[44669] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Network Operations Luminaries?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven M. Bellovin)
Fri Dec 7 15:21:48 2001
From: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@research.att.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
Cc: Pete Kruckenberg <pete@kruckenberg.com>
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Date: Fri, 07 Dec 2001 15:05:54 -0500
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In message <200112071652.fB7GqDQ07020@valen.gwi.net>, Fletcher E Kittredge writ
es:
>
>On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:40:36 -0700 (MST) Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
>> Who is/are the network operations equivalents of people like
>> Peter Drucker and Jack Welch--people who are looked at not
>> only has role models for operations success, but as
>> luminaries in the industry for having established and
>> educated the masses about best practices?
>
>My idiosyncratic, incomplete, personal list is:
>
> Steve Bellovin
I appreciate the compliment, but I'm not an operations guy -- never was
in the NOC sense, except for *tiny* networks, and for a fair number of
years not even on security. I hang out on NANOG so that I can learn
from everyone else.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com
