RE: Reporting Internet incidents to Homeland Security

["Barry Raveendran Greene" <bgreene () cisco com>]

This is assuming the US Government security authority over the Internet. Why
should the US Government get the appearance of special privileges where
other governments of the world do not? The vast majority of serious security
incidents I see all cross national jurisdictions. So you can label them
"international Internet security incidents."

As far as I see the Internet, the US Government is just another customer ...
not "the government" that exclusive access to the state of the Net's health.


My advice to the "Internet Industry" is to keep pressing forward with
Industry driven solutions. That way, governments around the world who wish
to be "plugged in" can join the industry's response to security incidents on
the Net.


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-nanog () merit edu [mailto:owner-nanog () merit edu] On Behalf Of
> Sean Donelan
> Sent: Wednesday, April 02, 2003 11:52 PM
> To: nanog () merit edu
> Subject: Reporting Internet incidents to Homeland Security
>
>
>
> In case you missed the memo, Howard Schmidt acting chairman of the
> President's Cybersecurity Board announced the National
> Communications System is the place you are supposed to report
> Internet infrastructure incidents.
>
>
> http://www.fcw.com/fcw/articles/2003/0331/web-cyber-04-02-03.asp
>
> "Many incidents can be handled by the private sector, but there is current
> discussion about how to better define expectations on the government side
> and to institutionalize what type of incidents will be automatically
> reported to the government, Schmidt said."
>
> "One step officials already have made is to establish the National
> Communications System (NCS) as the key contact point for industry
> representatives when reporting Internet infrastructure incidents, he
> said."