[170125] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: misunderstanding scale
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Herrin)
Mon Mar 24 13:18:16 2014
In-Reply-To: <201403241231.s2OCViii058805@aurora.sol.net>
From: William Herrin <bill@herrin.us>
Date: Mon, 24 Mar 2014 13:13:43 -0400
To: Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net>
Cc: "nanog@nanog.org" <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Mon, Mar 24, 2014 at 8:31 AM, Joe Greco <jgreco@ns.sol.net> wrote:
>> all successful security is about _defense in depth_.
>> If it is inaccessible, unrouted, unroutable and unaddressable then you
>> have four layers of security. If it is merely inaccessible and
>> unrouted you have two.
>
> Time to give up two layers of meaningless security for the riches offered
> by the vastness of the new address space.
Hi Joe,
You'd expect folks to give up two layers of security at exactly the
same time as they're absorbing a new network protocol with which
they're yet unskilled? Does that make sense to you from a
risk-management standpoint?
-Bill
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