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Re: ICANN Targets DDoS Attacks

  • From: fingers
  • Date: Tue Oct 29 01:13:45 2002 
>  "Meanwhile, U.S. government security officials are discussing the
>  possibility of creating new regulations that would require federal
>  agencies to buy Internet service only from ISPs that have DDoS protection
>  on their networks, according to people familiar with the situation. Such
>  a decision could place economic pressure on the other ISPs to follow suit,
>  thereby improving Internet security."

just how would an isp stamp themselves with the "DDoS protected" rubber
stamp?

I'm just curious as to what the next sales person is going to request as a
product/service they're going to want to charge customers for.

best practices like filtering != DDoS protection imho