[92959] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Hennigan)
Mon Oct 23 13:39:51 2006
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 10:35:19 -0700
From: Jay Hennigan <jay@west.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <BA2F6CAB78180542A571750BFB5E6C29025D8A6E@Tin2003.hq.nac.net>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Alex Rubenstein wrote:
> I am shocked that the ATT employee did not have an ATT ID.
>
> In our facilities, we require all visiting telcos to produce company
> identification, and between telcove/level 3, Verizon, MCI, and several
> others, we have never had an issue.
>
> I'd be a bit more suspicious that he didn't have ATT ID.
He may have indeed had ATT ID. But the colo security people wanted a
government ID. "Company" ID is relatively meaningless and trivially
forged, particularly for small values of "company". If I were to show
up in a truck with "Jay's Telco" on the side, produce "Jay's Telco" ID,
and refuse to show a driver's license or government ID I would expect
datacenter security to be a bit suspicious. Why should AT&T be treated
any differently?
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