Where does the "Internet" (witha a capital I) start? For example at home I use Roadrunner Cable access. The Internet certainly doesn't start on the other side of the cable router. Does it start on the other side of my local Time-Warner office? Does it start outside of a regional office? As far as Time-Warner is concerned the answer is "NO". I've read their terms of service very closely. They say that any "excessive" use will be dealt with. I pay my money to them, I follow their rules. If I get scanned by an infected system enough times, I look up their info. If it's another Time-Warner customer, I send the information I have to Time-Warner. MMorellat_private stated ISPs policing their networks is "going against everything the net stands for" to me this would only apply if - a) the Internet could stand for anything, and - b) assumes ISP's are the Internet. If bandwidth were infinite I would agree 100%. Right now though I'm tired of other users of the service that we both pay for (other Time-Warner customers that is) using my bandwidth. This is all academic to me. Until I have a direct connection to the Internet, anyone up the line from me can dictate what I can or can't do. If I don't like that I can try to take my business somewhere else, but I have yet to find an ISP that doesn't have some rules, and I don't know that I'd want to deal with any that are completly unregulated. If I pay my ISP for service, but someone else is usurping all the available bandwidth and the ISP won't do anyhting about it, they aren't going to be my ISP any longer. Chad Mawson -----Original Message----- From: ahowardat_private [mailto:ahowardat_private] Sent: Thursday, September 27, 2001 4:11 PM To: incidentsat_private Subject: RE: Nimda et.al. versus ISP responsibility -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 MMorellat_private wrote: > > Now, the question posed is, Should the ISP's be responsible > for policing hosts on their networks. > > The answer is clearly No. This goes against everything the > net stands for. > ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- This list is provided by the SecurityFocus ARIS analyzer service. For more information on this free incident handling, management and tracking system please see: http://aris.securityfocus.com
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