Re: [BEHAVE] proprietary implementation v.s standardised protocols//re: draft-xu-behave-nat-state-sync-00

Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com> Fri, 27 November 2009 03:32 UTC

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From: Christian Huitema <huitema@microsoft.com>
To: marcelo bagnulo braun <marcelo@it.uc3m.es>, "Joel M. Halpern" <jmh@joelhalpern.com>
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> The reason for doing that is that as you mention, there is a vlaue in 
> allowing multiple boxes from multiple vendors to be used in synch i.e. 
> interoperability.

And the way to resolve that is to make sure that there are at least two vendors interested in developing a standard solution before starting the work. Clearly, Huawei is interested. Is there another major vendor on board?

-- Christian Huitema