[127043] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Best Practices checklists
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (kris foster)
Thu Jun 10 12:15:12 2010
From: kris foster <kris.foster@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <AANLkTinyIf8QmIzcKuC_uGMpjw9w-Xv0xke4nGV69xar@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 10 Jun 2010 09:14:18 -0700
To: Michael Dillon <wavetossed@googlemail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
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This is a good topic for nanog-futures and not the main list since it's =
about the organization.
Kris
On Jun 10, 2010, at 9:05 AM, Michael Dillon wrote:
> I expect that the collected members of this list could do a good job
> of defining some network security practices checklists. Now that NANOG
> has been spun out as an independent entity, I would hate to see it
> become just another conference organizer. In the recent past many
> professions have learned how valuable a simple checklist is in
> preventing errors and ensuring that work adheres to a certain
> standard.
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> So I am suggesting that NANOG take on the task of compiling and
> publishing checklists for various areas of network operations. We
> could have a NANOG wiki where people can publish, and work over,
> suggestions for checklist topics and content. Then at the conferences,
> a BOF-style meeting could hash out the official published versions.
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> We could have an interesting debate on whether or not this would make
> a difference and whether or not NANOG should take on this role. But I
> hope that we are now at a point where we see that network sloppiness
> and insecurity are becoming such major issues that action is needed.
> Let's act first, and evaluate the usefulness of the work, later.
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> --Michael Dillon
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