[SECURITY] Application layer attacks/DDoS attacks

[kmedcalf at dessus.com (Keith Medcalf)]

Without a concomitant increase in "trustworthy", assigning greater levels of trust is fools endeavour.  Whatever this trusted network initiative is, I take that  it was designed by fools or government (the two are usually indistinguishable) for the purpose of creating utterly untrustworthy networks.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: NANOG [mailto:nanog-bounces at nanog.org] On Behalf Of Ramy Hashish
> Sent: Sunday, 24 May, 2015 22:49
> To: morrowc.lists at gmail.com; nanog at nanog.org
> Subject: Re: [SECURITY] Application layer attacks/DDoS attacks
> 
> The idea of restricting access to a certain content during an attack on
> the
> "trusted networks" only will make all interested ISPs be more "trusted"
> 
> Ramy
> 
> On Mon, May 25, 2015 at 5:01 AM, Christopher Morrow
> <morrowc.lists at gmail.com
> > wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, May 23, 2015 at 9:12 PM, jim deleskie <deleskie at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > >> However, the trusted network initiative might be a good approach to
> > start
> > >> influencing operators to apply anti-spoofing mechanisms.
> > >>
> >
> > explain how you think the 'trusted network initiative' matters in the
> > slightest?
> >
> > -chris
> >