The Internet engineering community is developing technology that promises to minimize the damage these hacker attacks cause by quickly identifying the computer systems where they originate. . . .
The Internet engineering community is developing technology that promises to minimize the damage these hacker attacks cause by quickly identifying the computer systems where they originate.

The Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF) last week launched a working group to develop ICMP Traceback Messages, which would let network managers discover the path that packets take through the Internet. Nicknamed itrace, the new working group plans to submit a proposed standard for traceback messages to the IETF leadership next January.