[109131] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Internet partitioning event regulations (was:
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Scott Weeks)
Wed Nov 5 19:00:09 2008
Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2008 15:59:52 -0800
From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Reply-To: surfer@mauigateway.com
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
--- michael.dillon@bt.com wrote:
"That's not how companies work. What you see as a single
company operating a single worldwide network, is actually
a web of companies with interlocking directorships and
share structures. In each country they will probably have
3 or 4 corporate entities."
Ok, I hadn't thought of that. I was thinking of one company in a non-US country with some assets in the US (but most not) and being held to US regulations network-wide. How would you stop the traffic that was not following US regulations from hitting the US?
A:HNLL7710# configure router 1500 bgp as-path-ignore us-based-as-paths ?
Not there... ;-)
"Spend some time hanging out with finance and legal people
in a big company. You may find it almost as fascinating
as designing networks."
As much as I hate to admit it, I believe I'd enjoy geeking-out on that for a while...
scott
