[nsp-sec] membership criteria [WAS unsubscribing]

[Rafi Sadowsky]

On Fri, 31 Aug 2012, Smith, Donald wrote:

>
> Trust is personal not institutional. Did you somehow misunderstand the nature of this list?
>

  While IMNSHO this probably should be answered by the moderators
The way I understand it is that the trust is personal but the membership 
is institutional.

  Or to be bit more specific to _apply_ for(and retain) membership you need 
to have senior operational networking and/or security responsibilty in an 
appropriate "large" infrastucture Service Provider 
(ISP/NSP/CDN/DNS/<etc...>)

  To be accepted to the list you need to be trusted on a personal level
(the vetting process is mainly to establish this but IIRC can also fault 
the institutional affilation as non-appropriate)

  Another example is if you change employers - say you joined as head of 
security at Akamai and then moved on to an appropriate position at Google 
- You should unsubscribe and then re-apply from your new position
  Assuming your new position qualifies for membership an that you were an 
active contributing member of nsp-sec you should have no trouble passing 
the personal trust vetting as well
(At least IIRC thats the way it's supposed to work ;-)

  In any case <http://puck.nether.net/mailman/listinfo/nsp-security> is 
probably the correct place to look for that info and the above rambling by 
me is my _personal_ interpretation of it in the context of your remark