I thin you're right, pcharles. We need to see organized, systematic cooperation between the various standards bodies, and bodies reponsible for the Internet's infrastructure, but there would be significant downside's to placing control of the Internet in the hands of one, solitary organization (even if it could be done, which I doubt).
After reading this article,the first and last thought that has popped into my mind, is that after cyber crimes like hacking,cyber bullying,stalking etc, internet now has to face a problem which ,uptill now, seems undecipherable except to the IT specialists.
Moreover if this problem remains unsolved and IT managers will not succeed in surmounting this harmful activity ,the internet world & thus the physical world will remain vulnerable.
I have stated this previously that there are 'standards' organizations but who is really checking them??? I think it needs to be an ecosystem of standards rather than a single body making rules that are tough to enforce.
That is an interesting idea, but I think it would be very hard to make the Internet a data less place. I do think that with all the emphasis placed on the Internet, better measures need to be taken to protect the storehouses of data.
I think that the argument of the article is that IT people understand the technology, and should use their inherit techie bully pulpit to influence management and other decision makers to implement better security. For in the end, everyone looks towards the engineers and other techies to solve these problems as we see with BGP.
Also; "Now one can argue that cutting off access to YouTube might even be a public service, but the danger is that this can be done to any Internet address anywhere in the world."
I think part of the problem is that the standards bodies (using the term rather loosely) have different objectives. I seem to recall that OSPF was intended as a Cisco-proprietary protocol that enabled a level of performance that other switch and router manufacturers would have trouble emulating.
Also, there are some functions that may work better inside a private LAN one way, that should operate somewhat differently for Internet. One rather rough example is that I still see devices with serial management ports, although that kind of communications over the Internet is very much the minority.
So that maskes it hard to effect the need changes Rick is talking about in this blog. But these organizations are suppose to colloborate when it comes to imporatnt decisions that affect the future of the internet.
I dont think its on ITs job. Its everyones duty. Basically non IT guys are the most users of internet and they are the people who find strange but useful research stuff via IT.
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