Re: "Everyone should be deploying BCP 38! Wait, they are ...."

[James Milko <jmilko () bandwidth com>]

Is using data from a self-selected group even meaningful when
extrapolated?  It's been a while since Stats in college, and it's very
likely the guys from MIT know more than I do, but one of the big things
they pushed was random sampling.

JM


On Tue, Feb 18, 2014 at 2:11 PM, Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon () cox net> wrote:

> On 2/18/2014 11:20 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote:
>
> > Here's a piece which uses the MIT ANA data to assert that the job is
> > mostly done already.
> >
> > Unless I'm very much mistaken, it appears that a large percentage of
> > the failed BCP 38 spoofing tests listed in that data are actually due
> > to customer side NAT routers dropping packets...
> >
> > which is of course egress filtering rather than ingress filtering,
> > and thus doesn't actually apply to our questions.
> >
> > Am I interpreting that correctly?
>
> The date seems a little past "buy by" in light of the very recent
> observations and comments here.
>
>  http://www.senki.org/everyone-should-be-deploying-bcp-38-wait-they-are/
> >
>
>
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