[144177] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Do Not Complicate Routing Security with Voodoo Economics
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jennifer Rexford)
Sun Sep 4 11:45:30 2011
In-Reply-To: <CA895773.5FFD%neil@domino.org>
From: Jennifer Rexford <jrex@CS.Princeton.EDU>
Date: Sun, 4 Sep 2011 11:44:49 -0400
To: "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Neil,
The group is being assembled right now, so we don't have a list as of yet.
-- Jen
Sent from my iPhone
On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:32 AM, "Neil J. McRae" <neil@domino.org> wrote:
> Jen,
> What operators are involved? And who represents them specifically?
>
> Neil.
>
> On 04/09/2011 16:07, "Jennifer Rexford" <jrex@CS.Princeton.EDU> wrote:
>>
>>
>> As one of the co-chairs of this working group, I'd like to chime in to
>> clarify the purpose of this group. Our goal is to assemble a group of
>> vendors and operators (not "publish or perish" academics) to discuss and
>> recommend effective strategies for incremental deployment of security
>> solutions for BGP (e.g., such as the ongoing RPKI and BGP-SEC work). It
>> is not to design new security protocols or to "write policy and
>> procedures for operators" -- that would of course be over-reaching and
>> presumptuous. The goal is specifically to identify strategies for
>> incremental deployment of the solutions designed and evaluated by the
>> appropriate technical groups (e.g., IETF working groups). And, while the
>> SIGCOMM paper you mention is an example of such a strategy, it is just
>> one single example -- and is by no means the recommendation of a group
>> that is not yet even fully assembled yet. The working group will debate
>> and discuss a great many issues before suggesting any strategies, and
>> those strategies would be the output of the entire working group.
>>
>> <tongue in cheek> As for "publish or perish" academics, I doubt you'll
>> find that the small set of academics who choose to go knee deep into
>> operational issues do so because they are trying to optimize their
>> academic careers... ;) </tongue in cheek>
>>
>> -- Jen
>>
>
>
