Re: Akamai

[gabriel rosenkoetter <gr () eclipsed net>]

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 04:57:10PM -0400, Valdis.Kletnieks () vt edu wrote:
> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004 21:26:45 +0200, Peter van den Heuvel <peter () bank-connect com>  said:
> > flanking reverse of resposibilities. It's idiotic that providers or even 
> > full countries can completely ignore / reject any complaint without 
> > having their AS or DNS taken down.
> In other arenas, they call the concept "diplomatic immunity"....

In those same arenas, they call the denial of privilege by an
unrecognized entity (or entities) "anarchy". Which is one of those
things that sounds like a really good idea till you're no longer
in the de facto majority. ("They came for...")

On Wed, Jun 16, 2004 at 12:23:35PM -0500, Paul Schmehl wrote:
> Unless networks begin doing this routinely (including ISPs), legislation
> will be introduced to "solve" the problem, and then we will all be much
> worse off.  There's nothing like a law to completely screw things up.

Actually, a clearly defined, limited, exact law is precisely what
we need here. We just lack any appropriate legislative body. (No
national legislature qualifies, and no international body--they
exist: NATO, UN, EU--can make a plausible claim to jurisdiction.)

-- 
gabriel rosenkoetter
gr () eclipsed net

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