[82742] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Cisco and the tobacco industry
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Florian Weimer)
Thu Jul 28 15:49:52 2005
From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "J. Oquendo" <sil@politrix.org>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Date: Thu, 28 Jul 2005 20:49:20 +0200
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.58.0507281415530.7086@kungfunix.net> (J. Oquendo's
message of "Thu, 28 Jul 2005 14:17:46 -0400 (EDT)")
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
* J. Oquendo:
> Maybe it is time an authority figure steps in and makes some form of rules
> for vendors to distribute fixes under some form of law. If this flaw of
> Cisco's could lead to the kind of severe damage as Mr. Lynn claims,
> shouldn't it fall on the shoulders of Cisco to get their act together and
> provide a fix as opposed to sending in the hounds (legal shmoes via
> lawsuit) to quash their problems.
But it looks as if Cisco actually did this, and you (and Geo) just
weren't part of the elite circle of operators whose networks are
considered U.S. national critical infrastructure.
