At 02:32 PM 8/29/00, Beni Arazi wrote:
>Somebody just made a comment:
>"While the last thing I want to do is promote the use of the IETF list as
>a network help line..."
>
>There is nothing wrong in giving, for free, good professional advices to
>research students and start-up personnel, as a service to the community.
>
>This is especially true when observing that many of us have all the time
>in the world to discuss, in dozens of mails, much more important issues
>like how to number elevator buttons.
That might be true for some, but I believe that is NOT true for many more
others.
For those research students: at the SIGCOMM executive committee meeting
yesterday we talked about exactly this need for developing an online
community to help students, and anyone else interested, with
information/discussion/advice on networking and related research. I hope
that will help remove the "help-line" function away from ietf list.
Actions will be taken quickly, stay tuned.
Lixia
(when we are ready, would we be allowed for just one announcement on ietf
list? :-)
