[71864] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Eric A. Hall)
Thu Jun 24 15:02:52 2004
Date: Thu, 24 Jun 2004 13:55:49 -0500
From: "Eric A. Hall" <ehall@ehsco.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.58.0406241250200.12001@ls02.fas.harvard.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On 6/24/2004 11:57 AM, Scott McGrath wrote:
> http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/network_outages/
http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8966 is the original, for those of us
who have our doubts about the register as a news source
To summarize:
there are existing FCC requirements to report major voice outages
the FCC ran a proposal up the flag pole to extend this to data and
wireless networks
DHS did their job by analyzing the proposal and suggesting that it
might not be a good idea to make the additional data too public
Further: "If the FCC is going to mandate reporting, the DHS argued,
it should channel the data to a more circumspect group: the
Telecom ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center), an
existing voluntary clearinghouse for communications-related
vulnerability information, whose members include several
government agencies and all the major communications carriers.
Data exchanged within the Telecom-ISAC is protected from public
disclosure. "
Presumably the FCC will take this opinion into consideration and weigh it
alongside clear-headed debates as:
> this country is becoming more like the Soviet Union under Stalin every
> passing day in its xenophobic paranoia all we need now is a new version
> of the NKVD to enforce the homeland security directives.
At least the paranoia is right
--
Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/
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