On Nov 5, 2009, at 7:24 PM, Steven Bellovin wrote:
On Nov 5, 2009, at 5:56 PM, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu wrote:
On Thu, 05 Nov 2009 16:40:09 CST, Bryan King said:
Did I miss a thread on this? Has anyone looked at this yet?
`(2) INTERNET SERVICE PROVIDERS- Any Internet service provider that, on or through a system or network controlled or operated by the Internet service provider, transmits, routes, provides connections for, or stores any material containing any misrepresentation of the kind prohibited in paragraph (1) shall be liable for any damages caused thereby, including damages suffered by SIPC, if the Internet service provider--
"routes" sounds the most dangerous part there. Does this mean that if we have a BGP peering session with somebody, we need to filter it?
Also "transmits". (I'm impressed that someone in Congress knows the word "routes"....)
Don't get hung up on the wording. A DNS blackhole list will do the trick as well. I don't think border ACLs on routers will be necessary. - Daniel Golding