[27730] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hi, we're from the government and we're here to help
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hal Murray)
Fri Mar 10 04:05:15 2000
Message-Id: <200003100902.BAA07799@quatre.pa.dec.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: murray@pa.dec.com
In-Reply-To: Message of Thu, 09 Mar 2000 22:49:32 -0600
from Jeremy Porter <jerry@fc.net>
<200003100449.WAA05402@freeside.fc.net>
Date: Fri, 10 Mar 2000 01:02:45 -0800
From: Hal Murray <murray@pa.dec.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
> >In the chemical industry, where failure to respond to a leak can result in
> >millions in liability, the chemical manufactures' association maintains a
> >24-hour number which will contact the appropriate company's response group.
> >Again, the contact information is actively verified.
> Sounds like Sean and Ren should go get some funding for this, heck I'd
> pay for it. (It would still probably be cheaper than something like IPOPS
> or CERT, which is not to completely dismiss those two organizations.)
This is something the alternate domain registration vendors could
do. I'm thinking of:
1) verify that the contact information they collect is accurate, and
2) publish emergency contact info and/or an indication of when it
is operational or what is considered an emergency.
