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

[Stephen Farrell <[e-mail]>]

On 11/28/2013 06:08 AM, Randy Bush 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.  

Yep, that's the problem all right. However, we do sometimes
get folks who are willing to document stuff like that that
they've done, so if there are any out there then they should
know that we'd love to see that draft, could get them some
help with writing it if that's needed and with moving it
through the process-maze.

And as Dave said, there is a potential benefit if more
organisations secure their internal networks since a lot of
them are inter-dependent one way or another via cloudy-foo
stuff.

Cheers,
S.