[107490] in North American Network Operators' Group
BCP38 dismissal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jo Rhett)
Thu Sep 4 12:45:49 2008
From: Jo Rhett <jrhett@netconsonance.com>
To: James Jun <james@towardex.com>
In-Reply-To: <00d501c90e99$ffb4e480$ff1ead80$@com>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 09:45:15 -0700
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
> Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/
> control
> plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38
> when much
> of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see
> botnets).
I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.
Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than
protecting anyone else.
Anyone else want to stand up and join the "I am an asshole" club?
--
Jo Rhett
Net Consonance : consonant endings by net philanthropy, open source
and other randomness
