[4871] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Peering versus Transit
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sanjay Dani(maillists))
Mon Sep 30 18:20:32 1996
Date: Mon, 30 Sep 1996 15:14:53 -0700 (PDT)
From: Sanjay Dani(maillists) <indus@professionals.com>
To: barney@databus.com, nanog@merit.edu, woody@zocalo.net, avg@quake.net
> From: Vadim Antonov <avg@quake.net>
> Bill Woodcock <woody@zocalo.net> wrote:
>
> > WRT the former, I simply cannot fathom, and no one other than Sean has
> > yet presented an argument explaining why it's malicious to deliver a
> > packet to its addressee's ISP.
>
> You should always add "without consent of the said ISP".
>
> It is no different from dumping a pile of bricks at somebody's property.
Why is it any different than the big ISP's customers dumping
packets on small ISP's web server?
Sanjay.