From list-admin@merit.edu Sun Apr 23 18:33:02 1995 Received: from merit.edu (merit.edu [35.1.1.42]) by home.merit.edu (8.6.12/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id SAA13236; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:32:58 -0400 Received: from chops.icp.net (root@chops.icp.net [199.0.55.71]) by merit.edu (8.6.10/merit-2.0) with ESMTP id SAA29211 for <nanog@merit.edu>; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 18:15:06 -0400 Received: by chops.icp.net id <20655>; Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:57:23 -0400 From: Sean Doran <smd@icp.net> To: michael@okjunc.junction.net, salo@msc.edu Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1? Cc: G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au, nanog@merit.edu Message-Id: <95Apr23.145723-0400_pdt.20655+207@chops.icp.net> Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:57:11 -0400 Status: RO

Hi -

All our junior people are immediately deployed to projects. One such person was brought into our engineering group and practically immediately was given responsibility for making all of NYSERNET work and handling whatever escalations he could. Another is deployed in dialup and in assisting with routing matters. Another is busy dealing with research and resource planning for how we want to scale.

I can think of innumerable engineering and operations tasks that need doing before deploying a junior engineering type to writing documentation.

Ah! Since Sprint isn't interested in doing training, I'll stop answering questions from any Sprint staff. (I've wasted a lot of time talking to a succession of persons in position 'x', none of whom ever passed on information to anyone else or documented what their job entailed, I guess.)

So, to extend the point that Geoff made earlier -- any resource a busy operator has will get deployed into making that operator's part of the global Internet _work_, not into helping out other people.

Thanks--this explains why the Sprint NOC was so surly and unhelpful when I called.

This is not due to a mean lack of altruism, but rather to the realities of life in a global network that doubles in size and traffic severy six-to-nine months or so.

How about an abrogation of responsibility?

Sean.

Steve R.