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Re: IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Pekka Savola)
Sat Oct 18 10:04:50 2003

Date: Sat, 18 Oct 2003 17:00:50 +0300 (EEST)
From: Pekka Savola <pekkas@netcore.fi>
To: Jack Bates <jbates@brightok.net>
Cc: Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino <itojun@itojun.org>, <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <3F9136B6.4020303@brightok.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > While short term traffic filters are deployed, the appropriate recommended
> > longer term action is to:
> 
> Edge networks have a lot more to upgrade than backbone networks. 
[...]

Agreed, but when an edge network fails to upgrade, it just harms itself.  
Backbone networks harms everyone concerned.  It's good to remember who 
bears the pain for (in)action in whichever case.

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Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
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