IAB concerns against permanent deployment of edge-based filtering

Sat Oct 18 14:00:50 UTC 2003

On Sat, 18 Oct 2003, Jack Bates wrote:
> Jun-ichiro itojun Hagino wrote:
> > While short term traffic filters are deployed, the appropriate recommended
> > longer term action is to:
> 
> Edge networks have a lot more to upgrade than backbone networks. 
[...]

Agreed, but when an edge network fails to upgrade, it just harms itself.  
Backbone networks harms everyone concerned.  It's good to remember who 
bears the pain for (in)action in whichever case.

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