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CAISO expects to have a stage-three energy shortage this week
by Sean Donelan 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

California is sweating through another hot spell this week. CAISO's web page http://www.caiso.com/ is very slow today. CAISO has already called for a mandatory load reduction of 1700 megawatts today. Today's peak is predicted to reach 44537 Megawatts at 4pm. Tomorrow's load is predicted to be 44827 Megawatts. http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/cn/20000918/tc/silicon_valley_sweats_as_heat_w… ISO spokeswoman Stephanie McCorkle said today that the region is likely to experience the year's first stage-three energy emergency this week, causing power to shut off in "rotating blackouts." Typically, businesses and residential consumers get no warning before power is turned off in a stage-three emergency. "At the most," McCorkle said, "there could be up to a half-hour notice."

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HR 4445 Reciprocal Compensation
by Robert Cannon 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

I would note that the FCC has an open proceeding to consider what compensation mechanism should apply to ISP bound traffic. The FCC originally concluded that ISP Bound traffic is interstate - normally recprical compensation applies only to local calls. Instead of saying reciprocal compensation does not apply, the FCC (a) affirmed all existing agreements and (b) said no rule exists for ISP bound traffic and therefore opened an inquiry to make a rule. The DC Circuit Vacated the FCC's conclusion that it was interstate traffic. In response, the FCC released a further notice requesting comments on what to do about ISP bound telecommunications in light of the Court's decision. This is an open administrative proceeding. Anyone can file comments. Comments can be filed online on the FCC's electronic comment filing system as easily as writing an e-mail. The Formal Comment period has closed - all that means is that when you file your comments, you need to check off the box that says this is an "ex parte" filing. The FCC generally continues to accept comments until the very last minute. The FCC is required by law to consider your opinion in its decision. More information on the proceeding can be found at http://www.cybertelecom.org/rcomp.htm#fcc Robert Cannon www.cybertelecom.org ______________________________________________ FREE Personalized Email at Mail.com Sign up at http://www.mail.com/?sr=signup

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IS-IS/OSPF Comparison
by ccie10 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

Looking for some information, advantages, disadvantages of utilizing either OSPF or IS-IS as an IGP. I need some head to head comparisons or case studies, links would be helpful. thanks

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What happened to the MFS Sales number for MAE-E . ie: 703.506.2000
by Mr. James W. Laferriere 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

Hello All , It looks like Worldcomm pulled the plug on their MAE East sales line . The www.mae.net page doesn't show the phone list any longer . It appears that they only want you to have access to the sales group(s) thru the email address mae-info(a)mfst.com Are they going to centralize the sales office(s) ? Does anyone know an MFS-MAE-Easts Sales persons # ? Tia , JimL +----------------------------------------------------------------+ | James W. Laferriere | System Techniques | Give me VMS | | Network Engineer | 25416 22nd So | Give me Linux | | babydr(a)baby-dragons.com | DesMoines WA 98198 | only on AXP | +----------------------------------------------------------------+

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Weekend Loop
by Sue Joiner 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

Hello, The mail loop that started on Friday evening was stopped on Sunday afternoon. The mail queue is finally back to normal. Sorry for the inconvience of multiple messages that were sent over the weekend. -sue -- Sue Joiner Merit Network, Inc.

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NANOG 20 -- Hotel & Registration Fee Payment Deadlines
by Carol Wadsworth 18 Sep '00

18 Sep '00

For those of you registered to attend NANOG 20, please note the following upcoming deadlines: September 21: Cut-off date to reserve discounted hotel rooms in the NANOG room block For hotel reservation details see: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0010/hotel.html October 9: Registration payment due (after October 9, the fee increases $50) To check payment status see: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0010/registration.list.html For payment submission information, see: http://www.nanog.org/mtg-0010/closed.html Registration is now closed. Since the meeting has reached capacity, there will be no waiting list established. Please note that walk-ins will not be permitted or accepted at the meeting. Carol Wadsworth Merit Network, Inc.

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Re: S-BGP (some operational content)
by Sean Donelan 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

On Sat, 16 September 2000, Timothy Brown wrote: > a) Has there ever been a published man-in-the-middle attack of someone using > BGP to affect someone else's network? Depends on what you mean by an "attack." There have been numerous configuration errors by people in the middle such as UUNET, Sprint, etc which affected other ISPs networks for hours or days. I wouldn't call them attacks because an attack implies intent. Stupidity and sloppiness could explain most of them. Could a person with malicious intent do the same thing as the accidential disruptions we've already seen? Yes. Has it happened? I don't know the motivations of the people involved.

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MPLScon 2001 Call for Presentations
by Irwin Lazar 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

MPLScon 2001 - The MPLS Conference and Exhibition, will be held March 26-29,2001 in San Jose California. A Call for Presentations for this event is now available at http://www.mplsrc.com/MPLSconCFP.pdf If you have any questions, please contact me via e-mail at ilazar(a)tbg.com or via phone at 703-742-9659. If you would like to speak at this event, we kindly ask that abstracts be submitted by November 15, 2000. Sincerely, Irwin Lazar Conference Director, MPLScon 2001.

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Re: NASA (and e.root-servers.net) off the air
by Sean Donelan 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

I don't know if the NIPC folks are worried about copycats or have asked folks not to say anything, but there have been several DDOS attacks this week. NASA seems to have pulled up their drawbridges today.

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Re: Confussion over multi-homing
by Brantley Jones 16 Sep '00

16 Sep '00

At 01:23 PM 9/14/2000 -0500, you wrote: >Wouldn't one of the ISPs have to advertise a longer prefix? I would think >that the address space would come from only one of the providers, in which >case the other provider would have to advertise this space on top of its own >/20. It is irrelevant whether the two ISPs advertise one another, the >longer prefix would be the first choice for the backbone traffic. If the >longer prefix route goes down, traffic would still go to the /20 the other >provider is advertising. >The ISP who is advertising the route on top of its own /20 can't aggregate >said route as it only can route to that portion of the address space defined >in the longer prefix. > >Geoff Zinderdine The problem is GETTING a /20 from anybody. We recently tried and could only get a /23 (being a small start-up). BUT, that /23 is (apparently) globally routable because of peering agreements with L3 and UUNET. Our /23 prefix has yet to be filtered by anybody. Brantley

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