Re: Re: China Experience ?

[Russell Fulton <r.fulton () auckland ac nz>]

On Wed, 2002-07-24 at 05:24, Alif The Terrible wrote:

> Good Morning Mr. Chen,
>
>       As a network operator of both small (> /20) [part time], and
> large (< /17) networks, I have a few comments.
>
>       While I agree that there are various CERT POCs that can be reached
> with varying degrees of success for true CERT-level events, however, these
> are not really the reason that I, and many others, have completely wiped .cn
> IP space off of our respective Internet maps.

I sympathize, however I think that you will find that thing are starting
to change slowly.  The members of CNCERT I have talked with are well
aware of the problems and appear committed to doing something about it. 
Their approach (as I understand it) is based on widespread education of
systems support staff adn improving incident response.  They are
inviting people to send reports of day to day stuff to CNCERT and they
will deal with the problems of contacting people within China and making
sure they are aware of the problems and what to do to fix them.

I think that it may be time to reconsider your stance.  As Eugene
Spafford pointed out at the recent AusCERT conference "By 2005 half the
population of Internet users will be native speakers of Mandarin". 
China is not going to go away and will soon be a very major part of the
market.

Cheers, Russell

Russell Fulton, Computer and Network Security Officer,
The University of Auckland. New Zealand.


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