[89272] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: shim6 @ NANOG (forwarded note from John Payne)
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Stephen Sprunk)
Mon Mar 6 11:32:21 2006
From: "Stephen Sprunk" <stephen@sprunk.org>
To: "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com>
Cc: "North American Noise and Off-topic Gripes" <nanog@merit.edu>
Date: Mon, 6 Mar 2006 10:30:13 -0600
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
Thus spake "Eliot Lear" <lear@cisco.com>
> Stephen Sprunk wrote:
>> Shim6 is an answer to "what kind of multihoming can we offer to sites
>> without PI space?"; it is yet to be seen if anyone cares about the
>> answer to that question.
>
> This argument is circular. The only real way to test demand is to offer
> a service and see if customers bite.
I'm not a fan of "build it and they will come" engineering. One might first
talk to customers and see if your proposal is laughed at, at least. So far,
that's the most charitable reaction I've seen to shim6.
It's also not encouraging that many of the folks working on shim6 happen to
have PI blocks themselves (despite not qualifying as LIRs); I'm also not a
fan of "it's good enough for everyone else, but not good enough for me."
S
Stephen Sprunk "Stupid people surround themselves with smart
CCIE #3723 people. Smart people surround themselves with
K5SSS smart people who disagree with them." --Aaron Sorkin
