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Re: Network Operations Luminaries?

  • From: Joel Baker
  • Date: Sun Dec 09 14:20:19 2001

On Fri, Dec 07, 2001 at 09:01:22AM -0800, Bill Woodcock wrote:
> 
> The luminaries of our culture, if they exist, are the engineers who made
> the famous mistakes which are indelibly commited to our collective memory,
> from which the greatest number of other engineers have learned a lesson
> without replicating the learning experience first-hand.
> 
>                                 -Bill

Nomination:

Jeff "Ampersand" Rizzo. For teaching us all just *why* it is that you don't
want to redistribute BGP into your IGP. Or so goes the tale relayed to me.
While I worked at the relevant company at the relevant time, I didn't work
with the network there until a year or two later.
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