Dear Hank, For your first question, please see Daniel's quote from RIPE271 and further text in his posting earlier today.

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with more details about the IS activity. This paper was discussed at RIPE45 and people have been invited to comment on this document on the tt-wg@ripe.net list. Then the proposed budget:

The test-Traffic WG, as per its charter states: [...]

Speaking as the former chair of the tt-wg: Formally speaking you are right, it is outside the charter of the TT-WG. However, after Daniel's presentation at RIPE45 and subsequent discussion, the question was raised where further comments on the topic could be posted. As the IS activity overlaps between at least 5 different WG's (tt, techsec, services, routing, DNS*) and none of them is exactly the right place for this discussion, we arbitrarily picked the tt-wg list. There haven't been that many postings on the topic as I'd hoped, but comments are still welcome. Henk ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Henk Uijterwaal Email: henk.uijterwaal@ripe.net RIPE Network Coordination Centre WWW: http://www.ripe.net/home/henk P.O.Box 10096 Singel 258 Phone: +31.20.5354414 1001 EB Amsterdam 1016 AB Amsterdam Fax: +31.20.5354445 The Netherlands The Netherlands Mobile: +31.6.55861746 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ That problem that we weren't having yesterday, is it better? (Big ISP NOC)