On Sep 11, 2010, at 2:00 PM, Randy Bush wrote: >>> So the onus is on operators to turn their good business reasons into >>> engineering problems, eg as a requirements RFC, that the IETF will >>> then solve. > > no. it is the duty of operators to turn their business plans into > operational practice, deliver packets, and charge the customers. > > and it is for ietf to get running code and protocol specs. > > and it is not the duty of ietf to create or constrain operators' > business plans or delivery.
It certainly *is* the role of the IETF to develop tools the the operators can use to do that. I don't know how we accomplish that without talking with one another. Could we end the pissing match? -------------------------------------------------------------------- IETF IPv6 working group mailing list ipv6@ietf.org Administrative Requests: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ipv6 --------------------------------------------------------------------
