[192829] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Accepting a Virtualized Functions (VNFs) into Corporate IT
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Tinka)
Mon Nov 28 13:34:22 2016
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To: Jared Mauch <jared@puck.nether.net>, Kasper Adel <karim.adel@gmail.com>
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka@seacom.mu>
Date: Mon, 28 Nov 2016 20:34:15 +0200
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On 28/Nov/16 20:10, Jared Mauch wrote:
> my experiences say that most people would accept this. things like IT are a cost
> and any way to externalize that cost makes sense. If you look at something like
> a SMB service, where you have mandatory NID or provider managed CPE/handoff,
> having a solution pre-built seems like a no-brainer.
Agreed - if the customer neither has nor wants to maintain the skill-set
necessary to operate the solution, then outsourcing it to a vendor (or
their partner) means they will want to make sure the customer does not
have the chance to mess it up.
So yes, if I were in the vendor's/partner's position, I'd lock down root
as well.
But if you're a power user and have the team for this, I'd walk.
Mark.
