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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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