> It would be possible for transit providers to stamp any packet that > has not been suitably filtered.
Sure. But who's going to bother, and why? If the upper levels of Internet governance were to impose responsibility - if ignoring such abusers could lose you your connectivity, for example - this could be done. But, ever since the invasion, Internet governance has been all about concentrating money in fewer hands. That is, the net is defined to be working well when, and to the extent that, it is doing that. (Consider that it's the US government's Department of _Commerce_ that is at the top of the pyramid.) Unsurprisingly, abuses such as DDoS are, therefore, ignored by Internet authorities as long as the abusers pay their bills, and suggestions such as yours that would mean turning off paying customers will, at best, gain small amounts of traction at the edges of the net where remnants of the pre-invasion cooperative net still linger. No, I don't like it either. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML [email protected] / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B _______________________________________________ pool mailing list [email protected] http://lists.ntp.org/listinfo/pool
