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

Randy Bush <randy@psg.com> Thu, 28 November 2013 06:08 UTC

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> 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.

randy

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