[145950] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Outgoing SMTP Servers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Johnson)
Thu Oct 27 14:20:19 2011
From: Brian Johnson <bjohnson@drtel.com>
To: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 27 Oct 2011 18:17:22 +0000
In-Reply-To: <21422.1319729013@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu [mailto:Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu]
>Sent: Thursday, October 27, 2011 10:24 AM
>To: Brian Johnson
>Cc: nanog@nanog.org
>Subject: Re: Outgoing SMTP Servers
>
>On Thu, 27 Oct 2011 13:53:34 -0000, Brian Johnson said:
>
>> It is interesting that some people who fully understand that the Interne=
t 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
So... I'm in complete agreement with your statement, but The Wikipedia refe=
rence is not pertinent (and a little sophomoric). :)
