[145948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Thu Oct 27 11:25:15 2011
To: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -0000."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 11:23:33 -0400
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -0000, Brian Johnson said:
> It is interesting that some people who fully understand that the Internet is
> composed of many networks run by people with different interests can say what
> is best for the Internet as a whole. How my organization (or yours or anybody
> else's) runs our network, is between us and our paying users.
The fact that a behavior is "best" for your network does in no way, shape, or
form, say anything about what's best for the Internet as a whole. In fact,
it's well-understood that there are entire classes of behaviors that are
optimal for single actors, but fail when deployed widely.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tragedy_of_the_commons
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