[35839] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Statements against new.net?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Clayton Fiske)
Fri Mar 16 12:29:11 2001
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2001 09:06:57 -0800
From: Clayton Fiske <clay@bloomcounty.org>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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In-Reply-To: <20010316100515.E21128@eiv.com>; from smcmahon@eiv.com on Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:05:15AM -0500
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2001 at 10:05:15AM -0500, Shawn McMahon wrote:
> I buy that as a reason for you not to use them, and I buy that as a reason
> for me not to use them.
>
> I don't buy it as a reason to make what they're doing illegal, which is
> what a few in this discussion are advocating.
>
> That'd be like making IPX illegal, because it prevents those machines
> from properly interoperating with TCP/IP.
While I don't advocate making it illegal (well, not moreso than I do
for any other irresponsible act), your analogy misses the mark. I fail
to see how I could enter an IP address as a destination and have it go
to a different destination because the IPX network carried it there.
*waits for tongue-in-cheek replies about tunneling*
-c
