RE: [STF] WS Sec Group Scoping
"Joseph Hui" <[email protected]>
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From: Hal Lockhart [mailto:[email protected]] [snip] > Phase 3) Accessibility; and > I am more familiar with using the term Availability for this. > Accessibility is most frequently used to refer to adaptions > for people with disabilities. In conventional contexts, especially with UI folks, Accessibility indeed is more often associated with disabilities, e.g. the WEB Accessibility activities in W3C, the Accessibility option in MS Windows' Control Panel, ... > Is Accessibility the term normally used in the W3C to mean > the opposite of Denial of Service? We are only speaking of Accessibility in the context of security. Within such context, Availability connotes the DOS affecting the targets only; and Accessibilities pertains to both the targets (SYN flood, e.g.) and the sources (DNS spoofing, e.g.). Back to summer hibernation, Joe Hui Exodus, a Cable & Wireless service =========================================== > Hal