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RE: What do you want your ISP to block today?

  • From: David Schwartz
  • Date: Wed Sep 03 18:44:20 2003 
> > Once upon a time there was a proposal for a protocol which allowed
> > clients to
> > push a filter configuration to the edge router to both classify traffic
> > and filter
> > unneeded things.

> Nice idea. I am sure clients will figure that out. As quickly as they
> caught on to 'Windows Update' and 'Setting up a VCR clock'. Lets face
> it: Some things are better left to the "experts".

	If the clients don't figure it out, they get the default, which can be as
permissive or as restrictive as make sense for people who can't figure out
how to control filtering.

	DS