[195757] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: 2017 NANOG Elections General Information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bill Woodcock)
Tue Sep 12 13:15:34 2017
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From: Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net>
Date: Tue, 12 Sep 2017 10:15:23 -0700
To: North American Network Operators' Group <nanog@nanog.org>
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>> On Sep 10, 2017, at 1:59 PM, Bryan Holloway <bryan@shout.net> wrote:
>> I point specifically to the opening talk at Bellevue where there were =
wackily photoshop'd pictures of NANOG star heavy-hitters.
>> Had I been a first-time attendee, I would've felt like a high-school =
freshman being told who all the "cool seniors" were.
>> Frankly, it was awkward and off-putting.
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> On Sep 11, 2017, at 12:32 AM, Bill Woodcock <woody@pch.net> wrote:
> Probably a safe bet that it was mostly aspirant juniors.
Patrick has pointed out to me that my offhand dismissiveness painted =
with an overly broad brush and encompassed people whom I undoubtedly do =
not think so little of. So, my sincere apologies for my tone and =
speaking-out-of-turn about a slide deck that I hadn=E2=80=99t actually =
seen. I do very much miss the =E2=80=9Ccool seniors=E2=80=9D who worked =
so hard to make this what it was, twenty-five and thirty years ago; I =
owe them a lot. I=E2=80=99m sure the people who are working hard to =
make the organization what it is today are serving a similar function =
for people who are entering the industry today.
Nostalgia was causing me to conflate two things which are unrelated The =
frat-boy thing is a problem, not only in NANOG, but in ARIN and RIPE. =
I=E2=80=99d very much like to see it fixed, so that everyone can enjoy =
collegial support, rather than just a subset of participants.
-Bill
