FC: One more on the White House cybersecurity report

From: Declan McCullagh (declanat_private)
Date: Thu Sep 19 2002 - 09:24:49 PDT

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    As I and my colleague noted in this article:
    
    http://news.com.com/2100-1023-958545.html?tag=fd_lede
        A single chapter of the earlier draft was about 100 pages--the far
        shorter report released Wednesday was 64 pages total including
        graphics--and singled out technologies like the Border Gateway
        Protocol and the Domain Name System as candidates for improvement. It
        even said that it's time for the federal government to become more
        involved in the development of Internet protocols, security and
        standards--a role currently assumed by the Internet Engineering Task
        Force.
        All those specific recommendations are absent from Wednesday's report,
        which includes roughly the same level of detail as the executive
        summary from last month's version. The more specific version may
        reappear when President Bush receives the document for approval after
        a two-month comment period. [...]
    
    The more detailed version is here, finally with pages in sequential order:
    http://www.politechbot.com/docs/wh/level-4.tif.gz
    
    -Declan
    
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    Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2002 02:56:30 -0400 (EDT)
    From: Joe Baptista <baptista@dot-god.com>
    To: Declan McCullagh <declanat_private>
    cc: SteelHead <bill@ries-knight.net>, <politechat_private>,
        <gabeat_private>
    
    Hi:
    
    I read the exec summary and am not very impressed with the contents.  The
    full report (at least level-4) is a better read for the technically
    minded.  so i fixed the pages - they are now sequencial.
    
    [deleted, see URL above. --DBM]
    
    Please don't distribute the URL to the public.  Your welcomed to take the
    copy and place it on your web sites - it's 3.7 megs zipped or 47 megs
    unzipped.
    
    The pages are all in order so it's an easier read.  If any of you folks do
    index it on the web please provide me with the URL.  I took the time to
    compile it because I think it will be very helpful to the ga@dnso of
    ICANN.
    
    Cheers
    Joe Baptista
    
    --
    Planet Communications & Computing Facility
    a division of The dot.GOD Registry, Limited
    
    
    
    
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