RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

29 Oct 2002


      Agreed 100%, but Gov't (being run by lawyers) is well accustomed to
defining what the meaning of 'is' is.  If they dictate that ISPs employ
"DDoS Protection", they will define what "DDoS Protection" means 'for
the purposes of this policy'.


-----Original Message-----
From: fingers [mailto:fingers@fingers.co.za] 
Sent: Tuesday, October 29, 2002 10:04 AM
To: H. Michael Smith, Jr.
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Subject: RE: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks
...
Source address verification at access layer and rate limiting icmp
would
be fine starts.
these are "best practices" and not "DDoS Protection" imho