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Date: Thu, 6 Jan 1994 08:46:36 -0800 From: "Brock N. Meeks" <brock@well.sf.ca.us> To: com-priv@psi.com Here's something I find disconcerting. When MCI held its press conference on Tuesday, there was a nice juicy quote from Vin Cerf, President of the Internet Society. The quote was to validate just how important MCI's data network is and would be in the future: "MCI's announcement indicates the potential to carry more than 50 times" the traffic NSFNet now carries. Cerf also is quoted saying, "MCI and its partners, IBM, Merit and ANS, pioneered the use of 45 megabit per second technology..." On the face of it, nothing too outrageous there. But what pops out of MCI PR today, just 2 days after Cerf gives MCI high marks? Nothing less than the news that Vinton Cerf "data visionary" is joining MCI as Senior Vice President of data architecture for the Data Services Div. Nothing wrong with Cerf joining MCI, fact is, I think it's a positive move. What *does* get me is that MCI passed off their new vp as an expert, knowing full well he was going to join the company in just 48 hours. (NOTE: MCI's own notice tags Cerf with the as a "data visionary.") We might want to ask Vin if he knew how his quotes were going to be used and if he knew how he was going to be identified. He surely knew that he was about to step into a new job. Brock Meeks reporter Communications Daily
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