[11367] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Internic does it again
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay R. Ashworth)
Mon Jul 28 22:03:40 1997
Date: Mon, 28 Jul 1997 21:48:15 -0400
From: "Jay R. Ashworth" <jra@scfn.thpl.lib.fl.us>
To: George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <199707290011.RAA04490@mail.crl.com>; from George Herbert <gherbert@crl.com> on Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 05:11:01PM -0700
On Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 05:11:01PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
> Jay writes:
> > Would an administrator of this list please compose and post a message
> > defining in precise terms what topic areas are on- and off-topic for
> > the NANOG mailing list?
>
> IMHO:
>
> The key problem here is people not understanding what
> "operational and technical" means in common parlance, I think.
> Is InterNIC crashing an operational problem? Yes.
> Is InterNIC not responding for some time an operational problem? Maybe...
> Until you know why they crashed, it's definitely on topic to be trying
> to figure out why and how, if it's affecting operations.
>
> Is it still an operational or technical problem weeks later? No.
>
> InterNIC's failures and flaws are fodder for a number of other
> mailing lists related to DNS policy discussions among others.
> Except as is operationally relevant, however, they're not appropriate
> for NANOG. They generally are only operationally relevant when
> something breaks, until it's fixed.
Damn.
An _answer_.
And it's even a good one. Thanks, George.
(Course, it _is_ worthy of note that David reopened the topic. :-)
Cheers,
-- jra
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