Re: BCP38 dismissal

["Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>]

On Sep 4, 2008, at 3:38 PM, Gadi Evron wrote:
> On Thu, 4 Sep 2008, Jo Rhett wrote:
> > On Sep 4, 2008, at 7:24 AM, James Jun wrote:
> > > Indeed... In today's internet, protecting your own box (cp-policer/ 
> > > control
> > > plane filtering) is far more important IMO than implementing BCP38  
> > > when much
> > > of attack traffic comes from legitimate IP sources anyway (see  
> > > botnets).
> >
> >
> > I'm sorry, but nonsense statements such as these burn the blood.   
> > Sure, yes, protecting yourself is so much more important than  
> > protecting anyone else.
> >
> > Anyone else want to stand up and join the "I am an asshole" club?
>
> "I'm an a??hole!" :o)
> (lotsa folks get corporate "bad words" filters, here).
>
> Seriously though, everyone should take care of their own end first.  
> The problem is Jo doesn't seem to be in the loopon attacks from  
> recent years, but I am unsure he would change his mind if he was/

Gadi,

Do you really want to suggest to people that they not implement BCP38?

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TTFN,
patrick