[137973] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Christchurch New Zealand
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Jay Ashworth)
Fri Feb 25 00:27:54 2011
Date: Fri, 25 Feb 2011 00:08:32 -0500 (EST)
From: Jay Ashworth <jra@baylink.com>
To: NANOG <nanog@nanog.org>
In-Reply-To: <10EBD7CA-AEAE-4B47-989D-69B4A27342B7@delong.com>
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----- Original Message -----
> From: "Owen DeLong" <owen@delong.com>
> FWIW, in my experience, when ARES and RACES both arrive on a scene
> together, they rarely get into small arms fire over any thing, rather,
> preferring to work together to help each other set up both repeaters and to
> coordinate which parts of the workload will be handled by which operation in
> order to maximize the efficiency with which the job gets done.
Ok; I started this, so I guess I should finish it.
I'm sure when the rubber(-duckies) hit the road, everyone gets along fine.
I was talking more about political stuff internal to the orgs in some
places, WRT interfacing with the officials *before* there are active
emergencies.
I gather that's a bit dicey and old-boy-ish in at least some locales.
Cheers,
-- jra