[100947] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Creating a crystal clear and pure Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Tue Nov 27 10:26:05 2007
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:38:40 EST."
<Pine.GSO.4.64.0711270928320.13074@clifden.donelan.com>
From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Tue, 27 Nov 2007 10:19:14 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 27 Nov 2007 09:38:40 EST, Sean Donelan said:
> Some people have compared unwanted Internet traffic to water pollution,
> and proposed that ISPs should be required to be like water utilities and
> be responsible for keeping the Internet water crystal clear and pure.
What's the networking equivalent of "remember to build your water intake
*upstream* of your sewage plant"?
Or, more accurately - "how do you get all those people with private
wells^Wcomputers to *not* insist on building their leach fields uphill
of their wells?".
There's a limit to what an ISP can do to make it "crustal clear and pure"
without an incredibly intrusive presence. The technically easy way is what
many corporations do - Borg the boxes into an Active Directory domain, and
impose fascist controls via Group Policy (for all of my anti-MS ranting, I'll
grant the AD/GP stuff *is* pretty slick ideas for corporate PC lockdown).
But how do you sell that idea to the consumer user?
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