Law 1: You will never know all there is to know in Data Communications. Law 2: Be honest with yourself concerning what you don't know. Law 3: There are no Data Communications police. Law 4: If the network does not make good business sense, it probably makes no sense. Law 5: Technical details are important, technical details are important, technical details are important. Law 6: There is no such thing as a data communications failure, only networking solutions as yet unfound. Law 7: Beware of self-proclaimed data communications experts. Law 8: It is more important to be able to ask data communications questions than it is to be able to supply data communications answers. Law 9: If you are not moving forward, then you are losing ground to someone who is. Law 10: In data communication, nearly anything is possible. The real question is whether the proposed solution is affordable.