[148216] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Trouble accessing www.nanog.org
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Brooks)
Thu Jan 5 15:58:39 2012
In-Reply-To: <f74242082b95e24890c31d30ced3ae75@mail.dessus.com>
From: Alex Brooks <askoorb+nanog@gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2012 20:57:02 +0000
To: nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> wrote:
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> ()=A0 ascii ribbon campaign against html e-mail
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> > On Thursday, 05 January, 2012 08:30, Marshall Eubanks said:
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> > > On Thu, Jan 5, 2012 at 4:51 AM, Keith Medcalf <kmedcalf@dessus.com> w=
rote:
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> > > > There is video hosting web sites on the intertubes?
> > > > Now where would those be found, I wonder. =A0All I have ever seen i=
s macro-
> > > > streaming that is fraudulently labeled and advertised as video -- t=
he worst
> > > > being something called FlashVirus, which was written by a company c=
alled
> > > > MacroVirus Media or something like that, and currently owned and fl=
ogged by
> > > > Adobe along with their "Proprietary Document Format" (the latest ve=
rsions of
> > > > which boast UVTD technology -- Unstoppable Virus Transport and Dist=
ribution).
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> > > > If the so-called video contains arbitrary executable code (or can r=
un
> > > > arbitrary executable code), or requires the use of a specific appli=
cation to
> > > > "play" (or infect the target), then it should not be described as
> > > > "video". =A0It is a streaming-macro.
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> > Is H.264 Turing-complete ? Is Ogg-Vorbis ? (It seems like those are
> > the two reasonable open standard choices.))
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> Okay by me. =A0Just no "Flash Video Streams" if you please.
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FWIW many of the big video hosting sites have this option now, and
many send an appropriate format for the browser being used:
http://www.youtube.com/html5
http://www.dailymotion.com/html5
http://vimeo.com/blog:268
http://blip.tv/html5/
http://www.archive.org/details/Html5DemoVideo
Alex
