Re: BGP/dDos gift from NIST

[Ben Cannon <ben () 6by7 net>]

I’m not getting my AS number tattooed on my wrist for a “little” i in Internet. Lol.

-Ben

> On Dec 25, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Royce Williams <royce () techsolvency com> wrote:
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> > On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 1:15 AM william manning <chinese.apricot () gmail com> wrote:
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> > https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-189.pdf
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> I can't speak to the technical content, but this put a curdle in my morning coffee:
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> "... that comprise the internet [sic]" .
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> Et tu, NIST?
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> I will die on this  "capital "I" in *the* Internet" hill. ;)
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> (And no, I don't care what the AP Stylebook decided to pull out of thin air, with no understanding of how the 
> Internet works or what it means; the argument that "there are many possible internets" is specious, because that's 
> not what "the Internet" means; to the extent that various other "internets" get balkanized out of the Internet, to 
> the extent that they interconnect, *that* will always and forever be "the Internet".)
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> What's next - geology textbooks calling our single, unique planet "the earth" ? (Which brings to mind a great 
> illustration of why "the Internet" matters: if, by some happenstance of etymology, we referred to our planet solely 
> as "the Planet", then there could be many other planets, but only one Planet.)
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> (And regardless of what you call it ... thanks to each of you for operating your piece of it!)
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> Royce