[42831] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: National infrastructure asset
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Popovitch)
Sun Sep 23 16:54:17 2001
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Date: Sun, 23 Sep 2001 13:53:43 -0700 (PDT)
From: Jim Popovitch <jimpop@yahoo.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
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--- Timothy Brown <timothy.brown@pobox.com> wrote:
> It is my understanding that the US Government has "national
> infrastructure" inside Exodus facilities. As for what that
> means precisely, it's anyone's guess.
What it means is that the US Treasury, and specifically the IRS, depend
heavily on those facilities to process electronic transactions
including electronic filing of tax returns. Obviously "national
infrastructure" would include the means of financiing the Government.
-Jim P.
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