[104907] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: amazonaws.com?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (michael.dillon@bt.com)
Fri May 30 03:55:34 2008
Date: Fri, 30 May 2008 08:57:05 +0100
In-Reply-To: <8BC6C5BE-A14F-4A76-BA09-7F2E9C334AE5@ian.co.uk>
From: <michael.dillon@bt.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
> So to get Amazon to police their customers either requires=20
> regulation or an external economic pressure. Blocking AWS=20
> from folk's mail servers would apply some pressure,
No it would not. That is what AWS wants you to to.=20
> making=20
> areas of the net go dark to AWS would apply more pressure=20
> faster. A considerable amount of pressure could be placed by=20
> a big enough money damages lawsuit but that has a feedback=20
> delay of months to years.
And such lawsuits can go both ways. As soon as a company moves
beyond protective blocking of port 25, to punitive blocking of
all traffic from AWS, they run the risk of being the target of
a damages lawsuit. Not to mention complaints from their own
customers.
There simply is no simple solution to this problem.
--Michael Dillon
