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Subject: Re: [openc2-actuator] Re: [EXT] [openc2-actuator] Re: Firewall Profile: Target types and specifiers
Dave,
Building a technology standard is not like building a product. The risks and costs associated with getting something wrong are orders of magnitude harder to deal with.
For a single vendor that builds product, it is often advantageous to release early and release often. Design your product so you can upgrade it easily in the field, and you are done. The only thing you need to worry about is the coordination and synchronization with your own products and communications with your own customers.
If, and I stress IF, a standard becomes widely adopted and successful the costs of changes are exponentially higher. Ever vendor that has implemented said standard has to change / update their systems and massive coordination has to take place. Often things linger for years before they all get updated. All of this means that interoperability suffers and the market blames the standard.
There is a reason why standards work is hard and why it often takes years and years.
I often feel that we are going about this whole thing wrong, or completely inside out. Without the right people at the table, the probability that we get it wrong or design something that will not be adopted is high.
Bret
From: Dave Lemire <dave.lemire@g2-inc.com>
Sent: Wednesday, April 4, 2018 7:00:29 AM To: Bret Jordan Cc: Everett, Alex D; Brule, Joseph M; openc2-actuator@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: Re: [openc2-actuator] Re: [EXT] [openc2-actuator] Re: Firewall Profile: Target types and specifiers Bret: I'm entirely sympathetic to your view regarding expertise but I also honestly think that we have to play with the team we've got. When we publish something that's wrong, the experts will emerge from hiding to tell us that. So I see the
current effort as essentially forcing the process to get going.
Dave
On Tue, Apr 3, 2018 at 6:00 PM, Bret Jordan
<Bret_Jordan@symantec.com> wrote:
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