Re: moving to IPv6

["Jay R. Ashworth" <jra () scfn thpl lib fl us>]

On Sun, Nov 02, 1997 at 11:59:17AM -0600, Phil Howard wrote:
> > In a world where the internet industry is becoming
> > more and more like the telecoms industry, the
> > necessity of users to have protocol level access
> > to the network is diminishing, and the dangers
> > of doing so are becoming greater. Which telcos
> > will blithely hand out SS7 interconnects to
> > users? Without (routable) IP access, there
> > would be no SYN floods of distant networks, no
> > source spoofing, less hacking, easier traceability,
> > and the BGP table need only be OTO 1 entry per
> > non-leaf node on a provider interconnection
> > graph.
>
> That's why everyone is abandoning traditionals ISPs and going with proxy
> providers like AOL.

Um, "Huh, Phil?"

Following the Boardwatch ISP directory, for just one source, seems to
indicate otherwise.

This is a fairly sweeping observation... on what sources do you base
it?

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Cheers,
-- jra
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