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RE: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jim Browning)
Tue Sep 17 00:53:58 1996

From: Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>
To: "'Paul A Vixie'" <paul@vix.com>
Cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>, "iepg@iepg.org" <iepg@iepg.org>
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 1996 21:50:43 -0700

>From:  Paul A Vixie[SMTP:paul@vix.com]
>Sent:  Monday, September 16, 1996 9:44 PM
>
>> Rather than "educate the enemy" via public discussion, I think it would 
be
>> best if those capable of contributing to solutions to this problem:
>>
>> 1.   Collaborated in private
>> 2.   Developed a consensus "I-D"
>>
>> If a solution is developed whose effectiveness is not weakened by making 
>> the details public, it can be published.  If that is not the case, the
>> solution can be made available in private to "known entities".
>>
>> Make sense?
>
>No, I don't think it makes sense.  Aside from the lawsuits targetting you
>for conspiracy if you don't include everybody who needs the ongoing 
partial
>results in order to stay in business, there is NO solution to this that
>depends on any kind of algorythmic privacy.

Paul, since you have stepped forward to risk lawsuits from blacklisted 
spammers, it would only be fair for one of the rest of us to accept 
liability for this one.  Where do I sign up?     ;-)

I hope you are right, as the public discussion clearly is very 
worthwhile...
--
Jim




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