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Re: Comments on draft-carpenter-newtrk-questions-00.txt

Eliot Lear <lear@cisco.com> Thu, 13 July 2006 18:30 UTC

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Joel,
> there is one useful aspect of our DS contortions.  When we do the
> work, we actually figure out which features turn out not to be used,
> and get them out of the spec.
> OSPF had ToS routing in its PS specification.  It turned out that
> there was only one implementation.
> So when the protocol was ready to advance, that feature was removed.
> Knowing that the feature was not being used proved very helpful to us
> later.

I agree, but I wonder if there is another way to accomplish the same
goal without quite the level of formalism.

Eliot

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