> On 25 Dec 2015, at 00:48, valdis.kletni...@vt.edu wrote: > > On Thu, 24 Dec 2015 23:44:10 +0000, Colin Johnston said: >> We really need to ask if China and Russia for that matter will not take abuse >> reports seriously why allow them to network to the internet ? > > Well, first off, it isn't like China or Russia are just one ASN. You'd have > to de-peer a bunch of ASN's - and also eliminate any paid transit connections. > > Note that even North Korea has managed to land at least a small presence on > the Internet. Are you going to ban them too? > > While we're banning countries, how about the country that's known for > widespread surveillance both foreign and domestic, has one of the strongest > cyber warfare arsenals around, and has been caught multiple times diverting > and > backdooring routers sold to foreign countries? > > Oh wait, that's the US. Maybe we better rethink this? > > Obviously, there's a lot of organizations that think that being able to > communicate with China and Russia outweighs the security issues. You are > of course welcome to make a list of all Russian and Chinese ASNs and block > their prefixes at your border.
So therefore we must somehow engage and enforce best practice for abuse alerts and action issues Colin