[171002] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: DMARC -> CERT?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Miles Fidelman)
Mon Apr 14 18:44:16 2014
Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2014 18:43:46 -0400
From: Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@meetinghouse.net>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <CAGfsgR1VM-Be4dkos=ad8BK5ZMhvLQjPU=BcpPT6N+iZ3WBBNg@mail.gmail.com>
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Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 5:48 PM, Scott Howard <scott@doc.net.au> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 14, 2014 at 2:29 PM, Jim Popovitch <jimpop@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>> 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.....
>>
>> You might have had a point - if it had been ANY of those. Other than the
>> original claim of "Friday afternoon" it was none of those things.
>
> 7-April: Monday, Yahoo's dmarc change kicks everyone in the groin, the
> last full week before the US tax filing deadline.
>
> 7-April: OpenSSL's *public* advisory (after a full week of private
> notifications, of which yahoo surely was one tech company in on the
> early notifications)
>
> 11-April: Yahoo discusses what needs to be done on their public tumblr account.
>
14-April: 1st night of Passover
15-April: Tax Filings due in the US
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In theory, there is no difference between theory and practice.
In practice, there is. .... Yogi Berra
