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From: "Scott Weeks" <surfer@mauigateway.com>
And it doesn't require governments, it just requires CEO's with the gumption to say we are not going to accept routes from you, via transit or direct, until you publically state that you are implementing BCP38 within your network and then follow through. --------------------------------------------------------
Many/most CEOs would not have an understanding of what a BCP is and their first response likely would be to ask, "What's the business case?"
Government regulation is also not the answer. They can't all agree on basic crap, much less on some esoteric (in their opinion) netgeekery thingie...
Then we aren't doing our educational job correctly. In part, that's my fault, because I dropped the ball on http://www.bcp38.info So let me pick the ball back up: would everyone who has asserted in this thread that BCP38 is the New Hawtness from 20 years ago, please take 30 minutes out of your weekend, and go find a place 'pon that wiki that you can usefully apply a Vulcan Nerve Pinch to make it more suitable for us to wave in front of the faces of the people about whom Scott is concerned here? I have just rewritten the front page a bit, in recognition of the fact that as it was, it did not really address that audience itself, but more detail work on the interior about who should enable BCP38 filtering, how they can do it, and why they don't -- and why those reasons are spurious -- would be very helpful. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth Baylink jra@baylink.com Designer The Things I Think RFC 2100 Ashworth & Associates http://baylink.pitas.com 2000 Land Rover DII St Petersburg FL USA #natog +1 727 647 1274