On Wed, 20 Mar 2019 12:45:35 -0400, Bryan Fields said: > On 3/20/19 12:32 PM, william manning wrote: > > of course at the end of the day, there is ZERO requirement for anyone to > > accept traffic from any prefix. to paraphrase an old greybeard, > > "my network, my rulez" > > Wouldn't this be in conflict with the idea of "network neutrality" rules?
Depends. Was softlayer up-front with the customers about what addresses are blocked, and why? If the customers knew that softlayer had a block list and had a way to tell if it was impacting their network access, that's one thing. If softlayer was doing it without informed consent from its customers, that's a different kettle of fish....