[j-nsp] Generated prefix lists - simple solution to a range of problems?

[Hannes Gredler]

Daniel Roesen wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 27, 2004 at 03:11:29PM -0700, Gary Tate wrote:
> 
>>If there is a feature that you require then the way to get it into  
>>JunOS is to raise this as an ER through your Juniper Rep.
> 
> 
> There are people on this list who don't have a "Juniper Rep" assigned
> to them (e.g. consultants), but still regularily working with Junipers,
> and do have some real influence into vendor gear selection. I wonder
> wether it's wise to ignore those, just because they don't have a sales
> pitch running. A pity that Juniper starts to go down this road more
> and more.

nobody is ignoring the voice of consultants; it is just a matter of
priorisation; with an infinite number of resources we could
theoretically pick up every good idea and get it implemented;

however sometimes business reasons i.e. finite resources dicate
that you have to make a call - every sucessful vendor
does the priorisation based on commercial terms;

> Having an excellent product is NOT being achieved by "implementing
> whatever the guy who throws most money on us pays us to do". The
> biggest customer can easily be the most bankrupt next day. And the
> larger the customer (and thus possible revenue), the farer away are
> the people who talk to vendors from the people actually having to
> work with the gear.

i'd reckown that the service providers who survived the last 2-3 years
have a healthy business model and therefore are not likely to go
bankrupt anytime soon; in addition i can assure you that our
account and support teams are very well connected to the people
who work, live (and sometimes sleep ;-) ) with the gear.

> It's not like we're looking for a Doom server implementation in
> JUNOS. :-P

agreed, nobody was questioning wether your ideas make sense;

/hannes