On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Sean Donelan wrote:
Is this just a case of bad reporting by Joanie Wexler at NetworkWorld? A bad case of passing the buck by Alecia Cooper at Sprint? Or something else?
It's most definitely something else. Most people are trained from birth that organizations with acronyms rule the world, thus NANOG and IEPG and ISOC must be the rulers of the Internet world. Since most NANOG/IEPG/ISOC people are clueless when it comes to things like public relations, press releases, spin control, etc... is it any wonder that the press marches merrily off in their own direction. There is actually opportunity here for groups like NANOG to have some influence and communicate with the public in a positive fashion. I suggest that a good first step would be to release a communique to the press after every NANOG meeting and a good second step would be to urge ISOC to spend more money on general educational issues to make people in general more aware of operational and architectural issues. Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-546-8022 Memra Software Inc. Fax: +1-604-546-3049 http://www.memra.com E-mail: michael@memra.com