Director Database Marketing (Herndon VA US)

Fri Sep 4 16:33:12 UTC 1998

> From: Stephen Wolff <swolff at cisco.com>
> SRI lost to NSI in a competitive procurement run by DISA, and SRI turned
> over the database to NSI as a consequence.
>...
> When the dust settled on the peer-reviewed and competitive NSF
> solicitation, NSI had won the registration piece; this avoided yet another
> transfer of the non-USG-related part of the database to the winner.
>
Hey, now that you are at Cisco, rather than NSF, maybe you can tell us
how a "competitive procurement" or "peer reviewed" panels could have
possibly chosen a group with no Internet experience and only a single
56Kbps line over the other bids from well-known, well-connected
(bandwidth-wise) organizations?

Well-connected politically?

I distinctly remember the teething pains of _that_ baby!

WSimpson at UMich.edu
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