> AY> [I]t is a job of your customer to decide if they want to filter > AY> some ports from their network or if they want to contract you > AY> to do that for them. > > A job that many are incapable of performing. > > One must contact one's upstreams to enable BGP; the consequences > of freely-available, unfiltered BGP would be catastrophic. Most > people simply don't need BGP. Those who claim to need it are > required to follow rules set by their upstreams and the rest of > the Internet community.
That is not correct. A customer that is multihoming does it. Single homed customer does not do it. > Packet filtering at the edge would be far from a panacea, and in > many ways would be a very bad thing, but perhaps it's time to re- > evaluate the "need" for every network to have complete end-to-end > connectivity. Some dialup providers and cable networks already > offer less than EtE. Some dialup providers and some cable networks. Alex