[Bp_certs] About types of CERTs

[Robin M. Ruefle]

Andrew,

-----Original Message-----
From: Andrew Cormack [mailto:Andrew.Cormack at ja.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 24, 2014 1:29 PM
To: Robin M. Ruefle; Cristine Hoepers; bp_certs at intgovforum.org
Subject: RE: [Bp_certs] About types of CERTs


>And to those trying to reach out to a particular CSIRT role in another country. In theory you should be able to tell the >difference from the 'constituency' definition in RFC2350, but I suspect it'd be easier to have distinct names for each role so >that 'national CERTs' could flag up which they were.
 

[Robin Ruefle] Oh good point!  Having distinctive names for each role and some description of the role and benefit would be very handy indeed.

>> There is a lot of good information in the emails that are being 
>> exchanged. I think we can take a lot of that information and put it 
>> into a document that gives an overall view of "National" CSIRTs, what 
>> they can be, their different activities, focus, and constituencies, 
>> and the general thought that having one is not enough in today's 
>> world. I know that might not be the goal of this forum work, but I 
>> think it can be a side benefit if we want.  I'd be happy as time 
>> permits, outside of the other work this forum is doing, to start to 
>> pull together some of the information and send it out for review 
>> (wouldn't be any time soon, but maybe within the next few months.)
 
>Happy to help with that. As you may gather, I've felt the pain...

[Robin Ruefle] Great!  That would be wonderful.  You and I can talk off-line about the best way to go about this.

Thanks!

Robin