[74780] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Fred Baker)
Wed Oct 13 20:08:34 2004
Date: Wed, 13 Oct 2004 15:17:12 -0700
To: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
From: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Cc: NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <CAE7C7DE-1CFE-11D9-A17D-000A95CD987A@muada.com>
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At 12:01 PM 10/13/04 +0200, Iljitsch van Beijnum wrote:
>Trusting the source when it says that its packets aren't evil might be
>sub-optimal. Evaluation of evilness is best left up to the receiver.
Likely true. Next question is whether the receiver can really determine
that in real time. For some things, yes, but for many things it is not as
obvious to me.
