Misguided.

-----Original Message-----
From: Mark Andrews <ma...@isc.org>
Date: Sunday, February 24, 2013 12:21 PM
To: Michael Thomas <m...@mtcc.com>
Cc: John Jason Brzozowski <john_brzozow...@cable.comcast.com>, Michael
Richardson <mcr+i...@sandelman.ca>, Mark Townsley <m...@townsley.net>,
Dave Taht <dave.t...@gmail.com>, Jari Arkko <jari.ar...@piuha.net>, Ted
Lemon <mel...@fugue.com>, "homenet@ietf.org Group" <homenet@ietf.org>,
David Lamparter <equi...@diac24.net>, Lorenzo Colitti <lore...@google.com>
Subject: Re: [homenet] Servers in the home are not a crime

>
>In message <512958cb.8000...@mtcc.com>, Michael Thomas writes:
>> Brzozowski, John wrote:
>> >> The other use case for frequent renumbering is an ISP who wants to
>> >> prevent the customer from setting up servers.   The washing machine
>>is a
>> >> server.   Either the ISP succeeds, or fails, but in either case,
>>they are
>> >> acting directly against the customer's wishes.
>> 
>> > [jjmb] are a customer is violating their usage agreement with the ISP.
>> 
>> 
>> Is there any way this working group can make a statement that my
>>washing mach
>> ine,
>> home cameras, DVR, hot tub, thermostat, and light sockets, etc, etc,
>>etc are
>> not TOS-worth scofflaws, and that ISP should come up with some 21st
>>century w
>> ay of
>> describing abusive behaviour for their customers rather than relying on
>>detec
>> tion of
>> the heinous crime of listen(2)?
>
>Actually ISP's that renumber their customers regularly are performing
>a DoS on their customers which actually may be illegal rather than
>just a contract violation as they are deliberately breaking existing
>connections.  I've seen software updates take longer than a hour
>to download.  They also can't in good faith be said to be delivering
>the Internet.  They generally have to break protocol default behaviors
>and write specialised servers to get this broken behaviour.  There
>is a expectation that when you renew a lease that you will get the
>same address unless it is a exceptional circumstance.
>
>> Mike
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