IETF Journal Announcement (fwd)
All - Forwarded on Mirjam's behalf. Aside: If you find the Thaler/Aboba article on protocol success interesting you might also want to check out the plenary slides from the last IETF: http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/07dec/slides/plenaryt-1.pdf - Lucy ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:55:40 +0100 Subject: IETF Journal Announcement Hello, The new issue of the IETF Journal - Volume 3, Issue 3 - is now available at http://ietfjournal.isoc.org This issue's main focus is Security and Unwanted Traffic. Please also note the previous issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) which covered many topics related to IPv6. You can read this publication online or choose to download the full issue in PDF format. You can also keep up to date with the latest issue of the IETF Journal by subscribing to one of our RSS or Atom feeds. For comments or suggestions, please do not hesiate to contact us at ietfjournal@isoc.org. Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne Internet Society (ISOC)
Don't worry if the ISOC website times out, their firewall isn't TCP ECN compatible. It was going to be fixed a couple of years ago when I enquired about it, but obviously hasn't been. Being liberal in what they'll accept seems to be a bit of a problem for them. It's the last remaining non-ECN compatible website that I've tried to access over the last couple of years. The others I'd had trouble with have all become ECN friendly. On Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:33:43 -0800 (PST) Lucy Lynch <llynch@civil-tongue.net> wrote:
All -
Forwarded on Mirjam's behalf.
Aside: If you find the Thaler/Aboba article on protocol success interesting you might also want to check out the plenary slides from the last IETF:
http://www.ietf.org/proceedings/07dec/slides/plenaryt-1.pdf
- Lucy
---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Wed, 27 Feb 2008 08:55:40 +0100 Subject: IETF Journal Announcement
Hello,
The new issue of the IETF Journal - Volume 3, Issue 3 - is now available at http://ietfjournal.isoc.org
This issue's main focus is Security and Unwanted Traffic. Please also note the previous issue (Volume 3, Issue 2) which covered many topics related to IPv6.
You can read this publication online or choose to download the full issue in PDF format. You can also keep up to date with the latest issue of the IETF Journal by subscribing to one of our RSS or Atom feeds.
For comments or suggestions, please do not hesiate to contact us at ietfjournal@isoc.org.
Kind Regards, Mirjam Kuehne Internet Society (ISOC)
-- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
On 27-Feb-2008, at 15:09, Mark Smith wrote:
Don't worry if the ISOC website times out, their firewall isn't TCP ECN compatible.
Isn't it the case in the real world that the Internet isn't TCP ECN compatible? I thought people had relegated that to the "nice idea but, in practice, waste of time" bucket years ago. Joe
On Thu, 28 Feb 2008 08:41:27 -0500 Joe Abley <jabley@ca.afilias.info> wrote:
On 27-Feb-2008, at 15:09, Mark Smith wrote:
Don't worry if the ISOC website times out, their firewall isn't TCP ECN compatible.
Isn't it the case in the real world that the Internet isn't TCP ECN compatible?
In my experience no. The Linux kernel defaults to ECN enabled (although I think distros switch it off), and I've been running my PC ECN enabled for at least the last 5 to 7 years. The number of websites that I've had trouble with in that time was such a low number (3), that I remember what they are. The other two, other than the ISOC website, have been fixed within the last 3 years. That's not really an excuse anyway. The ECN bit originally was reserved, so things that don't understand it should be ignoring it, not making sure it's set to zero. I understand that's the fundamentals of the robustness principle. If people claim doing that is insecure, how are there so many firewalls out there that don't have / aren't causing this problem?
I thought people had relegated that to the "nice idea but, in practice, waste of time" bucket years ago.
Not exactly sure of it's exact status, however every now and then I come across things relating to it e.g. I think I recently came across proposed ECN additions to MPLS, so it still seems relevant. Regards, Mark. -- "Sheep are slow and tasty, and therefore must remain constantly alert." - Bruce Schneier, "Beyond Fear"
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