[107897] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Atrivo/Intercage: Now Only 1 Upstream
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Sep 17 13:34:29 2008
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <48D13F11.6050600@everydns.net>
Date: Wed, 17 Sep 2008 13:34:22 -0400
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On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:
> Christopher Morrow wrote:
>
>> How about providing some open-source intelligence in a centralized
>> and
>> machine-parsable fashion (perhaps with community input of intel even)
>> which would allow better decsions to be made?
>
> Reputation based on src_addr is /so/ 2005. ASN has a few more legs
> perhaps... but...
>
> All the growth in Internet-connected compute clouds (EC2, AppNexus,
> GoGrid, etc.) makes any system based around IP reputation decidedly
> less useful.
>
> At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's
> IP space.
I'm afraid reality disagrees with you - there already are networks
doing it.
Being big does not guarantee you ability to do Bad Things.
--
TTFN,
patrick
