[c-nsp] new 8-port 10 G bade

[Justin M. Streiner]

On Thu, 28 Sep 2006, Jared Mauch wrote:

> 	I think it's critically important for folks to continue to ask
> Cisco (and your other vendors) for a 100GE solution.  IEEE process is a
> bit odd, so could possibly stall.  If that's the case, us "nsp-types"
> may need to band together and have a SP nonstandard 100GE bakeoff.

The issue I have with that is that if we get too far ahead of (ourselves, 
IEEE, $other_standards_body), the risk of having more neat vendor-specific 
compatibility and interoperability issues down the road grows 
dramatically.  There's already a pretty well established track record of 
vendors jumping the gun on standards, with varying levels of headaches.
ISL vs. dot1q, IETF frame encapsulation vs. Cisco frame encapsulation, 
HSRP vs. VRRP, etc...

There will always be interop concerns, especially in new technology, but 
I'd prefer not to give vendors the opportunity to grow interop issues in a 
petri dish :)

jms