On 8/15/05 4:46 PM, "Randy Bush" <randy@psg.com> wrote:
I'm not nearly confident enough to decide on behalf of almost billion other people how they should benefit from the Internet and how not to. thanks for that! Indeed. Also see http://www.iab.org/documents/docs/2003-10-18-edge-filters.html
as i just replied to a private message from an enterprise op,
o backbone isps can not set their customers' security policy - some customers want to run billyware shares over the wan whether we advise it or not - some of us host security researchers, who have a taste for 445 and other nasty traffic
While its not uncommon to run SMB/Windows file system drive mounts across private WANs, doing so across the Internet, on a non-encrypted tunnel, is the equivalent of running with scissors. I am unaware of any enterprise security folks foolish enough to allow that. Of course, I may be sheltered. (as an aside - running windows file system mounts across enterprise WANs is so common that there are WAN optimization devices that improve remote disk mount performance via protocol spoofing) - Dan
o enterprise / site ops can set their users' security policies as that's part of their job and charter
randy