Re: OFF TOPIC - Bail money for IETF 64?

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Goodness! You wouldn't let the engineer drive the train. That's the train
driver's job. Would you let an engineer run your network?

Adrian


> > Unfortunately, the English term can carry either of these meanings,
> > depending largely on context.  It is applied to people who drive
> > trains (because they operate an "engine", to people who provide
> > technical support, and also to people who design complex electrical or
> > mechanical systems or structures.  You have to know from context which
> > is which.
>
> It's my (non-authoritative) understanding that the term engineer
> originally meant someone who built engines (think seize engines, etc).
>
> When locomotive were first invented they were not very reliable so the
> guy who drove them was a kind of 'field support engineer' and the name
> engineer stuck.


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