Re: DDoS RID

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>]

In message <E18eUvP-0000z0-00@roam.psg.com>, Randy Bush writes:
>>> Kathleen Moriarty <moriarty@ll.mit.edu> wants to do a BoF based on a coming
>>> update to draft-moriarty-ddos-rid-02.txt.
>>> is this ops or sec?  should i encourage?
>> It's both.  I think her ideas are operationally insane, but that's me 
>> -- I wanted an ops person to do a sanity check.  (There are also 
>> serious privacy issues.)
>
>thanks.  last round, you did not clue us that you thought that there was
>bogosity here, so i was being confused and hence nicer than i might have
>been.  will take care of it.
>
>randy
>
>
Sorry.  It's a way to trace stuff back that, to me, requires amazing 
amounts of information exchange between operators, with serious privacy 
concerns.

		--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb (me)
		http://www.wilyhacker.com (2nd edition of "Firewalls" book)