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Hueristic solution to NANOG noise & inter-noc communication [was Re: Wanted: Clueful Individual @ TeleGlobe.net]

  • From: Alex Bligh
  • Date: Mon Jul 17 13:11:39 2000

Here is a hueristic solution to nanog noise and the '3rd party
trouble ticket problem' (only half tongue in cheek).

Suggest people register theif PGP public keys (not
email addresses) as 'Clue-held-by:' under the comments section
of an AS-MACRO (remember kids, these can be empty, and the
namespace for them is almost infinite, so no
resources wasted, and you can have as many comment
lines as you like).

Only allow posting to NANOG, and only allow third parties to
raise trouble tickets, by PGP signed message, where
the AS-Macro name to be looked up is in an appropriate
X-Header in their mail message.

This would mean:
a) All NANOG messages and trouble tickets would de
   facto be PGP signed

b) Generators of the above content would have to

i)   Know how to register/alter an AS macro
ii)  Know how to set headers in their mail
iii) Know how to use PGP

I believe the above requirements might not be
met by many of the lower content posters
to NANOG, and certainly by many people who
call NOCs, so this would reduce noise considerably...

[ And before someone has a go at me for being
  elitist, sure, reading should be open, so
  people can learn ]

-- 
Alex Bligh
VP Core Network, Concentric Network Corporation
(formerly GX Networks, Xara Networks)