[84614] in North American Network Operators' Group
national hardware price quote registry - project clarifications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Matt Bazan)
Sat Sep 17 16:04:06 2005
Date: Sat, 17 Sep 2005 13:03:04 -0700
From: "Matt Bazan" <Mbazan@onelegal.com>
To: <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
There's been a fair bit of confusion as to what the price quote registry =
is about. As this confusion is mainly due to my lack of clarity I hope =
this email will rectify the ambiguity. Let me set the record straight =
on what my original intentions for this project were: =20
1) The original intent of the project was an online price quote =
registry aimed at small to medium businesses for quotes in the $20-$100K =
range. Larger quotes would of course be welcome but as these are almost =
always bound by NDAs in all likelihood these quotes would rarely find =
their way into the registry.
2) I do not, have not, and will not advocate people violate their =
respective NDAs (or quote confidentiality clauses). However, if a =
person chooses to do so that's their perogative hence the anonymous =
nature of the system.
3) I never intended the registry to be for 'big ticket' items. I, =
personally, have no interest in those. The thread seemed to devolve =
into discussing multi-million dollar quotes and the ramifications of =
opening up this process to public inspection. While I disagree with =
many of the conclusions that my fellow NANOGers have drawn about the =
likely outcome of opening this process up, I understand your concerns. =
My interest lies in the much smaller sub $100K quotes that are not bound =
by NDAs.
4) If, as others have suggested, you don't like the sytem, then don't =
use it. If enough people feel this will it will soon whither into the =
ether.
Matt
