[176161] in North American Network Operators' Group
RE: A case against vendor-locking optical modules
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Darden, Patrick)
Mon Nov 17 14:16:21 2014
X-Original-To: nanog@nanog.org
From: "Darden, Patrick" <Patrick.Darden@p66.com>
To: =?utf-8?B?SsOpcsO0bWUgTmljb2xsZQ==?= <jerome@ceriz.fr>, "nanog@nanog.org"
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Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 13:13:47 -0600
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