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Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Curran)
Sat Jun 12 22:08:47 2004

In-Reply-To: <16587.46266.301470.685499@ran.psg.com>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 22:08:00 -0400
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
From: John Curran <jcurran@istaff.org>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


At 6:58 PM -0700 6/12/04, Randy Bush wrote:
> > One could imagine changing the paradigm (never easy) so that
>> the normal Internet service was proxied for common applications
>> and NAT'ed for everything else...  This wouldn't eliminate all the
>> problems, but would dramatically cut down the incident rate.
>>
>> If a site wants wide-open access, just give it to them.  If that turns
>> out to cause operational problems (due to open mail proxies, spam
>> origination, etc), then put 'em back behind the relays.
>
>guilty until proven innocent, eh?  thanks mr ashcroft.

Randy, are you objecting to the model for initial connectivity,
or the throwing them back behind relays w/o a formal trial?

/John

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