BGP/dDos gift from NIST

Ben Cannon ben at 6by7.net
Wed Dec 25 19:47:40 UTC 2019


I’m not getting my AS number tattooed on my wrist for a “little” i in Internet. Lol.

-Ben

> On Dec 25, 2019, at 10:34 AM, Royce Williams <royce at techsolvency.com> wrote:
> 
> 
>> On Wed, Dec 25, 2019 at 1:15 AM william manning <chinese.apricot at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/SpecialPublications/NIST.SP.800-189.pdf
> 
> I can't speak to the technical content, but this put a curdle in my morning coffee:
> 
> "... that comprise the internet [sic]" .
> 
> Et tu, NIST?
> 
> I will die on this  "capital "I" in *the* Internet" hill. ;)
> 
> (And no, I don't care what the AP Stylebook decided to pull out of thin air, with no understanding of how the Internet works or what it means; the argument that "there are many possible internets" is specious, because that's not what "the Internet" means; to the extent that various other "internets" get balkanized out of the Internet, to the extent that they interconnect, *that* will always and forever be "the Internet".)
> 
> What's next - geology textbooks calling our single, unique planet "the earth" ? (Which brings to mind a great illustration of why "the Internet" matters: if, by some happenstance of etymology, we referred to our planet solely as "the Planet", then there could be many other planets, but only one Planet.)
> 
> (And regardless of what you call it ... thanks to each of you for operating your piece of it!)
> 
> Royce
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