[Asrg] Round 2 of the DNSBL BCP

[Rich Kulawiec]

On Thu, Apr 03, 2008 at 08:56:22AM -0700, Bart Schaefer wrote:
> Sorry, but this is not a zero-sum game, and you can't have it both ways.
> The whole Internet is built on cooperative access to resources.  By your
> argument, no one was damaged when that Pakistani ISP null-routed half
> the planet to block access to YouTube, because no one should have
> expected to have access to the Ineternet in the first place.

That is not an analogous situation.  Had YouTube null-routed *itself*,
thus exercising control over its own resources, then that would be
an analogous situation.

We're not discussing third-party intervention here: we're talking
about people exercising control over their own resources.

(And yes, I concur with your view of how the Internet's been built.
I support it fully.  However, one's decision to cooperate and generously
extend privileges to others isn't required to be irrevocable or universal.)

---Rsk