On 8/5/2005 5:19 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote: > While the availability and stability of the IETF infrastructure is > important, an engineering organization which declines to "eat its own > dog food" sends a message about its suitability for widespread > deployment. The phrase is an anecdotal reference, where the executives of a dog food company said they knew the product tasted good because they tried it themselves. It's a good analogy. Getting hung up on the "dog food" part of the analogy misses the whole point of the anecdote. -- Eric A. Hall http://www.ehsco.com/ Internet Core Protocols http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/ _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf