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North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Dave Farber comments on Re: Major Labels v. Backbones
On Fri, 16 Aug 2002, Richard A Steenbergen wrote: > Ok here's a question, why are they sueing AT&T, CW, and UU? I see > Listen4ever behind 4134 (China Telecom), who I only see buying transit > through InterNAP. Wouldn't it be simpler for them to sue InterNAP? I guess > it would sure be nice precedent, if they could make some big tier 1 > providers do their bidding to filter whoever they want whenever they want. The problem with BGP is you only see the "best" path more than one hop away. The network in question is reachable through transit providers other than InterNAP, such as Concert. http://www.nytimes.com/2002/08/17/business/media/17MUSI.html The New York Times says the companies named in the suit are AT&T Broadband (not AT&T's backbone?), Cable & Wireless, Sprint Corporation and UUNet technologies. "David Farber, a University of Pennsylvania computer scientist and an early architect of the Internet, filed an affidavit in the case, saying it would be relatively easy for the Internet companies to block the Internet address of the Web site without disrupting other traffic. "It's not a big hassle," Mr. Farber said. "There's no way to stop everybody, but a substantial number of people will not be able to get access."
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