On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 8:01 PM, Mark Andrews <Mark_Andrews@isc.org> wrote:
In message <8C5F1FEC-FF51-4BA2-A762-C13BC275E806@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes:
It would seem that as ISPs implement DPI and protocol-specific traffic shaping, they damage the arguments that they can make claiming they have "common carrier" status with the inherent immunities that status provides. I can hear the argument now: if an ISP can throttle BitTorrent (or whatever) for specific nodes, why can't they also limit the source addresses of packets coming from those nodes?
They can and should. I suspect many of them do as they usually apply these filters to home networks.
BCP 38 is ~10 years old now. It should have been factored into the purchasing decision of all the current equipement. If it wasn't then the operator was negligent.
Mark
BCP 38 isn't a license, it's a technique. -- Martin Hannigan martin@theicelandguy.com p: +16178216079