[71820] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Unplugging spamming PCs
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Peter Galbavy)
Thu Jun 24 03:52:35 2004
From: "Peter Galbavy" <peter.galbavy@knowtion.net>
To: "Larry Pingree" <lpingree@juniper.net>,
"Peter Corlett" <abuse@cabal.org.uk>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 08:51:49 +0100
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Larry Pingree wrote:
> Can you suggest another method that would have more accuracy? I think
> it's ridiculous that every service on the internet is provided without
> any authentication and integrity services, if we allowed anyone to
> call from anywhere within the telephone network, you'd have rampant
> falsification, which is what we have today.
It is these characteristics that has made the Internet work and grow the way
it has.
You comment about the telephone network; Erm, that's just the way it works
today - the AAA is in the SS7/C7/etc. layer, similar to BGP in IP.
The problem being raised in this thread is too old to solve this way. If
e-mail was regulated from early on, then it may have worked. Now there are
too many ways to get around any regulations proposed.
Anyhow, I don't want my e-mail correspondants vetted and approved by a
(never neutral) third party.
Peter
