[65532] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: incorrect spam setups cause spool messes on forwarders
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Dec 1 15:01:24 2003
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:56:37 -0800
To: Joe Abley <jabley@isc.org>
Cc: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>,
Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>, nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>>> this is the ability of a single host operator to make
>>> their own local policy decisions.
>> which leads to the heat death of the net
> or allows the net to prosper, since policy is distributed rather
> than centralised.
consider verifying, or making any assertions about, or having any
confidence in, the correctness of a universe of distributed and
opaque policy.
i once worked for an m&a isp which acquired some sixty+ small isps.
my comment on the non-global thinkers in the acquisitions was
"think locally, act globally."
randy
