Since the US has no jurisdiction over 17557, other than for the US govt. to force ISPs to refuse to accept any advertisements with 17557 or any other AS that didn't meet some regulatory requirements in the path, how would you propose that the regulatory environment you envision work?
I don't expect any regulation of the Internet to ever work. I expect us (or our successors) to be having exactly the same discussions about exactly the same sort of issues (botnets, route hijacking, spam) in thirty years when I'm starting to plan my retirement. The Internet is what it is; it has evolved to avoid any sort of supra-national regulatory body and the fact that its current model is basically anarchy is considered a necessary evil or a positive advantage, depending on who you talk to. That said, IANAL but if YouTube decided to sue the responsible parties at 17557 in a non-Pakistani court (jurisdiction being established on the basis that their messed up announcements propagated to the US/UK/wherever), I think it could easily win its case (collection of damages might be another issue, of course) and that might have a dramatic impact in encouraging other entities to adhere to BCP. -- Dave Pooser, ACSA Manager of Information Services Alford Media http://www.alfordmedia.com