Re: [drinks] Comment on today's drinks discussion

Andrew Newton <andy@hxr.us> Mon, 27 July 2009 17:00 UTC

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I thought it was a very good session, and I feel better now about the  
resulting protocol than before.

-andy


On Jul 27, 2009, at 12:45 PM, PFAUTZ, PENN L, ATTCORP wrote:

> I've been away from the design group for a while since the focus  
> seemed to shift more to lower level design issues outside of my  
> bailiwick but I came away from today's IETF discussion with an  
> uncomfortable feeling about where the drinks effort is heading.
> One the one hand I feel that some of the issues we agreed to set  
> aside to narrow scope (LUF/LRF) are coming back to haunt us and on  
> the other that the effort is straining as Otmar suggests to  
> accommodate more and more complexity that should, perhaps be handled  
> elsewhere. Perhaps these are different sides of the same coin.
> I for one have concerns about how useful the resulting protocol is  
> likely to be, at least for my company's likely applications.
>
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