[16058] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: AS8584 taking over the internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Shields)
Thu Apr 9 20:20:52 1998
From: shields@crosslink.net (Michael Shields)
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To: philip bridge <bridge@ip-plus.net>
Cc: cengiz@isi.edu, nanog@merit.org
Date: 10 Apr 1998 00:16:50 +0000
In-Reply-To: philip bridge's message of "Thu, 09 Apr 1998 08:36:28 +0100"
In article <3.0.3.32.19980409083628.03cebbe8@mailhost.ip-plus.net>,
philip bridge <bridge@ip-plus.net> wrote:
> 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.
I don't understand this point. Would you have been happier if they
were a small ISP in the United States? How about India? Finland?
Why does it matter that AS8584 is in Israel?
--
Shields, CrossLink.
