[107519] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 dismissal
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Thu Sep 4 18:36:37 2008
Date: Thu, 04 Sep 2008 18:36:33 -0400
From: William Allen Simpson <william.allen.simpson@gmail.com>
To: North American Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <315BC48A-E42A-48B5-84F6-664395D95A46@netconsonance.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
Jo Rhett wrote:
> On Sep 4, 2008, at 12:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
>> 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/
>
>
> Nice going, Gadi -- let's insult someone who does a good job of
> protecting your network from his customers.
>
Reminder: Gadi isn't a native English speaker. I understood "Take care of
their own end first" to mean "please do BCP38" -- it polices your "own" end.
> I spend at least 8 hours a week tracking down attacks originating from
> non-BCP38 networks. This is still a real problem, and the idea that
> BCP-38 is some fad that is irrelevant now ... I have no words for this
> kind of idiocy. Everyone should be doing BCP-38. ...
>
Hopefully, we all agree! That's why it's been a "Best Current Practice"
for a decade or so....
