In Moyle's opinion, a balancing act of sorts is required. Make diversity too small and you increase the impact of population-level events, make it too diverse and you can reduce manageability and thereby make individual-level events more likely, ... Heterogeneity has to be balanced with manageability for the organization's maximum benefit.
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As a technologist, I'm not convinced that the U.N. is necessarily better equipped to deal with these issues than any number of other possible oversight bodies, including the U.S. Department of Commerce.Ed Moyle
Getting the threat of breach entirely to zero is effectively impossible, even in relatively small enterprises. And the closer we aim toward zero, the more expensive and time-consuming it becomes.
Ed Moyle
The U. S. is expected to ask why it should give up oversight of something -- the Internet -- that initially was developed by its military under the aegis of the U. S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA). The U. N. is understandably nervous about the ability of the U. S. to exert control over ICANN under the current structure, ... even if that ability isn't currently utilized to any significant degree.
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Worry in a CIO reflects uncertainty in the management process.
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From a making-it-work perspective, having a new extension for macros is a good idea, said network security expert Ed Moyle. It allows virus-checking software in an e-mail to filter on that extension and to search files coming in with that extension more carefully, or to exclude them altogether on a content filtering gateway while allowing the majority of the office docs to pass through without hindrance, ... My only concern is making a smooth transition to the new format.
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Those that favor the preservation of the current model fear that ceding oversight to the U.N. would result in a less 'laissez-faire' environment -- that it would open the door to tighter control and thereby engender all the trappings of control potential taxation, inefficiency, or restriction on free speech.
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