Neil, > maybe volunteers from the nanog community should contact you?
Thanks for the suggestion! Yes, I would encourage interested people to contact me. We won't be able to put everyone on the working group (in the interest of having a small enough group to make progress), but we are very interested in having people who can offer their expertise, feedback, and advice throughout the process... -- Jen > > On 4 Sep 2011, at 16:45, "Jennifer Rexford" <j...@cs.princeton.edu> wrote: > >> Neil, >> >> The group is being assembled right now, so we don't have a list as of yet. >> >> -- Jen >> >> >> Sent from my iPhone >> >> On Sep 4, 2011, at 11:32 AM, "Neil J. McRae" <n...@domino.org> wrote: >> >>> 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 >>>> >>> >>> >> >