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Comment Internet Draft - not a Draft Standard (Score 2) 35

by admcd (#43415005) Attached to: Draft IETF Standard for SSH Key Management Released

This is an Internet Draft. Internet Drafts are the working documents of the IETF - some become standards most don't.

The IETF allows anyone to publish an Internet Draft. This is an 'individual draft' - produced by an individual, and not an IETF working group. So it's a bit disingenuous to say that the "IETF Opens Draft Version of Updated SSH for Public Review" as the linked article does. (And as noted, in other comments, this document is more about operational best practice than changes to protocol standards anyway.)

Unless this is picked up by an IETF working group then it can't be a standard - the independent RFC submission track only allows the resultant RFCs to classed as Informational or Experimental.

I'm not sure where "final version of the standard is expected in October" comes from. It isn't what "Expires: October 06, 2013" means on the draft. (All Internet Drafts expire after 6 months.)
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Submission + - "Open Source Bach" project completed; score and recording now online (opengoldbergvariations.org) 1

Submitted by
rDouglass
rDouglass writes: "MuseScore, the open source music notation editor, and pianist Kimiko Ishizaka have released a new recording and digital edition of Bach's Goldberg Variations. The works are released under the Creative Commons Zero license to promote the broadest possible free use of the works. The score underwent two rounds of public peer review, drawing on processes normally applied to open source software. Furthermore, the demands of Bach's notational style drove significant advancements in the MuseScore open source project. The recording was made on a Bösendorfer 290 Imperial piano in the Teldex Studio of Berlin. Anne-Marie Sylvestre, a Canadian record producer, was inspired by the project and volunteered her time to edit and produce the recording. The project was funded by a successful Kickstarter campaign that was featured on Slashdot in March 2011."

Comment Re:Why wouldn't they charge for tethering? (Score 1) 326

by admcd (#28311627) Attached to: Will AT&T Charge Extra For MMS & Tethering?

"Because it is no different surfing the net with the iphone displaying the data or your laptop displaying the data."

I'm not sure I fully agree with that statement. Your behaviour is likely to differ between iPhone usage and what you do on your laptop. e.g. on your laptop you're more likely to exchange large documents via e-mail, download Windows updates, etc.

There will be some concept of what an "average" user does and their current tariffs will be priced accordingly. Changing the device being used is likely to change the assumptions.

Controversial suggestion: maybe what you want is a capped usage tariff that can be shared between iPhone and tethered devices, rather the current "all you can eat"....
Security

Submission + - Tor Open to Attack

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: A group of researchers have written a paper that lays out an attacks against Tor, in enough detail to cause Roger Dingledine a fair amount of heartburn. The essential attacks are: Tor doesn't verify claims of uptime or bandwidth, allowing an attacker to advertise more than it need deliver, and thus draw traffic. If the attacker controls the entry and exit node and has decent clocks, then the attacker can link these together and trace someone through the network. Yowza!

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