[87381] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Two Tiered Internet
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Blaine Christian)
Thu Dec 15 14:22:46 2005
In-Reply-To: <A206819EF47CBE4F84B5CB4A303CEB7A01444E83@dul1wnexmb01.vcorp.ad.vrsn.com>
From: Blaine Christian <blaine@blaines.net>
Date: Thu, 15 Dec 2005 14:22:29 -0500
To: NANOG list <nanog@merit.edu>
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>> This is not directed at Sean, but please -- as a fomer Cisco
>> engineering flunky, I can distinguish between marketing fluff
>> (even when disguised as a 'case study') and real figures, and
>> the truth is, there are no figures, because there is dismal
>> adoption of the services. Go figure. Whatever.
>
> Sean recently joined Cisco marketing hence the quoting of
> vendor cruft as policy. It would be nice to fess up to that
> with an @cisco or at least an "I work for Cisco Marketing"
> disclaimer.
Just because Sean works at Cisco doesn't mean we can't like him
though! <grin>. I still like you Sean. Even if you work for a
hardware vendor. Defecting to the hardware vendor side certainly
doesn't give you cooties. Well, at least not "permanent" cooties.
Regards,
Blaine
