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Re: Nanog mentioned on BBC news website
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Patrick W. Gilmore)
Wed Jul 22 20:45:10 2009
From: "Patrick W. Gilmore" <patrick@ianai.net>
To: NANOG list <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <20090722234148.BAFA21CC0B@ptavv.es.net>
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 20:44:21 -0400
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On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
>> Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:27:39 +0100
>> From: "andrew.wallace" <andrew.wallace@rocketmail.com>
>>
>> Big up the Nanog community, you do the net proud...
>>
>> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8163190.stm
>
> First showed up on NANOG 7 hours ago, but it was a fun read.
>
> Clearly the article has little connection with reality. I am not an
> unpaid volunteer and neither were most or all of those involved. The
> idea that just because the traffic does not originate or terminate
> on my
> net means that working on solving a problem is altruism is pretty
> silly.
My fav part:
<quote>
"That's precisely how packets move around the internet, sometimes in a
many as 25 or 30 hops with the intervening entities passing the data
around having no contractual or legal obligation to the original
sender or to the receiver."
</quote>
How many of you pass packets without getting paid?
Kinda makes you wonder about all those other TED talks, huh?
> And NANOG was not really involved though several of those that were
> are
> active in NANOG.
Well, one could argue that NANOG _is_ its members.
Yeah, a stretch, but I'm trying. :-)
--
TTFN,
patrick
