[27818] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Hi, we're from the government and we're here to help (long)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick Greenwell)
Tue Mar 14 18:54:55 2000
Date: Tue, 14 Mar 2000 15:52:27 -0800 (PST)
From: Patrick Greenwell <patrick@cybernothing.org>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: Chris Brenton <cbrenton@sover.net>, nanog@merit.edu
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On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
>
> > 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.
I think Randy is absolutely correct(someone take a picture, quick....)
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Patrick Greenwell
Earth is a single point of failure.
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