ISP implementing filters for packets with false source addresses. Why does there need to be co-ordination? Surely most ISPs would implement this now they know there is a problem and they can fix it. We just need to put out a request to ISPs I would suggest this is done directly rather than through 'bodies' such as IEPG Peter Dawe Hans-Werner Braun said...
I am actually fairly serious. The tremendous amount of email this generated amazes me. With the amount of effort going into that, I suspect may be 40% or more of the problem could already be alleviated if people would just go out and coordinate and do it. Yes, it will not resolve things at the 100th percentile, but what are we optimizing for? A solution for generations to come? Or something that helps, and that can perhaps be augmented by some other means, such as spot measurements (especially for events that last hours).
All reminds me actually a little of the movie Star Trek Generations, when Picard an Soran were on this planet, about minutes away from the whole star system being blown to kingdom come, Picard helplessly throwing little rocks at the shield, and Soran asking him something like "don't you have anything better to do."
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