......... Sean Donelan is rumored to have said:
]
] >Hello Alan - Here's a PARTIAL list of presentations we've planned so far:
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] inform just those users affected why things aren't working. Any
] chance of wedging a "user information" field into the IPng ICMP
] destination unreachable message? It would be nice to tell the
] user in the ICMP message: "Beep BOOP BEEP, We're sorry your
] packet could not be delivered as addressed due to a ...." Instead
Cool! I could really dig that. Pop the tcp stack to jive on a
message, and the hubs and routers could determine the cause...
Very nice. My telnet throws back a message via icmp that the site
is unreachable becuase they don't know how to subnet and flap too
much.. 
Still doesn't change the fact that IPv6 will never solve any real
problems.
] Since the 'net as a whole doesn't fail that often, but pieces
] of the 'net fail frequently, in-band notification isn't as crazy
] an idea as it seems.
Hmm, how about this, any 'decent' ISP engages in a 'subscription'
broadcast system, where each sites web site was decorated with a
dynamic list of all significant outages? And if we, Global
Internet/MIDnet go south, a nifty little modem dials up to DRA or
MCI and spouts out our problem description, and this propogates to
the group. I don't know the best way to make it happen, but I do
think with some discussion and brainstorming we could make it
work. Jonathon Heiliger (MFS) and I have been working on a draft
of such a thing, and would appreciate some input.
] Any thoughts how to turn this into a presentation topic?
This is a good way. Let's see if others are interested. I'll see
you in San Diego, and if nothing else, let's sit down and talk.
-alan