-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Wed, Sep 24, 2008 at 5:41 PM, Joe Provo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > The spine to do it left with suits minding the store & managing to > the tune of fickle investors. For the same reason just refusing > deaggregates has become difficult: the bad guys shield themselves > by sitting in the same prefix/ASNs with sites your paying customers > wish to reach. The suits are interested in > - avoiding PR hassles > - low call rates into the support centers > - lower customer-churn numbers for their investor calls > > Therefore anyone with time & energy to block badness where there > is collateral damage rarely has the stamina or internal political > capital to have the suits' spin machine on their side. More > network companies that are privately held with actual technocrats > at the helm might help bring a vision beyond commoditization and > marketing. > Just a side-note: Rensys has an interesting blog article up today on this Atrivo/Intercage "mess": http://www.renesys.com/blog/2008/09/internet_vigilantism_1.shtml FYI, - - ferg -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: PGP Desktop 9.6.3 (Build 3017) wj8DBQFI2uDeq1pz9mNUZTMRAjCxAKCFwIw4PahuGBTzbRwumog45mQp2QCg/K5D egFWNn4uBnN3Rfyi5Npjfes= =DvXt -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- -- "Fergie", a.k.a. Paul Ferguson Engineering Architecture for the Internet fergdawgster(at)gmail.com ferg's tech blog: http://fergdawg.blogspot.com/