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I agree with the MICE-TECH list just to protect some of the configuration
discussion. Perhaps we could say that any member can request the history at
any time?  I also think we would have to be sure to post planned changes,
or at least notifications, to the discuss list as we do now.

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*Shaun Carlson*Senior Manager of Information Technology | Arvig
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On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 12:13 PM, Andrew Hoyos <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> > On Nov 17, 2015, at 11:20 AM, Doug McIntyre <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, Nov 17, 2015 at 09:38:16AM -0600, Andrew Hoyos wrote:
> >> I’d like to offer up a VM donation located in Madison, WI to at least
> run RANCID to grab config backups of the IX switches, as well as a backup
> target for any data (graphs, route-server config, etc).
> >
> > Sure. Although I do have some backups of the main switch/bird configs
> located here
> > in my location (not at 511, but still Minneapolis). I have considered
> > adding the configs I touch to my RANCID, but didn't find enough value I
> suppose.
>
> I think one of the things that was touched on in the meeting yesterday was
> change control. RANCID diffs running on a 15/30 minute basis could be a
> cheap verification.
> Probably even from multiple places wouldn’t hurt.
>
> > I already had a tech list setup (MICE-TECH), but then I started
> > thinking about who should have access to what, and what should be an
> > archive (public? Semi-public?) of tech discussions, vs. something that
> > may have a little sensitive value (ie. config snippets with SNMP
> > communities, CoPP firewall rules, etc.). vs. most of it (ie. BGP setup
> > & questions/problems).
>
> I’d support this, and would happily participate in these discussions.
> Maybe just a members only list, added only by someone in some official
> capacity?
> Private archives would solve some issue there, and RANCID will by default,
> redact passwords/community strings.
>