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----- Original Message ----- From: "Jørgen Hovland" <[email protected]> To: "Network.Security" <[email protected]> Cc: <[email protected]> Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2004 7:06 PM Subject: Re: Important IPv6 Policy Issue -- Your Input Requested > > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Network.Security" <[email protected]> > > > > On 2004-11-09-17:10:02, "Network.Security" <[email protected]> > > wrote: > >> We receive a disturbingly large amount of traffic sourced from the 1918 > >> space destined for our network coming from one of our normally > >> respectable Tier 1 ISP's (three letter acronym, starts with 'M', ends > >> with 'CI'). > >> > >> This is particularly irritating since we pay for burstable service; nice > >> that we are paying for illegitimate traffic to come down our pipes. > > Hello. I felt I had to write a small comment to this. > > For the record, we use 1918 address range on several of our public routers > meaning you will get legitimate traffic from this address space, atleast > from us unless you are filtering it (which is of course all your decision). > Filtering any type of traffic at all by a transit provider without the > possibility to remove these filters _could_ be reason enough for us to > terminate the contract with them since we would feel we were not paying for > real internet connectivity. funny. you must be talking about a different internet. i hear there have been 'rumours out on the internets [sic]', maybe i'm just behind the times.. <g> all jokes aside, 1918 allows for use of 1918 space in a private network or a 'private internet [sic]' comprised of any such number of private networks as agree to interconnect and cooperate in routing traffic sourced from and destined to said space. it follows that any 1918-sourced traffic you send me is illegitimate. out of curiosity, what kind of 'legitimate traffic', considering i couldn't legitimately reply back, were you speaking of? p
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