[120724] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Article on spammers and their infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alex Lanstein)
Thu Dec 31 16:29:32 2009
From: Alex Lanstein <ALanstein@FireEye.com>
To: Paul Timmins <paul@telcodata.us>, Barry Shein <bzs@world.std.com>
Date: Thu, 31 Dec 2009 13:23:56 -0800
In-Reply-To: <4B3CFC45.6020201@telcodata.us>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>>From: Paul Timmins [paul@telcodata.us]
>>>Cool. Then you just have to figure out how to unilaterally withdraw a
>>>resource that doesn't have a centralized automated verification system.
>>>Taking you out of whois doesn't automatically take you out of people's
>>>BGP tables, after all.
That's step two of the problem - enforcement. Enforcement may seem "hard",=
but it's impossible without a policy. If there is no policy clearly viola=
ted, enforcement cannot happen.
Regards,
Alex Lanstein