[24371] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internet failures over the next 3 years
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim Wolfe)
Tue Jun 22 18:50:46 1999
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 15:51:20 -0700 (PDT)
From: Tim Wolfe <tim@clipper.net>
To: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <990622010915.2513@SDG.DRA.COM>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
I did read the report but I just have a couple of observations/questions.
On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sean Donelan wrote:
> - The distributed, informal nature of Internet management
Well this should be fixed once Worldcom and Bell Atlantic finish their
buying sprees and then one of them buys the other.. ;)
> - The domain name system (DNS)
Does this report take into account the new security initiatives that Paul
talked about at the last NANOG? I certainly didn't read anything that would
indicate that it did. That would seem to go a ways towards reducing the
huge accident waiting to happen now known as DNS...
> - Critical Internet control software and systems
I am not a router vendor, but it seems that adding some sort of auth key to
BGP (similar to the auth system of OSPF) wouldn't be all that difficult.
You could specify a key for each peer.
> - Procedural errors
As more and more of router/device configuration are automated, I would
expect to see fewer and less impacting human errors.
Just my half a cent.. ;)
Tim
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