On Thu, 20 Apr 1995, Susan Hares wrote:
NACRs were so big headache that our implementation people dance around when they hear that there won't be any NACRs.
We've provided several phone tutorials to those people submitting NACRs on CIDR and aggregation. Over the phone tutorials of this material are a little difficult at best. I even offered to discuss this in a meeting here in Ann Arbor, but that offer was not accepted.
Your people seem to rotate through the NACR submission process without the benefit of training in CIDR. I suspect their frustration with NACRs has come in part from their lack of understanding.
In the past 5 months there have been massive changes to the NSFNET/ANSnet and to the Internet. These changes cause stress for us all - but lack of training aids unnecessary burdens to us all.
Are you aware of the ACM article by Harald Eidnes available in Postscript form at ftp://ftp.uninett.no/pub/misc/eidnes-cidr.ps.Z ? Does anyone know if there is a WWW site or gopher that has a collection of tutorial level documents. For many neophytes RFC's and stuff like the PRIDE documents can be somewhat intimidating to dig into. BTW, I changed prs@isi.edu up there to rps@isi.edu ;-)) Michael Dillon Voice: +1-604-549-1036 Network Operations Fax: +1-604-542-4130 Okanagan Internet Junction Internet: michael@junction.net http://www.junction.net - The Okanagan's 1st full-service Internet provider