Math 011 (Re: "Default" Points on your Internet "Re: Re: Re:")
George Roettger
geoincidents at nls.net
Tue Jun 15 10:33:52 UTC 2004
> GR> Virus infections are a day to day occurance, not some
>
> And being the status quo justifies something how?
No it doesn't justify it, it simply means it's not an emergency.
> * You have an infected machine that has absolutely no chance of
> harming anyone else. Should you care? ("Yes" reflects concern
> about the customer; "no" is the Internet-minded attitude.) At
> any rate, disconnection would be foolish.
Yes of course you should care, but it should not be a high a priority as say
a down situation.
> * I have an infected machine that pounds out attacks and exploits
> at high speeds, hurting thousands of systems hourly. Would you
> like it shut off? Probably. Do you not agree that this is
> grounds for disco/throttling/proxy -- at least temporarily?
High priority because it can or is causing a down situation for someone.
> If you don't agree with me on the extremes, I think you're nuts.
> If you agree with me on the extremes, then we're arguing over
> where the boundaries should be.
We aren't arguing over boundries, all I'm trying to say is that without
customers the internet shuts down. So perhaps it's time to become a bit more
customer oriented in our thinking of how to deal with the issues we face
today. Automatically sand boxing business dsl customers is a bad idea. Do
you want your backbone providers to do that to you because of a virus
infection on your network?
Geo.
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