[107513] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 dismissal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Sep 4 16:30:49 2008
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0809041436590.5182@linuxbox.org>
Date: Thu, 4 Sep 2008 16:30:44 -0400
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On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:
>> 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?
>
> "I'm an a??hole!" :o)
> (lotsa folks get corporate "bad words" filters, here).
>
> Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first.
> The problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from
> recent years, but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/
Gadi,
Do you really want to suggest to people that they not implement BCP38?
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TTFN,
patrick
