Re: Hi, we're from the government and we're here to help (long)

[Patrick Greenwell <patrick () cybernothing org>]

On Tue, 14 Mar 2000, Randy Bush wrote:

> > My thinking is that its not just ISP's that have problems with reaching
> > the proper security contact at another ISP, but end user networks as
> > well. A central point of contact could help facilitate both sets of
> > communications. 
>
> centralization has generally not scaled well on the internet.  heck, even
> cert used to be quite useful.  then the problem grew a bit too much.

I think Randy is absolutely correct(someone take a picture, quick....)

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                               Patrick Greenwell                          
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