[98616] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: [policy] When Tech Meets Policy...
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Ferguson)
Tue Aug 14 06:00:37 2007
From: "Paul Ferguson" <fergdawg@netzero.net>
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2007 06:16:20 GMT
To: carl@personnelware.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
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- -- Carl Karsten <carl@personnelware.com> wrote:
>Oddly enough I am in possession of 20+ fee samples that were the left
>overs from =
a hand out, and I was cleaning up the place. pretty sure I did not brea=
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any =
laws. I know that isn't what you meant, but it is what you said. One o=
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tricky parts about law is defining it. If you can't define it, it is
really =
hard to make it illegal.
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It's called "gaming the system".
While not expressly illegal (IANAL), it damned well should be.
- - ferg
p.s. I realize that "closing the loop" on this behavior could be
result in more badness, and in fact a certain "tragedy of the
commons". This is where we find ourselves, apparently.
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"Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson
Engineering Architecture for the Internet
fergdawg(at)netzero.net
ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/
