Internic does it again

Tue Jul 29 01:48:15 UTC 1997

On Mon, Jul 28, 1997 at 05:11:01PM -0700, George Herbert wrote:
> Jay writes:
> >        Would an administrator of this list please compose and post a message
> >        defining in precise terms what topic areas are on- and off-topic for
> >                               the NANOG mailing list?
> 
> IMHO:
> 
> The key problem here is people not understanding what
> "operational and technical" means in common parlance, I think.  
> Is InterNIC crashing an operational problem?  Yes.
> Is InterNIC not responding for some time an operational problem? Maybe...
> Until you know why they crashed, it's definitely on topic to be trying
> to figure out why and how, if it's affecting operations.
> 
> Is it still an operational or technical problem weeks later?  No.
> 
> InterNIC's failures and flaws are fodder for a number of other
> mailing lists related to DNS policy discussions among others.
> Except as is operationally relevant, however, they're not appropriate
> for NANOG.  They generally are only operationally relevant when
> something breaks, until it's fixed.

Damn.

An _answer_.

And it's even a good one.  Thanks, George.

(Course, it _is_ worthy of note that David reopened the topic.  :-)

Cheers,
-- jra
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