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IP: Re Experts Say Key Internet Servers Vulnerable to Attack
From: David Farber <dave () farber net>
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 21:21:24 -0500
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2001 10:04:38 -0700 From: brett watson <bwatson () mfnx net> To: farber () cis upenn edu--On Wednesday, November 14, 2001 7:58 AM -0500 David Farber <dave () farber net> wrote:><snip> ICANN Chairman Vint Cerf dismissed the concerns, saying board members need to hear about the technical issues from engineers to know what recommendations to make. ``For policymakers this is a valuable opportunity to have access to this kind of primary source input,'' Cerf said. In addition to engineers, other attendees and even Cerf said they were concerned about ICANN going beyond its scope, with some asking the group to formally restate its mission and even restructure.with all due respect to vint, paul vixie is about as much an "engineer" as you can get with respect to DNS and the root name servers. paul maintained BIND for years, and hosted one of the root servers for years. i think he might understand the techical issues. i suspect many IPers know full well how vulnerable the infrastructure is.-b
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