[57310] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Reporting Internet incidents to Homeland Security
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Barry Raveendran Greene)
Thu Apr 3 12:08:17 2003
Reply-To: <bgreene@cisco.com>
From: "Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene@cisco.com>
To: "'Sean Donelan'" <sean@donelan.com>, <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Thu, 3 Apr 2003 09:07:37 -0800
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.44.0304030237020.9212-100000@clifden.donelan.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
This is assuming the US Government security authority over the Internet. =
Why
should the US Government get the appearance of special privileges where
other governments of the world do not? The vast majority of serious =
security
incidents I see all cross national jurisdictions. So you can label them
"international Internet security incidents."
As far as I see the Internet, the US Government is just another customer =
...
not "the government" that exclusive access to the state of the Net's =
health.
My advice to the "Internet Industry" is to keep pressing forward with
Industry driven solutions. That way, governments around the world who =
wish
to be "plugged in" can join the industry's response to security =
incidents on
the Net.
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf =
Of
> Sean Donelan
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:52 PM
> To: nanog@merit.edu
> Subject: Reporting Internet incidents to Homeland Security
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> In case you missed the memo, Howard Schmidt acting chairman of the
> President's Cybersecurity Board announced the National
> Communications System is the place you are supposed to report
> Internet infrastructure incidents.
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> http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0331/web-cyber-04-02-03.asp
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> "Many incidents can be handled by the private sector, but there is =
current
> discussion about how to better define expectations on the government =
side
> and to institutionalize what type of incidents will be automatically
> reported to the government, Schmidt said."
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> "One step officials already have made is to establish the National
> Communications System (NCS) as the key contact point for industry
> representatives when reporting Internet infrastructure incidents, he
> said."
