Date: Wed, 6 Jun 2001 16:30:26 +0200 (CEST) From: "Henk Uijterwaal (RIPE-NCC)" <henk@ripe.net>
I guess one of the major concerns of this WG could/should be the coordinated fight against (D)DoS attacks, which are attaining scaring quality and efficiency those days.
Probably, this is a mixture of technical stuff and dealing with (ab)users of the infrastructure. In the latter case, this is more a "user level security" issue that belongs in Anti-Spam.
Dear Henk, security issues will _always_ have to do with abusers, otherwise you won't need security ;-} And I won't play down DDoS as a "user level security" issue any longer because the used techniques are powerful enough to abuse and turn out significant parts of the Internet infrastructure, for some time at least.
However, it is definitely something to be discussed somewhere, so let's put it on the to-do list for the group and decide later.
It's no longer a matter for discussion and deciding later, it's a matter which should be raised to the highest possible awareness, also in the RIPE region, IMHO. And it's definitly a matter for co-ordinated efforts, any input and complements from other groups should be appreciated and advertised, of course. Thanks for the charter, which is apparently wide enough for dealing with most aspects DDoS attacks. CP