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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: AS8584 taking over the internet
On Fri, Apr 10, 1998 at 12:16:50AM +0000, Michael Shields wrote: > In article <[email protected]>, > philip bridge <[email protected]> wrote: > > That is of course laudible. But the point has to be made that AS8584 is in > > Israel. In an environment when a small ISP in a small country can cause a > > lot of damage to the global Internet, a way has to be found to efficiently > > propogate this knowledge far and wide. > > I don't understand this point. Would you have been happier if they > were a small ISP in the United States? How about India? Finland? > Why does it matter that AS8584 is in Israel? I believe that the implication was that: 1) they're not directly connected to any of the major _US_ backbones, and 2) they're on the other end of a fairly thin hose. And they can _still_ hose things this badly. This speaks not well of the architecture involved. Cheers, -- jra -- Jay R. Ashworth [email protected] Member of the Technical Staff Unsolicited Commercial Emailers Sued The Suncoast Freenet "Two words: Darth Doogie." -- Jason Colby, Tampa Bay, Florida on alt.fan.heinlein +1 813 790 7592 Managing Editor, Top Of The Key sports e-zine ------------ http://www.totk.com
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