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On 24 Apr 2021, at 6:45 PM, William Herrin <<a href="mailto:bill@herrin.us" class="">bill@herrin.us</a>> wrote:<br class="">
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<div class="">On Sat, Apr 24, 2021 at 8:26 AM Mel Beckman <<a href="mailto:mel@beckman.org" class="">mel@beckman.org</a>> wrote:<br class="">
<blockquote type="cite" class="">This doesn’t sound good, no matter how you slice it. The lack of<br class="">
transparency with a civilian resource is troubling at a minimum.<br class="">
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You do understand that the addresses in question are not and have<br class="">
never been "civilian." They came into DoD's possession when this was<br class="">
all still a military project funded by what's now DARPA.<br class="">
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Personally, I think we may have an all time record for the largest<br class="">
honeypot ever constructed. I'd love to be a fly on that wall.</div>
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<div>Bill - </div>
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<div>That’s actually a possibility - just join DDS… <a href="https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949" class="">https://apnews.com/article/technology-business-government-and-politics-b26ab809d1e9fdb53314f56299399949</a></div>
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<div><i class="">‘ "The big Pentagon internet mystery now partially solved”</i></div>
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<div><i class="">After weeks of wonder by the networking community, the Pentagon has now provided a very terse explanation for what it’s doing. But it has not answered many basic questions, beginning with why it chose to entrust management of the address space
to a company that seems not to have existed until September.</i></div>
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<div><i class="">The military hopes to “assess, evaluate and prevent unauthorized use of DoD IP address space,” said a statement issued Friday by Brett Goldstein, chief of the Pentagon’s </i><a href="https://www.defense.gov/Explore/News/Article/Article/1858615/defense-digital-service-delivers-mission-aligned-tech-for-dod/" class="">Defense
Digital Service</a><i class="">, which is running the project. It also hopes to “identify potential vulnerabilities” as part of efforts to defend against cyber-intrusions by global adversaries, who are consistently infiltrating U.S. networks, sometimes operating
from unused internet address blocks. '</i></div>
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<div>FYI,</div>
<div>/John</div>
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<div>John Curran</div>
<div>President and CEO</div>
<div>American Registry for Internet Numbers</div>
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