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Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun May 1 12:09:10 2005

Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:05:34 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <a0620070bbe9540ac1373@[192.168.1.101]>; from Edward Lewis <Ed.Lewis@neustar.biz> on Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:25:55AM -0400
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu


On Wed, Apr 27, 2005 at 09:25:55AM -0400, Edward Lewis wrote:
> It would be nice if the ISPs protected me from bad stuff on the 
> Internet - but why are they to be held to a higher standard than 
> similar services?

Have we drifted?

I thought the topic was "tragedy of the commons", not "protect the end
users"...?

Cheers,
-- jra
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