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RE: [Seamoby] CAR Discovery Requirements

"Hesham Soliman (ERA)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se> Fri, 11 January 2002 16:30 UTC

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From: "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se>
To: 'Phillip Neumiller' <PNeumiller@meshnetworks.com>, "Hesham Soliman (ERA)" <hesham.soliman@era.ericsson.se>, "'Trossen Dirk (NRC/Boston)'" <Dirk.Trossen@nokia.com>, Govind Krishnamurthi <govs23@hotmail.com>, seamoby@ietf.org
Cc: "Krishnamurthi Govind (NRC/Boston)" <Govind.Krishnamurthi@nokia.com>
Subject: RE: [Seamoby] CAR Discovery Requirements
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Phil,

  > We seem to dance around in abstract space a lot in this WG. 

=> Really ! :)

  >  Isn't it time
  > to get down to brass tacks?  MIP has an implied 
  > architecture and it is not
  > going away.  Neither are many of the MANET protocols.  What 
  > ever happened
  > to the "running code" idea anyway?  I don't see why we have to be so
  > very vague (which is occuring strictly to be pedantic about 
  > requirement-
  > speak).  There is an old adage that states if its not 
  > "testable" its not
  > a requirement.  

=> I agree, we should have clear and 'easy to test'
requirements. I was only explaining in generic terms
that requirements should not mandate solutions. In  this
particular case, all I care about is that no optimisations
or features of existing MIP/MANET stuff is lost.
I don't care how it's done.

Hesham


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