Re: something to read

[Michael MacFaden <mrm@riverstonenet.com>]

On Fri, Oct 12, 2001 at 07:58:23AM -0400, Jon Saperia wrote:
>Just FYI, I have commented several times about the language in the
>document and it appears to have remained unchanged. One important lesson
>learned is that management technology of any type can not be forced on
>people who do not want it or see a need for it.

Indeed.

Many vendors simply prefer to hide their ignorance 
(or sustain a bias?) by using/inventing something 
else and calling it a better way to manage. 

If vendors did implement following a standard
then it would be possible to point out a given product's 
implementation deviances:
 (example: http://www.macfaden.com/ietf/bridge-test-results.txt)

....most management I know prefers to avoid such problems 
at the expense of the operators. 

Mike