"Meanwhile, U.S. government security officials are discussing the possibility of creating new regulations that would require federal agencies to buy Internet service only from ISPs that have DDoS
Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp would be fine starts. -----Original Message----- From: owner-nanog@merit.edu [mailto:owner-nanog@merit.edu] On Behalf Of fingers Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 1:12 AM To: nanog@merit.edu Subject: Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks protection
on their networks, according to people familiar with the situation. Such a decision could place economic pressure on the other ISPs to follow suit, thereby improving Internet security."
just how would an isp stamp themselves with the "DDoS protected" rubber stamp? I'm just curious as to what the next sales person is going to request as a product/service they're going to want to charge customers for. best practices like filtering != DDoS protection imho