Re: [Isis-wg] draft-amante-isis-reverse-metric-01

Tony Li <tony.li@tony.li> Mon, 06 December 2010 20:46 UTC

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Robert,

> Instead of working on network wide level config tool/protocol we are extending protocols to achieve the equivalent functionality. And this is not only in ISIS, we do the same in BGP, we do the same in MPLS etc ...


So, you're suggesting that we stop work on improving protocols until the NMS folks get their act together.

This doesn't seem like a practical suggestion.

Regards,
Tony