On Fri, 28 Sep 2001, Sean M. Doran wrote:
Because some of them, unlike you, understood (or at least were told) that we DID need the filter, otherwise the Internet would start becoming too expensive to continue growing.
The entire Internet, not just Sprintlink.
Other providers never adopted filters, Sprint has since dropped its filters. The Internet is still growing. It even continued to grow faster because Sprint couldn't control its own route announcements.
similar filters got installed. Blame Sprint's then-competition for being too stupid to protect their market share (and incidentally simultaneously act altruistically!).
Its difficult to view the act as altruistic, when in the face of impending doom, it continued to spew forth as many different routes as it did. But perhaps we didn't recognize the behavior as a cry for help. Much like and addict, it couldn't stop itself from prostituting itself while at the same time criticizing other providers for the same behaivor. Many a politician and religious leader has condemned the sinner, only to be found in bed with the sinner themselves. A hypocritic condemns others for what he does himself. If you really believed the Internet was facing immenient doom, why not also save it by also filtering the outbound announcements. Why engage in the very behaivor your condemnded? Its not that difficult to apply the same filter on both the inbound and outbound route announcements. I'm sure someone on this list can post the appropriate Cisco and Juniper configs if you don't have them.