[26282] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: ORBS block
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg A. Woods)
Fri Dec 17 18:31:47 1999
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Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 18:29:22 -0500 (EST)
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From: woods@most.weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
To: North America Network Operators Group <nanog@merit.edu>
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Reply-To: woods@weird.com (Greg A. Woods)
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[ On Friday, December 17, 1999 at 14:26:53 (-0800), Tim Wolfe wrote: ]
> Subject: Re: ORBS block
>
> My point, which you so adroitly ignored, was that the "upstream" is under no
> obligation of any kind NOT to block ORBS from reaching you if they so
> choose. Your ONLY recourse is if you happen to be a customer of "upstream"
> in which case you may be able to use your contract to embroil them in a
> legal battle or you may choose just to take your business elsewhere.
Exactly. (though first off I'd make a big stink about it to the service
department and see if they wouldn't reconsider on their own accord)
> If I
> decide to block Random Company's network from access to mine, and you aren't
> my customer, tough luck pal. You can dictate my network policies when you
> pry the keyboard from my cold dead fingers.
I don't disagree.
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