On 3/28/12 11:45 AM, David Conrad wrote: > Actually, given the uptick in spoofing-based DoS attacks, the ease in which > such attacks can be generated, recent high profile targets of said attacks, > and the full-on money pumping freakout about anything with "cyber-" tacked on > the front, I suspect a likely outcome will be proposals for legislation > forcing ISPs to do something like BCP38.
in a note (which didn't go anywhere in particular) i pointed out that contract may address the same issue for which legislation may be proposed, at least for "contractual closures" (sorry, a term of my own, defined below) which share the property some jurisdictions have of a finite access provider universe. i mean "contractual closure" to be the performance guarantee (or non-performance guarantee) present in a set of contracts for a particular service. think "china", after first abstracting all the negatives associated with policy as a property of a distributed, shared, public resource, or "firewalls 4 (bcp defined) good". -e
