[118895] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Small guys with BGP issues
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steve Bertrand)
Sun Nov 1 23:54:37 2009
Date: Sun, 01 Nov 2009 23:54:07 -0500
From: Steve Bertrand <steve@ibctech.ca>
To: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <19B95C86-540B-4B26-99BD-E9B233828ABF@ianai.net>
Cc: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
>> - practice good behaviour (bcp38) and don't preach it
>
> Did you mean preach but don't practice it? While I appreciate everyone
> who "preaches" it, I am not going to complain in the slightest at any
> "big guy" who practices BCP38. Just the opposite, I'm going to praise
> them whether they preach it or not.
I'm not a political person. Take it for what it is worth.
I personally know people who do both:
- practice but not preach
- preach but don't practice
... however you take my point, I don't care.
I just wanted it to be known that the 'guys' who do practice it should
'God willing' come out and preach it.
> And this is not the big boy list. This is for all Operators in North
> America, and many who are not, regardless of size. (Well, I guess we'll
> exclude the guy who buys are cable/DSL link and "provides" to his mother
> & father with a LinkSys.)
eh, -stevieb has much respect for all those who read this list, and when
he posts, feels that the big guys are looking down upon him... hopefully
with approval.
Steve