[53006] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: How to secure the Internet in three easy steps
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Petri Helenius)
Fri Oct 25 17:27:23 2002
From: "Petri Helenius" <pete@he.iki.fi>
To: "Ryan Fox" <rfox@amerisuk.com>, "Paul Vixie" <paul@vix.com>,
<nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Sat, 26 Oct 2002 00:27:01 +0300
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> This seems to be a catch-22; no one will implement these for the good of the
> net because it costs money, and ignorant competitors that don't implement
> them will not share in that expense. Have any such ideas been implemented
> in the modern internet? How?
>
Not to mention that 2 or 3 wouldn´t do any good for the net. There are private
ALG-based networks where you get to pay your premiums for your bits, if you
need that functionality, there is no reason to break the internet, you just
subscribe
to your local X.400 service for email, etc.
Pete
