In message <8c5f1fec-ff51-4ba2-a762-c13bc275e...@virtualized.org>, David Conrad writes: > It would seem that as ISPs implement DPI and protocol-specific traffic > shaping, they damage the arguments that they can make claiming they > have "common carrier" status with the inherent immunities that status > provides. I can hear the argument now: if an ISP can throttle > BitTorrent (or whatever) for specific nodes, why can't they also limit > the source addresses of packets coming from those nodes?
They can and should. I suspect many of them do as they usually apply these filters to home networks. BCP 38 is ~10 years old now. It should have been factored into the purchasing decision of all the current equipement. If it wasn't then the operator was negligent. Mark > Regards, > -drc > > -- Mark Andrews, ISC 1 Seymour St., Dundas Valley, NSW 2117, Australia PHONE: +61 2 9871 4742 INTERNET: mark_andr...@isc.org