Jen, What operators are involved? And who represents them specifically? Neil.
On 04/09/2011 16:07, "Jennifer Rexford" <j...@cs.princeton.edu> wrote: > > >As one of the co-chairs of this working group, I'd like to chime in to >clarify the purpose of this group. Our goal is to assemble a group of >vendors and operators (not "publish or perish" academics) to discuss and >recommend effective strategies for incremental deployment of security >solutions for BGP (e.g., such as the ongoing RPKI and BGP-SEC work). It >is not to design new security protocols or to "write policy and >procedures for operators" -- that would of course be over-reaching and >presumptuous. The goal is specifically to identify strategies for >incremental deployment of the solutions designed and evaluated by the >appropriate technical groups (e.g., IETF working groups). And, while the >SIGCOMM paper you mention is an example of such a strategy, it is just >one single example -- and is by no means the recommendation of a group >that is not yet even fully assembled yet. The working group will debate >and discuss a great many issues before suggesting any strategies, and >those strategies would be the output of the entire working group. > ><tongue in cheek> As for "publish or perish" academics, I doubt you'll >find that the small set of academics who choose to go knee deep into >operational issues do so because they are trying to optimize their >academic careers... ;) </tongue in cheek> > >-- Jen >
