Re: Inter-ISP/Telco/X.25 security procedures?

[Mark Kent <mark () noc mainstreet net>]

> > > Wasn't BARRNET operating on the Stanford campus 
> > > prior to 1991?
> >
> > Absolutely.  

OK, so there is my point.  Back in those days the network security
folks would often find themselves in the same lunch line as the "ISP"
security folks.  And they were available by phone with just a four
digit extension.

Everybody who was anybody knew everyone else who was anybody. (*)

-mark

(*) The term "every" is used for dramatic effect and not meant 
    in an absolute sense.