[84693] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: router worms and International Infrastructure
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Gadi Evron)
Tue Sep 20 18:19:13 2005
Date: Wed, 21 Sep 2005 01:17:25 +0200
From: Gadi Evron <ge@linuxbox.org>
To: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Cc: "Christopher L. Morrow" <christopher.morrow@mci.com>,
Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>, nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <200509200631.j8K6Vaaf008195@turing-police.cc.vt.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> RFC2827 came out in May 2000.
And that's something I will drink to every day. What has happened with
it since?
> Based on its deployment history, where providers just have to act locally,
> I suspect that a requirement that providers act globally will result in either:
>
> a) I'll be collecting a pension and not really caring before it happens.
>
> b) We have a curious patchwork of laws foisted upon us, from various state,
> province, and country governments.
>
> In either case, I'm not going to hold my breath waiting for something workable
> to show up - that's a long time to spend being an odd shade of blue....
There are solutions that don't have to be based on legislation. I don't
have all the answers but acknowledging the problems is something that
should be done.
Gadi.
