[153546] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Configuration Systems
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Joel jaeggli)
Fri Jun 8 03:07:42 2012
Date: Fri, 08 Jun 2012 00:06:45 -0700
From: Joel jaeggli <joelja@bogus.com>
To: Suresh Ramasubramanian <ops.lists@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <CAArzuosDFoUOFobU=c6CFk-4xEKJE4w9GUJ_6LZseOB5iRXFng@mail.gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 6/7/12 20:53 , Suresh Ramasubramanian wrote:
> It is like that supreme court judge who defined porn as "i know it
> when I see it"
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacobellis_v._Ohio
a case which is notable in this context for having four differing
majority opinions.
> On Fri, Jun 8, 2012 at 5:00 AM, Paul Graydon <paul@paulgraydon.co.uk> wrote:
>> Your original definition: "cloud" == "you rented a colo, but have no clue
>> where". I know exactly where my colo is. I know exactly where my physical
>> servers are. If I run a private cloud on those servers and provision stuff
>> there, I'll still know exactly where my colo is and I'll still know where my
>> "cloud" infrastructure is deployed
>> (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cloud_computing#Private_cloud) Even that wiki
>> page doesn't quite go far enough in defining cloud, at least compared to
>> stuff people sell as "cloud" (as I said, cloud is a marketing term, not an
>> engineering one. Its accuracy is negligible)
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