<div><div>I've only ever seen something like this once before. </div><div><br></div><div>After the injunction was filed that prevented the defendant from carrying on the action that was harming the plaintiffs business, a civil case was launched against the defendant. The defendant counter sued for the monies outstanding in the dispute that started the whole issue. </div>
<div><br></div><div>It went to court and the judge through a pretty heavy damages judgement at the defendant that not only included the direct loss of revenues lost by the plaintiff, but future losses the plaintiff may experience from the action that had been taken. The court took a very dim view of the process the defendant had followed and said words to the effect of; there is a way to go about resolving billing disputes - commercial sabotage wasn't it. </div>
<div><br></div><div>I'm not saying the circumstances of this scenario are the same, but they sounds pretty similar. </div><div><div><br></div><div><div class="gmail_quote">On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:40 PM, Karl Kloppenborg <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:karl@karltec.net">karl@karltec.net</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div>All I have to say is:</div><div><br></div><div>Come on Curtis, show us the proof where it stated in the contracts that AINS had the right to take control of resource allocations / objects and properties?</div>
<div><br></div><div>If you can provide a signed agreement (with permission of all parties) that states this, I think all of us here will have nothing to say other than how wrong you guys are for doing route poisoning.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Either way, what you guys are doing is plain as day wrong, its pure child's play.</div><div><br></div><div>Commercial crap aside (I am interested purely in the technical aspects of this) </div><div>
Last time I checked, BGP (Global Tables) was something that commercial entities were not permitted to manipulate for gain or malicious activities?</div><div><br></div><div>In other words, if your "CFO" / "CEO" / "Accounts and Billing" whatever dept told you to do this, is it not within your right to say "Hey guys, we can't do this, route poisoning is just wrong, you can't do it." ?</div>
<div><br></div><div>I am not really all up with legalities or anything else commercially, but I still think you should jump on and reverse your crap.</div><div><br></div><div>(Just my 2c)</div><div><br></div><div><br></div>
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<div><b><br></b></div><div><b><br></b><div><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On 12/12/2010, at 16:39, Karl Auer wrote:</div><br></div></div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Sun, 2010-12-12 at 15:11 +1100, Kurt Bales wrote:<br>
<blockquote type="cite">We have spoken with the management team at Alumina who have been<br></blockquote><blockquote type="cite">unable to find a contract that gave permission [...]<br></blockquote><br>There is a lesson in this for all of us: When arranging contracts,<br>
ensure that network resources that are the property of or under the<br>administrative control of your company (as distinct from under the<br>operational control of your company) are specifically excluded from any<br>actions the other party is permitted to take in case of dispute. It<br>
might even be wise to list the most important ones...<br><br>Regards, K.<br><br>-- <br>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~<br>Karl Auer (<a href="mailto:kauer@biplane.com.au" target="_blank">kauer@biplane.com.au</a>) +61-2-64957160 (h)<br>
<a href="http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/" target="_blank">http://www.biplane.com.au/kauer/</a> +61-428-957160 (mob)<br><br>GPG fingerprint: DA41 51B1 1481 16E1 F7E2 B2E9 3007 14ED 5736 F687<br>Old fingerprint: B386 7819 B227 2961 8301 C5A9 2EBC 754B CD97 0156<br>
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