No, the problem is that operational people only about 50% native English speakers, and most hate writing :) I keep buzzing our management that we need a good technical writer to put engineering knowledge into undesrstandable English. --vadim From: salo@msc.edu (Tim Salo) Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 00:17:37 -0500 To: G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Cc: nanog@merit.edu

From: Geoff Huston <G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au> Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? To: michael@okjunc.junction.net Date: Sat, 22 Apr 1995 18:00:09 +1000 (EST) Cc: nanog@merit.edu, rps@isi.edu [...] After some years being associated with the IEPG the observation I have to make is that the operations folk who really do understand how the Internet is glued together are way too busy keeping it strung together to do anything else. [...]

So, the operational folks are too busy to transfer their knowledge to new recruits (who might actually help them keep the Net running), and then the experienced operational folks wonder why they are so busy? Something doesn't seem quite right with this picture... -tjs