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" <sil@infiltrated.net> To: "Bill Woodcock" <woody@pch.net> Cc: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>; <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_th... http://www.tiawood.com/2007/homeland-security-grabs-for-nets-master-keys/
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