[51010] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Sun Aug 18 11:19:32 2002
Date: Sun, 18 Aug 2002 11:17:04 -0400
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
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At 03:07 PM 8/17/2002 -0700, Vadim Antonov wrote:
>On 17 Aug 2002, Paul Vixie wrote:
>> I want to know what the homeland security department is likely to do
>> about all this, not what is good/bad for the citizens of hostile
>> nations or even nonhostile nations.
>
>Likely nothing, unless they are complete incompetents. The point is:
>there's no feasible way to achieve any gains by restricting access on
>per-country basis.
I doubt they are complete incompetents, but they are
politicians. Sometimes people who are interested in a sound-bite or
press-release do things which look, at least in retrospect, as stupid so
they can garner some instant public reaction.
IOW: They may know it will not do any good, but they may do it any way for
a front-page headline. Or at least to look like they are doing something.
At least that is my fear.
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TTFN,
patrick
