[92969] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Collocation Access
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John A. Kilpatrick)
Mon Oct 23 14:47:43 2006
Date: Mon, 23 Oct 2006 11:25:41 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John A. Kilpatrick" <john@hypergeek.net>
To: "Steven M. Bellovin" <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <20061023141745.52d117fa.smb@cs.columbia.edu>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
On Mon, 23 Oct 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> A government-issued ID (at most) proves your identity; it says nothing
> about your authorization to be somewhere.
The ID is just Authentication. Authorization and Accounting are handled
by other procedures implemented by the colo security droids.
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