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And your solution is? (was RE: AOL rejecting mail from IP's w/o

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Thu Dec 4 13:53:37 2003

Date: Thu, 4 Dec 2003 13:52:55 -0500 (EST)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Tony Hain <alh-ietf@tndh.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20031204184657.C97BF5DE32@segue.merit.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Tony Hain wrote:
> This is a broken model. People that are buying high level services should
> expect those to be delivered correctly, but those who are buying bit
> transport should not be required to obtain additional services to become
> fully functional. It is nice to fantasize that the ISP is in control, but
> time has shown that people will do what it takes to make their service work.
> If that means pushing the service provider into further irrelevance, they
> will. Rather than trying to break service for the antonymous network by
> requiring consent from the cabal, the service providers need to be making it
> easier and cheaper to get the desired results from their service.

I'm sorry, I couldn't find your proposal for solving the problem in that
paragraph.  Could you tell us what your solution is.

Thanks.



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