[150478] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: do not filter your customers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nick Hilliard)
Fri Feb 24 18:21:19 2012
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From: Nick Hilliard <nick@foobar.org>
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On 24/02/2012 20:59, Leo Bicknell wrote:
> It turns out the real world is quite messy though, often full of
> temporary hacks, unusual relationships and other issues.
... and, if you create a top-down control mechanism to be superimposed upon
the current fully distributed control mechanism, you will soon find that
politicians and regulators will take a very keen interest in BGP once they
realise that they can turn off specific prefixes from a single point.
Whatever about temporary hacks and unusual relationships, the entropy
introduced by layers 9 through 12 is almost always insufferable.
Nick
