On Sep 17, 2008, at 1:32 PM, David Ulevitch wrote:
Christopher Morrow wrote:
How about providing some open-source intelligence in a centralized
and
machine-parsable fashion (perhaps with community input of intel even)
which would allow better decsions to be made?
Reputation based on src_addr is /so/ 2005. ASN has a few more legs
perhaps... but...
All the growth in Internet-connected compute clouds (EC2, AppNexus,
GoGrid, etc.) makes any system based around IP reputation decidedly
less useful.
At the end of the day, nobody is going to drop packets for amazon's
IP space.
I'm afraid reality disagrees with you - there already are networks
doing it.
Being big does not guarantee you ability to do Bad Things.
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TTFN,
patrick
