[52588] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: UUNET is not the Internet (and neither is AOL)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vicky O. Mair)
Sun Oct 6 18:32:01 2002
Date: Sun, 06 Oct 2002 15:34:09 -0700
To: Sean Donelan <sean@donelan.com>
From: "Vicky O. Mair" <vickyr@socal.rr.com>
Cc: nanog@merit.edu
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.40.0210051908020.5959-100000@clifden.donelan.co
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Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
Hi there,
What really confuses the heck out of me is that a company this size can't
control/monitor their change management??. Then again not having all the
facts has had everyone perplexed.
later,
vicky
At 07:38 PM 10/5/2002 -0400, you wrote:
>On Sat, 5 Oct 2002, Tim Thorne wrote:
> > After reading all the stories about what supposedly happened does
> > anyone know what really happened? Did UUNet US really do an IOS
> > upgrade on a sizable proportion of their border routers in one go?
> > This seems like suicide to me. What possible reason could there be for
> > a network-wide roll out of an untested IOS apart from being in the
> > mire already?
>
>Corporate culture is the hardest thing to change in a company. You'll need
>to talk with your Worldcom account rep about what happened, and what
>Worldcom intends to do about it. In the past, Worldcom has not been very
>open or transparent when it has had network problems.
