[32158] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: MCI WORLDCOM TO PAY $3.5 MILLION
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne Bouchard)
Mon Nov 13 14:25:06 2000
Date: Mon, 13 Nov 2000 12:21:55 -0700
From: Wayne Bouchard <web@typo.org>
To: Mark Mentovai <mark-list@mentovai.com>
Cc: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>, nanog@merit.edu
Message-ID: <20001113122155.B95929@typo.org>
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In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.21.0011122034290.26337-100000@pine.ggn.net>; from mark-list@mentovai.com on Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:55:12PM -0500
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On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:55:12PM -0500, Mark Mentovai wrote:
>
> Sean Donelan wrote:
> >Is this the only thing which will get major carrier's attention. It
> >would be great if carriers could be trusted to correctly verify IP
> >addresses before announcing them. But as we've seen in the long-distance
> >world, too many carriers act as if they can get an extra buck, they'll
> >do what every they need to do.
>
> The drive to "slam" is pushed by dollars. I can't think of any situation in
> which someone might profit from announcing address space without
> authorization. The problems facing the Internet are mostly due to laziness
> and lack of clue, enabled by an experimental infrastructure designed to
> support neither of these things. IP assumes non-hostile, non-lazy, and
> non-clueless nodes.
With respect to "converting customers", no its not going to
happen. The technology operates differently. However, there have been
instances where a company just started using a block of reserved IP
space (squatting) hoping that, after a while, if it wasn't noticed,
the courts would decide that its really theirs. In this case, I think
the various *NICs should inject reserved space into the routing table
such that things like this can't happen. I can see various fines
resulting from this type of abuse.
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Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ]
web@typo.org [Company Name Here]
Network Engineer
http://www.typo.org/~web/resume.html
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