On Wed, 13 Aug 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
Christopher L. Morrow wrote:
This is the point, atleast I, have been trying to make for 2 years... end systems, or as close to that as possible, need to police themselves, the granularity and filtering capabilities (content filtering even) are available at that level alone.
I agree with you Chris, but I also believe that temp filters do have a role, even at backbones. One of my peers appears to be helping out my
the problem is, at the backbone level, its a very large hammer... and often the peg is round while the hole is square :(
Honestly, it would be nice to offer different classes of service, allowing user's that are semi-protected and user's that are free and clear. The issue with doing so is dealing with the liability of
this is called 'managed firewall service' and some ISP's do a good business with it, some even advertise their service and market it too! :) There are some sticky points with managed firewall services that still need ironing out (on a per-provider basis atleast) but its a great start, and the filtering is done at the 'right' place, near the end node...