vjs@calcite.rhyolite.com (Vernon Schryver) writes: > Related to what you wrote a little while ago, blackhole routes are > easier to deploy against overseas senders of junk IP packets (for most > localized notions of "overseas") than nearby spammers. Do you get > much spam direct from China or Korea? before i started adding /8's to my personal mail filtering system, i used to get a hell of a lot of direct spam from chinanet customers. nowadays i get very little direct spam from china or korea, just a lot of open proxy and open relay spam. so, i see your point. i guess where this has to lead to is respected and enforced treaties involving property and privacy, which is like saying everything will be OK once we invent faster than light communications. > But what does this have to L2VPN or the IETF? now that, i just don't know. i was just walking by and smelled the fire. -- Paul Vixie