[117911] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Tue Oct 6 06:12:26 2009
Date: Tue, 06 Oct 2009 12:06:41 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Eugeniu Patrascu <eugen@imacandi.net>
In-Reply-To: <4ACAFDB8.908@imacandi.net>
Cc: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Eugeniu Patrascu wrote:
> Gadi Evron wrote:
>> Barton F Bruce wrote:
>>> 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.
>>
>> While a legitimate concern it's also a red herring, as it's a
>> technical problem looking for a technical solution.
>>
>> Gadi.
>>
> I think the need for someone being able to call 911 from their VoIP
> outweighs your right to claim that they should be disconnected from the
> Internet.
Again, I don't disagree, but I see it as a technical issue which is
solvable. I don't see why this is THE issue. It's really just changing
the subject of the discussion.
>
>
> Besides, if that provider wants to help out, he might setup a captive
> portal or something with information regarding tools to clean their
> computer.
>
--
Gadi Evron,
ge@linuxbox.org.
Blog: http://gevron.livejournal.com/
