NANOG-futures

[Gadi Evron]

On Sun, 24 Sep 2006, Joe Provo wrote:
> > > > Great. What is appropriate for NANOG?
> 
> Part of the evolution/changes were about being less "prohibitive" 
> in this realm.  That still does not change it to an open-ending,
> "anything goes" realm.  It is really as simple as Mr Underwood has
> described it.
> 
> Official FAQ: http://www.nanog.org/listfaq.html#topics
>  Appropriate Topics
>  NANOG discussions are on-topic if they're of interest to people 
>  running wide-area networks interconnected with other networks. 
>  "Network operations" in this context means issues related to 
>  entire networks, rather than to end users.

Indeed. We are not interested in how users run an anti virus. We are
interested about wide-scale infections on our networks. We are interested
of phishing and botnet servers running on out networks, we are interested
in DDoS attacks against us and, maybe, coming from our networks.

This is something many members, as we have seen, find relevant. Others
find utterly boring.

>  Appropriate topics include routing, broad-based engineering
>  problems/issues/solutions, outages, performance measurement, 
>  evolving wide-area technologies, exchange points, traffic 
>  engineering, operational experience, ISP security, and trouble 
>  ticket systems.

So, otages are on-topic? What a surprise.

Operational experience, ISP security, trouble ticket systems? Sounds like
jackpot.

> FAQ Wiki: http://nanog.cluepon.net/index.php/The_NANOG_Mailing_List
>  Relevant Items
>   * Router questions
>   * Routing protocols and other Layer4 denizens
>   * Network Operation matters
>   * Network Management Tools and Issues

Those two above make sense to some of the crowd.

>   * Peering and Interconnections
>   * Billing and Accounting 
>  Not So Relevant Items
>   * NANOG organization and meta-topics
>   * Dead horses and tired topics
>   * End User Issues
>   * Stuff totally out in left field
>   * Stuff that is only sometimes relevant 

Thanks,

	Gadi.

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