Since it seems that Mr. Bush has publicly labeled me a troll on this list, let me be clear about what I was looking for an why when I posted this request. BTW - in my best 'trollese' - My apologies for not being clearer in my original post or in using the terms "Slamming ICANN" since what the real intent was to push ICANN to explain certain components of its new divestiture plan. So the real question was "From an ISP's perspective, I was looking for a general number as to how many user-level protocols you ISP folks route through your infrastructure and what the statistical distribution of total bytes per protocol out of the total bytes moved is/was." Since there is much unrest in the ICANN today and US Senators are now screaming about its reform, I would like to pose the question to the ISP members of this group, what will you do about the impending need at the ISP level for: 1) Supporting multiple DNS Roots for your clients 2) Installing and supporting the mechanical concept of eBorders 3) What if anything you folks are doing to produce network infrastructure worthy of being called "Evidentiary Grade"... As to why I would ask this of NANOG... well that's simple. You folks are where the rubber meets the road. You are the network operators and everything else is just window dressing if it doesn't get airplay for this crowd... Which is to say, even with the occasional abuse from people like Mr. Bush and his troll commentary, this is still ground zero as far as I am concerned, and I wanted to thank all who sent offline answers to this question. For the record so far it looks like about 20 separate client level protocols and of them about 80-82% is http as an average. Clearly within the expectations, but also a good set of numbers to have. Todd S. Glassey ----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt Levine" <matt@deliver3.com> To: <nanog@merit.edu>; "'Stephen Sprunk'" <ssprunk@cisco.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 3:43 PM Subject: RE: How many protocols...
-----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:33 AM To: Magnus Boden Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes Subject: Re: How many protocols...
Thus spake "Magnus Boden" <mb@ozaba.cx>
I wouldn't call it an isp if they only allowed tcp, udp and icmp. It should be all ip protocols.
There can be a maximum of 256 of them. The isp shouldn't care what the ipheader->protocol field is set to.
There is at least one ISP here in the US that filters protocol 50 (IPsec ESP). Does that mean they're really not an ISP?
S
They can still call themselves whatever they want, but I wouldn't consider them an ISP, as they're not provider a very key part of my "Internet experience". I'd feel the same way if they filtered google.
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