[174823] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: large BCP38 compliance testing
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Andrews)
Thu Oct 2 18:54:49 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
To: Rich Kulawiec <rsk@gsp.org>
From: Mark Andrews <marka@isc.org>
In-reply-to: Your message of "Thu, 02 Oct 2014 18:47:54 -0400."
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Date: Fri, 03 Oct 2014 08:54:32 +1000
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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In message <20141002224754.GA7606@gsp.org>, Rich Kulawiec writes:
> On Thu, Oct 02, 2014 at 02:24:18PM -0400, Brian Rak wrote:
> > What about providers who knowingly allow IP spoofing, because it's
> > profitable?
>
> What about providers who knowingly host massive spam operations, because
> it's profitable? As in:
>
> http://www.spamhaus.org/statistics/networks/
>
> We've been down this road before. Unless there is prompt, concerted,
> collective action (as there was AGIS) then there is zero reason for those
> behind such operations to do anything but keep collecting dirty money.
>
> So it's all good and well to *know* where the problems are: that's
> useful. But if the goal is to actually make the problems go away,
> then that'll require fingers on keyboards implementing null routing,
> firewalling, blacklisting etc.
Or it will require legislation and I will assure that whatever is
written not be liked. On the other hand everyone one in the country
will be in the same boat.
> ---rsk
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