Some folks have been developing a method for ISPs and the US Government to exchange warnings and alert information for several months (long before September 11). One of the functions of the ISP-ISAC includes passing information which may affect the operations of ISPs. This would be similar to information already provided to the banking and telephone industries. On Mon, 29 Oct 2001, Jeffrey Meltzer wrote:
(no offense to the poster, someone was bound to post..)
I see this thread getting long and entirely off topic for nanog. I've setup a list for discussions such as this, and any type of physical attack (although I guess regular DOS could be on topic) at the internet infrastruture, as this could go on for a while...
http://www.exobit.org/mailman/listinfo/net-attacks for info.
Let's try and keep nanog more operational?
Jeff
On Mon, Oct 29, 2001 at 06:17:09PM -0500, Eric Germann typed:
Do you think there will be an Internet component to one of these, someday?