[114941] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: White House net security paper
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Jun 1 04:07:02 2009
Date: Mon, 01 Jun 2009 17:06:38 +0900
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Hank Nussbacher <hank@efes.iucc.ac.il>
In-Reply-To: <5.1.0.14.2.20090601110138.00aee650@efes.iucc.ac.il>
Cc: Paul Vixie <vixie@isc.org>, nanog@merit.edu
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
>>> 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.
well, i guess some of us are pickier than others, and have the luck of
having choices.
randy
