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Re: Hi, we're from the government and we're here to help (long)

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Tue Mar 14 18:39:31 2000

From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
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Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:36:59 -0800
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> My thinking is that its not just ISP's that have problems with reaching
> the proper security contact at another ISP, but end user networks as
> well. A central point of contact could help facilitate both sets of
> communications. 

centralization has generally not scaled well on the internet.  heck, even
cert used to be quite useful.  then the problem grew a bit too much.

randy


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