<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Best Practices list,</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">It gives me great pleasure to say that
we now have a great team of folks to help develop the different sections
of the document. As noted on this page:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif"> http://wiki.voipsa.org/tiki-index.php?page=Volunteer+Opportunities%2FTeam+Structure</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">our section leaders are:</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">1. Securing Voice and Media stream
He Huang, Nortel, USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">2. Securing Call Control
Eric Chen, NTT, Japan</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">3. Securing Management Interfaces and
APIs not
yet assigned</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">4. Securing PSTN Interfaces and Traditional
Telephony Issues Shawn Lund</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">5. Securing Servers and Operating Systems
Tom
Cross, Techtionary.com, USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">6. Securing IP Endpoints (inc. softphones)
Nhut
Nguyen, Samsung, USA</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">7. Securing the TCP/IP network
Jerry Mangiarelli,
TD Bank, Canada</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">8. Physical Security, including backups,
power, etc. Bill Ward, CyberDefenses?,
USA </font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">9. Emerging Areas of Concern (SPIT,
etc.)
Saverio Niccolini, NEC, Germany</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">You'll notice that we're still missing
a section leader for section 3, securing management interfaces and APIs.
I had that slot for Peter Kuebler, but he regretfully let me know
that he had a window where he could have helped back in November, but is
now moving into a new home in March. Having done that myself about
1.5 years ago, I can totally understand how he's not going to be able to
help much for the next bit. I do wish him all the best with the move and
he is certainly welcome to help out as he can and when he can. (And he
has said he will as soon as he can.)</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">So... we need one more volunteer. As
you'll note, the geographic distribution of leaders is just a wee bit skewed
toward North America (I believe Shawn is in NA as well), so I'd love it
if we had someone from outside NA to join Eric and Saverio in representing
the non-NA-parts-of-the-world. Anyone in Europe or Asia (or Africa?)
interested? </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">The leader can really be from anywhere,
so interested parties in NA are also encouraged to send me an email. I
mention the regions only because as much as I do realize that almost all
VoIP security practices do not have any geographic correlation, the PR/marketing
side of my brain also realizes that we are producing a document for distribution
in the "non-IP" world where there are indeed a great number of
people who do care very much about things like borders which are in reality
so meaningless to those of us in IP. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Anyway, if you are interested, please
read this message to understand what we are looking for in section leaders
- and then let me know:</font>
<br>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">http://voipsa.org/pipermail/bestpractices_voipsa.org/2007-January/000035.html</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Thank you,</font>
<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">Dan</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">-- <br>
Dan York, CISSP<br>
Dir of IP Technology, Office of the CTO<br>
Mitel Corp. http://www.mitel.com<br>
dan_york@mitel.com +1-613-592-2122<br>
PGP key (F7E3C3B4) available for <br>
secure communication<br>
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