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Re: [EAT] [Rats] Rats and EAT

Michael Richardson <mcr+ietf@sandelman.ca> Thu, 12 July 2018 00:54 UTC

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Subject: Re: [EAT] [Rats] Rats and EAT
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Hannes Tschofenig <Hannes.Tschofenig@arm.com> wrote:
    > I believe NEA was unsuccessful to accomplish its goal because it was
    > too difficult for enterprise network operators to keep track of
    > software installed on devices and to make a reasonable policy decision.

    > As such, I think it would be better to communicate information about
    > the device with less granularity.

Are you saying that NEA failed because it communicated too many details, and
operator couldn't tell if the detail mattered?

I think that there were other significant issues, such as lack of reliable
support for the (wired) 1x process that NEA depends upon in bargain basement
switching infrastructure,  and that the backend systems were immature, and
too expensive for the target customers.   I.e, the backend systems needed to
be field trialed in medium sized enterprises before large enterprises would
trust them, but medium sized enterprises couldn't afford to do this.

And then BYOD and Linux and MacOS desktops wouldn't speak the right protocols
out of the box.

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