[170992] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DMARC -> CERT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Mon Apr 14 17:51:27 2014
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 17:45:52 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGfsgR15sHwr8s_68vE+5u3hBk0dcNwnfiaM_jW_ZZEG38Bc_g@mail.gmail.com>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:24 PM, Miles Fidelman
> <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net> wrote:
>> Matthias Leisi wrote:
>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 10:20 PM, Christopher Morrow <
>>> morrowc.lists@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 4:10 PM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
>>>>> Whilst I don't agree with the way that Yahoo has done this (particularly
>>>>> around communication),
>>>> how could they have communicated this better? how can we all learn from
>>>> this?
>>>>
>>> They could have communicated, as in "listen folks, we are going to make a
>>> critical change that will affect mailing lists (etc...) in four weeks
>>> time".
>>>
>>> They could have made the change not late on a Friday afternoon (or well
>>> into the weekend for most of the world).
>>>
>>>
>> On the weekend before tax filings are due in the US! And a couple of days
>> before Passover.
> and in the middle of Heartbleed.....
>
> It's enough to make you believe there was absolutely no care or
> concern for others.
>
And.. it's worth contrasting the community response to Heartbleed -
which didn't actually cause widespread denial of service!
Miles
--
In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
