IP Block 99/8 (DHS insanity - offtopic)

Marcus H. Sachs marc at sachsfamily.net
Tue Apr 24 03:18:50 UTC 2007


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I'm deeply saddened that the very folks who work so hard to run the Internet
are publicly speculating that DHS wants to take over the 'net.  If that's
the message that DHS is sending, then we need to go back to the drawing
boards and re-write the message.  Can somebody point to DHS quotes that lend
support to this idea?  Or are the ideas coming from a bunch of pseudo-news
hacked together by non-technical reporters that have absolutely no idea what
they are talking about?

Unless I'm totally out to lunch, the DHS is not trying to take over the
Internet (nor DoD, nor Commerce, nor DoJ, not even George W. Bush himself.)
The DHS Science and Technology Directorate is funding several programs aimed
at increasing the security of Internet mechanisms, primarily the DNS and the
routing infrastructure.  Funding RDTE&T is not the same as running a global
infrastructure.

Folks, please do some research on this and stop bashing a group that is
working hard to make your jobs easier to perform (unless you think that
bashing is needed, and if so, please cite the sources of your concerns.)  We
need a lot of leadership, both public and private, and I think that DHS is
offering us something that we should be reinforcing, not tearing down.

Thanks.

Marc


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