What do you want your ISP to block today?

Johannes Ullrich jullrich at euclidian.com
Wed Sep 3 20:16:09 UTC 2003



> Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed 
> clients to
> push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic 
> and filter
> unneeded things. 

Nice idea. I am sure clients will figure that out. As quickly as they
caught on to 'Windows Update' and 'Setting up a VCR clock'. Lets face
it: Some things are better left to the "experts".



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