12 Nov
2000
12 Nov
'00
9:01 p.m.
On Sun, 12 November 2000, "Mark Mentovai" wrote:
The drive to "slam" is pushed by dollars. I can't think of any situation in which someone might profit from announcing address space without authorization. The problems facing the Internet are mostly due to laziness and lack of clue, enabled by an experimental infrastructure designed to support neither of these things. IP assumes non-hostile, non-lazy, and non-clueless nodes.
Sure it is. When I asked why did providers announced addresses improperly, I've been told by both Sprint and UUNET engineers "because they paid us and you don't."