[89910] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E.Seastrom)
Wed Apr 12 10:11:17 2006
To: "M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@vix.com>, nanog@merit.edu
From: Robert E.Seastrom <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 2006 10:10:47 -0400
In-Reply-To: <Pine.3.89.10604120913.A11498-0100000@equinox.shaysnet.com> (M.
David Leonard's message of "Wed, 12 Apr 2006 09:41:14 -0400 (EDT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
"M. David Leonard" <mdl@equinox.shaysnet.com> writes:
> What is to prevent a network from providing unjittered NTP to its
> downstream clients/customers BUT jittered NTP to outsiders? How is this
> different from providing up-to-the-millisecond stock exchange data to
> paying customers but delaying the same data provided to the general public
> by some time period?
"All quotes and all NTP ticks are delayed 15 minutes" is an amusing concept.
> Are we constrained by fear of litigation from
> taking appropriate pro-active measures to protect services from abuse and
> from discriminating between legitimate and questionable requests for data
> from our own servers? Is it time to bail out of the Internet business?
Listen to Paul; he's a past master at defending against
gratuitous/stupid lawsuits. You're under no obligation to provide the
service, but actively providing bad info could be construed as a tort,
and defending/filing lawsuits, like horse racing (owning the horses,
not going to the races), is a sport for the super-well-heeled.
---Rob
