[86478] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: Networking Pearl Harbor in the Making
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Hannigan, Martin)
Mon Nov 7 11:14:19 2005
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2005 11:11:52 -0500
From: "Hannigan, Martin" <hannigan@verisign.com>
To: "Simon Waters" <simonw@zynet.net>, <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
> On Monday 07 Nov 2005 3:42 pm, Hannigan, Martin wrote:
> >=20
> > It's an argument for vendor diversity.
>=20
> No it is an argument for code base diversity (or better=20
> software engineering).
>=20
> Vendor diversity doesn't necessarily give you this, and you=20
> can get this with=20
> one vendor.
How so? Haven't we recently seen an across the board bug in
multiple version of $vendor code?
>=20
> Vendor diversity might be a good idea, but for other reasons.
Sure. There are more reasons than one to do it. I was specifically
pointing out that code diversity is a good one - and not forgetting
associated cost and economic impacts as mentioned in a later followup.
-M<
