[158180] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Mon Nov 26 00:01:01 2012
From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <1353904112.94748.YahooMailClassic@web184705.mail.ne1.yahoo.com>
Date: Sun, 25 Nov 2012 21:00:40 -0800
To: Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org Operators' Group" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Please don't feed the bigoted hypocritical trolls.
Regards,
-drc
On Nov 25, 2012, at 8:28 PM, Randy <randy_94108@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Just because it is from Iraq; does NOT mean by any streach of the =
imagination that OP is a terrorist!
> You need to get outside the box you are living in and learn to =
separate the forest from the trees!
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> You are "entitled" to you private-opinions. Don't post said-garbage on =
NANOG!
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> I do take exception to such garbage; while other's might not.
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> ./Randy
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> --- On Sun, 11/25/12, Network IPdog <network.ipdog@gmail.com> wrote:
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>> From: Network IPdog <network.ipdog@gmail.com>
>> Subject: RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
>> To: "'Randy'" <randy_94108@yahoo.com>
>> Date: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 6:43 PM
>> The email address is
>> from=85 auis.edu.iq =3D Iraq
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>> Sometimes persons living inside the box cannot see the
>> forest because of the
>> trees.
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>> PEACE
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>> Ephesians 4:32 & Cheers!!!
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>> A password is like a... toothbrush ;^)=20
>> Choose a good one, change it regularly and don't share it.
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>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Randy [mailto:randy_94108@yahoo.com]
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>> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 3:52 PM
>> To: Network IPdog
>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>> Subject: RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
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>> WHAT???
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>> Is this the extent to which This-List has DEGENERATED???
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>> How dare you make such a horrendous accusation Sir?
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>> You may NOT like what OP has proposed. I don't either for
>> more reasons than
>> one!
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>> However, YOU are neither qualified NOR authorised to ask
>> such an appallingly
>> INSENSITIVE Question!
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>> Your so called "Freedom-of-Speech" DOES NOT translate to
>> Character-Assasination on this or any other forum!!
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>> Follow me you ipdog? Find you own bitch to abuse. Don't do
>> it here!!
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>> ./Randy
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>> --- On Sun, 11/25/12, Network IPdog <network.ipdog@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
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>>> From: Network IPdog <network.ipdog@gmail.com>
>>> Subject: RE: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
>>> To: "'John Adams'" <jna@retina.net>,
>> "'Ammar Salih'"=20
>>> <ammar.salih@auis.edu.iq>
>>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>>> Date: Sunday, November 25, 2012, 3:16 PM Et al,
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>>> There is one simple question that needs to be asked!
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>>> Ammar Salih @ ammar.salih@auis.edu.iq
>>> Are you a terrorist?=20
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>>> Ephesians 4:32 & Cheers!!!
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>>> A password is like a... toothbrush ;^) Choose a good
>> one, change it=20
>>> regularly and don't share it.
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>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: John Adams [mailto:jna@retina.net]
>>> Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2012 2:20 PM
>>> To: Ammar Salih
>>> Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>>> list
>>> Subject: Re: Adding GPS location to IPv6 header
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>>> Your proposal doesn't even give people a way to encrypt
>> their location=20
>>> data; By moving geodata to a portion of the protocol
>> which is not=20
>>> covered by commonly used encryption methods (i.e.
>> HTTPS, which is up a=20
>>> few layers in the stack) people can't be protected
>> should this data be=20
>>> monitored by a malicious intermediary. Think: Syria,
>> China, Iran, or=20
>>> any other government which will kill you for your words
>> online.
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>>> Application protocols sending GPS data under say, HTTPS
>> protect the=20
>>> end user from revealing their location to anyone on
>> their path,=20
>>> forcing an intermediary to look up the IP in a common
>> geo database=20
>>> which will be mostly inaccurate in pinpointing users,
>> and hopefully=20
>>> will save lives.
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>>> Companies like Twitter, Facebook, and some parts of
>> google are going=20
>>> HTTPS by default for this very reason.
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>>> This proposal is dead, you don't have the sense to lie
>> down.
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