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I did read the report but I just have a couple of observations/questions. On Tue, 22 Jun 1999, Sean Donelan wrote: > - The distributed, informal nature of Internet management Well this should be fixed once Worldcom and Bell Atlantic finish their buying sprees and then one of them buys the other.. ;) > - The domain name system (DNS) Does this report take into account the new security initiatives that Paul talked about at the last NANOG? I certainly didn't read anything that would indicate that it did. That would seem to go a ways towards reducing the huge accident waiting to happen now known as DNS... > - Critical Internet control software and systems I am not a router vendor, but it seems that adding some sort of auth key to BGP (similar to the auth system of OSPF) wouldn't be all that difficult. You could specify a key for each peer. > - Procedural errors As more and more of router/device configuration are automated, I would expect to see fewer and less impacting human errors. Just my half a cent.. ;) Tim ============================================================= | Timothy M. Wolfe | Wireless Internet = Get Some | | Chief Network Engineer | 1.800.338.2629 [email protected] | | ClipperNet Corporation | http://www.clipper.net/services/ | =============================================================
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