Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

["Jerry Dixon" <jerry () jdixon com>]

DHS focuses on facilitating how to make things more secure or reliable via 
research, discussions with subject matter experts, and understanding of 
various scenarios that could impact our economy, critical services, and 
national security concerns.  From that plans get developed, what type of 
expertise do we need to reach out to from an operational perspective, how 
can we facilitate getting those that provide critical services into areas to 
restore them, etc.  (incident coordination/management)

This idea that folks keep promulgating that DHS wants to control the 
Internet is ridiculous.  Just like everyone one of you wants to make sure 
core Internet services are available to meet your service level agreements 
with customers, a reduction in electronic crimes, and concerned about the 
health of the Internet are concerns for those in government (pick one) and 
outside of government.

My .02....

Jerry


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "J. Oquendo" <sil () infiltrated net>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody () pch net>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick () ianai net>; <nanog () merit edu>
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2007 5:04 PM
Subject: Re: IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)


> Bill Woodcock wrote:
> >       On Mon, 23 Apr 2007, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> >     > ...what has that got to do with the DHS promoting an idea to sign 
> > IP
> >     > space allocations and/or annoucements?  The idea in-and-of-itself 
> > doesn't
> >     > sound wholly unreasonable.  (I am not advocating this, just saying 
> > the
> >     > idea shouldn't be rejected without consideration simply because the 
> > DHS
> >     > said it.)
> >
> > Exactly!  This whole thread has been people arguing against a straw-man. 
> > DHS never asked for any KSKs or anything.  They're not even mentioned in 
> > the report.  HSARPA just put up some of the money to fund the drafting of 
> > the report, as ARPA/DARPA/HSARPA have been funding miscellaneous Internet 
> > stuff forever.
> >                                 -Bill
>
> Which report did you read...
>
> http://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2007/04/dept_of_homelan.html
> http://www.upi.com/Security_Terrorism/Analysis/2007/04/12/analysis_owning_the_keys_to_the_internet/
> http://www.tiawood.com/2007/homeland-security-grabs-for-nets-master-keys/
>
>
>
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