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

["Christian Huitema" <[e-mail]>]

>> may not work out as well as we might wish, as folk who have done it may
>> not want to disclose details.  but i am sure there are folk who have not
>> done it who will be happy to tell others how they should run their
>> networks :)
>
> with such a warm and inviting tone being offered at this stage of the 
> topic, i'm sure everyone will feel quite comfortable testing their 
> suggestions and comments, to produce a frank and open exchange that will 
> vet the contents of the draft document.

Randy is quite right. 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.

-- Christian Huitema