[62854] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Verisign Responds
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Vadim Antonov)
Tue Sep 23 15:43:26 2003
Date: Tue, 23 Sep 2003 12:41:10 -0700 (PDT)
From: Vadim Antonov <avg@kotovnik.com>
To: Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <E1A1sK5-0006Ox-K1@roam.psg.com>
Errors-To: owner-nanog-outgoing@merit.edu
On Tue, 23 Sep 2003, Randy Bush wrote:
> some engineers think that all social and business problems
> can be solved by technical hacks.
Dunno about some engineers, but engineers in general can do a lot to avoid
creation of many problems in the first place. This wildcard flop is a
perfect example of a bad design decision coming back to bite.
I'd say that engineers pay too little attention to the social and business
implications of their decisions.
--vadim
