[52950] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: More federal management of key components of the Internet needed
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher L. Morrow)
Wed Oct 23 23:44:45 2002
Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2002 03:44:02 +0000 (GMT)
From: "Christopher L. Morrow" <chris@UU.NET>
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210231929160.23198-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Sean Donelan wrote:
>
> Should root servers be located in the "middle" of backbones, instead of stub
> networks? Or do networks naturally "grow" towards root servers?
>
> http://www.idg.net/ic_958962_1793_1-1681.html
> "More federal management of key components of the Internet
> infrastructure is needed, Julian and Brady agreed. That could include
> tax incentives or direct federal funding for private companies and
> public organizations managing key DNS servers to secure their systems,
> all of which are currently operated as a free service by companies,
> government entities and non-profit organizations.
>
> "This showcases a specific vulnerability that requires the government to
> get involved," Julian said. "If you run a DNS server what is your
> monetary incentive to secure it? There is none. This is the number one
> area of focus that the government should have."
>
This last quote is complete non-sense. The major reason an operator would
want to keep a root server secure and available is, in my mind atleast,
the stigma associated with running a poor service. Something that EVERYONE
on the Internet could notice as a problem is a very large burden to bear.
Gov't requirements or management of this system is a non-starter, its not
going to increase the security or availability of the systems in the
least.
-Chris "I should have slept through yesterday" Morrow.
