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Re: Dutch ISPs to collaborate and take responsibility forbottedclients

  • From: Nils Kolstein
  • Date: Mon Oct 05 03:05:47 2009

> > Exactly correct.  The number one priority, which trumps all others,
> > is making the abuse stop.  Yes, there are many other things that
> can
> > and should be done, but that's the first one.
> 
> Stopping the abuse is fine, but cutting service to the point that a
> family
> using VOIP only for their phone service can't call 911 and several
> children
> burn to death could bring all sorts of undesirable regulation let
> alone the
> bad press and legal expenses.

As far as the Ducth situation with one of the largest providers (KPN) goes this is solved by using a seperate VLAN for VOIP traffic. Only the data VLAN is being "blocked" or actually policy routed towards a walled garden in which users are able to clean themselves up.

-- 
Nils Kolstein
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