At 6:27 AM +0530 1/22/10, Abhishek Verma wrote: >I spoke to several people offline and i couldnt get any good answers. I suspect that you got many good answers, maybe all different. The fact that many people have different motivations for submitting their work to the IETF instead of {something else} is a feature, not a bug. >The typical response was that most ISPs prefer multiple vendors, and a >patented solution will cause issues as the other vendor will not have >that support. Is this the only reason? No. --Paul Hoffman, Director --VPN Consortium _______________________________________________ Ietf mailing list Ietf@xxxxxxxx https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/ietf