[j-nsp] Clarification of EOL policies

[Florian Weimer]

I'm a bit puzzled by the EOL policies.  According to
<http://www.juniper.net/support/eol/junos.html>, JUNOS 8.5 has its
first transition event on 2010-11-16 (whatever "End of Engineering"
means).  Therefore, I assume that the level of available customer
support is comparable to that of JUNOS 10.1 (with an event on
2010-11-15).  However, self-service downloads for JUNOS 8.5 have not
been updated for years, despite intermediate security updates.  The
situation for JUNOS 9.3 appears to be similar.

Does anybody know what's going on here?

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