nanog mailing list archives
Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks
From: Mark Tinka <mark.tinka () seacom mu>
Date: Wed, 18 Mar 2020 17:46:20 +0200
On 18/Mar/20 11:43, Keith Medcalf wrote:
No. One simply has to assign a "cost" to "suitability for use". For example, if you put out an RFQ for a CT Machine and someone bids a bag of peanuts for $1.50, that is probably the lowest bid, and that is what you will get if you choose based entirely on the lowest bid. However, if you also require that the purchased machine also actually be capable of performing Computed Tomography then clearly that $1.50 bid will be rejected. You simply have to define what you want to achieve, then do it.
If only it were that simple, with 2020 corporate life. What I can say tends to work is: "You simply have to define what you want to achieve, scream, yell and shout, then do it, then scream, yell and shout some more, until you can't tell whether you'll leave the job from being fed up or being asked to walk". That has a slightly better chance of succeeding more than failing. I'm old now - I ask once, maybe twice if I've had a beer. Then I carry on, and we meet in 12 months when it all goes to hell :-). Mark.
Current thread:
- Re: It's not about the congestion, it's about the profit motive driving the industry, (continued)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Owen DeLong (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Rich Kulawiec (Mar 17)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Rich Kulawiec (Mar 18)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 19)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Anne P. Mitchell, Esq. (Mar 18)
- RE: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Keith Medcalf (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mike Hammett (Mar 17)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Radu-Adrian Feurdean (Mar 24)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Alexandre Petrescu (Mar 24)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Mark Tinka (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Seth Mattinen (Mar 18)
- Re: COVID-19 vs. our Networks Tom Beecher (Mar 18)