I also rejoice in Joel's words.
Can we have a straw poll about whether it is indeed worth separating
requirements from architecture, leaving open the possibility of
having multiple architectures? I am willing to
edit/facilitate/whatever such a document.
Howard
(As a totally silly aside, any of you that have Eudora with the voice
announcement feature, get the subject "Poke Poke" announced with the
Bruce voice. It's hysterical.)
At 11:37 AM -0800 3/4/02, Alex Zinin wrote:
>AMEN!
>--
>Alex Zinin
>
>Monday, March 04, 2002, 10:52:49 AM, Joel M. Halpern wrote:
>
>> My personal prejudices:
>
>> I would certainly like to see us able to discuss several routing
>> architectures. However, what we are discussing right now is what the
>> routing architectures should accomplish. I for one am going to find it
>> very confusing to discuss in the same working group two architectures, each
>> of which is working against different requirements FOR THE SAME PROBLEM.
>
>> It would not surprise me if there was more than one viable architectural
>> approach to a reasonable next generation routing system. But if we can not
>> even agree on what problem we are attempting to solve, the discussions are
>> going to get very confusing. And when we are done I can not imagine the
>> IETF being able to make head or tail of the results under that
>> circumstance. It is going to be hard enough to explain one new
>> architecture that meets a single clearly explainable set of goals. To try
>> to get the IETF to be able to actual make progress on the basis of two sets
>> of goals as well as two sets of protocol(s) just seems unlikely. I prefer
>> not to set us up for failure.
>
>> Yours,
>> Joel M. Halpern
>
>> At 06:39 PM 3/4/02 +0000, Sean Doran wrote:
>>>I would really like to see it be possible for EACH of these
>>>routing architectures to be operated IN PARALLEL in different
>>>parts of the Internet, but then I get accused of smoking strange
>>>things sometimes, so take that with a grain of salt.
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