Tim writes:

How about commercial organizations (such as NANOG, CIX) expanding their charter to basic R&D into reinforcing security weaknesses within their mutual are of commerical interest?

Last I checked, NANOG was not a commerical organization. Tim, can you provide more information about this? -- Stan | Academ Consulting Services |internet: sob@academ.com Olan | For more info on academ, see this |uucp: {mcsun|amdahl}!academ!sob Barber | URL- http://www.academ.com/academ |Opinions expressed are only mine.