Re: [perpass] "Guide to intranet protection"?

[Phillip Hallam-Baker <[e-mail]>]

On Thu, Nov 28, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Randy Bush <[e-mail]> wrote:

> > Randy is quite right.
>
> has to happen occasionally
>
> > The attacks reported in the news article were against the private
> > optical fibers linking the geographically distributed data centers of
> > large companies like Google or Yahoo. A discussion about that should
> > start with the folks in charge of securing these data centers at
> > Google, Yahoo, Facebook, Microsoft, et cetera. I can see some
> > difficulties, because a fair bit of the data centers architectures is
> > probably treated as trade secret. And I am really not sure that the
> > IETF is the best place to conduct such discussions.
>
> we had/have the same oroblem with datacenter* wgs.  the folk who really
> do it think of it as secret sauce.  so it becomes the vendors trying to
> sell solutions to problems they don't understand.  hell, i don't even
> know iij datacentr technology to any depth.
>

Just to be clear, when I said they are more willing to share than you said
earlier, I was referring to a closed door sharing in some members only
forum. That model definitely works.

The IETF might play a role in brokering the setting up of such an
organization but any sharing is not going to take place in public and not
in the IETF and it is going to take place at a certain degree of
abstraction.



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