[135684] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Found: Who is responsible for no more IP addresses
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Steven Bellovin)
Thu Jan 27 20:21:54 2011
From: Steven Bellovin <smb@cs.columbia.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20110127215322.GA58148@mikea.ath.cx>
Date: Thu, 27 Jan 2011 20:20:54 -0500
To: mikea <mikea@mikea.ath.cx>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Jan 27, 2011, at 4:53 22PM, mikea wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 27, 2011 at 12:26:58PM -0800, Mark Keymer wrote:
>> What I don't understand is I can only guess they must have a IT team.
>> And Maybe even 1 or more people that view this list. Why don't they =
just
>> talk to there own staff about the issues? Maybe one of the IT guess =
saw
>> the issues talked about the articles and contacted the news team =
about
>> the bad info. I donno. I agree they kind of did a poor job on this.
>>=20
>> If you work at FOX maybe you should help get the news guys on the =
right
>> page. :)
>=20
> My experience working with newspaper and TV reporters leads me to =
believe
> that they can't recognize when they're on the wrong page, and will
> sacrifice accuracy to catchy titles and text "simplified" to the point
> of being ludicrously wrong -- at least when it comes to topics such as
> computers, networking, and spam. I certainly don't expect any better =
of
> Fox.=20
>=20
Mmm... I've dealt with the press a lot. In general, the reporters from =
well-respected news organizations really are a lot better. One can =
argue cause and effect; the fact remains that when I've talked to the NY =
Times, the Wall Street Journal, NPR, and the Washington Post, I've been =
a lot happier with what appeared than when, say, I've spoken with (quite =
literally) Entertainment Weekly. No, the major outlets haven't been =
perfect, and I've occasionally spoken with reporters who, shall we say, =
didn't know which end the high-order bit was on; in general, though, my =
comments hold.
Fox? Since I don't see that the Tea Party has any particular axe to =
grind here (the administration is neither pushing IPv6 on a reluctant =
private sector nor is it responsible for the forthcoming debacle), =
they're probably in the middle of the pack.
--Steve Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb
