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RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (H. Michael Smith, Jr.)
Tue Oct 29 10:08:56 2002

From: "H. Michael Smith, Jr." <michael@awtechnologies.com>
To: "'fingers'" <fingers@fingers.co.za>
Cc: <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2002 10:07:29 -0500
In-Reply-To: <32BBA5238987F54A9748DBB2E904B56D4972D6@admex-03.admin2000.cau.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu


Agreed 100%, but Gov't (being run by lawyers) is well accustomed to
defining what the meaning of 'is' is.  If they dictate that ISPs employ
"DDoS Protection", they will define what "DDoS Protection" means 'for
the purposes of this policy'.



-----Original Message-----
From: fingers [mailto:fingers@fingers.co.za] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:04 AM
To: H. Michael Smith, Jr.
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

> Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp
would
> be fine starts.

these are "best practices" and not "DDoS Protection" imho





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