North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: Open Letter to D-Link about their NTP vandalism
"M. David Leonard" <[email protected]> writes: > What is to prevent a network from providing unjittered NTP to its > downstream clients/customers BUT jittered NTP to outsiders? How is this > different from providing up-to-the-millisecond stock exchange data to > paying customers but delaying the same data provided to the general public > by some time period? "All quotes and all NTP ticks are delayed 15 minutes" is an amusing concept. > Are we constrained by fear of litigation from > taking appropriate pro-active measures to protect services from abuse and > from discriminating between legitimate and questionable requests for data > from our own servers? Is it time to bail out of the Internet business? Listen to Paul; he's a past master at defending against gratuitous/stupid lawsuits. You're under no obligation to provide the service, but actively providing bad info could be construed as a tort, and defending/filing lawsuits, like horse racing (owning the horses, not going to the races), is a sport for the super-well-heeled. ---Rob
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