When doing new things, someone has to try it first. If you do it in the commercial market, the first question is "who gets the profit". This severely hampers some kinds of innovation (like the Internet itself). Giving adequate bandwidth cheaply to people who are not your competitors is possible, and allows the innovation to occur that will tell the rest of us what to use that bandwidth for when we can get it.
The Linux Counter was only briefly affected by the change of the millenium, seeing a slowdown in traffic between the hours of 05:00 GMT and 10:00 GMT. See the traffic statistics for details. Geeks are a faithful bunch.....
whois register.com@register.com .... Registrant: Register.com, Inc. 575 8th Avenue 11th Floor New York, NY 10018 US
And greatdomains.com:
whois greatdomains.com@whois.networksolutions.com ... GreatDomains.com Inc (GREATDOMAINS6-DOM) 10 Universal City Plaza, Suite 1115 Universal City, CA 91608 US
How hard would that be? To set up new nameservers that use different root domains (no.com,.org, etc... so it wouldn't conflict with NSI's system).
Quite hard. In fact, you have to devise a system that is reasonably fair, reasonably open and reasonably well-organized to have a chance of getting a significant following.
So far, the best attempt has been ICANN; other attempts were CORE, EDNS and others. And if ICANN is the best we've been able to do, what does that tell you....?
The US should form a quasi-governmental, NON-PROFIT organization along the lines of the USPS. It should be required to be self-sustaining (ie costs = revenue), but a non-profit. Call this org the USDR (US Domain Registrar).
I assume you mean that this registrar should have responsibility for.com,.net and.org?
Too bad about the 10-30% of domain name owners who are not in the US, then....
OTOH, if what you are proposing is the forcible closing of.com and the move of all the US companies to the.US domain, that might be a good idea....
Read more, and you will find that the agreement dates back quite some time. What's happening now is only that some countries are coming to the end of their "transition" period.
At the moment, the Linux Counter are 1023 registered Linux users in China; of these, 370 are registered in Hong Kong. That's 0.85 users per million inhabitants, #133 on the Linux density list. Yearly growth is 152%.
All of these people have registered independently. Which means that they communicated to the outside world.
The answer among the 1000-1500 people present in the IETF plenary on whether to allow features into IETF protocols that are only added to facilitate wiretapping:
NO: 70%
YES: 0.1% (about 5)
ABSTAIN: 30%
On the check question of allowing features that prevent wiretapping (like end-to-end encryption), the room was unanimous.
If you've got multicast (hah!), you can listen to the IETF plenary discussion of the wiretapping issue in about fifteen minutes (20:30 Washington time).
The question was asked. It's time to find out how to answer it.
Wallis and Futuna: It's someone who didn't want to be counted in his country. I know which country (I have his IP number), but he didn't want to be counted there. I'm still wondering whether I should force him to be listed under "The world (somewhere in it).
However, the entry for Laos is very real, and so is one of the 2 for Antarctica. Linux is used in LOTS of places.
I need to make this more obvious.... the number you get is WAY ahead of the count (some 40.000 at last measure). Why is listed in the FAQ - http://counter.li.org/faq.html - basically it's because some numbers are allocated to people who only register machines, some were jumped over due to bugs, but I never started handing out lower numbers. Thus, the difference.
Ahem.....one of the most emphasized points with IPv6 is that renumbering should be EASY.
We KNOW that sites hanging on to an address when changing providers is a long term disaster - the routing tables just get too big.
There's lots of things in IPv6 to support renumbering. So expect addresses to be relatively static - but do NOT write them down if you don't absolutely have to!
(Yes - there is stuff in DNS too. Look up A6 records in the internet-drafts directory.)
A lot of the common text comes straight from their agreement with the registry (still NSI!) which they are fronting, methinks.
That language, in turn, has been very much shaped by the ICANN discussions - see the ICANN website for the details.
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Hey - you actually think the Linux community can *agree* on something?
The Linux community has got less cohesion than the Protestant church - for any viewpoint, you'll ALWAYS find 5 people with an opposite (and mutually incompatible) one.
The miracle is that we're still able to work together!
While IPv6 was designed chiefly to support larger addresses, the address allocation strategy for IPv6 and the VERY heavy emphasis on ease of renumbering in IPv6 engineering WERE designed to address the routing table overload.
How I know? I was on the IESG when we approved most of those documents.
Last time I encountered motion JPEG (a few years back), it consisted of stringing JPEG pictures after each other (plus a soundtrack). Makes skipping to random points MUCH easier than with MPEG, but makes the files 10 times bigger, because you don't do inter-frame compression the way MPEG does. I couldn't tell from the press release whether it was the same thing or something entirely different. Nice move!
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Of the 60 machines that are auto-updating the Linux Counter, more than half (37) currently run 2.0 kernels.
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When doing new things, someone has to try it first.
If you do it in the commercial market, the first question is "who gets the profit". This severely hampers some kinds of innovation (like the Internet itself).
Giving adequate bandwidth cheaply to people who are not your competitors is possible, and allows the innovation to occur that will tell the rest of us what to use that bandwidth for when we can get it.
The Linux Counter was only briefly affected by the change of the millenium, seeing a slowdown in traffic between the hours of 05:00 GMT and 10:00 GMT.
See the traffic statistics for details.
Geeks are a faithful bunch.....
After some digging (CmdrTaco...I beg for
whois register.com@register.com
....
Registrant:
Register.com, Inc.
575 8th Avenue
11th Floor
New York, NY 10018
US
And greatdomains.com:
whois greatdomains.com@whois.networksolutions.com
...
GreatDomains.com Inc (GREATDOMAINS6-DOM)
10 Universal City Plaza, Suite 1115
Universal City, CA 91608
US
Quite hard. In fact, you have to devise a system that is reasonably fair, reasonably open and reasonably well-organized to have a chance of getting a significant following.
So far, the best attempt has been ICANN; other attempts were CORE, EDNS and others. And if ICANN is the best we've been able to do, what does that tell you....?
NOT trivial.
I assume you mean that this registrar should have responsibility for
Too bad about the 10-30% of domain name owners who are not in the US, then....
OTOH, if what you are proposing is the forcible closing of
The story is, as far as I can tell, consistent with what I have seen claimed in email by Bill Simpson himself.
You can't get much closer to the horse's mouth than that.
Read more, and you will find that the agreement dates back quite some time. What's happening now is only that some countries are coming to the end of their "transition" period.
The US were supposed to comply to it long ago.
The two-days-later surge would have been easily explained if he had looked at a referer log.
It's the time when the story hits the top of the "older stories" list.
Harald, counter.li.org slashdot victim/beneficary
I think the purpose of the clause is to make sure that the person agreeing is the same person who will be held legally responsible for his actions.
Here in Norway, anyone under 15 who breaks the law will cause his parents to get into legal trouble.
Can't see how it will have more effect than the "you must be over 18 to click here" signs on the Other Kind of download sites.
All of these people have registered independently. Which means that they communicated to the outside world.
I can't help thinking this is a Good Thing.
(BTW, Cuba has 36 registered users.)
On the check question of allowing features that prevent wiretapping (like end-to-end encryption), the room was unanimous.
If you've got multicast (hah!), you can listen to the IETF plenary discussion of the wiretapping issue in about fifteen minutes (20:30 Washington time).
The question was asked. It's time to find out how to answer it.
Paul Allen also finances Transmeta.
The current "estates" are roughly domain name functions, address functions, and protocol functions. Makes more sense than geography to me.
The IETF is one of the supporting organizations of the PSO - we only got one of "our" people in this time.
BTW, there's a Governmental Advisory Council - it doesn't put members on the board, but it does offer "advice"....
It crashed. It's up again now (since 19:00 GMT, roughly).
Slashdot is VERY good at finding out where the bugs are - this was a kernel bug, I think.
What a way to spend an hour of Saturday afternoon...
Wallis and Futuna: It's someone who didn't want to be counted in his country. I know which country (I have his IP number), but he didn't want to be counted there. I'm still wondering whether I should force him to be listed under "The world (somewhere in it).
However, the entry for Laos is very real, and so is one of the 2 for Antarctica. Linux is used in LOTS of places.
I need to make this more obvious....
the number you get is WAY ahead of the count (some 40.000 at last measure). Why is listed in the FAQ - http://counter.li.org/faq.html - basically it's because some numbers are allocated to people who only register machines, some were jumped over due to bugs, but I never started handing out lower numbers. Thus, the difference.
Ahem.....one of the most emphasized points with IPv6 is that renumbering should be EASY.
We KNOW that sites hanging on to an address when changing providers is a long term disaster - the routing tables just get too big.
There's lots of things in IPv6 to support renumbering. So expect addresses to be relatively static - but do NOT write them down if you don't absolutely have to!
(Yes - there is stuff in DNS too. Look up A6 records in the internet-drafts directory.)
That language, in turn, has been very much shaped by the ICANN discussions - see the ICANN website for the details.
Hey - you actually think the Linux community can *agree* on something?
The Linux community has got less cohesion than the Protestant church - for any viewpoint, you'll ALWAYS find 5 people with an opposite (and mutually incompatible) one.
The miracle is that we're still able to work together!
How I know? I was on the IESG when we approved most of those documents.
Waah....the relevance bars and the single click backlinks to referers are gone.
I miss them.
Last time I encountered motion JPEG (a few years back), it consisted of stringing JPEG pictures after each other (plus a soundtrack).
Makes skipping to random points MUCH easier than with MPEG, but makes the files 10 times bigger, because you don't do inter-frame compression the way MPEG does.
I couldn't tell from the press release whether it was the same thing or something entirely different.
Nice move!
Of the 60 machines that are auto-updating the Linux Counter, more than half (37) currently run 2.0 kernels.
http://counter.li.org/scripts/ for the script. The info isn't visible yet, unfortunately.
The world is slowing down.
I may be biased, but....
if you're into software development full time, USD 1000 will pay for your time and expenses for several DAYS.
If this is your hobby, use a free toolkit.
If this is your job, it just ain't that much money.