17 Sep
2008
17 Sep
'08
1:34 p.m.
On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:
Christopher Morrow wrote:
How about providing some open-source intelligence in a centralized and machine-parsable fashion (perhaps with community input of intel even) which would allow better decsions to be made?
Reputation based on src_addr is /so/ 2005. ASN has a few more legs perhaps... but...
All the growth in Internet-connected compute clouds (EC2, AppNexus, GoGrid, etc.) makes any system based around IP reputation decidedly less useful.
At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's IP space.
I'm afraid reality disagrees with you - there already are networks doing it. Being big does not guarantee you ability to do Bad Things. -- TTFN, patrick