It's short and worth a read though most anyone here can skip down about 3/4 to the paragraph beginning with "First, Washington should consolidate..." unless you really need an explanation of why DDoS is a problem (not a complaint, their target audience might benefit.) It's CFR, the "Council on Foreign Relations", that venerable institution which is chock-a-block full of politicians etc many of whose names you probably know (like former PMs, CEOs of firms like Blackrock and the Carlyle Group), Angelina Jolie, Fareed Zakaria, etc. They also publish "Foreign Affairs" which I subscribe to and is worthwhile, only $40/year, six issues. You can probably pick an issue up at a better magazine stand (e.g., one inside a bookstore like Barnes & Noble.) They provoke a lot of paranoia among the paranoid who are sure they're the star chamber for George Soros or whatever the want to plug in, the seat of the Illuminati (TM). I doubt it. AS TO THE LINKED ARTICLE... I always have this problem with such articles where my brain plugs in "sidewalks" for "internet" like "thousands of people have been murdered on sidewalks!", "criminals often use sidewalks to commit nefarious financial crimes!", "when are we going to finally take the problems of sidewalks seriously?!" There's also a hard to miss "when will Washington do something!?" as if it's entirely in the hands of the US tho admittedly the US may have some influence. But such is CFR. I could go on, I often do... On August 11, 2022 at 18:09 jtk@dataplane.org (John Kristoff) wrote:
On Thu, 11 Aug 2022 18:33:20 -0400 bzs@theworld.com wrote:
(it's only 25 pages and you probably can skip to section 6, maybe look at section 5, the rest is mostly "what a network is" padding.)
On that note...
I found this the following to a reasonably pragmatic and thoughtful, albeit US-centric, compilation of policy thinking that is not from the usual communications world:
<https://www.cfr.org/report/confronting-reality-in-cyberspace>
I reached a couple weeks ago with my PC hat on to see if someone representing that thinking would be interested in giving a presentation at a future NANOG. The contacts expressed at least a willingness to find someone.
If anyone thinks it particularly worthwhile or not for me to press a bit more, shoot me an email off line with your thoughts.
John
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