[2778] in North American Network Operators' Group
Out of date contact information
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Sean Donelan)
Wed May 1 20:30:27 1996
Date: Wed, 1 May 1996 19:28:45 -0500 (CDT)
From: Sean Donelan <SEAN@SDG.DRA.COM>
To: nanog@merit.edu
I hate to interrupt the ongoing discussion about peering, but I'd
like to bring up another perennial topic, out-of-date network contact
information. The larger, and older the company the harder it is
to find the right contact person.
Sure there are lots, and lots of lists; WHOIS at the InterNIC, lists
kept by various NAP operators, even in in-addr.arpa TXT records. So
many lists people have difficulty knowing what to update when people's
responsibilities change.
Suppose I wanted to find out Sprint's real policy this week, or a government
agency network such as ESnet's Internet policy; who would I contact? The
listed contact names don't seem to work, or are out-of-date.
--
Sean Donelan, Data Research Associates, Inc, St. Louis, MO
Affiliation given for identification not representation
