Re: A few potential requirements

[Randy Bush <randy@psg.com>]

>>> even small boxes should have serial consoles.
>> a vendor may choose to make a box without.  and you and i have the right
>> not to buy it, and even to flame them on nanog for making such a (we
>> think) stoopid thing.  but we don't have the right to tell them not to
>> make it.
> if you dont tell them, some will never know.  after a box is
> on the assembly line is way too late.  there any number of things
> you want (NMI button, ...), what you want and will flog the vendor
> for (upgrabale DRAM/flash, ... ), and they are supersets of what
> you must have (cli, xml, ...).

we need to differentiate what we as customers ask a vendor from what we as
drafters of ietf standards ask.

randy