13 Nov
2000
13 Nov
'00
2:57 p.m.
On Mon, 13 November 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
i gather it was one of those cases of a basic internet rule violation, a senior engineer took a week off.
The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their networks.
I have no data to back up that statement.
na... at least not dallas ietf in 1995 (i think it was '95). i remember ravi sitting in the terminal room with myself and most of the mci engg. group debugging a 23-day timer bug in is-is :) the network was pretty much melting down and we were all in dallas. -b