[174820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: large BCP38 compliance testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Roland Dobbins)
Thu Oct 2 14:34:29 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Roland Dobbins <rdobbins@arbor.net>
In-Reply-To: <542D9852.3020902@gameservers.com>
Date: Fri, 3 Oct 2014 01:34:14 +0700
To: "nanog@nanog.org list" <nanog@nanog.org>
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On Oct 3, 2014, at 1:24 AM, Brian Rak <brak@gameservers.com> wrote:
> What about providers who knowingly allow IP spoofing, because it's =
profitable?
Ultimately, the only way to even possibly try to get a handle on this =
facet of the problem may be via lawsuits; in many jurisdictions, the =
burden of proof is lower for the plaintiffs in a civil case than it is =
for prosecutors in criminal cases.
The questions of evidence, standing, jurisdiction, provable damages, et. =
al. then come into play . . . and when those organizations are located =
in areas where the rule of law isn't particularly strong, it complicates =
matters further. There are precedents for extraterritorial legal suits, =
but unless there are assets that can be seized in the event of a verdict =
for the plaintiff, it's unclear how much actual impact they would have.
[Note: IANAL, nor do I play one on television. All of the above is =
uninformed speculation and may be completely wrong.]
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