Re: 11/11/00 Internet Routing Problems

[Deepak Jain <deepak () ai net>]

Footnote to basic internet rule violation : two engineers on vacation is
functionally equivalent to two engineers on the job. If you don't have an
engineer on your side to balance out the changes made by the other, that's
when you have problems.

Deepak Jain
AiNET

On 13 Nov 2000, Sean Donelan wrote:

> On Mon, 13 November 2000, Randy Bush wrote:
> > i gather it was one of those cases of a basic internet rule violation,
> > a senior engineer took a week off.
>
> The urban legend, the Internet ran best during IETF week when most
> of the engineers were out of the office and not making changes to their
> networks.
>
> I have no data to back up that statement.