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"Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license)
From: John Curran <jcurran () istaff org>
Date: Sat, 12 Jun 2004 21:54:27 -0400
The real challenge here is that the "default" Internet service is wide-open Internet Protocol, w/o any safeties or controls. This made a lot of sense when the Internet was a few hundred sites, but is showing real scaling problems today (spam, major viruses, etc.) One could imagine changing the paradigm (never easy) so that the normal Internet service was proxied for common applications and NAT'ed for everything else... This wouldn't eliminate all the problems, but would dramatically cut down the incident rate. If a site wants wide-open access, just give it to them. If that turns out to cause operational problems (due to open mail proxies, spam origination, etc), then put 'em back behind the relays. /John
Current thread:
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license, (continued)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license Owen DeLong (Jun 13)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license or tags Pete (Jun 13)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license or tags Petri Helenius (Jun 13)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license Rob Nelson (Jun 13)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can Paul Vixie (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can Sean Donelan (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can Paul Vixie (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can Sean Donelan (Jun 12)
- RE: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can David Schwartz (Jun 12)
- Re: Points on your Internet driver's license (was RE: Even you can Paul Vixie (Jun 12)
- "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) John Curran (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) Randy Bush (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) John Curran (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) Randy Bush (Jun 13)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) Sean Donelan (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) Owen DeLong (Jun 13)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) John Curran (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet driver's license) Christopher L. Morrow (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet Paul Vixie (Jun 12)
- Re: "Default" Internet Service (was: Re: Points on your Internet Doug White (Jun 13)