[93658] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Bogon Filter - Please check for 77/8 78/8 79/8
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Robert E. Seastrom)
Mon Dec 11 10:29:35 2006
To: <swm@emanon.com>
Cc: "'Jack Bates'" <jbates@brightok.net>, <nanog@merit.edu>
From: "Robert E. Seastrom" <rs@seastrom.com>
Date: Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:28:27 -0500
In-Reply-To: <00bc01c71d36$2ea0fb50$52a911ac@amer.cisco.com> (Scott Morris's message of "Mon, 11 Dec 2006 10:08:14 -0500")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
no, he's saying that a lawsuit is a useful method of forcing someone
who is intentionally or negligently distributing incorrect information
that other people who do not know any better then believe and use in
their own networks.
i betcha libel laws aren't written in such a way that they are useful
here, however, there might be some kind of restraint of trade thing
that could be invoked or somesuch. ianal, not my dept.
---rob
"Scott Morris" <swm@emanon.com> writes:
> So we're saying that a lawsuit is an intelligent method to force someone
> else to correct something that you are simply using to avoid the irritation
> of manually updating things yourself???
>
> That seems to be the epitomy of laziness vs. litigousness.
>
> Scott
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu]
> Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 9:55 AM
> To: Jack Bates
> Cc: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Re: Bogon Filter - Please check for 77/8 78/8 79/8
>
>
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2006, Jack Bates wrote:
>
>>
>> Allan Houston wrote:
>> > This probably isn't helped much by sites like completewhois.com
>> > still showing these ranges as bogons..
>> >
>> > http://www.completewhois.com/bogons/active_bogons.htm
>> >
>> > They've ignored all my attempts to get them to update so far.. sigh..
>> >
>>
>> They just need someone using the address space to slap them with a
> lawsuit.
