[175264] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Sigh. 16 years ago today.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Owen DeLong)
Thu Oct 16 14:18:45 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: Owen DeLong <owen@delong.com>
In-Reply-To: <543F63A0.3070007@cox.net>
Date: Thu, 16 Oct 2014 11:18:11 -0700
To: Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces@nanog.org
On Oct 15, 2014, at 23:20 , Larry Sheldon <larrysheldon@cox.net> wrote:
> On 10/15/2014 23:42, Rodney Joffe wrote:
>> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
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> I posted this to Facebook a while ago:
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> =46rom NANOG
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> Subject: Sigh. 16 years ago today.
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> https://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2468.txt
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> [Ed. note: The man being remembered was important, and in ways, still =
is. But I mention it also because it points out that whereas we bang our =
heads against soul-less monoliths, it seems, in the early days it was a =
really small, close-knit group that brought this Internet thing out of =
the labs and stood it up and made it play in remarkably productive =
ways.]
In many ways, today, it is a larger and more diverse group, but the =
bottom line is that behind all those peering relationships, NANOG =
conferences, ARIN meetings, etc. are a dedicated group of engineers just =
trying to keep it all functional.
Owen
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> The unique Characteristics of System Administrators:
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> The fact that they are infallible; and,
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> The fact that they learn from their mistakes.
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> Quis custodiet ipsos custodes
