Perhaps it's time to think about enhancements to the NANOG list...?

Tom Beecher beecher at beecher.cc
Mon Mar 22 22:18:17 UTC 2021


>
> why not confine the effort to the one need that seems
> to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of
> the goods and services that network engineers buy?
>

If there's a real need for that ( which my voicemail and email might say is
debatable :) ) , then someone could start that, but I do not think NANOG
itself should.  Biz-dev is not the stated mission of the organization.

On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM William Herrin <bill at herrin.us> wrote:

> On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 8:56 AM Mike Hammett <nanog at ics-il.net> wrote:
> > That seems like a reasonable proposal. NANOG-OffTopic, NANOG-Discuss,
> NANOG-BizDev, NANOG-xyz, something (more more than one something).
>
> Hi Mike,
>
> This conversation started because someone got called to carpet for
> soliciting a vendor on the main list. Rather than guessing at how to
> split up topics, why not confine the effort to the one need that seems
> to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of
> the goods and services that network engineers buy?
>
> Regards,
> Bill Herrin
>
> --
> William Herrin
> bill at herrin.us
> https://bill.herrin.us/
>
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