AY> Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 14:16:40 -0500 (EST) AY> From: alex@... (Alex Yuriev) AY> [I]t is a job of your customer to decide if they want to filter AY> some ports from their network or if they want to contract you AY> to do that for them. A job that many are incapable of performing. One must contact one's upstreams to enable BGP; the consequences of freely-available, unfiltered BGP would be catastrophic. Most people simply don't need BGP. Those who claim to need it are required to follow rules set by their upstreams and the rest of the Internet community. Packet filtering at the edge would be far from a panacea, and in many ways would be a very bad thing, but perhaps it's time to re- evaluate the "need" for every network to have complete end-to-end connectivity. Some dialup providers and cable networks already offer less than EtE. Eddy -- Brotsman & Dreger, Inc. - EverQuick Internet Division Bandwidth, consulting, e-commerce, hosting, and network building Phone: +1 (785) 865-5885 Lawrence and [inter]national Phone: +1 (316) 794-8922 Wichita ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ 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.