On 23-sep-2007, at 16:42, Jim Jackson wrote:
So what's best for the IETF's end-users? Simplicity, because it's cheaper to buy, to configure and to fix. Universal fixed length interface IDs are simpler.
...and so the inference is that everyone MUST have this option. chop logic boyo.
Right. If end-users need simplicity, then why do we have complexity? It certainly doesn't help the engineers.
Users need all kinds of stuff: one size never fits all. This means flexibility, which isn't something that automatically goes along well with simplicity.
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