IETF, Twitter and Security (Was: Re: [governance] Warning : Twitter Hack)

[McTim]

On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:33 AM, Andrea Glorioso
<andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 3:29 PM, McTim <dogwallah at gmail.com> wrote:
>> On Fri, May 25, 2012 at 9:18 AM, Andrea Glorioso
>> <andrea at digitalpolicy.it> wrote:
>>> McTim,
>>>
>>> So, would the world be that off the mark by thinking that security
>>> problems such as those that happened to Bertrand and you (and to me as
>>> well some days ago, by the way) are something for the IETF to think
>>> about?
>>
>> IMHO, yes.  the IETF has enough to do with trying to create protocol
>> security on lower layers.  This is many layers above that.
>
> Then perhaps the BCP containing the mission statement of the IETF
> should be amended to make it a bit less bold than it currently is.

No need, "social engineering" != "sound network engineering"

-- 
Cheers,

McTim
"A name indicates what we seek. An address indicates where it is. A
route indicates how we get there."  Jon Postel

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