[nsp-sec] Circle of trust [was: Vetting: Wang Hua]

[Aaron Hughes]

On Thu, Jan 28, 2010 at 01:03:31PM -0500, Patrick W. Gilmore wrote:
> I will take that as "I cannot vouch for the person Wang Hua, but would like another CT person here and Wang's position sounds right".
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> As such, I strenuously suggest to the admins that this vouch not be considered valid.  I am not interested in baby-steps that risk the security of this list.
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> If the admins disagree with me, especially if this type of thing has happened in the past and I just did not know it, I would appreciate it if the admins would let me know.
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> The circle of trust is a serious thing.  If it is violated, and I consider this a violation, it will ensure that I post nothing to NSP-SEC that I would not post to NANOG.  I'm sure many here already consider NSP-SEC no more secure than NANOG, but I was not quite to that point yet.  Perhaps I should be if this is how far the circle of trust has degraded.
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I second Patrick on this one and strongly support circles of trust such as this. I would actually post things to this list that I would not to NANOG and expect that it would stay on nsp-sec.

Thank you to everyone who use this list to help keep the net a little bit cleaner!

Cheers,
Aaron

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