""Howard C. Berkowitz"" wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > At 6:37 PM +0000 12/18/02, Mic shoeps wrote: > >Hello > > > >I've been arguing with a collegue of mine which one would be tougher to > >achieve. I told him that it would be much more harder to have a computer > >science or a networking degree (you have to take the GRE and complete 2 or 3 > >years of school works) than a CCIE, but my collegue think other wise. He > >literally believes that having a CCIE is equivalent of having a Ph.d in > >Networking. I'd like to hear your thought. > > Well, let's look at some especially important PhD dissertations: > > Radia Perlman: > http://www.lcs.mit.edu/publications/pubs/pdf/MIT-LCS-TR-429.pdf > Steve Deering: > http://www.tux.org/pub/net/ftp.ee.lbl.gov/sigcomm/sigcomm.ps > Vern Paxson: http://citeseer.nj.nec.com/paxson97measurements.html > > The content of many protocol RFCs is at a level that might be > associated with PhD level research, although some of the most > productive people with both operational and theoretical knowledge are > college dropouts. Look through the list of RFCs and see how many > that someone with a CCIE, and no theoretical* training could write. > > For example, we have fairly strong data that the path vector approach > of BGP will not continue to scale as the Internet becomes more highly > interconnected and there is more churn/flap. It's not directly a > problem of the number of routes, but their interaction. A reasonable > dissertation would propose the theory of a protocol to replace BGP, > with some experimental backup. >
time for the old paradigm shift, eh, Howard? BTW - do you know why it only took God 6 days to create the universe? ;-> > > ------------------ > *By theoretical, I don't mean as is often used on the list: "how the > protocol works and what are its messages." I mean WHY the protocol > is designed the way it is, what alternatives were rejected, the > problems it solves, etc. Message Posted at: http://www.groupstudy.com/form/read.php?f=7&i=59510&t=59481 -------------------------------------------------- FAQ, list archives, and subscription info: http://www.groupstudy.com/list/cisco.html Report misconduct and Nondisclosure violations to [EMAIL PROTECTED]
