Robin, Most of your stated beliefs here about "reality" are inconsistent with my own prior experience in Network Engineering for a multi-continent ISP, inconsistent with my prior work on a very large all-continents private IP network, and inconsistent with my experience in enterprise IP networks.
It is perhaps not surprising that since my experience is so inconsistent with your assertions, then I don't reach the same conclusions that you have reached. Given the charter at hand, which is for the Routing RG to propose an architecture to the IETF rather than to endorse some specific engineering proposal, it is not at all surprising to me that the Routing RG has followed its charter and has not focused on trying to select a specific engineering proposal. More generally, I'd encourage you to try to raise the "altitude" of your discussions -- less about specific detailed proposals, less about *engineering* tradeoffs (both of which are IETF responsibility, not IRTF responsibility), and more focus about the *architectural* tradeoffs to hand. Cheers, Ran Atkinson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- to unsubscribe send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with the word 'unsubscribe' in a single line as the message text body. archive: <http://psg.com/lists/rrg/> & ftp://psg.com/pub/lists/rrg
