Re: "Defensive" BGP hijacking?

[Florian Weimer <fw () deneb enyo de>]

* Mel Beckman:

> If we can't police ourselves, someone we don't like will do it for us. 

That hasn't happened with with IP spoofing, has it?  As far as I
understand it, it is still a major contributing factor in
denial-of-service attacks.  Self-regulation has been mostly
unsuccessful, and yet nothing has happened on the political level.