"Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license)

Sun Jun 13 02:08:00 UTC 2004

At 6:58 PM -0700 6/12/04, Randy Bush wrote:
> > One could imagine changing the paradigm (never easy) so that
>> the normal Internet service was proxied for common applications
>> and NAT'ed for everything else...  This wouldn't eliminate all the
>> problems, but would dramatically cut down the incident rate.
>>
>> If a site wants wide-open access, just give it to them.  If that turns
>> out to cause operational problems (due to open mail proxies, spam
>> origination, etc), then put 'em back behind the relays.
>
>guilty until proven innocent, eh?  thanks mr ashcroft.

Randy, are you objecting to the model for initial connectivity,
or the throwing them back behind relays w/o a formal trial?

/John