> > why not confine the effort to the one need that seems > to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of > the goods and services that network engineers buy? >
If there's a real need for that ( which my voicemail and email might say is debatable :) ) , then someone could start that, but I do not think NANOG itself should. Biz-dev is not the stated mission of the organization. On Mon, Mar 22, 2021 at 12:52 PM William Herrin <b...@herrin.us> wrote: > On Sat, Mar 20, 2021 at 8:56 AM Mike Hammett <na...@ics-il.net> wrote: > > That seems like a reasonable proposal. NANOG-OffTopic, NANOG-Discuss, > NANOG-BizDev, NANOG-xyz, something (more more than one something). > > Hi Mike, > > This conversation started because someone got called to carpet for > soliciting a vendor on the main list. Rather than guessing at how to > split up topics, why not confine the effort to the one need that seems > to clearly exist: a place for network engineers to solicit vendors of > the goods and services that network engineers buy? > > Regards, > Bill Herrin > > -- > William Herrin > b...@herrin.us > https://bill.herrin.us/ >
