[AusNOG] Consensus from the IETF 88 Technical Plenary - Internet hardening

[Paul Brooks]

On 9/11/2013 2:40 PM, Dobbins, Roland wrote:
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> I'll let you in on a little secret - making DDoS mitigation harder and more complex to deal with *benefits* vendors of DDoS mitigation solutions, because it stimulates the need for lots of expensive new sales and upgrades.  Making DDoS mitigation easier has the *opposite* effect.  And I'm all for making it easier; I'd like nothing better than to 'solve' DDoS so that I can go and do other things.

I'll let you in on a little secret - this whole exchange is occurring because we have
our eyes on an problem much larger than DDoS attacks.
This is not about DDoS mitigation. This is not about Arbor. This is not about you.

We know who Roland is, we respect what your organisation does, and it does a good job
doing it.
That said, claiming that making DDoS mitigation harder is too high a price to pay for
taking steps to protect the world communications infrastructure from undesirable and
often illegal domestic and foreign government snooping of private communications is,
with respect, somewhat silly.

We're looking at the forest burning,  while you expertly hose down a single tree.

P.