Re: [Dime] comments on draft-tsou-dime-realm-based-redirect-00

["Glen Zorn" <gwz at net-zen.net>]

Romascanu, Dan (Dan) [mailto:dromasca at avaya.com] writes:

...

> > You're kidding, right?  If we waited for operators to notice
> > a problem before tackling it IPv6 development would have
> > started last week ;-).
> >
> 
> Maybe, but we are in OPS and we do protocols and data models for
> operators here. So even if we do not enjoy the participation of many
> operators in this WG nowadays asking whether at least the vendors who
> are proposing a piece of work are basing their proposal on requirements
> they hear from operators and end-users seems to me a reasonable sanity
> checking method for dealing with such 'hums'.

Possibly so, but here's a question that may cast some light upon the
validity of this approach: How many years elapsed between the publication of
RFC 3588 & (some) operators' discovery that they needed the protocol we're
busily extending?

> 
> Dan