] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Scott McGrath
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:58 PM
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Subject: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications
See
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/06/24/network_outages/
for the gory details. The Sean Gorman debacle
:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Scott McGrath
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 11:06 AM
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Subject: RE: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage
notifications
I did read the article and having worked for gov't agencies twice in my
career a proposal like the one floated by DHS
are
sufficient.
-Tad
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From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of
Scott McGrath
Sent: Thursday, June 24, 2004 12:58 PM
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Homeland Security now wants to restrict outage notifications
See
http
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
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:27:10 PDT, Jeff Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED] said:
The DHS is doing what it is paid to do: Look for the worst case
scenario, predict the damage.
At some point, somebody with some sanity needs to look at the proposal, and say
If we think we have to resort to this, then the
I think you (and possibly The Register) are overreacting.
With the current state of the government and it's previous legislation, I
would consider that not overreacting at all... We as NANOG'ers need to
make sure that we're in the clue. The issue of non-information leads for
longer
I also believe that critical infrastructure needs to be protected and I am
charged with protecting a good chunk of it. Also as a Ham operator I
work in concert with the various emergency management organizations in
dealing with possible worst case scenarios.
No, not everyone who asks about
On 6/24/2004 2:24 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 24 Jun 2004 11:27:10 PDT, Jeff Shultz [EMAIL PROTECTED]
said:
And the reporting requirements that the DHS is arguing against
_aren't even in effect yet._
or any number of other sites that keep track of just how much trouble
can be
Consider the source of policy makers that make these
decisions, are clueless to networks and infrastructure
themselves. They fail to understand any costing
metrics
by adding another loop of useless people to he cycle
at
the expense of everyone, which will in the long run
be damaging to the
