Re: question

[Frank T Solensky <[e-mail]>]

>From: Tony Li <[e-mail]>
>To: [e-mail]
>
>Ok, I'll give it a shot: because we already have CLNP support in the
>router, I believe that adding TUBA support is much cheaper than adding
>ANY other protocol stack.  My answer might be different if we were
>starting from ground zero.

I'm working at that other end of the street right now: new product development.
IP needs to be added.  Gut feel is that the incremental cost to add SIP is
much less than what it would be to add CLNP/TUBA or PIP.

>Please note that I'm talking implementation cost to us.  Not net cost
>as seen by the customer.

An important point, of course: there's a bunch of end hosts out there that
may not be capable of sending out CLNP frames.  Saving a buck on router
deployment may mean well near zip if it costs, say, a quarter on each end
node.

>Fred writes:
>   My opinion, ever so humble, not necessarily my employer's, etc etc etc.
>
>Ditto.  
>
Check.
			-- Frank