On 01/27/2016 10:30 PM, Ross Finlayson wrote: > Just a quick FYI, for those people out there who thought that I was being unrealistic and/or alarmist: > > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2016/01/28/github_outage/ > > Regardless of what protocols (‘git’ or otherwise) the IETF decides to use for document management, we should be using our own servers for this - not those belonging a third party. We need to be confident that this is going to survive the next recession :-) :-( github is down because of a massive DDOS attack from China. The details are online. If anyone needs, I can locate the information again and post it. Anyone, including the IETF could be the subject of a DDOS attack. So, in this instance, the real problem is not because its a outside server. -- Doug Royer - (http://DougRoyer.US) DouglasRoyer@xxxxxxxxx 714-989-6135
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