de-peering for security sake

Dan Hollis goemon at sasami.anime.net
Sun Jan 17 21:15:36 UTC 2016


On Sun, 17 Jan 2016, Doug Barton wrote:
> On 1/17/2016 12:44 PM, bzs at theworld.com wrote:
>> We need an effective forum with effective participation perhaps
>> eventually leading to signed contractual obligations agreed to by all
>> parties.
> Not gonna help. The same people who have no incentive to do the right thing 
> now will still have no incentive to join the group you propose.
>
> I've said it before, and it's an unpopular option, but the only way that this 
> will change is to make it more expensive to do the wrong thing than it is to 
> do the right thing.

I think it can happen without lawsuits. look at RBLs and spamhaus. a bit 
sad that spamhaus has to exist in order to motivate operators to clean up 
their cesspools, but it does work to a certain extent.

-Dan



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