Brian E Carpenter <[email protected]> wrote: >> Ted Lemon <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> I hate to ask this, but it seems like we ought to have a definition for a >> >> managed network... :-( >> >> I think that the section 2.1 provides contrasts, but maybe we should instead >> >> say what aspects of the Managed LAN we care about. >> >> > Good point. The "including the ability to publish services on the >> > Internet" seems like a reasonable first attempt at specifying that, but >> > I agree that it's insufficient. Do you have a theory to offer? What >> > I think I meant by this was: >> >> A managed network is one that has a (human) manager, or operator. >> The operator has authority over the network, and the authority to publish names >> in a forward DNS tree, and reverse names in the reverse tree. >> The operator has the authority to sign the respective trees with DNSSEC, >> and acquire TLS certificates for hosts/servers within the network.
> This prompts a few thoughts:
> (1) There's a strong resemblance between a homenet and a small office
> network, in which there's quite likely to be a human who is supposedly
> in charge of the network as a minor part of their job. That may well be
> a human who has the authority but not the skills. So there's possibly
> a category of "badly managed network" to consider.
Yes, so there are badly managed small office networks, and unmanaged small
office networks (using homenet technology).
> (2) I note the "(human)". Actually some of the concepts of autonomics
> and intent-based networking may spill over from enterprise networks
> into SOHO, at some point in the future.
I think that it's a grey area, but I'm okay with claiming that the autonomic
network had a human operator write the Intent.
> So, the naming system may end up being fully automatic, well or badly
> managed by a human, or managed autonomically.
I realize reading this that the autonomic network is much like the autonomous
vehicle: Something we aspire to get right, and to do so in order to
avoid/reduce human errors. (Are the autonomous vehicle people
ahead of the autonomic network people? Not sure)
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