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Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility for

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nils Kolstein)
Mon Oct 5 03:03:56 2009

Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2009 08:58:35 +0200 (CEST)
From: Nils Kolstein <nils.kolstein@sscplus.nl>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20AFD779C33D40A489AC7AEC37752F44@bvsupport>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

> > Exactly correct.  The number one priority, which trumps all others,
> > is making the abuse stop.  Yes, there are many other things that
> can
> > and should be done, but that's the first one.
> 
> Stopping the abuse is fine, but cutting service to the point that a
> family
> using VOIP only for their phone service can't call 911 and several
> children
> burn to death could bring all sorts of undesirable regulation let
> alone the
> bad press and legal expenses.

As far as the Ducth situation with one of the largest providers (KPN) goes this is solved by using a seperate VLAN for VOIP traffic. Only the data VLAN is being "blocked" or actually policy routed towards a walled garden in which users are able to clean themselves up.

-- 
Nils Kolstein
SSCPlus


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