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RE: [SOT Rant] Non-hostile probes / opt-in/out

  • From: Mike Batchelor
  • Date: Fri Oct 26 12:54:01 2001 
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> <rant>
> 	Digital Island is certainly not alone in their practice of
> assuming an opt-in stance.

I think you know that for an operation like Digital Island or Akamai, asking
every network operator permission to probe is for all practical purposes,
impossible.  Insisting on opt-in is insisting on these companies going out
of
business, or not even starting up at all.

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"The avalanche has already begun.  It is too late for the pebbles to vote" -
Kosh

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