[50556] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: If you have nothing to hide
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Dave Crocker)
Sun Aug 4 12:22:21 2002
Date: Sun, 04 Aug 2002 09:20:34 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: Dave Crocker <dhc2@dcrocker.net>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
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At 06:31 AM 8/4/2002 -0400, Sean Donelan wrote:
>I encourage network operators (or IX operators, DNS operators, etc) to let
>the government know what you think. Mr. Clarke's crew is writing the
>plan, and taking input from many sources. If you think RPF (or some other
>source address validation) is a solution let them know. If you think
>S-BGP is a solution, let them know. If you think network operator managed
>firewalls on every DSL/Cable modem is a solution, let them know. On the
>other hand, if to think some of those things are not a solution (or a
>really bad idea), tell them that.
These are technical operations matters. Seems like there might be some
benefit in formulating consensus views within the technical operations
community.
Any chance that an IETF BCP would be possible and helpful?
Diverse input to a government process can be good for learning about
choices, but consensus views should be helpful for making them.
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