With February's massive distributed denial-of-service attacks still fresh in their minds, a group of companies operating some of the best-known Web sites on the planet will call on ISPs, Web hosters and each other to join forces to prevent future attacks.. . .
With February's massive distributed denial-of-service attacks still fresh in their minds, a group of companies operating some of the best-known Web sites on the planet will call on ISPs, Web hosters and each other to join forces to prevent future attacks.

Amazon.com, eBay, Charles Schwab and Yahoo will be among the firms uniting at NetWorld+Interop 2000 in Atlanta to lay out recommendations for blocking distributed denial-of-service attacks.

Although it is unclear how the group will attempt to enforce its suggestions, the companies' buying power could speak volumes.