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Subject: RE: [emergency] CAP and DDoS


Certainly.  

At the same time as mitigating measures 
and architectures (how to configure and deploy 
WWW/Internet systems for maximum reliability) 
will continue to be of high importance, efforts 
should be made to begin to either rearchitect 
TCP/IP or begin work on a new protocol that 
can be deployed reliably under the  
application layers of HTTP.

I don't know what the answer is; I know what 
not having an answer means with respect to 
risks if we drive our systems out on to the 
Internet and continue to rely on social 
behaviors to protect them.  They are unacceptable 
in my opinion.

The assurance that this issue will get an 
audience on the hill is sufficient.  Many
thanks.

len


From: Art Botterell [mailto:acb@incident.com]

Emergency managers have been waiting since the '70s for an ideal 
armor-plated communications infrastructure... much longer than that 
if we consider the civil defense/military precursors to modern 
emergency management.  Even if such a virtual Maginot Line is 
possible... and there's both historical and theoretical evidence to 
suggest that it may not be... we've waited a couple of decades 
already and suffered many terrible losses.

The integrated-diversity model is a viable, demonstrated, 
theoretically sound and... most important... already-deliverable 
approach to the problems of reliability.  While we certainly want to 
see improvements in the infrastructure... and our Infrastructure 
Subcommittee has already been working on that problem for almost a 
year now... that's no excuse not to do what we can to enhance public 
safety and homeland security in the meantime.


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