[74789] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: BCP38 making it work, solving problems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Iljitsch van Beijnum)
Thu Oct 14 09:09:27 2004
In-Reply-To: <6.1.2.0.2.20041013151534.06245b68@mira-sjc5-b.cisco.com>
Cc: NANOG Off-topic Gripes <nanog@merit.edu>
From: Iljitsch van Beijnum <iljitsch@muada.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 15:08:39 +0200
To: Fred Baker <fred@cisco.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 14-okt-04, at 0:17, Fred Baker 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.
It would be a very good start not having to receive that which you can
identify as something you don't want.
