EVERYTHING about Booters (and CloudFlare)

Wed Jul 27 17:53:33 UTC 2016

This is why policy, as painful as it is to produce, is useful.

There isn't even general agreement on whether (or what!) Cloudfare is
doing is a problem.

Which is why interested parties need to get together and agree on some
sort of policy regarding this and similar things.

Or not and just let it go.

That policy could, at least in theory, be attached to peering
agreements, BGP agreements, address allocations, etc as contracts as a
means of enforcement. And if necessary presented to law enforcement or
courts as clearly defined violations of GAAP.

It may not be a law per se but it's the sort of thing a court case
might use, say in a civil damages suit or even law enforcement action,
to establish that defendant's behavior exhibited reckless disregard
and so on.

As an analogy you can't accuse someone of mayhem if no one can be
bothered to write down what mayhem might be and why the defendant
should have known their actions were mayhemic.

-- 
        -Barry Shein

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