[58736] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: .mil domain
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Fri May 30 14:38:58 2003
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>, "John Payne" <john@sackheads.org>
Cc: "Steve Waddington" <stevew@onet.com.au>,
"North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Fri, 30 May 2003 13:15:08 -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Thus spake "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com>
> > In recent times, a lot of .mil have thrown up a whole bunch of null
> > routes to large sections of international address space. Good luck
> > getting them removed
>
> as this means they have a different definition of the internet than
> the one to which i, and i suspect others, are used, why should i and
> others accept their routes?
For the same reason anyone else accepts their routes -- because they want to
be able to reach them. If they don't want to reach _you_, that's their
choice.
Nothing prohibits any part on the internet from blocking other parties they
believe to be dangerous, whether it be due to warfare, spam, or other
considerations.
S
Stephen Sprunk "God does not play dice." --Albert Einstein
CCIE #3723 "God is an inveterate gambler, and He throws the
K5SSS dice at every possible opportunity." --Stephen Hawking
