The MPLS WG Archive

["Thomas D. Nadeau" <tnadeau@cisco.com>]

On Feb 8, 2005, at 5:29 AM, Kireeti Kompella wrote:

> 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.

	The IETF often produces multiple solutions in a certain space
and lets the market sort things out; this case is no exception.
So unless there are sound technical reasons for not moving
this solution forward (which I have not heard/read), I don't
see why we shouldn't adopt it as a WG document.

	--Tom



>
> 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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