[80429] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sun May 1 12:25:12 2005
Date: Sun, 1 May 2005 12:23:43 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <6.0.3.0.2.20050428165020.035ab6f8@mail.socket.net>; from John Dupuy <jdupuy-list@socket.net> on Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:01:42PM -0500
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Thu, Apr 28, 2005 at 05:01:42PM -0500, John Dupuy wrote:
> If one is going to use the car analogy, then the ISP is the street, not the
> car. The car is the user's computer or customer premise equipment. Streets
> do not have airbags. (Though that is an interesting concept.) At best,
> streets have features that influence safety & traffic such as stop signs
> and guard rails, but even a well designed street does not actually prevent
> car accidents or dictate what kind of person is riding in a car.
I disagree.
The street is the transit providers.
Road Runner is the car. (Well, *bus*, actually :-).
If I put my kid on the bus, yes, I expect it to protect him.
Cheers,
-- jra
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