[50578] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: NSPs filter?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (bdragon@gweep.net)
Mon Aug 5 12:08:09 2002
To: ras@e-gerbil.net (Richard A Steenbergen)
Date: Mon, 5 Aug 2002 12:03:18 -0400 (EDT)
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20020805151831.GG53265@overlord.e-gerbil.net> from "Richard A Steenbergen" at Aug 05, 2002 11:18:31 AM
From: <bdragon@gweep.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> Filtering piddly stuff like this without consultation is usually unwelcome
> at best, and a disruption at worst. It is also a serious investment of
> time and acl resources which could be better spent somewhere else. And
> lastly, it sets a bad precedent for what ISPs "can" do to proactively
> filter. After all, if we "can" do this, why can't we also filter illegal
> MP3 exchanges too.
One is envelope, the other is payload.
Until there is some technical means of "return to sender" for IP, filtering
bad envelopes is the next best thing.
