[54304] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: White House to Propose System for Wide Monitoring of Internet (fwd)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu)
Fri Dec 20 14:34:29 2002
To: "Wayne E. Bouchard" <web@typo.org>
Cc: nanog list <nanog@merit.edu>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:31:39 MST."
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From: Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu
Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2002 14:31:39 -0500
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On Fri, 20 Dec 2002 11:31:39 MST, "Wayne E. Bouchard" said:
>
> On Fri, Dec 20, 2002 at 11:12:43AM -0500, David Lesher wrote:
> >
> > [This just jumped into the operational arena. Are you prepared
> > with the router port for John Poindexter's vacuum? What changes
> > will you need to make? What will they cost? Who will pay?]
> Heard about this on the news this morning and you know, I am so not
> worried about it.
>
> IMO, it's so completely unfeasable at every level as to be actually
> funny.
All the same, I suggest you forward the rest of your quite well-reasoned
comments to your congresscritter and/or the White House. Remember that the
idea was probably propsed by people who have little or no clue of what the
actual impact would be - and the final decision will likely be made by
somebody with even less technical edge.
The truly scary part is that it could actually be approved....
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