Operator participation
Eric Rosen
erosen at cisco.com
Wed Oct 15 10:50:34 CEST 2003
This business about there not being enough operator participation is a lot
of baloney.
The reasons some operators think that there isn't enough operator
participation are (a) different sets of operators inhabit different WGs, and
(b) operators tend to ignore the input of other operators who may disagree
with them.
If you look, e.g., at the main IETF list, at the routing-discussion list, at
the idr list, etc., you'll see one class of operator. If you look at the
PWE3 list, the MPLS list, the CCAMP list, the L3VPN list, the L2VPN list,
etc., you'll see an entirely different class. And within the latter lists,
there are large disagreements about very fundamental principles. For some
reason, each group denies the existence of the others.
Of course, when any particular operator fails to achieve consensus for his
preferred solution, the problem is perceived as "not enough operator
input".
I think the set of operators that Harald is thinking of would be aghast at
the proposals of the set of operators that Graham is thinking of.
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