[69416] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Lazy network operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Sat Apr 10 22:56:39 2004
Date: Sat, 10 Apr 2004 22:56:05 -0400 (EDT)
From: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <suresh@outblaze.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <20040411022245.GD843@hserus.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Sun, 11 Apr 2004, Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> NTL peers at Linx, right? I'm sure somebody's mentioned
> http://www.linx.net/noncore/bcp/ube-bcp.html to them?
Should anonymous use of the Internet be eliminated so all forms
of abuse can be tracked and dealt with?
Exception
An exception to sections (2) and (3) arises in the case of a system run
to deliberately hide the source of email - often called an "anon
server". "Anon servers" are used to preserve anonymity where, for
example, someone seeks help from a group supporting victims of abuse or
wishes to express political views in a country that may punish dissent.
ISPs or their customers MAY run anon servers where this is explicitly
intended to be the function of the service being provided. They MUST NOT
allow their standard service to provide anonymity by failing to comply
with this BCP.
However an anon server SHOULD NOT be capable of 'amplification' of email
by expanding address lists and SHOULD have limiting mechanisms to
ensure that the volume of email passing through the server cannot be
unusually high without explicit system owner knowledge.
