[52137] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Inter-ISP/Telco/X.25 security procedures?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Mark Kent)
Mon Sep 16 14:39:02 2002
Date: Mon, 16 Sep 2002 11:38:29 -0700 (PDT)
From: Mark Kent <mark@noc.mainstreet.net>
To: craig@aland.bbn.com
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-reply-to: <200209161816.g8GIGOlF009949@aland.bbn.com> (message from Craig
Partridge on Mon, 16 Sep 2002 14:16:24 -0400)
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
>> >Wasn't BARRNET operating on the Stanford campus
>> >prior to 1991?
>>
>> Absolutely.
OK, so there is my point. Back in those days the network security
folks would often find themselves in the same lunch line as the "ISP"
security folks. And they were available by phone with just a four
digit extension.
Everybody who was anybody knew everyone else who was anybody. (*)
-mark
(*) The term "every" is used for dramatic effect and not meant
in an absolute sense.
