Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!wuarchive!texbell!vector!telecom-gateway From: nvuxr!deej@bellcore.bellcore.com (David Lewis) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.telecom Subject: Reasons (was Re: Time to "Disconnection") Message-ID: Date: 10 Nov 89 14:46:28 GMT Sender: news@vector.Dallas.TX.US Organization: Bellcore, Livingston, NJ Lines: 23 Approved: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-Submissions-To: telecom@eecs.nwu.edu X-Administrivia-To: telecom-request@vector.dallas.tx.us X-TELECOM-Digest: volume 9, issue 502, message 10 of 11 In article , varney@cbnewsd.ATT.COM (Al Varney) writes: > The rules in the LSSGR, etc. are there for a reason (too bad Bellcore > doesn't give the reasons), 'Cause we're the phone company. We Know What's Right. (Joke! Joke!) > One MAJOR casualty of divestiture is the > knowledge base that knew WHY the specs said a particular thing. Good point. Both Bellcore and Bell Labs have people who were instrumental in writing the specs for just about every CO switch built and in designing the 1AESS and the 5ESS -- but the structure, the interrelationships, the informal channels of communication that capture so much of an organization's knowledge doesn't exist anymore. David G Lewis ...!bellcore!nvuxr!deej "If this is paradise, I wish I had a lawnmower."