[150452] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do not filter your customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Fri Feb 24 13:17:00 2012
Date: Fri, 24 Feb 2012 10:13:27 -0800 (PST)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <5B04B8F4-0F66-4EE2-BC3A-16B5583DE173@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Fri, 24 Feb 2012, Steven Bellovin wrote:
> Sure; I don't disagree, and I don't think that Randy does. But just
> because we can't solve the whole problem, does that mean we shouldn't
> solve any of it?
that is often the way things are argued in engineering circles.
the solution is imperfect therefore it is useless.
this philosophy is reflected in the shoddy state of networks today.
-Dan
