[110963] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Are we really this helpless? (Re: isprime DOS in progress)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Martin Hannigan)
Sat Jan 24 20:35:09 2009
In-Reply-To: <200901250101.n0P11kjE060357@drugs.dv.isc.org>
Date: Sat, 24 Jan 2009 20:34:59 -0500
From: Martin Hannigan <martin@theicelandguy.com>
To: Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> wrote:
>
> In message <8C5F1FEC-FF51-4BA2-A762-C13BC275E806@virtualized.org>, David
> Conrad writes:
> > It would seem that as ISPs implement DPI and protocol-specific traffic
> > shaping, they damage the arguments that they can make claiming they
> > have "common carrier" status with the inherent immunities that status
> > provides. I can hear the argument now: if an ISP can throttle
> > BitTorrent (or whatever) for specific nodes, why can't they also limit
> > the source addresses of packets coming from those nodes?
>
> They can and should. I suspect many of them do as they
> usually apply these filters to home networks.
>
> BCP 38 is ~10 years old now. It should have been factored
> into the purchasing decision of all the current equipement.
> If it wasn't then the operator was negligent.
>
> Mark
>
>
BCP 38 isn't a license, it's a technique.
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Martin Hannigan martin@theicelandguy.com
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