On Sun, 12 November 2000, "Mark Mentovai" wrote:

Failing that - a push from within the community to clean things up - I fear that governmental intervention is the only solution. I only hope that when it comes down to regulating the Internet, it will be handled by a new authority responsible only for inter-network communications. I think that it would be a mistake to try to tack this responsibility onto the FCC or FBI. They're not international enough to handle issues fairly, for starters. I also haven't been impressed with any government agency's technological prowess.

How many folks remember when the FCC's ip address block was blackholed by an customer of Sprint and UUNET for an entire weekend? Even FCC staffer's couldn't get into their own network for 48 hours. I still wonder if the FCC was ever told by Sprint and UUNET the reason why their network was down for the weekend was due to a routing error in their networks, or if they just wrote it off as one of those weird Internet things.