Re: [Idr] community of the day - common header

[Andrew Lange <[e-mail]>]

This assumes that we don’t have perfect (or at least better) already. There are existing idr drafts that do everything large does.  In fact, by using the common header it can behave exactly like large with an opaque payload you can interpret as 4+4 or any other way local policy allows.  The common header is already defined, has been vetted by becoming an IDR draft and being examined over the years.  Existing drafts are farther ahead in the standards process.

If it’s implementations you want, then ask your vendors!

Having been on both sides, there is no magic to the standard PLM process at vendors.  Customers ask for features, the account teams and regions bring this back to PLM where it’s aggregated.  At some interval PLM gets together and decides what the priorities are for the next release (and the release thereafter for big features).  Number of customers, amount of revenue and feature size are the main considerations.  A common header and opaque body for communities is a small feature.  

Andrew 


> On Sep 14, 2016, at 6:28 AM, Warren Kumari <[e-mail]> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, Sep 14, 2016 at 6:54 AM, Mikael Abrahamsson <[e-mail] <mailto:[e-mail]>> wrote:
>> On Fri, 9 Sep 2016, Gert Doering wrote:
>> 
>>> We're not talking about "too early" here.  We're talking about "5 years
>>> too late" vs. "at some future point of perfection, when nobody alive today
>>> cares anymore".
>> 
>> 
>> I have to agree with Gert here. The time to engineer a great, nice
>> future-proof mechanism was 10 years ago, so it would have running code
>> widely deployed 5 years ago.
>> 
>> Since we don't have that, then now is the time to standardize a "does the
>> same as we have today for 16bitAS but for 32bitAS" which involves as small
>> code, operational and standardization changes as possible, so code can get
>> into operator routers ASAP.
>> 
>> So get it out the door now. Not in 6-12 months time. Now. ASAP.
> 
> +1.
> 
> Seeing as pithy French quotes appear to be the hotness this week:
> "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien." (The perfect is the enemy of the good.)
> - Voltaire
> 
> W
> 
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