[121500] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: Patents, IETF and Network Operators
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Christopher Morrow)
Thu Jan 21 10:40:04 2010
In-Reply-To: <ce8d90331001210735g1bc73f9et1f968675faef6959@mail.gmail.com>
Date: Thu, 21 Jan 2010 10:39:37 -0500
From: Christopher Morrow <morrowc.lists@gmail.com>
To: Abhishek Verma <abhishekv.verma@gmail.com>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On Thu, Jan 21, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Abhishek Verma
<abhishekv.verma@gmail.com> wrote:
> Is interop the only issue because of which most ideas get released
> into IETF? I guess interop is *an* issue since nobody wants a single
> vendor network.
I would point you at the 14+ frame-relay networks (that can't
interconnect in a meaningful manner) that MCI (still, mostly) runs
today... go-go-vendor-proprietary solutions!!
-chris
