[43815] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: [SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mike Batchelor)
Fri Oct 26 12:51:12 2001
From: "Mike Batchelor" <mikebat@tmcs.net>
To: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2001 09:44:44 -0700
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> <rant>
> Digital Island is certainly not alone in their practice of
> assuming an opt-in stance.
I think you know that for an operation like Digital Island or Akamai, asking
every network operator permission to probe is for all practical purposes,
impossible. Insisting on opt-in is insisting on these companies going out
of
business, or not even starting up at all.
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"The avalanche has already begun. It is too late for the pebbles to vote" -
Kosh
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