[114940] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: White House net security paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hank Nussbacher)
Mon Jun 1 04:04:50 2009
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 11:02:31 +0300
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>,Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>
From: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <m2vdngtn4d.wl%randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
At 04:43 PM 01-06-09 +0900, Randy Bush wrote:
> > network security is a "loss center". not just a cost center, a *loss*
> center.
> > non-bankrupt ISP's whose investors will make good multiples only staff
> their
> > *profit* centers.
>
>this glib statement may have been true at the isps where you worked. it
>is not true for the ones where i work(ed).
It is true at every ISP I have ever encountered. I do not consider the
statement glib. -Hank
