AS8584 taking over the internet

Fri Apr 10 00:16:50 UTC 1998

In article <3.0.3.32.19980409083628.03cebbe8 at mailhost.ip-plus.net>,
philip bridge <bridge at ip-plus.net> wrote:
> That is of course laudible. But the point has to be made that AS8584 is in
> Israel. In an environment when a small ISP in a small country can cause a
> lot of damage to the global Internet, a way has to be found to efficiently
> propogate this knowledge far and wide.

I don't understand this point.  Would you have been happier if they
were a small ISP in the United States?  How about India?  Finland?
Why does it matter that AS8584 is in Israel?
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