On Wed, Aug 15, 2007 at 03:02:07PM -0400, J. Oquendo wrote:
Chiloé Temuco wrote:
My opinion:
A tier 1 provider does not care what traffic it carries. That is all a function of the application not the network.
Providers should start caring about what they're carrying. Haven't seen one message yet about the hording of "Storm Bot" and what someone is doing to nip this at the bud. Who better than the big boys. After all what happens when someone launches this botnet at say Mae-East/West or some other backbone.
sniff... mae-east. fond memories... now if ANYONE could launch anything from mae-east these days, I'd be really impressed.
SO something similiar to BGP is your inter-AS protocol for establishing what is where...
I'm all for it. Let's get another working group to implement this right after IPv6 in the year 3000. As for the rest of the email... Sorry got too cumbersome. I was busy writing a response to the next NANOG thread.
does this mean we have to implement Terrells tribit encoding? --bill
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