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>From: Sean Doran <smd@icp.net>
>To: michael@okjunc.junction.net, salo@msc.edu
>Subject: Re: Has PSI been assigned network 1?
>Cc: G.Huston@aarnet.edu.au, nanog@merit.edu
>Message-Id: <95Apr23.145723-0400_pdt.20655+207@chops.icp.net>
>Date: Sun, 23 Apr 1995 14:57:11 -0400
>Status: RO
>
>Hi -
>
> All our junior people are immediately deployed to
>projects. One such person was brought into our engineering
>group and practically immediately was given responsibility
>for making all of NYSERNET work and handling whatever
>escalations he could. Another is deployed in dialup and
>in assisting with routing matters. Another is busy dealing
>with research and resource planning for how we want to scale.
>
> I can think of innumerable engineering and operations
>tasks that need doing before deploying a junior engineering
>type to writing documentation.
Ah! Since Sprint isn't interested in doing training, I'll stop
answering questions from any Sprint staff. (I've wasted a lot of
time talking to a succession of persons in position 'x', none of
whom ever passed on information to anyone else or documented what
their job entailed, I guess.)
> So, to extend the point that Geoff made earlier -- any
>resource a busy operator has will get deployed into making
>that operator's part of the global Internet _work_, not into
>helping out other people.
Thanks--this explains why the Sprint NOC was so surly and
unhelpful when I called.
> This is not due to a mean lack of
>altruism, but rather to the realities of life in a global
>network that doubles in size and traffic severy six-to-nine
>months or so.
How about an abrogation of responsibility?
> Sean.
Steve R.