From:	"Robert A. Hayden" <hayden@*******.MANKATO.MSUS.EDU>
Subject:	even more monica stuff
Date:	Sun, 13 Feb 1994 00:54:00 -0600

>>>>>[To follow up on Ramirez, I've done some looking into AI out in the
real world (after replacing the equipment MONICA fritzed). AI put
100,000 shares of stock up on the market, representing 40% of the
company. Starting price was 30, which rose to 38.5 after two days. This
is pretty stardard for new issues. Along with the issue of stock came a
better statement of what AI is going to offer. Apparently, one of their
projects is an 'Expert level network security system.'

Posing as a stock broker, I contacted AI and asked for a technical
release on their plans. Well, what they sent me wasn't nearly as
technical as I had hoped, but here's what they had to say.

Automated Inforworks will soon release a prototype global network
management system. This system will use a centralized adaptive
expert system to monitor and enforce security on the world-wide
system of networks. Instead of traffic fighting for limited
resources, a single 'traffic-cop' will queue and route requests
for network access.

This will have several benefits. The expert system will analyze
the network and route traffic in such a way that efficiency will
be increased by at least eighty percent. Furthermore, advanced
security will monitor for non-authorized traffic and shut that
process down, with levels of defense varrying with the security
of the node.

It then goes on for a couple of more pages with more mumbo-jumbo.

This is something network analysists have been clamoring for for quite
some time, but nobody has taken the initive to actually plan and execute
something like this. Unfortunately, this is very tough on people
illegally running the nets, as their processes will be unauthorized and
killed.

Don't know what this means, or the overall timeline. But it's kinda
scarey.]<<<<<
-- Wolf 359 <12:49:19 / 02-13-55>