Listmaintainer, please do something :-( On Fri, 22 Nov 2002, George Michaelson wrote: > > Microsoft is now using the name 'darknet' to refer to the overlay networks of > point to point filesharing in their Digital Rights Management (DRM) position > papers in conferences. > > So, in the public eye, this neologism has probably now been taken to mean this > activity, > > Rather than descend into hacker/cracker discussions, what is a good label to > use when referring to people who usurp unallocated IPv4 address space, and > arrange for it to be BGP visible in the classic DFZ network? I had thought > that *this* was being called the dark net, but I'm not confident that tag will > survive the behemoth... > > -George > -- Marco Davids SARA / High Performance Networking - Amsterdam "And the sea will grant each man new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home." -- Christopher Columbus.