2012/5/31 Steve Meuse <sme...@mara.org> > > > On Thu, May 31, 2012 at 12:21 PM, Keegan Holley <keegan.hol...@sungard.com > > wrote: > >> >> The internet by definition is a network of network so no one entity can >> keep traffic segregated to their network. Modifying someone else routing >> advertisements without their consent is just as bad as filtering them in >> my >> opinion. Doing so to move traffic into your AS in order to gain an >> advantage in peering arrangements and make more money off of the end user >> is just dastardly. >> >> > While this is a nice thought, it's not practical in reality. If you give > someone a knob, they are going to turn it. Someone will look to take > advantage of it. > > If you pay me, fine. If you don't pay me, I'm not going to allow you to > potentially cost me significant dollars in infrastructure costs just to > preserve the notion of free love and peering :) >
If you consider not mucking with my advertisements and those of my customers "free love" then I hope you don't work for one of my upstreams. Likewise, if you consider not hijacking my traffic to drive up revenue as "cost". Anything to make a buck I suppose. sigh..