I would probably suggest that there wouldn't be any. *Skeeve Stevens, CEO* eintellego Pty Ltd [email protected] ; www.eintellego.net
Phone: 1300 753 383 ; Fax: (+612) 8572 9954 Cell +61 (0)414 753 383 ; skype://skeeve facebook.com/eintellego twitter.com/networkceoau ; www.linkedin.com/in/skeeve PO Box 7726, Baulkham Hills, NSW 1755 Australia The Experts Who The Experts Call Juniper - Cisco – Brocade - IBM On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 06:01, Gary Buckmaster < [email protected]> wrote: > On 2/25/2012 2:46 AM, Jay Ashworth wrote: > > ----- Original Message ----- > >> From: "Gert Doering" <[email protected]> > > > >>> One of Telstra's downstream customers, a smaller ISP called Dodo, > >>> accidentally announced the global table to Telstra (or perhaps a very > >>> large portion of it.) Enough of it to cause major disruption. > >> > >> This is good. There is a chance that Telstra will learn from it, and > >> do proper customer-facing filters now. > >> > >> OTOH, there also is a chance that Telstra lawyers will just sue the > >> customer, and not change anything... > > > > Perhaps. I am not familiar with Australian jurisprudence, but the US > there > > is the doctrine of Last Clear Chance[1]... and the work necessary on > Telstra's > > part to avoid this problem is a) well known, b) arguably considered best > > practice for a company in their field, and c) not disproportionately > > onorous for them to have undertaken... > > > > so even if they sue, it's not at all a clear cut case for them to "win". > > > > Cheers, > > -- jra > > [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Last_clear_chance > > Being a relatively recent immigrant to Australia from the US, I can say > that, although I have no background in Australian legal shenanigans, > they aren't quite the litigious bastards we Americans tend to be. > > Most of the commentary on AUSNOG tended towards "that was foolish, > hopefully they learn from that". I suspect the chances of there being > any legal fallout from this are slim. > >
