[19291] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Director Database Marketing (Herndon VA US)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (William Allen Simpson)
Fri Sep 4 12:54:13 1998
Date: Fri, 4 Sep 98 16:33:12 GMT
From: "William Allen Simpson" <wsimpson@greendragon.com>
To: nanog@merit.edu
> From: Stephen Wolff <swolff@cisco.com>
> SRI lost to NSI in a competitive procurement run by DISA, and SRI turned
> over the database to NSI as a consequence.
>...
> When the dust settled on the peer-reviewed and competitive NSF
> solicitation, NSI had won the registration piece; this avoided yet another
> transfer of the non-USG-related part of the database to the winner.
>
Hey, now that you are at Cisco, rather than NSF, maybe you can tell us
how a "competitive procurement" or "peer reviewed" panels could have
possibly chosen a group with no Internet experience and only a single
56Kbps line over the other bids from well-known, well-connected
(bandwidth-wise) organizations?
Well-connected politically?
I distinctly remember the teething pains of _that_ baby!
WSimpson@UMich.edu
Key fingerprint = 17 40 5E 67 15 6F 31 26 DD 0D B9 9B 6A 15 2C 32
