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Re: Some thoughts on 240/4

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Leo Bicknell)
Fri Oct 19 13:09:04 2007

Date: Fri, 19 Oct 2007 13:08:08 -0400
From: Leo Bicknell <bicknell@ufp.org>
To: nanog@nanog.org
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In a message written on Fri, Oct 19, 2007 at 12:24:44PM -0400, Valdis.Kletn=
ieks@vt.edu wrote:
> > Why would the 240/4 updates blow the schedule?
>=20
> More code, more regression testing, same number of programmers.  Do the m=
ath.

Less code, every patch produced to date /removes/ code.

More regression testing, same number of programmes, ok.

> Take it as a given that it *will* slip the schedule some amount, because
> the resources for a 240/4 feature will have to come from somewhere.  So
> how much slippage are you willing to accept?

Ok, I'll accept a month slippage in IPv6 "features".  (What are we still
waiting on, anyway?)

I also believe that's also about 29 more days than most vendors
should need to do the job.

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