> From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@xxxxxxxxxx> > That comment shows how completely out of touch you are with the > enterprise operational world. Unfortunately, that is rather common with > the ivory-tower vendor folks commenting in this thread. Having spent the best part of a decade in the commercial world, I could make some nasty ad hominem comments about how some people tend to focus on the short term, and their particular interests, but why don't we just move on past all that? > _understand_ why PI is necessary, however much they dislike and/or fear > it. Most (all?) of us understand and accept that multi-homing, vendor independence, etc are very desirable *capability* goals. However, whether PI is the right *particular engineering mechanism* to reach those goals remains questionable. Noel _______________________________________________ Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www1.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf