belief of "don't be the Internet's firewall" to "some bad actors
shouldn't be here, but generally don't be the Internet's firewall."
Such social change to encourage new technological and operational
solutions happenes every 2-5 years or so, and I don't expect anything
large enough such as an AS-based reputation system to happen anytime soon.
Also, you should consider that such actions also have direct political
and diplomatic ramifications neither of us understands.
So, for now, I'd say that each of us should make such decisions by our
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> As to "getting rid" or "refusing to connect with" networks with extremely bad reputation, that may be quite acceptable on an individual bases, but not on the Internet-scale, as things stand right now.
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> When I facilitated making Atrivo (and others) no longer welcome on the Internet, it was a brand new move, and it helped change the social belief of "don't be the Internet's firewall" to "some bad actors shouldn't be here, but generally don't be the Internet's firewall."
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> Such social change to encourage new technological and operational solutions happenes every 2-5 years or so, and I don't expect anything large enough such as an AS-based reputation system to happen anytime soon.
>
> Also, you should consider that such actions also have direct political and diplomatic ramifications neither of us understands.
>
> So, for now, I'd say that each of us should make such decisions by our own risk analysis with the trade-off between costs and benefits in mind, and only for our own networks.
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> belief of "don't be the Internet's firewall" to "some bad actors
> shouldn't be here, but generally don't be the Internet's firewall."
>
> Such social change to encourage new technological and operational
> solutions happenes every 2-5 years or so, and I don't expect anything
> large enough such as an AS-based reputation system to happen anytime
> soon.
And, of course, there's nothing to say this will have any effect on attacks from "evil" people in the countries I block when they can easily source the attacks from networks I allow. It just provides security-in-depth.
> belief of "don't be the Internet's firewall" to "some bad actors
> shouldn't be here, but generally don't be the Internet's firewall."
>
> Such social change to encourage new technological and operational
> solutions happenes every 2-5 years or so, and I don't expect anything
> large enough such as an AS-based reputation system to happen anytime
> soon.
And, of course, there's nothing to say this will have any effect on attacks from "evil" people in the countries I block when they can easily source the attacks from networks I allow. It just provides security-in-depth.
