[127005] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Nato warns of strike against cyber attackers
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Ken A)
Wed Jun 9 14:58:20 2010
Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2010 13:56:36 -0500
From: Ken A <ka@pacific.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4C0FE0B5.5070609@cox.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/9/2010 1:43 PM, Larry Sheldon wrote:
> On 6/9/2010 13:35, JC Dill wrote:
>
>> IMHO it is impossible to regulate the internet as a whole.
> Exactly so.
>
> That is precisely why you don't want somebody else to attempt it.
>
> The only hope is for everybody to take personal responsibility for their
> little piece of it.
This situation has led to the growth of blacklists, and whitelists of
all sorts. These, at least have some potential to drive dollars to
hosts/providers with better records of behavior. Not a silver bullet..
and not without controversy. And of course the cost is paid by victims
up-front. Law and order in the wild west..
Ken
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Ken Anderson
Pacific Internet - http://www.pacific.net
