[7350] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alpha test of MAE filtering capability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Fri Jan 31 15:05:23 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 97 11:55 PST
From: randy@psg.com (Randy Bush)
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
> On the other hand I have what is turning out to be a unique (here) point
> of view about this. I don't want to prevent this kind of theft -- I want
> to discover it, and remove perpetrators from any IXP where they try it. I
> don't want to block it. I want to ensure that it is never tried twice. I
> appear to be in the minority wrt this view.
Currently, the cost of discovery is high. The cost of prevention, where it
can be done, PAIX, is low. The result is predictable.
randy
