[179272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BGP offloading (fixing legacy router BGP scalability issues)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (goemon@anime.net)
Mon Apr 6 14:04:52 2015
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Mon, 6 Apr 2015 11:04:47 -0700 (PDT)
From: goemon@anime.net
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
In-Reply-To: <82134.1428093671@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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On Fri, 3 Apr 2015, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
> We've been down this road before - we've had our own problems on this
> side of the puddle with transit providers who refused to deal with problem
> customers because the provider billed by the packet, and the customers were
> good about paying their bill - so dealing with the problem caused less packets
> and thus less revenue.
At least in the US the provider could be charged with willful negligence
and face liability.
But in most cases RBL is enough pressure to get the US providers to do
the right thing.
-Dan
