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sandeepkdtoday at 3:06 AM2 repliesview on HN

I get a mixed feeling about all this. Cloudflare is unilaterally making all these decisions which impact the whole internet traffic flow. Taking the lead is one thing, however decisions like this should have the direct involvement of Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) to account for all stakeholders, otherwise we run into the situation of a fragmented internet


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usef-today at 3:10 AM

I'm curious if this is just to pressure Google into separating their crawlers

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colechristensentoday at 4:35 AM

Are they unilateral? Maybe the defaults? For anyone competent they're settings freely chosen.