On 8/5/2005 5:19 AM, Bill Sommerfeld wrote:

> While the availability and stability of the IETF infrastructure is
> important, an engineering organization which declines to "eat its own
> dog food" sends a message about its suitability for widespread
> deployment.

The phrase is an anecdotal reference, where the executives of a dog food
company said they knew the product tasted good because they tried it
themselves. It's a good analogy.

Getting hung up on the "dog food" part of the analogy misses the whole
point of the anecdote.

-- 
Eric A. Hall                                        http://www.ehsco.com/
Internet Core Protocols          http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/coreprot/

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