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> -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > Behalf Of Stephen J. Wilcox > Sent: Wednesday, June 12, 2002 2:03 AM > To: Matt Levine > Cc: [email protected]; 'Stephen Sprunk' > Subject: RE: How many protocols... > > > > > I dont provide multicast, am I not an ISP by your definition? > I think so.. > > Steve > If *I* used multicast, and that was a significant part of my 'Internet Experience', and you didn't provide it, I'd very quickly stop considering you an ISP. Thankfully, the only person who really cares what I consider an ISP is me, so I wouldn't worry. > > On Tue, 11 Jun 2002, Matt Levine wrote: > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On > > > Behalf Of Stephen Sprunk > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 11, 2002 8:33 AM > > > To: Magnus Boden > > > Cc: North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes > > > Subject: Re: How many protocols... > > > > > > > > > > > > Thus spake "Magnus Boden" <[email protected]> > > > > I wouldn't call it an isp if they only allowed tcp, udp > and icmp. > > > > It should be all ip protocols. > > > > > > > > There can be a maximum of 256 of them. The isp > shouldn't care what > > > > the ipheader->protocol field is set to. > > > > > > There is at least one ISP here in the US that filters > > > protocol 50 (IPsec ESP). > > > Does that mean they're really not an ISP? > > > > > > S > > > > > > > > They can still call themselves whatever they want, but I wouldn't > > consider them an ISP, as they're not provider a very key part of my > > "Internet experience". I'd feel the same way if they > filtered google. > > > > > > Regards, > > Matt > > -- > > Matt Levine > > @Home: [email protected] > > @Work: [email protected] > > ICQ : 17080004 > > AIM : exile > > GPG : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0D04CF > > "The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody > > appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX > > > > > > Regards, Matt -- Matt Levine @Home: [email protected] @Work: [email protected] ICQ : 17080004 AIM : exile GPG : http://pgp.mit.edu:11371/pks/lookup?op=get&search=0x6C0D04CF "The Trouble with doing anything right the first time is that nobody appreciates how difficult it was." -BIX
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