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At 11:04 AM -0800 11/17/98, J.D. Falk wrote: >On 11/16/98, Dave Crocker <[email protected]> wrote: > >> That does not mean no oversight. It merely means finding non-governmental >> methods of achieving the oversight. I suggest, for example, that a >> competent and careful effort of the type Sean is suggesting would go a >> long, long way towards helping things, by providing public and clear >> explanations of problems. Yes, it is possible that some ISPs would choose >> to ignore the public disclosure, but let's worry about that problem after >> give simple, public discourse a try. Such an approach has a good track on >> the Internet. > > Furthermore...I'd be willing to bet that if the FCC or whoever > got a lot of complaints, they'd form an oversight committee. > > Why not just form one ourselves, making sure that it's answerable > to the needs of the Internet community? > >-- Let me begin this by saying emphatically that I am _NOT_ proposing to put any Internet operational procedures under the Official Standards Infrastructure. (When I did OSI at COS, I always asked my boss that I understood what the OSI infrastructure is, but I was unclear about the superstructure. Ian said that he would be as good an example as any.) In non-IP networking, there are certainly things that go beyond national boundaries and are operationally critical. RF spectrum allocations, for example, are a different matter than ISO or ITU protocol development. True, the UN has no internal means of sending a missile at a transmitter on an illegal frequency. To me, there's a reasonably close analogy between the Internet routing space and the global RF spectrum. There are collisions if people use the same frequency/prefix (I am _not_ going to get into line-of-sight issues). Is someone familiar enough with the procedures for dealing with inappropriate spectrum use to see if there might be any parallels for Internet operations? Howard, who remembers a presentation at AFCEA where an Israeli Air Force general was asked about the best electronic countermeasures they had found to use against Soviet-bloc radar. He suggested that very few jammers, range gate stealers, etc., really compared to a laser-guided bomb down the feed horn of the antenna.
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