[128172] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Addressing plan exercise for our IPv6 course
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Karl Auer)
Sun Jul 25 18:58:49 2010
From: Karl Auer <kauer@biplane.com.au>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <8C26A4FDAE599041A13EB499117D3C281645C2D5@ex-mb-1.corp.atlasnetworks.us>
Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2010 08:58:26 +1000
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On Sun, 2010-07-25 at 16:19 +0000, Nathan Eisenberg wrote:
> > If an expert stood up in court and said "the chances that this
> > fingerprint is the defendant's are a million to one", and the
> > prosecutor then said "Aha! So you admit it's *possible*!" we would
> > rightly scorn the prosecutor for being an innumerate nincompoop. Yet
> > here we are paying serious heed to the idea that a ULA prefix conflict
> > is a real business risk.
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> Yes, but if this prosecutor does this a million times, he's bound to
> be right at least once.
Hm. Would you hire a prosecutor who was, on average, right once in a
million times?
> Yes, a good businessperson takes risks. They also do everything
> possible to mitigate those risks, such as background checks on
> employees, lightning rods and grounding systems and insurance on the
> electronics in the building, buy generators and fuel contracts or
> source an emergency workplace. Yes, a crazy employee may get through
> a background check, but if the question is the presence of an attempt
> and prevention, then what is the risk mitigation for ULA?
Choose a random ULA prefix. Done.
Regards, K.
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