[64726] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: more on filtering
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barney Wolff)
Fri Oct 31 12:43:46 2003
Date: Fri, 31 Oct 2003 12:34:28 -0500
From: Barney Wolff <barney@databus.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <04bc01c39fc9$de5b8ad0$c71121c2@exchange.sharpuk.co.uk>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> > I don't know much, but I do know that legal agreements in the US are
> > NOT transitive in this way, unless each agreement is included by
> > reference in the other.
> They aren't legally, but they are effectively.
Ok, enough legal debate. Let me use a strictly US analogy: The death
penalty for shooting a cop is a legal deterrent, but a wise cop still
wears a bulletproof vest.
Filter to protect your own network, and, when necessary and possible,
your customers from each other and the Internet from your customers.
Legalisms punish, after the fact.
--
Barney Wolff http://www.databus.com/bwresume.pdf
I'm available by contract or FT, in the NYC metro area or via the 'Net.
