RE: Straw-man charter

[George Jones <gmj@pobox.com>]

On Thu, 3 Jun 2004, David B Harrington wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't think size is a good choice for differentiating requirements.
> Requirements should be mapped to functionality.

Agreed.  That makes $0.04.

I think the key destinction here is transit.   CSPs (per Don's
definition) are not providing transit.  They are hosting
applications.  That is a whole different ballgame.  I think
here we want to stick with management of NEs that provide
transit @ layers 2 & 3.

I will say that, to some degree, size does matter.   LARGE nets
may manage out of band with a completely redundant IP network.
They will have requirements driven by this.

---George