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Re: carping about CARP

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (David Conrad)
Fri Nov 30 11:49:04 2012

From: David Conrad <drc@virtualized.org>
In-Reply-To: <20121130130827.GB16865@quigon.bsws.de>
Date: Fri, 30 Nov 2012 08:48:48 -0800
To: Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de>
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

On Nov 30, 2012, at 5:08 AM, Henning Brauer <hb-nanog@bsws.de> wrote:
> and re IANA, they made it clear they would not give us a proto number

As they should have. IANA abides by the rules laid down for it by the =
IETF/IESG/IAB. The openbsd folks couldn't be bothered to even write up a =
draft and chose to squat on a protocol number.

> no matter what;

BS. If the openbsd folks followed the rules, they'd have gotten the =
number(s) they requested (assuming they were justified). There is no =
grand persecution here.  There is management of a limited resource.

> we didn't have a choice but to ignore that industry-money-driven =
committee.

Which 'industry-money-driven committee' would that be?

Regards,
-drc



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