You gotta tell em how every two years or something, some kid falls to their death, usually drunk, usually kids from out of town. Every time it happens there’s a big fuss and someone takes the ropes down. Every time, the ropes go back up, and no one is sure who puts them up. You gotta show them the knots, because they’re weird knots, knots like no one else really knows how to tie, overly-elaborate.

Secure Bootstrap over an Unconfigured Network Today, bootstrapping a new node typically requires all nodes between a controlling node such as an SDN controller (see [ RFC7426 ] ) and the new node to be completely and correctly addressed, configured, and secured. Bootstrapping and configuration of a network happens in rings around the controller -- configuring each ring of devices before the next one can be bootstrapped. Without console access (for example, through an out-of-band...