[11359] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic does it again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Wayne D. Correia)
Mon Jul 28 17:26:51 1997
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.3.96.970728135639.3115A-100000@vellocet.insync.net>
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 13:53:28 -0700
To: nanog@merit.edu
From: "Wayne D. Correia" <wayne@domain.net>
At 2:04 PM -0500 7/28/97, Joe Shaw wrote:
>On Mon, 28 Jul 1997, Jay R. Ashworth wrote:
>
>> The major complaint I hear about the InterNIC isn't that they're
>> arrogant, it's that their a black hole. Or worse, a roach motel:
>> complaints check in, but they don't check out.
>>
>> That's exactly the problem I have with them. They need a PR person,
>> with an extensive background in the culture of the net, and the power
>> to get things done... and they need one _now_.
>>
>
>Exactly. If NSI doesn't have someone who head up pr doing the work of
>informing the net community of what problems it's having, then rumors
>start happening. Rumors spread out, and get picked up by the media.
>Since the media is obviously a part of this list (we sure get quoted a
>lot), these stories of NSI outages start making the news. The price of
>NSI stock drops, and NSI's stockholders are not happy. Life is not good
>for NSI. So, doesn't it make sense to just get someone to do the PR job?
Because of the pending IPO, the InterNIC is in a 90 day quiet period. Even
if they have hired a PR person/group/agency, that entity couldn't really do
their job until after the IPO. I believe that this is an SEC regulation.
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