On 6/24/2004 11:57 AM, Scott McGrath wrote:

http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/network_outages/

http://www.securityfocus.com/news/8966 is the original, for those of us who have our doubts about the register as a news source To summarize: there are existing FCC requirements to report major voice outages the FCC ran a proposal up the flag pole to extend this to data and wireless networks DHS did their job by analyzing the proposal and suggesting that it might not be a good idea to make the additional data too public Further: "If the FCC is going to mandate reporting, the DHS argued, it should channel the data to a more circumspect group: the Telecom ISAC (Information Sharing and Analysis Center), an existing voluntary clearinghouse for communications-related vulnerability information, whose members include several government agencies and all the major communications carriers. Data exchanged within the Telecom-ISAC is protected from public disclosure. " Presumably the FCC will take this opinion into consideration and weigh it alongside clear-headed debates as:

this country is becoming more like the Soviet Union under Stalin every passing day in its xenophobic paranoia all we need now is a new version of the NKVD to enforce the homeland security directives.

At least the paranoia is right -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/