On Jul 22, 2009, at 7:41 PM, Kevin Oberman wrote:
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 2009 21:27:39 +0100
From: "andrew.wallace" <[email protected]>
Big up the Nanog community, you do the net proud...
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/8163190.stm
First showed up on NANOG 7 hours ago, but it was a fun read.
Clearly the article has little connection with reality. I am not an
unpaid volunteer and neither were most or all of those involved. The
idea that just because the traffic does not originate or terminate
on my
net means that working on solving a problem is altruism is pretty
silly.
My fav part:
<quote>
"That's precisely how packets move around the internet, sometimes in a
many as 25 or 30 hops with the intervening entities passing the data
around having no contractual or legal obligation to the original
sender or to the receiver."
</quote>
How many of you pass packets without getting paid?
Kinda makes you wonder about all those other TED talks, huh?
And NANOG was not really involved though several of those that were
are
active in NANOG.
Well, one could argue that NANOG _is_ its members.
Yeah, a stretch, but I'm trying. :-)
--
TTFN,
patrick
