[173948] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: So Philip Smith / Geoff Huston's CIDR report becomes worth a good
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Thu Aug 14 10:38:37 2014
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From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
In-Reply-To: <m2lhqrmvbk.wl%randy@psg.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Aug 2014 10:37:17 -0400
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
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> When ACL112 came into being, there were old equipment that were being
> protected by the /19 filters. However, the filters were in place long
> after those equipment were replaced.
This was done for commercial reasons, not to protect the Internet.
You know it, I know it, and I'm pretty sure the statute of limitations =
has expired, so now everyone can know it.
Randy may have created Verio's filters for "the good of the Internet" =
(even though I disagree, as I just posted), but Sean's reasons for =
keeping those filters were absolutely not so pristine.
--=20
TTFN,
patrick
