RAS> Date: Tue, 7 May 2002 20:42:14 -0400 RAS> From: Richard A Steenbergen RAS> D. The applicant shall take steps to ensure that its RAS> routes are not announced to Cable & Wireless from RAS> another network. RAS> RAS> What exactly is this supposed to accomplish? IANAL, but that doesn't smell right. Seems sort of... anti- competitive... I guess if one is trying to meet the traffic ratio, one could reroute certain traffic through an intermediary. Maybe some nets tried this, met the minimum/geo/ratio requirements, and there just _had_ to be another way to depeer? Or maybe they want to peer with ASNs who don't purchase transit? Perhaps they want the ability to quickly *coughpsilastsummer* depeer *coughexoduspeersrecently* anyone as they please? (Can't think of anything more serious at the moment.) I guess people must vote with wallet and local-pref? I've joked that we'll peer with anyone who hooks me up with a hot, geeky gal. Now I begin to wonder just how kooky that idea is. ;-) RAS> I don't suppose they'd take too kindly to an ascii diagram RAS> which just happens to resemble a middle finger, would RAS> they? :) "Hey, what are all these packets with .|.. ` in the header?!" ;-) Just wait until IPv6 when people forge source packets with octets that spell obscene messages when interpretted as ASCII. Or even as EBCDIC if 5|<r1pt |<1dd135 get interested in history. ;-) -- Eddy Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita/(Inter)national Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Date: Mon, 21 May 2001 11:23:58 +0000 (GMT) From: A Trap <blacklist@brics.com> To: blacklist@brics.com Subject: Please ignore this portion of my mail signature. These last few lines are a trap for address-harvesting spambots. Do NOT send mail to <blacklist@brics.com>, or you are likely to be blocked.