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Re: Schneier: ISPs should bear security burden

  • From: Owen DeLong
  • Date: Wed Apr 27 01:45:18 2005
Why do ISPs owe this to their customers. I expect my ISP to deliver
packets sent to me, and, to pass along packets I send out. That is
the sum total of what I expect from my ISP, and, it's what my contract
says is supposed to happen. Where does this belief that when user A
at company Y sends a packet full of garbage to user B ad company Z
the ISP at either end is responsible for the contents of the packet?

That's like making the phone company responsible for the content of
a conversation or saying that Safeway distribution is responsible
for the content of Arrowhead spring water bottles that reach Safeway
stores.

Owen

--On Wednesday, April 27, 2005 8:54 +0530 Suresh Ramasubramanian <[email protected]> wrote:

On 4/27/05, Fergie (Paul Ferguson) <[email protected]> wrote:

I've been there -- I know how I feel about it -- but I'd love
to know how ISP operations folk feel about this.


He's right.  ISPs owe it to their users, if not to the rest of the
Internet community, to do this.
A lot of it is also part of the MAAWG bcps on spam (though the BCPs,
when implemented, will do a lot more good than just cut down on spam)


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