[7354] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Alpha test of MAE filtering capability
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David S. Holub)
Fri Jan 31 16:30:32 1997
Date: Fri, 31 Jan 1997 13:22:21 -0800 (PST)
From: "David S. Holub" <david@wenet.net>
To: Paul A Vixie <paul@vix.com>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <199701311946.LAA03692@wisdom.home.vix.com>
On Fri, 31 Jan 1997, Paul A Vixie wrote:
> > IMHO, as long as money is involved, and as long as someone thinks that
> > they have a chance of getting away with something, they will try it.
>
> Entirely agreed. 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.
>
No not entirely. We have been at two NAPs for nearly two years. We have over
60 peers now and have never abused those relationships. I would like to think
that we are in the majority and that those that fail to meet those standards
should be expelled not filtered.
--david
David S. Holub
President CTO
Whole Earth Networks
(Hooked & The WeLL)
