Re: WG Last Call: draft-chown-v6ops-vlan-usage-02.txt

[Tim Chown <tjc@ecs.soton.ac.uk>]

I don't have strong feelings.  We can leave as is, remove the example
altogether, or use an IOS one (if someone wants to write that).

Tim

On Tue, May 10, 2005 at 02:28:48PM +0300, Pekka Savola wrote:
> On Tue, 10 May 2005, Tim Chown wrote:
> >Oops.  I'l do so as draft-ietf.   The only comment I have outstanding
> >is regarding the example in the Appendix.  Some people found it useful,
> >though Pekka suggested an IOS example.  I think if we keep it, it should
> >probably stay 'vendor neutral'.
> 
> Vendor neutral could be a problem.  That is, the goal of the draft is 
> to describe something that's rather obvious (to some people).  If we 
> don't have concrete examples that the readers can correspond to their 
> existing configurations, I fear the example isn't going to be of much 
> use.
> 
> So my gut feeling is that (without knowing what kind of 'vendor 
> neutral' text could be cooked up),
>  - the current example is not good, because it's too verbose and based 
> on BSD which isn't sufficiently commonplace so that the readers would 
> gain additional understanding.
>  - A Cisco example (one page would be enough) would be sufficient and 
> widely understood (even by those who don't use Cisco)
>  - A generic example, using pseudocode or whatever, would likely be 
> counter-productive, so if we can't use a specific example, we'd be 
> probably better off without the example at all.
> 
> -- 
> Pekka Savola                 "You each name yourselves king, yet the
> Netcore Oy                    kingdom bleeds."
> Systems. Networks. Security. -- George R.R. Martin: A Clash of Kings

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