that would be great. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Industry specification for registry interface
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Patrick Obrien wrote:- >I've just been forwarded this note seeking your input for changes that Peter >wishes to make to his applications. Sorry, but thats not what I said. I post it again below:- >>Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common >>industry >>specification My interest is contributing our experience and resources into a specification which can benefit the entire industry. >From Domainz standpoint, I would ask that if you know of areas of weakness, or >areas that you wish to improve, then you draw up a list to forward them >directly to me. We think our time and that of other providers would be better spent on working together to come up with a specification. It would be helpful if a technical resource from Domainz could be made available to participate. >Clearly we are continually looking at improvements to the process, and any >thoughts that you do have, we would like to harmonise them inside our own >development priorities where sensible. What has become clear to us as your largest billing customer and manager of nearly 10% of commercial domains in NZ, is that whilst you say you are interested in improvements for the benefit of Internet providers, your delivery has been woefully inadequate. Sorry Patrick, but I for one do not believe a word you say. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Final Agenda - Face to Face '98
by Sue Leader 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

Greetings. I am pleased to present the Final Agenda for Face to Face '98 - "The Internet - Tool or Toy". All venues remain as announced. I hope that you will find the range of topics stimulating and useful and that we'll see you there. Please note that the presentation on Domainz by CEO, Patrick O'Brien has been moved from the AGM into the conference so that the session can be included in the broadcast. +++++++++++++++++ Final Agenda: 8:15 Registration & Coffee 8:45 Keynote address: Dr Howard Frederick, Director, New Zealand Internet Institute The Internet in Our Information Society: Private and Public Sector Challenges 9:15 Session 1 Pornography and Other Nasties: Are the ISPs Liable? Lead Speaker: Peter Dengate-Thrush, Solicitor, and a Panel of Speakers 10:15 Morning coffee 10:30 Presentation: Internet Governance: The Future of the DNS Jim Higgins, Chair, ISOCNZ 11:00 Session 2 Who Inherited NZgate? Portability of IP Addresses Lead Speaker: Roger de Salis, CISCO Systems, and a Panel of Speakers 12:30 Lunch 1:00 Presentation: Managing New Zealands Domain Name Space Patrick OBrien, CEO, Domainz 2:00 Session 3: Does the Internet Need Government? Lead Speaker: Dr Frank March, IT Policy Advisory Unit, Ministry of Commerce, and a Panel of Speakers 3:15 Closing address: Presentation: ThinkQuest: Announcing ISOCNZ as National Partner for ThinkQuest International - Prashanta Mukherjee, Ernst & Young 3:45 Afternoon coffee 4:30 ISOCNZ Annual General Meeting (Note: No entry charge for AGM) Sue Leader Executive Director ISOCNZ (Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) Exe.Dir(a)ISOCNZ.org.nz Voice: +64-4-801-6256 http://www.isocnz.org.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Industry specification for registry interface
by Patrick O'Brien 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

To NZOG members, I've just been forwarded this note seeking your input for changes that Peter wishes to make to his applications. >From Domainz standpoint, I would ask that if you know of areas of weakness, or areas that you wish to improve, then you draw up a list to forward them directly to me. Clearly we are continually looking at improvements to the process, and any thoughts that you do have, we would like to harmonise them inside our own development priorities where sensible. We also have to take into consideration the wishes of others that may not be members of NZOG (I do not know much about your, your role nor your composition, excuse my ignorance). My regards, PATRICK J O'BRIEN Fax: (04) 473-4569 Voice: (04) 473-4567 Mail: P.O.BRIEN(a)DOMAINZ.NET.NZ Web: http://www.DOMAINZ.NET.NZ ------- Forwarded Message Follows ------- From: "2Day Chief Enthusiast" <peter(a)2day.net.nz> To: <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Subject: Industry specification for registry interface Date sent: Wed, 11 Nov 1998 08:08:32 +1300 We are looking to improve our automated application which interfaces with Domainz. Whilst what we have does work, there is plenty of room for improvement. Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common industry specification which Domainz can use to improve the design of its system? regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog Sue Leader Executive Director ISOCNZ (Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) Exe.Dir(a)ISOCNZ.org.nz Voice: +64-4-801-6256 http://www.isocnz.org.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Industry specification for registry interface
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 10 Nov '98

10 Nov '98

We are looking to improve our automated application which interfaces with Domainz. Whilst what we have does work, there is plenty of room for improvement. Is this group interested in working with us to identify a common industry specification which Domainz can use to improve the design of its system? regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Nomination for ISOCNZ Council
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 04 Nov '98

04 Nov '98

In response to multiple requests, and after some consideration I have decided to make myself available for service on the council of the Internet Society of New Zealand (ISOCNZ) A brief document describing who I am and some of the issues I consider important can be viewed at:- http://peter.mott.co.nz As the director of an Internet provider, I am interested in hearing the views of others who work in the industry which my company 2Day Internet Limited operates. As I would like to develop views which are more representative of Internet providers, please feel free to write to me at peter(a)2day.net.nz if you have something significant to say! It is well known that the current membership of ISOCNZ is quite low and that most participation is from folk employed in the government and academic sectors. To ensure the internet industry has increased representation on council, I would ask that you seriously consider voting for me and any other candidates from industry who you think can make a valuable contribution. If you work within the Internet industry and are not a member of ISOCNZ, please contact me directly so I can assist you with joining up. Individual membership is only NZ$50.00 + GST / year. Notice of the annual general meeting at which councillors will be elected can be viewed at:- http://www.isocnz.org.nz/98agm.html If you are unable to attend the AGM to be held in Wellington, you need to vote using a proxy. This means you sign a document allowing another person who is attending to vote for you. Unfortunately the notice of meeting did not allow for proxies to be accepted using email (as provided for in the constitution) so you will need to provide your proxy in writing. Your proxy needs to be in the hands of the Secretary by 4pm on Wednesday 18 November 1998. Note that this is 48 hours before the meeting. If you would like a proxy form faxed to you, please contact me. Thank you for your time. Peter Mott Managing Director 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum - an idea
by Robert Gray 04 Nov '98

04 Nov '98

Frank March wrote: > ..... We would just need a day, place and time to be > agreed and a willing host. We could happily do 10-15, get a bit cramped beyond that. Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Interactive Video Feed - Auckland - Face to Face '98
by netwoman＠one2one.co.nz 04 Nov '98

04 Nov '98

Greetings. I have been following the discussion on this list and the newsgroup which has queried why the technology for the free, live broadcast of Face to Face '98 to the Altos Bar in Sky City is not interactive. I have consulted with the contractor and discovered (to my embarrassment) that it is indeed interactive. I am completely ignorant of this part of the technology, so I apologise for not picking up on this sooner. So - the process will run like this (the gods of technology willing <g>): The live video feed will commence at 8:30 and run through until just before 3:30. Wellington will see Auckland and vice versa. Our expectation is that when each of the Sessions (1,2, and 3) break into workshops that the Auckland participants will do the same thing. The report-back sessions will include space for live report- back from Auckland. The only difficulty lies in the deadline for pack- up at Altos as they need the gear cleared by 3:30 as the bar opens to the public at 4:00pm. We are negotiating on this, and Plan B is that if the pack-up has to be before Auckland has a chance to report back on Session 3 "Does the Internet Need Government?" that we have someone in Auckland report in by Cell-phone. Whether we can accommodate more interaction than this will very much depend on the day - it's a learning curve for many of us. I need to reiterate that the AGM is *not* part of the broadcast as we do not have constitutional provision. This year's broadcast/video confernece is really a "trial run" for next year, when we will have the consitutional power and the appropriate security to run the Conference and AGM across the net itself with full voting ability for all participants. I hope this clears up any concerns people have had, and again I reget that my ignorance of the technology has caused confusion. I look forward to "meeting" you in some form, and at the same time extending my knowledge on the technology front. PS The bar at Altos will open at noon for participants, and tea and coffee will be available all day. Cordially Sue Leader Executive Director ISOCNZ (Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) Exe.Dir(a)ISOCNZ.org.nz Voice: +64-4-801-6256 http://www.isocnz.org.nz --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum - an idea
by Robert Gray 04 Nov '98

04 Nov '98

Sue Leader wrote (in part) > we wish to offer NZNOG members some alternatives to discuss. > 2. Attend only the "Who Inherited NZgate? Certainly, where do I apply? > 3. We are happy to facilitate a pre-Forum 'NZNOG and interest parties' gathering. Also an excellent suggestion, the time frame allowed in the forum (1.5 hours) doesn't sound adequate to me. This is a complex subject. > 4. It may be possible to set up a lunchtime round-table "closed door" session for NOG's on > the day to talk through issues. This also sounds like a good idea, given sufficient attendance by such worthies. Hopefully agreement on a course of actual action can be obtained > If travel costs are one of the problems for attendance....... No, there are other things I can do in Wellington in the pm and I'll come to the AGM. A generous and pleasing offer though. Personally I think this is an excellent offer and certainly demonstrates the type of leadership I was looking for. A cheque for my membership sub is in the mail Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum - an idea
by Frank March 04 Nov '98

04 Nov '98

Joe: I think your idea of producing a document would be very helpful. I would like to see ISOCNZ have the role of discussing/adopting such a document (if it is suitable, of course <G>) on behalf of the Internet community. Possibly even look at extending the ISPCOP in this direction...again if that seemed a useful thing to do. The idea of a 'closed room' session was not intended for secrecy.. only to keep numbers down to those interested and knowledgeable so that the issues could be explored 'off line' from wider discussions; it was always intended to include all who wanted to contribute, but exclude at the early stage those who only wanted to learn. I think a separate day would be better and if that could report to the F2F it would be very useful indeed. Andy has suggested that as most protagonists are in Auckland that the meeting should be there. We would just need a day, place and time to be agreed and a willing host. Frank March > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Abley [SMTP:jabley(a)clear.co.nz] > Sent: Thursday, November 05, 1998 9:22 AM > To: netwoman(a)one2one.co.nz; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Cc: isocnz-admin(a)isocnz.org.nz; jabley(a)clear.co.nz > Subject: Re: ISOCNZ forum - an idea > > On Wed, Nov 04, 1998 at 09:24:03PM +1200, Sue Leader wrote: > > > > The Face to Face organising committee has been following the > > NZNOG discussion on the "Who owns Netgate?" session of Face to > > Face with interest. (After feedback this has been re-titled "Who > > Inherited NZgate? Portability of IP Addresses") We believe that this > > subject is so important, and one that it is crucial to have ISP and > > other industry input into, that we wish to offer NZNOG members > > some alternatives to discuss. > > > > [snip! snip!] > > As I have already mentioned to Sue, I have too many other things on and > can't spare a day to travel down to Wellington. > > The session sounds like a fine idea however; I do share Andy's > reservations > about whether a closed session is appropriate though, since the real > opportunity ISOCNZ has to add value to the discussions likes in the > education of the user community - keeping them out of a closed room isn't > going to help this much :) > > I plan to have my revised draft finished (well, started :) in the next > couple of days, and I will post that to the list. > > In the interests of the user community, it might make sense to draft a > smaller, more simple document which just explains the issues of address > delegation and ownership from non-NZGATE (i.e. provider-aggregatable) > blocks. If a large number of ISPs are happy to sign their names to it, > it would be a good document to publicise at the ISOCNZ meeting. > > The idea of this new document is, of course, to clarify matters for users, > and to avoid the same provider-independence confusion that we have with > the NZGATE blocks. The document could be extended in the future once we > have collective agreement on how the NZGATE block delegations fit into the > equation. > > If people think this is worth doing, I can have a stab at a first draft -- > however, anybody else who is keen to do it instead is more than welcome ;) > > > Joe > > -- > Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 > Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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ISOCNZ forum - an idea
by Sue Leader 04 Nov '98

04 Nov '98

Greetings. The Face to Face organising committee has been following the NZNOG discussion on the "Who owns Netgate?" session of Face to Face with interest. (After feedback this has been re-titled "Who Inherited NZgate? Portability of IP Addresses") We believe that this subject is so important, and one that it is crucial to have ISP and other industry input into, that we wish to offer NZNOG members some alternatives to discuss. 1. Come to the whole Forum as it will be worth your while if only from a networking perspective. Investment: $80 + GST members, $130 + GST non-members.* 2. Attend only the "Who Inherited NZgate? Portability of IP Addresses" session at 11:00am. For this we are prepared to reduce the investment to $40.00 + GST, and lunch is included. You will then not be able to attend the pre-11:00am or post-lunch sessions. 3. We are happy to facilitate a pre-Forum 'NZNOG and interest parties' gathering where the group can work through the issues and then attend Face to Face with the intention of reporting on your proceedings, e.g., concensus (if any), action items, and the like. If you wished to designate a "Reporter" they would have their Forum investment waived as do the other lead speakers. 4. It may be possible to set up a lunchtime round-table "closed door" session for NOG's on the day to talk through issues. The outcome of this could be reported back to Face to Face. This would mean re-arranging the agenda, so if this is your preference we would need a definite commitment soon. Please discuss these options - we do want to accommodate NZNOG if we can. If you decide on option 3 we would need notification of this fairly soon so that we can arrange a venue etc. Also we would need a decision on where you would actually want to hold that session (e.g., Auckland, Wellington etc) If you decided on either 1) or 2) then we could facilitate interested parties being invited to attend a post Forum NZNOG meeting. We have discussed this briefly with Andy Linton and he has indicated a willingness to facilitate/chair such a discussion if it were to be in Wellington. (Andy is strongly against the fourth option). If travel costs are one of the problems for attendance of Face to Face, please let the Society know that too and we'll see if we can be of some assistance on a case by case basis. Cordially For the Organising Committee Sue Leader Executive Director ISOCNZ (The Internet Society of New Zealand Inc) http://www.isocnz.org.nz Email:Exe.Dir(a)ISOCNZ.org.nz Voice: +64-4-801-6256 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: ISOCNZ forum
by Robert Gray 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Joe Abley wrote: >I think a better heading would be: > What can be done about the legacy of NZGATE-delegated addresses within NZ? Ongoing portability of IP addresses. An open discussion on this subject is IMHO an excellent idea but the proposed forum is a) not about this topic, b) it is buried in the following all day programme * Pornography and Other Nasties: Are the ISPs Liable? * Internet Governance: The Future of the DNS * Who Owns Netgate? Portability of IP Addresses * Ethics on the Internet * Does the Internet Need Government? * ThinkQuest: Announcing ISOCNZ as National Partner for ThinkQuest International which I certainly have no desire to sit through, and c) there's a charge to attend. So, while the need for a discussion (and action) is clear, (no pun intended) I have reservations as to this being the right forum for the discussion. Peter Mott wrote: >I think the Internet provider industry needs to be able to speak with a single voice. We can can achieve this by:- > a) seizing the opportunity to grow ISOCNZ by joining up real quick or > b) forming our own industry association sooner rather than later I know a number of people in the Internet community share my reservations about ISOCNZ and have as a result avoided membership. However I think this is a clear opportunity for ISOCNZ to show leadership and, if they do, I for one would be prepared to "get in behind". Otherwise it's got to be option b) and that's probably a lot more painful. Some suggestions for the sort of leadership could be: 1. Change the subject to something more appropriate (Joe's suggestion looks good) 2. Fix a time for the discussion 3. Formally invite (write to? OK e-mail) industry players and ask them to send a rep 4. Treat it as an opportunity to show value for ISOCNZ membership (i.e. show value and we'll join) 5. Call for and distribute some papers in advance (again Joe's kick off paper makes a great starting point) 6. Drop the charge other than for direct expenses (if it's to be in Wellington we have costs enough to incur) How about it ISOCNZ? Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum
by Robert Gray 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Apologies for the incomplete version sent previously, a slip of the fingers. Groan! Jim Higgins wrote: > Clearly, Robert has a much better solution, which he is keeping from us > at the moment - but I'm sure he will reveal all when he is ready. You give me too much credit I only wish that it were true. Regrettably my motives are much more prosaic. I'm hoping to save myself from sitting through a number of items to which I have nothing to contribute so that I don't miss what I hope will be the 'main event' and in the process save myself $80/$130. Thus far the only 'real' agenda for a forum I can find is on the isocnz web site under Eventz but is for December 96 (can you believe). Can we have a time and a definitive subject for the session on IP addressing? A concession on the entry fee would help me feel better about it too. Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Recall: ISOCNZ forum
by Robert Gray 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Robert Gray would like to recall the message, "ISOCNZ forum". --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum
by Robert Gray 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Jim Higgins wrote: > Clearly, Robert has a much better solution, which he is keeping from us > at the moment - but I'm sure he will reveal all when he is ready. You give me too much creditI wish that were true, regretably my motives are much more prosaic. I'm hoping to save from sitting through a number of items to which I have nothing to contribute so that I don't miss what I hope will be the 'main event' and in the process save myself $80/$130. Thus far the only 'real' agenda for a forum I can find is on the isocnz web site under Eventz but is for December 96 (can you believe). If the subject is re is a don't really lot of Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum
by Frank March 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Apologies to those who will be getting two copies of this; suddenly nznog and isocnz-l seem to be in lockstep; I hope that this condition is temporary! Just a brief comment expanding on what Jim Higgins wrote: Although ISOCNZ cannot dictate policy over IP address numbering in New Zealand, it is in a position (or with a bit of a push will be in such a position), to develop a consensus view amongst the various interest groups. It could even get itself into the position of being able to represent those groups in suitable fora or to external agencies should that become desirable or necessary. This is roughly where it is at (or should be) with the ISP Code of Practice. One of the preconditions for such a development to be possible it clearly needs a much wider membership base than it has at present. I hope that the overall theme of this year's Face to Face will lead in that direction. Frank March Secretary, ISOCNZ > -----Original Message----- > From: Jim Higgins [SMTP:jhiggins(a)netedge.co.nz] > Sent: Tuesday, November 03, 1998 1:23 AM > To: Joe Abley > Cc: Robert Gray; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz; isocnz-l(a)isocnz.org.nz > Subject: Re: ISOCNZ forum > > Joe Abley wrote: > > > > > As I mentioned before, I share reservations that ISOCNZ is an > appropriate > > body to _dictate_ policy on this issue. However, it is probably a good > > forum in which to make the issues more public. > > Joe, I have the same reservations - in fact ISOCNZ is in no position to > do such a thing - even if it wanted to. We have however been asked, by > a number of ISPs and others to do 'something' about this issue and we > feel that trying to get the parties together in a non-threatening > environment is a good start. The solution, whatever it is must be > 'owned' and agreed to by all involved - otherwise it has little chance > of success. > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: ISOCNZ forum
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Jim Higgins wrote:- >Joe, I have the same reservations - in fact ISOCNZ is in no position to >do such a thing - even if it wanted to. We have however been asked, by >a number of ISPs and others to do 'something' about this issue and we >feel that trying to get the parties together in a non-threatening >environment is a good start. Have you made sure you have a well informed panel so some meaningful discussion can take place? If people are paying money to attend, then there will be an expecation that it will be a professional effort with industry participation. My attempts to find out who is participating so far have drawn a blank. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum
by Colin Jackson 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Peter Mott wrote: >We cant progress an improvement in ISOCNZ by telling them to get their crap >together. It will happen when we all join up and make it into something we >can respect. Absolutely! If you'd like things done differently, the door is open. Come on in and DO it. Colin Jackson Chair, Admin Cttee. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: ISOCNZ forum
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

>> However, it is probably a good forum in which to make the issues more >>public. >Absolutely no issue but I think we would both like to see more action than >just publicity. I think we all need to stop saying ISOCNZ needs to do something. The reality is they are having a forum to which they are inviting people from all sorts of places. If we dont care about the possiblity of a blind leading the blind session, then we should do nothing. If on the other hand we want people to understand what the issues are really about, then we must be prepared to participate. We cant progress an improvement in ISOCNZ by telling them to get their crap together. It will happen when we all join up and make it into something we can respect. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: ISOCNZ forum
by Robert Gray 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

On Mon, Nov 02, 1998, Joe Abley wrote: > If you're in Auckland, then it seems there is a bar in the Sky Tower that > will be showing the proceedings on television -- I have been told there is > no charge to attend the Sky Tower screening, other than the onerous > requirement to purchase drinks from the bar. A day spent in a darkened Sky Tower bar watching a broadcast with such riveting items as "Announcing ISOCNZ as National Partner for ThinkQuest" on television? What could I possibly have done that would deserve such an unspeakable punishment? > However, it is probably a good forum in which to make the issues more public. Absolutely no issue but I think we would both like to see more action than just publicity. Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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ISOCNZ forum
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 01 Nov '98

01 Nov '98

Joe Abley wrote:- >Netgate is an operating name for a service of Telecom NZ. I don't think >there is any doubt that if anybody owns Netgate, Telecom NZ does :) Providers who connect to Netgate will know that its a Telecom NZ owned service. They get these regular peices of paper from them demanding money :-) However, most other folk may not know. Netgate, NZGATE, NZIX are words which get thrown around and I can see there is general confusion about what they mean. >Portability of addresses in general is a different issue (and one that is >rather clear-cut for new address allocations); however, it would certainly >benefit from wider exposure at the face-to-face as there is still much >confusion in the user community on this issue. There are more than a few people who believe they "own" address space, and that they have a right to have it routed to whereever they live. And then there are others who think they should be able to own address space so they can move between upstream providers without having to renumber. Can of worms people :-) >Notice I said "can" and not "should" :) I think we should always apsire to do what "should be done" rather than whats possible. It helps stretch our minds a little :-) regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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child pornography
by Joe Abley 31 Oct '98

31 Oct '98

It has been brought to the attention of our helpdesk that the newsgroup alt.binaries.pictures.bc-series contains child pornography. This group was not previously on our list of undesirable groups, so I guess it's possible/likely that other providers are carrying this group too. Our ops people will be dropping this group in the morning. You may want to check your news servers and take appropriate action. -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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[jabley: ]
by Joe Abley 31 Oct '98

31 Oct '98

Hi, I just noticed the following in the ISSUES section of the recent posting of the November ISOCNZ face-to-face: > THE ISSUES: > > [snip!] > > * Who Owns Netgate? Portability of IP Addresses > Netgate is an operating name for a service of Telecom NZ. I don't think there is any doubt that if anybody owns Netgate, Telecom NZ does :) I think you meant NZGATE. NZGATE no longer exists as an operational entity - I don't think that _ownership_ of NZGATE is a useful concept. Portability of addresses in general is a different issue (and one that is rather clear-cut for new address allocations); however, it would certainly benefit from wider exposure at the face-to-face as there is still much confusion in the user community on this issue. I think a better heading would be: * What can be done about the legacy of NZGATE-delegated addresses within NZ? Ongoing portability of IP addresses. Notice I said "can" and not "should" :) Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by Mark Davies 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

From: Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Date: Fri, 30 Oct 1998 15:15:29 +1300 > Does this mean that it will cost $130+GST to watch the action from the Sky > Tower? (what about the live MBONE feed? ;) No, its free from the Sky Tower. MBONE would be nice but you really need the infrastructure set up in advance and more or less permanent --- This of course would be a good thing in general. cheers mark --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: Paradise IP #
by Simon Blake 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

On Fri, 30 Oct 1998, Shane Cole wrote: > Hows the route manager project coming along? Fine - I'm just waiting on an ASN from APNIC - the route servers are all ready to rumba, but there isn't much point in setting everybody up to use private ASN, just to change later. Cheers Si -- Simon Blake simon(a)katipo.co.nz Katipo Communications +64 25 300 825 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

Interim programme below:- ++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1998 FACE TO FACE "THE INTERNET - TOOL OR TOY?" THE ISSUES: * Pornography and Other Nasties: Are the ISPs Liable? * Internet Governance: The Future of the DNS * Who Owns Netgate? Portability of IP Addresses * Ethics on the Internet * Does the Internet Need Government? * ThinkQuest: Announcing ISOCNZ as National Partner for ThinkQuest International Followed by: * ISOCNZ Annual General Meeting WHERE: (e)Vision House, 282 Wakefield Street, Wellington AND: Live Broadcast** to the Altos Bar, Sky City, Auckland WHEN: Friday November 20 1998 8:30-3:30 - followed by AGM in Wellington at 4:30pm WHO: Anyone with an interest in the Hottest Issues on the Internet in 1998 ENTRY: Members: $80.00 + GST Non-Members: $130 + GST ** Conference Only regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

This list is an excellent idea. Top marks to the folk who kicked it off >Three weeks ago Joe Abley suggested to this list an approach to the >elimination of addresses issued in small units by NZGate. His proposal is >still available at >http://www.patho.gen.nz/~jabley/nznumber.txt . Are list participants aware ISOCNZ is planning a forum discussion on this topic in Wellington on Nov 20 prior to their AGM? Sounds like an opportunity for industry players to get together and share views. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by Robert Gray 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

Peter Mott wrote today: > Are list participants aware ISOCNZ is planning a forum discussion > on this topic in Wellington on Nov 20 prior to their AGM? This too is an excellent idea, is there a time set and do we need to register or anything? Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by 2Day Chief Enthusiast 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

>As someone who is almost certainly more familiar with ISOCNZ than I am, >what are your views? How do you see ISOCNZ participating or adding value >to this issue? My reply may be off topic, but you did ask the question, so here goes ... Today, I would say ISOCNZ is not in a very good position to add value to this issue or any other industry specific issue which may come along. I say that because, whilst ISOCNZ has the best intentions in the world, it has very view internet providers actively participating, and has a council which addresses issues and makes decisions on things they consider important to them at the time. It is therefore unlikely they can represent our industry particularly well for the time being. The move to run a forum on issues such as censorhip, ip addressing, and domain registration is a clear signal they want industry to participate. We need to wake up and smell the coffee. I think the Internet provider industry needs to be able to speak with a single voice. We can can achieve this by:- a) seizing the opportunity to grow ISOCNZ by joining up real quick or b) forming our own industry association sooner rather than later Whether NZNOG is a part of, or drives this initiative is a question for us all, but I suggest that action is required. Whilst the IP addressing issue can be seen in the context of engineering stuff for industry players to sort and agree on, there are things happening in much higher places than most of us care to live, the outcome of which may be industry loosing some ability to manage itself. The question of IP management is as vexed an argument as domain name management, except the stakes are much higher. As things evolve, the respect held for RFC's will erode, and so we will need to look for other ways to ensure issues which concern participants of this list can be addressed. regards Peter Mott Chief Enthusiast 2Day Internet Limited http://www.2day.net.nz -/- --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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RE: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by Frank March 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

This issue is of fundamental interest to anyone concerned with the commercial integrity and long term stability of the Internet in New Zealand. Therefore it a matter of concern to me in the policy capacity recognised in the sig below. Wearing a different hat, my association with ISOCNZ, there is a need for someone *representative of the Internet community as a whole* to take on responsibility for ensuring that the Internet is a stable and reliable platform for e commerce. Although ISOCNZ is not there yet, it does have that potential (see for example, David Farrar's vision statement http://www.dpf.ac.nz/isocnz/vision.htm; which I by and large support) Ideologically and practically, there is strong disinterest on the part of the Government to regulate any matter relating to the Internet. But I have been lead to believe that the IP address structure is of sufficient concern that, if there was any suggestion that the NZgate 'share' of the IP address space was at risk of monopoly 'capture' by any group which was not representative of the interests of the Internet users as a whole, the Government might take another look. I will be developing some of this at the Face to Face meeting on 20 November. So my comment on the question raised by Joe's most recent post, reproduced in full below is: who else, other than ISOCNZ? And if this is not 'value add' what would be of greater importance? This is also not a loaded question. :) Of course, we are looking at an operational issue. Although, in fact, we are looking at policy underlying an operational issue; that is governance, actually. Frank March Specialist Advisor IT Policy Group, Ministry of Commerce, PO Box 1473, Wellington, New Zealand Telephone: +64 4 474 2908; Fax: +64 4 473 7010 > -----Original Message----- > From: Joe Abley [SMTP:jabley(a)clear.co.nz] > Sent: Friday, October 30, 1998 12:32 PM > To: 2Day Chief Enthusiast; Donald Neal; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: Re: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand > > On Fri, Oct 30, 1998 at 12:01:17PM +1300, 2Day Chief Enthusiast wrote: > > This list is an excellent idea. Top marks to the folk who kicked it off > > > > >Three weeks ago Joe Abley suggested to this list an approach to the > > >elimination of addresses issued in small units by NZGate. His proposal > is > > >still available at > > >http://www.patho.gen.nz/~jabley/nznumber.txt . > > > > Are list participants aware ISOCNZ is planning a forum discussion > > on this topic in Wellington on Nov 20 prior to their AGM? > > > > Sounds like an opportunity for industry players to get together and > share > > views. > > Although there are commercial issues surrounding the use of NZGATE numbers > in networks today, the underlying motive for reform is the health of the > network - specifically, the advertisement of long-prefix routes. This > aspect > is clearly an operational issue, rather than one of governance -- and has > its roots in _global_ operational policy, rather than that of just NZ. > > As someone who is almost certainly more familiar with ISOCNZ than I am, > what are your views? How do you see ISOCNZ participating or adding value > to this issue? > > This isn't a loaded question :) I'm just interested. > > > Joe > > -- > Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 > Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ > > --------- > To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > where the body of your message reads: > unsubscribe nznog --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGate Addressing Within New Zealand
by Donald Neal 29 Oct '98

29 Oct '98

Three weeks ago Joe Abley suggested to this list an approach to the elimination of addresses issued in small units by NZGate. His proposal is still available at http://www.patho.gen.nz/~jabley/nznumber.txt . Joe, do you have any plans to revise your proposal in the light of feedback you've seen since? - Donald Neal --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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NZNOG [off-topic]
by Joe Abley 27 Oct '98

27 Oct '98

Hi all, This is off-topic, although (I hope) of sufficient interest that I don't get engulfed in anti-spam hate-mail :) A list has been in operation for some time now, hosted by the University of Waikato, intended as an open forum for the discussion of operational issues between network operators in New Zealand. The list's membership is not (currently) completely representative of all network operators in NZ, but currently has subscribers from (in the order that people have subscribed): CLEAR, NetGate, Netlink, ICONZ, Waikato University, Telecom NZ, Iprolink, National Library, Xtra, CityLink, OnTheNet, Paradise.Net, Saturn, Voyager, Ascend, Cisco, IHUG, Plain Communications, Tasman Solutions, Clearview, Globe Net, the Ministry of Commerce, Internet Exchange and Victoria University of Wellington. The list has proved useful for announcing transient network issues affecting other providers, arranging peering between networks, and more recently for discussions relating to IP numbering in New Zealand. This note is really just an attempt to widen the membership of the list, in case there are network operators who are not aware of it. A brief description of the list follows, courtesy of Donald Neal of Telecom NZ. Thank you for your time! Now - back to the main feature. --------- >From: Donald Neal <D1NC(a)telecom.co.nz> Subject: The New Zealand Network Operators' Group Date: Wed, 28 Oct 1998 10:10:27 +1200 The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has neither a king, a president nor a formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by an employee of Telecom NZ Ltd. Neither of these organisations (nor the administrator) is responsible for its content. NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1.Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 3.Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 4.Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 5.Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 6.Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are discouraged. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/nznog/ To search the archive, see http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/search.html (and remember to select nznog). Digest Mailing List If you don't wish to receive postings as they are sent, you can instead subscribe to the nznog-digest mailiing list, on which all postings are sent out in a single "digest" every couple of days. Other Activities NZNOG does not at present have other regular activities than this mailing list, though some Auckland subscribers have been known to arrange meetings over beer. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins --------- -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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The New Zealand Network Operators' Group
by Donald Neal 27 Oct '98

27 Oct '98

The New Zealand Network Operators' Group The New Zealand Network Operators' Group (NZNOG) has neither a king, a president nor a formal membership. At present it consists of the subscribers to this mailing list, which anyone is free to join. The NZNOG mailing list is provided through a server at The University of Waikato, and is administered by an employee of Telecom NZ Ltd. Neither of these organisations (nor the administrator) is responsible for its content. NZNOG Mailing List Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among New Zealand network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1.Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 3.Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 4.Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 5.Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 6.Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are discouraged. Mailing List Archives A full archive is available at http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/nznog/ To search the archive, see http://list.waikato.ac.nz/archives/search.html (and remember to select nznog). Digest Mailing List If you don't wish to receive postings as they are sent, you can instead subscribe to the nznog-digest mailiing list, on which all postings are sent out in a single "digest" every couple of days. Other Activities NZNOG does not at present have other regular activities than this mailing list, though some Auckland subscribers have been known to arrange meetings over beer. Donald Neal NZNOG Mailing List Owner/Administrator/Muggins --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Arrgh! READ ME
by Joe Abley 26 Oct '98

26 Oct '98

Arron/Sandy, You people seem to be advertising an awful lot of crap to us over NZIX; the following is an example (209.155.82.18 is ftp.cdrom.com) ba1.acld#ping ftp.cdrom.com Type escape sequence to abort. Sending 5, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 209.155.82.18, timeout is 2 seconds: .!!.. Success rate is 40 percent (2/5), round-trip min/avg/max = 1108/1388/1668 ms ba1.acld#show ip route 209.155.82.18 Routing entry for 209.155.82.18/32 Known via "ospf 1", distance 110, metric 5000 Tag 9999, type extern 2, forward metric 100 Redistributing via ospf 1 Last update from 203.97.1.70 on ATM5/0.1, 1d00h ago Routing Descriptor Blocks: * 203.97.1.70, from 203.97.1.82, 1d00h ago, via ATM5/0.1 Route metric is 5000, traffic share count is 1 ba1.acld#traceroute 209.155.82.18 Type escape sequence to abort. Tracing the route to wcarchive.cdrom.com (209.155.82.18) 1 ba1-ser0-15.hmtn.clix.net.nz (203.97.1.70) 32 msec 12 msec 16 msec 2 ngthn1-b1.nzix.waikato.ac.nz (140.200.128.9) [AS 681] 136 msec 20 msec 28 msec 3 s6-1.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.125) [AS 4648] 36 msec 32 msec 28 msec 4 f0-0.akbr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.58) [AS 4648] 2144 msec * * 5 This seems bad! Anybody else seeing this? I will be blocking OSPF updates from NetGate over NZIX very shortly... Any feedback or confirmation from anybody else would be most welcome. Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Fw: Arrgh! READ ME
by Tony Wicks 25 Oct '98

25 Oct '98

Well, thats what you get for working at 10:30pm on a public holiday !.. hold on, so am I..... damn.... -----Original Message----- From: Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> To: arrons(a)netgate.net.nz <arrons(a)netgate.net.nz>; s.davidson(a)netgate.net.nz <s.davidson(a)netgate.net.nz> Cc: nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz <nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz> Date: Monday, 26 October 1998 22:43 Subject: Re: Arrgh! READ ME >Well... > >I know that I'm talking to myself here :) but it seems like I overreacted >somewhat; on closer examination, the only erroneous route I can find from >140.200.128.9 is for 209.155.82.18/32. I can't find anything else that >shouldn't be there. > >It was just the first thing I tried, and so I assumed the worst :( > >209.155/16 is definitely operated by CRL though, and so the host route >for 209.155.82.18/32 _is_ bogus. > >Many apologies for casting aspersions on NetGate's OSPF speaker! > >Yours in drugs, > > >Joe > >-- >Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 >Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ > >--------- >To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz >where the body of your message reads: >unsubscribe nznog > --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: ?
by Michael Newbery 22 Oct '98

22 Oct '98

Seems good to me. Is item 2 there explicitly to provide for the "it's Friday, let's go to the pub" postings? -- Michael Newbery Technology Manager Saturn Communications Tel: +64-4-915 5102 Mobile:021-642 957 Fax:+64-4-939 5100 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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None
by Donald Neal 21 Oct '98

21 Oct '98

NZNOG Subscribers, Below is a suggested Acceptable Use Policy, based on the one for the North American Network Operators' Group mailing list which I posted last week. I believe it accurately reflects the use of this list, but I'd like to hear any comments on it. Donald Neal NZNOG list owner/administrator/muggins ---------- Proposed Acceptable Use Policy The NZNOG mailing list exists to provide a forum for the exchange of technical information and the discussion of implementation issues that require cooperation among network service providers. In order to continue to provide a useful forum for discussion of relevant technical issues, users of the list are asked to respect the following guidelines. 1.Discussion will focus on Internet operational and technical issues. 2. Discussion related to meetings of network service providers is appropriate. 3. Discussion unrelated to these topics is not appropriate. 3.Postings to multiple mailing lists are discouraged. 4.Postings that include foul language, character assassination, and lack of respect for other participants are unacceptable. 5.Blatant product or service marketing is unacceptable. 6.Postings of political, philosophical, and legal nature are discouraged. --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGATE addressing within NZ
by Robert Gray 21 Oct '98

21 Oct '98

>This is only one possible solution. This document is DRAFT. This document >does not attempt to define policy; it is merely intended to provoke some >useful discussion. I'd like to propose something of a variation to Joe's 'One Possible Solution' to the addressing issues. This is based on a little research and a selective interpretation of the following references: http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-160.html <http://www.ripe.net/docs/ripe-160.html> Ripe-160: Guidelines for Setting up a Local Internet Registry at the RIPE NCC [and if you don't think this is relevant take a peek at http://www.ripe.net/lir/registries/indices/NZ.html <http://www.ripe.net/lir/registries/indices/NZ.html> ] http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-001.txt <http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-001.txt> ' Local IR's are of three types: 'Service Provider', 'Enterprise' and 'National'. An Internet service provider (ISP) is an organisation that supplies Internet connectivity to its customers or users. An ISP can become a local IR by agreeing to certain conditions (see APNIC-011). A 'National' local IR's handle all requests from organisations that have no connection to the Internet at present or planned. In addition, National IRs may also delegate addresses to ISPs within a national context. 'National' IR's are often run by a consortium of ISP's as a voluntary and neutral service to the community.....' http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-011.txt <http://ftp.apnic.net/apnic/archive/apnic-011.txt> 'With respect to IP address 'ownership', service providers have the option of treating the sub-delegation of networks to customers as permanent or, if explicitly specified in the service provider's contractual agreement, temporary. It must be stressed that without a contractual agreement stating otherwise, assignment of networks to end users is always considered permanent (e.g., the 'ownership' of the network is transferred to the client).' The essence of the proposed variation is that instead of APNIC, a 'National' IR would be established in NZ (run by a consortium of ISP's as a voluntary and neutral service to the community). This 'National' IR to take over management of the NZGATE space for use as PI space for those who need it. This would not preclude any organisation obtaining space elsewhere. Clearly taking over the NZGATE space would require consent and co-operation from APNIC but with a broad based approach from NZ ISP's surely this would be possible? The following suggested changes to Joe's document are not intended to be complete and are also in draft form only. This is to give a general flavour, provide a basis for discussion and goes something like this: >2.3. Administrative control of NZGATE blocks returned to APNIC >All NZGATE-derived subnets not in use at the agreed time should be >returned to APNIC for administration. No further delegations from the >NZGATE blocks should be permitted by any NZ provider. All NZGATE-derived subnets not in use at the agreed time should be passed to the 'National' IR for administration. No further delegations from the NZGATE blocks should be permitted by any NZ provider. >2.4. Forced renumbering >No end-user network using NZGATE subnets should be obliged to renumber as >part of the normal course of their operation (but see [2.5] and [2.6]). No end-user network using PI (NZGATE) subnets should be obliged to renumber as part of the normal course of their operation (but see [2.5] and [2.6]) however an annual charge may be levied by the 'National' IR. [to act as a disincentive to retaining unused addresses and help cover costs]. >2.5. Process for extending address space delegations >Any end-user network which needs additional addresses due to growth should >be obliged to renumber with provider-based addressing in order to obtain >their larger address range. The released NZGATE addresses will be returned >to APNIC by the ISP. Any end-user network which needs additional addresses due to growth should be obliged to renumber with provider-based addressing (PA) in order to obtain their larger address range. The released PI addresses will be returned to the 'National' IR by the ISP. Any provider network which needs additional addresses due to growth should be obliged to renumber to an alternative PI range provided by the 'National' IR if a contiguous allocation cannot be provided to obtain their larger address range. >2.6. Process for managing ISP-hopping by end-user networks >Any end-user network that uses NZGATE numbers and decides to change ISPs >must renumber using provider-based addressing provided by the new ISP. The >released NZGATE addresses will be returned to APNIC by the former ISP. Any end-user network that uses PI (NZGATE) numbers and decides to change ISPs must renumber using provider-based addressing provided by the new ISP. The released PI addresses will be returned to the 'National' IR by the former ISP. >2.7. Process for managing ISP-hopping by national providers >Any national provider that uses NZGATE numbers and decides to change >global transit providers must renumber its own infrastructure using >provider-based addressing provided by the new global transit provider. >Customers of the national provider who use NZGATE numbers will not be >required to renumber (but see [2.5], [2.6]). Any national provider that uses PI (NZGATE) numbers and decides to change global transit providers will not be required to renumber (but see [2.5], [2.6]). I have retained the terms 'end user' 'national provider' and 'global transit providers' assuming I know what they mean but I think some form of definition would be in order. Constructive comments (and other responses) to the list please. Robert Gray Clearview Communications, Auckland New Zealand bobg(a)clearview.co.nz <mailto:bobg(a)clearfield.co.nz> http://www.clearview.co.nz/ <http://www.clearview.co.nz/> Phone DDI +64 9 529 5704, Fax +64 9 529 5702, Mob +64 25 971 860 --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGATE addressing within NZ
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 21 Oct '98

21 Oct '98

Hi. > It would be useful to know what size blocks the major US backbone > providers see as viable entries. Currently they will accept a /24 but > I've seen numbers like /18 or /19 bandied around in the past as the size > of blocks that will be routable on the backbone for the forseeable > future. (I recall Sprint for example saying that they would support > blocks of this size.) Well Sprint only accepts /24 in historical ranges (to which the NZGATE addresses belong). Current practice seems to be to filter at the minimum allocation size for the /8's. For all new and assignments in the recent past this seems to be /19 (from all registries), for older addresses this was /24. Because of the dramatic slowdown in router table growth, there doesn't seem to be any forseeable technical reason to have to alter current practice. Should growth threaten to become unmanagable, increasing the minimum allocation size to /18 or /17 could slow growth, without having to attempt to retroactively assume a new minimum allocation size. It's difficult to retroactively try to filter out routes shorter than the minimum allocation size at the time they were issued as this results in cutting onself off from too much of the Internet. And so for commercial reasons this has not happened (except perhaps briefly) and cannot be reasonably expected to happen. I cannot find information at APNIC for what they consider to be the minimum allocation sizes for 202/8 nor 203/8 -- something we should find out and (attempt to) correct if desirable/necessary. -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGATE addressing within NZ
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 20 Oct '98

20 Oct '98

Hi. > Just because network addresses could be considered portable a few years ago > doesn't make it so forever - the network is changing, and best current > practices change with it. True, but if you look at best current practice, that does not including route filtering more strictly than the minimum allocation size (i believe it was tried and rejected :-), and it does not involve restrictions on portability. It's easy to argue that within the NZGATE addresses the minimum allocation size is /24. There is also a very serious danger with trying to force this non-portability aspect. It reeks of commercial and not technical motives. It looks like a way to lock up customers by making it difficult to change providers. And without a serious technical reason (like if we don't do it, no one will be able to use the Internet), it is. If i didn't know Joe better, i would have suspected this was part of the reasoning. Nevertheless, one has to look as well as be very clean on any proposal in this area -- looking or behaving like a cartel will cause serious problems. I believe we can accomplish the basic goals with different rules, rules that are fair, fit existing practices, and have little potential commercial motive. How about we use: You can't move unless the entire block allocated by Waikato was allocated to you (or else you renumber). This allows ISPs to move about freely as suggested, some companies will also be able to move, but not those who obtained their IP addresses from an ISP. This will help prevent much further fragmentation, will help prevent overlapping advertisements, and helps clarify "ownership". It would seem prudent for us to at least look at the current allocations and estimate the amount of address space assigned to ISPs and to end users. I suspect there is only a small percentage of end user blocks. And if this is the case there would be very little practical difference between this and the draft's rules. -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: NZGATE addressing within NZ
by craig＠laptop.iprolink.co.nz 18 Oct '98

18 Oct '98

Hi. > I took another look at this data and I see some differences. I see a lot too :-( Turns out my program for doing joins on CIDR blocks had a bug and that the inetnum's in the APNIC database couldn't always be rewritten as a single CIDR block (e.g. 202.36.149.0-202.36.153.255) which i had assumed... However, i guess after the beers on Friday this is no longer needed :-) -Craig --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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mail storm via 203.98.24.1
by Joe Abley 17 Oct '98

17 Oct '98

Hi, Someone is using 203.98.24.1 (pcombo.co.nz) to relay mail to the CLEAR Net MX hosts. Since 00:16:57 this morning there have been several hundreds of thousands of attempts to deliver mail to CLEAR Net, which have been blocked at CLEAR Net since the senders' domain is not real. Oct 17 00:16:57 fep4 sendmail[25135]: Ruleset check_mail (<hacka(a)udie.com>) rejection: 451 <hacka(a)udie.com>... Sender domain (udie.com) not found in DNS, or not compliant with section 6 of RFC822 Oct 17 00:16:57 fep4 sendmail[25135]: AAA25135: from=<hacka(a)udie.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, relay=pcombo.co.nz [203.98.24.1] Oct 17 00:16:57 fep3 sendmail[1621]: Ruleset check_mail (<hacka(a)udie.com>) rejection: 451 <hacka(a)udie.com>... Sender domain (udie.com) not found in DNS, or not compliant with section 6 of RFC822 Oct 17 00:16:57 fep3 sendmail[1621]: AAA01621: from=<hacka(a)udie.com>, size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, relay=pcombo.co.nz [203.98.24.1] The offending relay is reached from CLEAR via Xtra and onthenet: traceroute to 203.98.24.1 (203.98.24.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets 1 router (203.97.2.225) 3.125 ms 2.839 ms 2.940 ms 2 d1.test.clear.net.nz (203.167.224.30) 26.798 ms 27.121 ms 26.944 ms 3 ba1-atm1-0-1.acld.clix.net.nz (203.167.224.1) 27.307 ms ba2-atm1-0-1.acld.clix.net.nz (203.167.224.2) 27.199 ms 27.307 ms 4 ba1-ser0-15.hmtn.clix.net.nz (203.97.1.70) 37.072 ms s3-0.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.33) 30.615 ms 29.995 ms 5 xtra.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.46) 29.765 ms ngthn1-b1.nzix.waikato.ac.nz (140.200.128.9) 34.387 ms 36.746 ms 6 192.168.200.241 (192.168.200.241) 35.184 ms 35.428 ms s6-1.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.125) 42.860 ms 7 xtra.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.46) 38.670 ms 34.878 ms 53.744 ms 8 192.168.30.18 (192.168.30.18) 65.403 ms 192.168.200.241 (192.168.200.241) 42.500 ms 192.168.30.18 (192.168.30.18) 100.988 ms 9 otn2.gw.onthenet.co.nz (210.55.215.247) 48.387 ms 72.757 ms pcombo.co.nz (203.98.24.1) 131.373 ms I have just checked 203.98.24.1 from tardis.patho.gen.nz, and it is indeed a promiscuous relay: tardis[5]% telnet pcombo.co.nz 25 Trying 203.98.24.1... Connected to pcombo.co.nz. Escape character is '^]'. 220 pcombo.co.nz ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.5; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:01:33 +1245 HELO blah 250 pcombo.co.nz Hello tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226], pleased to meet you MAIL FROM:<moo(a)cow.dog.horse> 250 <moo(a)cow.dog.horse>... Sender ok RCPT TO:<jabley(a)patho.gen.nz> 250 <jabley(a)patho.gen.nz>... Recipient ok DATA 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself From: moo(a)cow.dog.horse To: jabley(a)patho.gen.nz Subject: oh no This is an open relay . 250 KAA19201 Message accepted for delivery QUIT 221 pcombo.co.nz closing connection Connection closed by foreign host. which resulted in the following delivery attempt to tardis: Oct 17 10:05:58 tardis sendmail[21233]: KAA21233: ruleset=check_mail, arg1=<moo(a)cow.dog.horse>, relay=root(a)pcombo.co.nz [203.98.24.1], reject=501 <moo(a)cow.dog.horse>... Sender domain must exist Until it is evident that these antics have stopped, we have applied packet filters to refuse connections from 203.98.24.1 on tcp/25. We would be grateful if appropriate people at Xtra and/or onthenet could take similar action or otherwise arrange for this to stop. Joe -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)patho.gen.nz> --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Re: mail storm via 203.98.24.1
by Norman Burgess 17 Oct '98

17 Oct '98

Well, it was early morning Saturday that I discovered this was happening .. it is on the go again right now! Take some action please. Regards Norman Burgess ---------- > From: Joe Abley <jabley(a)patho.gen.nz> > To: soa(a)xtra.co.nz; abuse(a)xtra.co.nz; postmaster(a)xtra.co.nz; info(a)onthenet.co.nz; soa(a)onthenet.co.nz > Cc: nburgess(a)clear.net.nz; bob(a)wonderland.org.nz; olof(a)clear.net.nz; nznog(a)list.waikato.ac.nz > Subject: mail storm via 203.98.24.1 > Date: Saturday, 17 October 1998 10:23 > > Hi, > > Someone is using 203.98.24.1 (pcombo.co.nz) to relay mail to the CLEAR Net > MX hosts. Since 00:16:57 this morning there have been several hundreds of > thousands of attempts to deliver mail to CLEAR Net, which have been blocked > at CLEAR Net since the senders' domain is not real. > > Oct 17 00:16:57 fep4 sendmail[25135]: Ruleset check_mail (<hacka(a)udie.com>) > rejection: 451 <hacka(a)udie.com>... Sender domain (udie.com) not found in DNS, > or not compliant with section 6 of RFC822 > > Oct 17 00:16:57 fep4 sendmail[25135]: AAA25135: from=<hacka(a)udie.com>, > size=0, class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, relay=pcombo.co.nz > [203.98.24.1] > > Oct 17 00:16:57 fep3 sendmail[1621]: Ruleset check_mail (<hacka(a)udie.com>) > rejection: 451 <hacka(a)udie.com>... Sender domain (udie.com) not found in DNS, > or not compliant with section 6 of RFC822 > > Oct 17 00:16:57 fep3 sendmail[1621]: AAA01621: from=<hacka(a)udie.com>, size=0, > class=0, pri=0, nrcpts=0, proto=ESMTP, relay=pcombo.co.nz [203.98.24.1] > > The offending relay is reached from CLEAR via Xtra and onthenet: > > traceroute to 203.98.24.1 (203.98.24.1), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets > 1 router (203.97.2.225) 3.125 ms 2.839 ms 2.940 ms > 2 d1.test.clear.net.nz (203.167.224.30) 26.798 ms 27.121 ms 26.944 ms > 3 ba1-atm1-0-1.acld.clix.net.nz (203.167.224.1) 27.307 ms ba2-atm1-0-1.acld.clix.net.nz (203.167.224.2) 27.199 ms 27.307 ms > 4 ba1-ser0-15.hmtn.clix.net.nz (203.97.1.70) 37.072 ms s3-0.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.33) 30.615 ms 29.995 ms > 5 xtra.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.46) 29.765 ms ngthn1-b1.nzix.waikato.ac.nz (140.200.128.9) 34.387 ms 36.746 ms > 6 192.168.200.241 (192.168.200.241) 35.184 ms 35.428 ms s6-1.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.125) 42.860 ms > 7 xtra.akcr1.netgate.net.nz (202.37.245.46) 38.670 ms 34.878 ms 53.744 ms > 8 192.168.30.18 (192.168.30.18) 65.403 ms 192.168.200.241 (192.168.200.241) 42.500 ms 192.168.30.18 (192.168.30.18) 100.988 ms > 9 otn2.gw.onthenet.co.nz (210.55.215.247) 48.387 ms 72.757 ms pcombo.co.nz (203.98.24.1) 131.373 ms > > I have just checked 203.98.24.1 from tardis.patho.gen.nz, and it is indeed > a promiscuous relay: > > tardis[5]% telnet pcombo.co.nz 25 > Trying 203.98.24.1... > Connected to pcombo.co.nz. > Escape character is '^]'. > 220 pcombo.co.nz ESMTP Sendmail 8.8.7/8.8.5; Sat, 17 Oct 1998 10:01:33 +1245 > HELO blah > 250 pcombo.co.nz Hello tardis.patho.gen.nz [203.97.2.226], pleased to meet you > MAIL FROM:<moo(a)cow.dog.horse> > 250 <moo(a)cow.dog.horse>... Sender ok > RCPT TO:<jabley(a)patho.gen.nz> > 250 <jabley(a)patho.gen.nz>... Recipient ok > DATA > 354 Enter mail, end with "." on a line by itself > From: moo(a)cow.dog.horse > To: jabley(a)patho.gen.nz > Subject: oh no > > This is an open relay > . > 250 KAA19201 Message accepted for delivery > QUIT > 221 pcombo.co.nz closing connection > Connection closed by foreign host. > > which resulted in the following delivery attempt to tardis: > > Oct 17 10:05:58 tardis sendmail[21233]: KAA21233: ruleset=check_mail, > arg1=<moo(a)cow.dog.horse>, relay=root(a)pcombo.co.nz [203.98.24.1], reject=501 > <moo(a)cow.dog.horse>... Sender domain must exist > > Until it is evident that these antics have stopped, we have applied packet > filters to refuse connections from 203.98.24.1 on tcp/25. > > We would be grateful if appropriate people at Xtra and/or onthenet could > take similar action or otherwise arrange for this to stop. > > > Joe > > -- > Joe Abley <jabley(a)patho.gen.nz> --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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alcohol
by Joe Abley 15 Oct '98

15 Oct '98

Apologies for the very beery nature of these messages. Just in case anybody turns up and wonders where all the free beer is, I won't be over at Galbraith's until shortly after 6. Note that this is not an implicit confirmation of the availabity of free beer :) -- Joe Abley <jabley(a)clear.co.nz> Tel +64 9 912-4065, Fax +64 9 912-5008 Network Architect, CLEAR Net http://www.clear.net.nz/ --------- To unsubscribe from nznog, send email to majordomo(a)list.waikato.ac.nz where the body of your message reads: unsubscribe nznog

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Drinks Tonight?!?
by Rowan Smith 15 Oct '98

15 Oct '98

Between all the intelligent talk about renumbering New Zealands IP Address space did anyone actually commit to going to Galbraiths tonight for a beer ot not? Remember you only have to agree with Joe until hes forked over for the alcohol, then you can start arguing again!! -Rowan

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