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[Kireeti Kompella <kireeti@juniper.net>]

Hi Tom,

On Mon, 7 Feb 2005, Thomas D. Nadeau wrote:

> > This document would have the effect of confusing the market -- as Dave
> > said, yet another way of doing MPLS over IP.  I'm not sure that could
> > be construed as 'doing good' -- I'll leave that to others to judge.
>
> 	I personally don't see why we should be predicting
> what the market will like.  We produce solutions at
> the IETF; we are not a marketing organization last I
> checked. :P

My comment was not a prediction of what the market will like.  Nor
does the fact that it uses the word 'market' make it marketing (it
neither supports or is against a given proposal).  It was simply a
statement that the more ways there are of doing any particular
function, the more difficult the decision among the options gets.  If
this additional choice offered a significant benefit, it might be
worth the confusion it generates.  But this benefit has yet to be
clearly articulated.  Such an articulation may be technical or -- you
said it -- marketing.

You might want to read
http://www.newyorker.com/critics/books/?040301crbo_books .
Then again, you'd probably accuse Schwarz of 'marketing' :-)

'Nuff said.  Sorry, Per ... I've already used more cycles on this than
I wanted to.  Back to useful work :-)

Kireeti.
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