[4470] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Miller)
Tue Sep 17 10:55:15 1996
Date: Tue, 17 Sep 1996 10:48:26 -0400 (EDT)
From: David Miller <david@sparks.net>
To: Jim Browning <jfbb@atmnet.net>
cc: "nanog@merit.edu" <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <01BBA414.DAAA0FA0@jfbb.atmnet.net>
On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Jim Browning wrote:
> 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.
There's no way to tell all the good guys from all the bad guys.
If one "bad-guy" get's on the "good guy" listthen you've just lost all
adavantage of having the "private" discussion. And in the meantime
you've shut out all the guys who are "good" but somehow not on the "good
guy" list.
--- David Miller
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