Proposal regarding security chapter

Tillman Hodgson tillman at seekingfire.com
Fri Nov 19 20:30:37 UTC 2004


On Fri, Nov 19, 2004 at 03:10:34PM -0500, Tom Rhodes wrote:
> On Fri, 19 Nov 2004 13:37:45 -0600
> Tillman Hodgson <tillman at seekingfire.com> wrote:
> 
> > "Firewall", by itself, doesn't feel like an intuitive place to split
> > topics to me (aside from the convenience of its size).  However, I can
> > see a natural split between network security and host security.  In that
> > scenario, MAC would become the largest portion of the host security
> > chapter.
> > 
> > That still leaves security with 2 chapters, unfortunately. It only
> > addressed the page count balance between the two chapters.
> 
> Breaking it into two chapters (network and local) would be
> nice; but then you have the problem of overlap (I think).

Not much, really, when I take a look at the topics. Unfortunately it
alraady /is/ two chapters (considered MAC to be a chapter in it's own
right), so all it does is move MAC down a level and move the other
host-based stuff to a new Local/Host/whatever chapter name.
Redistributes the text between the two chapters in a more intuitive
fashion would be one way of stating the idea.

-T


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