[15681] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Old NANOG (NSF Techs?) Meeting notes.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (dave o'leary)
Sun Mar 15 19:48:58 1998
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.96.980313011942.16673Q-100000@iago.nac.net>
Date: Sat, 14 Mar 1998 17:17:05 -0500
To: Alex Rubenstein <alex@nac.net>
From: "dave o'leary" <doleary@cisco.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
At 1:21 -0500 3/13/98, Alex Rubenstein wrote:
>I was just enjoying myself reading through the notes from previous NANOGs,
>and there is a reference in one:
>
>from http://www.academ.com/nanog/feb1997/welcome.html
>
> "NANOG started as the NSFNET Regional Techs meeting in 1988. In
> 1994 during the privatization of the Internet, NANOG evolved from
> the NSFNET Regional Techs meetings. The purpose of both groups was
> to provide a forum for the exchange of information on the
> operation of the Internet."
>
>
>So, my question is, are there any notes for the meetings from the Regional
>Techs meeting? Just curious.
I don't think there was ever anything formal. I imagine a few folks could
dig around and come up with their personal notes. Although as I think about
it, I kind of remember the Merit folks videotaping at least one of the
meetings in the north campus union building - but that was a large number
of all nighters ago so who knows how faulty my recollection might be.
(It was well before MBone days which started at the San Diego IETF I think).
>After reading these notes, we've come a *long* way.
Well, the meetings are certainly quite a bit larger now - like an order
of magnitude. (but that's slower growth than the Internet). Some of the
challenges are the same, they just take a different form. We were
certainly much more cooperative - not that there weren't regular
disagreements, but we certainly had a stronger sense of shared fate
since there wasn't overlap in geographical coverage (typically) and
we were facing pretty much the same issues across the board.
dave
