[nsp-sec] CUTRS: Community Unwanted Traffic Removal Service

[John Kristoff]

It is all about having a cool acronym.

Friends,

We are "soft-launching" one of our new services with you and we hope you
take to it, because we've had a lot of interest from the community to
get something like this done.  In a nutshell, this is just like the
DDoS-RS BGP route service you may be familiar with, but now instead of
using RTBH to thwart obviously obnoxious C&C's, this aims to help
remove the attack traffic destined towards victims in a DDoS further
upstream or closer to the source as possible.

Since it is the weekend, we won't set this up with anyone this week, but
will give you time to mull it over and pick this up next week.  Here is
my working page introducing the service:

  <http://www.cymru.com/jtk/misc/cutrs.html>

We also have a mailing list to foster discussion about the service and
alerts of active DDoS attacks.  We were considering having a small set
of "trusted" community folks who might help run this, so if you're an
operator with BGP and helping mitigate DDoS attacks is of interest to
you, please approach us expressing your interest to help.

This only works if we get both traffic carrying networks and victims
cooperating together.  Please contact me off list with any questions,
comments or interest in participating.

If you have some trustworthy network operators (not researchers at
this time, real networks with BGP please) in mind who might be
interested in this and are not on the list, please feel free to forward
this to them. Ideally I'd like to be cc:'d so I know where this is
going.

Kindly,

John