On Sat, Jul 27, 2013 at 9:00 PM, Jimmy Hess <mysidia@gmail.com> wrote:
On 7/27/13, Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu <Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu> wrote:
On Fri, 26 Jul 2013 20:18:52 -0500, Jimmy Hess said: I have to admit that this is the biggest can-o-worms suggestion > I've seen all week. (Hint: our org chart says I work in our Network Storage and Backup group - the lurker in the next cubicle does our abuse@ handling but
My implication was not that ORG charts or person's actual job should be looked at. By vetted; I meant the person was subject to a background check, and also proved that they have technical knowledge.
That's about "reducing noise" by providing contacts that can only be accessed by people who proved they knew well enough what they were doing, to avoid submitting "false outage reports"; for example, so they wouldn't be the people complaining to the hosting provider's IP technical contact about some random customer web server spitting out 404 pages..
In other words --- they would have passed a knowledge proof, showing they deserve the right to bypass "Level 1 call center drones".
E.g. to gain enhanced access in a world with 'an additional level of whois access' Step 1... 1. Submit an application with a nominal fee, explain to the RIR your periodic use of WHOIS, and how you would benefit from seeing 'special contacts' data; also including signed NDA regarding 'enhanced' extra contact information.
2. Pay ongoing fees for criminal/spammer background checks, with results forwarded to the RIR.
3. Show up at a RIR meeting, and sign the guest list -- or otherwise, get other members of the community to vouch for your character and technical capability, or, as an alternative show technical credentials in the form of an earned professional level networking industry certification requiring a performance-based lab assessment with advanced network troubleshooting of Layer 1 through 4 on real equipment.
If you're going to *that* level of validation, just join INOC-DBA and be done with it: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/INOC-DBA Matt
Those were some examples.
I didn't mean to imply "Ask to see companies' org charts, try to untangle the mess for every AS, and examine job descriptions"
-- -JH