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Re: Obsolete bogon filtering

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Sat Mar 12 12:01:47 2005

Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2005 12:01:12 -0500
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@baylink.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <OF16DE1E37.B85DE690-ON80256FC1.003A1898-80256FC1.003A44D2@radianz.com>; from Michael.Dillon@radianz.com on Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:36:28AM +0000
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On Fri, Mar 11, 2005 at 10:36:28AM +0000, Michael.Dillon@radianz.com wrote:
> > 2. People would have a list of sites that were known to be of less
> > clue than most. This might help them make purchasing decisions in the
> > future.
> 
> Are you suggesting that NANOG should publish a set
> of operational best practices and then only offer
> the NANOG seal of approval to companies which adhere
> to those best practices?

The Good Netkeeping Seal of Approval, yes.

> If there is one thing that will stop telecoms regulators
> from attempting to regulate the Internet, it is this.
> The technical term is "industry self regulation".

And it would have the side effect of assembling all of those best
practices in a central place where those occasaional operators of
really small networks (like me :-) who care what they are can
conveniently find them.

I'd recommend a wiki.  Running MediaWiki.

But then, I recommend that for all centralized knowledge capture
situations.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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