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" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "Bill Woodcock" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>; <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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