[118909] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Upstream BGP community support
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Randy Bush)
Mon Nov 2 06:47:48 2009
Date: Mon, 02 Nov 2009 06:46:59 -0500
From: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
To: Richard A Steenbergen <ras@e-gerbil.net>
In-Reply-To: <20091102105610.GQ51443@gerbil.cluepon.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
Richard A Steenbergen wrote:
> On Mon, Nov 02, 2009 at 05:19:32AM -0500, Randy Bush wrote:
>> i try to use as few tricks, knobs, and clever things as possible and
>> still get my job done. i try to be extremely conscious of, and minimal,
>> when what i am doing effects or is visible to my neighbors and/or the
>> global net.
>>
>> i try to complicate the internals of my network as little as possible,
>> after all, complexity == opex and i value my time, it is a non-renewable
>> resource.
>>
>> i prefer to be seen as an old and lazy minimalist, not a clever person.
>> clever was a pejorative where/when i was brought up.
>
> Translation:
>
> <randybush> You damn kids! Get off my lawn!
bullshit
> But seriously now, the reason we have these squishy things taking up
> space between our ears in the first place is so we can come up with new
> ideas and better ways to solve our problems.
and they need not be cute, clever, or complex. unless we did not get
enough strokes as a kid.
randy
