[113147] in North American Network Operators' Group
Wow, just when you though big government was someone else's problem
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jeff Young)
Sat Apr 4 05:05:58 2009
From: Jeff Young <young@jsyoung.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Sat, 4 Apr 2009 05:03:49 -0400
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
This comes from Lauren Weinstein's list and it's worth a read.
It's a bill introduced into legislation, who knows where and when
and if it will become law but, wow.
http://lauren.vortex.com/Cyber-S-2009.pdf
I'll just give you a teaser:
SEC. 9. SECURE DOMAIN NAME ADDRESSING SYSTEM.
3 (a) INGENERAL.=97Within 3 years after the date of
4 enactment of this Act, the Assistant Secretary of Com-
5 merce for Communications and Information shall develop
6 a strategy to implement a secure domain name addressing
7 system. The Assistant Secretary shall publish notice of the
8 system requirements in the Federal Register together with
9 an implementation schedule for Federal agencies and in-
10 formation systems or networks designated by the Presi-
11 dent, or the President=92s designee, as critical infrastructure
12 information systems or networks.
13
Other pearls of wisdom: the government will license all "cyber" =20
security
folks and you don't work on government or "any network deemed by
the president to be critical infrastructure" without one.
If only we knew: to achieve a secure DNS all you need to do is
publish a notice in the Federal Register.
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