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From: "Gert Doering" <gert@greenie.muc.de>
One of Telstra's downstream customers, a smaller ISP called Dodo, accidentally announced the global table to Telstra (or perhaps a very large portion of it.) Enough of it to cause major disruption.
This is good. There is a chance that Telstra will learn from it, and do proper customer-facing filters now.
OTOH, there also is a chance that Telstra lawyers will just sue the customer, and not change anything...
Perhaps. I am not familiar with Australian jurisprudence, but the US there is the doctrine of Last Clear Chance[1]... and the work necessary on Telstra's part to avoid this problem is a) well known, b) arguably considered best practice for a company in their field, and c) not disproportionately onorous for them to have undertaken... so even if they sue, it's not at all a clear cut case for them to "win". Cheers, -- jra [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_clear_chance -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA http://photo.imageinc.us +1 727 647 1274