K.C. Claffy, a well-respected member of the computer science research community, has made it her mission to understand the Internet and all its nuances. As principal investigator at the Cooperative Association for Internet Data Analysis (CAIDA), an 8-year-old collaboration among commercial, scientific and government entities, Claffy watches over the Internet — collecting and analyzing performance statistics in order to help create an Internet robust enough to handle ever-increasing resource demands. For instance, with Claffy leading the way, CAIDA is the go-to organization for information on 'Net-based vims attacks. In this interview, Claffy, one of our 50 most powerful people in networking for 2004 (www.nwfu sion.com, DocFinder: 6321), talks about security on the Internet and in the next-generation enterprise network.
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