Without a concomitant increase in "trustworthy", assigning greater levels of trust is fools endeavour. Whatever this trusted network initiative is, I take that it was designed by fools or government (the two are usually indistinguishable) for the purpose of creating utterly untrustworthy networks.
> -----Original Message----- > From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-boun...@nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ramy Hashish > Sent: Sunday, 24 May, 2015 22:49 > To: morrowc.li...@gmail.com; nanog@nanog.org > Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Application layer attacks/DDoS attacks > > The idea of restricting access to a certain content during an attack on > the > "trusted networks" only will make all interested ISPs be more "trusted" > > Ramy > > On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Christopher Morrow > <morrowc.li...@gmail.com > > wrote: > > > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:12 PM, jim deleskie <deles...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > >> However, the trusted network initiative might be a good approach to > > start > > >> influencing operators to apply anti-spoofing mechanisms. > > >> > > > > explain how you think the 'trusted network initiative' matters in the > > slightest? > > > > -chris > >