North American Network Operators Group Date Prev | Date Next | Date Index | Thread Index | Author Index | Historical Re: EC2 and GAE means end of ip address reputation industry? (Re: Intrustion attempts from Amazon EC2 IPs)
At 4:17 PM +0000 6/22/08, Paul Vixie wrote: >with EC2, it's game-over for the IP reputation industry, other than >possibly lists of dynamic IP blocks (modems, DSL, etc) from which SMTP >ought not come. but for the wider IP address space, we now return to >content based filtering, and i predict a mighty increase in the number of >pink contracts in colo rooms. (the silver lining is, this could reduce >pressure on BGP piracy/injection.) > >as randy bush often says, "it's just business." amazon has solid business >reasons for creating EC2 and there's no way it could be profitable if they >can't scale the user base, and there's no way to scale the user base if >they have to police it at the application or "intent" level. so, i'm not >whining, just pointing out that this is a sea change, the end of an era. I agree that it's going to be difficult to deal with this on an IP reputation basis (at least using IPv4 :-), but not certain that means that a total lack of policing will stand long-term. The litmus test will likely be subsequent to the first large scale P2P service appearing in the EC2 cloud and distributing quantities of copyright material... /John
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