Re: Network Operations Luminaries?

["Steven M. Bellovin" <smb () research att com>]

In message <200112071652.fB7GqDQ07020 () valen gwi net>, Fletcher E Kittredge writ
es:
> On Thu, 6 Dec 2001 20:40:36 -0700 (MST)  Pete Kruckenberg wrote:
> > Who is/are the network operations equivalents of people like
> > Peter Drucker and Jack Welch--people who are looked at not
> > only has role models for operations success, but as
> > luminaries in the industry for having established and
> > educated the masses about best practices?
>
> My idiosyncratic, incomplete, personal list is:
>
>   Steve Bellovin

I appreciate the compliment, but I'm not an operations guy -- never was 
in the NOC sense, except for *tiny* networks, and for a fair number of 
years not even on security.  I hang out on NANOG so that I can learn 
from everyone else.

                --Steve Bellovin, http://www.research.att.com/~smb
                Full text of "Firewalls" book now at http://www.wilyhacker.com