[16045] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS8584 taking over the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gary R Wright)
Thu Apr 9 17:47:53 1998
To: philip bridge <bridge@ip-plus.net>
cc: nanog@merit.org
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 09:14:51 MDT."
<199804091614.JAA01808@cat.isi.edu>
Date: Thu, 09 Apr 1998 13:06:06 -0400
From: Gary R Wright <gwright@connix.com>
philip bridge on Thu, 09 Apr 1998 08:36:28 +0100 said:
> That is of course laudible. But the point has to be made that AS8584 is in
> Israel. In an environment when a small ISP in a small country can cause a
> lot of damage to the global Internet, a way has to be found to efficiently
> propogate this knowledge far and wide.
And you think that a large ISP in a large country is somehow immune
from human error? I don't think the problem at hand has anything
to do with the size of the ISP or the size of the country they might
reside in.
