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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: MCI WORLDCOM TO PAY $3.5 MILLION
On Sun, Nov 12, 2000 at 08:55:12PM -0500, Mark Mentovai wrote: > > Sean Donelan wrote: > >Is this the only thing which will get major carrier's attention. It > >would be great if carriers could be trusted to correctly verify IP > >addresses before announcing them. But as we've seen in the long-distance > >world, too many carriers act as if they can get an extra buck, they'll > >do what every they need to do. > > The drive to "slam" is pushed by dollars. I can't think of any situation in > which someone might profit from announcing address space without > authorization. The problems facing the Internet are mostly due to laziness > and lack of clue, enabled by an experimental infrastructure designed to > support neither of these things. IP assumes non-hostile, non-lazy, and > non-clueless nodes. With respect to "converting customers", no its not going to happen. The technology operates differently. However, there have been instances where a company just started using a block of reserved IP space (squatting) hoping that, after a while, if it wasn't noticed, the courts would decide that its really theirs. In this case, I think the various *NICs should inject reserved space into the routing table such that things like this can't happen. I can see various fines resulting from this type of abuse. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Wayne Bouchard [Immagine Your ] [email protected] [Company Name Here] Network Engineer http://www.typo.org/~web/resume.html ----------------------------------------------------------------------
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