[161885] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cloudflare, and the 120Gbps DDOS "that almost broke the Internet"
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Wed Mar 27 18:48:33 2013
From: John Curran <jcurran@arin.net>
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
Date: Wed, 27 Mar 2013 22:45:07 +0000
In-Reply-To: <20130327222540.GA16879@gsp.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mar 27, 2013, at 6:25 PM, Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org> wrote:
> Or worse, before some government somewhere decides to "solve" this
> problem for a value of "solved" involving (shudder) legislation.
In general, governments have avoided regulating various aspects of=20
the Internet, in part because of lack of understanding and in part
because the community keeps telling them that trying to regulate
won't work because of its decentralized nature. As the Internet
becomes increasingly important to each country's economy and its=20
citizens, the status quo is not likely to continue. =20
The real question is, when governments do decide to try and help
"improve the Internet", who will they be listening to, and will=20
the operator community have spoken with a clear enough voice in=20
these matters on what actually would make for an improvement?
FYI,
/John
