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Re: False information: CEO of Versign facts are wrong

  • From: Brian Bruns
  • Date: Fri Oct 17 13:05:54 2003 
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From: "Sean Donelan" <[email protected]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Friday, October 17, 2003 8:26 AM
Subject: False information: CEO of Versign facts are wrong


>
> http://news.com.com/2008-7347-5092590.html
>
> Quotes Stratton Sclavos:
> "The DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks last October on the root
> system--hey, there are 13 global copies of that, and they're all
> operating. It should scare people that nine of the 13 went down. It's time
> for the Internet infrastructure to go commercial. On the core services of
> the infrastructure, it's time to pull the root servers away from
> volunteers who run them out of a university or lab or some other level.
> That's going to be an unpopular decision."
>