Subject: Re: DLSw: To IETF or not to IETF...

From: Lakshman Garikapaty <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 20 May 94 12:06:07 EDT

Hi,

We at DEC think that an IETF standard is good to have but in this situation
it might delay the whole process of getting one. I think the bottom line
for any standard is 'plug and play' any box from different vendors. If that
is acheived then the standard from the customer's perspective is not changed
if the standard comes from IETF or not. In this regard i would like to
share my experience ie. we finally got 6611 boxes in our lab and guess what
we plugged and our box and 6611 interconnected without any grief. Thats
what i call a standard in offing. (i am not sure if we did a good job or 
the RFC did a good job :-)

Finally, even though we prefer to have an IETF standard, under the
circumstances we are better off going with option 2.

Lakshman.