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Re: [irs-discuss] Rough Draft IRS Charter

Russ White <russw@riw.us> Fri, 19 October 2012 00:14 UTC

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>> It seems to me that the second paragraph of the description is misleading
>> and unfortunate.  The proposed interface is not inherently any faster (or
>> slower) than any other existing interface.  It may in fact use existing
>> protocols and mechanisms.  At the same time, the stated goal is to expose
>> information and models that are generalizations or synthesized combinations
>> of what the devices currently expose.  This is unlikely to be meaningfully
>> manipulated using the same paradigms that operators currently use.
> 
> Agree Joel. In addition, there can easily be confusion as terms like
> "fast path" are more conventionally used to refer to switching paths.

+1

It's always easy to say, "this will be faster," but it's going to wind
up being far too implementation dependent to be a really meaningful or
useful measure.

Russ


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