As a vendor this is precisely the information I would most want. Code is free, QA costs the money.
What I would not want is to have the result taken as a product review. Sent from my GoodLink Wireless Handheld (www.good.com) -----Original Message----- From: David W. Hankins [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, August 01, 2007 10:36 AM Pacific Standard Time To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Beggars _can_ be choosers? On Wed, Aug 01, 2007 at 09:12:14AM -0700, Joel Jaeggli wrote: > Told by whom? Hain...something like that? I can't remember. You'll have to check whatever minutes or recordings are up. > Start by asking the contractor, the volunteers and the IAD for a > postmortem on the operation of the network. anything else is just > speculation. Why? It's a lot of work, and I think we already know the conclusion, given what we can observe as users. It berates our volunteers and sponsors who provide us with the network services during our stay...treating them like children that have to be kept after school to explain themselves. It embarrasses vendors who provide us with gear or software, making them less likely to provide either. And all we're going to discover is, "It hurts when you go like this, so don't do that then." A useless and frivolous excercise. If we wanted to stop begging, and really buy a network for every IETF meeting, complete with SLA's and funding extensive testing before opening it 'live', then that's one thing. One totally rediculous thing. But in lieu of an absence of begging, we should stop being so choosy. They did a good job, and we more or less had net the entire meeting. I don't think we have anything to complain about. -- Ash bugud-gul durbatuluk agh burzum-ishi krimpatul. -- David W. Hankins "If you don't do it right the first time, Software Engineer you'll just have to do it again." Internet Systems Consortium, Inc. -- Jack T. Hankins
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