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Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fergie (Paul Ferguson))
Mon Oct 11 00:50:35 2004

From: "Fergie (Paul Ferguson)" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Mon, 11 Oct 2004 04:45:49 GMT
To: goemon@anime.net
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu



True, but yet another cop out.

If you're not part of the solution, .....

- ferg

-- Dan Hollis <goemon@anime.net> wrote:

On Mon, 11 Oct 2004, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) wrote:
> I wrote it, I stand beside it. I'm sick of hearing why people
> haven't implemented it yet -- it's almost five years later
> and there's simply no excuse. It's sickening.

it's cheaper to ignore bcp38 than to implement it.

operators are reactive to abuse, not proactive. though this is slowly 
changing as abuse becomes a significant % of network traffic.

-Dan

--
"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
 Engineering Architecture for the Internet
 fergdawg@netzero.net or
 fergdawg@sbcglobal.net

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