The Routing Over Large Clouds Mailing List Archive by date

[Paul Ferguson <pferguso@cisco.com>]

At 09:46 AM 5/30/96 -0400, Grenville Armitage wrote:

>>>And they are clearly within the charter of this group.
>
>As a meta-observation I trust this sort of exchange is not
>going to typify the new ION group? If Masataka (or others)
>can't criticise one NBMA technology without someone jumping in
>with an "but its in the charter of the group, so there." type
>response then I think we'll be wasting a hell of a lot of time.
>
>I understood the group merger to assist in sharing IP-over-X
>technologies where it makes sense, not to force us all to
>like every NBMA technology out there.
>

Grenville, I agree with what you're saying, but perhaps its
slightly innappropriate to dismiss Scott's remarks offhand
as counter-productive.

You're absolutely right -- I certainly don't like every NBMA
technology, that's for sure.  ;-)

In any event, we do need to keep in mind that this WG now
encompasses the merging of ROLC and IP/ATM; 'large clouds'
can certainly mean different things to different people; this
doesn't have to be an ATM-centric discussion. Although most of
the discussions & evolving protocols, including NHRP, have
stemmed from these discussions, many of us have found uses
for them in non-ATM environments.

- paul