On Sep 17, 10:48am, David Miller wrote:

Subject: RE: New Denial of Service Attack on Panix On Mon, 16 Sep 1996, Jim Browning wrote:

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Rather than "educate the enemy" via public discussion, I think it would be best if those capable of contributing to solutions to this problem:

1. Collaborated in private 2. Developed a consensus "I-D"

If a solution is developed whose effectiveness is not weakened by making the details public, it can be published. If that is not the case, the solution can be made available in private to "known entities".

Make sense?

No.

There's no way to tell all the good guys from all the bad guys. If one "bad-guy" get's on the "good guy" listthen you've just lost all adavantage of having the "private" discussion. And in the meantime you've shut out all the guys who are "good" but somehow not on the "good guy" list.

-- End of excerpt from David Miller

Agreed. CERT has followed this theory with poor results. -- Sharif Torpis (storpis@pbi.net) \ | / P A C I F I C Pacific Bell Internet -->*<-- B E L L Network Engineering / | \ I N T E R N E T San Francisco, CA USA