On 2/2/12 21:59 , Randy Bush wrote:
The suits won, and many nerds either threw in with them or revealed their affinity for the easy life and gave up. Being principled and turning away dirty money or exercising the "fire the customer" clause tends to be disliked by corporate officers. bottom line -- the only way to fix this problem is for bad behavior to become more expensive than good behavior. it's the only thing the pointy hairs will understand.
i just love to read geeks discussing legal and financial solutions. just about as educational as watching lawyers and cfos discussing engineering.
seeing as we are purportedly engineers, perhaps we could discuss a technical engineering approach to prefix misorigination?
I hear there's this thing called RPKI that does origin validation, it's a shame that TCP MD5 shared secrets are already considered to hard to manage in this community.
randy