"...don't they know who you ARE?"
Yes, they do. And here's why such no-ledge on their part doesn't help.
They know me as the snot knows kid from the Seventies who proposed the spinoff of the data and special services group in Manhattan. A year later no one was surprised when I said goodbye, after they simply shuddered at this, and shelved all my subsequent suggestions.
Today, after adjusting for protocol inflation (or deflation, depending on whose point you want to make) and several turns of ideological mutation, those spinoffs would have evolved into what we now know as Tier 1 Backbone Providers, Neutral (ah, maybe not so neutral) Peering Sites, ISPs and ASPs. National Network Access Points (NAPs) would have only been redundant to this scheme, if they would have gotten with it, earlier.
But at that time, the biggest concern of the day was the impending conversion to "digital" from all analog long distance routes. One would need to have been there to appreciate what took place at that time. We should cover this here, someday, since the angst that was created (Curtis, you want to talk about FUD?) at that time for such a digital conversion could have been used as a predictor for what we are seeing today as the incumbents agonize over their move into IP. |
