[ NNSquad ] Re: Traffic shaping law proposed in US

["Bill S" <unixluv@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 12:22 PM, Brett Glass <nnsquad@brettglass.com> wrote:

At 03:54 PM 3/17/2008, Phil Karn wrote:

>carriers are banned from any and all discrimination on the basis of traffic
>content, including port numbers.

In other words, we would have to let worms like the infamous "SQL Slammer"
worm though. And we'd have to let spambots spam.

--Brett Glass

I doubt anyone here would seriously consider blocking bona fide security threats a violation of NN principles.  We don't want spam, harvesters, phishing or trojans any more than you do.The problem is that with those using typical traffic shaping or port blocking techniques, they are casting with too wide a net.  And as a result, they catch dolphins, turtles, sharks and all manner of things in addition to the intended target.  Let agree on this and move on.

Bill