On Thu, 11 Dec 2014 15:32:01 +0000, "Neil J. McRae" <[email protected]> said:
> How are you engaged in this project? Are they not going to
> tender it?
I should have been clearer about this. I'm not directly involved in
any way. I'm not bidding, and I don't work for the council. My only
vested interest is as someone who lives here and is paying attention.
This already went through one iteration, the contract -- which was
problematic in various ways -- was awarded to something called Gowex
which promptly went bankrupt, so they are re-starting the process. I
was asked by somebody who is involved what I thought about data
retention and I realised that I don't know quite how it works -- all
the networks that I have worked on in this country are exempt for one
reason or another. So I thought to ask the list.
So they will probably re-tender and what I would like to see happen is
a nice, enlightened network that is symmetric, does IPv6, doesn't
harass you by interfering with your traffic, doesn't spy on you and
sell you to advertisers. The main reason they wouldn't ask for that in
their ITT is because they would be worried about risk from things like
the DRIP. So how to assuage those fears with operational experience?
-w
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